in those which involved money. He was an
ardent and active Eepublican, holding to the
extreme temperance wing of that party, and
as such for many years conspicuous in the pri-
mary meetings, where he led many a fight with
the so-called liberal faction. He was a good
citizen, whose influence and example were al-
ways exerted fearlessly in the way he believed
to be right."
Captain Seabury was interested in many of
the business enterprises that have substantial-
ly added to the growth and prosperity of the
city. He was a director in the First National
Bank, and at his death its officers passed resolu-
tions that extolled his integrity and his faith-
fulness to duty. He was a member of the In-
dian Association from the beginning of its or-
ganization, and it also honored his memory
with a testimonial showing appreciation of his
services.
Captain Seabury was associated with the
Friends' Society, a constant attendant upon its
meetings, and a generous supporter of its in-
terests ; a member of the board of managers of
the Port Society, and associate member of the
Y. M. C. A. In all the stations of life he
enjoyed the confidence and sincere respect of
all. His charities were of a quiet nature, yet
few men more thoroughly considered the needs
of the poor, or more constantly studied the wel-
fare and convenience of his fellow man.
On Oct. 14, 1850, Captain Seabury was mar-
ried to Mary B. Wilcox, who died March 10,
1852, the mother of one son, Charles Albert,
who died at the age of four years. Captain
Seabury married (second) Aug. 12, 1855,
Susan M. GifCord, daughter of Nathaniel and
Mercy (Macomber) Gifford. Two daughters,
Mary B. and Helen H., were born to this
union, and reside in New Bedford.
Captain Seabury passed away on his birth-
day, June 28, 1891, and Mrs. Seabury sur-
vived him until March 6, 1899.
(VII) Capt. Charles P. Seabdet, son of
Capt. William and Ehoda (Woodman) Sea-
bury, was born Aug. 16, 1820, in Tiverton, and
received his education in the district school in
the town of Little Compton. He lived on the
farm until thirteen years old, when he came
to New Bedford, and was employed in the store
for 0. & E. W. Seabury, remaining two years.
Having a strong desire for the sea he shipped
in 1835, at the age of fifteen, as a cabin boy on
the whaling ship "Nile," Captain Townsend,
and continued in the whaling business for a
period of fourteen years. In 1849 he com-
manded the ship "America," which sailed for
California during the gold fever with a large
number of passengers. Eeturning from his
trip to California in 1853, the ship was fitted
out for a whaling voyage, Captain Seabury in
command. They sailed to the Arctic ocean,
and the following year the ship was staved by
ice near the Behring straits, and the captain
and crew were obliged to abandon her with a
loss of several hundred barrels of oil. They
were taken on board the "Minerva Smyth,"
Captain Childs, of New Bedford, who landed
them at San Francisco. Captain Seabury then
Joined a steamer as first officer, and continued
to serve in that capacity on different steamers
for some time. He then took command of a
steamship running between San Francisco and
the Isthmus, continuing thus for some time.
Returning home, he became commander on
one of the Vanderbilt line of steamers, plying
between New York and Aspinwall. During
the Civil war he had command of several steam
transports. Later he took command of the
steamer "Arizona," plying between New York,
China and California, taking her through the
Suez canal, in December, 1870, it being the
first American steamship to pass through the
canal. Subsequently he commanded the
steamer "Granada" from New York to San
Francisco and China, taking her through the
straits of Magellan. After completing this
last voyage he gave up the sea, and was for a
time in the employ of the United States gov-
ernment in the custom house department at
New Bedford, serving as boarding officer, to
fill the unexpired term of Capt. James V.
Cox. On account of his health he resigned the
office and made his home on Fifth street. New
Bedford, where he died Dec. 21, 1890. He was
one of the best known and most skilled naviga-
tors in his section of New England, and was
popular with all who knew him. Politically he
was a stanch Republican. His remains rest in
Rural cemetery, New Bedford.
