History of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 226

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1706

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The lodge first met Dec. 24, 1792, at the house of Atherton Wales, an innkeeper, in Hanover. As the weather was bad they agreed among themselves to meet at the same place on Thursday, Dec. 27, 1792, at four o'clock P.M., also to notify members not pres- ent. At which time and place they did meet, and proceeded to the choice of officers. The following were elected : John Young, W. M .; William Curtis, Jr., S. W .; George Little, J. W.

In 1807 the lodge was removed to Hingham. In 1832, owing to the lack of interest manifested among its members and the unfavorable condition of the lodge, it was thought advisable to return the charter to the grand lodge.

Oct. 21, 1851. At a meeting of Freemasons held at the Union House, Hingham, a number of the breth- ren being present, it was voted to petition for the re- turn of the charter, and agreeably to said petition, on Dec. 10, 1851, the said charter, with all its original powers and privileges, was restored to the following brothers: Joseph Richardson, Moses Whiton, Bela Whiton, Royal Whiton, John Bassett, Jr., Rufus Lane, Benjamin I. Studly, James Gardner, James S. Lewis, Marshal Lincoln, Daniel Burr, Micajah Mal- bon, Fearing Loring. The lodge first met in Hing- ham Dec. 11, 1807. The first three officers in 1792 were John Young, W. M. ; William Curtis, Jr., S. W .; George Little, J. W. The following is a list of Mas- ters from 1792 to 1885: 1792, John Young; 1793 -96, Charles Turner, Jr .; 1796-1800, Benjamin Whitman. After this time they were elected once a ycar. 1801, Charles Turner, Jr .; 1802-3, Benjamin Whitman ; 1804-6, Charles Turner ; 1807-18, Jotham Lincoln, Jr. ; 1819-20, Caleb Bates ; 1821, Jotham Lincoln ; 1822-23, Marshal Lincoln ; 1824-26, Fear- ing Loring; 1827-29, Charles Fearing ; 1830-31, Charles Gill ; (Charter returned in 1832, as previ- ously stated) ; 1851-54, Marshal Lincoln ; 1855-56, Bela Whiton; 1857, Bela Lincoln ; 1858-59, Enos Loring; 1860, Warren A. Hersey ; 1861-62, Edwin Wilder (2d) ; 1863-65, E. Waters Burr; 1866-68, Charles N. Marsh ; 1869, none elected; 1870-71, Henry Stephenson ; 1872, Jason W. Whitney ; 1873 -75, Charles W. S. Seymour ; 1876-78, Charles T. Burr; 1879-80, John M. Trussell ; 1881-82, Stet- son Foster ; 1883, A. Willis Lincoln, present incum- bent. At the present time the first three officers of the lodge are A. Willis Lincoln, W. M. ; Arthur L. | Whiton, S. W .; E. Bradley Loring, J. W. The

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lodge has furnished for the grand lodge three D. D. G. M.'s-R. W. Brothers E. Waters Burr, Enos Loring, and Charles W. S. Seymour.

From Old Colony originated Konohassett Lodge, of Cohassett, with Phoenix Lodge of Hanover. Old Colony is now in a flourishing condition, and is rap- idly increasing in membership.

Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company was incorporated March 4, 1826, with the following offi- eers : Jotham Lincoln, president ; David Harding, secretary ; and David Whiton, treasurer.

The following is a list of officers from the incorpora- tion of the company to the present time :

Presidents, Jotham Lincoln, 1826-42 (also treas- urer, 1833-40) ; John Beal, 1842-46 ; Solomon Lin- coln, 1846-64; Seth S. Hersey, 1864-71; Amos Bates, 1871, present ineumbent.

Secretaries, David Harding, 1826-74 (also treas- urer, 1867-74) ; Calvin A. Lincoln, 1874-77 ; Henry W. Cushing, 1877, present incumbent.

