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Haskins died May 12, 1896, and he then married Ida M., daughter of David Bowen, of Nova Scotia, in February, 1898. Mr. Haskins has always taken an active interest in town affairs and has held numerous town offices.
Hatch, George Coggeshall, the head of Hatch & Company's Express, is the son of George Coggeshall Hatch, sr., a farmer and lieutenant in the Rhode Island Militia, and Martha Turner Coomer, his wife, who was a daughter of John Coomer, a Revolutionary soldier. He is also the grandson of Solomon and Patience (Cogge- shall) Hatch, and is descended from the Connecticut branch of the family, which was founded in New England by three brothers of the name who came from England, one settling in New Hampshire, another in Connecticut, and the third on Cape Cod. Mr. Hatch was born in Bristol (now Warren), R. I., December 12, 1828, re- ceiving his education in the public schools of Bristol and at Warren Academy, and when eighteen entered the ship outfitting establishment of George T. Gardner in Warren, where he remained about five years. He then came to New Bedford and entered the Union grocery store on the corner of Purchase and Hillman streets, but one year later became an express messenger, running on the New York line. In 1861 he purchased an interest in this business, which he has ever since conducted, under the style of Hatch & Co., operating on all points of the Old Colony system between New York and Boston. Mr. Hatch is a member of Eureka Lodge, F. & A. M., of Adoniram Chapter, R.A.M., of Sutton Commandery, K. T., and of Acushnet Lodge, Sons of Temperance, and has been a director of the New Bedford Safe De- posit and Trust Company since its organization. In 1857 he married Sarah Maria, daughter of Philip Simmons of Dartmouth, and later of New Bedford, and they have had seven children: Mary Earle (Mrs. Frank W. Kendall), of Menominee, Wis .; Annie Coggeshall, wife of James Henry Brown, executive officer of the United States revenue cutter Bear; Sadie Marie and Edith M., both at home; Martha Turner, who died aged twelve; George Coggeshall, jr., who was graduated from Brown University in 1897 and now a student at Harvard Medical College, and Helen Louise, at home.
Hathaway, R. B. & H. D .- This business was established by Charles F. Tripp in 1888, and has since changed several times. It was purchased in November, 1897, by Messrs. R. B. and H. D. Hathaway, who have since conducted it successfully. They are building up a large contract business and also manufacture furniture. Rich- mond B. Hathaway, senior member of the firm, is a son of Richmond B. and Han- nah (Borden) Hathaway, and was born in Fall River, January 28, 1807. He attended the public and high schools and then entered the employ of A. G. Thurston, with whom he remained one year working at the machinist's trade. Later he served au apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade, which he has since followed. He has been honored by election in 1896 to the Council and in 1897 to the Board of Aldermen. Harry D. Hathaway is also a native of Fall River, born August 19, 1872, a son of James B. and Emily J. (Leighton) Hathaway. He attended the Fall River schools and served an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade under his father, and later worked as a journeymen for seven years, at the end of that time forming his present copartnership. He is a member of Narragansett Lodge, F. & A. M.
Hathway, Andrew M., a lineal descendant of Michael and Hannah Davis, of Fall River, and a grandson of Michael and Marie R. (Wordell) Hathway, who were also
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from Fall River, is a son of Anthony D. and Caroline F. (Simmons) Hathway, and was born in Fall River, Mass., March 6, 1864. His father was born October 29, 1838. He has spent most of his life in the stone business and is now foreman for the Fall River Granite Company. Anthony D. Ilathway was married August 13, 1862, to a daughter of Elisha and Parthania (Brightman) Simmons, and they have five children : Andrew M., the oldest, Caroline B., George B , Hannah A. and Lucy S. Mr. Hath- way has always been quite active in public affairs, having been selectman of the town for the last eight years.
Hathway, John M., youngest son of Samuel and Mary (Babcock) Hathway, was born in the town of Fairhaven, Bristol county, Mass., July 25, 1820. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm, receiving such educational advantages as were of- fered in the public schools of those days. His first business experience on his own account, and in fact his only business experience, was on the farm, which he has followed his entire life. Fortune's smile has rested kindly on all his labors and the beauty of his home on Sconticut Neck, overlooking Buzzard's Bay, bespeaks an ample fortune richly deserved. Mr. Hathway married, in August, 1876, Frances, daughter of Ephraim and Charity (Gifford) Shockley of Fairhaven. In politics Mr. Hathway has always been a Democrat, and has been distinguished for his firm and high- minded advocacy of truc Democratic principles. Genial, kind and affable, he has always won the esteem and hearty good will of his fellow citizens, who trust that many may be the years remaining to John M. Hathway.
