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but since 1888 has been wholesale. The firm have an extensive trade and deal largely in Southern yellow pine. They have supplied the lumber for forty-one of the cotton mills built in Fall River since 1870, and for numerous other mills in Taunton and New Bedford, Mass., in Burlington, Vt., and Warren, R. I. Mr. Barker was married in 1878 to Eliza H., daughter of Moses T'. and Elizabeth (Tillinghast) Law- ton, of Tiverton, R. I. One son has been born to them, Richard J. Barker, jr., who is engaged in the retail lumber business in Fall River.
Barney, Edwin Luther, who died in New Bedford on the sixth day of April, 1897, was mourned as one of the ablest lawyers of the Bristol bar, and at the time of his death, in the seventy-first year of his age, was the oldest practicing attorney in the county. He was a native and lifelong resident of Bristol county, born in Swan- sea, April 1, 1827, a son of Edwin and Abby (Luther) Barney. He was reared on his father's farm and gained a good education in the country schools and at Brown Uni- versity, where he spent one year in the class of 1850. He studied for the law at Yale Law School and in the office of Timothy G. Coffin, of New Bedford, and was ad- mitted to the bar in Taunton when twenty-three years of age. He settled in New Bedford, began earnestly to apply himself to his profession, and being thoroughly instructed in the law and a vigorous, hard worker and reader, soon gained a large clientage: As his name became more prominent he had several law students, most of whom attained success, the most notable example being Mr. Knowlton, who be- came attorney-general of Massachusetts. Mr. Barney was always a Democrat, and during the war a staunch War Democrat, and he served two terms as senator in the Legislature (1866-1867), and was judge advocate on General Butler's staff from 1869 to 1875. He was president of the New Bedford Bar Association from its organiza- tion and held that office until his death. For over forty-five years he was a Mason and had taken all the degrees up to the thirty-second. He was possessed of great tact and skill in presenting a case to a jury, and was associated in the conduct of some of the most famous criminal and damage cases tried in the history of the Bristol bar. He was also a man of dignified mien and sterling personality, being held in the highest esteem by his brother barristers and by the entire community. Ile married, April 15, 1856, Mary, daughter of Zachariah Hillman, and they had four sons: the two oldest, Benjamin Butler Barney, the present city solicitor of New Bed- ford, and Edwin L. Barney, jr., are members of the Bristol bar, and the latter is assistant clerk of courts, and was born in New Bedford, April 14, 1870, and prepared for College in the New Bedford High School; after three years of private tutoring he entered Boston University School of Law, was admitted to the Bristol bar in May, 1892, and took the degree of LL. B. in June of the same year. He began practice in association with his father and brother, Benjamin Butler Barney, and was appointed assistant clerk of the courts in May, 1896, and has since retained that position. In 1897 he married Annie C. Lincoln, daughter of Francis T. Lincoln, of Providence, R. I.
Barney, Frank P., was born in Bristol, R. I., October, 1847, son of John and Nancy Louisa Barney. His father was a butcher and a farmer throughout his life. Mr. Barney was educated in the public schools of Bristol, and also studied and worked with his brother, Charles E. Barney, of New Bedford, Mass., on railroad work for four or five years, starting his business life in the jewelry trade, which he pursued for nineteen years, wherein he was four or five years associated with W. H.
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Wilmarth & Co., of Attleborough, Mass., and where he received a practical knowl- edge of the business and afterwards supplied several patents for the manufacturing of jewelry, as well as on machines for the manufacture of chains, etc. In 1878 he married Ellen F., daughter of Charles D. and Fanny II. Lane, and they have four children: Mildred E., Earl M., Charles F., and Ruth L. Mr. Barney is one of Norton's progressive citizens; his magnificent house and barn, equipped with the very latest of modern appliances, makes his home one of the most desirable and attractive places in the town; it is on the land which is historically known as the Devil's Foot Prints, which is plainly to be seen now on a few large rocks just back of his residence. Ilis farm is a beautiful one, some one hundred acres or more, and his barn also has accommodations for a dozen horses, box stalls, etc. He takes an intelligent interest in school aud church institutions and his town and townspeople.