Treasurers, David Whiton, 1826-33; Jotham Lin- eoln, 1833-40 ; Franeis G. Ford, 1840-43; Rufus Lane, 1843-60; John Leavitt, 1860-67; David Harding, 1867-74 ; Sidney Sprague, 1874, present ineumbent.

The following is a statement of the company, April 1,1884 :

Amount at risk.

$22,112,072.00

Cash assets

344,636.38

INCOME.

Premiums received the past year. $50,262.08

Net income from invested funds. 17,877.71

$68,139.79

EXPENDITURES.

Dividends paid the past year .. $32,158.90

Losses by fire the past year .... 15,728.63

Agents' commissions, salaries,

etc 12,219.92

60,107.45

Profit of year's business

$8,032.34

SUMMARY OF ASSETS-MARKET VALUE.

Stocks and bonds.

$154,657.87

Mortgages and other loans 155,074.00

Cash in office and bank 15,240.01

Interest due and accrued. 10,164.50

Real estate ..

9,500.00

$344,636.38

LIABILITIES.

Reinsurance reserve.

$184,035.45

All other liabilities.

300.00

184,335.45

Surplus over all liabilities. $160,300.93

The company has never paid a less dividend than sixty-five per cent. of the premium, and at one time a dividend of one hundred and nine per eent., or nine per cent. more than the original premium, was re- turned the assured.

The present directors are as follows : Amos Bates, Enos Loring, Eliel Bates, Arthur Lincoln, Demeriek Marble, Alonzo Cushing, Henry C. Harding, William Fearing (2d), all of Hingham, and Rufus P. King- inan, of Brockton, and Ebenezer T. Fogg, of South Scituate.

Hingham Institution for Savings was ineorpor- ated April 2, 1834. The charter was granted to David Whiton, Henry Nye, Luther J. Barnes, their associates and successors. The petitioners were David Whiton, Henry Nye, Luther J. Barnes, Daniel Bassett, Ebenezer Gay, Benjamin Thomas, Francis G. Ford, Rufus Lane, Seth S. Hersey, Caleb Gill, Jr., David Harding, Barnabas Lincoln, Rufus W. Lincoln, David Lincoln, Royal Whiton, Charles Lane, Edward Thaxter, Thomas Thaxter, F. A. Ford, Caleb Bates.

First President, David Whiton; Vice-Presidents, Benjamin Thomas, Edward Thaxter; Secretary and Treasurer, David Harding; Trustees, David H ?- 1- ing (seeretary), David Andrews, Jr., Caleb Gill, Jr., Thomas Loring, Ezekiel Fearing, Charles Lane, Dan- iel Bassett, Marshal Lincoln, Zadoek Hersey, William Hudson, George Lineoln, James C. Doane, John Beal.

The presidents have been as follows : David Whiton, Daniel Bassett, David Fearing, Atherton Tilden, Isaac Barnes, and Daniel Bassett.

Secretary and Treasurers, David Harding, Henry C. Harding.

The first board of investment consisted of David Whiton (president), David Harding (treasurer), Ed- ward Thaxter, Charles Lane, and Marshal Lincoln.

The present board consists of Daniel Bassett (pres- ident), Joseph Sprague, Elijah Shute, and Edmund Hersey, 2d. The first deposit made Dee. 24, 1834. Amount of deposits (July 1, 1884), $1,754,766.06.

The Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society .- It was at first an unincorporated association. In 1858 a common enthusiasm drew together a number of gentlemen interested in the cultivation of the farm and the garden. October 1st and 2d some twenty of them met at the old town house, opposite the Con- gregational Church. James S. Lewis ealled them to order, Charles W. Cushing was chairman, and Ed- mund Hersey, secretary. Fearing Burr proposed the formation of an agricultural and horticultural society, and afterwards prepared, and, at the next meeting, October 27th, presented by-laws, which were then adopted. November 10th a permanent organization was effected,-President, Albert Fearing; Viec-Presi- dents, Solomon Lineoln, David Whiton, and Charles W. Cushing; Recording Secretary, Edmund Hersey;

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Corresponding Secretary, Thomas T. Bouvé ; Treas- urer, Joseph H. French ; Directors, Albert Whiting, Seth Sprague, Henry Cushing, Henry Ripley, John Stephenson, Elijah Leavitt, Morris Fearing, Amos Bates, John Lincoln, Warren A. Hersey, John R. Brewer, and Thomas L. Whiton.

