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He gleaned his early education from the public schools of his native town ; worked on the home farm till twenty-one, peddled milk in Holyoke one year, after which sev- eral years were spent in the manufacture of bench and moulding planes, at Goshen, in connection with his brother, Hiram Barrus. In 1859 he sold out the business and made a connection with A. W. Crafts, opening a country store at Goshen.
In August, 1862, he entered the army, served his enlistment, and was discharged in November, 1864, returning to the old homestead, where he has since turned his attention to agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Barrus was married in Reading, June 29, 1869, to Emeline P., daughter of John and Sarah (Parker) Wakefield. Of this union are two children : Lena W. and George Levi Barrus.
Mr. Barrus has been frequently called to serve his town in the various offices ; he was sent to the state Legislature in 1879 - House of Representatives - and
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was a member of the state Senate in 1883 and '84. He is justice of the peace ; was three years member of the state board of agriculture, from which he was elected a member of the board of control of the Massachusetts Experiment Station, Am- herst, serving as secretary of the board. He succeeded in incorporating the Hillside Agricultural Society at Cummington, in 1883, since which time he has been its president. He has held no military office except to act for a short time as hospital steward at Marine Hospital, Baltimore, where soldiers were brought with small- pox. He has long served on the parish committee of the Congregational society of Goshen, and as selectman of the town fifteen years.
Mr. Barrus is at present engaged in de- veloping a spodrumene mine, located on his farm, from which the rare earth lithia is manufactured. The reduction is done entirely in Europe. This industry is a novelty in Massachusetts.
BARTLETT, NATHANIEL CILLEY, son of Thomas B. and Victoria E. W. (Cilley) Bartlett, was born in Nottingham, Rock-
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ingham county, N. H., June 22, 1858. He is grandson of Judge Bradbury Bartlett of Nottingham, N. H., a distinguished member of the bar in that state.
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He attended two years in the primary schools, six years in the Winter Street grammar school, and four years in the high school, Haverhill, and four years at Har- vard College. He was graduated from Harvard in 1880, with the degree of A. B., with honorable mention.
He founded the "Derry News," a weekly newspaper, at Derry, N. H., De- cember, 1880, and conducted it one year as editor, publisher and proprietor. This paper still continues publication and has been a success from the first.
In September, 1882, Mr. Bartlett was admitted as an attorney-at-law to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and at once opened a law office in Haver- hill, where he is now engaged in his pro- fession.
Mr. Bartlett is unmarried. He was superintendent of schools of Nottingham, N. H., 1881 and '82. He is a member of the Republican city committee of Haver- hill, upon which committee he has served for three consecutive years.
In April, 1888, he was appointed by Governor Ames a master in chancery for the county of Essex.
He is at present chancellor commander of Palestine Lodge No. 26, K. of P., and junior sagamore of Passaquoi Tribe No. 27, Improved Order of Red Men.
Mr. Bartlett is a grandson of the late Col. Joseph Cilley, of Nottingham, N. H., who was a United States senator, one of the original abolitionists, and a battle- scarred veteran of Lundy's Lane, and whose brother, Hon. John Cilley, was con- gressman from Maine in 1838, and a man widely known throughout the country.
BARTLETT, SIDNEY, son of Zaccheus and Hannah (Jackson) Bartlett, was born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, February 13, 1799. He was a lineal descendant of Robert Bartlett, who came to Plymouth only three years after the first settlers set foot on Plymouth Rock.
He received his early education in the schools of his native town, and at the age of nineteen years was graduated from Har- vard College in the class of 1818.
After graduation Mr. Bartlett studied law with Hon. Lemuel Shaw, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1821. He was at once taken into partnership with his instructor, and the two were associated together until Mr. Shaw was raised to the position of Chief Justice of the supreme judicial court.
Mr. Bartlett early became one of the leaders of the Suffolk bar, and for many
years was recognized by the supreme court of the United States as one of the ablest, if not the ablest, of the distinguished lawyers of the country who appeared be- fore that tribunal. He was thoroughly read in the literature of his profession, and as a legal reasoner, grasping legal prin- ciples and applying them to the facts of the case in hand, he was without a superior in this country.
Mr. Bartlett was a member of the Legis- lature in 1851, and a member of the Con- stitutional Convention of 1853. In 1855 Harvard conferred upon him the degree of LL. D.
