Page 20 THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – Friday, February 14, 2020 JORDAN | FROM PAGE 6 midnight, and by daybreak a full fi refi ght ensued. Despite being outnumbered, they forced an enemy retreat. Brigadier General Garretson showed his faith in Company L by placing them in charge of the town of Ganco and then assigning them to protect the American and English Consulates at Arecibo. The Company displayed great courage and restraint as they protected the consulates from a riotous crowd of 500 machete-wielding locals in a town occupied by the Spanish Army. With bayonets fi xed, Company L stared down the crowd threatening the consulate until reinforcements arrived. With the signing of an armistice on August 12 and the Treaty of Paris on December 10, the war was over, and Arthur and Company L returned to Boston and received a hero’s welcome. While Arthur made it through the war unscathed, his marriage wasn’t so fortunate. The couple, who had settled with Arthur’s widowed mother on Davis Street, had welcomed a daughter to the family in 1899 but divorced in 1900. Arthur went to work on High Street in Boston for the Pevear Leather Company as a leather sorter inspecting and classifying according to the qualitative features, such as quality, color, size, thickness, softness and natural defects. He moved out of his mother’s house to an apartment on Tileston Street. It was while living on Tileston Street that Arthur was elected as one of the three common councilors from what was then Ward Five. He lived there for several years before moving to Alfred Street, and he eventually followed his employment to Lynn. Arthur married again in 1913 – Minnie L. Bowden (Fisher), a widow originally from Nashville, Tennessee. That same year he was elected as an offi cer in the Sixth Massachusetts Veterans Association. He would remain in the leather industry in Boston and Lynn and would eventually land with Monarch Leather in Chicago, Illinois. While working in Chicago, Arthur fell ill and died just three days after his forty-fi rst birthday. More needs to be learned about this Everett pioneer. Everett Arts Association begins second semester at Connolly Center P lease join us for the second session of the Everett Arts Association at the Connolly Center. Mayor Carlo DeMaria and the Council on Aging and the Arts Association have teamed up to off er art classes on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. beginning on February 18. You will be led by talented instructor Paul Ciaramitaro with help from other participants in the program. The second semester culminates in late spring with the annual arts show (date to be announced later). There is a nominal fee to join this class. For additional information please call Ann LoConte at 617-387-7797.
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