THOMAS  HENRY  KNOWLES 

lift.    THOMAS  HENRY  KNOWLES  (Thomas,  Thomas,  Seth,  Willard,  Col.  John,  John, 
Richard),  son  of  Thomas  (26l.)  and  Mary  Keith  (Eaton),  b  .  12  Sept. 
1837,  New  Bedford,  Mass.;  d.  2  Sept.  1909,  New  Bedford;  m.  (1st) 
lb  Oct.  1672,  New  Bedford,  MARY  ROWLAND  SWIFT,  b.  9  Mar.  18M+;  d.  3 
May  l88l ;  dau.  of  Franklin  Kibbe  and  Cornelia  (Howland)  Swift;  m.  (2nd) 

12  Sept.  1890,  Acushnet,  Mass.,  ANNIE  DEBLOIS  SWIFT,  b.  2  3  April  l8W, 
Acushnet,  Mass.;  d.  ik   April  1927,  New  Bedford;  dau.  of  Rhodolphus 
Nye  and  Sylvia  Hathaway  (Nye)  Swift. 

Educated  in  public  and  private  schools  of  New  Bedford,  Friends' 
Academy,  New  Bedford,  graduated  Harvard  College  l86l. 

Engaged  with  his  father  in  shipping  and  mercantile  business  until  the 
latter 's  death  in  1887.  Subsequently  principally  interested  in  cotton 
manufacturing.  Concerned  in  the  organization  of  t  he  City  Manufacturing 
Corp.,  and  the  Bristol  Mfg.  Corp.,  both  cotton  mills  of  New  Bedford. 
In  1895  was  president  of  both  corporations. 

Elected  to  the  common  council  1867  and  to  the  b  oard  of  aldermen  l88l. 
Was  trustee  of  the  public  library;  served  as  an  overseer  of  the  poor 
l889and  1890.  For  26  years  from  I08U  was  a  member  of  the  New  Bedford 
Protecting  Society  and  was  appointed  a  trustee  in  1907  of  the  Kempt on 
Fund.,  the  gift  of  Sarah  H.  Potter.  Long  period  member,  and  for  a  time, 
clerk  of  the  First  Congregational  (Unitarian)  Society  and  an  officer  of 
several  charitable  societies  and  associations,  including  St.  Luke's 
Hospital. 

Director  and  vice-president  of  the  Merchants  National  Bank  from 
1876,  trustee  of  the  Five  Cent  Savings  Bank,  director  of  the  Hathaway 

Mfg.  Co.,  the  Acushnet  Mills,  New  Bedford  Gas  &  Light  Co.  and  Bristol 

County  Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Co.  and  for  several  years  of  the  Mellin's 

Food  Co. 

A  man  who  held  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  b  usiness  associates  all 
of  whom  valued  his  prudent  counsel,  good  judgment  and  wise  forethought 

at  their  proper  worth. 


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HISTORY 


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ARNSTABLE  (?01INTY, 


MASSACHUSETTS. 


1637 


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Edited  "by 
SIMEON    L.    DEYO. 


Special  Contributors: 


Hon.  Charles  F.  Swift, 

Capt.  Thomas  Prince  Howes, 
Rev.  N.  H.  Chamberlain, 
E.  S.  Whittemore,  Esq., 
Josiah  Paine, 

Prof.  S.  A.  Holton, 
Charles  Dillingham, 


Prof.  John  H.  Dillingham, 
James  Gifford, 

George  N.  Munsell,  M.  D., 
Judge  James  H.  Hopkins, 
Joshua  H.  Paine, 
Rev.  Thomas  Bell, 
F.  A.  Rogers,  M.D. 


ILLUSTRATED 


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H.  W.  BLAKE  &  CO., 

1890. 


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(Knowles)  Knowles,  grandson  of  Seth,  and  great-grandson  <i| 
who  was  a  son  of  Colonel  Willard  Knowles,  who  bought   the 
where  Mr.  Knowles  now  lives  in  1742,  of  the  widow  of  Rev.  Hftfl 
Treat.     Mr.  Knowles  is  a  farmer.     He  married  Abbie,  (kinj'hU-jil 
Francis    Kragman.     Their   children    are:    Frank    I.,  JamcH  1 1  , 
E.  and  Abbie  M. 

Lewis  Lombard,  born  in  1819,  in  Wellfleet,  is  a  son  of  Cftli 
Abigail  (Higgins)  Lombard,  and  grandson  of  Oliver  Lonibml      || 
followed  the  sea  from  1830  until  1886,  fishing  and  coasting,  b(  I 
eral  years  master  of  vessels.     He  has  lived  in  Eastham  siim    ll|j 
He  married  Lucinda  C,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Dorcas  (CoMij| 
lins,  granddaughter  of  Michael  and  Elizabeth  (Atkins)  Collin):.,  f| 
great-granddaughter   of   Benjamin    Collins.     They   have   two  fm 
Oliver  C.  and  James  H. 

