Horatio Matchett
(Cir 1811-)
Clarissa Clifford Gilman
(Cir 1814-)

Charles Horatio Matchett
(1843-1919)

 

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1. Georgianna Ada Straw

Charles Horatio Matchett

  • Born: 15 May 1843, Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
  • Marriage (1): Georgianna Ada Straw on 15 May 1871 in Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  • Died: 23 Oct 1919, Allston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts at age 76
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IGI on www.familysearch.com - s/o Horatio and Clarissa C. B. [Gilman] Matchett

WIKIPEDIA
Machett was born May 15, 1843, hailing originally from the Brighton-Allston area of Massachusetts . He was the descendant of New Englanders dating their presence in America to the 1630s.
At the age of 16, Matchett went to sea and circumnavigated Cape Horn aboard a windjammer . He worked at various times in his earlier years as a United States Navy sailor, a clerk, carpenter, and beer bottler.
In the middle 1880s, Matchett moved to Brooklyn, New York , where he worked as an electrician.
Political career
Matchett served as a charter member of the Brooklyn Nationalist Club and was active in the campaign to elect Henry George as Mayor of New York .
In 1890, Matchett was the organizer of American Branch No. 1 of Section New York of the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP). Matchett was influential in bringing many of the New York Nationalists into the ranks of the party.
In 1892, Machett ran on a ticket headed by Massachusetts camera manufacturer Simon Wing as the Vice Presidential nominee of the SLP. It was the first time that the party ran a national ticket. Wing and Machett appeared on the ballot in six states and received a total of 21,512 votes. Of this total, New York City alone provided 6,100 votes. The platform of the party in 1892 committed to abolishing the offices of President and Vice President as soon as they came to power. According to one historian of the election, most of the SLP ticket's support in 1892 came not from labor, but from the "Bellamyites ," middle-class intellectuals and reformers.
In the New York election of 1894 , Matchett ran for Governor on the Socialist Labor Party ticket.
In 1896, Matchett headed the Socialist Labor Party ticket as its candidate for President of the United States. About one half of the 36,359 votes received by Matchett and his running mate Matthew Maguire of New Jersey, came from New York state. When Matchett ran in 1896 he was the foreman for the telephone company in New York making $18 per week. The SLP's platform in 1896 called for government assumption of all means of production and distribution.
Matchett left the Socialist Labor Party during the organization's bitter 1899 split and joined the organization headed by Henry Slobodin and Morris Hillquit which merged with the Chicago-based Social Democratic Party of America in the summer of 1901 to form the Socialist Party of America (SPA).
In 1903 , Matchett ran for the New York Court of Appeals on the ticket of the SPA, receiving 33,339 votes. He was also a candidate for New York State Assembly and New York City Council at various times.
Death and legacy
Charles Matchett died October 23, 1919 in Allston, Massachusetts after a long illness. He was 76 years old at the time of his death.

Tags Socialist - Pro-Labor - Info MATCHETT, Charles Horatio - labor leader and Socialist Labor Party activist.
Born 5/15/1843 in Needham MA; son of Horatio & Clarissa C. (Batchelder) Matchett.
Boston (MA) High School.
US Navy 1861-1862
Worked in a mercantile business in Chicago IL and in a grocery store in Boston MA.
Inventor, shoe factory worker; carpenter
Relocated to Brooklyn NY; electrician, New York and New Jersey Telephone Company 1886-1919
Candidate for US Vice President (SLP) 1892 on the party's first national ticket
Candidate for delegate to the state constitutional convention (SLP) 1893 - NYT 11/5/1893
Candidate for Governor (SL-NY) 1894
Candidate for Mayor of Brooklyn (SLP) 1895 - NYT 10/29/1895
Candidate for US President (SLP) 1896
Candidate for NYC Council (SLP) 1897
Candidate for Presidential Elector (Social Democratic - NY) 1900 - ran on the Debs ticket rather than the SLP ticket - NYT 11/4/1900
Candidate for associate justice, NY Court of Appeals (Social Democratic Party) 1903 - NYT 10/9/1903; received 12,339 votes in a race with Daniel DeLeon listed as the SLP nominee (4,025); winner was Denis O'Brien (endorsed by Dems and Reps, receiving 296,352 votes) - NYT 12/2/1903
Candidate for chief justice, NY Court of Appeals (Socialist) 1904
Candidate for US House (Socialist-NY) 1910, 1914
Candidate for NYC Alderman (Socialist) 1913 - NYT 12/27/1913
After his retirement in 1919, he moved to 12 Gardner Street, Allston Ma, where he died later that year on 10/23/1919.

Politicalgraveyard.com
Charles Horatio Matchett (1843-1919) '97 also known as Charles H. Matchett '97 of Brooklyn, Kings County , N.Y. Born in Needham (part now in Wellesley), Norfolk County , Mass., May 15, 1843 . Socialist. Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War; inventor ; carpenter; electrician ; Socialist Labor candidate for Vice President of the United States , 1892; Socialist Labor candidate for mayor of Brooklyn, N.Y. , 1895; Socialist Labor candidate for President of the United States , 1896; Social Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1900 ; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York , 1910 (7th District), 1914 (6th District). Died in Allston, Boston, Suffolk County , Mass., October 23, 1919 (age 76 years, 161 days). Burial location unknown .
s/o Horatio and Clarissa (Batchelder) Matchett

Charles and Georgianna may have married in Brighton, Suffolk County, MA

1850 Brighton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Horatio Matchel age 39 MA
Clarissa C. Matchel age 36 MA
Charles H. Matchel age 9 NH
Julia C. Matchel age 9 NH

1880 Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Charles H. Matchell age 37; born MA ; carpenter; parents born MA
Georgia Ada Matchell age 27 born MA; parents born ME
Clara C. Matchell age 8 MA
Elizabeth P Matchell age 4 MA
Ada L D Matchell age 2 MA

1900

1910 Brooklyn, NY
Charles H. Matchett age 67; divorced and lives in boarding house; occ: none

1915 Kings County, NY
Charles H. Matchett age 71 boarder; no occupation

American Esperanto Magazine, Volumes 24-26
"...Following private services at the home of his sister, the ashes of Mr Matchett were taken to Mount Auburn."


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Charles married Georgianna Ada Straw, daughter of Love F. Straw and Adah M. Andrews, on 15 May 1871 in Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. (Georgianna Ada Straw was born on 8 Feb 1853 in Somerville, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and died after 1930.)




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