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possessed the prize-master and his people of the brig, sent them ashore in a boat, and then put the brig for Portland. On June 16th they were taken by a French schooner called the "Flying Fish," and carried to Santo Domingo. The ship was condemned, the authority stated, for want of captain and papers, and taken to Porto Rico, and there sold. The vessel and cargo, which was principally rum, were valucd at $20,158.19. In 1805 Captain Jordan com- manded the American ship "Ocean," which was a vessel of 246 tons, a large vessel for that time, and went to Stockholm, Sweden. The event of the first arrival of an American ship at that place was celebrated by the city, and the King and Queen came on board and dined. In the war of 1812 Captain Jordan was a prisoner on the British frigate "Boxer" at the time of the engagement of that ship with the United States frigate "Enterprise." A short time after the close of the war with England, he gave up going to sea, and settled on the old homestead of his father at Saco. He became a prominent politician-a Demo- crat of the stamp of Jefferson and Jackson. He voted for Washington for president, and for every president to Lincoln. In the war of the rebellion he was a war Democrat. He reached the great age of ninety-four years, five months, twenty-six days, and died in the same house in which his father had died. Captain Ichabod Jordan married, February 5, 1797, at Saco, Mary, daughter of James Cof- fin, who died October 10, 1859, aged eighty- five years. They had: Tristram, Mary, James Coffin, Ichabod Goodwin, Enoch Cof- fin, George Vaughan and Lawrence.
(VI) Captain James Coffin, second son of Captain Ichabod and Mary (Coffin) Jordan, was born December 16, 1803, and died June 28, 1839, in the city of New York. Captain Jordan left home to go to sea. The ship he was to command was about ready to leave New York on a long voyage. On his arrival at New York he was taken suddenly sick and died in a short time. His body was brought to Saco and buried in the family cemetery. He married, May 27, 1839, at Portland, Mary C., daughter of Winthrop and Mary J. Stan- wood, of Portland. They had one child, James Coffin, whose sketch follows.
(VII) James Coffin (2), only son of James Coffin (I) and Mary C. (Stanwood) Jor- dan, was born in Portland, January 22, 1840. He engaged in the manufacture of matches, became proprietor of the Star Match factory, and was very successful in business. He mar- ried, September 20, 1861, at Standish, Vir-
ginia H. Barker, who was born in Hiram, May 20, 1841, daughter of Benjamin and Zil- pah Barker. Six children were born to them : Samuel Spring, Marion Curtis, Margaret Stanwood, Gertrudc Bradford, Mary Wood and Robert Richworth.
(VIII) Mary Wood, youngest child of James Coffin (2) and Virginia H. (Barker) Jor- dan, was born in Portland, November 29, 1879, and married Arthur Sewall Bosworth. (See Bosworth IV.)
CROOKER The Crookers of Maine are principally of Scotch extrac- tion and descended from threc brothers who settled in 1748 in that part of the province of Maine which was then the frontier. From Isaiah has descended a large progeny, several of whom have been ship-builders and prominent citizens.
(I) Isaiah Crooker was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1730, and was one of five broth- ers who settled at Scituate on Cape Cod, fam- ily tradition states. It is further stated that two of the brothers remained there, and Isaiah and the other two took a vessel and went to Maine. They werc shipwrecked in coming past Sequin, and although none of them were lost they were separated. One was a doctor and settled somewhere east of the Kennebec ; one went into Oxford county, and Isaiah went to Longreach, which then comprised only half a dozen farms. At eighteen years of age Isaiah Crooker came to Bath, at that time being the possessor of ten thousand dollars, a large sum for that day. Realizing that every man should have a trade at his com- mand, he served an apprenticeship as a black- smith, which trade cmbraced carriage-making, carpentering, housc-shoring, and, above all, nail-making, he being an expert at the latter, which in those days was considered a great feat to do well. In 1761, when the first church was built at Witch Spring Burying Ground, on land given by Nathanicl Donnell, men- tioned hcrcafter, a large two-story structure, Mr. Crooker's donation to it was all the nails used in the building, which were made by his own hands. He was also a ship-builder, and the last vessel built by him was constructed on a spot a short distance north of Center strcet, near a strcam which ran in a valley now occupied by the track of the Maine Cen- tral railroad. The yard was on the west bank of the stream. He bought a large tract of land, four miles in length, extending from the Kennebec river on the east to the New Meadows river on the west, with the exception
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of a few lots which were already occupied and cultivated. His purchase included Rocky- hill. On this he erected a large house, called Crooker's Folly, on account of its size. Mr. Crooker was one of the earliest and most prominent citizens of Bath, residing until his (leath on High street. He died September 15, 1795, aged sixty-five years. He was a very heavy man and weighed 350 pounds; he had a chair made to order, which is still a choice relic of his descendants. His six sons were all stalwart men, standing over six feet in their stockings, with the exception of one short one ; one son weighed 400 pounds.