The extraordinary length of Mr. Bart- lett's career is forcibly brought home to the minds of the legal fraternity, by the fact that while he was at the bar, the mem- bership both of the supreme court of the United States and of the supreme court of Massachusetts was twice renewed.
Mr. Bartlett was married in Boston, October 8, 1828, to Caroline, daughter of John and Mary (Tewksbury) Pratt. Of this union were four children : Sidney, Jr., (deceased), Francis, Louisa C. and Anna G. Bartlett (deceased).
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On the 6th of March, 1889, this wonder- ful life came to a close. He died as he had lived, at the head of his profession,
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respected and revered by his legal asso- ciates and the people of the Common- wealth.
BARTOL, CYRUS AUGUSTUS, son of George and Ann (Given) Bartol, was born in Freeport, Cumberland county, Maine, April 30, 1813.
After obtaining the early mental train- ing furnished by the common schools, he prepared for college in the Portland high school. He entered Bowdoin College, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1832. He subsequently studied theology in Cambridge, and was graduated from the divinity school in 1835.
In 1837 he was settled associate pastor with Rev. Charles Lowell, D. D., of the West Church (Independent) in the city of Boston, of which he became the pastor in 1861. He has endeared himself to a large constituency by his faithful labors and philanthropic work.
Dr. Bartol has published " Discourses on the Christian Spirit and Life " (Boston, 1850, 2d edition revised, 1854); " Dis- courses on Christian Body and Form" (1854); "Picture of Europe Framed in Ideas" (1855); "History of the West Church and its Ministers " (1858); " Church and Congregation" (1858); "Word of the Spirit to the Church " (1859); " Radical Problems " (1872); "The Rising Faith" (1874); " Principles and Portraits " (1880). He has also published many occasional essays and some poetry. Dr. Bartol's writings are full of rich and quaint imagery, and are deeply religious, but more ethical and social in character than controversial.
Dr. Bartol was married in Boston, Feb- ruary 7, 1838, to Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. John Clarke and Hepzibah (Swan) Howard. They have one child, Elizabeth Howard Bartol.
BARTON, LEONARD, eldest son of Benjamin and Sarah (Parsons) Barton, was born in Bernardston, Franklin county, December 21, 1814. He is lineally descend- ed from Samuel Barton, who removed from Framingham to Oxford early in the eigh- teenth century.
When he was about ten years of age, his father removed his family to a farm in the adjoining town of Gill, on the locality where Captain Turner made his famous attack upon the Indians. His education, beyond the common school, was obtained in the old academies at Monson, Deerfield, Shelburne Falls and Brattleborough.
During some fourteen years of his early life he spent a part of the time in school
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teaching in this State, Connecticut, and for about a year in Michigan. For about eighteen years he was one of the selectmen and assessors of the town, and for most of that time chairman of the board. He has been one of the superintending school com- mittee of the town for upwards of twenty- five years, and for several consecutive years held the office of town clerk and treasurer.
In 1870 he was chosen to represent his district in the House of Representatives, and served in the Legislature of 1871, and again in 1881.
His main business is, and always has been, that of a farmer, besides holding offices in several banks of the neighboring towns.
He has never married.
BASSETT, SAMUEL, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Scott) Bassett, was born in Boston, in November, 1804.
He was educated in the Boston public schools ; learned the trade of sail-maker, which vocation he afterwards followed on his own account, and as one of the firm of Bassett & Thayer.
Mr. Bassett was married in Westbor- ough, in 1830, to Julia Ann, daughter of Elijah and Hannah Burnap. Of this union were five children : Celadon, Julia A., Clarissa, William S. and Samuel B. Bassett.
Mr. Bassett removed to Chelsea in 1838, where he has ever since resided. He was elected town clerk in 1849, and was annu- ally re-elected till 1857, when the city was organized, and he was elected city clerk, continuing to hold this office till 1884, when he declined re-election. He was also chosen city treasurer and collector, serving until 1875, when he declined fur- ther service in that capacity. Seldom has a public officer held such positions for so many years, or been so much beloved. His face had so long been a familiar one at the City Hall that it seemed an indis- pensable feature, and the people and the city government would gladly have con- tinued him in some office connected with city business, had he not modestly but resolutely insisted that younger men should now assume the burdens he had so consci- cntiously and faithfully borne. His elec- tion to the various offices had always been without opposition, and he was often sig- nificantly designated as the " unanimous S. B." He was a father to the orphan and a counselor and friend to the widow. Every mayor and member of the city gov- ernment during his long term of office- holding had reason to be grateful to him
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for information furnished and for kindly and thoughtful suggestions.
