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Mr. Hall was married January 3, 1859, to Susan Jane, daughter of James C. and Lydia T. (Packard) Drake, of North Bridgewater (now Brockton), Mass., and a great-granddaughter of Capt. Daniel Drake, a kinsman of John Drake, one of the first settlers of Taunton. Capt. Daniel Drake was born in Taunton in 1743, enlisted in the militia April 20, 1775, and served with distinction throughout the Revolutionary war, participating in the siege of Boston, and receiving a captain's commission. He married Lois, daughter of John and Dorothy (Pinneo)
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Reed, of Taunton. James Cobb Drake, grandfather of Mrs. Hall, was born in Taunton prior to the removal of the family to Grafton, N. H., in 1788. James Cobb Drake, her father, was born January 15, 1809, re- moved from Grafton to Brockton, Mass., in 1831, and for many years was a railroad contractor. He died April 16, 1865. Mrs. Hall is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through Captain Drake, her great grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have three sons: Henry Lindsey, born November 27, 1859, who is connected with the freight department of the Boston and Maine Railroad in Boston; Fred- erick Stanley, born February 10, 1861, a graduate of Harvard Univer- sity, and a leading lawyer in Taunton; and Edward G., born June 29, 1867, a bookkeeper, of Taunton.
E. WILLIAMS HERVEY.
ELIPHALET WILLIAMS HERVEY, better known as E. Williams Hervey, which is his usual signature, was born in Berkley, Bristol county, Mass., July 27, 1834, a son of Eliphalet W. Hervey of Berkley, born April 28, 1800, and Dorcas (Fearing) Hervey of Wareham. His father received the degree of M. D. from Brown University in 1826 and practiced med- icine successfully in Warcham and neighboring towns for several years. In 1827 he was commissioned surgeon of the 5th Regiment of Infantry in in the Ist Brigade, 5th Division of the militia by his Excellency, Gov. Levi Lincoln.
Dr. Hervey was a son of James Hervey, born August 21, 1767, and Lucinda (Paull) Hervey, both of Berkley. James was an enterprising farmer, who in addition to agricultural pursuits was also engaged in ship building at the Weir on Taunton River, where he built sailing vessels, furnishing the timber and other materials and contracting for the labor. These vessels were freighted with luinber and both vessels and cargoes disposed of in Bristol and other Rhode Island ports.
The parents of James Hervey were James Hervey and Rachel (Philips) Hervey, also of Berkley. The father of the last mentioned . James Hervey, was James IIervey (or Harvey), whose remains lie in the family plot in the cemetery near Berkley Common. The inscrip- tion on the headstone is: "James Harvey, died December 28, 1795, in the 92d year of his age." Thus it would appear that he was born about 1700.
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He was a descendant of William, and of Thomas Harvey, and of both, as the families intermarried in the second generation. Both of these latter persons, who were brothers, were prominent citizens of what was then called Cohannet, including the present towns of Berkley, Rayn- ham and Taunton. They were distinguished by the high public posi- tions which they held in the early history of Plymouth colony. Will- iam Harvey married Joan Hucker of Cohannet, April 2, 1639; was proposed to take up his freedom in 1653; admitted as freeman at court in 1656; member of the Grand Inquest 1655-1660; constable 1661; sur- veyor of highways 1662; appointed to collect the excise 1661; deputy or representative to the General Court for fourteen years from 1664; selectman for twenty years from 1667; appointed "to looke after the minnester's rate " in 1670; appointed "to be of the Towne Councell of War" in 1675. A mortgage of land made over by Philip the Sachem to Constant Southworth was made over to William Harvey and John Richmond in 1672 and thus described: "Four miles square down Taunton River and next unto Taunton bounds." Among the first and ancient purchases of the township was eight shares by William Harvey. Also among the purchasers of an important addition to the town in 1668 called the North Purchase, now including Norton, Easton and Mansfield, were William Harvey, Thomas Harvey, the elder, and Thomas Harvey, jr. Assonet Neck, conquered from the Indians, was divided among six freemen, including William Harvey. Another pur- chase, made in 1672 by William Harvey and four others, afterwards constituted the town of Dighton. This deed was signed by King Philip or Metacomet. Thomas Harvey, brother of William, appears on the list "able to bear arms from sixteen to sixty years" in 1643; was a sergeant in the army 1673; constable 1678; surveyor of highways 1681; Thomas Harvey and Thomas Harvey, jr., admitted as freemen in 1689.