Isaiah Crooker, married (first) October 24, 1750, Betsey Philbrook, daughter of Jonathan Philbrook, and had one child, Priscilla, born in 1757, who married a Lunt. Mrs. Crooker died not long after her marriage. Mr. Crooker married (second) in July, 1760, Hannah (Harding) McKenney, a widow from Truro, by whom he had ten children: I. Isaiah, born in 1762, who married a McDonald. 2. Hul- dah, born May 2, 1724, married John Whit- more. 3. Jonathan Harding, see below. 4. Elizabeth, born March 29, 1769, married Will- iam Webb. 5. Gamalia, born May 20, 1771, married Martha Foster. 6. Timothy, who died at sea. 7. Francis Winter, born June 27, 1775, married Jane McCobb. 8. William Swanton, born in 1777, married a Jewett. 9. Zachariah, born in 1778, married a Merritt. IO. Hannah, born 1781, married General Denny McCobb. General Denny and Jane McCobb were brother and sister.
(II) Jonathan Harding, second son of Isa- iah and Hannah (Harding) (McKenney) Crooker, was born in Bath, October, 1767. He was a ship-builder by occupation ; he learned the blacksmith trade, in accordance with the wishes of his father, who had all his sons learn a trade. He resided in Bath. He mar- ried Hannah Duncan, who was born in 1774, died 1858, aged eighty-four years. She was a daughter of Dr. Samuel Duncan, surgeon in the revolutionary war, who was one of the first physicians of the town of Bath. Dr. Duncan married Hannah Donnell, daughter of Benjamin Donnell, who came from Old York before 1734; he was a son of Nathaniel Don- nell, of York. Jonathan H. and Hannah (Duncan) Crooker had children: Samuel Duncan, Charles, see below, Lydia Duncan, John, Arthur Harding, William Donnell.
(III) Charles, second son of Jonathan H. and Hannah (Duncan) Crooker, was born in Bath, September 20, 1797, died February 14, 1877, aged eighty. He attended the common
schools while a youth, and after arriving at manhood engaged in building vessels with James Church, under the firm name of Church & Crooker, and afterward built with his brother, William D., under the firm name of C. & W. D. Crooker, until 1853, when he re- tired from the activities of business. He was a Republican and a staunch supporter of his party. His residence was on South street. He married Rachel Sewall, 1818, by whom he had children: Lucy Holmes, died in infancy ; Charles H., died in infancy ; Emma Duneen, Juliette Marsh, Adelaide Lydia.
(IV) Juliette Marsh, daughter of Charles and Rachel (Sewall) Crooker, was born in Bath, March II, 1839, died October 4, 1891. She married Captain Frederic Stead Bos- worth, of Bath. (See Bosworth III.)