Hawes, George E., was born in North Attleborough, September 9, 1853, a son of John A. Hawes, a native of Wrentham, where his grandparents settled in an early day. John A. Hawes married Ellen, daughter of Capt. Artemas George, and was engaged in the mercantile business in Richmond, Va., until 1861. He then came to North Attleborough, where he died in 1875. George E. Hawes was educated in North Attleborough and in 1875 succeeded his father in the boot and hose business, which has been established over thirty years, and at the present time is carrying the lead- ing stock in North Attleborough. Mr. Hawes gives his entire attention to the busi- ness and has ever advanced the best interests of his town and its people.
Hawes, Simeon, was born on Tarkiln Hill, New Bedford. Mass., August 14. 1817. His grandfather, Levi Hawes, sr., a farmer of Stoughton, Mass., died at the age of forty, leaving a widow and several children, of whom, Levi, jr., was born in Stough- ton on May 25, 1792, learned the hatter's trade, and prior to 1818 settled on Tarkiln Ilill, where he was a farmer until his death in April, 1980. For over fifty years Levi Hawes, jr., was a deacon in the Congregational church. He married, first, in 1813, Harriet Peirce, born June 16, 1796, died February 20, 1820. Their children were Levi and Jason L., who died young; Harriet (Mrs. Calvin Marshall); and Simeon. July 16, 1820, he married Azubah, daughter of Lieut. Jonathan Capen of Stoughton, who died in August, 1879, aged eighty-eight. Their children were Elennor, Azubah, Levi. Jonathan C. (of Acushnet), Thomas R., Elisha and David C. Simeon Hawes was reared on the farm, attended the district schools, and when six- teen went to work for Capt. William Hathaway. During the next two years he was employed by Wilson Barstow, ship builder, of Mattapoisett, and between the age of nineteen and twenty-four he remained on the homestead. About 1841 he settled on the farm at Acushnet, New Bedford, where he spent the balance of his life. He en-
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gaged in the lumber business at Smith Mills and Acushnet about 1869. Prior to this, 1857, he engaged in the ice business, and finally organized the New Bedford Ice Company, of which he was president. Ile became the largest and oldest ice dealer in the city. He was also interested in the grain trade for about twenty-five years. He was a Republican, and was a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1887, a mem- ber of the Common Council one year, and for many years superintendent of streets and roads and also captain of Hancock Fire Co., No. 9, at Acushnet. He was a man of powerful physique, great energy, enterprising, benevolent, and public spirited, and a trustee of the First Congregational Church. April 25. 1841, he mar- ried Maria E., daughter of Joseph and Polly Brightman of Westport, Mass., who was born June 2, 1818, and died May 26, 1880. Their children were John F., An- drew S., Charles S., Sylvanus T., Ilarriet E., Levi, George W., Cynthia A., Mary A., and Joseph B. November 8, 1887, he married, second, Cornelia P. Baxter of Little Compton, R. I., who survives him. He died June 7, 1896.
Hawkins, John Walker, was born in Annapolis, Md., October 9, 1868, a son of John Thomas and Hattie Olivia (Clark) Hawkins. He moved to Vermont at an early age and received his early education in the public schools of Salisbury, Vt., from there he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., and later came to Taunton. Ile entered Ilar- vard in 1887 and was obliged to leave at the end of two years on account of ill health. After this he took up the study of art in Boston, and later he went to New York city where he took up the study of lithography and etching. IIe continued in this work about a year, but was obliged to relinquish it on account of ill health. He returned to Taunton and at the present time is sole owner of Instant Cold Relief, which is one of the successes of to-day. Mr. Hawkins was married in July, 1893, to Sarah J. Bres- lin of Taunton.
