make a voyage was lost the night after sailing
'from Boston, and this so discouraged him that
he decided to discontinue that vocation. In
1880 Mr. Lewis came to Brockton, where he
procured employment in the finishing room of
the shoe factory of Mitchell Brothers. After
working at the bench for about two years he
took charge of the finishing room of this fac-
tory, which later became the Howard & Foster
factory. After two years in this position he
resigned to take charge of the similar depart-
ment at the M. A. Packard & Co. factory,
which position he held for a period of about
eleven years, at the end of which time he re-
signed to accept the position of foreman of the
finishing and dressing departments at the E.
B. Grover & Co. factory, and he held this posi-
tion for a period of si.x years. At this time
Mr. Lewis determined to enter business on his
own account, and in March, 1902, he engaged
in the manufacture of supplies for the finish-
ing and dressing room departments of shoe
factories, in which business he has since con-
tinued and in which he has met with marked
success. This business is conducted under the
name of the Superior Polish Company, and it
is steadily growing under his management. Mr.
Lewis is engaged in the manufacture of dress-
ings, polishes and general supplies for the fin-
ishing and dressing departments of shoe fac-
tories, his products being favorably known
throughout the shoe manufacturing centers
not only in this country, but in the foreign
markets as well.
Fraternally Mr. Lewis is prominently iden-
tified with various organizations. He was
formerly a member of Massasoit Lodge, No.
69, I. 0. 0. F., which he joined April 7, 1887,
and from which he withdrew to become a char-
ter member of Brockton Lodge, No. 240, which
was instituted Nov. 26, 1900, and of which he
is past noble grand ; is a member of Nemasket
Encampment, No. 44, which he joined June'
25, 1888, and of which he is past chief patri-
arch; a member of Canton Nemasket, Patri-
archs Militant, No. 18, which he joined Aug.
17, 1888, and of which he is past captain. For
several years he was colonel of the 5th Regi-
ment of Massachusetts, Patriarchs Militant,
and in 1910 was elected department comman-
der of the order in Massachusetts with the title
of major general. Gen. Lewis has always
been an active worker in the I. 0. 0. F.
since he became a member of the order. He
is also a member of Beatrice Rebekah Degree
Lodge, No. 28, I. 0. 0. F., which he joined
Nov. 20, 1894, and of which his wife is also an
active member. He also holds membership in
Brockton Lodge, No. 669, B. P. 0. Elks, the
Commercial Club, and the Superintendents''
and Foremen's Association, of Brockton. In
political faith Mr. Lewis is a Republican in
national affairs, while in local matters hfe takes
an independent stand.
On April 9, 1882, Gen. Lewis was united in
marriage to EfSe A. Tinkham, daughter of
Augustus G. and Lucy (Dunbar) Tinkham,
of Brockton. Like her husband, Mrs. Lewis
is descended from a number of New England's
historic old families. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
have no children.
General Lewis possesses a genial, whole-
souled nature, is charitable and sympathetic in
his impulses; his friends are legion, and he
enjoys the respect and esteem of the commun-
ity in which the greater part of his life has
been spent. He is president of the Silver
Beach Land Company, at North Falmouth,
Mass., where he owns a summer home, and
where he and his wife spend the summer
months.
LINCOLN (Brockton family). For several
generations the Lincoln name has been a con-
tinuous one in the Bridgewaters and the family
one of high standing in the several communi-
ties with which it has been identified. In and
about the ancient town of Hingham, close by,
where the family was an early one, the name
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has been common and the family very numer-
ous, and from the several progenitors of the
Hingham Lincohis have descended many of
the name who have distinguished themselves
Tn the various callings of life, not the least of
whom was the illustrious Al)raham Lincoln.
Across the water in Old Hingham, in the
County of Norfolk, England, the name
Lincoln, variously spelled, has also been a com-
mon one for several centuries. Among the
early settlers of New England there came to
Hingham, Mass., eight male persons of this
surname of mature age, of whom mention is
made upon the records of the town. These
were Daniel Lincoln, the husbandman, wtio
died unmarried, and his brothers, Samuel
Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln, the weaver;
Daniel Lincoln, known as the "young man,"
and as "sergeant" and "boatman" ; Stephen
Lincoln, and his brother Thomas Lincoln, the
husbandman; Thomas Lincoln, the cooper;
and Thomas Lincoln, the miller.