Oliver  Mayo8,  son  of  Timothy'  and  Lydia  (Doane)  Mayo  ( |a| 
James6,  Joseph4,  James3,  John2,  Rev.  John  Mayo'),  was  born    in  j 
He  followed  the  sea  for  twenty  years  prior  to  1847,  and  hn.'i  l»»$i 
farmer  since  that  time,  with  the  exception  of  ten  years,  during  B 
he  was  in  the  oyster  business  in   Boston.     He  married  RobajBj 
daughter  of  Joshua  Knowles.     She  died  leaving  two  children     I  i 
L.  and  George  O.,  who  has  one  daughter,  Sophia  C. 

Reuben  Nickerson,  born  in  Provincetown  in  1814,  is  a  sou  of  a 
ben  and  Keziah  (Young)  Nickerson,  and  grandson  of  Seth  I\'n  U.flffj 
who  was  a  native  of  Chatham,  removing  from  there  to  Provitn  .  h>wj| 
Mr.  Nickerson  has  been  a  farmer  and  salt  maker.     He  has  1»  ■  n  rl 
resentative  one  term,  senator  one  term,  selectman  several  yoCUBHI 
a  member  of  the  school  board  several  years.     He  married    Kli/alnfj 
daughter  of  Beriah  Doane.     She  died  leaving  two  children:     li.usj 
and  Alpheus,  who  died.     His  present  wife  is  Sarah,  sister  of  hit*  | 
wife.     They  have  had  two  children:  one  who  died  and  Herbert jBJ| 

Thomas  K.  Paine,  son  of  Elkanah  K.  and  Mehitable  P.  (  KuJSJ 
Paine,  grandson  of  Ebenezer,  and  great-grandson  of  Isaac  hunts,  Jl 
born  in  1833.     He  followed  the  sea  several  years,  was  sixteen    yip 
keeper  of  Billingsgate  lighthouse,  and  since  1884  has  been  ;i    liU'll 
occupying  the  homestead  of  his  father.     He  has  been  selcrinut^ 
Eastham  five  years.     He  married  Deborah  S.  daughter  of  Jo:,hi4iif| 
Deborah  (Sherman)  Paine.     They  have  two  children:    Edwin  ('.  M 
Ruth  E. 

Captain  Edward  Penniman. — In  the  upper  towns  of  tin-  <   > i »* ;  §f 
several  captains  whose  sea  life   has   been   spent   in  the  c;i|iiuf|| 
whales,  but  in  passing  along  down  the  towns  of  the  county   Vm 
that  Captain  Penniman,  of  Eastham,  is  the.  only  surviving  enpffl 
the  northern  part  of  the  Cape  who  has  attained  special  proinifl 
in  Arctic  whaling.     In  1842,  when  eleven  years  of  age,  he  fnsl  wejj 


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is  a  cook  on  board  a  schooner  bound  for  the  Grand  Banks,  and  on 

voyage  he  experienced  the  only  shipwreck  of  his  long  career. 

vessel  was  cast  away  on  the  back  of  the  Cape,  near  the  Three 

■jilt Ills,  but  the  crew  and  cargo  were  saved.     He  followed    fishing 

■Uilil  he  was  nineteen  years  old,  when  Thomas  Knowles,  of  New  Bed- 

Bl'il,  .1  former  resident  of  the  Cape,  and  one  who  knew  the  worth  of 

||t>  V'ting  man,  asked  him  if  he  would  go  whaling,  to  which  he  re- 

lli'il  that  he  would  when  he  was  twenty-one.     He  continued  fishing 

all  his  father  until  he  was  twenty,  and  soon  after,  in  1852,  shipped 

ftf  his  first  whaling  voyage  to  the  North  Pacific  in  the  bark  Isabella.  • 

■g  strength  and  merit  enabled  him  to  ship  as  boat  steerer  on  this 

t  voyage,  and  in  his  second,  in  1855,  he  took  the  position  of  second 

h  of  the  bark  Minerva,  in  which,  with  Captain  Swain,  he  went  on 

v  of  four  years  to  the  South  Pacific.     In  1860  he  took  command 

hark  Minerva,  and  in  this  third  whaling  voyage  went  again  to 

ilith  Pacific  for  sperm.     His  return  from  this  voyage,  during 

W.ir  of  the  rebellion,  was  fraught  with  dangers  from  rebel  priva- 

■I'ti      ( )ne  of  the  vessels   encountered  near  the  West  Indies,   and 

ffijih  he  was  dodging,  proved  to  be  commanded  by  a  friendly  cap- 

Hil  find  acquaintance  from  Provincetown,  who  was  as  watchful  of 

Hrel  privateers  as  he,  and  equally  suspicious  of  his  craft,  and  who  ran 

gftirow   risk  of  personal  injury    from  Captain    Penniman  and  his 

who  were  prepared  to  give  him  a  volley. 

