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B iographical History of
Massachusetts
Biographies and Autobiographies of the
Leading Men in the State
Samuel Atkins Eliot , LL.D.. A.M., D.l)., A.B.
Editor-in-Chief
Volume IX
With opening chapters on
WHAT MASSACHl'SETTS HAS DUNK FOR
HIGHKK TKCHNICAL KDl'C ATION
By Richabd Cockbchn Maclahhin, LL.D., M.A., Sc.U.
MASSACHUSETTS BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS
1918
Copyrighted, 1918, by
Massachusetts Biographicai, Society
All rights reserved
Special Notice — These Biographies are fully
protected under the copyright law, v^hich imposes
a severe penalty for infringement.
CONTENTS. VOL. IX.
BIOGRAPHIES AND FULL PAGE PORTRAITS ENGRAVED ON STEEL
CHARLES BEAN AMORY
JACOB JOHN ARAKELYAN
CHARLES ANSELM BASSETT
HORACE HOLLY BIGELOW ^ ^ OQ « O^
LAFAYETTE GILBERT BLAIR X X^'''- -' i*^*^
ANDREAS BLUME
JOHN FRYING BRADLEY
GARDNER COREY BROOKS
NATHANIEL HADLEY BRYANT
JOHN BROWN BUGBEE
ALFRED MONSON BULLARD
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
BENJAMIN OTIS CALDWELL
JAMES BERNARD CARROLL
WILLIAM ENDICOTT CLAPP
CHARLES RUSSELL CODMAN
WILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN
MARCUS ALLEN COOLIDGE
ALVAH CROCKER
CHARLES THOMAS CROCKER
LINCOLN CLIFFORD CUMMINGS
JOHN HENRY CUNNINGHAM
FRANKLIN HERBERT DOWNS
LOUIS STOUGHTON DRAKE
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER ELY
CLARENCE HOUGHTON ESTY
JOHN CALVIN FERGUSON
GEORGE CLEMENT FISK
RICHMOND FISK
WALTER GRANT GARRITT
EUGENE ALBERT GILMAN
GEORGE HENRY GRAVES
WILLIAM BLAIR GRAVES
WILLIAM PHILLIPS GRAVES
JOSIAH GREEN
FREDERICK GREENWOOD
SOLOMON BULKLEY GRIFFIN
CHARLES EDWARD GRINNELL
CURTIS GUILD
HENRY FROBISHER GUILD
MOSES HADJI GULESIAN
HOWARD PRESTON HAINES
WILLIAM TAYLOR HARLOW
SETH HEYWOOD
GEORGE HEYWOOD
HENRY HEYWOOD
GEORGE HENRY HEYWOOD
HENRY LEE HIGGINSON
JAMES LANGDON HILL
FREDERICK MILTON HODGDON
FRANK HOPEWELL
FREDERICK ALLEY HOUDELETTE
OLIVER HUNT HOWE
FRED MARSHALL HUDSON
HENRY STANLEY HYDE
JOHN BROOKS JENKINS
ERASTUS JONES
EBEN S. S. KEITH
JOHN ERLE I^NNEY
WILLIAM BARTLET LAMBERT
GEORGE VASMER LEVERETT
PERCIVAL LOWELL
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN McDANIEL
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS McKENNEY
DAVID HAVEN MASON
EDWARD HAVEN MASON
JONATHAN MASON, Ju.
WILLIAM POWELL MASON
WILLIAM POWELL MASON, Jr.