It is the purpose here, however, to refer to
some of the Bridgewater Lincolns ; to some of
the descendants of Ezekiel Lincoln, of Abing-
ton, two of whose sons, Nehemiah and Gideon,
settled in North Bridgewater, from one of
whom came the East Bridgewater family, the
head of which was the late Elbridge Gerry
Lincoln. Of the latter's sons, George Almond
Lincoln is one of the respected citizens of
Brockton, and the late Hon. Henry Elbridge
Lincoln was long a prominent man in that
city.
Two of the grandsons of Thomas Lincoln,
the cooper, of Hingham, Mass. — Joseph and
Elisha, sons of Joseph Lincoln — removed to
Abington. Thomas Lincoln, the cooper, came
from the west of England, says tradition, and
settled- at Hingham, Mass., aboui 1635-36. In
1636, the year in which his name first appears
on the Hingham records, he was granted five
acres of land at the west end of the town for
a house lot; this he afterward sold or ex-
changed for one on North street, which was his
homestead. His wife, whom he married in
England about 1630, was Avis or Avith Lane,
a daughter of William Lane. At the time the
meeting-house of the First Parish was erected,
1680-81, Thomas Lincoln, cooper, was one of
the five elderly gentlemen to whom was as-
signed a sitting "in the seats under the pul-
pit"; while, too, Mrs. Lincoln was given a
place "in the second seate next ye pew." Mr.
Tyincoln died at his residence on North street.
West Hingham, Sept. 28, 1691. His children
were : Thomas, Joseph, Benjamin, Deborah
and Sarah. Of these,
Joseph Lincoln, born Nov. 80, 1640, in
Hingham, married (first) June 14, 1688,
Prudence, born Dec. 22, 1663, daughter of
Andrew and Elinor Ford, of Weymouth. She
died in Hingham Nov. 26, 1695, and he mar-
ried (second) in February, 1695-96, Mrs.
Sarah Bisbee, widow of Hopestill. They died,
he March 18, 1715-16; and she Oct. 20, 1716.
Mr. Lincoln resided on the paternal home-
stead. His children, all born to Prudence,
were: Joseph, born March 13, 1682-83; Israel,
born April 17, 1685; Nehemiah, born May 4,
1688; and Elisha. Of these, Joseph and
Elisha removed to Abington.
Nehemiah Lincoln, son of Ezekiel of Abing-
ton, married Nov. 24, 1748, Keziah Packard,
daughter of Deacon James Packard. He lived
in North Bridgewater, moving thither from
Abington. Mr. Lincoln adopted his nephew,
Gideon Lincoln, son of his brother Ezekiel Lin-
coln (3). This Gideon Lincoln inherited his
uncle's estate, and settled in North Bridge-
water, on the road leading from Abington to
North Bridgewater, near Sprague's works. He
married Aug. 13, 1781, Martha, daughter of
Luke Perkins, and their children were : Nehe-
miah, born Nov. 8, 1782; Mehitable, March
29, 1784; Keziah, July 4, 1785; Ruel, Feb. 6,
1787; Charles, April 20, 1788 (drowned in
1794) ; Martha, Aug. 17, 1789; Content, June
13, 1791; Ro.xana, May 23, 1792; Triphena,
April 21, 1793 ; Charles," Dec. 27, 1795 : Serena,
June 22, 1797; and Luke Perkins, Dec. 22,
1798.
Ruel Lincoln, son of Gideon, bom Feb. 6,
1787, was a blacksmith by trade, and was also
engaged in farming. For a number of years
he manufactured pegging awls for the shoe
trade. He married Dec. 30, 1804, Eunice,
daughter of John Willis, and they resided in
East Bridgewater, where he died. Their chil-
dren were: Roxana, born July 14, 1805 (died
in infancy); Charles, Feb. 4, 1807; Isaac,
March 11, 1809 ; Elbridge Gerry, Oct. 23, 1810;
Emeline, March 6, 1813 (died in infancy) ;
and Eliza, March 31, 1815.