From that onward monthly meetings were held. To interest all sections of the town they were held once each at Oasis Hall, at Broad Bridge ; at Wilder Hall, South Hingham; and at Liberty Hall, on Liberty Plain ; but oftener at the town hall, until a little later, when a permanent resting-place was found in the armory, now a school-house, at the Centre. This was used till the erection of the present agri- cultural hall. The aged minister of the First Parish, Joseph Richardson, and others, gave books. Citizens of other towns became members. The scope of the society embraced the science and practice of agricul- ture and horticulture, the improvement of animals, grain, fruit, and vegetables, and also of the streets, sidewalks, and public squares. It had no narrow purpose, but was really a village or county improve- ment society in its best and largest sense.

The interest rose high at the first annual exhi- bition, Sept. 28 and 29, 1859. It shows the increase of values since the war, that the price of admission was ten cents, with no charge for children under twelve years of age. The animals were exhibited on an open lot in Hingham Centre, opposite the house of Moses Whiton; while the butter, cheese, bread, vegetables, manufactures, fancy articles, etc., were shown in the town hall. The attendance was large, the enthusiasm great, and the success complete. On the evening of the first day, President Fearing gave an entertainment at his house. On the morning of the second, a team of fifty yoke of oxen-an un- usual sight nowadays-was driven up Main Street, under the direction of Charles W. Cushing, drawing four groups of young ladics representing the seasons. On the same day the first of the now historic agri- cultural dinners was spread in a mammoth Yale tent upon the common. Some six hundred guests were marshaled in an imposing procession. Capt. Alfred C. Hersey was chief marshal. The full Boston Brigade band played inspiring airs. The escort consisted of the survivors of the old rifle company under Capt. John K. Corbett, and of the Lincoln Light Infantry, full of youth and fire, so soon to become historic by its response to Governor An- drew's first call to the front in 1861, and then com- manded by Capt. Hawkes Fearing. The march was to Fountain Square and back to the tent. Rev. Calvin Lincoln asked grace. Speeches were made by

ex-Lieutenant-Governor Simon Brown, Charles G. Davis, president of the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, and the following clergymen : Calvin Lincoln, Joseph Richardson, Jonathan Tilson, Chandler Rob- hins, and John L. Russell ; another, E. Porter Dyer, read a poem. Responses were also made by the two military captains, and by Chief Marshal Hersey, James S. Lewis, and Luther Stephenson. A great concert in the tent in the evening crowned the suc- cess of the day. The financial results of this fair were: receipts, $348.13 ; expenses, $63.21; balance for the society, $284.92. Not only were the cere- monies of the day attractive, but the exhibition was deserving, the exhibits numerous and excellent, and the reports of the committees on various departments show great enterprise and merit on the part alike of judges and exhibitors. The show of stock was large and admirable in its quality. The report on orna- mental trees is worthy of the present interest in that subject. Indeed, it would be invidious to attempt to specify any and not mention all of the departments of this first exhibition ..

In the spring of 1860 a contract was made with Moses Whiton for some three acres of land for a term of years. It was fenced and furnished with pens, etc., for the society's use. The second exhibition occurred September 26th and 27th of that year. The number at dinner was still larger than before. Among the speakers, the historian says, was " John A. An- drew, Esq.," then unknown to fame, and that " Mr. Andrew spoke well for one little conversant with agriculture." A year later his voice was ringing the harvest-song of freedom to the nation.