Captain Seabury was married in New Bed-
ford, April 15, 1847, to Sarah Wilcox, who was
born at Westport, Mass., March 26, 1825,
daughter of Benjamin and Patty (Brownell)
Wilcox. Mrs. Seabury, with her daughter and
son-in-law, resides on Fifth street. New Bed-
ford. Captain and Mrs. Seabury had children :
Jason, bom March 2, 1855, died May 29, 1860;
Charles P., Jr., born May 21, 1856, died June
I, 1856; Charles P., Jr. (2), was born June
II, 1857; Annie, born Dec. 26, 1858, married
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Dec. 31, 1900, Frank Wood, a well known cot-
ton broker of New Bedford; and Harry Wil-
lard, born April 28, 1863, died March 28,
1868.
(VIII) Charles P. Seabury, Jr., was born
in New Bedford June 11, 1857, and was edu-
cated in the schools there. He was a traveling
salesman for the Meriden Britannia Company,
of Meriden, Conn., and died at Dubuque, Iowa,
while on a trip, Feb. 22, 1896. He married
Nov. 18, 1880, Avis J. Dwelley, daughter of
Dr. Jerome Dwelley, of Fall Eiver. They had
one child, Eichard, born Oct. 9, 1888, who
died Dec. 5, 1890.
CAPT. JOSHUA GAGE BAKEE, a retired
whaling master, who died Nov. 1, 1910, at
Padanaram, in the town of Dartmouth, Bristol
Co., Mass., was a member of the Baker family
which has been identified with that section for
the past hundred years. He was born there,
in the village of Bakersville, South Dartmouth,
Oct. 31, 1845, and after tliirty-two years on
the water retired to the neighborhood where he
had spent his early life to enjoy the years of
his retirement. However, retirement did not
mean inactivity, for he devoted much of
hie time to the public service, making himself
useful to the town in many capacities and giving
the benefit of his time and efforts to his fellow
citizens. His work was highly appreciated, and
no man in the community had a better record
for intelligent citizenship and disinterested
labors in behalf of the town.
The Bakers of South Dartmouth trace their
lineage back to Francis Baker, the first of the
line in New England, from whom we give the
genealogical record in chronological ordor.
(I) Francis Baker was born in England in
1611. His last residence in his native land was
at Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and in
1635 he came over in the ship "Planter," locat-
ing at Yarmouth, Mass. He married Isabel
Tarning, of Yarmouth, and died in 1696, the
last of the first comers. His children were :
Nathaniel, John, Samuel, Daniel, William,
Thomas, Elizabeth (married John Chase) and
Hannah.
(II) Daniel Baker, son of Francis, married
May 27, 1674, Elizabeth Chase, daughter of
William Chase (2), the latter born in Yar-
mouth, Mass., in 1622. To this union were
born the following children : Daniel, born in
1675; Samuel, .1676; Elizabeth, 1678 (married
in 1705 Nathan Baker) ; Hannah (married in
1714 Joseph Nixon) ; Thankful ; and Tabitha.
(III) Samuel Baker, son of Daniel, born in
1676, married Patience, and their children
were: Shubal, born March 24, 1710; Susannah,
June 22, 1711; Hezekiah, Aug. 4, 1715;
Tabitha, March 8, 1718; Desire, Feb. 5, 1720;
Elizabeth, Sept. 9, 1725; and Samuel, June 4,
1732.
(IV) Shubal Baker, son of Samuel, born
March 24, 1710, married in 1733,Lydia Stuart.
Their children were: Sylvanus, born March
10, 1734; Azubah, May 17, 1737; Temperance,
June 24, 1739; Shubal, Nov. 11, 1741; Eliza-
beth, Jan. 2, 1744; Lydia, Oct. 13, 1746; Euth,
June 25, 1749 ; and Patience, July 19, 1752.