Barrows, H. F., was born in Attleborough, July 22, 1827. His father. Alfred Barrows, was also born in the same town, where his grandfather settled about 1760, and took part in the Revolutionary war. His son, Milton, was a prominent man in South Attleborough. Alfred Barrows married Louisa, daughter of Sylvester Everett, and moved to North Attleborough in 1838, where he engaged in farming and hotel keeping. H. F. Barrows was educated in the common schools, and in 1858 began the manufacturing of jewelry and was one of the pioneers of the trade in developing fine goods. In 1886 he turned the business over to H. F. Barrows, jr., and Ira Bar- rows, and in 1885 organized and founded the North National Bank of Attleborough, of which he has been president since its foundation. In 1855 he married Henrietta T., daughter of Ira Richards, and they have two sons and three daughters: H. F., jr., Ira, Fannie, Louise and Harriet.
Bartlett, Andrew Harrison, second son of Seth S. and Annic C. (Bartlett) Bartlett, was born at Plymouth, Mass., October 23, 1839. His early education was obtained in the public and high schools, and he was graduated from the latter in 1858. Soon after he shipped aboard a merchant vessel for two voyages as mate. He then went to Lynn, Mass., to accept a position as finisher in a leather house, and remained seven years. In 1864 he enlisted in Co. L, 4th Mass. Infantry (changed to artillery), and served one year. After receiving an honorable discharge he returned to New Eng- land and was engaged in the wholesale fish business for thirty years. In 1895 he removed to the farm in Dartmouth where he has since resided. Mr. Bartlett is a member of New Bedford Post No. 190, G. A. R. In June, 1874, he married Annie C. Golden, of New Bedford.
Bartlett, George F .- The business reputation of the firm of this name has extended to, practically, all points where shipping is an interest; and the name itself was of prominence in the business life of New Bedford for over half a century. Ivory Hovey Bartlett, with his young wife, came to New Bedford in 1819, and established a livery business. Ile soon gained a good foothold in the town, which at that time offered high advantages to a man of energy, and in a few years he started in the grain trade at the foot of Union street, and this led to his assuming an interest in shipping, which gradually increased to large proportions. It would be well before proceeding to pay some tribute to Ivory II. Bartlett, the man. Throughout his en- tire life he remembered the precept, "The poor ye have with you always." In the
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first winter of his residence in New Bedford, when he himself had hardly gained a start, it is said that be collected over $500 and distributed it personally among the poor, which he continued to do every winter for about forty years, and later he es- tablished soup houses and various like enterprises, in many instances supporting them largely out of his own pocket. When he went to his reward the people realized that they had suffered a great loss. He was always a firm advocate of temperance and refused to allow the sale of intoxicants in his buildings, although this course often meant a loss of money. For many years he was an active member of the North Congregational Church and afterwards of the old Pacific Congregational Church. He died in 1871, having reached his seventy-seventh year. The possession of these qualities did not interfere with the fact that he was essentially a man of business and his various interests developed rapidly. In 1847 he took his second son, Ivory H. Bartlett, jr., into the business and the firm name became 1. II. Bartlett & Sou, and so continued until 1854, when his third son, George F. Bartlett, was admitted a partner, and it was changed to I. H. Bartlett & Sons. Two younger sons, William H. and Robert W., were also connected with the business for many years. His old- est son, Abner Bartlett, was in charge of the Astor real estate in New York for many years. The commission business of the firm started in 1839, when a representative of the London firm of Langton & Bicknall came to New Bedford to secure a repre- sentative at this port to buy oil. Ile stopped at the Bartlett residence, selected Mr. Bartlett to execute his commissions, and this was the beginning of a large commis- sion business, as well as of a fifty years' connection with the house above mentioned, for which I. H. Bartlett & Sons frequently purchased as many as ten thousand bar- rels of sperm oil in a year. After their father's death the sons, I. H. Bartlett, jr., and George F., continued the business and later, upon the death of I. H. Bartlett, jr., in 1880, George F. Bartlett continued under the old name until 1804, when he advertised the dissolution of the firm.