Hayward, Joseph Warren, M.D., was born in Easton, Mass., July 11, 1841, a son of George Washington and Sylvia Smith (Pratt) Hayward. He first attended the public schools, then the academy at North Middleborough, later was graduated from the State Normal School at Bridgewater. He then devoted two years of his time to teaching in North Bridgewater and Lunenburg; during this time he was taking pri- vate instruction in the languages and in 1862 he entered Harvard Medical School. In March, 1863, he enlisted as a medical cadet in the regular army and served one year in the Mississippi valley. In March, 1864, he returned home and entered the Medical School of Maine at Brunswick, where he took his degree of medicine. He then returned to the army as assistant surgeon U.S. V., and was ordered to Virginia, where he served until the close of the war in 1865. While there he was on the staff of General Ord, who was commanding the department; he was present at the fall of Petersburg and also the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. He remained on Gen- eral Ord's staff until November, 1865, when he resigned and went to New York, where he associated himself with Dr. Alexander B. Mott, professor of clinical sur- gery at Bellevue Medical College. In March, 1866, Dr. Hayward came to Taunton and associated himself with Dr. George Barrows, which partnership continued until 1872, when it was dissolved by mutual consent and Dr. Ilayward started his presont office alone. He has been associate professor of surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine for fifteen years; general surgcon at St. Botolph Hospital, Bos- ton; and director and one of the staff of the Morton Hospital, Taunton. He is a
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member of Ionic Lodge, F. & A. M. June 9, 1866, he married Lemira Harris, daugh- ter of John R. and Lemira (Dailey) Drake, and they have four children: Ernest, Ralph, Walter and Josephine.
Hennigan, J. Q., was born in Albany, N. Y., February 27, 1846, a son of Bernard IIennigan, who was well known in the railroad business at Gardner, Mass., and died in 1881. J. Q. was educated in Gardner, and at the age of sixteen entered the ser- vice of the Vermont & Massachusetts Railroad, afterwards Boston & Albany. He remained with them two years and returned to the Fitchburg, covering a period of twenty-three years. In October, 1886, he came to North Attleborough and engaged in the hardware business, of which he is the leading dealer. In 1874 he married Clara A., daughter of Asa Gaylord, and they have one daughter, Minnie F. Mr. Hennigan was elected on the Board of Selectmen in 1892, of which he has been chairman for five years. He is a member of Hope Lodge of Gardner, F. & A. M .; past chancellor of Sumner Knights of Pythias, and is at present deputy of Taunton and Fall River.
Hicks, Charles A., M. D., son of Charles and Catherine (Paine) Hicks, was born in Fall River, January 6, 1858. He is a descendant of one of the oldest of New Eng- land families, the early ancestors of which settled in Rehoboth, Mass., as early as 1640. Dr. Hicks spent several years of his early boyhood in the villages of Phillips- ton and Royalston, Mass., but most of his preliminary education was obtained in the public schools of Fall River. After attending Dartmouth College one year, he en- tered the medical department of the University of Vermont, from which he was grad- uated in 1882 with the degree of M. D. He began practice in Fall River the same year, and has been very successful. In 1895 Mayor Greene appointed him as agent or active member of the Board of Health, and under Dr. Hicks's supervision this de- partment has been greatly increased in usefulness and efficiency. He is a member of the American Public Health Association and the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health. He specializes along the line of practical sanitation, and is a recognized authority on all matters pertaining to this important branch of his pro- fession. Dr. Hicks has been twice married, first to Lillian Borden, daughter of Peleg Borden of Fall River. Of this union there is one daughter, Ethel Frances. His second wife was Olive A., daughter of Gideon K. Howland of Dartmouth.
Hicks, John Jay, son of John and Caroline B. (Almy) Hicks, was born at Westport Point, Mass., August 13, 1832. His father, who died in New Bedford in 1879 in the seventy-fifth year of his age, was a highly respected and prominent citizen, emi- nently identified with the whaling industry of New Bedford. At the time of Mr. Hicks's birth his parents resided at Duxbury, Mass., and here he obtained his educa- tion at the Partridge Academy, from which he was graduated at an early age. Leaving Duxbury at that time he entered a large wholesale dry goods house in Bos- ton at a salary of fifty dollars a year and an opportunity to learn the business. This . was considered in those days an excellent opportunity, but the preliminary steps in this learning consisted in pretty hard manual labor for boys of fifteen. Six months satisfied Mr. Ilicks that there was no immediate chance of being taken in partner- ship. Severing his connection with the house and parting from it with good wishes on both sides, he entered the counting room of the late Arthur L. Payson, a Boston merchant engaged in the Mediterranean trade. Mr. Hicks remained in the capacity
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of clerk about three years, when he made one voyage to the Mediterranean ports as supercargo in his employer's interests. Having accumulated some capital, and for his years, considerable experience, he chartered and loaded a vessel and went to the Mediterranean on his own account. After a moderately successful experience of two years, he decided the risk was too great for the capital at his disposal and aban- doned the enterprise. In 1853 he established himself in Boston in the brokerage business, dealing principally in Mediterranean products. During the war of the Rebellion Mr. Hicks became interested in buying and selling tobacco and established a profitable business. In 1877, owing to the failing health of his father, Mr. Hicks came to New Bedford where he has since resided. Mr. Hicks is a man of much fore- sight and is possessed of keen intuition and ability. In business circles he early earned and has maintained a high reputation for integrity in method and action. Mr. Hicks is a director of the Merchants' Bank of New Bedford and Davol Mills of Fall River. In June, 1872, he married Sarah A., youngest daughter of the late James Phillips Sisson of Little Compton, Rhode Island.
