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of the factory had previously been done in the old fashioned way, and they at once began to install new machinery, beginning the manufacture of soaps and washing powder on an extensive scale. In 1878 Charles R. Tucker, jr., was admitted, the firm name being changed to Hersom, Tucker & Co., but in the next year Mr. Tucker retired and it became Hersom & Bryant. Later Mr. Tucker desired to re-enter the business and Mr. Hersom sold his interest to him. With characteristic energy, he at once leased property on Fish Island and started in business alone under the name of T. Hersom & Co., which he has ever since continued, on account of the reputation his brands, which had been before the public for some time, had gained in connec- tion with this name. He greatly improved and added to his plant on Fish Island up to 1890, when the lease expired, and he purchased the paper mill property on Acush- net avenue, north of Lund's Corners, a two story building, 105 by 50, but this soon became inadequate to the growing needs of the business, and in recent years addi- tions have been built, which nearly double the capacity. Work is given to an average of fifteen employees, and the trade extends all over the New England States Among the brands manufactured are Italian Sapone Washing Powder, Hersom's Best, Northern Belle, and various other brands of common laundry soaps. Mr. Her- som is a member of Acushnet Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Eureka Lodge of Masons, holding membership in the Chapter, Council, and Commandery, and is also a mem- ber of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. In 1863 he married Almeda T. Bryant, a daughter of Nathan Bryant of Bedford, Mass., and they had five children, three of whom survive: Annie M., wife of J. B. Ashley, jr., of New Bedford; Clara, wife of Arthur Weeks of New Bedford; and Thomas Hersom, jr., associated with his father as traveling salesman.
Hilliard, Rufus B., city marshal of Fall River, was born in Washington county, Me., May 5, 1850. His mother died when he was quite young and at the age of three years he moved with his father to Athens, Pa., and remained two and a half years. They returned to New England at the expiration of that time and located in Newburyport, Mass., where he attended school until the age of fifteen and then enlisted in the regular army and was assigned to Battery I, 3d U. S. Artillery. stationed during his three years of service at various forts along the Atlantic coast. In 1866 he accompanied his battery, which formed part of the army of General Meade, to guard the line between the United States and Canada during the Fenian raids of that year. After his term of military service had ended he worked in the cotton mills of Lowell, Mass., until 1872, when he came to Fall River, where he was employed for eight years in the American Print Works, now the American Printing Company. In 1870 he was appointed night patrolman on the Fall River police force and in that same year was transferred to the day patrol. In 1882 he was promoted to be sergeant and was assigned to duty in the Third Division of the city in March. 1888, as assistant marshal, and served as such until April, 1886, since which time he has filled the position of city marshal of Fall River. Marshal Hilliard has an excel- lent record in the office he has so long held; he possesses good executive abilities and has performed his duties with a devoted earnestness of purpose. During his administration the police force has been well disciplined and the best interests of the city always protected. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the I. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias, Tri-Mountain Garrison No. 98 of the Regular Army and Navy
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Union, United Order of Workmen, American Benefit Society, and other organiza- tions. In 1885 and 1886 he was grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias for the State of Massachusetts. Marshal Hilliard was married in 1888 to Nellie S. Clark of Fall River, and they have one son, Dana S. Hilliard.
Hindle, William, grocer, son of James and Mary Ann (Demery) Hindle, was born in Portsmouth, England, March 18, 1834. His father was a soldier in the 99th Regi- ment of the British army, and in that capacity spent six years in Australia, his wife and William accompanying him. In 1855 William Hindle came to New Bedford, where he found employment in the Wamsutta Mills as weaver. In 1861 he made a visit to England, and on his return to New Bedford became a clerk in the grocery store of his brother-in law, David Cook, corner of Purchase and Willis streets, where he remained several years. Afterward he accepted the position of manager of the Industrial Co-operative store on Linden and Ashland streets, but finally resigned on account of ill health, and entered the old Charles Taber art establishment as foreman of the finishing room. He continued in this position until April, 1888, when he purchased of David Lythgoe the old David Cook store, which he has since con- ducted. Mr. Hindle is a Republican, has served his party as a committeeman and delegate to local, county, and senatorial conventions, and was a member of the City Council two years. He joined Star in the East Lodge, F. & A. M., in 1876, and has been a member of the Pleasant Street M. E. Church since 1855, was for many years a singer in its choir, and is now a member of its official board. December 24, 1855. he was married in this church to Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary Parkinson, whose parents came to New Bedford from England in 1854. Their children are Mary Ann (Mrs. Richard Jackson), Elizabeth Ellen, Emma (Mrs. William V. Ripley), Louisa (Mrs. John J. Walmsley), and William T., all of New Bedford, and Walter Parkinson Hindle, deceased. William T. Hindle married Alice Porter of New Bruns- wick, and is associated in the grocery business with his father.
