and Mary, his wife, thirty-five acres of the
Dartmouth Purchase. In October, 1679, he
gives to his son John land in the Dartmouth
Purchase. By his will of April lii, 1690, pro-
bated 9, 17, 1690, he gives to sons Enoch, old-
est son John, son Thomas and daughter Su-
sanna Northway and son Job.

Through Thomas Briggs, son of John, have
descended the Dartmouth Briggses. Thomas
Briggs married Mary Fisher, and their child-
ren were: Mary, Susanna, Deborah, Hannah,
John and Thomas (see Leonard Papers, New
Bedford Library).

There were in 1675 the following heads of
families of the Briggs name in Taunton :
Hugh, Jonathan, Richard and William
Briggs, the three last named judged to be sons
of Clement Briggs alluded to in the foregoing
(see Savage, Vol. I, pp. 251-252).

Jonathan Briggs, of Taunton, had Jona-



than, born in 1668; and David, born in 1669.
Richard Briggs, of Taunton, married in 166:2
Rebecca Hoskins and had William, born in
1663; Rebecca, born in 1665; Richard, born in
1668; John, born in 1673; Joseph, born in
1674; and Benjamin, born in 1677. William
Briggs, of Taunton, married in 1666 Sarah
Macumber, and their children were : William,
born in 1668; Thomas, born in 1669, and
Sarah the next day; Elizabeth, born in 1672;
Mary, born in 1674; Matthew, born in 1677;
John, born in 1680; and Amos.

Amos Briggs, son of William and Sarah
(Macumber) Briggs, and probably grandson
nf Clement Briggs, the immigrant, resided in
that part of Taunton that later became the
town of Berkley. He married at Taunton in
1706 Sarah Paine; also was a resident of Free-
town, but died in Berkley leaving posterity in
Berkley and Freetown.

John Briggs, brother of Amos (above), mar-
ried Hannah Rocket and located in the town
of Norton. (There lived in Norton a Deacon
John Briggs, who was a son of Richard Briggs
and grandson of Clement.)

Thomas Briggs, brother of John and Amos
(above), born in 1669, married Abigail
Thayer, and through their sons, Thomas
Briggs (2) and Nathaniel Briggs, who settled
in the town of Rehoboth, came some of the
Briggses of that town.

Jonathan Briggs was an associate preacher
of the Taunton South Purchase in 1672. This
in 1712 was incorporated as the town of
Dighton, where have lived many of the Briggs
name. Dighton in the beginning included the
territory that a little later became the town
of Berkley.

James Briggs, of Dighton, whose connection
with the earlier Taunton Briggses outlined in
the foregoing we have not been able to make,
and who is the ancestor of the special family
here noticed, was married Nov. 26. 1746. to
Anne Pitt. He died May 31, 1753. Their
rbildren of Dighton town record were: James,
born Dec. 20, 1747-48; Job, born Sept. 29,
1750; and Abigail, bom Oct. 6, 1752.

James Briggs, horn Dec. 20, 1747-48, died
Aug. 16, 1813. He was a soldier in the Revo-
lution. On May 7, 1767, he married Hannah
Shaw, born March 13, 1744, died Feb. 10,
1835. Their children were: James, born July
3, 1768; Nancy, July 15, 1770; Olive, April
15, 1772; Zebina, July 10, 1774; George
Washington, June 27, 1776; Polly, Aug. 9,
1778; Guilford, Aug. 19, 1780; Mathew, Sept.
21, 1782; Abraham, May 8, 1784; and Peggy,
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Mathew Briggs, son of James and Hannah
(Shaw), born Sept. 21, 1788, married Aug.
30, 1817, Elizabeth Walker, of Dighton, born
April 29, 1791. He died July 12, 1857, and
she died Nov. 28, 1864. Their children were:
Mathew, Jr., born June 29, 1818 (died Feb.
26, 1886); Elizabeth, Sept. 10, 1820; Abra-
ham, March 24, 1823 (died March 4, 1887) ;
Amelia, June 6, 1826 (died April 1, 1856) ;
Charles Henry, April 15, 1829; and William
James, Feb. 2, 1834 (died Aug. 13, 1887).