JOHN MAXWELL
WILLIAM GIBBONS MEDLICOTT
GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER
STEPHEN MOORE
GEORGE MASON MORSE
SAMUEL MAYO NICKERSON
ROLAND CROSBY NICKERSON
CHARLES SUMNER NORRIS
RICHARD OLNEY
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS OSBORN
RAYMOND HANSEN OVESON
CHARLES JACKSON PAINE
GEORGE JUDSON PARKER
WALTER EDWARD PARKER
FRANCIS HOWARD PEABODY
SAMUEL ENDICOTT PEABODY
ENDICOTT PEABODY
GEORGE LEE PEABODY
WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON
ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON
WILLIAM EDWARD PEARSON
GEORGE HENRY PENDERGAST
JAMES THAYER PENNIMAN
JOHN BARTLETT PIERCE
ANDREW W. PRESTON
ABEL HARRISON PROCTOR
CHARLES COOLIDGE READ
JAMES CLARENCE ROBERTSON
JAMES ELI ROTHWELL
HARVEY GEORGE RUHE
GEORGE HENRY SARGENT
QUINCY ADAMS SHAW
ROBERT GOULD SHAW, 2d
ROBERT GOULD SHAW
ABRAHAM SHUMAN
RUFUS ADAMS SIBLEY
FREDERICK GLAZIER SMITH
JOHN BUTLER SMITH
WILLIAM STANLEY
HEZEKIAH PRINCE STARR
RICHARD PEARSON STRONG
WALTER BABCOCK SWIFT
JOSEPH WARREN TEMPLE
OAKLEY SMITH WALKER
FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WASHBURN
WEBSTER WELLS
EDMUND MARCH WHEELWRIGHT
SHERMAN LELAND WHIPPLE
CHARLES GOODRICH WHITING
LEONARD WHITNEY, JR
HENRY JOSHUA WINSLOW
EDWARD LEANDER WOOD
WILLIAM MADISON WOOD
WHAT MASSACHUSETTS HAS DONE
FOR
HIGHER TECHNICAL EDUCATION
TECHNICAL education implies a systematic training in
science with the end of increasing production and improving
industry. The phrase as normally employed excludes
medical education, a field in which Massachusetts has had a
splendid record of achievement. It properly includes agricul-
tural education, but this is marked off from the rest by natural
boundaries and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts its culti-
vation has been confined practically to a single institution, the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, although some of the opera-
tions of Harvard University have touched upon it. Here we shall
exclude agricultural education from consideration and by so doing
cut ourselves off from the colonial period during which in Massachu-
setts, as in other colonies, there was nothing that could be called
higher technical education outside of the field of agriculture, and
not much of that. A new country rarely concerns itself with
manufacture, and the abstinence of the colonies in this respect was
due to natural conditions that were fostered in the United States
by the political conditions of the country. The Colonial laws of
the England of those remote days, like all colonial laws of the time,
discouraged the colonies from working up their own raw materials.
The Revolution, of course, brought a change and efforts were
made in various states to work out an industrial as well as a
political independence. For this purpose, skilled artisans were
brought in from abroad, bonuses were offered for improvements
in industrial processes, and many societies were formed for the
betterment of industry. In spite of this, nothing was done in the
schools to train men for these important tasks, and more than a
century elapsed before anything was attempted in the field of
higher technical education, with a single notable exception. This
exception was made, not in Massachusetts, but in the State of
New York, where in 1824 there was established, at Troy, the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the pioneer of its kind in the
United States. In those days, and particularly in this location,
bordering on what was then thought of as the West, the primary
need was to supply men capable of making roads, bridges, and
canals, so that it is not surprising that the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute came to regard the training of civil engineers as almost its
sole function, a tradition that it has cherished ever since.