(V) Shubal Baker (2), son of Shubal, born
Nov. 11, 1741, married Nov. 15, 1764, Eebecca
Chase, bom Aug. 24, 1747, daughter of Eichard
and Thankful Chase. To this union were born :
Hepsabcth (or Hepsibah), born Oct. 15, 1765,
married March 23, 1786, Zenos Chase;
Archelus, born Nov. 26, 1767, married in 1789
Mehitable Chase; Eebecca, born Dec. 19, 1770,
married Dec. 11, 1788, David Howes; Shubal,
born July 10, 1772, married Jan. 10, 1793,
Mercy Smalley; Ezra, born Sept. 5, 1775, is
mentioned below; Michael, born Nov. 6, 1776,
died April 7, 1796; Ensign, born July 3, 1779,
married Dec. 27, 1800, Sally Nickerson;
Temperance, born Oct. 15, 1781, married Dec.
4, 1800, Henry Kelly; Abigail, born Nov. 22,
1783, married April 20, 1807, Edward Sears;
Sylvanus, born Aug. 24, 1786, married March
1, 1800, Bethiah Crowell; and Halsey, bom
Feb. 27, 1789, married Nov. 28, 1811, Mercy
Allen.
(VI) Ezra Baker, son of Shubal (2), born
Sept. 5, 1775, in tlie town of Harwich, Barn-
stable Co., Mass., was one of the six Baker
brothers who in 1806 came to Bristol county
and settled on a tract of land which he cul-
tivated during the remainder of his life. He
died there March 25, 1842, in his sixty-seventh
year. He is buried in South Dartmouth. Mr.
Baker was a member of the M. E. Church and
respected as a good Christian man. On March
13, 1795, he married Susan Gage, who was
born July 8, 1779, at Harwich, Mass., and
died July 7, 1866, at her home in Bakersville,
South Dartmouth. She was laid to rest beside
her husband in the cemetery in South Dart-
mouth. Their children were as follows: David
Gage, born Nov. 12, 1795, died Sept. 25, 1820,
of yellow fever, while on a voyage from Ha-
vana, Cuba; Michael was born Jan. 1, 1797;
Susanna, born June 28, 1800, married (first)
Eussell Crapo and (second) Wanton Westgate,
and died July 3, 1873 ; Ezra, born Jan. 7, 1802,
died Sept. 22, 1820, of yellow fever, while on
the passage from Havana, Cuba; Joshua Gage,
born Jan. 1, 1804, died Sept. 16, 1804; Lovey,
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573
born Sept. 17, 1806, married Holder W.
Brownell; Eliza, born June 16, 1809, married
Thomas Lapham, and died Jan. 6, 1903;
Hepsibeth Gage, born March 25, 1813, married
William E. Borden, and died Oct. 16, 1876;
Joshua Gage was born Oct. 5, 1814; Sylvia
Davoll, born April 20, 1817, married Christ-
opher Booth ; Jane Crocker, born July 22, 1830,
married Ephraim C. Ellis, of Harwich, Mass.,
and died May 4, 1896 (Mr. ElUs died in 1910).
(VII) Joshua Gage Baker, son of Ezra, was
born Oct. 5, 1814, at Bakersville, South Dart-
mouth, and grew up to farm life, working on
the homestead from boyhood. He learned the
butcher's trade, at which he was engaged for
some time, also continuing to carry on the
farm, and in 1849, at the height of the gold
excitement, he went overland to California,
where he spent two years prospecting and min-
ing. After his return to the East he followed
a seafaring life for about twenty years, engag-
ing in the coast trade between New Bedford
and nearby ports, going to Philadelphia for
coal, and in the winter months running to the
West Indies. He was master of the schooner
"Adelaide" and of the "Henrietta," and of the
brig "Ormers," of which he was part owner.
Eetiring in 1870, Mr. Baker spent the remain-
der of his days at the homestead in Bakers-
ville, where he died Oct. 6, 1883, at the age
of sixty-nine years. Mr. Baker was a Eepub-
lican in political sentiment.
On April 14, 1834, Joshua Gage Baker mar-
ried Mary Briggs, who was born May 29, 1816,
daughter of Elihu and Polly (Kelley) Briggs,
and died in 1841. To this union were born
three childreq: A daughter that died in in-
fancy; Ethelenda Gage, born in February,
1836, widow of John Castino, residing in New
Bedford; and Hepsebath, who died young.