During the civil war he was an active friend of the soldier and his family. In every position he was a trusted public
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servant. During ten years he was one of the assessors, and thus became familiar with the value of property, as well as boundaries and titles.
He was the first treasurer of the Chelsea Savings Bank, elected in 1854, serving until his declination in July, 1874, and for many years was one of the trustees. He was an active member and executive officer of the "Ornamental Tree Society," which has added so much to the beauty of Chel- sea's streets.
This tribute is inserted here, without the knowledge of Mr. Bassett, as his fellow- citizens feel that it is his due that he should appear in, as he has most emphati- cally been, "ONE OF A THOUSAND.'
BASSETT, WILLIAM GARRY, the son of Manning B. and Julia A. (Tyler) Bas- sett, was born at North Haven, New Haven county, Conn., January 31, 1843.
He received his early education in the district schools of his native town, then at Hudson River Institute, Claverack, New York. He was prepared for college at Hopkins grammar school, New Haven,
Conn. Entering Yale College in 1861, he remained until 1863.
His first connection in business was as a lawyer in Easthampton, Mass., in 1867, which profession he followed in that town until 1883, when he removed his office to Northampton.
In 1878 he was appointed judge of the probate court for Hampshire county, the duties of which office, with his practice of law in Northampton, fully occupy his time. In 1874 he was elected as representative to the Legislature.
He was master of the Ionic Masonic Lodge at Easthampton. His present resi- dence is Northampton.
Judge Bassett was married at Easthamp- ton in July, 1881, to Mary B., the daugh- ter of Rev. Aaron M. and Zeruiah E. (Gould) Colton of Easthampton. They have no children.
BATCHELDER, CARLOS, son of Kim- ball and Armenia (Stearns) Batchelder, was born in Conway, Franklin county, January 16, 1829. His early education was confined to the district school and academy.
At the age of twenty-five he engaged in farming and dealt quite extensively in live stock. He is now president and director of the Conway National Bank, county commissioner, insurance agent, and pur- chaser of railroad supplies.
Mr. Batchelder was married in Buckland, May 28, 1851, to Minerva A., daughter of William and Eunice (Sherman) Forbes. Of this union were four children : William K., Frederick C., Minnie E., and Carrie Batchelder (the last two deceased).
Mr. Batchelder has filled the various municipal offices in the gift of his fellow- townsinen, has been assessor and select- man ten years, and county commissioner fifteen years. He represented his district in the House of Representatives 1870. He is a notary public, trustee of Conway Savings Bank, and also of the Conway public library.
His church connections are with the Congregational society, of which church he is treasurer and member of prudential committee.
BATCHELDER, JOHN HENRY, son of Henry and Abigail (Mann) Batchelder, was born in Beverly, Essex county, January 16, 1817.
He received his early educational train- ing in the public and private schools of his native town, and at the Theological Insti- tute, New Hampton, N. H. He entered busi-
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ness life as a clerk with J. G. & W. Kit- tredge, coal and iron merchants, Lowell.
Afterwards he was messenger in the Merchants Bank, Boston, and later on was engaged in trading with the Indians in the northwest territory. He finally studied for and adopted the profession of dentistry, and has been in successful practice for many years.
Dr. Batchelder was married in Wisconsin Territory, October 22, 1839, to Jane Reed, daughter of Elisha and Mary Butler (Bass) Smith, of Boston. Of this union were six children : Henry E., Frank L., Florence P., Elizabeth W., (now wife of Charles S. Osgood,) Nelly A., (now wife of John T. Hassam,) and Jennie P. Batchelder. Mrs. Osgood and Mrs. Hassam are the only sur- viving children.
Dr. Batchelder has been president of the American Academy of Dental Science, president of the Massachusetts Dental So- ciety, and fellow of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science.
He was a member of the board of alder- men for the city of Salem four years, three years president of the board, and a portion of the time acting mayor. He was also member of the common council five years, chairman of the board of health three years, and member of the school board of Salem.
He was member of the House of Rep- resentatives 1866-'67.