These early years of the society werc full of zeal, life, and promise. The membership rapidly enlarged, till, in November, 1864, the society was incorporated under the general laws. Steps were then taken to purchase grounds and build a hall, Mr. Fearing offer- ing to give five thousand dollars if the society would raise ten thousand dollars. More than this was ob- tained. In March, 1867, a special charter was granted by the Legislature, of which Mr. De Witt C. Bates was then the member from Hingham, authorizing the society to hold rcal and personal estate and to receive the bounty of the State. Under this act the society is now organized. The present grounds, on the cor- ner of East and Leavitt Streets, were bought, contain- ing about sixteen acres, and this hall was erected, the corner-stone having been laid July 1, 1867. It was dedicated Sept. 25, 1867, Solomon Lincoln delivering the address. There was an ode by Mrs. C. L. P. Stephenson and a poem by E. Porter Dyer. Fearing Burr was chairman of the building committee, John

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Stephenson of the committee on grounds, and Wil- liam J. Nelson architect. The cost of grounds and hall was something over twenty-five thousand dollars. The largest subscriptions were those of Albert Fear- ing, six thousand five hundred dollars, and John R. Brewer and David Whiton, one thousand dollars cach. The rest were from ten to five hundred dollars, all alike creditable to the public generosity.

Albert Fearing served as president from its insti- tution, in 1858, for nearly seventeen years, till his death, in May, 1875. He was a native of this town, and loyal to its welfare in a remarkable degree. An eminent and successful Boston merchant, he cherished a deep interest in Hingham, and in it spent his last years.

He was succeeded, in May, 1875, in the office of president by Solomon Lincoln, who held it less than a year. Mr. Lincoln had been vice-president from its beginning. Not a farmer, he yet was a man of such ripe and varied learning, and withal so thor- oughly identified and familiar with the history, char- acter, and traditions of Hingham, his native town, that he was invaluable to the society and to Mr. Fearing while the latter was its president. Its liter- ary department and demands always found in his voice and pen the needed response. At Mr. Fearing's death the society turned at once to Mr. Lincoln as his successor. His failing health compelled his early retirement, but his interest continued during his life. He was succeeded, in July, 1876, after a short va- cancy in the office, by Edmund Hersey, now delegate to the State Board of Agriculture, who maintained the high excellence of the society. He, in turn, having resigned, was succeeded, in November, 1880, by the present incumbent, Ebed L. Ripley.

The officers of the society for 1883-84 are as fol- lows: President, Ebed L. Ripley ; Vicc-Presidents, Charles W. Cushing, John D. Long, Amos Bates, Alfred Loring, Arthur Lincoln, Elijah Shute, Melzar W. Clark, Fearing Burr, Francis W. Brewer; Re- cording Secretary, William H. Thomas; Correspond- ing Secretary, Francis B. Lincoln ; Secretary of the Exhibition, De Witt C. Bates ; Treasurer, Reuben Sprague ; Librarian, William H. Thomas ; Directors, David Cushing, Jr., James Cushing, Isaac N. Damon, Henry Stephenson, Starkes Whiton, Justin Ripley, J. Edwards Ripley, John Todd, William Cushing, Francis H. Stowell, Joshua Tower, Charles H. Marble, Joseph O. Burdett, Franklin Hersey, George J. Fear- ing, Edward E. Elms (Cohasset), Kilburn B. Merritt (Scituate), Joseph Totman (East Weymouth) ; Dele- gate to the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Edmund Hersey.

Civil List .- The following is a list of Governors, lieutenant-governors, members of Congress, and State senators from Hingham, compiled by Francis H. Lincoln, Esq.

Levi Lincoln (sce sketch elsewhere in this work) was born in Hingham in 1749. He died April 14, 1820.

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln. (Scc sketch elsewhere in this work.)

Hon. John D. Long was representative to General Court in 1875, '76, '77, and '78, the two latter years being Speaker of the House. He was licutenant- governor of Massachusetts in 1879, and Governor of Massachusetts in 1880, '81, and '82, and is the pres- ent representative in. Congress from the Second Mas- sachusetts District, having been elected in 1882.

Rev. Joseph Richardson was elected senator in 1823, re-elected in 1824, and again in 1826, and in 1827-31 was a member of Congress.