Hix, George Andrew, an old and representative citizen of the town of Dartmouth, was born in Westport, Bristol county. Mass., June 24, 1829. He obtained his early education in the public schools of his native town and engaged in farming, which vocation he has always followed. He is a son of Daniel E. and Prudence B. (Gif- ford) Hix, and his father was a prominent farmer in this section for several years. June 25, 1854, Mr. Hix married Mary A. E., daughter of George D. and Loraine Crapo of Westport. Four children have been born to them: Frank H., Sarah H., wife of Thomas L. Lewis, Nellie F., wife of Franklin K. Sisson, and Cora A. Mr. Hix is a man of many friends and is a prominent member of the South Bristol Farmers' Club.
Hoag, Frank W., hardware and lumber merchant, was born in England, July 1, 1865, and obtained his education in the schools of his native country. He came to America in 1883 and located at Fall River, where he followed the occupation of a carpenter in the employ of C. F. Tripp for eleven years. In 1897 in association with Thomas T. McNulty he began the wholesale and retail hardware and lumber busi- ness on Second street, Fall River, under the firm name of McNulty & Hoag. They have a large establishment and keep on hand an extensive variety of goods and sup- plies pertaining to their business. In 1896 Mr. Hoag was elected to the Common Council of Fall River from Ward 7, as a Republican and in 1897 he was chosen to
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represent Ward 8 in the same body. He has been treasurer of the Knights of Sher- wood of Fall River, has also been financial secretary for six years of Court Onward, Foresters of America, and was a State delegate to the Supreme Convention of the order held in 1895 at Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1807 was chosen a similar delegate to the convention at Denver, Col. In 1889 Mr. Hoag married Bridget Neary of Fall River.
Hoar, George E., painter and dealer in wall paper, was born in Warren, R. I., August 27, 1826. He left school when twelve years old, working in a cotton mill for one year and in the Robeson Print Works two years. He then learned the painting and paper hanging trade, which he has followed ever since with the exception of about two years. In 1858 he went to California, returned the next year and in 1856 went a second time, taking his wife and daughter. They started for California with the first party that crossed the entire Isthmus of Panama by railroad. They had gone safely across the Isthmus from Aspinwall to Panama and while getting their tickets registered at Panama to board the steamer for San Francisco, party of about fifty, including himself and family, were attacked by a band of negro ruffians and all of the men except three were killed for plunder. Mr. Hoar arrived in safety at San Francisco, where he engaged in the bakery business until his return in 1857. On February 14, 1858, he began a business in painting and paper hanging for himself and has since prospered. He conducts his business on Bedford street in a large building which he erected in 1882 and now owns. Mr. Hoar has been a director in Tecumseh Mill for fifteen years. In 1851 he married Elizabeth A. Mascraff, and after her death married her sister. They have three children: Annie, George W., and Mary Gertrude. His son, George W. Hoar, is associated with him in the busi . ness as a partner.
Hoar, James H., assistant postmaster, 1894-98, was born in Fall River, October 8, 1860. He attended the public schools of his native city and then worked for several years in different cotton mills. Being of an active and enterprising turn of mind, he left the mills and for several years was a wide-awake and efficient agent in Fall River for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. He severed his connection with the life insurance business February 26, 1894, to accept the position of assistant postmaster in the Fall River post-office. He filled this place very acceptably for the full term of four years. Mr. Hoar has been active in local politics and served during 1889 and 1890 as a member of the Common Council from old Ward 5. In 1892 he re- ceived the caucus nomination of the Democratic party for alderman and was de- feated at the polls by only nine votes. He was several times a delegate to the State conventions and for one year served as chairman of the Democratic congressional committee. In 1897 Mr. Hoar was nominated on the Democratic ticket for mayor of Fall River. He is a member of the A. O. H., Robert Emmett Temperance Society,
. the Foresters, and is president of the Black Bass Social Club, and exalted ruler of the Fall River Order of Elks. May 19, 1881, he married Mary F. Coppinger of Fall River, and they have seven children: Nellie, Henry G., Nora M., James E., John W., Sarah and Mary L. Mr. Hoar is a son of Charles P. and Sarah A. (Murphy) Hoar. Charles P. Hoar was a native of England and came to America in 1852. He served in the late war in Co. G, 26th Mass. Vols., and held the rank of sergeant. He has been a well known citizen of Fall River many years.
