somewhat in detail the successive generations
of this New Bedford branch of Reads.

(I) John Read, supposed son of William and
Lucy (Henage) Read, was bom in 1598, and
it is said came to America with the great fleet
in 1630. He is of record in 1637 in Wey-
mouth, was in Dorchester the next year, and
went from there to that part of Braintree now
Quincy. In 1643 or 1644 he accompanied Rev.
Mr. Newman and his church society to Reho-
both, where his name appears the third on the
list of purchasers of the town. He was a man
of large property for those times, and held the
ofBce of constable, which was the chief execu-
tive office in town. He lived in that part of
Rehoboth now Seekonk, and was a prominent
and leading man; he kept a public house. He
died Sept. 7, 1685, aged eighty-seven years. The
Christian name of his wife was Sarah, and their



children were : Samuel, William, Abigail, John,
Thomas, Ezekiel and Zachariah (twins), Moses,
Mary, Elizabeth, Daniel, Israel and Mehetabel.

(II) John Read (2), bom Aug. 29, 1640,
in Braintree, married Rachel. Mr. Read was
killed by the Indians in the fight March 21,
1676, sometimes styled "Pierce's Fight." He
was a prominent man and was distinguished by
the appellation of "Mr." His children were:
Sarah, born Dee. 14, 1664; Mehetabel, bom
April 13, 1667; John, born Dec. 8, 1669; and
Thomas, born July 23, 1672.

(III) Thomas Read, born July 23, 1672,
in Rehoboth, married (first) June 21, 1699,
Sarah Butterworth, and (second) Martha. Mr.
Read died Nov. 25, 1748. His children, all
excepting the eldest born to the second wife,
were: Patience, born April 16, 1708; Thomas,
March 10, 1712; Martha, Nov. 4, 1715; Noah,
Dec. 26, 1717; Hannah, June 18, 1720; Sarah,
Dec. 12, 1722; and Peter, Dec. 26, 1724.

(IV) Noah Read, born Dec. 26, 1717, in
Rehoboth, married Anna Hunt. He died Oct.
14, 1773. Their children were: Peter, bom
Nov. 20, 1742; Martha, May 2, 1744; Noah,
Feb. 19, 1746; Perez, Aug. 4, 1748; Cyrel,
Sept. 20, 1750; Thomas, Dec. 25, 1752; Anna,
May 29, 1755; Judith, July 20, 1758; William,
Oct. 12, 1760; and Lois, Dec. 23, 1763.

(V) Thomas Read, born Dec. 25, 1752, in
Rehoboth, married Hannah Bourne, bom Dec.

24, 1761, died Jan. 10, 1817, and lived at Re-
hoboth, Mass., where their children were bom
and where Mr. Read died Sept. 2, 1816. The
children were : William, born in October, 1785 ;
Francis, Aug.' 3, 1787 (died in 1814) ; Betsy,
October, 1789 (died in 1847) ; Thomas, April
28, 1791; Samuel, April 3, 1794; Noah, July

25, 1796; and John B., May, 1799 (died in
1848).

(VI) William Read, born Oct. 19, 1785, in
Rehoboth, Mass., married March 6, 1808, Sarah
Rogers, and lived in Somerset, Mass., where
some of his children were born; he also lived
later at Fall River, where he died Nov. 2, 1863.
His children were : Hannah Bourne, born Oct.
9, 1808, died June 16, 1838 ; Peter, born Jan.
22, 1810, died Jan. 22, 1811; William was
born Feb. 13, 1811; Thomas, born April 30,
1814, died Oct. 5, 1822; Francis Bourne was
born March 15, 1816; Joseph R. was bom July
5, 1818; Julia Ann, born Dec. 21, 1821, died
unmarried in 1904.

(VII) Joseph R. Read, son of William and
Sarah (Rogers) Read, was born July 5, 1818,
in Somerset, Mass., and early in life learned
the tailor's trade in Fall River, Mass. Remov-
ing to New Bedford he was employed as a cut-



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ter in the outfitting firm of 0. & E. W. Sea-
bury until 1850. In the year last named, asso-
ciated with Edward T. Taber, who had been in
the employ of the same firm, he purchased the
business of the firm, and continued it with suc-
cess. Subsequently Nathan S. Ellis was admitted
to a partnership in the concern and later,
on the death of Mr. Ellis, he was succeeded
by Darius P. Gardner, and the business was
so carried on and with great success until the
time of Mr. Read's death.