Elbridge Gerry Lincoln, son of Ruel, was
born in East Bridgewater Oct. 23, 1810, and
married April 10. 1834, Sarah Ann, daughter
of Nathaniel Shepardson. Their children
were: Mary Edson, born May 29, 1835, mar-
ried Stephen Chessman, Jr., of East Randolph,
and is now a widow residing in Holbrook,
Mass.; George Almond, born Sept. 16, 1837,
is mentioned below; Henry Elbridge, born
April 13, 1840, is mentioned below; Isaac
Augustus, born Jan. 28, 1843, who was a cabi-
netmaker by trade, married Helen Frances
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Thompson, of Brockton, where they both died;
Sarah Ann, born Oct. 30, 1845, died May 8,
1851 ; Eliza Jane, born June 17, 1848, married
C. Alden Buck, of North Easton, Mass.; Elvi-
ra Maria, born Aug. 14, 1850, is the wife of
George W. Barnefield, of Pawtucket, R. I. ;
Stephen, born Oct. 4, 1854, died the same day ;
Emma Florence, born Oct. 4, 1854, died Oct.
2, 1855.
In early life Elbridge G. Lincoln learned the
blacksmith's trade with his father, which oc-
cupation he followed a number of years, after
which he settled down to farming in his native
town. For several years he was also engaged
in making shoes, when it was the custom to
obtain the stock at the factories, and after
making wp the shoes at home deliver them to
the factory ready for the market. In political
faith he was a Whig and later a Republican.
He was of a quiet and retiring nature. He
died in Brockton, where he had lived for sev-
eral years prior to his death.
George Almond Lincoln, son of Elbridge
G. and Sarah Ann (Shepardson) Lincoln, was
born Sept. 16, 1837, in North Bridgewater
(now Brockton), on what is Belmont street.
After acquiring a common schooling in the dis-
trict schools of his native town he took up
shoemaking with his father, remaining with
him for about a dozen years, after which he
was similarly employed in East Randolph with
his brother-in-law, Stephen Chessman, Jr., for
about the same number of years. He then
went to work in the stitching room of the Orr
& Sears shoe factory, where he remained for a
period of about four years. After following
his trade of shoemaking for several years, dur-
ing which time he found employment in var-
ious shoe factories, Mr. Lincoln became fore-
man in the dressing room of the Nahum John-
son shoe factory, in which capacity he remained
about twelve years. He then became engaged
in making shoe racks for the late Charles F.
Porter, and after continuing thus for about
seven years began to manufacture shoe racks
on his own account, leasing the factory and
machinery from Mr. Porter ; he carried on this
business successfully until about 1897, in which
year he closed out the business, and he has
since lived retired from active pursuits.
In political faith Mr. Lincoln is a supporter
of the principles of the Republican party. He
attends the_ Baptist Church, of which his wife
is a member.
On Dec. 9, 186G, Mr. Lincoln was united in
marriage to Helen Livingston, who was born
in West Hockington, N. H., daughter of Enoch
and Melinda (Flanders) Livingston, of Hol-
brook, Mass. Mrs. Lincoln died July 14,
1911, age seventy-two years. To this union
was born one daughter, Clara May Lincoln,
now the wife of John L. Emery, who is en-
gaged in the leather business 'in .Brockton,
where they reside ; Mr. and Mrs. Emery are
the parents of two daughters, Helen Olive and
Elsie Lincoln.
Henry Elbridge Lincoln, son of Elbridge
G. and Sarah Ann (Shepardson) Lincoln, was
born April 13, 1840, in East Bridgewater. His
schooling was acquired in the common schools
and at Hunt's Academy, of North Bridgewater.