On Jan. 15, 1842, Mr. Baker married (second)
Susan Kelley Briggs, who was born Sept. 26,
1826, and was a sister of his first wife ; she
died Jan. 9, 1860, and is buried in South Dart-
mouth. There were five children by the sec-
ond marriage, namely: Mary, born March 12,
1843, who married Edward F. Potter, and died
Jan. 31, 1882; Joshua Gage, born Oct. 31,
1845; Adelaide, born April 11, 1848, who mar-
ried (first) Giles Bennett, of Bakersville, and
(second) Charles Sanford, of New Bedford
(both are now deceased, and she resides in New
Bedford) ; Amy, born Aug. 13, 1853, who died
in 1861 ; and Eva Gage, born March 15, 1855,
who married Stephen S. Davis, chief engineer
in the United States lighthouse service, and re-
sides at Fairhaven.
(VIII) Joshua Gage Baker (2), son of
Joshua Gage, received his education in the dis-
trict schools in his native village and worked
at home until he was sixteen years old. He
then made choice of a seafaring life, shipping
on the whaler "Sea Breeze," as a common
sailor, under Capt. William Weeks. His first
voyage was on the Atlantic; Ins second as boat
steerer; third as second mate on the whaling
bark "Matilda Sears," of Dartmouth, owned by
William Potter and commanded by William
Gifford; his fourth in the same ship as first
officer under Capt. Gilbert Borden. Upon
completing that voyage he was made master of
the ship "Reindeer," built by W. C. N. Swift,
of New Bedford, which he took out June 12,
1877, continuing in command of her for fifteen
years. He sailed her in the southern Pacific
waters and part of the time from the port of
San Francisco to the Arctic ocean. The owners
sold this vessel in 1892 and Captain Baker be-
came master of the whaling steamer "Beluga,"
owned by the Pacific Whaling Steamship Com-
pany, in which he made one voyage, during
which eighteen whales were captured. Eeturn-
ing to San Francisco — from which port he had
sailed for ten years — at the close of that trip,
he gave up the water and came back to his
native place, locating in Padanaram, where he
made his home during the remainder of his
life.
Upon his return to his early home Captain
Baker at once interested himself in local affairs,
in which he took a most active part, filling the
offices of selectman, overseer of the poor, mem-
ber of the board of health, constable and truant
officer, holding the latter position three years.
He was a stanch Eepublican in political mat-
ters. Captain Baker proved his high char-
acter in everything he undertook, and was
ever faithful and honorable in the discharge
of the duties assigned him. He was a member
of Star in the East Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and
of the Dartmouth Historical Society, of which
Mrs. Baker is a member.
On June 30, 1873, Captain Baker married
Susan M. Davis, daughter of Charles A. and
Susan M. (Maxfield) Davis. They had three
children : Edward Davis, who is in the employ
of the mercantile firm of Cummings & Cum-
mings, of New Bedford, married Sarah E.
Shaw, of Dartmouth, Mass., and has had three
children, Edward D. (died in infancy), a son
that died in infancy and Marion Shaw;
Charles A. died unmarried June 18, 1910;
Joshua Gage, Jr., who is engaged as a book-
keeper at New Bedford, married Elsie Florence
Luce and has two children, Ellsworth D. and
Gladys A.
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WARNER (Taunton family). Through
much of the century but recently closed and on
into this one, New Bedford and Taunton, re-
spectively, have been the home of a branch of
the New England Warners. Reference is made
to the families of the late Joseph B. and the
present Hon. Richard Everett Warner, of Taun-
ton, the latter of whom has for some twenty-
five years been identified with the business af-
fairs and actively interested in the growth of
his adopted city, useful in its citizenship, and
prominent in public life; while the former was
long one of the leading business men of New
Bedford.
The Warner family is an ancient one in New
England, and now numerous the country over.