The family of Mrs. Batchelder were of the Hanover branch of the Smith family. Of this branch were Admiral Joseph Smith, U. S. N., Albert Smith, M. C., and Lieuten- ant William B. Cushing, U. S. N.
BATCHELLER, BROOKS TRULL, son of Joseph and Hannah (Trull) Batcheller, was born in Billerica, Middlesex county, January 7, 1813. Joseph Batcheller, his father, was captain in the war of 1812, re- ceiving his commission from Governor Brooks, in whose memory the name of "Brooks" was given the subject of this sketch.
His early education was obtained in the public schools.
His first connection in business was as proprietor of a stage line from Boston to Lowell. Later he became interested in stabling and livery business, in Boston, under the firm name of Wildes & Batchel- ler.
Mr. Batcheller was married in Boston, August 13, 1838, to Rachel, daughter of John and Rachel (House) Dodge, (Edge- comb, Maine). Of this union were four children : Rachel A., who died in infancy,
Abby A., who died in Providence, R. I., in 1880, Warren M., and Lizzie M. Batcheller.
Mr. Batcheller is trustee of Lexington Ministerial Fund, and vice-president and director of Lexington Savings Bank. In 1866 he was one of the Boston assessors, he residing at the time in that city. He was a member of the state Senate from the 6th Middlesex district, in 1874.
He has retired from active business and resides in Lexington.
BATES, ARLO, son of Niran and Susan (Thaxter) Bates, was born in East Machias, Washington county, Maine, December 16, 1850.
His early education was secured in the schools of his native place, where he fitted for college. He was graduated from Bowdoin in the class of 1876. During his college course he was a portion of the time engaged in teaching. In his senior year Mr. Bates edited the " Bowdoin Orient," and coming to Boston in the fall of his graduating year, entered upon his career as a man of letters, caring more for the work itself than for the rewards or honor it might bring. He has been suc- cessful, but his success has only shown what talent, industry and patience will accomplish. Mr. Bates's ideals are high, and it cannot be said that he has ever aimed at mere popularity. He is a con- scientious and independent writer, and by discipline has laid the foundation for a future of high rank as a writer of fiction.
After settling in Boston, for two years, 1878 and '79, he edited the " Broadside," an independent political sheet, writing also occasionally for the magazines. In 1880 he took the editorial chair of the " Sunday Courier," which he still holds.
Besides his regular journalistic work, he has contributed to the " Boston Adver- tiser," " Providence Journal " (as regular correspondent), and "Literary World," writing for the latter at one time a column called " A Bookworm's Waymarks ;" also to the "Century," "Lippincott's," "Scrib- ner's," "Wide Awake," "Outing," "St. Nicholas," and others.
Mr. Bates's first book was " Patty's Per- versities " (1881) in an anonymous " Round Robin Series," his other volumes thus far being " Mr. Jacobs" (1883), a parody which ran through eight editions, "The Pagans " (1884), "A Wheel of Fire" (1885), "Berries of the Brier" (1386), a book of poems, "Sonnets in Shadow " (1887), " A Lad's Love," same year, " Prince Vance" (with Eleanor Putnam), and " The Philistines," both in 1888.
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In addition to these works Mr. Bates has printed in the "Courier" two serial stories, " Mona and Hilo" and " The Ties of Blood." In 1886 he edited "Old Salem," a book left unfinished by his wife at her death. In many ways Mr. Bates's career is representative and in all ways interesting and encouraging to younger authors.
Mr. Bates was married in Brunswick, Me .. September 5, 1882, to Harriet L., daughter of George L. and Abba (Thomp- son) Vose. Her pen name (Eleanor Put- nam) is familiar to litterateurs. Her "Woodland Wooing," published since her death. is a book of great charm and beauty. Mrs. Bates died March 13, 1886, leaving one son, Oric.
BATES, THEODORE CORNELIUS, son of Elijah and Sarah (Fletcher) Bates, was born in North Brookfield, Worcester coun- ty, June 4, 1843.
His early education was received in the common and high schools of his native town, and at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H. In the latter school he fitted for college, but did not take up his college connection, going into business instead.
He was in business in Boston until 1876, since which time he has been engaged in Worcester in the manufacture of corsets (The Worcester Corset Company), retain- ing his residence, however, in North Brook- field, the town of his birth.