E. Williams Hervey, the subject of this sketch, having lost his par- ents when four years of age, came to New Bedford and became a mem- ber of the family of Ebenezer Hervey, a younger brother of his father and for thirty years a grammar master in the New Bedford public schools. He was graduated from the New Bedford High School with the class of 1849. After a clerkship of two years in the Marine Bank he became teller of the Mechanics' Bank and in 1857 was elected cash - ier, holding that responsible position for twenty-five years. Upon his resignation he was elected a member of the board of directors and still
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serves as such, his official connection with this bank covering a period of nearly fifty years. In the year 1860, he published a " Catalogue of the Plants found in New Bedford and Vicinity, arranged according to the season of their flowering." This was a novel arrangement for a Flora, but it proved to be a very acceptable one to persons interested in botany. In 1891 a revision and enlargement of the catalogue ap- peared entitled " Flora of New Bedford and the Shores of Buzzard's Bay, with a Procession of the Flowers." IIc has written to a consider- able extent on botanical subjects and is recognized as a reliable author- ity. He has been for several years a member of the New England Bo. tanical Club.
Mr. Hervey served on the School Committee for six years, 1859-66; was representative to the General Court two years, 1885-87; secretary of the New Bedford Bible Society for several years and secretary of the original Young Men's Christian Association, which antedates the present organization by many years; a director of the American Tack Company; an original trustee of St. Luke's Hospital; and a trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank since 1865.
He married, in 1862, Emeline K., daughter of Daniel Homer of New Bedford. Their children are Homer W., Hervey, A. B., LL.B., Har- vard; Hetta M. and Emma F. The family name was written and pro- nounced indifferently formerly as Hervey or Harvey. Both forms exist in England, but the coats of arms are nearly the same, thus indi- cating a relationship in the families. Probably Hervey is the more ancient, as the tendency of English pronunciation is to give e the sound of a.
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EVERETT S. HORTON.
EVERETT SOUTHWORTH HORTON, of Attleborough, is descended from John Horton, who, with two brothers, came to this country from Eng- land as early as 1640. John Horton settled in Rehoboth, Bristol county, Mass., and there married Mehetabel Gamzey, by whom he had five sons and three daughters, the former being John, Jotham, Nathaniel, Jona- than and David. Jotham Horton married a Miss Rounds and had Sarah, Rhode, James, Nathan, Barnett, Jotham and Joseph. James and Barnett both lived in Rehoboth and served with distinction in the Revolutionary war, James being a lieutenant. This James Horton, of
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the third generation, was born July 18, 1741, and died August 10, 1833. He was an active and useful citizen, and a man widely respected. His wife, Freelove Pierce, was born November 8, 1742, and died Feb- ruary 13, 1809. They had eleven children, viz .: Jane, Nathan, Mercy, Lydia, Polly, Freelove, James, Cromwell, Rhode, Jarvis and Chloe, all of whom attained a good old age except Jane and Polly, who died young. Cromwell Horton was born February 23, 1777, and was mar- ried September 20, 1801, to Percy Martin, who was born October 28, 1780. He died in February, 1861. Their seven children were Ellis, Gideon M., Mary, Freelove, Belinda, James and Sylvanus. Gideon Mar- tin Horton was born in Rehoboth, Mass., May 4, 1804, and for many years kept a country store at Attleborough, Bristol county, where he died March 7, 1861. He was an honest, upright citizen, ever ready to forward any good enterprise, and highly respected and esteemed for his industry, true charity, and Christian devotion. November 4, 1832, he married Mary Smith, who was born April 3, 1811, and who died September 2, 1844, leaving four children : Everett S., Edwin J., Gideon M. and Jane J. For his second wife he married Mrs. Julia Jackson, of Middleborough, Mass.
