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France and Scotland. This trade was not conducted in the usual way through com- mission houses, but by the establishment of European agencies, Mr. Hastings mak- ing trips to England and the continent for this purpose. There is no question but that the firm of Hastings & Co. were at this time the largest manufacturers of whale and sperm oil in the world. For many years the average annual output was over 25.000 barrels. Jonathan Bourne, one of the leading business men of that time, has said that this firm undoubtedly did more for New Bedford than any other one enter- prise, first by creating a market for oil, and second by keeping their product up to a good standard of excellence. In addition to the trade in whale oil their foreign trade in menhaden oil grew to large proportions. The business declined with the whaling industry and in 1870 Mr. Hastings purchased his brother's interest and has continued the business to the present time, although of necessity in a small way. In the same year he interested his capital in the Photo-engraving Company of New York city. and bad soon acquired a controlling interest in the stock of the company, of which the inventor of the process, Mr. Moss, was a member. As is well known this half- tone process was long kept a secret and the company had a monopoly in the business for several years. Mr. Hastings was made president and treasurer and devoted to it all the power of his mature judgment and experience. The business of the corpo- ration was enormous, requiring a rare tact and executive ability in its management, and of these qualities Mr. Hastings was possessed. He closed his connection with the concern in 1890. In the mean time, in 1886, he had engaged in the coal business in New Bedford and this he continued until 1896, when he leased his wharf to the City Coal Company. Mr. Hastings has during his entire life been a staunch Whig and Republican and his party has several times remembered his devotion by the tender of different nominations, the acceptance of which was always precluded by his extensive business cares, so that the only public service he ever rendered was as alderman, in which capacity he served four terms, being chairman of the committee which purchased the South Cemetery while a member of the board. Although in his eighty-second year he is still active and of good memory, a notable example of the well preserved man. He has been a deacon of the North Congregational Church for upwards of twenty four years. In 1850 he married Lucy, daughter of Deacon Henry Fowler of Westfield, Mass.
Hathaway, Charles E., & Son. - The pottery of Charles E. Hathaway & Son, while not the most extensive, enjoys a large and influential trade in the distribution of its products, which find a ready market in all the principal cities of the United States, besides a large export trade to Canada. The members of the firm are prac- tical men; Mr. Charles E. Hathaway began the business when only eighteen years of age, having learned the art with David Purington of Somerset, and afterwards with the Somerset Pottery Co., which later became the Somerset & Johnsonburg Manufacturing Co., where he was made superintendent and remained until 1893, then in connection with his son Howard, established the present business. An ex- perience of twenty-seven years in the art places the firm in a position to command the confidence of the large number of patrons who handle the products of the con- cern, which consists of a general line of stone and earthen ware, flower pots and all the various kinds and styles of tile for electrical insulation. The firm has extensive dealings in the latter goods with electrical outfitters and electrical companies through-
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out the country and the Dominion. In 1878 Mr. Hathaway married Mary E. Sher- man, and their children are Howard W., in business with his father; Sidney L., who resides in Pottersville; Florence S., Marion P., Alice L., Anna G. and Charles E., jr., who reside at home.
Hathaway, Chester B., was born in Somerset Center, in August, 1856, a son of William T. and Mary M. (Chase) Hathaway. At fourteen years of age Mr. Ilatha- way left home and went to sea, a life which he intended to follow only for failing eyesight, which necessitated the giving up of a long cherished occupation. After leaving the sea he learned the carpenter's trade with Aaron Mellon of Fall River, where he remained three years. In 1878, business being very dull, he again took up the life of a sailor and shipped on the schooner Henry J. May of May's Landing, N. J., as second mate; afterwards he shipped in the Sarah E. Allen, a West India ship, for one year. He then came to Somerset for a short time, then went to Colorado, where he followed his trade as carpenter, carrying on the business for himself there, the last year traveling and prospecting for silver mines. After three years in the west he returned to Somerset, and gradually drifted into the floral greenhouse and market gardening business. In politics he is a Republican and has been a member of the town school board for four years; is a member of Pioneer Lodge, F. & A. M., of Somerset, and was formerly active in Grange work. In 1887 Mr. Hathaway married Luella F. Winslow, daughter of John and Amanda Winslow of Fall River, and they have three children: Elsie L., Francis W., Ada L.
