MALCOLM REED10 HATHAWAY (Adiel9, John8, David7, Love6, Savory5, Simon4, Arthur3, John2, Arthur1) was born at Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, on 21 January 1905 a son of Adiel Harvey Hathaway and his wife Julia Reed,[1] and died at Lakeville, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 8 March 1976.[2] He married first at New Bedford, Bristol County, on 1 June 1929 HELEN MAXFIELD STEVENS.[3] She was born at New Bedford on 26 October 1904, a daughter of Dennis and Grace (Howland) Stevens.[4] She died at Wareham, Plymouth County, on 18 March 1989.[5] They divorced at New Bedford on 5 July 1940. He married second at Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, on 27 March 1947 DORIS (ADAMS) TURNER. She died about 1973; They had divorced before 1970. He married third at Mattapoisett, Plymouth County, CAROLINE LAIRD They divorced at Clarke County, Alabama, on 5 December 1972.[6] Helen (Stevens) Hathaway married second on 9 March 1945 JOSEPH WAREZERLONIS.[7] He was born on 10 June 1913 and died on June 1972.[8] Helen married third on 28 October 1972 JOSEPH HOBSON.[9] He was born on 20 February 1904, and died on April 1973.[10]
In 1987 Bradford Hathaway wrote for me this biography of his father:
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Malcolm was always known as "Mac" to his siblings and friends. He was not a scholar and left school before completing his elementary education. He used to say he "hung around the Fairhaven docks." He worked there off and on while living at the homestead on the east side of Sconticut Neck Road, Fairhaven, opposite Austria, Moravia and Buist Avenues. He was a hard worker all of his life, as well as an adventurer. During Prohibition, he was involved in rum running, a dangerous business that took him along the shores of Buzzards Bay where liquor changed hands in isolated spots. Many a story he told in later years of this adventuresome part of his life. In the 1930s, Malcolm went to work for the Mendell Electric Supply Company as a truck driver, and despite his lack of education, rose to the position of general manager of the New Bedford wholesale firm. By the late 1930s, his marriage was running into difficulty and during divorce proceedings in 1940, he was awarded custody of his two sons. These were unsettling times for me and for my brother, too. Our mother was ordered to turn us over to our father. For a while we lived with Uncle Phil and Aunt Irene. In the early 1940s, Malcolm built a home at 237 Sconticut Neck Road and he and his sons moved in to become an all-male household until his second marriage in 1947. He also built a barn on the land just north of the old homestead. He kept horses and raised other animals and poultry and called the place Shanty Ranch. Then he built a new home at 239 Sconticut Neck Road which was to be occupied by his second wife and her young son, Richard Turner, along with Malcolm and his two sons. Malcolm also had a hand in building a home at 241 Sconticut Neck Road, which was to be occupied by his brother Adiel and Adiel's second wife, Blanche, and another home at 235 Sconticut Neck Road, which was occupied by Adiel until the time of his death. The office job was a frustrating one for Malcolm, who loved the outdoors. He bought 6 acres in the mid-1940s along the Mattapoisett River on Wolf Island Road, Rochester [Plymouth County]. He turned the maple swamp into one of the finest small cranberry bogs in Eastern Massachusetts and called the place Wolf Island Bogs, specializing in the growing of cranberries and blueberries. He retired from his job at Mendell Electric to devote full time to his "farm" and raising hunting dogs. As a successful farmer and for health reasons, he began to spend winters in a warmer climate, particularly in Mexico. Each Fall he would drive to the Yucatan and return in the Spring. His manner of living was a difficult one for women to adjust to and both his second and third marriages ended in divorce. He was stricken in Mexico shortly after arriving there in the Fall of 1975 and Malcolm, Jr., flew down to drive him to Texas and medical facilities there where he was diagnosed as having bone cancer. Two months later he died at Island Terrace Nursing Home in Lakeville, Mass.
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The 1930 Census reported Malcolm and Helen, both 25, living on Sconticut Neck Road, Fairhaven. Mac was described as a "chauffeur, electrical." Helen was bookkeeper for the rayon mill.[12] The 1940 Census reported Malcolm, divorced, sales manager for wholssale electrical, living at 362 Pleasant Street, New Bedford.[13] I have not found Helen or the two sons in that census.
Bradford provided the following information to me in 1987, concerning Malcolm and Helen's two sons and grandchildren:[14]
- Bradford Hathaway. Bradford Hathaway graduated from Fairhaven High School (1949) and Boston University (BU)(1956). In between, he served two years in the U.S. Army after enlisting in 1951. He saw active duty with the 69th Field Artillery Battalion in Korea.
