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Mr. Lincoln's Bridgewater Connections Jordan Fiore Bridgewater State College Bridgewater Review Volume 6 | Issue 1 Article 11 Sep-1988 Historical Commentary: Mr. Lincoln's Bridgewater Connections Jordan Fiore Bridgewater State College Jean Stonehouse Bridgewater State College, [email protected] Recommended Citation Fiore, Jordan and Stonehouse, Jean (1988). Historical Commentary: Mr. Lincoln's Bridgewater Connections. Bridgewater Review, 6(1), 21-24. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol6/iss1/11 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. HISTORICAL COMMENTARY n the second quarter of the own and was proficient nineteenth century, Bridge­ enough to become a surveyor Iwater was a small town in the town and then a teach­ slowly changing from a er at nineteen. rural farming communiry to In 1813 he went to Hing­ a rypical New England manu­ ham, where he taught school facturing town. Although for several years. The war growing slowly, Bridgewater of 1812 had begun, and was not isolated. With roots he witnessed the battle reaching back in Old Colony between the the Chesapeake history to a land grant that and the Shannon in Massa­ made it a plantation of the chusetts Bay. He also served town of Duxbury, the town as an officer in the local mi­ was firmly ronnected to the litia company organized to world around it. From the respond to any land attack by seventeenth to the nineteenth the British. Fortunately, the century, ships used the Taun­ unit was never called to active ton River to gain access to the dury. inland port of Taunton, and His students in Hingham from 1790 until the twentieth included many men who were century, New Englanders built destined to become important ships on the river in the Tit­ in the town and in the Com­ icut section of Bridgewater. monwealth. Here, too, he met Bridgewater people advocated and wooed Deborah Lincoln, the development of a highway a descendant of Samuel Lin­ connecting Boston and New coln. They were married in Bedford, and Bridgewater Hingham in 1815. became a half-way stop on the Artemas Hale's talent was highway. By 1846, the Old too great to be spent on the Colony Line and its Abington duties of a country schoolmas­ Branch connected Bridgewater ter, and at the end of the War to Boston, Plymouth and Fall of 1812, the Hales moved to River by rail. East Bridgewater where he By the 1840's when the entered the mercantile busi­ state normal school (later to ness. A few years later, in become Bridgewater State 1819, he became a clerk for College) was established there MR. LINCOLN'S Lazell Perkins & Co., the lead­ and the subjects of this paper ing iron manufacturers of the were establishing themselves area, and then moved to the as town leaders, Bridgewater's BRIDGEWATER firm of Carver, Wasburn & population was between two Co., one of the country's lead­ and three thousand, and it ing manufacturers of cotton could boast of several boot CONNECTIONS gins, where he became clerk and shoe factories, two air and and then agent and treasurer cupola furnaces which cast of the rapidly growing firm. over 400 tons of iron a year, by Jordan Fiore and Jean StonehOtIJ8 It was a propitious time to two forges, two nail manufac­ ..,..-------------r-------------.......,.. become involved in the manu- turers, a tack factory and two perhaps beyond. In 1846, he tionship with Lincoln - brief facture and sale of cotton gins. companies that manufactured was elected to Congress and as it was - as long as he lived. Thanks to the large number cotton gins. went to Washington the fol­ -1- of cotton manufacturing firms In the same decade Abra­ lowing year. Like Abraham Lincoln, that were established in Mas­ ham Lincoln was advancing In the fifteen years preced­ Artemas Hale came from a sachusetts from Lowell south in Illinois politics and the ing his election to the Ameri­ humble background. He was to Fall River and New Bed­ profession of the law. He was can Presidency, Lincoln's path born in Winchendon, a town ford in the first quarter of the a Whig leader in the Illinois would cross the paths of two in north central Massachusetts nineteenth century, a steady legislature and a politician of Bridgewater's successful near the New Hampshire supply of cotton was needed. whose views were listened to businessmen several times, border, on October 20, 1783. The gin, which merely separ­ in the whirl of Illinois politics. and the contacts affected all His father was a farmer who ated the seed from the cotton By the middle of the decade, three men. Both of the had served as a captain in the ball without damaging the Abraham Lincoln, then in his Bridgewater men, Artemas American Revolution. Hale cotton, allows for the use of middle 30's, was destined for Hale and Joshua Eddy Crane, attended the district school in short-fibred cotton