Hathaway, Herman H., was born in Fairhaven, August 28, 1857, and has lived in that town all his life. He is a son of Daniel K. Hathaway, who was for a number of years a painter and decorator in Fairhaven, and of Catherine D. (Wing) Hatha- way. He spent his early years in the public schools of his native town and in learn- ing his father's trade. Upon leaving school he went directly into business with his father and at the latter's death succeeded him. From a small beginning Mr. Hatha- way has built up a remarkably large business, considering the field to which bis trade is confined. He has been located on Main street for over twenty years and in 1891 built the building which he now occupies; employment is given to an average of twenty-four men. Mr. Hathaway has been a member of the Village Improvement Society for a number of years; he is also a trustee of the Riverside Cemetery Asso- ciation. Ever since boyhood he has been a member of the Unitarian Church of Fairhaven, and is now serving the congregation as treasurer. In addition to his painting, decorating and wall paper business Mr. Hathaway is extensively engaged in buying and selling real estate.
Hathaway, Ira A., was born in the town of Somerset, May 30, 1855, a son of William T. and Mary M. (Chase) Hathaway, and educated in the common schools of the vicinity. His father was a mason by trade, plying his vocation and finding work in the community in which he lived. Mr. Hathaway's grandfather, Jonathan Hath- away, was one of the early pioneers of Bristol county and was proprietor of the first express line between Bristol and Boston. When seventeen years of age Mr. Hath- away started out in life for himself and learned the carpenter's trade with Shaw & Wilber of Fall River, in whose employ he remained for ten years, after which he went into business for himself in the vicinity where he now resides, and many of the substantial dwellings in the vicinity were erected under his supervision. Mr. Ilath-
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away's business location is such that in years past he has found it advantageous to carry other lines in connection with that of building and has a building devoted to carriage wood work and turning and boat building. His latest enterprise is that of undertaking and embalming, a building being devoted entirely to this business. His facilities in this line are unsurpassed and this department is increasing among a class who appreciate suitable and reverent attention in the sad duties of disposing of the dead. With all his diversified interests to attend to Mr. Hathaway has organ- ized, instructs, and conducts Hathaway's Social Orchestra, a musical feature of the community. He is also a leader of music and has probably done more than any other agency towards keeping up an interest in the art than all others combined. He has been a member of the First Christian Church of Somerset since 1878, and is a member of Elysian Lodge, I.O.O.F. He has been twice married; his present wife was Mary E., daughter of William Sherman of Dighton, whom he married in De- cember, 1897.
Hathaway, James Henry, city treasurer of New Bedford, is the son of James Henry Hathaway and Elizabeth Wilcox, his wife, and a grandson of Capt. William Hathaway, a native of New Bedford and a merchant sailing master from New York. His father, James H , sr., spent most of his life in New York city as an accountant, dying in February, 1844; his wife survived until 1890. Mr. Hathaway was born in New Bedford, Mass., November 1, 1835, received a high school education, and then engaged in the hat business in his native city, having his uncle, David B. Wilcox, as a partner. He had become a member of the New Bedford City Guards in 1859. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Co. L, 3d Mass. Vol. Inf., and served three months, being stationed at Fortress Monroe. Afterward he was appointed a clerk in the navy de- partment under Paymaster Thornton and in this capacity served with the expedi- tions on the sounds of North Carolina, at Roanoke Island, and at Newbern, where, on August 5, 1862, he received the appointment of acting assistant paymaster in the U. S. navy, which position he held until March, 1866. Ile served mainly in this latter capacity with the Mississippi squadron, being in the Red River and other ex- peditions, and after the war closed having charge of a number of light clad boats laid up to be sold at Cairo, Ill. For several years after receiving an honorable dis- charge from the U. S. navy he was connected with the New Bedford city assessor's office. On April 6, 1874, he was appointed assistant to the late James B. Congdon, then city treasurer, and on April 6, 1879, he succeeded Mr. Congdon as city treas- urer, which office he has creditably and satisfactorily filled ever since, having been, with one exception (1897), unanimously re-elected by the City Council on joint bal- lot. Mr. Hathaway is au honored and respected citizen, and a member of Eureka Lodge, F. & A. M., and of Post 1, G. A. R. May 12, 1858, he married Mary E., daughter of Arvin Smith of New Bedford, and they have had two sons: William W., his assistant in the office from 1879 till his death on October 27, 1896, and Charles R., his present assistant.
