Berkshire County Biographies   AMANDA L. AIKENS 1833 - 1892   Editor and philanthropist, born in North Adams, Mass., 12th May, 1833. Her father's name was Asahel Richardson Barnes. Her education was received in Maplewood Institute, Pittsfield, Mass. After her marriage to Andrew Jackson Aikens she removed to Milwaukee, Wis. In November, 1887, Mrs. Aikens began to edit" Woman's World," a special department of "The Evening Wisconsin," of which her husband was one of the proprietors, published in Milwaukee . She was at one time president of the Board of Local Charities and Corrections, two years president of the Woman's Club of Milwaukee, two years chairman of the Art Committee, and has been vice-president of the Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls, and for ten years the chairman of its executive committee.  During the Civil War she was an indefatigable worker. It was she who made the public appeals and announcements through the press when the question of a National Soldiers’ Home was agitated. In the history of Milwaukee, published in 1881, there is a long account of her various labors for suffering humanity in that time of strife and bloodshed, the War for the Union. She traveled extensively in Europe, and her newspaper letters were really art criticisms of a high order. She was one of the most enthusiastic and successful of those who raised money in Wisconsin for the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, for the purpose of admitting women on equal terms with men. She helped largely in organizing the first Woman's Republican Club of Wisconsin, and was a State delegate to the National Conference of Charities when it met in Baltimore. In 1891 she read a paper before the State Conference of Charities in Madison, Wis. Mrs. Aikens had much to do with the introduction of cooking into the public schools of Milwaukee. She was long identified as an officer or director with the Art Science Class, a literary organization for the purpose of developing a taste in architecture, painting, sculpture, and science. One-hundred-fifty ladies belong to th1s class, and it has done more for the direct education of women in the arts and sciences than any other society in the State. Mrs. Aikens will long be remembered as a talented woman in the literary sense of the word, a loyal wife, a devoted mother, and a philanthropist of the truest and tenderer type. She died at her home in Milwaukee, 20th May, 1892. Few, if any, local interests concerned in the advancement of women but lost a thoughtful, efficient promoter at her death. (American Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)   SUSAN B. ANTHONY 1820 - 1906   ANTHONY, Miss Susan B., woman suffragist, born in South Adams, Mass., 15th February, 1820. If locality and religious heritage have any influence in determining fate, what might be predicted for Susan B. Anthony?  Born in Massachusetts, brought up in New York, of Quaker father and Baptist mother, she has by heritage a strongly marked individuality and native strength. In girlish years Susan belonged to Quaker meeting, with aspirations toward "high-seat" dignity, but this was modified by the severe treatment accorded to her father, who, having been publicly reprimanded twice, the first time for marrying a Baptist, the second for wearing a comfortable cloak with a large cape, was finally expelled from "meeting" because he allowed the use of one of his rooms for the instruction of a class in dancing, in order that the youth might not be subject to the temptations of a liquor-selling public house. Though Mr. Anthony was a cotton manufacturer and one of the wealthiest men in Washington county, N. Y., he desired that his daughters, as his sons, should be trained for some profession. Accordingly they were fitted, in the best of private schools, for teachers, the only vocation then thought of for girls, and at fifteen Susan found herself teaching a Quaker family school at one dollar a week and board. When the financial crash of 1837 caused his failure, they were not only teaching and supporting themselves, but were able to help their father in his efforts to retrieve his fortunes. With a natural aptitude for the work, conscientious and prompt in all her duties, Susan was soon pronounced a successful teacher, and to that profession she devoted fifteen years of her life. She was an active member of the New York State Teachers' Association and in their conventions made many effective pleas for higher wages and for the recognition of the principle of equal rights for women in all the honors and responsibilities of the association. The women teachers from Maine to Oregon owe Miss Anthony a debt of gratitude for the improved position they hold to-day. Miss Anthony has been from a child deeply interested in the subject of temperance. In 1847 she joined the Daughters of Temperance, and in 1852 organized the New York State Woman's Temperance Association, the first open temperance organization of women. Of this Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was president. As secretary Miss Anthony for several years gave her earnest efforts to the temperance cause, but she soon