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Hodges, Alfred Baylies, was born in Norton, August 17, 1841, a son of William S. and Avis P. (Whitmarsh) Hodges. His early education was obtained in the Norton public schools, after which he started in life as a grocery clerk in Foxboro, where he remained until 1862, when he enlisted in the 4th Regiment, M. V. M., and went to Algiers, La. Here he was confined to the hospital for a time with swamp fever and then went to Brashear City and Port Hudson, then home via Cairo, and re- ceived his discharge at Camp Hooker in August, 1863. After recovering from the fever and ague which he contracted in the South, he came to Taunton in 1864 and went to the Taunton Oil Cloth Works and from there to the Porter Britannia Company, where he remained thirteen years. In January, 1877, he was appointed assistant marshal and in July, 1879, was appointed city marshal and remained in that office until 1885. He opened an insurance broker's office in that year, which he conducted until 1800, and was again appointed city marshal for one year. In 1891 he reopened his insurance office and continued in that business until April, 1896. In 1896 he was appointed on the Massachusetts district police force, which position he now holds. Mr. Hodges has always been active in military life and was a member of the the 1st regiment, M. V. M., seventeen years. He worked his way up from private until he was appointed lieutenant colonel under Col. Wellington, which position be held until he retired. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a past master of King David Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and a past com- mander of William H. Bartlett Post No. 8. G. A. R. December 14, 1864, he married Ellen Augusta, daughter of Augustus L. and Vesti (Leach) Pratt of Norton, and they have one daughter, Bertha Ellen Hodges.
Holden, Charles S., M. D., was born in Chicopee, Mass., April 29, 1856. His father, Peter S. Holden, was a native of Leicester, and through life was identified in educational interests and later in life the manufacture of cotton in Augusta, Ga. He married Mehitabel, daughter of Eliphalet Emery; he died in 1878. Charles S. Holden was educated in the public schools and Harvard College, graduating from the Har- vard Medical School in 1882, and serving as house surgeon one year in the Massa- chusetts General Hospital. In 1883 he came to Attleborough and began the practice of his profession. In 1885 he married Caroline, daughter of Dr. Edward Sanford, and they have three children: Alice, Ruth and John S. Dr. Holden is one of the progressive men of his profession, is medical examiner for Bristol county ; a member of the Board of Health; one of the trustees of the Public Library; and is a member of the Massachusetts Medical and Massachusetts Medico-Legal societies.
Holmes, Charles F., was born on the homestead April 9, 1823. His father, James Holmes, was also born in the same neighborhood, where Eliphalet Holmes settled in 1760 and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. James married Nancy, daugh- ter of Enoch Arnold. Charles F. was educated in the high school in North Attle- borough, and in 1855 married Julia, daughter of Seth L. and Lydia Hartshorn, and they have one daughter, Cora E. Mr. Holmes is one of the conservative men of the town, passing twenty five years in mercantile business, and taking an intelligent in- terest in educational and religious institutions and has ever been recognized as a man of sterling integrity.
