tail trade. These shoes sell in the retail market at from $3.50 to $10 per pair, and the shoe industry requires skilled workmen and fine executive management which the town possesses in no small degree.

Long ago two of her sons, Harvey and Quincy Reed, established the first wholesale boot and shoe store opened in the city of Boston, and the Weymouth manufacturers were the first to supply the California market with boots and shoes. Among the large factories are Alden, Walker & Wilde of North Weymouth; M. C. Dizer & Sons, Strong & Garfield Company Incorporated and Edwin Clapp of

East Weymouth; The Stetson Shoe Company of South Weymouth; and A. W. Tilden and George H. Bicknell of Weymouth.

The A. O. Crawford Company Incorporated, Elon Sherman's Sons, and Pray & Kelley are engaged in the manufacture of boxes.

From Weymouth in Old England there came to our Weymouth in 1635 one Zechary Bicknell, and from him the town has been highly favored with worthy representatives of the name. Possessed of the excellent characteristics of this ancient and honored family was the late Zachariah L. Bicknell. For twenty years he was in the service of the town as a selectman. Dur

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ing the Civil war he rendered invaluable services to the town. As chairman of the committe to erect the Tufts Library building and as President of the Trustees of the library Mr. Bicknell did much to lessen the sordid interests of the town. For two years he represented the town in the General Court.

Largely instrumental in restoring the surrendered charter of Orphans' Hope Lodge, F. & A. M., Mr. Bicknell became the first Worshipful Master and one of the founders and the first commander of the South Shore Commandery, Knights Templars. From 1874 until his death in 1897, he was a standard bearer in

representative and a senator of the General Court, for more than a generation the legal adviser of the town and prominent in the direction of all of the town affairs, Judge Humphrey stood for justice and righteousness, and for the public good regardless of personal sacrifice.

On the tenth day of October, 1788, a boy was born in Commercial street, East Weymouth. Little did his parents or neighbors dream of his future worth and usefulness to the world. True it is that his father, Colonel Joshua Bates, held a respectable position in the community, but few considered that the "boy is father to the man." At the age of four he was sent to Mrs. Porter's school and a little

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took him to London where he ever after remained.

From that day until the day of his death the honored name of Joshua Bates, American partner of the house of Messrs. Baring Brothers & Company of London, stood for scrupulous integrity and keen financial sagacity, for sound judgment and public-spirited generosity. Joshua Bates was chosen by the United States and Great Britain as umpire to settle the longstanding claims between his native. land and the country of his adoption. His relations with the great men of his generation were farreaching and most praiseworthy. When Alexander Baring, senior member of the London house, was raised to the peerage as Lord Ashburton, Joshua Bates's influences in no small degree made it agreeable for the distinguished Lord to join hands with our own Webster in wisely settling the northeastern boundary dispute between the United States and Canada, in the

famous Ashburton-Webster treaty of 1842. At a later date this distinguished man, a native of Weymouth, became the senior member of the great banking house, but while engrossed in the greatest financial institution in the world, he yet found time to share the friendship of Samuel Taylor Coleridge who, we are told, "delighted to bring his lofty and often paradoxical generalizations to the touchstone of the great banker's sterling common sense and practical discernment.' In him, too, Louis Napoleon while an exile from France found an intimate friend.

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The tragic death of Mr. Bates's only son brought a great cloud over his domestic life and, perhaps, occasioned his deeper interest in the future welfare of the youth of his native land. In looking toward the future Mr. Bates believed that American youth, gaining real knowledge, had nothing to fear. Actuated by that belief, in 1852 Joshua Bates gave to the city of Boston $50,000 to found a Public Library. Subsequently he made his munificent benefactions over $100,000-a sum then sufficient to to purchase much more of the world's commodities than a similar sum will to-day. It is as the founder of the Boston Public Library, the richness of whose collections to-day place it second in the United States, that

Joshua Bates "being dead yet speaketh."

Among Mr. Bates's friends and acquaintances was Charles Coffin Jewett, the first librarian of the City Library, from whose beautiful home in Quincy avenue, East Braintree, he was enabled to overlook the native town of the great benefactor, and in the busy city give direction to his creations.

The name of Appleton Howe, M. D., stands high among the honored citizens of the town. Graduated at Harvard in the famous class of 1815 with Jared Sparks and John G. Palfrey, historical writers of national. fame, Dr. Howe selected Weymouth for his life-long home. As a member of the Massachusetts Medical society, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, as Major General of the Massachusetts Militia and as Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Appleton Howe added lustre to the town of his adoption. His successor at South Weymouth, Charles Carroll Tower, M. D., a graduate of Harvard in 1856 and a surgeon in the United States Army during the Civil War, proved himself worthy to follow his distinguished prede

cessor.

Among the men foremost in promoting the business interests and advancing the public welfare mention may be made of John W. Loud, who for nearly half a century was identified with the best interests of his native town. Having served the church, the town and the Commonwealth most faithfully, he died suddenly while addressing an audience in the Union Church, April 22, 1874. His mantle fell upon his son John J. Loud, who was graduated from Harvard in 1866, and who has been

for forty years associated with every movement for the betterment of the town of his nativity. As a member of many historical societies and especially as President of the Weymouth Historical Society John J. Loud is a representative of the best type of citizenship to be found in New England life. As author, composer of music and patriotic hymns, local historian and public speaker, he is well and favorably known. His hymn "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" is probably his most famous contribution to patriotic literature.

Among Massachusetts men the Hon. Judge James H. Flint takes high rank. Graduating from Phillips Andover Academy in 1872, from Harvard College in 1876 and from Boston University Law School in 1881, Judge Flint immediately selected Weymouth for his future home. The author of "Flint on Trusts and Trustees" and the editor of "Lewin on Trusts" he has done much literary work in addition to his regular law practice. He represented the town in the General Court from 1894 to 1896; and was state senator from 1897 to 1899. In August, 1899, Governor Roger Wolcott appointed him Judge of Probate for Norfolk County. As a representative citizen the the town should be proud of her accomplished and distinguished Judge of Probate.

In "ye olden tymes" the town had its romance. A beautiful, charming young lady lived in the North Parish. She belonged to the most distinguished family in town. Her beauty and goodness had been sounded in the adjoining towns. A young Harvard graduate whose parents lived only a few miles away heard of her charms. Now and