Our country and its people; a descriptive and biographical record of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Part 124

Author: Borden, Alanson, 1823-1900; Boston History Company, Boston, pub
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: [Boston] Boston History Company
Number of Pages: 1399

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Hanlon, Frederick, was born in Easton, Mass., January 11, 1867, son of James and Elizabeth Hanlon, and was educated at the public schools of Easton and Recker & Bradford's Business College at Boston. He soon afterward began work for Jordan, Marsh & Company, where he was engaged for two years, and from there he went to work for the Western Union Telegraph Company at Boston and soon became an ex- pert telegrapher. He then went into the employ of the Old Colony Railroad Com- pany at North Easton, afterwards becoming their station agent for five years at Easton, and from there he entered the service of the New York and Boston Dispatch Express Company and is now their representative at North Easton. In 1896 he mar- ried Mabel R., daughter of G. H. and Mary Howard Lincoln. He is an honored mem- ber and is second lieutenant in Canton Nemasket Lodge of Brockton and is also one of the trustees of Nemasket Encampment. Mr. Hanlon is one of North Easton's pro- gressive and energetic young business men and has built himself up from the time he started to his present positon. He takes a general interest in school and religious institutions and in his town and town's people.

Hargraves Manufacturing Company .- This is the only enterprise of its kind in Fall River. The business was first established in 1848 by Cornelius Hargraves, who successfully conducted it until his death in 1874. At this time it was taken by his sons, Reuben and Thomas Hargraves, who still conduct it. A large business is car- ried on in the manufacture of scouring soap, soap powder and bar soap. Reuben Hargraves, senior member of the firm, was born in England in 1834, and came to America with his parents when an infant. They settled first in Pawtucket, R. I., and thence removed to Pennsylvania. In 1844 the family came to Fall River, where Reuben Hargraves attended the common schools and then was employed in his father's soap manufactory. He is a member of Mount Hope Lodge, F.& A. M., and also of the Odd Fellows. Mr. Hargraves has been twice married, first, to Sarah Alty, by whom he had four children, three of whom survive: John W., Margaret E., wife of Amasa Couilliard, and Stephen D. His second wife was Lucy Warren Streeter.

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Thomas Hargraves, junior member of the firm, is also a native of England, born in 1836. As a boy he attended the public schools of Fall River and was employed in his father's business, succeeding to it, in company with Reuben, at his father's death. He is a member of Narragansett Lodge, F. & A. M., and of Mt. Hope Lodge, I.O.O.F.

Harrison, Sandy, was born in Padiham, Lancashire, England, December 11, 1844. He was educated in the common schools of his native village, and when but nine years of age went to work in the cotton mills, and in June, 1869, came to this coun- try, settling in Fall River, where he has since resided. He was first employed in the cotton mills, becoming overseer of the carding department of the Tecumseh Mills in 1875, and subsequently holding the same position in the mills of the Troy Manufacturing Company. In November, 1887, he went into the real estate and in- surance business, forming a copartnership with Charles A. Mills, under the style of Mills & Harrison, which continued until January 1, 1898, when the business was discontinued. Mr. Harrison represented the old Third ward in the Common Coun- cil for one term, and in 1887 was elected to the Board of Assessors of which he is still a member, serving now his fourth term and having been chairman of the board for the past ten years. He is past grand president of the State of Massachusetts of the Sons of St. George, holding membership in U. S. Grant Lodge of Fall River; also past grand of the I. O. O. F., Manchester Unity, and a member of Narragan- sett Lodge F. & A. M., of which body he has served as treasurer for twelve years; is a member of Fall River Royal Arch Chapter and Council ; and Order of the Eastern Star, and president of the Philanthropic Burial Society of Fall River. In 1865 he married Mary Duxbury, who died in August, 1873, leaving three children who have since died. Mr. Harrison married a second time, Mary Spencer, by whom he has four sons: Charles E., William L., Hiram W. and Fred A.

Hartshorn, Charles Warren, oldest son and child of Jesse and Priscilla (Deane) Hartshorn, was born in Taunton, October 8, 1814, and died in the city of his birth, March 31, 1893. He received his preliminary education in Bristol Academy and en- tered Harvard at the early age of fifteen and was graduated with the class of 1833. He took up the study of law, pursuing his reading in the office of Hon. Horatio Pratt of Taunton and in that of Hon. Emory Washburn at Worcester, followed by a course at the Cambridge Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1837 and practiced his profession with Mr. Washburn in Worcester until 1843, and with J. C. Bancroft Davis until October 6, 1847, when he was appointed clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Worcester county, holding the office for five years, and declining a reap- pointment. In 1869 he left Worcester and returned to Taunton, where he resided until the time of his death. He published and later re-edited what he called his "solitary literary bantling "-" The New England Sheriff." At the time of his death he was one of the trustees of the Taunton Public Library, and a member of the advisory committee of the Old Ladies' Home; he was for several years one of the board of investment of the Bristol County Savings Bank. He was never mar- ried. About 1857 he became associated with his brother, George F., and Joseph Trumbull in the manufacture of envelopes, which business was successfully con- ducted for several years, and finally sold out. It was noted of him that in his law business his efforts were directed mainly to conciliating litigants, rather than rush-

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ing into the courts. He was fond of cultivated society, but retiring in his habits, and strictly just and honorable in his life and in his dealings with all.