Abraham Briggs, son of Mathew and Eliza-
beth, born March 24, 1823, died March 4,
.1887. He married March 26, 1848, Betsey
Atwood Wright, bom Jan. 18, 1831, daughter
of James and Eunice (Atwood) Wright, of
Carver. She died Dec. 15, 1901. Their child-
ren were: Abram T., born Dec. 17, 1848;
Elizabeth A., bom Nov. 16, 1850, who married
Sept. 29, 1885, Herbert N. Pierce, and died
July 1, 1894; and James M., born Oct. 17,
1854, who married Oct. 11, 1882, Sarah A.
White, and died Jan. 2, 1885.

Abraham Briggs "was a most truthful and
honorable man, of excellent judgment and a
hard worker, and he never wasted either time
or words. His word was to be taken for any-
thing, and no one ever thought of questioning
his sincerity. He was a good husband and
kind father, and one of the best of citizens.
Many instances could be related of his benevo-
lence and kindness of heart, for 'do unto
others as I would they should do unto me' was
ever a part of his creed, and his life was replete
with services to those among whom he lived. He
was a great admirer of nature, enjoying fre-
quent visits to his farm in Dighton where he
was born, and taking a deep interest and
pleasure in its cultivation. It was, however,
amid the piney vales of Cape Cod and foliage
of the dying year, with his gun, a favorite
hound and congenial friends, that he found the
pastime which he preferred. Upon all these
occasions his was a truly coveted presence, and
■who is there that ever drove with him over a
country road, or accompanied him on an ex-
cursion by rail or joined with him in the field
of sports which he loved so well, that does
not recall him with the kindest remembrance?
He was one of the prominent men in business
and political circles of the city. He served the
city in various capacities at different times,
and always with a zeal and a display of sound
judgment which redounded to nis credit as
well as to that of the people who honored
themselves in honoring him. He was street
commissioner from the time Taunton became
a city, chief of the fire department during



the year 1857, selectman for the year 1864,
served in the Legislature during the term of
1865, was alderman from Ward One during
the year 1867 (elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the elevation of Alderman Ehodes
to the mayoralty) and assessor during the
years 1870-71-72. He was a master builder,
and left more monuments to his industry than
any other man who ever lived in Taunton.
x\mong the prominent stone and brick struc-
tures built by him may be mentioned the Whit-
tenton mills; St. Thomas, Broadway and
Grace churches; vestry of the Unitarian
church; Cedar street chapel (now known as
Plistorical Hall) ; also the Weir and Whitten-
ton grammar schoolhouses; the Old Colony
passenger station ; Eagle mill ; Westminster
House; Taunton and Walnut street oil cloth
works; the city engine house; the central gas
holder of the Taunton Gas Company; Jones's,
Hoye's and the Stanley blocks; and those por-
tions of the Union block now occupied by
Colby & Co., E. H. Reed, Salmon Washburn,
and also that portion under the control of
Isaac Washburn; besides many others which
cannot be called to mind."

Abram Taylor Briggs, son of Abraham and
Betsey A., was born Dec. 17, 1848, in Taunton,
Mass., and received his education in the public
schools of that city. While still a young man,
he developed a desire to learn his father's
trade, and under the latter's wise direction be-
came proficient in the trade and business, and
well trained in the ordinary business principles
of life. At the death of his father he suc-
ceeded- to the business, which he has since car-
ried on alone, meeting with that success one
might predict for a man of his energy, indus-
try and conservative management. Mr. Briggs
is worthily bearing the family name and sus-
taining its reputation.

On Nov. 25, 1879, Mr. Briggs was married
to Mary Ella Wrigley, daughter of George
W. and Charlotte (Darke) Wrigley, of Taun-
ton, Mass., and they have children : George
Wright, born Feb. "l7, 1881; James Abram,
Sept. 29, 1887; Rufus W., Jan. 19, 1889; and
Howard A., May 12, 1890. The eldest, George
Wright Briggs, was married June 26, 1908, to
Sophia Reed, born Aug. 27, 1881, and they
have had two children, Julian Reed, born May
11, 1909, who died May 16, 1909, and George
Wright, Jr., born Oct. 17, 1910. James
Abram Briggs was married Aug. 31, 1910, to
Lilla Bunker.