CRANE The armorial bearings of this family were ar. a crane sa. standing on a staff raguly in base vert. The name appeared in England in 1272, when there was a William de Crane. The cognomen is derived from the town of Crannes, in Maine, an ancient province of northern France. Crannes, or Craon, has for its root the Gaelic cran, meaning water, and the bird of that name received its appellation, doubtless, because it frequented watery places. The Cranes were without doubt Normans who came over with the Conqueror, who is said to have started from Crannes on the river Oudin. Cranae was an island of Laconia in the Mediterranean. Cranus, a town of Caria, in Asia Minor, and there was a king of Ath- ens bearing the name. Cranea was a small country in Greece on the Ionian sea, Craneus was the first king of Macedonia. Crania was the ancient name of Tarrius in Cilicia, and Crane a city of Arcadia, in Greece. In the successive migrations of the population from the east and south to the north and west it is probable they carried with them their local geography. We can in any event see that the name of our family is a most ancient one. The English home of the Cranes was in Suf- folk. In 1382 William Crane, of Stow- market, married Margaret, daughter and co- heir of Sir Andrew Butler, Knight, by which he came into possession of Chilton in the Hundred of Stowe. It remained in the fam- ily over three hundred years. The line of heirs is delineated for twelve generations, and among them was a long roll of aristocratic land holders.
(I) Henry Crane, the American forefather of this race, was born in England in 1621,
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came to this country and located in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1667. He was an iron- worker. The house in which he lived was sit- uated on the north side of Adams street, at East Milton, in the rear and between the houses of W. Q. Baxter and E. B. Andrews. The open place in that section was called "Crane's Plains." He married, in England, Tabitha. He married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Kinsley, of Braintree, Massachusetts; children, born in Milton : Benjamin, Stephen, John, Elizabeth, Ebene- zer, Anna C. M., Mary, Mercy and Samuel. The children had the limited advantages of a farm home in those early days. There was a sternness and simplicity to life then, but from the hardships and rough realities of that gen- eration were evolved the unflinching patriots of the next, who successfully opposed the ob- noxious oppression of the mother country.
(II) Ebenezer, son of Henry and Eliza- beth (Kinsley) Crane, was born August 10, 1665. In August, 1690, he enlisted in the Dorchester and Milton Company of seventy- five men, and went with Sir William Phipps' disastrous expedition to Quebec. Of the two thousand troops comprising the land force, two hundred were lost, and of the two hun- dred and forty-six that belonged to his com- pany he was one of the twenty-nine that re- turned home. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Talman. Among their children was Abijah.
(III) Abijah, twelfth child of Ebenezer and Mary (Talman) Crane, was born in Milton, November 2, 1714. He married Sarah Field, of Braintree, and after her decease Sarah Beverly.
(IV) Brigadier-General John, third son of Abijah and Sarah (Field) Crane, was born in Milton, December 7, 1744, and died at Whit- ing, Maine, August 21, 1805. In 1759 his father was drafted as a soldier in the French war, but being enfeebled by his infirmities, John, then fifteen, went in the place of him. In 1769 he assisted Gilbert Dubois in planting the "Paddock elms," which came from Mr. Robbins' farm on Brush Hill. In 1767 he was in Boston, where he lived eighteen years on Tremont, opposite Hollis street. In 1773 he was one of the "Boston Tea-party," and was the only man injured in the mêlée. He was found twenty-four hours later in the hold of the vessel, disabled. On removing his boots there was found therein a quantity of tea. This was preserved by the family, and more than a century afterward this very tea was shown at an exhibition on Washington
street. In 1774 he was commissioned lieu- tenant of artillery in Rhode Island, and the next year the lieutenant marched on Boston with the Rhode Island army. Lieutenant Crane was one of the party with Major Vose that burned the Boston light. In 1776 he was in the siege of Boston at Cambridge and Dorchester Heights, as major in Knox's ar- tillery. In August of that year Major Crane was at the battle of Brooklyn; in September he lost a portion of his foot by a cannon-ball from the "Rose" frigate, in the East river, and came near dying from lockjaw; in December he was in Boston again, building powder-mills. In 1777 he was promoted to the-colonelcy of the Massachusetts regiment, and led in person that body of men at the battles of Monmouth, Brandywine, Germantown and Red Bank. In 1780 Colonel Crane took part in the unsuc- cessful pursuit of Benedict Arnold, and in 1783 was commissioned brigadier-general for active and meritorious service. He was con- sidered the most expert artillerist on the American side. General Crane went to Quod- dy, Maine, now Lubec, in 1784, and was the first merchant on Moose Island, now East- port. In 1786 he removed to Orangetown, now Whiting, Maine. He was appointed the first judge of the court of common pleas for Washington county. The name of his wife was Sarah, and their children were: Abijah, Isaac, John, Charlotta.