Holmes, Charles J., son of Charles Jarvis and Louisa (Haskell) Holmes, was born in Rochester, Mass., March 4, 1834. He is a direct descendant of William Holmes,
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who died in Marshfield in 1678, and five generations of his family lie buried in the Holmes family lot at Rochester. The family traces its ancestry to John Holmes, said to have taken his surname from Stockholm, the capital of his native country. He came into England as a private soldier in the army of William the Conqueror and was rewarded by him with an estate in Yorkshire, but later, having incurred the displeasure of King John, was obliged to flee from his estate to the northward. Some years after he purchased the Dalesman's estate, which is still in the possession of his descendants. The father of Charles J. was a prominent member of the Bris- tol bar, served several terms in the State Legislature and one term as a member of the Governor's Council. He removed from Rochester to Taunton when Charles J. was five years of age, and four years later came to Fall River, where the son at- tended the public and high schools, being a member of the graduating class of 1853, the first class to be graduated from the Fall River Ihigh School. As a young man Mr. Holmes was very fond of and excelled in all athletic sports, playing in cricket and base ball matches for more than twenty years, and being captain of the old Quequechan Base Ball Club. When he was nineteen he went into the Massasoit Bank as a clerk and when twenty-one was elected treasurer of the Five Cents Sav- ings Bank, which position he still bolds. In the same year he became cashier of the Wamsutta Bank, which became the Second National Bank in 1864. He has repre- sented the city and senatorial district in both branches of the Legislature; was alder- man in 1885, 1888 and 1889; a member of the School Committee over fifteen years; chairman of the Civil Service Commission for many years; and has served as over- seer of the poor since the creation of that separate department of that board. He is president of several manufacturing corporations and is personally identified with many religious and benevolent societies and associations. Mr. Holmes has been chairman of the committee of the Associated Savings Banks of Massachusetts for many years, and as such has attained a wide acquaintance in banking circles. In this capacity he has had marked success in presenting for favorable consideration the claims of savings banks before committees of the House and Senate of the United States. He has long been a member and for a number of years senior dea- con of the Central Congregational Church of Fall River. May 4, 1858, he married Mary A., daughter of Joshua and Johanna Remington of Fall River, and they have three children: Mary L., Anna C. and Charles L.
Hood, William P., was born in Providence, R. I., in 1825, a son of David B. and Mary A. Hood. His father was a merchant and business connections took bim on frequent visits to the Southern States, when William P. would be left in charge of the business with responsibilities unusual for one so young in years. IIowever, a man's mature judgment and thoughtfulness seems to have possessed the boy of four- teen to such an extent that business went right along under his management. The one absorbing principle of his life seems to have been early implanted, that of doing for himself. Actuated by such motives he left home at the early age of fifteen to try the world for himself. He worked first at any kind of employment he could get for a number of years, when he at last took up that of insurance, fire, marine and life. In all of these he was eminently successful to a degree that he has continued it as a side line to every other undertaking he has entered into for the last sixty years. To follow him through the many and diversified undertakings he has entered
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into and carried through successfully without a single failure, would take a long time to enumerate. He was for twenty-five years a commercial traveler for a Boston house, selling its products all over New England, never stopping for hard times, but meeting circumstances of that nature with renewed energy and determination. In 1854 he with others organized and incorporated the Boston Stove Foundry at Somer- set and has been its treasurer a number of years. The buildings were destroyed by fire in February, 1896, but were immediately rebuilt on an enlarged and improved scale, so that the plant of the Somerset Stove Foundry Co. consists of one main building 40 by 180 feet, two and three stories; the foundry 52 by 120 feet with con- nections one story ; capacity of the works $60,000 annually and employ forty skilled workmen. Besides the fine new buildings there is a water front of 400 feet with wharves complete, where all material is within wheelbarrow reach of the cupola, where it is needed, making it without exception one of the most complete and eco. nomical industries of its kind in New England. This establishment enjoys unusual advantages, situated as it is on the Taunton River four miles from the city of Fall River, where a large part of its products finds a ready and inexpensive market. Owing to the many enterprises engaged in, as well as the advanced age of Mr. Hood, this plant with stock and good will could be obtained on satisfactory terms at an outlay not to exceed $30,000. Here is offered an opportunity for capitalists to invest in an enterprise with no uncertainties to face on account of newness in the market, but rather with years of successful business enterprise in the past, with markets already built up and a prospect for the future rarely excelled. The reader must not take it for granted the life of an insurance underwriter and commercial traveler, or successful stove manufacturer fills up the scope of his operations; on the contrary he early invested in shipping and has carried shares in a number of vessels, has been interested in eighteen vessels which have gone down at various times with- out one dollar of insurance. Mr. Hood is at the present time largely interested in merchant marine, owning a large interest in the Gov. Ames, the only five masted schooner afloat, of over 300 feet in length, 50 feet beam and 20 feet deep, with a capacity of over 8,000 gross tons; she is now landing 1,500,000 feet southern pine lumber. He was for many years interested and a large owner in the Somerset ship yard and has seen thirteen vessels in course of construction on the stocks at one time. He is the largest individual property owner in the village, making his first venture in real estate in 1844, with a beginning of only $40, and purchasing the dwelling home which stands nearly opposite his present factory on Main street and paying thereon the sum mentioned above. In 1843 Mr. Hood married a daughter of Deacon Nathan Davis, and they had ten children, of whom five survive: William P., jr., A. H., Lilla F., Mary E. and Sarah F. Mr. Hood is a Royal Arch Mason and member of Pioneer Lodge, F. & A. M.