ANDREW BERNARD CUSHMAN, M. D.,
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and one of the best known professional men of
southern Bristol county, was born at East
Freetown, Mass., July 19, 1856. He is a
descendant in the tenth generation from Eob-
-ert Cushman, the immigrant ancestor, from
whom we give a brief history of the line.

(I) Robert Cushman, a wool carder, of Can-
terbury, England, married at Leyden, Holland,
June 3, 1617, Mary, widow of Thomas
Chingleton, of Sandwich, England. He was
associated with William Brewster as agent of
the Leyden Church in negotiations for re-
moval. He came to New England in the
"Fortune," in 1621, bringing with him his
only son, Thomas. He returned to England
■on business of the Colony, and died there in
1626. He left his son Thomas in the care of
Governor Bradford.

(II) Thomas Cushman, son of Robert, born
in February, 1608, in England, accompanied
lis father to Plymouth in 1621 in the ship
"Fortune," and became an important man here
in church and colony. He married about 1635
Mary Allerton, of the "Mayflower," 1620 ; and
they lived together the long period of fifty-five
years, she surviving him nearly ten years. Mr.
Cushman was chosen and ordained elder of the
Plymouth Church in 1649, and was forty-three
years in that office. He died Dec. 11, 1691.
The children of Mr. Cushman and wife were:
Thomas, born in 1637; Sarah; Lydia ; Isaac,
born in 1647-48; Elkanah, born in 1651;
Feare, born in 1653; Eleazer, born in 1656-
57; and Mary.

(III) Thomas Cushman (2), born Sept. 16,
1637, married (first) in 1664 Ruth, daughter
of John Howland, of the "Mayflower." She
died between May 25, 1672, and her husband's
remarriage, which occurred Oct. 16, 1679,
when he married Abigail Fuller, of Rehoboth,
and both were members of the church at
Plympton. He lived on the west side of the
highway that leads from Plympton meeting-
house to the north part of the town, and "Col-
chester Brook"' ran through liis farm, which
contained a large quantity of land. He died
Aug. 23, 1726, aged eighty-nine years, and
was interred in the Centre burying ground at
Plympton. His children were : Robert, born
Oct. 4, 1664; Job, born about 1680; Bartholo-'
mew, born in 1684; Samuel, born July 16,
1687; Benjamin, born in 1691.

(IV) Robert Cushman, born Oct. 4, 1664,
married (first) Persis, who died Jan. 14, 1743-
44, and at eighty -years of age he married
(second) in Feijruary, 1744-45, Prudence
Sherman, of Marshfield. He lived to be
ninety-two years, eleven months, three days



old. His children were: Robert, born July
2, 1698; Ruth, born March 25, 1700; Abigail,
born July 3, 1701 ; Hannah, born Dec. 25,
1704; Thomas, born Feb. 14, 1706; Joshua,
born Oct. 14, 1708; and Jonathan, born July
28, 1712.

(V) Joshua Cushman, born Oct. 14, 1708,
married (first) Jan. 2, 1733, Mary, born Dec.
6, 1706, daughter of Josiah Soule, of Duxbury,
and (second) March 5, 1752, Deborah Ford,
of Marshfield, born in 1718. Mr. Cushman
settled in Duxbury, coming thither from Leba-
non, Conn. His children were : Joseph, born
in 1733; Molly, born in 1736; Joshua;
Cephas ; Soule ; Paul ; Apollos ; Ezra ; Con-
sider; Robert; Mial, and Deborah.