A man of- quiet manner, unostentatious and
devoted to business, Mr. Read had little or no
taste and less ambition for public position;
however, he was a member, and an efficient and
valued one, in 1874, of the board of aldermen
of the city. He was a man of decided and clear
convictions, and enjoyed the confidence and re-
spect of all who knew him. He was fond of
the best literature and especially of history,
possessed an unusual mind and had fine con-
versational powers. His social qualities en-
deared him to a large circle of friends, and
these same qualities made his home ever bright
and cheerful. This home, too, was most dear
to him. He died Sept. 12, 1879.

On JSTov. 17, 1844, Mr. Read was married
to Cynthia A., born Sept. 30, 1823, daughter
of Jonathan and Cynthia (Howard) Potter, he
a direct descendant of Nathaniel Potter, an
Englishman who came to New England as
early as 1638 and settled in Portsmouth, R.
I.; was admitted an inhabitant of the island
of Aquidneck in that year and in the follow-
ing year was one of the twenty-nine signers
of the Compact binding them "into a civil body
politicke," from whom his descent is through
Ichabod Potter and wife Eleanor, Jonathan
Potter and his wife Rebecca (Southward) and
Wesson Potter, of Westport, and his wife Mary
(Kirby).

Mr. and Mrs. Read had children as follows:
Clara A., bom Sept. 28, 1845; William Fran-
cis, born Oct. 14, 1849, who married Oct. 22,
1879, Eleanor Masters, of Syracuse, N. Y., and
has three children — Warren Kempton (born
Aug. 18, 1883, married, Oct. 27, 1907, Jessie
Sawyer, of Sharon, Mass., and has one child,
Warren Kempton. Jr., born Aug. 15, 1908),
Joseph Masters (born June 6, 1885, married
Jan. 12, 1909, Amelia Hazleton, of Rome, N.
Y., and has two children, Eleanor, born Sept.
27, 1909, and Elizabeth, born Feb. 26, 1911),
and Everett Preston (born April 25, 1887) ;
Ella Howard, born- Dec. 13, 1850; and Charles
Warren, born Jan. 19, 1853, who married Jan.
21, 1908, Elizabeth Williams, of New Bedford,
Mass., daughter of Theodore F. Williams.



ARTHUR VINAL LYON, M. D., one of the

leading representatives of his profession in Ply-
mouth county, Mass., is a descendant of several
of New England's earliest settled families. The
Lyon family has been prominently identified
with the history of this country for over two
hundred and fifty years, as have many of the
families allied with it by marriage, many of
whom have played a conspicuous part in the
annals of American history. This article, how-
ever, is to treat of the Lyon family of which
Dr. Arthur Vinal Lyon, of Brockton, is a lineal
descendant in the eighth generation, tracing
line back through Ellis V. (VII) ; Vinal (2)
(VI); Vinal (V); Jedediah (IV); Samuel
(III) ; and William, Jr. (II), to William (I),
of Roxbury, who was the American progenitor
of the family. The genealogy of the family
follows in chronological order.

(I) William Lyon, aged "fourteen years," is
found among the passengers that embarked for
America in the ship "Hopewell," Sept. 11, 1635,
at London, England. It is the supposition that
he was an orphan, and is said to have been
placed in the care of Isaac Heath, at Roxbury.
There appears to be no reason to question the
conclusion reached by Albert Welles in his
American Family Antiquity that this was the
William Lyon who was baptized at Heston, now
a part of the city of London, Dec. 23, 1620,
youngest son of William and Anne (Carter)
Lyon, of Heston. According to Welles, Henry
Lyon, fourth in descent from Baron John de
Lyon, left Norfolk, which had been for more
than two hundred years the ancestral home, and
settled in Ryslippe, County of Middlesex. The
family remained in Ryslippe through four gen-
erations. John Lyon, born in Ryslippe about
1470, married Emma Hedde, of Ryslippe, and
had four sons, Henry, Thomas, Richard and
John. The latter settled in Little Stanmore,
County of Middlesex ; his wife's name was Joan,
and their oldest son, born in 1540, was William,
who married Isabel Wightman. William lived
for a time (1596) in London, but was buried
Sept. 7, 1624, at Little Stanmore. He had a
brother Thomas, whose son William was called
the Marquis of Southwold, and was the owner
of the ship "Lyon" which brought to America
so many emigrants. William and Isabel Wight-
man had a son William born about 1580. He
married July 17, 1615, at Harrow-on-the-Hill,
Anne Carter, and made his home in Heston.
His children were : Katharine, baptized Oct.
25, 1616; John, baptized Nov. 30, 1617, who
died in infancy; John, baptized June 1, 1619;
and William, baptized Dec. 23, 1620.