(V) Abijah (2), son of John and Sarah Crane, married Rebecca Crane. Children : William P., Isaac, Abigail, Rebecca, Zebiah, Lucretia, Edward B. and Abijah.
(VI) Abijah (3), son of Abijah (2) and Rebecca (Crane) Crane, lived in Whiting. He married Lydia T. Gilpatrick, and had: Ada- laide, Rufus T., James E., Leander, Hancock, John Wesley and Lucy H.
(VII) Rufus Trussell, first son of Abijah (3) and Lydia T. (Gilpatrick) Crane, was born in Whiting, February 25, 1832. He re- moved to Machias, and was a druggist there for fifty years. He married (first) Angelia Gardner, (second) Elizabeth, daughter of William S. Peavey. Children: Edna P. and Frank T.
(VIII) Frank Trussell, son of Rufus T. and Elizabeth (Peavey) Crane, was born at Machias, April 11, 1869. He received his pre- liminary training in the public school, grad- uating from the Machias high, and from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1891. He immediately went into the drug business with his father, and is now general manager of the same. Mr. Crane is a member of Har-
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wood Lodge, No. 91, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Machias, of which he is senior deacon; he has been accorded the cap- itular degree in the Washington Chapter, of which he has been high priest ; he was admit- ted to the rites of St. Elmo Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar, of which he is past com- mander; he is also a member of the Lodge of Perfection, and has taken ten York de- grces in Masonry and fourteen in the Scot- tish Ritcs. He is a member, too, of the Ben Hur Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, of which he is past chancellor; of the Eastern Star, of which he is past patron. In addition to these, he is a member of the Maine Phar- maceutical Association, of which he has been president. He belongs to the Sons of Amer- ican Revolution. He is a believer in the Jack- sonian principles of democracy, and has been member of the Democratic county committee. Mr. Crane was chairman of the Machias school board for five years, and he is at pres- ent chief of the city fire department.
Mr. Crane married Bertha I., daughter of Thomas B. and Lucia (Tuller ) Magie, of New Haven, Connecticut. She is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution, past regent of the Hannah Weston Chapter, and past matron of Machias Chapter. O. E. S., and at present associate grand conductress of the Grand Chapter of Maine. The Cranes are Congre- gational people, and Mrs. Crane is superin- tendent of the Machias Valley Junior Chris- tian Endeavor Society. Mr. and Mrs. Crane have three children: Grace Magie, born Sep- tember 4, 1893; Lucia Elizabeth, September 22, 1897, and Edna Peavey, December, 1899. They are attending the public schools.
CRANE Hezekiah Crane, immigrant an- cestor of this branch of the Crane family, was born in Wind- sor. Connecticut, 1773, died at Constable, New York, April 30, 1810. He married, at Weth- ersfield, Vermont, November 29, 1796, Pru- dence Lake, born at Rindge, New Hampshire, February 24, 1778, died July 19, 1853, daugh- ter of Enos and Prudence (Page) Lake. Enos Lake was born at Topsfield, Massachu- setts, October 26, 1756, married at Rindge, New Hampshire, December 18, 1777, Pru- dence Page, born March 9, 1760, at Groton, Massachusetts, died September 16, 1794. Chil- dren of Enos and Prudence (Page) Lake : Prudence, aforementioned; Enos, David, Hit- ta, Abigail, Sewall, Rebecca, Silas and Sally, twins. Children of Hezekiah and Prudence
(Lake) Crane: 1. Prudence, born in Wethers- field, January 16, 1798, married a Mr. Davis, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and had two sons and two daughters. 2. Hezekiah, born in Wethersfield, August 25, 1799, died March 18, 1800. 3. Gilman, born in Wethersfield, June 30, 1801, died July 21, 1888; married, August 13, 1824, Rosalinda Ginn, of Orland, Maine, daughter of Abraham Ginn; chil- dren : Hezekiah, Harrict C., Hezekiah, Pru- dence, Rosalinda, Gilman, Catherine, Alpheus, Laura. 4. Harriet, born in Eden, Mt. Desert Island, July 31, 1803, married a Mr. Choate. 5. Oberia, born Eden, April 16, 1807, died May 16, 1807. 6. Oberia Hill, born in Eden, June 26, 1808, died at South Reading, Massa- chusetts, September 1, 1854; married Calvin C. Salsbury, of Eden, in 1833, and had two daughters, Frances and Laura. 7. Sewall Lake, mentioned below.