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute remained for twenty-three
years the only school devoting itself to technical education in the
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sense here used, except the Military Academy at West Point, which
trained many engineers for civil life, although it was founded for
a different purpose. It is not until 1846-7 that we reach the first
really memorable period in the history of scientific education in this
country. In the former year, William Barton Rogers worked
out a plan for a Polytechnic Institute in Boston, a plan which
years later was put into practice in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and was thus destined to play a leading part in the
development of technical education, not only in Massachusetts,
but throughout the country. The next year, 1847, saw the estab-
lishment of three important schools : — the Lawrence Scientific
School at Harvard, the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, and a
School of Civil Engineering at the University of Michigan. Of
these, of course, the Lawrence Scientific School alone concerns us
here. Its founder, Abbott Lawrence, had a clear vision of the need
of education in practical science and a generous spirit in supplying
the money required to meet that need. His gift of $50,000 for the
foundation of the School was unparalleled in those days. The
Treasurer of Harvard College in his report on the subject said, at
the time, with reference to the gift, " It has met with that universal
approbation which its magnitude, its generosity, its appropriate-
ness to the wants of the country, its wise forecast and expansion of
views, deserve. It is supposed to be the largest amount ever given
at one time, during the hfetime of the donor to any public insti-
tution in this country." The school opened almost immediately
after the announcement of the gift, and was designed to have three
main branches : Chemistry, Engineering, Zoology and Geology. A
Rumford professor was placed in charge of the Chemical Department,
and Professor Agassiz of the Department of Zoology and Geology,
but the establishment of the Department of Engineering was post-
poned for a while. In 1849 Lieutenant Eustis of West Point was
invited to come to Cambridge and organize the Department of
Engineering. No clear idea seemed to prevail as to what should
comprise such a Department as is indicated by the story that an
ex-president of the college, when asked for his views, replied, " My
idea would be that you should come to Cambridge and put up a
sign as a surveyor, and receive young men into your office." The
building erected for the accommodation of the Engineering De-
partment contained a drawing room, one recitation room, and a
case of surveying instruments, as the full equipment of the De-
partment. Work began in 1850, nine students appearing on the
first day and the number rising to eighteen by the end of the term.
Shght additions to the equipment were made from time to time,
but for many years the number of students was disappointingly
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small. As a member of the college expressed it, " The teachers
were ready but the students did not present themselves."
Meanwhile, the seed sown by Rogers in 1846 began to grow as
Rogers' personality and his enthusiasm for a great cause exerted
their influence on Boston, to which he had come from Virginia in
1853. In due time his ideas and plans were supported strongly by
many men of prominence in the community, and were most warmly
espoused by the War Governor, Andrew. This support culminated
in 1861 in an Act of the Legislature, granting a charter to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and making provision for
a site for the School by setting aside a part of the Back Bay lands
in the neighborhood of Copley Square. The outbreak of the war
caused a postponement of the opening of this School and it was
not until 1865 that a preHminary class, consisting of fifteen mem-
bers, was got together, and in 1866 that the Rogers Building was
completed as the first real home of the Institute.
Almost from the beginning, the School flourished, although, of
course, it had to pass through many days of trial and difficulty.
Amongst the factors that made for its success may be mentioned
the following: first, and most important, the personaHty of Rogers,
a man of unique charm and singular insight; second, the able
and enthusiastic men with whom Rogers surrounded himself as
members of the Faculty; third, the new type of education that was
established, appeaUng as it did to many spirits dissatisfied with
the conditions in the older schools; last, but by no means the least,
the definite plan of education, systematic and clear cut from the
outset, a plan which formed the real charter of the Institute, and
had a profound effect on technical education throughout the
country, and indeed throughout the world. The details should be
read in the " Scope and Plan of the School of Industrial Science
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology," due to Rogers and
published in 1864, There is space here for only a few of the saUent
features. " Provision is made for such students who by a full
course of scientific studies and practical exercises, seek to qualify
themselves for the professions of the mechanical engineer, the
civil engineer, the builder and architect, the practical chemist, and
the engineer of mines." There are five corresponding courses:
one, a course on Mechanical Construction and Engineering; two, a
course on Civil and Topographical Engineering; three, a course on
Building and Architecture; four, a course on Practical and Techni-
cal Chemistry; five, a course on Practical Geology and Mining.
The studies of each of these divisions are arranged so as to extend
over a period of four years. The leading principles governing the
admission of students are, first, that all persons qualified to enter
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upon any one of the full courses shall have the freest opportunity
of doing so, and second, that no student shall be admitted to any
of the courses of instruction who has not the preliminary knowledge
needed for a satisfactory pursuit of the studies proposed. Pro-
vision is made for laboratories in which the fundamental principle
of " learning by doing " can be put into practice in all of the de-
partments of the School. This has become a commonplace of
scientific education today, but in many departments it was a novelty
in 1864. Before that, science was too often taught merely by
lectures and only a small portion of the students actually per-
formed experiments for themselves. The experimental method in
teaching had earher been introduced in a partial way in the field
of Chemistry, but at the Institute it was extended to Physics, the
practical working out of the laboratory method of instruction in
this branch of science being made by Professor E. C. Pickering at
the suggestion of President Rogers.