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Ham Lyon appears as Lion, Lyon and Lyons,
and he seems to have written it himself some-
times Lion, sometimes Lyon or Ljon. He mar-
ried June 17, 1646, Sarah Ruggles, daughter
of John and Mary (Curtis) Euggles, of Nasing,
England. She was born April 19, 1629, and
came to America with her parents while yet
an infant. Her death is not found recorded
in Roxbury, but probably occurred in Rowley,
for in 1677 William Lyon, "of Rowley,"' was
married to Mrs. Martha (Pliilbrick) Casse,
widow of John Casse. In 1645 William Lyon
was a member of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company of Roxbury. He received
in 1648 a grant of land in Roxbury, where his
name also appears as grantee of deeds of lands.
When the new settlement at New Roxbury (now
Woodstock), Conn., was determined upon, in
1686, he was one of the "goers" and he was
assigned a lot there, although he did not
actually occupy it. Several of his grandsons,
William, Thomas, John and Jacob, were prom-
inent members, however, of the new Colony.
The Lyon homestead in Roxbury was on what
ia now Bellevue avenue, formerly called Lyon
street. William Lyon was admitted to full com-
munion in John Eliot's Church in 1655, and
became a freeman in 1666. He lived to the age
of seventy-two, and was buried May 21, 1692,
probably in the West Roxbury cemetery, al-
though there is no stone there to mark his
grave. His widow died about 1694. His will
was dated in the year 1692, and was probated
Oct. 27, 1692, the inventory amounting to £213.
The children born to William and Sarah
(Ruggles) Lyon, at Roxbury, were^ John,
Thomas, Samuel, William, Joseph,' Sarah,
Jonathan and Jonathan (2), the latter two
dying in infancy.

(II) William Lyon, Jr., was born in Rox-
bury, Mass., where he was baptized July 18,
1652, and died there Aug. 10, 1714. His
tombstone, in a good state of preservation, still
stands in the West Roxbury cemetery. On Sept.
1, 1675, in Roxbury, he married Sarah Dunkin,
presumably the daughter of Samuel Dunkin.
She died Feb. 9, 1689, and he married (second)
Nov. 18, 1690, Deborah, who survived him, dy-
ing March 12, 1717. He was one of the goers
at the time of the New Roxbury settlement
(afterward Woodstock, Conn.), but although
he received a grant of land there in 1686 he
did not go there to live. The children of Wil-
liam and Sarah (Dunkin) Lyon, born in Rox-
bury, were: William, Samuel, Hannah, Ben-
jamin and Mehitable ; and of William and Deb-
orah Lyon were : Deborah, David, Martha and
Jacob.



(III) Samuel Lyon was born in Roxbury
Sept. 20, 1679, and died in Middleboro, Mass.,
Feb. 22, 1756, in the seventy-seventh year of his
age. He married (first) Maria Kenrick (born
1675, died April 25, 1704), and married (sec-
ond) Dec. 20, 1704, Joanna Weld, daughter
of John and Hannah (Prentice) Weld. She
was born Sept. 15, 1685. Samuel Lyon is
spoken of as "of Newtown" in 1714, but seems
to have been then residing in Roxbury. He is
also called "lieutenant." He moved with his
family to Middleboro, and united with the
church there Jan. 23, 1732. The only child
born to Samuel and Maria Lyon was John. To
Samuel and Joanna Lyon were born: Eleazer,
Jonathan, Edward, Sarah, Hannah, William,
Jedediah and Phebe.