(VI) Cephas Cushman, baptized in 1746,
married in 1767 Judith, born in 1750,
daughter of Ezekiel Clark. They lived in
Mattapoisett and Rochester, Mass., where he
was deacon in the Congregational Church
under the pastorate of Rev. Lemuel LeBarron.
Mr. Cushman was for a period engaged in the
whaling business. He was later a farmer and
also shoemaker. He died in 1815, and she in
1833. Their children were: Ezekiel, born
Nov. 5, 1768, is mentioned below; Cephas,
born Oct. 13, 1770, died unmarried in 1836;
Ezra, born March 10, 1772, married Mrs.
Allis Babcock, of New Bedford; Joshua, born
Nov. 17, 1773, died Dec. 23, 1850, unmarried;
Mary, born Sept. 2, 1775, married Capt. Moses
Rogers, of Mattapoisett ; Rebecca, born Sept.
17, 1777, married Ansel Jenney, of New Bed-
ford; Allerton, born March 4, 1779, married
Sally Bryant, of Plympton ; Hannah, born
May 2, 1781, married Capt. Ebenezer Hatha-
way, of New Bedford; Judith, born Oct. 21,
1782, married Abisha Rogers, of Martha's
Vineyard, and resided at Mattapoisett ; Aaron,
born Oct. 16, 1784, married Mary Shaw, of
Fairhaven; Benjamin, born April 16, 1787,
married Laura Bryant, of Plympton; CJardner
was born March 19, 1790 ; Asenath, born Jan.
1, 1793, married Leonard Hammond, of Mat-
tapoisett ; Deborah, born July 14, 1794, mar-
ried Holden Gillett, of Mattapoisett; and
Thomas, born Dec. 6, 1797, died at sea, un-
married.

(VII) Elder Ezekiel Cushman, bom Nov.
5, 1768, married Oct. 4, 1793, Abigail Toby,
born Nov. 8, 1770, in Rochester. Mr. Cush-
man was a member and became a deacon and
still later elder of the Christian Baptist
Church at North Fairhaven. He was occupied
as a farmer and shoemaker. He died Dec. 2,
1831, in Rochester, Mass. His wife, "Abigail,
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the Christian Church at Long Plain, North
Fairhaven. Their children were : Sophia, born
Oct. 11, 179-1, married Caleb Bryant, of New
Bedford; James Harvey, born Oct. 24, 1795,
married Mrs. Sears; Almira, born Dec. 14,
1796, married (first) John Davis, and (sec-
ond) Major Poole; Bartlett, born Feb. 12,
1798, is mentioned below; Elizabetii, born
May 26, 1799, married Ansel Weeks (2) ;
Gibson, born Aug. 26, 1800, married Oct. 31,
1824, Susan H. Purrington; and Abigail was
born Jan. 19. 1802.

(VIII) Elder Bartlett Cushman, born Feb.
12, 1798, in Rochester, Mass., married April
7, 1818, Sarah Simmons, born Aug. 28, 1799,
in New Bedford. At the age of fourteen young
Cushman entertained a hope in Christ, and
joined the church with his parents, and when
seventeen years old commenced holding meet-
ings in schoolhouses and private dwellings,
and had some fruit of his labors in the revival
of the work of God. He ever afterward con-
tinued in the work of the Master. He was a
zealous advocate of a pure, unadulterated
Christianity, as he understood it. He resided
in Rochester, Dartmouth and Freetown. For
many years his expenses in traveling and
preaching were considerably more than he re-
ceived. He was ordained an elder in the
Christian Church.

Elder Cushman died at his home in East
Freetown, Mass., after a brief sicKness, May 9,
1852, in the prime of life and usefulness. The
following concerning him is extracted from an
obituary notice that appeared in local news-
papers: "His opportunities lor intellectual
improvement in early life being very limited,
of course his acquirements were not extensive.
As a preacher his discourses were usually ex-
perimental and practical, and delivered with
such self-apparent sincerity and earnestness
of manner as seldom failed to interest both
saint and sinner, and to comfort and edify the
one, and deeply to impress the other. But,
probably, it was as counselor and adviser that
he excelled. He was endowed with a 'sound
mind and a discriminating judgment so that
he perceived readily and spoke promptly, and
generally with as much accuracy as is common
to human frailty. With great uniformity and
consistency he maintained his religious pro-
fession and character, and when otliers turned
aside to vain jangling he persevered in well
doing, and has ever been a man of firmness
and stability."

Elder Cushman was survived by his wife and
three children. His children were : Susan
Shepard, born in January, 1819, married Levi



R. Mason, of Freetown, and resided in New
Bedford; Ezekiel Stephen was born in 1821;
Francis Bartlett, born June 26, 1826, is men-
tioned below; and Sarah, born Sept. 15, 1829,
died in infancy.