Mr. Bates was married in North Brook- field, December 24, 1868, to Emma Fran- ces Duncan of that town, daughter of Charles and Tryphosa (Lakin) Duncan. Of this union is one child, Tryphosa Dun- can Bates, born in North Brookfield, April 14, 1876.
Mr. Bates has been quite a prominent factor in the recent history of the Repub- lican party in this State, being continually called upon to serve his town, county, and state in some official and political capac- ity. He was a member of the House of Representatives from North Brookfield in 1879, serving on the celebrated retrench- ment committee He was also chairman of the committee on claims, on the part of the House. He was member of the Senate in 1883, serving as chairman on railroad, prison, and state-house commit- tees. He declined a unanimous renomi- nation both to the House and Senate on account of his numerous business engage- ments. He is now, and has been for sev- eral years, chairman of the executive committee of the Republican state central committee, declining the chairmanship of the committee, as he could not devote the
necessary time to it. He has been chair- man of the executive committee of the Worcester county Republican committee for many years, and has been an energetic leader and a strong support in the building up and maintaining the powerful influence so long exerted by that county in all mat- ters relating to the affairs of the Common- wealth.
While a member of the House in 1879 he was never absent from his seat when a vote was taken. The same applies to his service in the Senate in 1883 - he never missed a vote during the entire seven months of that memorable "Butler " year, when the Legislature did not adjourn until the last week in July.
He was elected as a delegate to the national Republican convention, held in Chicago, in 1884, for the 9th or the Worcester congressional district.
He was elected by the Legislature a state director of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company in 1880, and served in that capacity until the Commonwealth sold its stock in that corporation. He was
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appointed by Governor Oliver Ames a member of the state board of health, and is now a member of that board.
He was appointed by President Hayes commissioner for the State of Massachu-
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setts for the proposed World's Fair in 1883, of which General U. S. Grant was elected president ; and Mr. Bates was elected as a member of the executive committee from New England.
He has been for many years prominently identified with the great manufacturing interests of Massachusetts and New Eng- land, being a director in several large cor- porations, and for several years he has been president of the Corset Manufactur- ers' Association of the United States.
He has ever been one of the foremost in any matters relating to the public wel- fare of his native town He was especi- ally interested and largely influential in the founding of the free public library and reading room. He is chairman of the board of trustees of this institution, and for its maintenance, in addition to numerous other contributions, he donated to the town his salary while in both branches of the Legislature. He took a very active part in the early promotion of the North Brookfield Railroad, as clerk and director, which positions he now holds ; and probably the railroad would never have been constructed but for his untiring energy and personal work. He was chair- man of the committee elected by the town to publish the town history of North Brookfield. This work, which is acknowl- edged by the highest authorities to be one of the best of its kind ever published, was completed and published in 1887, and reflects great credit upon all engaged in its compilation and production. It is a most thorough and critically accurate work ; it was several times rewritten and a large part of it revised and reprinted at great expense, and occupied ten years in its preparation and completion, and it is regarded as a model town history of New England.
True to his friends, loyal to his party, ardently devoted to his native town, he has been a conspicuous and faithful mem- ber of that great body of intelligent citi- zens who control the destinies of the State.
BAXTER, GEORGE LEWIS, son of William W. and Ann E. (Weld) Baxter, was born in Quincy, Norfolk county, October 21, 1842.
In the public schools of his native town he fitted for Harvard College, where he graduated in 1863, and immediately began to teach in a private school in Boston. From April to December, 1864, he was principal of the Reading high school, and then accepted the position of principal of the high school at Plymouth, which he held till July, 1867, when he became prin-
cipal of the high school of Somerville, a position which he still occupies.
On the 18th of July, 1872, Mr. Baxter was married, in Somerville, to Ida F., daughter of William and Sarah E. I .. (Berry) Paul. They have one child, Greg- ory Paul Baxter.
Mr. Baxter has been associate corporator and trustee of the Somerville Savings Bank since its incorporation. He is secre- tary of the John Abbot Lodge A. F. & A. M., and of the Somerville Chapter of R. A. Masons.
BEALS, ELIAS S., was born in Wey- mouth, Norfolk county, October 20, 1814. He is the son of Lewis and Sarah S.
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(Harding) Beals, and is descended in direct line from John Beal, who came from England in the " Diligent," arriving in Bos- ton, August 10, 1638.
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