(IV) Jedediah Lyon was born in Roxbury,
Mass., Sept. 7, 1721, and died in Middleboro,
Mass., Feb. 9, 1807. He married Nov. 24, 1743,
at Middleboro, Mary Cushman, born Dec. 22,
1723, daughter of Ichabod and Patience
(Holmes) Cushman, of Plympton, Mass. At the
Lexington alarm Jedediah Lyon was corporal
in Capt. Abiel Pierce's company of militia, and
he served three months, 1776-77, as private
in Capt. Nehemiah Allen's company, being then
fifty-five years old. The children of Jedediah
and Mary (Cushman) Lyon, born in Middle-
boro, were : Samuel, Joanna, Fear, Joanna (2),
Mary, Isaac, Rebecca, Phebe, Lemuel, Lucy
and Vinal.

(V) Vinal Lyon was born presumably in
Middleboro, Mass., although no town record is
found, date probably between 1762 and 1766.
He died in Middleboro Nov. 28, 1819. On
Sept. 8, 1796, he married Chloe Richmond.
Accdrding to the Plymouth county Probate
records his widow was appointed guardian May
1, 1820, of four minor children, Jane Wash-
burn, Chloe Richmond, Phebe and Vinal, all
under fourteen years of age. The children of
Vinal and Chloe (Richmond) Lyon, all born
in Middleboro, v<'ere : Mary C., born June 21,
1797, died Jan. 1, 1820 ; Lemuel, born April 19,
1799, died May 21, 1848 ; Jane Washburn, born
May 19, 1801, married Jan. 24, 1822, Jason
Wilbur; Chloe Richmond, born Oct. 4, 1803,
married Philip Wood; Fear T., born in 1809,
died Jan. 22, 1820; Eunice, born in 1813, died
Dec. 15, 1819; Phebe married Hosea Kingman,
and died without issue ; Vinal was born Nov. 30,
1811.

(VI) Vinal Lyon (2) was born in Middle-
boro, Mass., Nov. 30, 1811. He was a builder
and carpenter, employing many men, and con-
tinued at this occupation during the actjve years
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ful in his business enterprises. He became a
sutler in the Civil war, and returned home
broken in health. He was a Whig and later a
Republican in political faith, and served the
town of North Bridgewater as a selectman for
several years. He built the large house in
Campello, corner of Main street and Lyon
avenue, where he resided, and which is still
owned in the family. He died Nov. 16, 1866.
On Oct. 25, 1840, he married Deiparis Williams
Keith, who was bom Oct. 8, 1818, and died
April 9, 1892, daughter of Charles and Mehit-
able (Perkins) Keith, and a direct descendant
of Rev. James Keith, the first minister at
Bridgewater. The children born of this union
were: Ellis Vinal, born Aug. 30, 1841, is
mentioned below; Martha Ann, born Nov. 10,
1843, married April 8, 1866, Edmund B. Fan-
ning, of Brockton ; Chloe Richmond, born April
5, 1845, married June 3, 1866, Lysander F.
Gurney, of Brockton, who is mentioned else-
where ; Granville Ward, born Oct. 7, 1846, mar-
ried Dec. 3, 1873, Sallie J. Hart, and they are
living at Enterprise, Ky., where he is stationed
as a Methodist minister; Mary Williams, born
Sept. 16, 1849, married April 17, 1872, Rufus
E. Packard, late of Brockton ; Abbie Jane, born
Sept. 7, 1851, married Sylvester 0. Snyder
Aug. 20, 1872, and died in Louisville, Ky., in
1905 ; and Maggie Keith, born March 24, 1859,
died in July, 1859.

(VII) Ellis Vinal Lyon was born in North
Bridgewater Aug. 30, 1841. He was a graduate
of the State normal school at Bridgewater, and
for several years was successfully engaged in
teaching in Braintree and North Weymouth. In
1861 he enlisted in the 4th Massachusetts
Cavalry, Captain Richmond,, and died in Peters-
burg, Va., Sept. 24, 1864. His term of service
had expired, and his family and friends were
expecting him home, on the day that news came
of his death, which was caused by peritonitis.
His body was embalmed and sent home, and he
was buried (vith military honors on Sunday,
Oct. 3, 1864, a detachment of cavalry attending.
His remains are interred at Weymouth. Mr.
Lyon was a consistent member of the Congre-
gational Church, and in political faith was a
Republican. On Dec. 1, 1861, he married
Hattie F. Kingman, daughter of Ebenezer and
Eveline (Bates) Kingman, of Weymouth, who
survives and resides in Brockton. They had one
son, Arthur Vinal.