After leaving school he was engaged for several
years in making shoes with his father, follow-
ing the custom of taking the stock from the
factories and after making up the shoes at
home returning the finished product to the fac-
tory ready for the market. He then became a
clerk in the shoe store of John Weld, in Bos-
ton, for a time, after which he returned to
North Bridgewater and became a clerk in the
clothing establishment of Messrs. George and
Henry L. Bryant, in whose employ he remained
about twelve years, when he purchased the
clothing business of Henry A. Brett, at the
corner of Main and School streets. There he
continued successfully engaged in the clothing
business until his death. During this time
he also purchased the coal business of Samuel
S. Brett, in company with Ezra T. Kimball,
becoming the senior member of the firm of
Lincoln & Kimball. Possessed of ability, good
judgment and tact, together with habits of in-
dustry and the faculty of careful management,
Mr. Lincoln attracted a good class of custom-
ers to him and developed an extensive trade,
becoming eminently successful and acquiring
a goodly competence. He was in the true
sense of the term a self-made man. Mr. Lin-
coln, by his straiglitforward course in business
and by his irreproachable deportment in life,
won and held the respect of his fellow citizens.
Perhaps no man of his time in the community
was more highly esteemed.
Mr. Lincoln was a stanch supporter of the
principles of the Republican party, and was
prominent in the public aifairs of the town
and city. He was a member of the board of
assessors of Brockton in 1878, 1879 and 1880,
and was a member of the board of selectmen
of the town in 1880 and 1881. Upon the or-
ganization of the city government he was
chosen a member of the first board of alder-
men from Ward One. He was a member of
the Massachusetts General Court, in 1886, rep-
resenting the double district of Brockton, com-
prising Wards One, Two and Five, filled the
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position with credit and was nominated for a
second term, and no doubt would have been
returned to that body liad he lived until the
time for reelection.
Mr. Lincoln was also prominently identitied
with various financial and industrial institu-
tions of the city. He was for several years a
director of the Brockton National Bank, hav-
ing been a member of the first board of direc-
tors upon the organization of the bank, in
1881 ; he was also one of the original incor-
porators of the Brockton Savings Bank in 1881.
He was one of the original incorporators of
the Jenny Electric Light and Power Company,
which was organized in 1884, and he became
the first treasurer of the company, remaining
in that capacity, and also acting as general
manager of the concern, until it was merged
with the Edison Electric Illuminating Com-
pany. He was also active in the atfairs of the
company organized in Brockton to manufacture
the American Heeling Machine. He was one
of the original members of the Brockton Agri-
cultural Society, and served as a director of the
same until his death. Socially he was a char-
ter member of the Commercial Club. Mr.
Lincoln was an active and consistent member
of the Porter Congregational Church, and
served as treasurer of that church for several
years prior to his death, which occurred Oct.
28, 1887.
On Nov. 24, 1864, Mr. Lincoln was united in
marriage to Jeanette Augusta Tobey, daugh-
ter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Bassett) Tobey, of
Sandwich, Mass., and this union was blessed
with two daughters: Lizzie Tobey, who mar-
ried C. Ernest Perkins, D. D. S., of Brockton,
where she died May 16, 1892, the mother of
one son, Henry Lincoln Perkins, born April
22, 1892 ; and Carrie Maud, who died in the
seventeenth year of her age.
EDWIN TALBOT GOWAKD, one of Eas-
ton's well-known and successful business men,
is a native of that town, born Jan. 7, 1838.
The Goward family, of which Mr. Coward
is a member, is of English origin, and has
been established in southeastern Massachusetts
for upward of two hundred years. There is a
tradition in the Goward family here consid-
ered that their ancestor (I) Francis Goward,
when a lad of seven years, was stolen as it were
and taken on board of a vessel from England
bound for America; this about 1715; that he
was landed in Duxbury, and later married in
Middleboro. In support of a part of this tra-
dition, Francis Goward, of Rochester, is of
record as marrying in Middleboro July 10,
1730, Anna Morse, of the latter town, the
ceremony being performed by Peter Thatcher.
