He was superintendent or general manager of several cotton mills in New
England, 1882 to 1905, was President of Board of Trade, Taunton, 1903-4; was a
32nd degree Mason.
Basic information taken from the book "Genealogy of the Shumway Family in
the United States of America." Compiled by Asahel Adams Shumway. Volume 1.
Reprinted 1972 by Maple Press, George Shumway, Publisher, York, PA. Page
#291, Book identification #2.
BURIED: Mayflower Hill Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Masschusetts
Name: Shumway, Herbert Hartwell,
Shumway, Herbert Hartwell, cotton manufacturer, capitalist; born Palmer, Mass., March 23, 1857; son of
Harrison H. and Nancy (Wellman) Shumway; educated in Utica Commercial College; married, Taunton, Mass.,
Flora Frances Palmer; children: Herbert H., Alonzo Harrison, Walter Palmer. Superintendent Richard Borden
Manufacturing Co., five years; general manager B. B. & R. Knights' Cotton Mills, Providence, R.I., 1894;
in 1895 organized and built the Corr Manufacturing Co., Taunton, Mass.; was treasurer and agent until 1905
when retired; now president Atlas Buckram Co., Taunton, Mass. Republican; Congregationalist. Odd Fellow,
32 degree Mason. President Taunton Board of Trade three years; chairman Committee on New Industries.
Club: Bristol. Address: 10 Bow St., Taunton.
SOURCE: Builders of Our Nation: Men of 1913. Chicago, IL: Men of Nineteen-Thirteen, 1914. page 425
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