(IX) Francis Bartlett Cusnman, son of
Elder Bartlett Cushman, born June 26, 1826,
was a member of Company C, 18th Massachu-
setts Volunteers, serving in the Civil war, and
died of typhoid pneumonia May 13, 1868, on
Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor, whither
he had been taken after being wounded at the
battle of Yorktown. On Jan. 29, 1851, he
married Charity S. Ashley, a member of the
.Ashley family of South Carolina, and to them
were born two children : Sarah B., born Aug.
28, 1852, who married William T. Wilcox, of
New Bedford, Aug. 28, 1872, and died April
12 or 13, 1901; and Andrew Bernard, bom
July 19, 1856.

(X) Andrew Bernard Cushman was left
fatherless in his sixth year. He attended the
public schools of his native town and New
Bedford, working at various pursuits during
vacations and at odd prices, and yet notwith-
standing the obstacles that he knew would con-
front him he determined to study medicine.
In 1883 he began under the tutorship of Dr.
Stephen W. Hayes, with whom he remained
until well grounded in the principles, and he
then entered the medical department of the
University of Vermont, from which institution
he was graduated July 19, 1886, with the de-
gree of M. D. In that same year he began
practice at South Dartmouth, where he has
since been successfully engaged. In 1898 he
was made counselor for the Bristol South Dis-
trict.

Dr. Cushman has given considerable time to
public affairs, being keenly interested in the
progress and well-being of his home town. He
has served on the school committee for twenty-
one consecutive years, is physician for that
committee, is a trustee of the Southworth
library, being much interested in literary af-
fairs, and is physician to the overseers of the
poor, which office he has held for twenty-three
years. He is medical examiner for several in-
surance companies. Dr. Cushman is a promi-
nent Mason, belonging to Eureka Lodge, A. F.
& A. M., of New Bedford, Adoniram Chapter,
R. A. M., Taunton Council, Royal & Select
Masters, and Sutton Commandery, K. T., all
of New Bedford. He is also a member of the
American Medical Association, a member of
the Alumni Association of the University of
Vermont and a member of the Delta Mu fra-
ternity.



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On Aug. 22, 1887, Dr. Cushman married
Edith H., daughter of Thomas L. and Mary
(Hamblin) Allen, and they have had three
children, Helen A., Robert W. and Ruth B.

MILLER (Middleboro family). (I) John
Miller, a native of England, born in 1624, was
a member of the Grand Inquest, Middleboro,
in 1672. He was among the proprietors of
fhe Twenty-six Men's Purchase (1661-62) at
their meeting in 1677. Previous to April 29,
1678, he bought a house lot of Edward Gray.
He was the, owner of Lot 154 in the South
Purchase (1673), and was one of the owners
of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase (1675). Mr.
Miller lived on Thompson street not far from
the brook in Middleboro, near the house of the
late Elijah Shaw. He died May 11, 1720, in
the ninety-seventh year of his age. His monu-
ment stands in the cemetery at the "Green,"
where rest the remains of six or more genera-
tions of his descendants. The Christian name
of his wife was Mercy, and their children were :
John, Mary and P^lizabetli.

(II) John Miller (2), son of John, born in
1669, married Lydia, born in 1678, daughter
of Francis and Deborah (Morton) Coombs.
Mr. Miller lived in Middleboro, Mass., where
he died in 1727. His wife died in 1734.

(III) John Miller (3), son of John and
Lydia (Coombs) Miller, born in 1704, mar-
ried Priscilla, born in 1711, daughter of Peter
Bennett (born in 1678 and died in 1749) and
his wife Priscilla (Howland) (born in 1681),
daughter of Isaac Howland (bom in 1649 and
died in 1724) and his wife Elizabeth
(Vaughn) (born in 1652 and died in 1727),
granddaughter of John Howland and his wife
Elizabeth (Tilley), of the "Mayflower," 1620.
Mr. Miller died in 1794. The children of
Jolin and Priscilla (Bennett) Miller were:
Mary, bom Jan. 25, 1736, died March 4, 1812;
John, born Dee. 7, 1737, died in 1807; Seth,
born Feb. 22, 1739, died Jan. 6, 1823; Joseph,
born Jan. 8, 1741, died Nov. 8, 1838; Jedidah,
born Aug. 30, 1743, died in 1810; Priscilla,
born May 19, 1745, died March 18, 1837;
Lucy, born Sept. 20, 1747, died March 10,
1835; Peter, born March 31, 1750, died' March
15, 1835.