Major Everett Southworth Horton, the eldest child of Gideon Martin Horton and Mary Smith, and a lineal descendant in the sixth genera- tion of John Horton, the immigrant, was born in Attleborough, Bristol county, Mass., June 15, 1836. He attended the public schools of his native town until he attained the age of sixteen, when he entered his father's store as assistant. After his father's health failed he took charge of the business and successfully continued it until April, 1862, when he sold out and enlisted in the service of his country. With others he recruited a company of nine months men, who elected their officers September 18, 1862, as follows: Lemuel T. Starkey, captain; Frank S. Draper, first lieutenant; Everett S. Horton, second lieutenant. They were soon commissioned by Governor Andrew. Lieutenant Hor- ton took hold of military matters with the earnestness and enthusiasm so characteristic of him, and rapidly became familiar with the drill and his official duties. He displayed true soldierly qualities. The com. pany went into camp at Boxford, Mass., and was mustered into the United States service September 23, 1862, and organized as Co. C, 47th Mass. Vol. Inf. Shortly afterward they were ordered to New York and went into camp on Long Island. December 21, 1862, the regiment embarked on the steamer Mississippi for New Orleans, which it reached
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January 1, 1863. About this time Captain Starkey resigned and Lieu- tenant Horton was chosen to succeed him by a large majority of the votes of the company. They were assigned to provost duty in and around New Orleans, and remained in service after their term of enlist- ment had expired, leaving for home via the Mississippi River August 5, 1863. At Cairo they took cars for the east, and were enthusiastically met and feted at every stopping place along the route. Arriving home the whole town gave the soldiers a grand ovation.
But the war was not ended. The governor called for more troops, and Captain Horton's patriotic spirit again responded. In October, 1863, he was commissioned second lieutenant and made recruiting offi- cer for the 58th Mass. Vols. He opened an office in Attleborough, but was soon ordered into camp to take charge of recruits for the regiment, and was commissioned captain and mustered into service as commander of Co. C, 58th Mass., Third Vet. Vols., one of the four veteran regi- ments raised in the Commonwealth during the war. They remained in camp at Readville, Mass., until April 28, 1864, when they went to the front to participate in the battle of the Wilderness. Reaching the field May 6, they were in the long and bloody march from the Wilderness to Petersburg, where almost every hour was marked with battle. After the battle of Cold Harbor Lieut .- Col. J. C. Whitton, commanding the regiment, recommended Captain Horton for promotion, and he was commissioned and mustered in as major. The regimental commander was wounded in a charge June 3, and the command devolved upon Major Horton from that time until September 30, 1864, when he was taken prisoner while leading his regiment in action a few miles south . of Petersburg. He reached Richmond and Libby prison October 3, and was successively in Libby, Salisbury, and Danville, where he was selected as "hostage " and sent back to Libby January 8, 1865. He remained in that terrible confinement until February 22, when, with a number of others, he was paroled. Afterward, in describing his feel- ings when once more under the American colors, he said:
" I can never forget that day-never, NEVER, NEVER! No one who has not experienced the same sensations can know aught of the peculiar emotions and thoughts that come in throngs in seeing and knowing that once more I was under the Star-Spangled Banner. Under their influence I wrote this letter to my family from the deck of the flag-of- truce boat where each of us was handed a sheet of paper and envelope; my family had not heard from me for five months, and the newspapers 93
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had reported me dead: 'On board God's flag-of-truce boat, James River, Feb. 22, 1865. Dear Wife,-Out of the jaws of death, out of the gates of hell. Once more in the land of the living. Well. Love to all. EVERETT.'"
Major Horton was granted a furlough of thirty days and was soon exchanged; he left Attleborough to rejoin his regiment on the day that Petersburg was captured, was ordered to Washington, and there mus- tered out of service in July, 1865. During the war he had received seven commissions and was mustered into service on six of them. He was a soldier of unquestioned gallantry and bravery, doing all his duty with unflinching courage, and winning the esteem and confidence of his comrades. As an officer he was strict in discipline, universally popular, and careful of the comfort of his men. During the latter part of his service he was detailed as inspector of the Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, and served on the staff of Generals Potter and Griffin.
Returning from the war Major Horton was employed as manager for Daniels & Cornell, of Providence, R. I., proprietors of the largest wholesale grocery house in the State. He continued in that capacity until after the death of his brother, Edwin J., when he succeeded to the latter's interest in the manufacturing establishment of Horton, Angell & Co. at Attleborough. This concern was organized in 1870 by Edwin J. and Gideon M. Horton and Benjamin J. Angell, under its present firm name, and is now one of the largest and most important in the country for the manufacture of gold plated goods, consisting of men's jewelry, ladies' sets, etc. Their product is strictly all first quality of rolled gold plate, and finds a market in every part of this continent and in many European countries. Mr. Angell and Gideon M. Horton died in 1887, and since then Major Horton has been the senior partner; his associates are Herbert A. Clark and Thomas S. Carpenter.