Hindle, William, son of Robert and Clarissa (Hothersall) Hindle, was born in Clitheroe, Eng. His father was a block cutter in the Primrose Print Works at Clith- eroe, the founders of the American Print Works of Fall River being fellow work- men. When he was but five years old his father died, and four years later the fam- ily, consisting of his mother, three brothers and two sisters, came to this country, settling in Fall River in 1868. He attended the common schools for a short time and then went into the cotton mills as a weaver, which trade he followed for fifteen years. At the end of this time he was employed by Andrew Holden, a retail liquor dealer, with whom he remained about six years, and then went into the millinery business for himself. Later Mr. Hindle engaged in the manufacture and sale of min- eral waters, forming a copartnership with Lawrence A. Holden, a son of Andrew Hol- den, under the firm name of Holden & Hindle. In additon to the mineral water busi- ness, they engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor trade, and in 1875 built the sub- stantial building which they now occupy at the corner of Pleasant and Quequechan streets. Mr. Hindle has been an active member of the Fall River Fire Department for over ten years. He joined Engine Company No. 7 in 1889, and in 1896 was elect- ed district engineer of the Second District for a term of three years. He is a mem- ber of the order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. June 26, 1877, he married Jane L., daughter of Andew Holden of Fall River, and they have two children: William Clifford and Clarissa Jane.
Hitch, Mayhew Robinson, lawyer, is descended on both his father's and mother's side from two of the oldest families in southeastern Massachusetts. He is the son of James C. and Louise A. (Robinson) Hitch, and was born in New Bedford, on Feb- ruary 16, 1867. His father was for many years connected with the New Bedford custom house, holding the position of deputy collector of customs at the time of his death, January 5, 1895, at the age of fifty-six. Mr. Hitch was graduated from the High School of his native city in 1885, and then became a clerk in the Merchants' National Bank, but soon afterward began the study of law in the office of William M. Butler. He was graduated from the Boston University School of Law with the degree of LL. B. in 1889, was admitted to the bar in the same year, and at once en- tered upon active practice in Mr. Butler's office. In 1892 he formed a copartnership
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with his legal preceptor, which continued until the latter removed to Boston in 1800; since then he has followed the general practice of his profession alone. He has always been a Republican, and in January, 1898, was appointed assistant district attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts, under Andrew J. Jennings. June 10, 1896, he married S. Elizabeth, daughter of Charles S. Kelley of New Bed- ford.
Hobbs, William C., was born in Wilton, Maine, July 11, 1859. His father, George C. Hobbs, was a native of Canada and through life was a well known machinist and inventor of Portland and Boston. His mother, Abbie B. Wheelwright, was born in Wells, Me., and was a descendant of John Wheelwright, one of the first Puritans to settle in New England. William C. Hobbs was educated at Wilton Academy and was graduated from Bates College in 1881, taking a post-graduate course at Harvard iu 1884-85. After graduating from Bates College he acted as principal of the Litch- field Academy, Maine, and in 1882 was instructor at Maplewood Institute, Pittsfield, Mass. In September, 1885, he began work as assistant in the Lewiston High School, but in January, 1886, he accepted the appointment as principal of Attleborough High School, and in the latter part of 1880 became principal of the Canton High School. In September, 1800, Mr. Hobbs was elected second assistant in the classical depart- ment of the Providence High School, and after a half year's service was promoted to the position of first assistant in the English and scientific department. In June, 1892, he was elected superintendent of schools in North Attleborough. July 6, 1892, Mr. Hobbs married Jennie L., daughter of James M. Hiscock of Wilton, Me., and they have two sons: James B. and Arthur E.