The Warners of New England descend largely
from Andrew, William and John Warner,
"never as yet connected on this side of the water,
though very likely all of one family in England,
in times remote," according to Wilbur F. War-
ner, Esq., in Stiles's "Ancient Wethersfield,"
but recently published. Of the three Andrew was
of Cambridge as early as 1632, and later re-
moved to Hadley. The name of his first wife, the
. mother of his children, is unknown. His chil-
dren settled at Hadley, Mass., and Middletown,
Conn. William Warner was at Ipswich as early
as 1637. And John Warner, the third progenitor
alluded to above, settled in Farmington, and is
the ancestor of a long line of Warners, who
settled in Woodbury, Waterbury and other
neighboring Connecticut towns. From William
Warner, the immigrant and the Ipswich settler,
through his son Daniel Warner, of that town,
and the latter's son, Lieut, and Deacon William
Warner, who removed to Wethersfield between
1660 and 1665, have descended about all of the
Warners of that town. Then there was John
Warner, who came to New England in the ship
"Increase," in 1635, embarking at London, who
is of record at Providence as early as 1637, and
who subsequently was of Warwick. His name
has been perpetuated through his son John of
Warwick, and the latter's sons, John and
Ezekiel, all of whom were prominent men in
their several towns, some serving often as
deputy. Again, many of the prominent South-
ern Warners are of the blood of Col. Augustus
Warner, who settled in Virginia, and whose
daughter Mildred became the wife of Lawrence
Washington, and the grandmother of President
and General George Washington.
It may be a matter of interest to note that
from the New England Warners came the dis-
tinguished lawyer and jurist of Georgia — Hon.
Hiram Warner, member of the United Stated
Congress and Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia ; a man of Massachusetts birth
as was also the late Charles Dudley Warner,
the author. From the Farmington settler, John
Warner, sprang that gallant soldier of Revo-
lutionary fame, Col. Seth Warner, who as sec-
ond in command assisted in the capture of
Ticonderoga, and on the following day took
the important post of Crown Point with its
garrison and 113 cannon. For this he was
given by Congress in July, 1775, a colonel's
commission, and afterward he was a conspicuous
figure throughout the war, remaining with the
army until 1782 when his health gave way and
he returned with his family to the town of
Roxbury.
As indicated New Bedford, this Common-
wealth, was the home of the immediate fore-
fathers of the present head of the Taunton
Warner family — Hon. Richard Everett Warner,
member of the former firm of White, Warner
& Co., and now treasurer of its successor, the
White- Warner Company, one of the extensive
manufacturing concerns of Taunton.
Joseph B. Warner, father of Richard Everett
Warner, was a son of Joseph and Nabby (But-
terick) Warner, of Acton. He and his associate
John H. Denison were the founders in 1858
of the flouring and feed mills at New Bed-
ford, Mass., of the Denison, Plummer Com-
pany, and for years Mr. Warner was identified
with them through their several changes in
ownership and style of firm ; and as well was
one of New Bedford's enterprising and pro-
gressive citizens, alive to its advancement and
the welfare of its people. After a residence of
a number of years in New Bedford Mr. Warner
on April 26, 1863, moved to North Dighton,
where he bought a farm and where many years
of an active life were spent. During the earlier
years of the Civil war. and while a resident of
New Bedford, not being able to enli«t on ac-
coiint of a bad knee, he gave expression to his
patriotism by furnishing to the government six
recruits all fully equipped for service. Mr.