(IV) Peter Miller, son of Jolm and Pris-
cilla (Bennett) Miller, born in Middleboro
March 31, 1750, was a soldier in the Revolu-
tionary war, and died March 15, 1835. He
married March 21, 1780, Keziah Besse. Their
children were: Lucy, born Aug. 3, 1781;
Peter, born Feb. 9, 1783; Southworth, born
Jan. 23, 1785; Alden, bora Feb. 9, 1786; Jere-



miah, born May 9, 1788; Mary Tinkham, bom
April 13, 1790; Arza, born Jan. 2, 1792;
Elizabeth, born July 5, 1793 ; Mary, born Aug.

8, 1795.

(V) Alden Miller, son of Peter, born Feb.

9, 1786, married Feb. 9, 1809, Millicent
Lovell, daughter of Joseph and Jerusha (Spar-
row) Lovell, she bom in 1784 and died March
2, 1881. He was a farmer and also engaged in
the milling business on the old homestead.
Their children were: Hannah P., born Sept.
9, 1809, married Alexander Hackett, of Mid-
dleboro; Southard Harrison, born Nov. 30,
1811, married Esther G. Peckham; Alden,
born Aug. 3, 1814, engaged at various occupa-
tions and died in Middleboro ; Lucy Ann, born
March 20, 1816, died Feb. 14, 1897, married
Andrew Cobb Wood; Samuel, born in 1819,
died in 1821 ; and Lorenzo Theodore, born
Dec. 8, 1821, died in 1900 in Middleboro.

(VI) Lorenzo Theodore Miller was born
on the old Miller homestead at Fall Brook,
Middleboro, Dec. 8, 1821. After taking ad-
vantage of such limited educational advan-
tages as were his, he worked on the home farm,
and at the age of eighteen started out to make
his own way. Going to Fall River on foot,
he found employment in a lumber yard, and
later learned the carpenters and joiner's
trade, and was engaged in the building busi-
ness at Fall River. He worked at contract
work with his brother Southard H., and many
of the houses and mills in Fall River bear
his handiwork, among the principal ones being
the King Philip mill and several business
blocks. He and his brother became the best-
known contractors in that part of Massachu-
setts. Soon after his success in Fall River was
assured Mr. Miller bought the Seth Miller
farm at Fall Brook, now occupied by his son,
Andrew Wood Miller, and at that beautiful
place he spent his summers, and when he re-
tired from active business he made it his per-
manent home. He delighted in the work about
the farm, and was active in the management
of the place until his death, which occurred
May 8, 1900, when he was seventy-eight years
of age. He was buried in the Oak Grove ceme-
tery. Fall River. Politically he was a Republi-
can, and he was quite active in town affairs in
Pall River. On Aug. 3, 1844, at Little Comp-
ton, R. I., he married Ellen Manchester,
daughter of John Manchester of that town.
Mrs. Miller died in Fall River, and was buried
in Oak Grove cemetery. They had three chil-
dren : Andrew Wood, born June 9, 1845, who
resides at Fall Brook; Lorenzo Theodore, Jr.,
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(VII) John Alden Miller, son of Lorenzo
Theodore and Ellen (Manchester) Miller, was
born in the town of Tiverton, E. I., on the Fall
River road, March 1, 1856. He received a
public school education, and worked with his
father and brothers for some time at the car-
penter's trade. Later he started into business
for himself, forming a partnership with Robert
0. Hearn, under the name of the Fall River
Ice Company. This partnership lasted for
three years, after which for about eight years
Mr. Miller conducted the business alone, meet-
ing with good success. At the end of that
time he came to Fall Brook, Middleboro, and
buying the farm owned by Abishai Miller,
which was the original farm owned by the
emigrant ancestor of the family, John Miller.
For five years he devoted himself to its cultiva-
tion, and became interested in the growing of
cranberries and in the raising of blooded
stock. He owned some fast trotters, and is a
great lover of horses. In 1895 he came to
]\Iiddleboro Center, where he built a beautiful
home on South Main street. This he has since
occupied, and he has given his time and atten-
tion to the real estate business and cranberry
bogs, etc. He is a man of genial disposition
and makes many fritnds. Enterprising and
progressive, he has been keenly interested in
the development of his town. He is a stock-
fiolder in several cotton mills in Fall River, a