(II) Sewall Lake, son of Hezekiah and Prudence (Lake) Crane, was born in Eden, Mt. Desert, April 13, 1816, died March 16, 1856. He was a prominent citizen of Bucks- port, Maine. He was a blacksmith and a Republican. He married Elizabeth Lewis Howes, of Bucksport, born June 15, 1816, died December 23, 1885, daughter of Solomon Lewis Howes, of Provincetown, Massachu- setts, and of Sarah (Rich) Howes, who was a native of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. These parents were the representatives of some very strong old New England families. Solomon L. Howes was born December 18, 1779, died March 16, 1856; his wife was born August 30, 1778, died May 22, 1862. Solomon L. Howes, father of Mrs. Sewall Lake Crane, came to Maine when a young man, settling at North Bucksport. He became a master mariner. He was a Whig politically, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist church. They are buried at Winterport, Maine. He married Sarah Rich, and they were the parents of eleven sons and one daughter, the only survi- vor (1908) being Sarah, widow of Sylvester Snowman, of Bucksport, Maine. She is now in her ninetieth year and remarkably active and well preserved. She is tenderly loved and cherished in the home of her son, Walter Snowman, in Bucksport. Abner Howes, the father of Solomon Lewis Howes, having been a brave soldier in the revolutionary war from Provincetown, Massachusetts, was killed in battle. The children of Sewall Lake Crane were: Clifton Parker, Charles L., Joshua I .. , Sewall Lake Jr., Albert A., Sarah R., who married Gilman Campbell, of Winterport,
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Maine ; Caroline E., who married Thomas Houston, Marcia, who married Williard S. Dilloway ; Ella and George Dana.
(III) George Dana, son of Sewall Lake and Elizabeth Lewis (Howes) Crane, was born in Frankfort, Maine, August 27, 1847, and is now a well-known resident of Bucks- port. He studied diligently in the schools of Frankfort, now Winterport, until he was four- teen years of age and then became a clerk at Bangor. He enlisted in the Union army from Frankfort, February II, 1864, in Company D, the Fourteenth Maine Infantry Volunteers, under the command of Captain John D. Quim- by, and was honorably discharged at Hilton Head, South Carolina, on the 28th of July, 1865, having been a brave soldier of the truest type. He took an active part in many important battles, among these being the bat- tle at Winchester, Virginia, September 19, 1864, Fisher's Hill, September 22, 1864, and Cedar Creek, October 22, 1864, and is now a United States pensioner. After the civil war Mr. Crane was employed by the Penob- scot Express Company for two years, and then went to sea for six years, making voy- ages to foreign ports, and rising from a sea- man before the mast to first mate of the bark "Libertad," commanded by Captain William Henry Jordan, of Bucksport. On June 3, 1872, Mr. Crane entered the service of the European and North American Railway Com- pany, which is now a part of the Maine Cen- tral system, as a telegraph operator, was pro- moted to train-despatcher and held that po- sition for eight years and a half. He resigned this position to accept that of agent and operator of the Maine Central railroad at Ells- worth, remaining there for six years, when, in 1890, he was transferred to Bucksport in the same capacity, and is still the very popular station-master in that town. Mr. Crane is Independent in religion and politics. He is a very enthusiastic Free and Accepted Mason ; was made a Mason in Lodge No. 47, Spring- field, Maine. He is also an Odd Fellow, and a member of Fort Knox Lodge, No. 127, of Bucksport, being past noble grand of that lodge. He was elected to the office of sec- ond selectman of Bucksport in 1899, and as first selectman and chairman of the board in the years 1900-01-02-03-04-07. Mr. Crane married, August 27, 1873, Nellie M. Hayes, who died July 2, 1908. She was the daugh- ter of Thomas Hayes, of a strong old English family, and Mary Ellen Hayes, who came of a sturdy Irish family. Mr. Crane's children were two: I. Charles, who died at the age of
three and one-half years. 2. Dr. Harold Hayes Crane, a prominent physician of Ban- gor; he was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, in 1903 ; he married Lucy Sawyer Hink- ley of Millbridge, Maine. Blanche Nellie Hayes, the adopted daughter of George Dana Crane, married Reginald H. Muir, of Boston.
