Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Hurd, Julius C. 
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

JULIUS C. HURD, ESQ.

   JULIUS C. HURD, for twenty years one of the active business men of the town,
came to Medway Village about 1836, and soon after formed a copartnership with
Mr. Alfred Daniels, and began the manufacture of batting at the lower mill of
the Village, afterward Eaton & Wilson, and buying and selling cotton waste. The
business grew and prospered in their hands and their firm became the leading one
in the Village. Mr. Hurd built the large house at the west end of the Village
now occupied by Mr. M. E. Thompson, where he resided until he left the town. He
and his partner became interested in the old Medway Branch Railroad, and
furnished the larger part of the funds for its construction. Mr. Hurd also
became one of the directors of the Norfolk County Railroad. This connection with
the railroad was unfortunate and the affairs of the firm at length became so
involved that in 1857 a suspension was the result. Mr. Hurd was a man of
untiring energy and activity, and excellent business ability, a man of positive
opinions, yet public spirited and liberal. During his active life when business
success had given him a competence he retained a love for his early agricultural
pursuits and the variety of fruits and flowers in his grounds showed the
fondness of the owner for horticulture and kindred pursuits. He left Medway in
1858, and after a short residence in Dorchester, he returned to his early home
in Bristol, Conn., where he has since resided. He was married in 1837, to
Rebecca A. Robinson, of Smithfield, R. I.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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