George F. Bartlett, third son of Ivory II. and Betsey (Clark) Bartlett, was born in New Bedford in the old Ricketson house, at the southwest corner of Acushnet avenue and Union street. He attended the public and high schools of New Bedford and Phillips Academy at Andover, and, like his brothers, he entered his father's office at an early age and was trained for the position he was to occupy as partner. He is to-day one of the best known of the older business men of the city, but has never held public office, with the exception of six years, 1891-1897, as a member of the Board of Public Works, and a director in the Merchants' National Bank since 1866. He is an industrious and enthusiastic student of geneaology and history and has a carefully preserved collection of historical relics, which will sometime pass into possession of the city. It will be remembered that this firm owned the famous old ship Progress, which figured in the "Arctic disaster of 1871," sailed with the "Stone Fleet," and was finally sold by Mr. Bartlett to Henry E. Weaver of Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition, where it was exhibited. Mr. Bartlett married. in 185%. G. A , daughter of Gideon Nye of Acushnet, and of their eight children, only three are now living. The genealogy of the Bartlett family is interesting, the original Bartlett in America, Robert, by name, having come to Plymouth Colony in 1623, in the ship Anne. He married Mary Warren and thus joined the two families. His descendants lived in the vicinity of Plymouth several generations, and Betsey
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Clark, who married Ivory H, Bartlett, was also directly descended from Puritan stock, having been the granddaughter of Israel Clark of Manonset Ponds.
Bassett, John Seabury, was born in Taunton, April 1, 1842, a son of Charles Jar- vis Holmes and Emeline Dean (Seabury) Bassett. He received his early education in the public schools of Taunton and in 1857 went into what was then the Tauuton Bank as clerk. He remained there two years and then went to Boston as a clerk in a jobbing woolen house, where he stayed five years and then came to Taunton and en- gaged with Davenport & Mason in the express office as clerk; this was in 1864 and Mr. Bassett has been in the present location ever since and at this writing (1898) is one of the proprietors, his service with that company being a continuous service of thirty-four years. He is a member of Ionic Lodge, F. & A. M. October 10, 1867, Mr. Bassett married Mariauna C., daughter of Henry C. and Abby F. (Crandell) Perry, and they have one daughter, Kate M.
Bates, John T., was born in Boston, November 25, 1831, a son of Ezekiel and Lois (Daggett) Bates. His father was a contractor in Boston, retiring from active work in 1849 and moved to Attleborough, where he died March 17, 1871. John T. Bates was educated in Boston, learned the hardware business and on June 1 came to Attleborough, where he remained on his father's farm until 1862, when he was ap- pointed assistant assessor of internal revenue. In 1869 he was elected secretary of the Attleborough Loan Association; in 1876 was elected secretary and treasurer of the Attleborough Savings & Loan Association; in 1871 was elected to the Legisla . ture; in 1889 was appointed town clerk, which office he has filled for eleven years; and in 1887 was elected town treasurer. In 1865 Mr. Bates married Sarah S., daughter of Nathan and Margaret Hawes. Mr. Bates is one of the conservative men of the town, taking an intelligent interest in educational and religious institu- tions and has ever advanced the best interests of his town and town's people. He is a member of Bristol Lodge; Atticborough Council; King Hiram Chapter; Bristol Commandery; Eastern Star; and of the Old School Boys' Association.
Bates, Lot Besse, wholesale grocer, is the son of Thomas B. and Sarah D. (Besse) Bates, and a grandson of Barnabus Bates and Lot Besse, and was born in Fairhaven, Mass., December 22, 1841. His father died in 1863 and his mother in 1891. Mr. Bates was educated in the Fairhaven public schools and when fourteen became a newsboy on the railroad, running between Fairhaven and Middleboro. Afterward he entered the fruit store of James B. Watkins in New Bedford as a clerk and re- mained five years, receiving at the start but $6 per month and board. When twenty- one he became a clerk in the grocery store of John Wing of New Bedford, and three years later he accepted a similar position with William B. Dwight, with whom he continued two years. About 1867 he purchased the grocery store of Francis H. Pasell in the same city, which he conducted eight years, when he sold out and en- gaged in the porgie oil business as part owner and agent and treasurer of the St. George Oil and Guano Company of St. George, Me. In 1880 he established a grocery store on the corner of Acushnet avenue and Middle street, which he still continues. having added a wholesale department in 1894. Mr. Bates began active life a poor boy, but by industry, economy, and strict attention to business has accumulated a comfortable property. He is a director of the Union Street Railway Company, the
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New Bedford Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and the New Bedford and Acush- net Co-operative Banks, and has been treasurer of the Fourth Street M. E. Church since 1887. He served in the City Council one year, and is a member of Star in the East Lodge, F. & A. M., of Adouiram Chapter, R.A.M., and of Sutton Command- ery, K. T. January 8, 1863, he married Emma A. Anderson of New Bedford, who died in 1871, leaving two children: Walter Norton and Emma Kelley. In 1872 Mr. Bates married Mary Phinney Simmons, daughter of William L. Simmons of Tiver- tou R. I., and they have five children living: Mary Simmons, Lot B., jr., Sarah Delano, Clarence Augustus and Mildred.