Having seen the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched,
we must return to the Lawrence Scientific School and sketch, all
too briefly, its later history. We have seen that it suffered in the
early days through paucity of numbers. This defect was thought
to be due largely to the fact that there were few regular coordinated
courses, practically all the students being " special students " fol-
lowing particular branches of science without relation to other
studies. This condition was modified by President EUot almost
immediately after he left the Institute of Technology, where he had
occupied the Chair of Chemistry, to assume the presidency of
Harvard. A four-years' course of study was provided to train
men for the profession of Civil and Topographical Engineering and
other branches of Applied Science. The numbers, however, con-
tinued small for a long time and tended to decline, so that after
forty years there were only fourteen students. Later, however,
mainly under the guidance of Dean Shaler, the School grew rapidly
in numbers and by the beginning of the present century, there
were about three hundred students in the regular professional
courses and almost as many in other courses. In 1909 a radical
change was made by placing the School on a graduate basis. This,
of course, reduced the numbers materially and the number of
students was in the neighborhood of one hundred when in 1914
the Schools of Engineering and Mining were amalgamated with
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The agreement with
reference to this amalgamation has recently been annulled by the
Supreme Court. In spite of the paucity of numbers and the
fluctuations of more recent times, the Lawrence Scientific School
made notable contributions to the cause of apphed science in Mas-
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sachusetts and in the United States. Through its association with
Harvard College, it drew a considerable number of able men from
all parts of the country and was fortunate in attracting men of
high distinction to its faculty. The influence of these men on their
students has been shown by many notable achievements in the
field of engineering.
We left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at its in-
ception in 1865 with fifteen students, a teaching staff of nine, and
provision made for five different courses. Except for unimportant
fluctuations, its growth since that time has been steady until the
outbreak of the present war, when it had about 2000 students, a
teaching staff of over 300, and fifteen in place of the initial five
separate courses. It has formed a model for many similar schools
here and abroad. At the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founda-
tion, Mr. Augustus Lowell said of it, " The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology has been preeminently a leader in education," and
a prominent EngHsh manufacturer, a member of a Royal Com-
mission sent to study technical education in the United States,
said, " The spirit and energy of the students, their conspicuous prac-
tical knowledge, the thoroughness of their scientific training, and
the power of adaptation and resource they have on entering work-
shops, manufactories, railroads or mines, public works and con-
structive engineering, all these fruits of the training of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology are, so far as I have seen, not
equalled on the continent." It has trained a large number of men
who have taken a leading part in the advancement of the nation's
industries and commerce. Owing to their technical skill they have
been employed in every State in the Union in the work of develop-
ing mines, opening up the country by means of railroads, applying
scientific methods to the great problems of transportation, the
production and distribution of power, advancing chemical indus-
tries, conserving pubhc health, and contributing in countless other
ways to the national well-being. Its influence has not been con-
fined to what are usually spoken of as the "higher branches " of
technical education. It has already given directors to such insti-
tutions as the Textile School, the Franklin Union, the Lowell
School for Industrial Foremen, the Engineering Department of the
Northeastern College (Y. M. C. A.), and the Wentworth Insti-
tute. It has not concerned itself merely with technical education
in the narrow sense, but has done much to advance science through
the admirable work accomplished in its research laboratories, or
carried out by its alumni in various parts of the world. Not only
has it advanced science and industry through science, but it has
been a most powerful educational factor in the development of the
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country. It has broken down old traditions and introduced new
methods into education. It has given strength and dignity to the
" practical " and " laboratory " method and proved conclusively
its value in dealing effectively with large bodies of men. " It was
the first school to equip a Mining and Metallurgical Laboratory for
the instruction of students by actual treatment of ores in large
quantities, the first to establish a laboratory to teach the nature
and use of steam, and a laboratory for testing the strength of the
materials of construction in commercial sizes, and the first in
America to establish a Department of Architecture. It was also
the first in this country to set up distinct and separate courses of
study in Electrical Engineering, in Sanitary Engineering, in Chem-
ical Engineering and in Naval Architecture." Its influence has
not been confined to Massachusetts. Almost from the first, ^it
drew men from other states and now it has representatives of every
state and territory in the Union and it draws from foreign lands
more than twice as large a percentage of students as the oldest
universities in the land. In 1916 it moved the center of its ac-
tivities from the old site on Boylston Street, Boston, across the
Charles River to Cambridge. Here it now occupies a magnificent
group of buildings which, according to an impartial witness, " have
set a new standard for the schools of Applied Science of the world,
especially by the completeness of the equipment and the adapta-
bility of the buildings to the purposes for which they are designed."