Iptain  Penniman  sailed  in  the  same  vessel  upon  his  fourth  voy- 

iikI  his  wife  accompanied  him  to  the  Arctic.     The  war  was  vir- 

■nded,  and  he   certainly   feared   no  interruption  from  rebel 

bra  in  that  direction;  but  one  day  while  his  vessel  lay  in  a  field 

I  in  a  high  latitude,  the  captain  of  a  passing  French  ship,  flying 

American  flag,  asked  him  to  come  aboard,  and  gave  him  the  un- 

(jfltne  information  that  a  pirate  was  at  a  port  not  far  off,  where 

|1  vessels  were  in  flames  by  his  act.     The  whale  boats  were  out 

jhl,  and  the  captain  was  compelled  to  fire  a  cannon  before  be 

f|*t  ti  rail  them.     Anxiety  to  have  his  men  hear  the  report  and  re- 

Blo  the  vessel  induced  him  to  load  the  old  gun  too  heavily,  and 

HHiission  broke  the  glass  of  the  lights,  which  in  falling  so  c"ut 

•  i  ■-■  of  his  wife  and  son,  who  were  in  the  cabin  below,  that  they 

.is  though  they  had  themselves  been  the  target  of  the  shot. 

mis  came  in,  and  Captain  Penniman  made  all  sail  to  a  safe  an- 

i\  where  he  remained  a  month,  until  all  danger  was  over  from 

i  ivateers.     He  subsequently  learned  from  good  authority  that 

imy  was  the  Shenandoah,  and  that  his  vessel — the  Minerva — was 

'i  i.il  object  of  the  cruiser's  search.     He  also  learned  that  the 

■i  craft  had  passed  near  enough  to  have  discovered  him  had  not 

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In  1874  the  captain  made  his  fifth  voyage,  in  command  of  till   f 
from  New  Bedford,  making  a  short  voyage  to  the  South  Paolflj 
1876  he  went  to  the  coast  of  Patagonia  in  command  of  tin    /  , 
completing  a  long  and  successful  voyage.     His  last  and  sev< .-nil 
age,  on  which  he  started  in  1881,  was  in  the  Jacob  A.  Howlamlx  I 
Arctic  regions,  from  which  he  returned  in  1884,  leaving  his  VI  fj 
San  Francisco  and  returning  home  across  the  continent,  accdiiijut}] 
by  Mrs.  Penniman,  who  had  taken  three  long  voyages  with  Inn*   ! 
singular  fact  may  be  stated:  he  never  lost  a  vessel,  but  every  oflf. 
which  he  sailed  has  since  been  destroyed  or  condemned.     The  la 
was  burned  by  Captain  Semmes;  the  Minerva  was  lost  on  the  UGJH 
Africa;  the  Cicero  was  condemned;  the  Europa  was  wrecked  al  \\\ 
and  the  How  land  was  lost  on  Johnson's  island  in  the  Pacific. 

Of  the  ancestry  of  Captain  Penniman  little  is   known.     SfiilflH 
Penniman,  his  grandfather,  was  a  heavy  grocer  in  Boston  early  in  |j| 
century,  where  he  died  November  12,  1836.     He  had  three  chilqf 
Fannie,  Maria  and  Daniel — the  father  of  Captain  Penniman 
early  in  life  came  to  the  Cape,  where  he  died  in  1872.     He  nui 
Betsey  A.,  daughter  of  Samuel  Mayo,  of  Eastham,  and  had  nine  | 
dren:  Elvira,  born  November  10,  1829,  is  now  the  widow  of  Solj| 
Mayo,  of  Eastham;    Maria,   now  Mrs.  George  H.  Sanborn,  o 
Hampshire,  was  born  September  3,  1833,  and  first  married    Willi 
H.  Tendler.to  whom  two  children  were  born;  George  Penniintiftl 
Eastham,  born  September  IS,  1835;  James,  also  of  Eastham,  ijf 
January  24,  1837,  married  Caroline  Dill  and  has  three  daughters  $ 
one  son;  Daniel,  born  March  22,  1840,  lives  in  Maine,  and  has  iiv<<  1 
dren — two  sons  by  his  first  wife,  Phebe  Thompson,  and  one  soil 
two  daughters  by  his  second  wife,  Minnie  Johnson;  Silas,  bom  Jfli 
ary  31,  1842,  after  serving  through  the  war  settled  in   Maine,  wit 
he  married  and  has  one  son;  Charles,  born  January  6,  1S44,  wuh  M 
in  the  federal  army  during  the  rebellion  and  now  lives  at  Fi.ml.V 
N.  H.,  where  he  has  a  wife,  two  daughters  and  a  son;  Francis  W,,  wk 
January  6,  1846,  enlisted  in  the  civil  war,  passed  through  many  luiiii 
and  was  fatally  wounded  at  Kenesaw  Mountain,  and  died  at  t'llffl 
nooga,  July  8,  1864,  aged  eighteen  years. 

Captain  Edward  Penniman,  the  second  child  in  this  family  of  I  >;iitf 
was  born  at  Eastham,  August  16,  1831.  His  education  was  liniii 
to  the  common  schools  of  his  native  town,  but  in  the  forecast  h  | 
the  cabin  he  completed  the  education  which  has  since  enabled  Iniu.^ 
take  an  honorable  rank  among  the  most  successful  shipmaster.  o|  M 
Cape.  The  most  of  his  life  has  been  spent  upon  the  sea  and  lit 
greater  part  of  thirty-two  years  as  master  of  whale  ships  throffl 
those  experiences  already  alluded  to.  In  1868  he  engaged  in Inr  nn  I 
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