Isaac Thomas Haddock

Isaac T. Haddock was born in Tiverton on August 14, 1882, the oson of Isaac Thomas Haddock and Abbie E. Gardner Haddock. He was educated in Tiverton public schools and graduated from Durfee High School in Fall River and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1903.

Mr. Haddock specialized in chemistry and following his graduation he went to Cuba, wehre he worked as an assistant chemist. He became a chemist with Cambridge Gas and Light COmpany in October 1904, general superintendent of the same company in 1919 and vice-president in 1924. 

Five years later he became vice president and general manager of Worcester Gas and Light Company and in 1930 he assumed the duties of assistant general manager at the New England Gas and Electric Association. In 1931 he became vice-president of the New England Gas and Electric Association, which office he held until his resignation in May of 1938. 

At the time of his death he was vice-president of the Cambridge Gas Company, vice-oresident and a director of the Worcester Gas Light Company, director of the New Bedford Gas and Edison Light Company, director of Cape and Vineyard Electric Company, Plymouth County Electric Company, Dedham and Hyde Park Gas and Electric Company, Marlboro and Hudson Gas Company, Milford Gas Light Company, New Hampshire Gas and Electric Company, Plymouth Gas Light Company. In his spare time, he was an avid fisherman.

He was married to Jennie B. Brackett of Cabridge, MA on September 9, 1914, who survived him. 

Tiverton, R.I., May 16--

Funeral Services were held this afternoon at the Central Baptist Church here for Isaac Thomas Haddock, 58, utilities executive, who was drowned May 2 while on a fishing trip off Gay Headin his power boat Bingo II. The service was performed by the Rev. Willis C. Calendar of Tiverton.

On May 2nd, 1941, the 27-foot launch Bingo II was found  just of the coast of Gay Head, unoccupied with its motor still running. An intensive 10-day search followed to recover the body of the boat's owner, Isaac T. Haddock, who had departed from New Bedford on May 1st for a fishing trip off Vineyard Haven.

On May 12th, Haddock's body was found floating 8 miles south-southwest of Vineyard Sound Light-vessel by crew members aboard the fishing boat J. Henry Smith, who alerted the Coast Guard.