The experiences of today are forcing upon our attention the fact
that war not only reveals defects but stimulates innovations and
improvements in many fields of human interest. Happily the field
of education does not escape this influence. In spite of all the dis-
cussion on the subject, there were only four schools of Applied
Science in existence in this country before the Civil War. It was
during that war that Congress passed the Morrill Act, granting
federal aid to states that founded colleges for the encouragement of
agriculture and what were described as " the mechanic arts." The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology reaped the benefit of this
Act, although the School had been chartered before its passage.
The establishment of such schools soon became the fashion, for
while there were only four before the Civil War, there were seven-
teen in 1870, forty-one the next year, and seventy the next. It
was while this ferment was working that the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute was established in 1865. In the Act of Incorporation, it
was called the " Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial
Science," the name being changed later to that by which it is now
known. Its estabhshment was made possible by a gift of $100,000
by John Boynton and of $50,000 by Ichabod Washburn. Mr.
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Boynton's aim was a higher academy in which stress should be
placed on a general education with training for industries. Mr.
Washburn contemplated something in the nature of a trade school.
These diverse aims were brought into harmony through the efforts
of the Reverend Seth Sweetser, who set forth the essential ideas
under which the Worcester Polytechnic Institute is now working.
The first class of about thirty was admitted in 1868. From the
beginning, emphasis was laid in all the work of this Institute on
the practical, on the close contact of students with their instructors,
and on conditions approaching as nearly as possible those of the
industrial world. The practical idea was attained chiefly through
the unusual amount of practice required in each course. It was
aided too through the organization of the Washburn Shops, which
were originally planned and have since been conducted as a regular
commercial undertaking. Students in their shop practice were
brought into constant contact with actual commercial conditions.
They gained in this way a valuable experience in practical business
methods, and this experience was emphasized during the senior
year by a course in shop management. The first courses estab-
lished at the Institute were in Mechanical and Civil Engineering
and Chemistry. A course in Electrical Engineering was added in
1889 and one in General Science in 1890. Originally, all courses
were three years in length, but in 1873 an additional half year was
required of students in Mechanical Engineering and in 1893 all
courses were lengthened to four years. The Faculty has grown
with the School until it numbers about thirty and there are as
many instructors. The student enrollment in 1871, when the first
class graduated, was 82, but before the present war it had risen to
over five hundred. This growth has been justified by the quality
of the work done. In all parts of the country the graduates — many
of whose biographies and life-like portraits appear in these volumes
— have acquitted themselves well.
In the same decade in which the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute were founded,
and doubtless under the stimulus of the generally awakened inter-
est in science and its apphcations, another important School of
Engineering was estabhshed in Massachusetts in 1869. This was
the Engineering School of Tufts College, a college which had been
founded many years before as the result of a movement initiated
in the academically memorable year 1847. The School began
with a single department, that of Civil Engineering, but the great
development of Electrical Science was recognized in due time and
the Department of Electrical Engineering was opened to students
in 1882, and a professorship in the subject established in 1890.
