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663 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
pleting his course tliere took another at the
high school at Quincy. He entered the otfice
of his father's shoe factory at an early age and
worked there for many years. He was subsequently
promoted to a partnership and finally
became the head of tiie firm of Jenkins Lane &
Sons, which for many years was one of the
largest shoe companies in this section.
Mr. Lane during his early life took a prominent
part in town affairs and served in various
town offices. He was one of those who were instrumental
in building tiic Hanover Branch
railroad and served for many years as a member
of the board of directors. He was also interested
for a number of years in the coal and
grain business now carried on under the name
of the Albert Culver Company. For many
years he was president of the Abington National
Bank and of the Rockland Savings Bank.
He was for forty-three years a member of the
First Congregational Church of his town and
for thirty years was parish treasurer of the society.
He was a deacon for twenty-one years
and superintendent of the Sunday-school for
about the same length of time.
Mr. Lane died at Hanson, Mass., Jan. 9,
1905, aged seventy-eight years. The funeral
services took place the following Thursday afternoon
at the residence of his brother, Alonzo
Lane, on South Union street, Rockland, Mass.
The services were conducted by Rev. Edgar C.
Wheeler, and the body was taken to Abington
for interment in Mount Vernon cemetery.
There were many handsome floral tributes.
On Dec. 22, 1845, Mr. Lane married Sarah
Ann Poole, who was born in Rockland, daughter
of Micah H. and Sally (Hunt) Poole, and
died Jan. 7, 1897, at Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Zenas M. Lan?;, son of Jenkins and
Mehetabel Pratt (Jenkins) Lane, was born in
East Abington (now Rockland) Oct. 23, 1828.
He was educated in the public schools of the
town and at Andover Academy, and from an
early age was interested in the shoe manufacturing
business with his father and brothers,
in what is now the town of Rockland, where
the firm of Jenkins Lane & Sons were the leading
manufacturers. After the death of his
father he was similarly engaged in partnership
with his brother Richmond Jenkins Lane, under
the firm name of R. J. & Z. M. Lane, but
this continued for only a short time. Then he
became a partner with his brother Maj. Everett
Lane. In 1889 he withdrew from business and
has since led a retired life. Unassuming and
quiet, but genial and companionable, Mr. Lane
has made many friends of whose keenly appreciative. PHs modest disposition,
however, has not prevented him from being a
good
good will he is
citizen or from helping his fellowmen
upon occasion, but he has never gone into anything
of a public nature. He is a Republican
in politics.
On Jan. 15, 1851, Mr. Lane married Emeline
Morse, daughter of Moses Morse, of Pawtucket,
R. I. Mrs. Lane died in Rockland Jan. 13,
1904.
(VIII) Aloxzo Lane, son of Hon. Jenkins
and Mehetabel Pratt (Jenkins) Lane, was born
April 12, 1835, in Abington, Mass., and was
educated in the public schools of the town.
When a young man he went into the shoe business
with his father and brothers under the
firm name of Jenkins Lane & Sons. He was
also for many years engaged in the leather business
in Boston as a member of the firms of
Lane, Pierce & Co., and A. & E. Lane, but retired
from that end of the shoe business many
years ago, and with' his brother, Everett Lane,
engaged in the tannery business at Sand Bank,
Altmar, N. Y. The tanneries w-ere destroyed
by fire a number of years ago and after that
time Mr. Lane withdrew to retired life. He
always took a deep interest in his native town,
and, while he never held office, he was always
ready with a pleasant word of encouragement
and always ready to help the town in any way
in liis power. He erected the large residence
on South Union street which he occupied for
many years. It was for years one of the best
in Rockland.
Mr. Lane married (first) Sept. 19, 1856,
Maria, daughter of Judson Smith, and they had
one child, Myra, who makes her home with her
step-mother and uncles, in Rockland, Mass.
Mr. Lane's second marriage was to Helen E.
Stetson, daughter of the late Martin S. Stetson,
of Whitman, and they had one son, Jenkins
Lane, now of San Francisco, Cal. Mr.
Lane died suddenly Sept. 18, 1907, at Longmeadow,
Mass. The body was returned to
Rockland for interment in Mount Vernon cemetery,
and the funeral services held from the
home of his brother, Zenas M. Lane, on Union
street, the Sunday afternoon following his
death, the officiating minister being Rev. Fred
Hovey Allen, of New York City, former pastor
of the First Congregational Church at Rockland.
(VIII) Ma.t. Eveuett Lane, son of the late
Hon. Jenkins and Mehetabel Pratt (Jenkins)
Lane, was born June 27, 1836, in East Abington,
now Rockland, Mass. After being duly
educated he entered the boot and shoe manufacturing
establishment of his father, and early