saw that woman was utterly powerless to change conditions without the ballot. Since she identified herself with the suffrage movement in 1852 she has left others to remedy individual wrongs, while she has been working for the weapon by which, as she believes, women will be able to do away with the producing causes. She says she has "no time to dip out vice with a teaspoon while the wrongly-adjusted forces of society are pouring it in by the bucketful." With all her family, Miss Anthony was a pronounced and active Abolitionist. During the war, with her life-long friend and co-worker, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other coadjutors, she rolled up nearly 4oo,ooo petitions to Congress for the abolition of slavery. Those petitions circulated in every northern and western State, served the double purpose of rousing the people to thought and furnishing the friends of the slave in Congress opportunities for speech. In Charles Sumner's letters to Miss Anthony we find the frequent appeals, "Send on the petitions; they furnish the only background for my demands." The most harrassing, though most satisfactory, enterprise Miss Anthony ever undertook was the publication for three years of a weekly paper, "The Revolution." This formed an epoch in the woman's rights movement and roused widespread thought on the question. Ably edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury, with the finest intellects in the Nation among its contributors, dealing pungently with passing events, and rising immediately to a recognized position among the papers of the Nation, there was no reason why there should not have been a financial success, save that Miss Anthony's duties kept her almost entirely from the lecture field, and those who were on the platform, in the pulpit and in all the lucrative positions which this work was opening to women, could not and did not feel that the cause was their own. After three years of toil and worry a debt of $10,000 had accumulated. "The Revolution" was transferred to other hands but did not long survive. Miss Anthony set bravely about the task of earning money to pay the debt, every cent of which was duly paid from the earnings of her lectures. Miss Anthony has always been in great demand on the platform and has lectured in almost every city and hamlet in the North. She has made constitutional arguments before congressional committees and spoken impromptu to assemblies in all sorts of places. Whether it be a good word in introducing a speaker, the short speech to awaken a convention, the closing appeal to set people to work, the full hour address of argument or the helpful talk at suffrage meetings, she always says the right thing and never wearies her audience.  There is no hurry, no superfluity in her discourse, no sentiment, no poetry, save that of self-forgetfulness in devotion to the noblest principles that can actuate human motive.  A fine sense of humor pervades her arguments and by the reductio ad absurdum she disarms and wins her opponent. The most dramatic event of Miss Anthony's life was her arrest and trial for voting at the presidential election of 1872. Owing to the mistaken kindness of her counsel, who was unwilling that she should be imprisoned, she gave bonds, which prevented her taking her case to the Supreme Court, a fact she always regretted. When asked by the judge, "You voted as a woman, did you not?" she replied, "No, sir, I voted as a citizen of the United States ." The date and place of trial being set, Miss Anthony thoroughly canvassed her county so as to make sure that all of the jurors were instructed in a citizen's rights. Change of venue was ordered to another county, setting the date three weeks ahead. In twenty-four hours Miss Anthony had her plans made, dates set, and posters sent out for a series of meetings in that county. After the argument had been presented to the jury, the judge took the case out of their hands, saying it was a question of law and not of fact, and pronounced Miss Anthony guilty, fining her $100 and costs. She said to the judge, "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, and I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim," and she glories in never having done so. The inspectors, who received the ballots from herself and friends, were fined and imprisoned, but were pardoned by President Grant. Miss Anthony has had from the beginning the kindly sympathy and co-operation of her entire family, and especially of her youngest sister. Miss Mary S. Anthony, who has freed her from domestic responsibilities. A wonderful memory which carries the legislative history of each State, the formation and progress of political parties, the parts played by prominent men in our National life, and whatever has been done the world over to ameliorate conditions for women, makes Miss Anthony a genial and instructive companion, while her unfailing sympathy makes her as good a listener as talker. The change in public sentiment towards woman suffrage is well indicated by the change in the popular estimate of Miss Anthony. Where once it was the fashion of the press to ridicule and jeer, it is now the best reporters who are sent to interview her. Society, too, throws open its doors, and into many distinguished gatherings she carries a refreshing breath of sincerity and earnestness. Her seventieth birthday, celebrated by the National Woman Suffrage Association, of which she was vice-president-at-large from its formation in 1869 until its convention in 1892, when she was elected president, was the occasion of a spontaneous outburst of gratitude which is, without any doubt, unparalleled in the history of any living individual. Miss Anthony is truly one of the most heroic figures in American history.   