Royal Gilkey wood and coal office.
Item Information
- Title:
- Royal Gilkey wood and coal office.
- Description:
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Corner of Patten and Arsenal Streets, circa 1890. Wagons filled with lumber. Large wood piles surround the building. Royal Gilkey was born in Islesboro, Me. and later retired to Islesboro in 1893. He began a seafaring life in earnest, going to the West Indies, and during the hot season coasting along the shores of New England. When only nineteen he was placed in command of a vessel, named for him, the "Royal Welcome. On December 21, 1841, Mr. Gilkey was married to Hannah N. Young, of Belfast, Me. They had have had four children. He followed the sea, making his home at Searsport, up to 1844, and in that year came to Watertown, and formed a partnership in the lumber business with Sylvester Priest. The partnership with Mr. Priest continued until 1851; and afterward Mr. Gilkey was alone until 1855, when he took another partner, and the firm became Royal Gilkey & Co., continuing under that name until 1865. Gilkey filed for bankruptcy in 1874. Thenceforward until 1878 Mr. Gilkey was alone. In that year was founded the firm of Gilkey & Stone. He has also served as Assessor, has been a director in the Union Market National Bank for several years. He was a member of the Board of Selectmen in 1848, 1853, and 1854. He is a member of the Baptist Social Union of Boston, and has been on the Bethel Board as auditor and clerk of the church several years.
- Date:
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1890
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Watertown Free Public Library
- Collection (local):
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Watertown Businesses
- Subjects:
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Small business--United States
Entrepreneurship
Business
Commerce
Business enterprises--Massachusetts--Watertown
Commercial buildings--Watertown (Mass.)
Gilkey, Royal--1821-1906
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Watertown
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- Identifier:
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figure 156