Joseph B. Warner after locating in North
Dighton became active in public affairs of the
town, being treasurer and selectman for some
years. In his earlier political life he was a
Republican, but on the election of President
Cleveland he became a Cleveland Democrat, as
he was opposed in every way to the principles
and policies of James G. Blaine. He was treas-
urer of the Dighton Stove Lining Company of
Dighton. Mr. Warner married Lucy E. Pierce,
daughter of Simeon and Lucy (Haskins)
Pierce, and a descendant of one of the early
comers to New England. They had two chil-
dren : Lucy Butterick ; and Richard Everett,
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575
born Oct. 6, 1861. Joseph B. Warner died at
his home in Taunton in 1892. '
Richard Everett Warner was born Oct. 6,
1861, in New Bedford, Mass., and acquired his
education in the public schools of Dighton and
in the Bristol Academy, located in that same
city. It having been determined that he learn
a trade, young Warner in 1876 entered the
employ of the Dighton Stove Lining Company,
for the purpose of learning the business of the
concern. With these men he continued until
1881, when for approximately a year he was
employed in the capacity of general manager
of the sales department of the Somerset Pottery
Company's Providence branch, where he was
located for a time. Leaving this establishment
in July, 1883, he seemingly struck the position
that led to his rise and success in the business
world, entering as he did this, the concern
with which he has ever since been identified —
long as a partner, stockholder and officer. His
personal equipment, as he said, for this under-
taking, consisted of a good wife, good supply of
wearing apparel and $2,700. On his entering
the business it was that of White, Walker & Co.,
which in 1886 became White, Warner & Co.,
he at that time acquiring the interest of Mr.
Walker. The business continued under that
firm style until it was incorporated in February,
1897, as The White- Warner Company, its pres-
ent style, and of which Mr. Warner has been
treasurer since the incorporation. The business
of the company is the manufacture of stoves,
ranges and furnaces. Mr. White died in 1903,
and Mr. Howard A. Tinkham became president
and Mr. Henry E. Wilbur secretary. Mr.
Warner has been closely identified with this
company since 1882, from that time up to 1886
doing any and all kinds of work necessary to
the success of a small struggling manufacturing
concern; he then for seventeen years from that
time on acted as its salesman on the road, and
also assumed the responsibility of disposing of
the entire product, while later as its treasurer
and during the illness and after the death of
his partner, Mr. White, he had the entire re-
sponsibility of the conduct of the business. It
can truly be said of him that he created the
major part of that now large and important
industry. He has been instrumental in its
development from a small plant employing
twelve men to one now employing between 360
and 370 ; from a plant established upon a basis
of $280,000 per annum before the fire to one
of over $700,000 with its increased equipment.
Mr. Warner has ever taken an intelligent and
active interest in all that pertains to the ad-
vancement of Taunton, devoting not a little of
his time to the public affairs of the city. He
had so successfully managed his own business
affairs that his fellow-citizens became impressed
with his fitness for public office, and they elected
him to the board of aldermen, of which he was
a good working member in 1893 and 1894,
serving as chairman of the board in the year
last named. In 1894 he was appointed by
Governor Russell a member of the State Board
of Arbitration and Conciliation (now Con-
ciliation and Arbitration), a position he held
for one and a half years when he resigned on
account of the press of his own business. In
1895 he served as one of the License commis-
sioners. He was mayor of the city in 1902,
1903 and 1904, giving to the citizens of Taun-
ton an administration characterized by strong
business methods, and a consequent material
reduction in their tax rate. In 1908 he was
elected a member of the board of county com-
missioners of Bristol county, and he was
reelected in 1911.
Mr. Warner is a member of King David
Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; St. Mark's Chapter,
R. A. M.; Sutton Commandery, K. T., of New
Bedford; Good Samaritan Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. ;
and Taunton Lodge, KJnights of Pythias.
In April, 1881, Mr. Warner was married to
Ida E., daughter of Horatio L. and Mary E.
(Mason) Briggs, of Dighton. Three children
have blessed this marriage : Joseph E., a
graduate of Harvard Law School and now an
attorney at Taunton; Ella E., who married
Eugene H. Brownell and resides in Taunton
(she has two children, Evelyn and Eugenia),
and Grace M. Mrs. Warner died in February,
1893, and Mr. Warner married (second) in
October, 1895, Mrs. Nettie M. (Lewis) Peirce,
of New Bedford, daughter of Elijah R. and
Mary A. (Simmons) Lewis, and widow of