(VIII) Arthur Vinal Lyon, M. D., was born
Jan. 12, 1863, in Braintree, Mass., and began
his educational training in the public schools
of Weymouth, graduating from the Weymouth
high school in the class of 1879. He then



entered Thayer Academy, at Braintree, graduat-
ing therefrom in the class of 1880. Entering
Amherst in the latter year, he was a student at
that college for four years, receiving the degree
of A. B. in the class of 1884, and the degree of
A. M. was conferred upon liim in 1903 by the
same institution. He took a medical course
at Harvard Medical School, graduating with the
degree of M. D. in 1887. After receiving his
diploma from Harvard he immediately took
up the practice of his chosen profession in
Brockton, in which practice he has continued
with marked success. Both as a physician and
citizen Dr. Lyon has been called upon to hold
many positions of trust and responsibility, and
has never failed to respond promptly to every
call made upon him. He has served as a mem-
ber of the school board of Brockton for over
twenty years, and was chairman for a period
of five years, and now (1911) is serving his
seventh term as a member of that board, a
term constituting three years' service. He has
served as a visiting physician of the Brockton
hospital since its organization. Dr. Lyon is a
member' of the Porter Congregational Church,
and has served several years as a member of
the standing committee of the church. In
political faith he is a believer in the pj-inciples
of the Republican party.

On June 30, 1887, Dr. Lyon was married to
Mary Adelaide Bates, daughter of Alpheus and
Hannah M. (Smith) Bates, of East Weymouth,
and this union has been blessed with three sons,
as follows: Ellis Vinal, born May 21, 1889,
died Nov. 28, 1889; Arthur Bates, born July
18, 1890, graduated from the Brockton high
school in the class of 1908, and is now a student
at Amherst College, class of 1912; and Harold
Alpheus, born Aug. 3, 1893, graduated from
the Brockton high school in the class of 1911,
and is now a student at Amherst College, class
of 1915.

Dr. Lyon is a man whose active mind is not
satisfied with present conditions. In his pro-
fession he is constantly studying, keeping him-
self well in touch with the discoveries and
theories of the day. He holds membership in
the Brockton City Medical Society and the
Massachusetts Medical Society, before which
bodies he is a frequent debater. His practice
is a large one, and he has been successful in
many serious cases, and is frequently called into
consultation, the members of his profession
recognizing his knowledge of the various
branches of the profession.

On the paternal side Dr. Lyon is descended
from sixteen of the "Mayflower" passengers, as
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through their daughter Mary, who married
Elder Thomas Cushman; John Alden and his
wife, Priscilla MuUins, through their son Jos-
eph; William Mullins and his wife Priscilla;
Elder William Brewster and wife; Francis
Cooke; John Howland; John Tilley and wife
Bridget and their daughter Elizabeth, who mar-
ried John Howland; Richard Warren; and
Thomas Rogers. He is also a descendant of
four of the "Fortune" passengers, and thirteen
of the passengers of the "Ann" and "Little
James." He is a lineal descendant of nine Revo-
lutionary soldiers, as follows: Col. Simeon
Gary; Corporal Jedediah Lyon; Levi Keith;
Benjamin Keith; Jonas Reynolds; Josiah Per-
kins, Sr. ; Josiah Perkins, Jr.; Ensign Luke
Perkins, and Job Richmond. He is also a lineal
descendant of sixteen of the original proprietors
of Bridgewater, Mass., and of seven of the
original proprietors of Taunton, Massachusetts.

HORACE F. WOODARD, senior member of
the firm of Woodard & Wright, last manufac-
turers of Brockton, is one of the substantial
and successful business men of that thriving
city, and as well one of the honored and highly
respected citizens of the . community in which
he is so well and favorably known. Mr. Wood-
ard is a native of Vermont, bom at Tunbridge,
Orange county, Sept. 25, 1835.