Solomon Lincoln was senator in 1830 and 1831 (see also list of representatives to General Court), and United States marshal for District of Massachu- setts in 1841-44.

Edmund Cazneau was senator in 1850-51; Amos Bates, in 1856; Ebenezer Gay, in 1862; Amasa Whiting, in 1871; and Starkes Whiton, in 1880-81.

Governor Andrew was a summer resident of Hing- ham, and, at his own request, was buried here.

Representatives from 1636 to 1884.1-The fol- lowing is a list of representatives from Hingham from 1636 to the present time, covering a period of nearly two hundred and fifty years :

1636, May 26. Mr. Blackleach. | 1638, March 13. Mr. Joseph Joseph Andrews. Hull. Nicholas Baker.

1636, Sept. 8. Joseph drews.

An-

Anthony Eames. 1639, May 22. Mr. Joseph Peck. Edmund Hobart.

1636, Dee. 7. None.

1637, April 18. Joseph An- drews. Anthony Eames.

1639, Sept. 4. Mr. Joseph Peck.

Edmund Hobart.

1637, May 17. Joscpb An- drews.

1640, May 13. Mr. Joseph Peck. Mr. James Bates.

Anthony Eames.

1637, Sept. 21. Joseph An- drews. Anthony Eames.

1640, Oct. 7. Mr. Joseph Peck. Edmund Hobart.

1637, Nov. 2. Samuel Warde.

1637, March 12. Samuel

1641, June 2. Mr. Joseph Peck. Henry Smyth. 1641, Oet. 8. Mr. Joseph Peck. Stephen Paine.

Warde. Anthony Eames.

1638, May 2. Joseph Androws. Nicholas Baker. 1638, Sept. 6. Mr. Joseph Hull. Anthony Eames.

1642, Sept. 8. Mr. Joseph Pock. Edmund Hobart.

1643, May 10. Bozoan Allen. Joshna Ilobart.

1 Compiled for this work by Charles N. Marsh, Esq.

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1643, March ". Anthony 1679. Joshua Hohart.

Eames. 1679-80. Daniel Cushing, Sr.

Joshua Hobart. 1681. Joshua Hobart.

1644, May 29. Bozoan Allen. John Porter. 1645, May 14. Bozoan Allen. Joshna Hobart. 1646, May 6. Bozoan Allen. Joshna Hohart.

1682. Daniel Cushing, Sr.

1683. Nathaniel Beale.

1683-86. John Smith.

1778, May 18. Enoch Lincoln and Joseph Thaxter.

1779. May 17. Joseph Thaxter, Jr., he resigned his seat, and the vacancy was not filled.

1880, May 22. Charles Cushing.

Under the Constitution.

1780, Oct. 9. Charles Cushing. 1833. Martin Fearing.

1781, May 14. Charles Cush- ing.

1782-83. Theophilus Cushing.

1784. Charles Cushing.

1785-87. Theophilus Cushing. 1788. Theophilus Cushing. Benjamin Lincoln.

1789. Benjamin Lincoln. 1790-93. Charles Cushing. 1794. Theophilus Cushing. 1795-97. Samuel Norton.

1798. Jacob Leavitt.

1799-1800. Jotham Gay.

1801-4. Nathan Rice.

1805. Nathan Rice. Levi Lincoln.

1806-7. Hawkes Fearing.

180S. Hawkes Fearing. Jonathan Cushing.

1809-11. Hawkes Fearing. Jonathan Cushing. Thomas Fearing. 1812-13. Thomas Fearing. Jonathan Cushing. Jotham Lincoln, Jr.

1814-15. Thomas Fearing. 1816. Thomas Fearing. Jedediah Lincoln. Charles W. Cushing.

1848-49. John K. Corhett.

1850-51. Charles W. Cushing.

1852. Martin Fearing.

1853. Henry Hersey, delegate to Constitutional Con- vention. 1853-54. Charles Howard.

1855. Joseph B. Thaxter, Jr. 1856-57. William Whiton.

1858. Elpalet I .. Cushing.

1859-60. Demerick Marble. 1861-62. David Cain.