Hartshorn, George Franklin, was born in Taunton, September 27, 1826, a son of Jesse and Priscilla (Deane) Hartshorn, and sixth of the line of Thomas Hartshorn, one of the original settlers of Reading, Mass. His father, Jesse Hartshorn, was born in Foxboro, May 18, 1789; married Priscilla Deane of Taunton, December 24, 1813, and died April 3, 1868. When a young man he had entered the service of the Shepards, who were pioneers in the cotton manufacturing business, and built what was known as the Green Mill in Taunton, probably the fifth in the country, there being at that time two in Pawtucket, one in Cumberland, and one at Warwick. Jesse Hartshorn came to Taunton in 1807, in the employ of the Green Mill Com- pany. In 1813 he, with Robert Deane and some others, formed a company and built a mill in the eastern part of Taunton, of which Mr. Hartshorn became agent and superintendent. In 1819 he built and equipped a mill at the Falls of Tarboro, North Carolina, and later built and organized other mills at various places, includ- ing Pawtucket and Blackstone, R. I., and Humphreysville, and New London, Conn. About 1813 he returned to Taunton and was in the employ of Crocker, Richmond & Company until their failure in 1837. In 1840 he took a lease of the cotton and paper mills at Westville, where he remained until 1845. In 1846 he entered the service of William Mason & Company as superintendent of their machine works, remaining with them until 1851, when he retired from active business. George Franklin Hartshorn, the subject of this notice, was educated at the Bristol Academy, which he attended from 1836 to 1843. In the latter year he entered the employ of Bates, Turner & Company, importers and jobbers in Boston, Mass., but remained with them only a year, and in 1845 went to New York city as a clerk in the commission house of William F. Mott, jr. In 1848 he went to Worcester, where until 1856 he was en- gaged as cashier of the Central Bank. Mr. Hartshorn was one of the first manufac- turers of machine made envelopes in the country, buying the patent of the inventor. He resigned his cashiership to engage in this business, but was reappointed in 1859, and served until 1862, retaining his interest in the envelope business, which grew to large proportions, until 1865. Mr. Hartshorn left Worcester in 1867, and resided in Taunton until 1873, then in Quincy until 1878; in Cambridge until 1885; and since then in Taunton. July 18, 1855, he married Isabella Frink, daughter of George A. Trumbull of Worcester. Their only son, George Trumbull Hartshorn, was born in Worcester, October 20, 1860.

Haskins, George H., was born in the town of Berkley, Bristol county, Mass., Sep- tember 1, 1826, a son of Cyrus and Catherine (Howland) Haskins. After receiving a liberal education in the public schools he secured employment in a nail works, where he was engaged for four years. On September 1, 1850, he was united in mar- riage to Miss Mary A., daughter of Samuel and Mahalia (Peirce) Richmond, and they have two sons: George Alfred and Charles Abraham. Mr. Haskins was a member of the State militia prior to the war, and in 1861 he was one of the first to answer the call, and enlisted in Co. E, 3d Mass. Vols., and served for three months. In 1863 he re-enlisted in the same regiment, Co. A, and served for nine months, when he again, in 1864, enlisted in the same company, Detached Regiment. When the war was over Mr. Haskins returned home and has since been engaged on the farm. Mrs.

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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 1883, 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, 1867. 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 an 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. Hathway 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, 1829. 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. Hathaway 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 true 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 Hill, where he was a farmer until his death in April, 1880. 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 Eleanor, 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. He 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., Harriet E., Levi, George W., Cynthia A., Mary A., and Joseph B. November 3, 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. He entered Har- 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. He 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. Hayward started his present office alone. He has been associate professor of surgery at the Boston University School of Medicine for fifteen years; general surgeon 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 Hennigan, 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. Hicks 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 11

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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.

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Our country and its people; a descriptive and biographical record of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Part 124

Author: Borden, Alanson, 1823-1900; Boston History Company, Boston, pub Publication date: 1899 Publisher: [Boston] Boston History Company Number of Pages: 1399

Author: Borden, Alanson, 1823-1900; Boston History Company, Boston, pub
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: [Boston] Boston History Company
Number of Pages: 1399