Amos Bartlett Haggett was
HAGGETT born in Edgecomb, Maine, October 23, 1835, and is a son of Amos Haggett, who was born in Essex county, New York, and a grandson of Benja- min Haggett, a soldier of the continental army during the revolutionary war.
(I) Benjamin Haggett was a native of Scot- land and came to America previous to the rev- olution. He settled at Ticonderoga in the province of New York, in a region which was the scene of frequent visits of both the Ameri- can and British armies, and there, too, was fought one of the memorable battles of that great struggle for national independence. As has been mentioned Benjamin Haggett was a soldier of the American army in that war and bore his part well. In domestic life he was a farmer in old Essex county, living there until 1790, when he removed to Maine and settled in the town of Edgecomb, where he died. His children were : William, Amos, Benjamin, John, Mary, Sarah and Ann.
(II) Amos, son of Benjamin Haggett, was born at Ticonderoga, New York, July 29, 1788, and died in Edgecomb, Maine, Novem- ber 10, 1863. He was a farmer and lived nearly his entire lifetime in this state. He married Abigail, daughter of Joshua and Polly Merry ; children : I. Martha, born February 9, 1813. 2. Matilda, July 15, 1815. 3. Mary Ann, July 24, 1817. 4. Lida, November 18, 1818. 5. Samuel, twin with Lida, November 18, 1818. 6. Kezia, November 14, 1820. 7. Sarah Ann, May 26, 1822. 8. Eliza Jane, February 23, 1824. 9. Nancy, April 25, 1826. IO. Nandana, February 20, 1828. II. George K., January 3, 1830. 12. Betsey, April 3, 1833. 13. Amos B., October 23, 1835, see forward. 14. Josiah K., June 3, 1838.
(III) Amos Bartlett, youngest but one of the sons and daughters of Amos and Abigail (Merry) Haggett, was born October 23, 1835, and for the last more than fifty years has been closely identified with the great shipbuilding industry of Bath, Maine, and in many other ways has been an important factor in the busi- ness life of that city. His young life was spent in the town of Edgecomb, where he was
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born and received his early education, and at the age of about sixteen years he went to Damariscotta, learned the trade of ship carpen- tering there and also acquired a good under- standing of the business of shipbuilding in the yards of Metcalf & Norris, famous shipbuild- ers in their day. After about four years in the yards at Damariscotta Mr. Haggett re- moved to Bath and for the next five years was employed by the shipbuilding firm of Trufant & Drummond, then, beginning in 1865, he be- came connected with the yards of Gross, Saw- yer & Packard, at first in the capacity of prac- tical workman, then as superintendent or fore- man of the firm's extensive works, and later as a member of the firm ; the practical man of the firm, with a thorough understanding of the business of shipbuilding from the laying of the keel to the launching of the completed ves- sel and the finishing work after the hull was afloat. In the course of time he came to be the head of the firm and virtually directed its great business enterprises; and later, in 1898, when the former firm reorganized and became the New England Shipbuilding Company, Mr. Haggett was its largest stockholder, one of its directors, and general superintendent of con- struction work in the yards. This is his pres- ent relation to the company and its business, and it may be of interest to mention the fact at this time that since 1865, the year in which he came to Bath, Mr. Haggett has had charge of the work of construction of three hundred and twenty vessels of all kinds-ships, barks, barges, schooners and steam craft; and of this total number there have been several clipper steamers which were built after designs origi- nated and plans drawn by Mr. Haggett him- self, and they have been numbered among the most serviceable vessels engaged in the coast trade. From this it must be seen that the many years of persevering effort have not been spent in vain, have not gone without their just reward, and it is equally clear that not he alone, but the city of Bath as well and its wage-working people have benefited by his business enterprise and capacity to build up and successfully direct large operations.
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