1863-65. Crocker Wilder.

1866-67. DeWitt C. Bates.

1868. David Cushing (2d). 1869-70. Charles N. Marsh.

1871-72. Hawkes Fearing, Jr.

1825-28. Benjamin Thomas.

1829. Solomon Lincoln, Jr.

1830. Jotham Lincoln.3

1832. Nicholas B. Whiting. Thomas Loring. Marshal Lincoln.

James W. Sivret. 1834-35. Martin Fearing. Thomas Loring. Zadock Hersey. James W. Sivret.

1836. Francis G. Ford.

1652, May 27. Bozoan Allen. Jeremiah Houchin.

1653, May 18. Joshua Hobart. Jeremiah Houchin. 1654, May 3. Joshua Hobart. Jeremiah Houchin.

1655, May 23. Jeremiah Honchin.

1656, May 14. Joshua Hohart. John Leavitt.

1657, May 6. Jeremiah Houchin. 1658, May 19. Joshua Hohart. Jeremiah Houchin.

1659, May 11. First Session, Hohart and Houchin. Second Session, Hohart and John Beale. 1660, May 30. Joshua Hohart. 1660, Dec., and May, 1661. No representation. 1662, May 7. Joshua Hobart. 1663, May 27. Thomas Savage. Joshua Hohart. 1664, May 18. John Leavitt. 1665, May 3. Joshua Hohart. 1666, May 23. John Thaxter. 1666, Sept. Joshua Hohart. John Thaxter. 1669-1675. Joshna Hobart.

1677. Nathaniel Beale.

1678. Thomas Andrews.

1774, Sept. 21. Benjamin Lincoln to the conrt to he held at Salem.

1774, Sept. 21. Benjamin Lincoln chosen to represent the town in the Provincial Congress to be held at Concord.

1774, Dec. 26. Benjamin Lincoln chosen to represent the town in the Provincial Congress to be held at Cambridge. 1775, May 24. Benjamin Lincoln chosen to represent the town in the Congress at Watertown.

1775, July 10. Benjamin Lincoln chosen to represent the town in the General Court to be held at Watertown, agreeably to a resolve of the Provincial Congress.

1775, Aug. 16. Enoch Lincoln chosen to represent the town in the General Court, then setting at Watertown.

1689, June. Thomas Andrews, Council of Safety.

1690-91. Nathaniel Bcale.

1692. Jeremiah Beal. David Hobart.

1693, Sept. Nathaniel Beal. Oct. Nathaniel Beale. 1694. John Smith.

1695. Daniel Cushing, Sr.

1696. David Hohart.

1697. Samuel Thaxter, Jr.

1698-99. William Hersey. 1700. Joshua Beal. 1701. Jeremiah Beal. 1702-4. Theophilus Cushing. 1705. Josiah Leavitt. 1705-6. Samuel Eelles.

1707. Theophilus Cushing. 1707-12. Samuel Thaxter. 1713. Theophilus Cushing. 1814-19. Samuel Thaxter. 1719-20. Lazarus Beal. 1721. Nathaniel Hobart. 1721-26. Thomas Loring. 1726-34. John Jacob.

1734-37. James Hearsey.

1737-41. Jacob Cushing.

1741. John Jacoh.

1742-44. Thomas Gill.

1744-45, Aug. Jacoh Cushing, in room of Thomas Gill, Esq., who is gone into his Majesty's service. 1746-49. Benjamin Lincoln. 1749-57. Jacob Cushing.

1758-72. Joshua Hearsey.

1772. John Thaxter.

1773-74. Benjamin Lincoln.

1821. James Stephenson. Solomon Jones. Joseph Richardson.2

1822. Joseph Richardson.

1823. Jedediah Lincoln. John Leavitt. Isaiah Wilder.

1824. Isaiah Wilder. Benjamin Thomas.

1873-74. John Cushing. 1875-78. John D. Long. 1879-80. Arthur Lincoln.