Hathaway, Marcus M., druggist and physician, a son of James and Lydia G. (Brown) Hathaway, was born in Fall River, December 17, 1841. He obtained his education in the Fall River public schools and early in life carefully learned the drug business with P. S. Brown, the oldest druggist in Fall River. In 1871 he entered into partnership with Mr. Brown under the firm name of P. S. Brown & Co., which
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name has since been retained, although Mr. Brown is now deceased. Having taken a partial course in medicine in the University of Vermont, he began to practice as early as 1872 and has since followed the profession. Many of his patients come from among the poor and unfortunate classes in whose condition and material wel- fare he has always shown a kind and sympathetic interest. In his chosen field of work Dr. Hathaway has accomplished much good for his fellowmen and he is highly esteemed for his unostentatious acts of charity and benevolence. He devotes all his time to his business and profession. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Hathaway, Paul Spooner, son of Isaac T. and Hannah (Maxfield) Hathaway, was born in the town of Dartmouth (now New Bedford, Mass.), June 28, 1830. His father was a prosperous farmer and at one time was captain of a company of militia. Mr. Hathaway has his discharge, dated at Headquarters in Boston, February 20, 1882. Paul Spooner received his education in the district schools, which was supplemented by two terms at the New Bedford schools. His first business experience was in the capacity of clerk in the restaurant of his brother-in-law, Edward Wing, of New Bed- ford, where he was employed for a period of eight years. Having saved the greater part of his earnings during this time he bought the business and conducted it alone, which was then in Liberty Hall at Nos. 67 and 69 William street, where he re. mained for ten years. He then disposed of his business and removed to his father's farm in Dartmouth, where he resided for twenty years during which time he bought the farm. He then sold his farm and removed to Smith's Mill, where he has since lived in semi-retirement. Politically Mr. Hathaway is a Republican and in 1876 was elected a member of the City Council of New Bedford. In April, 1898, he was 'elected constable of the town of Dartmouth, He was married in October, 1858, and has three children: Phoebe R., wife of John S. Sheldon of Loda, Ill .; Lizzie E., wife of Charles L. Peck of Dartmouth; and Isaac P., who is now in the U. S. Navy on board the man-of-war Independence stationed at Mare Island, Cal. Whether in public station or out of it, Mr. Hathaway has always been noted for the able and scrupulous discharge of every duty incumbent upon him.
Hathaway, Robert N., treasurer of the Union Belt Company, a son of William H. and Adeline P. (Lincoln) Hathaway, was born in Fall River, August 13, 1854. He attended Fall River public schools until nine years old and then lived with a family in Assonet village until fourteen, and completed his education in the schools of his native city. At the age of seventeen he was employed by a civil engineer and for one year or more assisted in surveying and laying out the land upon which are now erected the Richard Borden and Tecumseh Mills. He also assisted in laying out the land in part of Flint village, where the cotton mills have been built. He was next employed in the shoe store of Stephen L. French for three years. In 1875 Mr. Hath- away was tendered the position of bookkeeper for the Union Belt Company, which position he held until 1886, when he was elected treasurer, and since 1892 has been agent and treasurer of the company, filling the position with exceptional ability and devoting his entire time to the business. The Union Belt Company manufactures oak tanned leather belting for mills, top roll covers for spinning frames, etc., and employs about thirty workmen. Mr. Hathaway is treasurer of the Masonic Hall As- sociation of Fall River, past master of King Philip Lodge of Masons, member of
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Fall River Royal Arch Chapter, Fall River Council of Royal and Select Masters, Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he has been eminent commander, and Aleppo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. September 2, 1884, Mr. Hathaway married Maria L. Wilbur of Fall River, and they have three children: Hazel L., Robert W. and Grace D.