in making service in the United States were locally well-respected, Winchendon, worked on the cotton thread for manufacture House of Representatives and and each treasured his rela- family farm, studied on his into cloth. Cotton-growing in 21 the South and cotton-manu­ three years. In addition, he cended from the same Samuel grandfather went from Rock­ facturing in the North was a moderator for town Lincoln of Hingham who was ingham county in Virginia, to and in Europe flourished. meetings for five years. He Abraham Lincoln's first Kentucky, about the year It was also a propitious also found time to serve in American ancestor. From the 1782; and, two years a/fer­ time to become actively the local fire department, and, study of consanguinity charts wards, was killed by the Indi­ involved in local social and when that agency was reor­ we know that Deborah ans. We have a vague tradi­ political affairs. In addition to ganized and obtained new Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln tion, that my great-grand­ his business career, Hale took equipment, Artemas Hale, were fourth cousins twice father went from Penn­ part in the social and political though sixty-one years of age removed. sylvania to Virginia; and that life of the town. He joined the at the time, was chosen chief Solomon Lincoln lived in he was a quaker. Further back First Church in Bridgewater, engmeer. Hingham, MassachusettS. A then this, I have never heard served on several church In his early years he had polished and urbane lawyer and anything. It may do no harm committees and was involved been a Federalist and later a civic leader, Lincoln was the to say that "Abraham" and in the expansion of the National Republican and a author of an excellent history "Mordecai" are common church and in the erection of names in our family; while a new church building in the name, "Levi" so common 1845. He was raised in the among the Lincolns of New Friendship Lodge of Masons England, I have not known in in Bridgewater, served in sev­ any instance among us. eral posts, and finally became Owing to my father being left Worshipful Master in 1823. an orphan at the age of six Always public spirited, he years, in poverty, and in a was an officer and trustee of new country, he became a the Bridgewater Academy, wholly uneducated man; which had been established in which I suppose is the reason 1799, and was its treasurer for why I know so little of our years. When the Common­ family history. I believe I can wealth proposed that state say nothing more that would normal schools should be at all interest you. Ifyou shall established, he served with be able to trace any connec­ the Rev. Charles Brooks, tion between yourself and me, former PresidentJohn Quincy or in fact, whether you shall Adams and Senator Daniel or not. I should be pleased to Webster on a committee to have a line from you at any ask that one of the schools be time. established in Plymouth Very Respectfully, County. He headed the com­ A. Lincoln mittee that raised funds for the school, and he argued suc­ Abraham Lincoln's letter ARTEMAS HALE cessfully that the school interested Solomon Lincoln should be established in supporter ofJohn Quincy of the town and a serious Lin­ very much, and he wrote on Bridgewater. He collected Adams. When the Whig coln genealogist. He wrote to March 12 raising several more funds from individuals and party was organized, he joined Artemas Hale on March 2, questions. The Congressman's towns and contributed a great it, and in 1844 he was sup­ 1948, asking Hale to ask letter shows that Solomon part of his own time and ported for United States Abraham Lincoln questions Lincoln had piqued Abraham pledged his own funds to Representative by his party's about his family background. Lincoln's genealogical curios­ insure the success of the caucus. In the election that Hale showed Lincoln the cor­ ity. Lincoln replied again and school. He was the school's followed, although he attained respondence and on March 6, in the next few months made best friend for forty years. a plurality, he could not gain the Illinois Congressman wrote a number of inquiries to peo­ His record in public service the required majority and no to Solomon Lincoln as follows: ple about his background. He was outstanding. One local one was elected. The follow­ wrote Solomon Lincoln on historian wrote that "his ster­ ing year he was elected. Dear Sir: Our letter to Mr. March 24, 1848 as follows: ling integrity and ability Although this estimate Hale, in which you do me the Washington, attracted the attention of his must be based on conjecrure, honor of making some kind March 24, 1848 townsmen, and he was called it is not difficult to determine inquiries concer,ning me, has to various offices of trust and why Hale was attracted to been handed me by Mr.
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