American Women, Fifteen Hundred Biographies, Vol 1, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow.)   James Madison Barker (1839 - 1900+) James Madison Barker, son of John V. and Sarah (Althorp) Barker, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., October 23, 1839, and graduated at Williams in 1860. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar, January 13, 1863. He practiced in Pittsfield, associated at different times with Charles N. Emerson and Thomas P. Pingree until 1882, when he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court. In 1891 he was promoted to the Supreme Judicial Court, and is still on the bench. He was a Representative in 1872-3, and in 1881 a Commissioner for the revision of the statutes. He married in Bath, N. Y., September 21, 1864, Helena, daughter of Levi Carter and Pamelia Nelson (Woods) Whiting. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]     Barnabas BIDWELL (1763 -1833) BIDWELL, Barnabas, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Tyringham (now Monterey), Mass., August 23, 1763; was graduated from Yale College in 1785; studied law at Brown University, Providence, R.I.; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in Stockbridge, Mass.; served in the State senate 1801-1804; member of the State house of representatives 1805-1807; elected as a Republican to the Ninth and Tenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1805, until his resignation on July 13, 1807; attorney general of Massachusetts from June 15, 1807, to August 30, 1810; moved to Canada about 1815 and settled near Kingston; became interested in political affairs and engaged in the practice of law; died in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July 27, 1833; interment in Cataraqui Cemetery, Cataraqui, Ontario ©Submitted by A. Newell   JUSTIN DEWEY (1836 - 1900+) Justin Dewey, son of Justin and Melinda (Kelsey) Dewey, was born in Alford, Mass., June 12, 1836, and graduated at Williams in 1858. He studied law in the office of Increase Sumner of Great Barrington and was admitted to the Berkshire bar in November, 1860. He was a Representative in 1862 and 1877, and a Senator in 1879. In 1886 he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court and is now on the bench. He married, February 8, 1865, Jane, daughter of George and Clara (Wadhams) Stanley, of Great Barrington. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]   JAMES R. DUNBAR (1847 - 1900+) James Robert Dunbar, son of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Richards) Dunbar, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., December 23, 1847, and graduated at Williams in 1871. He studied law at Harvard and in the office of Milton B. Whitney in Westfield, with whom he formed a partnership in 1874. He was in the Senate in 1885-86 and in 1888 he was appointed Judge of the Superior Court. He resigned his seat in 1898, and is now in practice in Boston. He married. May 15, 1875, at Westfield, Harriet P. daughter of George A. and Electa N. (Lincoln) Walton. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] Seraph FRISSELL (1840 -1897+) FRISSELL, Miss Seraph, physician, born in Peru, Mass., 20th August, 1840. She is a daughter of Augustus C. and Laura Mack Emmons Frissell. Her father and grandfather were captains of the State militia. Her great-grandfather, William Frissell, was a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary War and a pioneer settler in western Massachusetts. Her mother's father, Major Ichabod Emmons, was a relative of Dr. Nathaniel Emmons, and was one of the first settlers of Hinsdale, Mass. Her grandfather, Col. David Mack, was the second white mar to make a clearing in the town of Middlefield, Mass., then a wilderness. The first eleven years of her life were spent within sight of Saddleback Mountain, the highest point of land in the State. As a child she was quiet and diffident, not mingling freely with her schoolmates, and with a deep reverence for religious things. After her father's death, which occurred when she was eleven years of age, the problem which confronted her mother was to gain a livelihood for herself and six children, Seraph being the third. Her twelfth year was spent with an aunt in western New York, during which time she decided she would rather earn her own living, if possible, than be dependent on relatives. Returning home, the next year and a half was devoted to school life and helping a neighbor in household work, thereby earning necessary clothing. When she was fifteen, her oldest sister decided