Hawes, Jonathan Capen, retired mariner, is the son of Levi and Azubah (Capen) Hawes, natives of Stoughton, Mass., who settled in New Bedford in 1817 and bought land on Tarkiln Hill, where Levi died in April, 1880, aged eighty nine. His wife died in 1879, aged eighty-eight. Levi Hawes was born in 1792 and served as a min- uteman in the war of 1812. Jonathan C. Hawes was born in New Bedford on the 6th of May. 1826, received a common school education, and when thirteen began learning the trade of sailmaker with William 'T. Cook. When sixteen he shipped on the whaler Roman, Capt. Alexander Barker. He continued in the whaling business from 1842 to 1860, being a master mariner about fourteen years. He then retired, and under the name of the Acushnet Saw Mill Company has since conducted a saw mill at Acushnet, in New Bedford, where he also resides. Captain Hawes is a chap- ter Mason, hokling membership in Star of the East Lodge, and was a member of the City Council one year and of the Board of Aldermen one year. He is also a member aud trustee of the First Congregational Church of Acushnet. His first wife, Jerusha Blake of Stoughton, died at sea, leaving one son, Frederick B., of New Bed- ford. His second wife, Mrs. Sylvia Tucker Leonard of Dartmouth, died in 1876, leaving three sons by her first husband. He married, third, Mary W., daughter of Noah and Hannah Davis of Fall River, and they have two daughters living.
Hayes, Lemuel W., is a native of New Bedford, born December 1, 1843, a son of Andrew G., and Rebecca P. (West) Hayes. His father was a cooper and although a native of Maine resided in New Bedford nearly all his life. The family is of Scotch origin and Mr. Hayes's ancestors on both sides were among the early settlers of New England. He attended the public and high schools of New Bedford and then went into the photographing business, in which he continued seven years. Later he en- gaged in carpenter work and in contracting, in which he was most successful. He has now been engineer at the Bristol County House of Correction for two years. He served nine months in Co. E, 45th Mass. Regt., during the Civil war. Mr. Hayes is a member of Eureka Lodge, F. & A. M., and of Pacific Lodge, I.O.O.F., and is also a member of the Dartmouth Club, of which he was a charter member. He served in the Common Council from the Third ward in 1891, 1802 and 1893. April 2, 1800, he married Harriet A. Morgan of Boston.
Healy, Joseph, was born in Fall River, Mass., January 27, 1828, a son of David and Meribah (Hathaway) Healy, and grandson of Joseph and Thankful (Stafford) Healy. He attended the schools of his native town and in the years of his early manhood engaged in farming. For several years he was bookkeeper for the Fall River Iron Works Company. He began his successful career as a cotton manufac- turer in 1871, when he became treasurer of the Osborn Mills, which position he has since filled continuously. Mr. Healy has displayed rare executive ability as a cotton manufacturer and is also full of energy and enterprise. He was past middle life be- fore he engaged in the business in which he has been very successful. He has accomplished this by careful study of all the details of the cotton business in theory
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as well as in practice. Early in life he began to take an active part in politics and was on the board of city assessors in 1860 and 1864. He was alderman in 1894 and 1895 and was chosen a police commissioner in 1894 and reappointed in 1896 for a three year term. His ability as a financier was acknowledged by his election to the presidency of the Pocasset Savings Bank in 1894. He is also director in the Man- ufacturers' Mutual Insurance Company and the Arkwright Insurance Company of Boston. In 1868 he married Harriet, daughter of Cornelius and Abigail Parker. He is a member of the Unitarian Church of Fall River.
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Heath, Henry W., was born at Easton, November 5, 1846, son of Dan W. and Esther Myrick (Walker) Heath. His father was for twenty years with E. J. W. Morse & Company at South Easton and the balance of his life a farmer; was a select- man ih 1860; came from Rhode Island; and died in 1801. His mother came from Maine and she traces her ancestry back to the Mayflower. Mr. Heatlı was educated in the public schools of Easton and at the age of twenty-one he started in life as a carpenter, following that business for twelve years, and afterwards and up to the present time engaged in the butcher's business. In 1886 he was elected a select- man and has since then held that position. May 7, 1871, he married Mary J. Dean, daughter of Simeon A. and Eliza B. (Storey) Dean, and they have two children: Alfred W. and Ilattie A. IIe is one of Easton's progressive men, taking an interest in the town and town's people and also in school and church institutions.
Heath, James Francis, was born in England, March 10, 1800, a son of James and Margarett (McCormick) Heath, and came to Taunton in 1864, where he attended the public schools. At the close of his school days he went to work for the Mason Ma- chine Co. and stayed with them about five years, and then went into the meat and provision business with H. M. Starks, where he remained three years, and then went with Sears & Keith in the grocery business. He stayed here nine years and then engaged in business for himself under the name of Mckenzie & Heath, which copartnership continued six months and he bought out Mr. Mckenzie's interest and continued the business alone up to the present time (1898). In 1896 he was elected to the Board of Aldermen and re-elected in 1897. November 17, 1885, he married Margaret McIntosh of Boston, and they have six children: Mary E., Joseph H., Ruth, Margaret T., Constance and James A.