Two of their children are of record as born in
Middleboro, namely: William, Nov. 29, 1730;
and Francis, Aug. 23, 1738 ; maybe there were
others.
(II) Francis Goward (2), son of Francia
and Anna (Morse) Goward, born Aug. 23,
1738, in Middleboro, Mass., came to the town
of Easton while still young, and was employed
by Dr. Seth Babbett, who died from smallpox
in 1761, having contracted it while serving in
the French and Indian war. Mr. Goward set-
tled on the farm adjoining that of Dr. Bab-
bett, which was located on the old road from
Easton to Mansfield, Mass. He was a Baptist
in his religious faith, as his name appears in
that connection. He was a soldier in the Rev-
olutionary army from the town of Easton;
was a private in Capt. Macy Williams's company
on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; served
three months at Providence in 1777 during the
Rhode Island campaign, and in 1780 was in
the service, then a member of Capt. Josiah
Keith's company. Col. Isaac Dean's regiment.
The Christian name of his wife was Mary.
She lived to advanced age and died Aug. 15,
1832, aged eighty-four years. He died July
17, 1797, in the fifty-ninth year of his age;
this according to inscriptions on their tomb-
stones, which apparently are in what is now the
town of Norton, Mass. Their children were:
Francis, born Aug. 20, 1773; Isaac, who mar-
ried Nov. 25, 1804, Abigail Lothrop; and
Israel, born Dec. 5, 1779, who married Jan. 9,
1803, Patty Williams.
(III) Francis Goward (3), son of Francis
(2) and Mary, born Aug. 20, 1773, married
Dec. 2, 1798, Polly, bom Sept. 7, 1775, daugh-
ter of Ammiruhamah and Mary (Trow) Kim-
ball, of Mansfield, Norton and Easton, Mass.,
he a direct descendant of Richard Kimball,
who with his family embarked at Ipswich,
County of Suffolk, England, April 10, 1634,
in the ship "Elizabeth," and landed in Bos-
ton, thence going to Watertown, where he
soon became active and prominent in the set-
tlement, from whom his descent is through
Richard (2), Samuel, Samuel (2), and Sam-
uel Kimball (3). The children of Francis
and Polly (Kimball) Goward were: William,
bom Aug. 14, 1800; Dwelly, born March 14,
1802; Charles, born July 9, 1803; Maria F.,
born Oct. 20, 1812; Emory, born May 5, 1814.
Mr. Goward lived to be ninety-four years old
and Mrs. Goward reached the age of ninety
years; their remains repose in the Furnace
Village cemetery in Easton, Massachusetts.
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(IV) Dwelly Goward, son of Francis (3)
and Polly (Kimball), was born March 14,
1802, on the homestead in the town of Easton,
and there grew to manhood. He became en-
gaged in farming, later branching out in the
meat business, buying cattle which he butch-
ered, dressed and sold wholesale and retail.
In this enterprise, in which he was ably as-
sisted by his sons, he was very successful, and
spent his life on his farm, dying there in 1874;
he was buried in the Furnace Village cemetery
at Easton. He was a man well known in his
community, though domestic in his tastes, tak-
ing much pleasure in his home and family. In
politics he was a stanch Republican.
Mr. Goward married Feb. 7, 1*^28, in Nor-
ton, Eliza Hodges, born in Norton, Mass.,
daughter of Josiah and Sarah (VVinslow)
Hodges, and granddaughter of Josiah Hodges,
who was a soldier in the war of the Revolu-
tion. Mrs. Goward descended from William
Hodges, the first of the name in Taunton,
through John Hodges, Nathan and Experience
(Williams) Hodges, and Josiah and Wealthy
(Hodges) Hodges, the latter a daughter of
Jonathan Hodges. Mrs. Goward died in the
town (^f Easton, and was buried in the Fur
nace Village cemetery. She was a devoted wife
and mother. To Mr. and Mrs. Goward came
children as follows: Henry Dwelly, born July
3, 1829, married Nov. 5, 1859, Maria (Reed)
Roatch, and he died in Newport, R. I. ; Josiah
Francis, born July 19, 1832, married Oct. 30,
1856, Sarah Elizabeth Waite, daughter of Israel
Niles and Sally (Packard) Waite (he was en-
gaged in the meat business in Easton, where he
died); Sarah Elizabeth, born Aug. 4, 1836,
died Jan. 31, 1837; Edwin Talbot was born
Jan. 7, 1838 ; Lewis Hodges, born Nov. 14,
1839, married Oct. 7. 1868, Martha Ann Lin-
coln, and he resides in Taunton ; Willard Kim-
ball, born Jan. 20, 1845, married Oct. 7, 1875,
Harriet Louise King, and he resides in North
Easton; Ellen Eliza, born Oct. 12, 1848, mar-
ried June 20, 1872, Everett Russell Leonard,
and she died in Norton.