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In 1894 the field was broadened by the addition of a course in
Mechanical Engineering and in 1898 of one in Chemical Engineer-
ing. Each of the corresponding courses was of four years' duration,
a period that is now looked upon as normal in the engineering
schools of the country. During the first two years the course
of study is the same for all departments as was suggested by
Rogers in the historic " Scope and Plan " of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology that has already been referred to. The
School has notable men on its faculty, and amongst its graduates
are numbers who have earned distinction in various fields of prac-
tical endeavor.
The institutions thus referred to — the Lawrence Scientific
School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and Tufts School of Engineering — are the
four schools in Massachusetts naturally spoken of in the develop-
ment of higher technical education in that state. It should not be
forgotten, however, that the distinction between " higher " and
" lower " in the field of education is often a very artificial one, and
there are several notable schools that might well be dealt with
under the heading of this article. Such, for example, is the im-
portant Went worth Institute, incorporated in 1904 " for the pur-
pose of furnishing education in Mechanic Arts "; the Lowell School
for Industrial Foremen, a free evening school providing courses in
Mechanical, Electrical and Structural Engineering, and conducted
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by members of its
instructing staff, and supported and directed by the Lowell Insti-
tute; the Franklin Union, which owes its establishment to Benja-
min Franklin and which, since its opening in 1908, has given ad-
mirable training to over 10,000 students in Industrial Electricity,
Structures and Surveying, Industrial Chemistry, Machine Con-
struction, Steam Engines and Boilers, Heating and Ventilating,
Gasolene Engines and various other practical courses; the North-
eastern College, which conducts an Engineering School under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A.; the Textile Schools supported by the
State. Massachusetts has done pioneer work in the great field of
technical education and there is good reason for her activity in this
field. She has no advantages of great natural resources nor strategic
position for commercial supremacy and she must consequently make
her wealth by the exercise of high intelligence in all the processes of
business. The necessity for a scientific basis for action in all fields
of practical endeavor is daily becoming more obvious, and Mass-
achusetts is fortunate indeed that she realized this necessity early
and thus laid the foundations of a great system of technical educa-
tion well in advance of most of the states in the Union.
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CHARLES BEAN AMORY
THE Amory family name has been borne conspicuously and
honorably in Massachusetts since 1720 and in the Colony
of South Carolina even earlier. Thomas Amory was a
prominent merchant of Bristol, chief commissioner of the navy of
Ireland, from 1660, residing at Gal way, Ireland, up to the time of
his death. His son, Jonathan, was born at Bristol, in May, 1654,
removed to Barbadoes, West Indies, and thence to Charleston,
South Carohna, about 1691, and was advocate-general and trea-
surer of the province of South Carolina, being the first American
ancestor of the Amorys in America.
Charles Bean Amory inherited a rich strain of blood. He was
born in New York City, July 30, 1841. His father was Jonathan
Amory (born in 1802, died in 1885). His mother's maiden name
was Letitia Austin, his grandfathers were Jonathan Amory and John
Austin; his grandmothers before marriage were Mehitable Sulhvan
and Mary Redding. His father was largely interested in patents,
and was very kindly in disposition and courtly in manner. He
instilled into the minds of his children a wholesome respect for the
dignity of labor, which served them well in their after business life.
The Sullivans were noted for unwavering integrity, firm deci-
sion, perseverance, and pluck, and these qualities gave tone to the
business lives of their descendants. The original settler was John
SuUivan, born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1690, landed in York, Maine,
in 1723, and settled in Berwick, where he died in 1801, aged one
hundred and five years and three days. He married in Ireland,
Margaret (or Margery) Brown, who died in Berwick in 1801, aged
eighty-seven years. Their oldest son, Benjamin, was an officer in
the British navy, and was lost before the Revolutionary War. The
second son, Daniel, was born about 1738 in Berwick, and settled in
Sullivan, Maine, about 1762. He married for his second wife (who
was the mother of his children who reached maturity) June 14,
1765, Abigail, daughter of John and Hannah Bean. She was born
in 1747 and died in April, 1828, aged eighty-one years. There being
no magistrate nearby, or roads across country, their wedding
journey was made in a log canoe. Daniel was a patriot, and de-
served as high honors as his more celebrated younger brothers, John
and James. Early in the Revolutionary War he raised a company of
mihtia, and was active and fearless in protecting the shore towns
from the predatory attacks of the British. The British and Tories,
CHARLES BEAN AMORY
appreciating his activity, made several attempts to capture him,
and finally succeeded, on the stormy night of March 16, 1781, when
he was awakened to find his bed surrounded by a party of marines
from the British war vessel Allegiance, which had anchored near
his home at " Waukeag Point." He was taken to Castine, where
he was offered his liberty if he would take an oath of allegiance,
which offer he refused, and was carried to Halifax. From HaUfax
he was sent to the old prison ship Jersey in New York harbor,
where he remained six months. He was, after much trouble upon
the part of his brother James, exchanged, but died upon his passage
home.
