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Brown & Anthony, and for thirty years
they were engaged in the building of that
class of ocean-going vessels known as
square-riggers. After the dissolution of
the partnership, Mr. Anthony continued
the business alone. He owned much tim-
ber land and had a saw mill, by means of
which he cut and shipped lumber for both
English and American markets. Though
not a politician, he was elected by both
parties to membership in the Provincial
Parliament. Mr. Anthony married Alicia
Ann Maine, whose ancestral record is appended
to this biography, and their chil-
dren were : Robert Monson, mentioned
below; Edwin Stuart, member of the
Athens Shipbuilding Company of Coxsachie,
Nova Scotia ; Amanda, married
Frederick Faulkner, of Lower Selma ; Andrew
Maine, of Lower Selma ; Eliza, married
Lewis Aubrey, of Rawdon, Nova
Scotia; Levanard, of Hartford, Connecticut
; William, of Edmonton, New Bruns-
wick ; George, of Noel, Nova Scotia ; Bes-
sie Stanton, married O'Brien, of
Noel ; Silas, a clergyman of Brighton,
Massachusetts ; Frederick, of Selma ; and
Margaret, married Harry Densmore, of
Selma. The death of Mr. Anthony oc-
curred in 1915, and his widow did not long
survive him, passing away in 1916.
(V) Robert Monson Anthony, son of
Andrew and Alicia Ann (Maine) An-
thony, was born October 18, i860, in
Lower Selma, Hants county, Nova Scotia.
He learned the shipbuilding trade under
the guidance of his father. When but
twenty years of age, he possessed suffi-
cient foresight to become fully convinced
that wooden shipbuilding was fast de-
clining, and acting upon that conviction
he went to Boston, Massachusetts, to
learn the machinist's trade. A year
elapsed before he could find an opening,
but he was determined not to accept de-
feat and return home, and finally went to
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work in the ship-yard of a Nova Scotia
friend, at Athens, on the Hudson river.
After remaining there three years, Mr.
Anthony went home on a visit and helped
his father in the building of a vessel. He
then returned to his employer on the
Hudson river, with whom he remained
another three years.
In 1887 Mr. Anthony became a resi-
dent of Stamford, Connecticut, being sent
thither by the Gifford Manufacturing
Company to put up an ice elevating ma-
chine for John E. Knapp. He expected to
remain in Stamford three weeks, but has
resided continuously there for thirty-
three years. When the erection of the
ice elevating machine was completed, he
took charge of Knapp's mechanical de-
partment, and after retaining the position
a year became chief millwright and carpenter
for the Yale & Towne Manufac-
turing Company. For nine years he filled
this dual position, and then went into
business for himself as a member of the
firm of Banks & Anthony. At the end of
sixteen months the partnership was dis-
solved, Mr. Anthony retaining the busi-
ness which is the only one of its kind
in that part of the State. It includes the
moving of buildings and heavy machinery,
safes and all articles of that description.
Later Mr. Anthony added tar and gravel
roofiing and waterproofing. He employs,
on an average, from thirty to forty men.
So fully occupied is Mr. Anthony's time
that he has little leisure for outside in-
terests, though never neglecting the du-
ties of citizenship. His only fraternal af-
filiation is with Rippowam Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He and
his family are members of the Congrega-
tional church.
Mr. Anthony married Annabel Crowe,
daughter of James and Hettie (Alexan-
der) Crowe, and granddaughter of the
Rev. Thomas Crowe, who was born in