Major Horton has long been one of Attleborough's most public spirited and enterprising citizens. Since the war he has taken an active interest in G. A. R. matters, becoming a charter member and several times commander of Post 145, of that city, and serving also as commander of the Bristol County Association of the G. A. R. for about two years. In politics he is an earnest Republican. He has been chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Attleborough several times, commissioner of the Attleborough Water Supply District Sinking Fund for many years, and president of the board of trustees of the Attleborough Public Library since its organization, having been one of its principal founders. He
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was long a trustee and the secretary and is now president of the Rich- ardson School Fund, and was one of the organizers in 1876 of the Attle- borough Savings and Loan Association, which he has served continu. ously as a director, and of which he is now president. He is also a vice-president of the Jewelers' Board of Trade, whose headquarters are in Providence, R. I., and has been a member of the Congregational Church for many years. He is a leader in town affairs, a patriotic and progressive citizen, a strong friend, and universally respected and esteemed. IIe served in the Massachusetts Legislature, House 1891- 92, and Senate 1893; is a thirty second degree Mason, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, A. O. U. W., and other kindred societies.
June 12, 1861, Major Horton married Mary Ann, only daughter of Jesse R. and Mary Carpenter, of Attleborough. She died June 12, 1871, leaving one child, Mary Edith, born June 22, 1862, now the wife of Thomas D. Gardiner, of Attleborough, Mass. Major Horton married, second, September 24, 1873, Eliza Dutton Freemont, of Amesbury, Mass., and they have had two children: Gertrude E., born May 29, 1876, and Addie D., who died in infancy.
ANDREW J. JENNINGS.
HON. ANDREW JACKSON JENNINGS, lawyer and district attorney for the Southern District of Massachusetts, is descended from one of the oldest familes of Tiverton, R. I. He is a grandson of Isaac Jennings, of Tiverton, and the third son of Andrew M. Jennings, who was born in Fall River, Mass., in January, 1808, and died in 1882, having been for some thirty-five years the foreman of the machine shop of Hawes, Marvel & Davol; his wife survives him. Their children were Thomas J., who died in 1872; Susan, Elizabeth E., Andrew, and Elizabeth, all of whom died in infancy; Andrew J., the subject of this sketch; George F., superintendent of Bowen's coal yard, of Fall River; and Annie P. (Mrs. J. Densmore Brown), of Milford, Conn.
Andrew Jackson Jennings was born in Fall River, Mass., August 2, 1849, and attended the public and high schools of his native city until 1867, when he entered Mowry & Goff's Classical School at Providence, R. I., from which he was graduated in June, 1868. He then entered Brown University and was graduated from that institution with special honors in 1872. While there he was active and prominent in all athletic
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sports, being captain of the class and university nines. He was prin- cipal of the Warren (R. I) High School from 1872 to 1874, and in July of the latter year began the study of law in the office of HIon. James M. Morton, of Fall River. In January, 1875, he entered Boston Uni- versity Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in May, 1876, and was at once admitted to the bar in Bristol county. On June 1, 1876, he formed a law partnership with his pre- ceptor, Mr. Morton, which continued until 1890, when the latter was appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. The firm of Morton & Jennings took a foremost place at the Bristol bar. Mr. Jennings was afterward associated in practice with John S. Brayton, jr., under the style of Jennings & Brayton, for a short time, and in July, 1894, formed a copartnership with James M. Morton, jr., which still continues under the firm name of Jennings & Morton.
Mr. Jennings has achieved prominence at the bar, and is everywhere recognized as an able, painstaking, and energetic lawyer and advocate. He was a member of the Fall River School Board for three years, and served as a member of the House of Representatives in 1878 and 1879 and as State senator in 1882. During his three years in the House and Senate he was an influential member of the judiciary committee and chairman of the joint committee on the removal of Judge Day by ad- dress in 1882. He was active in securing the passage of the civil dam- age law in the House and the introduction of the school house liquor law in the Senate. He is a natural orator, eloquent and pleasing in address, and a public spirited citizen. On the day of General Grant's funeral he was selected to deliver the memorial oration for the city of Fall River, and on other occasions he has been called upon to make important and fitting speeches, Mr. Jennings has been for several years a trustee of Brown University and clerk of the Second Baptist Society of Fall River, and was president of the Brown Alumni in 1891 and 1892. As a lawyer he has conducted a number of important cases. He was counsel for the defendant in the Lizzie A. Borden trial for hom- icide in 1893. from the outset. In November, 1894, he was elected dis- trict attorney for the Southern District of Massachusetts to fill a vacancy, and in 1895 he was re-elected for a full term of three years. He has been president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Fall River since 1893, and is a director of the Merchants' Mill, the Globe Yarn Mill, and the Sanford Spinning Company, and a trustee of the Union Savings Bank.