Battelle, Willard, was born in Dover, Mass., January 2, 1822, a son of Ralph and Patty (Allen) Battelle, and educated in the public schools. In 1841 he started to learn the carpenter's trade, but finding that was not suited to his health he engaged in the manufacture of sash and blinds in Medfield; this he finally closed out on ac- count of ill health and opened a general store in Canton, Mass. In 1859 he came to Taunton and started a flour, grain and grocery store, which he closed out at the commencement of the Civil war. He has remained in Taunton ever since and for twenty-five years or more has been handling an extensive line of periodicals. Janu- ary 23, 1847, he married Lavina Lovell of Millis, Mass .; they have no children.
Bauldry, Lyman C., was born in the village of Bourne on Cape Cod, April 2, 1872, a son of Capt. George F. and Nancy (Eldridge) Bauldry. . ITis father was a native of Yarmouth, England, but came to New Bedford in a merchantman when a boy of eleven years and later settled in Bourne, He followed the sea all his life and event- ually became master of a whaling vessel. Lyman C. Bauldry attended the schools of his native town and soon after completing his education formed a copartnership with his brother to conduct a livery business in Fairhaven. He continued in this business four years and then entered the shipping department of the Pairpoint Man- ufacturing Company. After a service of three years he was appointed to his present position as foreman of the tube and cone department of the New Bedford Paper Company. In 1892 he married Julia E., daughter of Martin V. Cahoon of New Bed- ford, and they have one son, Carleton E.
Baylies, John B., son of John and Mary (Shaw) Baylies, was born in Taunton, August 31, 1822. His father was a prominent figure in Whig politics and afterward a Democrat, and for over thirty years was a deputy sheriff of Bristol county. He also was in charge of the House of Correction for ten years and for several years was a county commissioner. He served on the Board of Selectmen of the town of New Bedford for a considerable period, and died in New Bedford at the age of sixty- seven years, honored and respected by all who had known him. John B. Baylies attended the academy at Taunton and when twelve years old came with the family to New Bedford, where he also attended school. For some time he was engaged in whaling and later went into the employ of George M. Eddy as a clerk. Ile after- wards formed a partnership with Mr. Eddy and later with Job A. T. Eddy, under the firm name of Eddy & Baylies, conducting a dry goods store on Union street for over thirteen years. At the end of this time he again became associated with George M. Eddy, under the name of George M. Eddy & Co., and conducted a dry goods business for four years under that name. He then established his auction and sec-
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ond hand business on Union street and has continued successfully for over thirty- seven years. Mr. Baylies is now one of the oldest active business men in New Bed. ford. Like his father he has been interested in politics, but has never held public office, with the exception of four years as alderman from the Fifth ward. In 1847 he married Mary C., daughter of Abram Eddy of New Bedford, and they had three sons: Clifford, John and Arthur.
Baylies, William, is the second son of John and Mary (Shaw) Baylies, and was born in Taunton. Mass., January 22, 1825. John Baylies was born in Dighton, Bris- tol county, in 1796, became an auctioneer and merchant in Taunton, and in 1833 re- moved to New Bedford, where he was keeper of the jail and House of Correction for ten years. Ile subsequently was engaged in business as an auctioneer and mer- chant in the latter city until his death in 1863. Ile served as a county commissioner about ten years, was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and was active in the old State militia, being popularly known as colonel. His wife died in 1880. Their children were Charlotte (Mrs. Charles F. Congdon), deceased; John B. and William, of New Bedford; Ellen (Mrs. Benjamim F. Almy), of Johnson, R. I .; and Mary, Mariou and Isabelle, all deceased. William Baylies came with the family to New Bedford in 1888 and finished his education in the private schools and Friends Academy. In 1845 he became a clerk for Alexander IT. Seabury & Co., who had established a large flour, grain and provision business in the present stone building on Front street, foot of Union, in 1833. In 1859 Mr. Scabury retired from the active management and Mr. Baylies, Albert G. Cory and Nathaniel S. Cannon formed the firm of Baylies & Cannon. Mr. Cory died in 1861, Mr. Cannon in 1876, and Mr. Sea- bury in 1887. The firm name remained unchanged until 1887, since which time Mr. Baylies and two sons, Charles S. and Robert L., have continued the business alone. The original business of the house was to supply whale ships with provisions, but since the decline of that industry a large general wholesale trade in flour, grain, groceries, etc., has been built up. Mr. Baylies is also heavily interested in whaling ships. He is a trustee of the Five Cents Savings Bank and a director of the First National Bank and the Pairpoint Manufacturing Company, and for several years was a member of the New Bedford City Guards. In 1859 he married Emily F. Lea- man of Nantucket, Mass., and they have had five children: William, jr., an artist of New Bedford;`Charles S. and Robert L., who are associated with their father in business; Theodore, a member of the staff of the New Bedford Mercury; and Frank, who died in 1886, aged fourteen.