Henry, William T., mill engineer, was born in Fall River in 1845. His parents, James and Martha (Whitaker) Henry, came to this country from England early in life. William T. Henry was educated in the public schools of Fall River, graduat- ing from the high school in 1864. Two years later he became a pupil in the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology and completed a four years' course in that institu- tion in 1870. He then returned to Fall River and entered the office of Josiah Brown, and upon the death of Mr. Brown in 1875 he succeeded to the business. He has since devoted his time and attention to mill work with marked success. Mr. Henry has designed, planned and superintended the erection of many of the cotton mills built in Fall River during the past twenty-five years, having built during this time forty-six of the mills of that city and about twenty-five in other towns and cities. He originated the plans for the four mills of the Fall River Iron Works Company, the largest group of mills engaged in the manufacture of print cloths in America. Among the other large mills he has recently erected in Fall River are the Globe Yarn,
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Parker, Border City, Hargraves and Awkwright, also the Cohannet Mills of Taunton, Mass., the mills of the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) Lace Company; the plant of Cheney Broth- ers, silk manufacturers of South Manchester, Conn., and the plant of the Sewall & Day Cordage Company at Allston. Mass. In his field of operation Mr. Henry has displayed good executive ability and by close attention to business has succeeded in all his enterprises. In 1884 he married S. Louise Hadcock of Fall River, who died in 1898. For his second wife Mr. Henry married Carrie S. Luce of Martha's Vine- yard.
Herrick, George H., was born in Brooklyn, Conn., March 19, 1861, a son of Tim- othy and Lydia A. (Lathrop) Herrick. Timothy Herrick was identified as a pattern maker and now resides in Providence, R. I. George H. was educated in Norwich, Coun., learned the trade of watch making and October 25, 1880, came to Attlebor- ough and established his present business, being the leading retail jeweler in his town. In 1886 he married Alice O., daughter of Albert Robbins. Mr. Herrick is one of the conservative men of his town, taking an intelligent interest in school and church matters and has ever advanced the best interests of his town and town's people. He is a member of Orient Lodge of Odd Fellows; the Occident Rebecca Lodge; Ezekiel Bates, F. & A. M. ; King Hiram Royal Arch Chapter; and Attle- borough Council and Bristol Commandery.
Hersom, Thomas, son of John and Aceuith (Shorey) Hersom, was born in Lebanon, York county, Maine, August 17. 1836. His father was a millwright and repaired and built saw mills in the lumber districts of Maine. Thomas Hersom, during his boyhood, attended the common schools of the vicinity about five months of the year and during the balance of the time worked at farm work and in cotton mills. When fourteen years old he went to Great Falls (now Somersworth), New Hampshire, where he was employed in the cotton mills of that town for two years, and then went to Boston, but was unsuccessful in gaining a foothold and returned to his home. In the next year he again went to Boston, and after a short time to Randolph, where he found work in a stable, of which he became foreman in less than two years. He re- mained in that capacity about five years and then began to drive a stage for the same stable, from Randolph to the Randolph depot about two miles. He drove this route for about three years and was then given a route from Randolph to Milton, driving six horses in winter and four in summer. At the end of four years he came to New Bedford and, with his savings and money borrowed from a friend, bought the Acushnet stage line, from New Bedford to Acushnet, then owned by M. H. True, also at the same time, buying a small opposition line, thus having a clear field. In three years he had entirely paid his obligations and had also nearly doubled his stock. Later he put on stages to run to Long Plain and Rochester Center, in con- nection with his original route, and his stage lines gained a wide reputation. He now began at his stable in Acushnet to do some livery business, increasing largely his stock of wagons and horses, and he also bought of II. M. Brownell the city stage line. Mr. Hersom's success was due entirely to his own indefatigable industry and courteous interest in the comfort of his patrons. In 1876 he disposed of his stable and stage lines to Andrew E. Hathaway, and at once bought the soap manufacturing plant of Otis A. Sisson, located at the foot of Middle street, taking as a partner in the enterprise N. L. Bryant, the firm name becoming T. Hersom & Co. The work
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