Theodore Woodard, his grandfather, was one
of the original sixty-one grantees of the town
of Vershire, Orange Co., Vt., in 1781, but of
his antecedents and whence he came we have
failed to learn, the town records of Vershire
prior to 1793 having been destroyed by fire
about that time. Theodore Woodard married
Sally Ferguson, and they had a large family,
among their children being: John, Cyrill,
Jehial, Harriet and Hannah.

Jehial Woodard, son of Theodore, and father
of Horace F., was born in January, 1792,
in Vershire, Vt. He was engaged extensively
in farming and also- lan a grist and saw mill.
He was a quiet,, unpretentious man, generous
and kind in his impulses, hard-working, in-
dustrious, and a good provider for his family.
In early life he allied himself with the Whig
party, later becoming a Detfi'ocrat of the old
school, but he was not inclined to office seek-
ing, preferring to give his time to his business
and to his family, to whom he was much de-
voted. His unassuming disposition won him
many friends, and he enjoyed the respect and
esteem of the commimity. He died Jan. 27,
1875, in South Royalton, Vt., at the advanced
age of eighty-three years.

In 1817 Jehial Woodard married Polly Pea-



body, who was born April 28, 1796, in Tun-
bridge, Vt., daughter of John Peabody, of
Tunbridge. She died April 26, 1880, at South
Royalton, aged eighty-four years. Thirteen
children were born to this worthy couple, of
whom we have the following record: (1)
Harvey H., born Aug. 25, 1818, was engaged
in the hotel business in South Royalton, Vt.,
for a number of years, and died May 6, 1878.
He married Adeline E. Davis. (2) Charles W.,
born Oct. 9, 1819, died in May, 1826. (3)
Ira K., bom March 25, 1821, died Aug. 23,
1822. (4) Mary, born Jan. 15, 1823, married
Enoch Ordway, and died May 19, 1855. (5)
John Chandler, born Sept. 21, 1824, was a
painter by trade, and died July 22, 1907. He
married Elizabeth P. Bennett. (6) Huldah
P., born Jan. 4, 1826, married Dr. B. H. Phil-
lips, and died Sept. 20, 1887. (7) Edith,
born Feb. 9, 1828, died July 25, 1830. (8)
Henry M., born May 4, 1830, married Sarah
Sargent, and died June 4, 1862. (9) Ellen S.,
born April 7, 1832, is the wife of John S.
Hinkley, to whom she has been married over
fifty years. They reside at Chicopee Falls,
Mass. (10) Emily, bora Dec. 17, 1833, died
Oct. 24, 1889, unmarried. (11) Horace F.,
born Sept. 25, 1835, is mentioned below. (12)
Albert P., bom July 22, 1837, lives in Tun-
bridge, Vt., where he carries on agricultural
pursuits. He married Jane P. Cushman. (13)
Lucinda A., born March 17, 1839, died in
December, 1839.

Horace F. Woodard was born in Tunbridge,
Vt., and obtained his early educational train-
ing in the district schools of his native town,
his time until he was seventeen years of age
being divided between his schooling and such
assistance as his strength and time would per-
mit him to give in work on the farm and in his
father's mill. At the age of seventeen year,s he
left home to make his own way in the world.
Going to Haverhill, Mass., he became appren-
ticed to the lastmaking trade with Levi C.
Wadleigh, in whose employ he remained for a
period of about twelve years, during which time
he had so closely applied himself to the business,
and shown his worth to such an extent, that
he was made foreman of the plant, in which
capacity he served for several years. Not con-
tent with merely a meager knowledge of the
business he had by this time determined should
be his life work, he then went to Boston, where
for about a year he was employed in the last
factory of Gilson & Walker, and from there
changed to the factory of the Frohock Last
Company, where for a period of four years he
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went to Stoughton, Mass., where for a term
of about ten years he was foreman in the last
factory of Walker & Phinney, and their suc-
cessor, George F. Walker, and for about a year
was the senior member of the firm of Woodard
& Sherman, last manufacturers, of South
Weymouth, Mass., at the end of that time sell-
ing his interests to his partner. During these
years he had been prudent, and, having ac-
quired a thorough knowledge of the various
details connected with the manufacturing of
lasts of all kinds, with his savings he came to
Brockton, in April, 1886, and purchased an
interest in the firm of Lee & Wright, last
manufacturers, taking over the interests of the