Holmes, Albert W., son of Josiah, jr., and Abbie (Wood) Holmes, was born in Mattapoisett, Mass., August 17, 1852. His father, a man of prominence in Matta- poisett, and who held at various times many of the more important town oflices, was a ship builder. He moved with his family to New Bedford in 1869, to engage in the coal business. He died in February, 1800, having reached his seventy-eighth year. 'There are few of the older New England families who can prove a better lineation than the Holmes family, and the branch from which Albert W. Holmes descends has been well represented in Bristol county and the immediate vicinity for several generations. Mr. Holmes was educated in the schools of Mattapoisett, and at the Friends' School in Providence, R. I., which he attended for five years, and was graduated with the class of 1870. In August of the same year he went into his father's office and remained there until 1884, when he succeeded his father in the business at the old location, the office and wharf being located at the foot of Cannon street. This site has been used for a coal business over fifty years, Joseph Cundell being the first merchant to engage in business there, and he was succeeded by Peleg S. Mocy, who, in turn, sold to Josiah Holmes, jr. The business is one of the oldest of its kind in the city. Mr. Holmes is a member of the Wamsutta Club and a mem- ber and president of the Dartmouth Club. He is unmarried.
Holmes, Lemuel Le Baron, city solicitor of New Bedford for seven years, was born in Mattapoisett, Mass., then a part of Rochester, July 26, 1853. He attended the public schools of his native town, the Warren School in Charlestown, Mass., Pierce Academy, Middleborough, and the Massachusetts Agricultural College, from which he was graduated in 1872. Soon after he entered the law office of Stetson &
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Greene in New Bedford, and after three years' study was admitted to the Bristol bar in 1875. He at once took up the practice of his profession in New Bedford and has since won considerable success. Ile has been active in political circles and has be- sides his long service as city solicitor represented his ward in the city government. He is an active member of the Masonic order and a director of the New Bedford Safe Deposit and Trust Company.
Hopkins, Arnold Clinton, was born in Foster, R. I., October 7, 1852, a son of Henry C. and Amy C. (Bowen) Hopkins. He received his early education in the public schools of Rhode Island, and at the close of his school days went to Pascoag, R. I., to learn the trade of cottou spindle maker, where he remained about four years and then came to Taunton, going to work for the Mason Machine Co. He stayed there until 1887, and then for a few years worked in different places on cot- ton machinery, and finally engaged with H. A. Williams, manufacturing drills. He remained with him until he came to the New Process Drill Co., where in 1896 he be- came general superintendent and has been with them ever since. October 16, 1879, he married Cynthia M. Rounds of Foster, R. I., daughter of Alden and Hannah (Chappell) Rounds.
Horr, Andrew J., son of Calvin and Lydia (Wood) Horr, was born in Lakeville, Bristol county, Mass., July 8, 1835. After attending the public schools he embarked on a whaling ship in the capacity of seaman, and was promoted from time to time until he was made boat steerer, in all spending about twenty years at sea, having traveled over a great part of the world. September 18, 1862, he enlisted in the 8d Massachusetts Volunteers, Company A, and served his country for nine months. After the war he went to sea again, but did not remain long. when he returned home and went to California, and after a short stay there he came back and has since been engaged on his farm. On August 29, 1867, he was united in marriage to Sarah Grinnell, and they had two children: Annie J., wife of Charles A. Thomas, and George (deceased). Mr. Horr is a member of R.A. Peirce Post No. 190, G. A. R., of New Bedford. He has never taken an active interest in town affairs and has never sought or held public office.
Horton, James J., was born in Providence, R. I., October 19, 1841, and his father, Gideon M., was a native of Rehoboth and a descendant of the Horton family, who were among the pioneer settlers. J. J. Horton came to Attleborough with his parents in 1843 and was educated in the public schools. He was in the army for two years and returning to Providence engaged in the mercantile business. In 1870 he came to Attleborough and engaged in the insurance business, but in 1876 changed to the jewelry business, which he has continued for twenty-three years, making a specialty of optical goods, the firm being known as the Bay State Optical Company. In 1868 he married Emily H., daughter of Samuel W. Clark. Mr. Horton is one of the conserv- ative men of his town and is a director in the First National Bank. He takes an in- telligent interest in school and church matters and has ever advanced the best inter- ests of his town.
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