to seek employment in a woolen mill, and Seraph accompanied her. The next six years were divided between a factory girl's life and school life. During those years she earned her living and, besides contributing a certain amount for benevolent and missionary purposes, saved enough for one year's expenses 1n Mt. Holyoke Seminary. The "week she made her application for admittance, the proposition was made to her to take up the study of medicine, but the goal towards which her eyes had been directed, even in childhood, and for which she had worked all those years, was within reach, and she was not to be dissuaded from carrying out her long cherished plan of obtaining an education. Hence she was found, in the fall of 1861, commencing her student life in that "Modern School of Prophets for Women," remaining one year. Then followed one year of teaching, and a second year in the seminary. After four years more of teaching, in the fall of 1868 she resumed her studies and was graduated in July, 1869. The following three years were spent in teaching, during which time the question of taking up the study of medicine was often considered. It was in the fall of 1872 she left home to take her first course in the medical department of the University of Michigan. She received her medical diploma 24th March, 1875. The same spring found her attending clinics in New York City. In June, 1875, she went to Boston for hospital and dispensary work, remaining one year. In September, 1876, she opened her office in Pittsfield, Mass., where for eight years she did pioneer work as a woman physician, gaining a good practice. In 1884 she removed to Springfield, Mass., where she now resides. During the school years of 1890 and 1891 she was the physician in Mt. Holyoke College, keeping her office practice in Springfield. She was the first woman admitted to the Hampden Medical Society, which was in 1885, the law to admit women having been passed in 1884. A part of her professional success she attributes to not prescribing alcoholic stimulants. Dr. Frissell has held the office of president, secretary and treasurer of the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and is now county superintendent of the department of heredity and health. For years she has been identified with home and foreign missions, seven years having served as president of auxiliary to the Woman's Board of Missions. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) Dora GOODALE (1866 -1897+) GOODALE, Miss Dora Read, poet, born in Mount Washington, Berkshire county, Mass., 29th October, 1866. Her life and literary career have been intimately associated with those of her older sister, Elaine Goodale, now Mrs. Charles A. Eastman. The story of the childhood and remarkable literary achievements of Dora is similar to the story of Elaine's early life. At the age of six years Dora composed verses that are simply remarkable, in certain qualities of rhythm and insight, for so youthful an author. She was an earnest student, and she enthusiastically cooperated with her sister in publishing a monthly paper for the entertainment of the family. In conjunction with her sister she published "Apple Blossoms: Verses of Two Children," selected from their earliest work, (New York, 1878); "In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers" (1879), and "Verses from Sky Farm," an enlarged edition of the preceding volume (1880). Dora's verses are no less praiseworthy than those of her sister, and the achievements of these two remarkable girls, when the older was fifteen and the younger twelve years of age, set the critics of the world to work, and stirred them as critics had not been stirred by the work of virtual children since the time of Chatterton. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) Mary H. GOODRICH (1814 -1897+) GOODRICH, Mrs. Mary Hopkins, originator of village improvement associations, born in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1814. Her maiden name was Hopkins. She inherited the same intellectual qualities which marked her cousin, President Mark Hopkins, of Williamstown, with others of the name hardly less distinguished. She was born with a love of nature and a humanitarian spirit. She was left an orphan when barely two years old, and was brought up by older sisters. From the planting of a tree, when she was five years old, dates practically the beginning of the Village Improvement Association which has made of Stockbridge, Mass., the most perfectly kept village in the United States. After an absence of many years in the South, she returned to find the village cemetery in a neglected state, and she resolved to attempt to remedy that and other unnecessary evils, and, as far as possible, by the aid of children. To interest them she had a tree planted for every child in town, to care for themselves, and that secured their interest in what was projected and begun for the rest of the village.  