George Otis Jenkins, one of Whitman’s best known manufacturers and most progressive citizens, was born in Dorchester, Mass., Nov. 22, 1846, son of James and Susan (Holbrook) Jenkins, and a descendant of Edward Jenkins, of Scituate. Also includes a brief genealogy of the Bates Family of Hingham Massachusetts from which George’s wife, Abby Bates descended.
For perhaps fifty years there has lived in what is now Acushnet and figured largely in the industrial life of the locality a branch of the ancient and historic Cushman family of the Old Colony, in the immediate family of the late Emery Cushman, whose early life was passed in Duxbury; himself the founder of an enterprise here in which he was succeeded by his son and the latter by his sons, all of whom contributed through the manufacturing plant to the material progress and welfare of their locality.
It will be remembered that Robert Cushman was one of the most active and influential men in all of the preliminary movements of the Pilgrims in going to Leyden and thence to New England, he the ancestor of the Cushman family here in question, the marriage of whose son into the Howland family further identifies it with the “Mayflower” party.
There follows the history and genealogy of this Acushnet Cushman family in chronological order from this first American ancestor.
Ford, Horatio; banker; born, Cleveland, June 23, 1881; son of H. Clark and Ida M. Thorp Ford; educated, Cleveland public schools, Central High, Yale University, A. B., Western Reserve University, LL. B.; married Cleveland, May 7, 1908, Ella A. White; issue, three sons, H. Clark II, Andrew, Thomas Windsor; admitted to bar, 1906; cashier Garfield Savings bank, 1907-1909; see’y same institution, 1909-1913; director and sec’y Ford-McCaslin Co.; director and vice pres. Star Electric Co.; director and vice pres. New Amsterdam Co.; director and sec’y Bankers’ Realty Co.; sergeant, Troop A, O. N. G.; vice pres. American Institute of Banking, vice … Read more