1881-83. Joseph Jacobs, Jr. 1884. Joseph O. Burdett.

2 Delegates to the Convention for revising the Constitution in 1820-21, Joseph Richardson, Jothamn Lincoln, Thomas Fearing. 8 May 11, 1831. The Constitution was amended, changing the time of meeting of the General Court from the last Wednesday in May to the first Wednesday in January each year.

1 A citizen of Boston.

1776, May 23. Enoch Lincoln, Theophilus Cushing, and John Fearing, chosen representatives to the next General Court.

1777, May 20. Enoch Lincoln chosen representative to the next General Court.

1647, May 26. Bozoan Allen. Joshna Hohart.

1689, May. Thomas Andrews, and Daniel Cushing, Sr., representatives in the Council of Safety (Cushing did not ac- cept).

1645, May 10. Nicholas Jacoh. Thomas Underwood. 1649, May 2. Nicholas Jacob. John Beale.

1650, May 22. Bozoan Allen. Joshna Hohart.

1651, May 7. Bozoan Allen. Jeremiah Houchin.1

Hersey Stowell. Thomas Loring.

1837. Francis G. Ford. Martin Fearing. Albert A. Folsom. Henry Cushing. 1838. Francis G. Ford. Henry Cushing.

1839. David Fearing. Henry Cushing. Thomas Loring.

1840. Thomas Loring. David Fearing. Laban Cushing. 1841. Solomon Lincoln. 1842-43. James S. Lewis. 1844-45. John Bcal. 1846. None chosen. 1847. Jotham Lincoln.

1817. Thomas Fearing. 1818-19. Jedediah Lincoln.

1820. James Stephenson. Solomon Jones.

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The Press .- The Hingham Gazette was started Jan. 5, 1827, by Farmer & Brown.

Oct. 2, 1829, Jedediah Farmer took the entire management and continued till Jan. 6, 1837, when Thomas D. Blossom assumed the management.

April 6, 1838, its name was changed to Gospel Witness and Old Colony Reporter, with Albert A. Folsom, editor. This paper was discontinued Octo- ber, 1839.

July 2, 1838, The Hingham Patriot appeared, edited by Jedediah Farmer, who published it until July 3, 1841, when it passed into the hands of Wilder & Gill.

July 2, 1842, it was published by William Wilder.

July 12, 1844, it was issued by John Gill.

July 2, 1847, John Gill and J. Franklin Farmer were publishers, and the paper was enlarged to its present size.

From July 14, 1848, to Dec. 29, 1848, John Gill was editor and publisher, and it was subscquently published a short time by James H. Wilder.

The Hingham Journal, the present newspaper published in Hingham, was established in 1850 by James H. Wilder, its editor and proprietor.

The first number was issued January 4th of that year, and announced Thomas D. Blossom, printer. The second number adds Albert Whiton as printer.

Mr. Wilder carried on the paper until January, 1852, when it went into the hands of Thomas D. Blossom and Joseph D. Clark, who published it until January, 1854, when Mr. Clark retired, and the firm became Blossom & Easterbrook (Mr. Joseph Easter- brook).

July 4, 1853, Mr. Blossom met with a severe acci- dent by the premature discharge of a cannon while engaged in a public demonstration, and for a long period his life was despaired of, and in 1854, when Mr. Easterbrook came to the Journal, Mr. Blossom was still incapacitated for any real labor, and the actual publication of the paper devolved upon Mr. Easter- brook.

The copartnership between these two parties cov- ered a period of years to Nov. 26, 1871, when it terminated by the death of Mr. Blossom.

Mr. Easterbrook then purchased of the Blossom heirs their interest in the paper, and carried it on until death interrupted his labors, May 8, 1879. Mrs. Joseph Easterbrook conducted the journal until August 1st of the same year, when it went into the hands of its present proprietor, Mr. Fred. H. Miller.

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History of Plymouth county, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Part 226

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1706

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton)
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1706