Upon completion of his education at BU's School of Public Relations and Communications, he joined the editorial staff of the New Bedford Standard-Times. He was a reporter and later was city editor for almost 10 years and then featured editor. Brad and Priscilla are members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and attend the Mattapoisett Friends Meeting.
A stamp collector since his teens, he has, in recent years, assembled one of the most extensive collections of whaling postal history in private hands in the United States. He has served on the Mattapoisett Conservation Commission and was chairman of the commission for several year, and is a founder of the Mattapoisett Land Trust, Inc., a private conservation group. Brad and Priscilla have lived in Mattapoisett since 1956.
Son David was educated at Old Rochester Regional High School, Mattapoisett, and does janitorial work at Thompson Consultants, Inc., Marion, [Plymouth County]. He lives at home [1987].
Jane graduated from Old Rochester Regional High School in 1976, and from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1980. She has been a graphic designer for computer companies in the Boston area and lives in Cambridge, [Middlesex County], Massachusetts. [1987]
Josh was educated at Old Rochester Regional High School and does janitorial work at the school. He lives at home. [1987]
- Malcolm Hathaway, Jr. "Mac" as he is known to family and friends, as was his father, graduated from Fairhaven High School (1950) and attended the Missouri School of Mines, Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1950 and served from 1951 to 1954 in Germany as a senior aircraft mechanic. He met Patricia while in the Air Force. She was a dental technician from 1952 to 1954 at Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois. Mac is a mechanical engineer for Ingersol-Rand. His work for that company has taken him all over the world. The family lived at Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, before moving to Merrimack, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, where they have lived since 1974 [1987].
Jon-Reed Hatrhaway graduated from Neville High School, Monroe (1974) and served in the U.S. Navy, about 1973 to 1981. He is a BMW parts manager at Waltham, Middlesex County. [1987]
Jacqueline graduated from Neville High School in 1974 and served in the U.S. Air force in Texas from 1975 to 1979.
Debra graduated from Merrimack High School, Merrimack, in 1979 and is a certified nurse's aid. [1987]. Malcolm and Elizabeth graduated from Merrimack High School in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and in 1987 were both in college.
Mac Hathaway and his first wife Helen Stevens had the following children:
1Massachusetts Archives, "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," digital images, American Ancestors (americanancestors.org : accessed 19 September 2017), vol. 550, p. 161, e. 3, Fairhaven Births, 1905, Malcolm R. Hathaway.
2Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 14 April 2017), Malcolm Hathawy, 026-07-8958. Letter from Bradford A. Hathaway, to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987; held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
3Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
4"Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910," v. 542, p. 323, e. 2184; Births New Bedford 1904; Helen M. Stevens.
5United States Social Security Administration, "Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 September 2019), Helen M Hathaway, 012073423.
6Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
7Letter from Eleanor Hathaway Pease Brunelle, to Charles A. Maxfield, 12 November 1985; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
8"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Joseph Warezerlonis, 026-07-3651.
9Letter, Eleanor Hathaway Pease Brunelle to Charles A. Maxfield, 12 November 1985.
10"U.S. Social Security Death Index", Joseph Hobson, 015-10-1171.
11Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
12Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 190, p. 7A, household 161, Malcolm Hathaway family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 August 2019); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
13Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts, enumeration district (ED) 20-94, roll 1700, p. 9B, household 274, Malcolm R. Hathaway; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 August 2019); NARA microfilm group T627.
14Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
15Ibid.
16Ibid.
17Letter from Eleanor Hathaway Pease Brunelle, to Charles A. Maxfield, 8 August 1997; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
18Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
19Letter, Eleanor Hathaway Pease Brunelle to Charles A. Maxfield, 12 November 1985.
20Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
21Ibid.
22Texas Department of State Health Services, "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," digital images of index, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 27 September 2019), Roll Number: 1981_0017 Michele Janea Scott
23Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," Roll Number: 1982_0018; Patrick Reed Scott.
24"Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," Roll Number: 1985_0018; Jon Eric Scott.
25"Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," Roll Number: 1988_0018; Emily Ann Scott.
26Letter, Bradford A. Hathaway to Charles A. Maxfield, 9 February 1987.
27Ibid.
28Ibid.
Brunelle, Eleanor Hathaway Pease. Letter. 12 November 1985, to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
________. Letter. 8 August 1997, to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Hathaway, Bradford A. Letter. 9 February 1987, to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts Archives. "Vital Records of Massachusetts, 1841-1910." Digital images. American Ancestors. americanancestors.org : 2017.
Texas. Department of State Health Services. "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997." Digital images of index. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2019.
United States Department of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2019.
________. Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2019.
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________. "U.S. Social Security Death Index." Database. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2017.