Beauvais, Joseph Arthur, president of the Citizens' National Bank of New Bed- ford, is the son of Andrew and Patience (Ricketson) Beauvais, and was born Jan- uary 21, 1824, in South Dartmouth, Mass. His maternal grandparents were Clark and Mary (Wood) Ricketson, of that town. Andrew Beauvais, a native of Bordeaux, France, was sent when quite young by his widowed mother to this country, whither his sister, wife of Capt. James Rider, of Dartmouth, had preceded him. This move was to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army, which was then taking boys of twelve years of age to fight in the French army. He was long a commander of packet ships between New York and New Orleans, and later in the South American trade, chiefly with Buenos Ayres. Captain Rider was also a successful ship master, sailing from New York in the New Orleans and European trade. Shortly after 1824
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the two families removed to New York and later to Astoria, Long Island, where Mrs. Andrew Beauvais died. In 1832 Captain Rider retired from his sea-faring life, and the families returned to South Dartmouth, where the former engaged in the whaling business, which he subsequently followed in New Bedford, where his death occurred. After the death of his mother, Joseph Arthur Beauvais became an inmate of Captain Rider's family, and attended the public and private schools of Dartmouth. He came to New Bedford in 1840, attended the Bush Street Grammar School for a time, was graduated from the High School in 1842, and then entered the counting room of his uncle, Barton Ricketson, managing owner of whaling and merchant vessels and of the New Bedford Iron Foundry. He was his uncle's bookkeeper and confidential clerk from 1843 to November, 1851, when he accepted a similar position with J. B. Wood & Co., who were largely engaged in the whaling industry. He became an owner in their ships, did some business as a broker, and at times was managing owner of several merchant and coasting vessels. In 1860 he was elected treasurer of the New Bedford Tannery Company. He was chosen treasurer of the American Tack Company of Fairhaven in 1867, and for several years has also been its presi- dent. In February, 1872, he left the employ of J. B. Wood & Co. and with T. B. Fuller, organized the private bank of Beauvais & Co., which was transferred to the Citizens' National Bank in May, 1875. Mr. Beauvais was one of the principal found- ers of this institution and has continuously served it as president. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Fall River Railroad Company, which built the railroad between New Bedford and Fall River and opened it for travel in December, 1875. Ile resigned as president in 1877, but has since continued as a director. He was an incorporator of the New Bedford Five Cents Savings Bank, of which he has long been a trustee, and in 1878 was an organizer of the New England Mutual Aid Society, which he served as president until the office was removed to Boston. He has served as president of the New Bedford Real Estate Association and the Weeden Manufacturing Company; as director of the Bennett Manufacturing Company, the Union Street Railway Company, and the Grinnell Manufacturing Company, all of New Bedford, and the Fall River Bleachery, the Sagamore Man- ufacturing Company, the Border City Manufacturing Company, the Globe Street Railway Company, the King Philip Mills, and the Globe Yarn Mills, all of Fall River, and the Taunton Manufacturing Company. In some of these corporations he has declined re-election owing to his desire to decrease his business cares. He was originally a Whig, but has been a Republican since the organization of the party. He was for some time the clerk, and for eight years the Sunday school superintend- ent of the Trinitarian Church, and for many years has been a leading member of the North Congregational Church. In May, 1818, he married Hannah Cotton Parker, daughter of Ward M. and Hepzabeth (Davis) Parker, who died in January, 1879. Their only child, Louise Cecile, married Max Ritter Von Schmaedel, artist of Munich, and died leaving a son, Harold Parker Von Schmaedel. Mr. Beauvais married, second, in June, 1881, Mary Stetson Mendell, daughter of Ellis and Cath- erine (Allen) Mendell. of New Bedford.
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