(V) Edwin Talbot Goward. son of Dwelly,
attended the public schools of his native town,
after which he entered the Peirce Academy, of
Middleboro, Mass., where he graduated in
1854. After leaving school he worked at
home with his father for some Time, later en-
gaging in the butchering business with his
brother Josiah F., until 1861, when he started
into business for himself, settling on the old
Howard place known as the "Howard Inn," in
Easton. Here he became extensively engaged
in the meat business, both wholesale and re-
tail, buying cattle in the Brighton and Water-
towTi markets. His business extended over a
large field, covering Easton, Brockton, the
Bridgewaters and Taunton. The success of
his business is due to his own efforts and to the
fact that he has given it his close attention and
conducted it with the strictest integrity. Be-
sides his meat business Mr. Goward has inter-
ested himself in real estate, in the erecting of
dwelling houses, which he disposes of, and
though now retired from the meat business
still interests himself in his real estate hold-
ings. He was one of the pioneers in cran-
berry growing in the town of Easton, having
extensive bogs, and he markets hundreds of
barrels yearly. He has dealt largely in timber
land and together with farming has spent a
very busy life. Mr. Goward is a deep lover of
nature and is a great home lover. He is a
stanch Republican and is much interested m
tiie affairs of his community, but has never
sought office. He attends the Unitarian
Church in Easton, of which Mrs. Goward is a
member.
Mr. Goward was married Nov. 1, 1865, in
Easton, to Maria Howard, born Nov. 18, 1844,
daughter of Horace D. and Bathsheba A. (Wil-
liams) Howard, and granddaughter of Asa
Howard, who kept the "Howard Inn." His
father, Nehemiah Howard, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary war, and died in 1825. His
father Dr. Abiel Howard was a native of
Bridgewater and settled in Easton where he
practiced his profession. Mr. and Mrs. Goward
had children as follows: (1) Carrie Williams,
born April 1, 1869, married Dec. 24, 1895,
William Neale, a retired railroad conductor,
and they reside in Stoughton, Mass. ; they
have two children, Maina and Pauline Goward.
(2) Bertha May, born April 7, 1873, married
Nov. 24, 1892, Harry Meyers, of North Eas-
ton, who is a conductor on the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad.
I
BARNEY. The Barneys of Bristol county,
Mjass., come , from the early Rehoboth and
Swansea families, in which region of country
the name has been continuous for two hundred
and more years, during which period it has
had a creditable and honorable standing among
the sturdy yeomanry of New England.
(I) Jacob Barney, born about 1601, is said
to have icome from Swansea, Wales, to Salem,
Mass., about 1630. He was made a freeman
May 14, 1634, and represented Salem in the
General Court in 1635, 1638, 1647 and 1655.
He was an intelligent man, and often served
as selectman, deputy to the General Court, etc.
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He opposed the sentence of the General Court
against those who petitioned for freer fran-
chise. He followed the occupation of tailor.
Mr. Barney's death occurred at Salem April
28, 1673, at the age of seventy-three years.
Pope's "Pioneers of Massachusetts" says that
an Anna Barney was a member of the church
at Salem in 1637, and queries whether she was
not Jacob's wife, but in the settlement of his
estate, Sept. 30, 1673, the relict, Elizabeth, is