Howard, Abby A. K., was born in Fairhaven, and her entire life has been devoted to educational pursuits, for which vocation she prepared when a young girl in the schools of Fairhaven, Middleboro Academy, and by private study. For a period of twenty years she taught in the public schools of New Bedford, and many of her old pupils are now grown men and in business in that city. She also taught for many years in the schools of Cambridge, Mass. Her father was John Howard, a native of Fairhaven, and followed the trade of ship blacksmithing on the old south wharf for
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many years, finally selling out to Luther F. Cole, who at present conducts the busi ness, which is still located in the old building erected by Mr. Howard. Miss How- ard's grandfather, William Howard, was a farmer at New Boston (East Fairhaven), and was known as a representative citizen of the community. Her mother, Sylvia Delano, was a member of the celebrated old Puritan family, headed by Philip De la Noye; mention of whom is given elsewhere in this work. Of the union of John How- ard and Sylvia Delano four children were born: Abby A. K., Rebecca Delano, Jane Ellis (deceased), and John Francis (deceased).
Howland, Abraham H., son of Holder and Caroline (Sampson) Howland, was born in North Dartmouth, February 15, 1847. His father was a mason, and after he had attended the district schools of the neighborhood for a short time he began to learn that trade, which he followed for about twelve years and then went to Newark, N. J., and engaged in the broom making business, which he continued successfully for six years, and in 1867 sold out and came to New Bedford. At this time he entered the employ of Herbert E. Hicks, a soda manufacturer, and for eight years was manager of the plant on Acushnet avenue, which he now owns, having purchased the busi- ness from Mr. Hicks in October, 1895. Mr. Howland has control of a large trade and his products are steadily gaining in reputation. He is a member of Vesta Lodge of Odd Fellows, and by virtue of his integrity and generous nature has won many friends in the community. He is unmarried.
Howland, Barker Cushman, M. D., was born in Dartmouth, May 25, 1846, at the head of the Apponagansett River, where he lived until 1853, when the family re- moved to Bliss Corners, near New Bedford, where his father, who had been in Cal- ifornia during the early days of the gold excitement, had just built a residence. When he was twelve years of age his grandfather died and he went to care for his grandmother and to take charge of the farm at Apponagansett, and while here he attended the academy at Pandanaram, South Dartmouth, for five years and was graduated with a good record for scholarship. Directly after graduation (June, 1868) he went to San Francisco, Cal., and took charge of a coal, oil and lamp busi- ness, being at this time but seventeen; he conducted this business but a short time, when he went into the employ of wholesale drug firms-Crane & Brigham and later with Langley Crowell & Co .- in the same city; beginning at the bottom he gradually became thoroughly posted in the business and after an experience of seven months with a like firm in Sacramento, returned to San Francisco and was employed by Redington & Co., wholesale druggists; after two years in their employ he went to Forbestown, Butte county, Cal., and located a gold mine. After remaining there some time he returned to San Francisco and entered the wholesale drug firm of Heathfield, Bogel & Co. and became a traveling salesman, remaining in this capacity three years, and although he was said to be the youngest salesman in the wholesale drug trade on the Pacific coast, established a large trade. In the mean time he had applied himself to the study of medicine under the regime of the old school, but after careful investigation, decided to embrace homoeopathy, and returned to the East to complete his studies. For some time he studied and practiced with Dr. E. R. Sisson of New Bedford, and in 1871 he entered the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1878, and began his pres- ent practice in New Bedford the following month and has met with most gratifying
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