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December 25, 1879, Mr. Jennings married Miss Marion G., only daughter of Capt. Seth and Nancy J. (Bosworth) Saunders, of Warren, R. I. They have two children: Oliver Saunders and Marion.
JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN.
JONATHAN THAYER LINCOLN was for many years recognized as one of the leading business men of Fall River and to his mechanical ingenuity and business sagacity was largely due the successful building up of the firm of Kilburn, Lincoln & Co. He was a son of Caleb and Mercy (Thayer) Lincoln, and was born in Taunton, October 17, 1805. Caleb Lincoln was a farmer and miller, living on a farm in the now village of Westville, Taunton, which had been in the possession of his family since their settlement in the town about the year 1658 and which is still owned and occupied by one of his sons. He was a soldier in the Revolution. Caleb's father was William Lincoln who married Hannah Wade. Children, Zilphy, Sally, Lurana, Rebecca, Deborah, and Caleb. William's father was Thomas Lincoln who married Rebecca Walker. Children, William, Silas, Nathan, and Tabatha. Representatives of the family were among the earliest settlers of Bristol county and re- moved to Taunton from ITingham. It is an interesting fact that nearly all the Lincoln family in the United States trace, with more or less distinctness, their first settlement therein to Ilingham. Hon. Solomon Lincoln, in a monograph on the Lincoln families of Massachusetts, claims that all the Lincolns in Massachusetts are descendants of the Lincolns who settled in Hingham in 1636 and 1638. He says: "We have evidence of authentic records that the early settlers of Hingham of the name of Lincoln were four, bearing the name of Thomas, dis- tinguished from each other by their occupations as miller, weaver, cooper and husbandman; Stephen (brother of the husbandman), Daniel, and Samuel (brother of the weaver)." He adds, "Our claim is that the early settlers of Hingham above enumerated were the progenitors of all the Lincolns of the country. From Hingham the Lincolns trace their early home to Norfolk county, England."
Jonathan Thayer Lincoln, the subject of this notice, received his preliminary education in the old red school house at Westville and later studied at the private school of Rev. Alvin Cobb, which then en- joyed considerable local fame. At the age of sixteen he went to work
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in what was called the "Shovel-cake" cotton spinning factory at West- ville. Two years later he was apprenticed to David Perry, who owned a machine shop on the White Birch stream in Dighton. Here he had abundant opportunity to gratify his passion for machinery and learned the trade which had been his choice from boyhood. Having completed his time, and reached his majority, he was given the usual " freedom " payment of an apprentice for his three years service at his trade-fifty dollars in money and a new suit of clothes. He soon made his way to Pawtucket where he found employment in the machine shop of David Wilkinson with whom he remained about three years, having as fellow- workmen, David Fales and Alvin Jencks, afterwards founders of the firm of Fales & Jencks, and Clarke Tompkins, afterwards the success- ful machine maker of Troy, N. Y. After leaving Pawtucket he returned to Taunton and remained a year, during which time he was engaged to change a single color printing machine into a multiple color machine, one of the first probably ever made in this country. In 1829 he came to Fall River and in 1831 was employed as master mechanic by the Massasoit Mill Company, which then leased the mill property on Pocasset street owned by the Watuppa Manufacturing Company. In 1845-46 the Massasoit Company moved its machinery to its new mill on Davol street. The Watuppa Company, of which Linden Cook was agent, decided to fill its mill with improved machinery, and engaged Mr. Lincoln to build a part of the looms, which he did in the machine shop of the mill. The job of looms was divided into three parts. Mr. Lin- coln had at first a third and Mr. John Kilburn a third, with the under- standing with the company that the one who completed his part first should have the remaining part to make. Mr. Lincoln was the success. ful competitor and so made two-thirds of the looms. The style of loom then made was widely known as the "Fall River loom." In 1844, John Kilburn, a native of New Hampshire, began in Fall River the manufacture of cotton looms and the Fourneyron Turbine, the latter a French invention which was being introduced into the New England mills as a water moter. He had been in business but a short time when his health failed and he died in 1846 .. After his death a copartnership was formed, comprising his widow, his brother Elijah C., and Mr. Lincoln, which succeeded to the business he had been engaged in es- tablishing. The firm, which was called E. C. Kilburn & Co., manu- factured turbines, shafting, and various kinds of machinery for print works and iron mills. Mr. Kilburn had charge of the office work and
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