A wretched street known as Poverty Lane, where some of them were then living, was thus gradually transformed into one of the prettiest streets in the village. A constitution was adopted on 5th September, 1853, and amended and enlarged in scope in 1878. Miss Hopkins became the wife of Hon. T. Z. Goodrich, whose interest in the work had been hardly less than her own, and who till his death never lost it. Mrs. Goodrich is not only the mother of every village improvement society in the United States, but the unwearying helper of every one who seeks to kindle this love in children, or to rouse interest in their elders. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) Cynthia GORTON (1826 -1897+) GORTON, Mrs. Cynthia M. R., poet and author, born in Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Mass., 27th February, 1826. Her father, Samuel Roberts, died when she was but one year old. At fourteen years of age she was left an orphan, and soon after began the supreme struggle of her life, to relieve the darkness that subsequently folded its sable wings about her. When her sight began to fail she was a pupil in Mrs. Willard's Seminary, Troy, N. Y., where she lived with her widowed mother. Not until the death of her mother, and she began to realize the stern fact that she was alone in the world, did she yield herself to that grief which, combined with arduous application to study, produced severe inflammation in her eyes, aggravated by shedding tears. She was thereafter unable to resume her studies, her fondest hope, and the anxious desire of her sympathizing friend and teacher, Mrs. Willard. At twenty-one years of age Miss Roberts became the wife of Fred Gorton, a prosperous paper manufacturer. Six years after, during a most painful and lingering illness, the pall of darkness encompassed her, and she was blind. With the return of physical strength the natural powers of her mind became active and prolific. One of her first efforts was the successful rehearsal of an original poem, entitled "Adolphus and Olivia, or a Tale of Kansas." That she performed with great acceptance to her audience. Her oratorical powers were unusual, and her remarkable memory enabled her to recite for one-and-a-half hours a poem of historical and tragic interest. For the last twenty years Mrs. Gorton has lectured many times before large and enthusiastic audiences. She has written many serials, stories and poems for the Detroit 'Christian Herald" and other papers and periodicals. For the last fifteen years she has proved herself an expert with the type-writer.  Being a member of the Shut-in Band, this accomplishment has enabled her to extend her efforts in blessing the lives of others, by sending loving words and sympathy to many lonely hearts. Her home is in Fenton, Mich. During her long literary career she has become widely known as "Ida Glenwood," this being her chosen pen-name. She has also been called "The Sweet Singer" and "The Blind Bard of Michigan." (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) Elizabeth GREENWOOD (1849 -1897+) GREENWOOD, Miss Elizabeth W., temperance reformer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1849. Her father was a lawyer. She was converted at the age of fourteen and turned from a fashionable life to her books and to philanthropic work. She was educated in Brooklyn Heights Seminary and was graduated in 1869. She took a postgraduate course and spent some time as a teacher in that school, giving instruction in the higher branches and weekly lectures to the junior and senior classes. When the Woman's Temperance Crusade opened, she enlisted at once. Her peculiar talents fitted her for good work for temperance, and she has been conspicuous in the white-ribbon movement throughout the State and the nation When scientific temperance instruction in the New York schools was being provided for, Miss Greenwood did important work with the legislature, as State superintendent of that department. She served as 'national superintendent of juvenile work. She has for years served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on the Hill in Brooklyn, as superintendent of its juvenile work, and as lecturer and evangelist. She spends her summers in the Berkshire Hills, Mass., where she preaches on Sundays to large audiences. In 1888 she was made superintendent of the evangelistic department of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1889 she visited Europe, and there she continued her reform efforts. (Source: American Women by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol. 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow) BERTRAM B. HASKINS   HASKINS, Bertram B., insurance and surety bonds; Born at North Adams, Mass.,  July 6, 1871; son of Frank J. and Mattie A. (Bottomley) Haskins; educated in public schools; married at North Adams, Sept. 21, 1892, Eva R. Barnett. Began active career as clerk in insurance office at North Adams, 1889, continuing until 1891; entered insurance business for himself at North Adams, 1891; came to Detroit, 1901, as state agent for the Maryland Casualty Co., and also hold state agency for the Title Guarantee and Surety Co.,; president and manager The Haskins Agency Company. incorporated, Jan., 1906. Member Detroit Board of Commerce. Independent in politics. Protestant in religious views. Club: Detroit Motor Boat. Recreation: Motor boating. Office: 921 Hammond Bldg. Residence: 156 Blaine Av.   [The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright 1908 - Submitted by Christine Walters] Jane L. D. SMITH (1847 - 1906+) SMITH, Jane Luella Dowd; educator and author, was born in Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass., June 16, 1847. She comes of Puritan ancestry, her forefathers having settled in New England about 1630, the family of her father being descended from the Dudley’s of Old England and the Fields of New England. On both sides were found officers and privates in the revolutionary army. Her patents were successful educators in New England, and her sister, Alice M. Dowd, is a teacher and writer of note. Luella early showed intellectual ability, accomplishing easily at six years of age studies usually pursued by children of twice her years. She was carefully educated in the select schools of her parents and the high and normal schools at Westfield, and entering the Ladies' Seminary at North Granville, N. Y., under the management of her cousin, C. F. Dowd, Ph.D., was graduated valedictorian of her class in 1868. Following the calling of her relatives, Miss Dowd engaged in educational work and achieved noteworthy success. In 1872 she became principal of the academy at South Egremont, Mass., where she remained until 1876 and she also held the same position in the high schools of Southampton 1868, and Sheffield 1877-1879 in Massachusetts, and in Stamford, Conn., 1884. In 1875 Miss Dowd married Henry Hadley Smith, a physician, who subsequently became noted in his profession. They resided in Sheffield, Mass.. until 1884, and after a year abroad, settled in Hudson, N. Y., where she became known as an earnest advocate of total abstinence and prohibition, to which work much of her time has been given of late years. Throughout a busy life, Mrs. Smith wrote, as she had opportunity, short stories, sketches and verses for the papers and magazines, generally under her familiar signature. "Luella D. Smith." Her essays are strong, and have always been well received when read in public. Her poems are melodious and pleasing, her stories interesting and helpful. All her writings reveal conscientious endeavor to make the world brighter and better. She published "Wayside Leaves" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879), a collection of poems and essays that received general commendation by the press, and "Wind Flowers" (Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1887), a collection of original poems and poetical translations from the German, which at once gave its author an undoubted place among the poets of the new world, proving her to he endowed with gifts of imagination and poetic invention of a very high order. Her later poems and translations, including some of her best work, have not yet been put into book form. [Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 2; Publ. 1906, by James T. White, George Derby; Pgs. 140-193; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.] Thomas W. Payne (1876 -19+) PAYNE, Thomas William, lawyer; born, Lee, Mass.,  Sept. 10, 1876; son of Michael and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Payne; educated in public school, high school and academy at Lee, graduating from the later, 1895; studied law under Lyman B. Trumbull, Jackson, Mich., and received degree of LL.B., from Detroit College of Law, 1905; married at Jackson, Mich., May 7, 1898, Grace M. Smith. Began active career as special newspaper correspondent, Lee, Mass.; came to Michigan, 1895; was member Michigan National Guard and served in Co. D, 31st Regiment, at time of Spanish-American War, acting also as correspondent; returned to Jackson, Mich., 1899, and engaged in telephone business; removed to Detroit in interest of Bell Telephone Co., 1902; has practiced law since 1905, as member of firm of Payne & Pokorny. President Panhandle Electric Railway and Power Co., Spokane, Wash. Roman Catholic. Member B.P.O.E. and Knights of Columbus. Recreations: Hunting and fishing. Office: 418 Moffat Bldg. Residence: 150 Calumet Av. [The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis Copyright 1908 - Submitted by Andrea Strawski Pack] ANDREW J. WATERMAN (1825 - 1900+) Andrew J. Waterman, son of William and Sarah (Bucklin) Waterman, was born in North Adams, Mass., June 23, 1825, and after studying law in the offices of Keyes Danforth and Daniel N. Dewey, in Williamstown, was admitted to the Berkshire bar, March 18, 1854. In 1855, he was appointed Register of Probate, and in 1858, was chosen Register of Probate and Insolvency, serving until 1880, when he was appointed District Attorney to fill a vacancy. He was afterwards annually chosen to the latter office until his resignation in 1887, when he was chosen Attorney General, and served three years. He married Ellen Douglas, daughter of Henry H. and Nancy (Comstock) Cooke, at East Boston, January 7, 1858. [Source: History of the Judiciary of Massachusetts: By William Thomas Davis; Publ. 1900; Transcribe for Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.] Biography Index Berkshire County © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.