The third son of the emigrant John SuUivan and his wife Mar-
garet was the compatriot of Washington, the celebrated Major-
General John Sullivan. He crossed the Delaware with Washington,
and was engaged in the Jersey campaign, was at Long Island, at
Rhode Island, at Brandywine, Germantown, suffered with his men
at Valley Forge, and gained renown in his campaign against the
Six Nations. After his retirement from the army he was attorney-
general for New Hampshire, member of the Council, and was elected
governor of the State three times. Washington appointed him
judge of the United States District Court, which position he held
at the time of his death, January 23, 1795.
The fourth son of the emigrant was the equally celebrated James
Sullivan, born at Berwick, April 22, 1744, who was a member of the
first Provincial Congress of Massachusetts in 1775; delegate to the
Continental Congress from 1776 to 1785; judgeof the Supreme Court
from 1776 to 1782; attorney-general of the Commonwealth of Mas-
sachusetts from 1790 to 1807; at which time he was elected governor
of the State, which office he held at the time of his decease, which
occurred December 10, 1808. He was the great-grandfather of
Charles Bean Amory.
The influence of his mother on his moral, spiritual, and intellec-
tual life was a strong factor in the early life of Charles Bean Amory,
and contributed not a little to his success in after life. He graduated
from the grammar and high schools, and began the active work of
life at the age of sixteen by entering the office of Messrs. B. C. Clark
& Co., as a clerk. He places the influence of home Hfe, of schools,
early companionship, private study, and contact with men in active
life in the order named as having much to do with his success in early
life. He served as a clerk in Boston from 1857 to 1861 ; was a cot-
ton broker in New Orleans from 1865 to 1885; was treasurer of the
Hamilton Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill in Lowell, Massa-
CHARLES BEAN AMORY
chusetts, from 1885 to 1909, when he resigned. An extract from
the Directors' Records of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company,
November 29, 1909, reads:
*' To THE Directors of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company:
Gentlemen, — Your Committee, appointed at the last meeting
to submit resolutions in regard to Mr. Amory's resignation, beg
leave to offer the following minute, and to recommend that it be
entered in the records of the Company. In accordance with Mr.
Amory's earnest desire, the Directors of the Hamilton Manufactur-
ing Company have reluctantly accepted his resignation from the
office of Treasurer, but in doing so they desire to record their warm
appreciation of what he has accomplished during the twenty-three
years he has held office. But it is not only in the results obtained
that Mr. Amory has proved his right to the gratitude of the corpo-
ration. Throughout his long service the controUing consideration
with him has always been not what was for his own advantage, but
what was best for the Company. The loyal and unselfish spirit in
which he has worked has won for him the warm personal regard
and respect of all the Directors and their sincerest wishes for his
future welfare.
Respectfully submitted,
James Longley,
George Wigglesworth,
C. MiNOT Weld,
Committee."
Mr. Amory was vestryman in St. Paul's Church at New Orleans,
senior warden of the church of the Holy Spirit at Mattapan, senior
vice-president of the Arkwright Club, Commander of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion Commandery of Massachusetts, has
rendered miHtary service as lieutenant and captain in the 24th
Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and as assistant-adjutant-
general of the United States Volunteers from September, 1861, to
May, 1865.
He has written a brief history of his military life which shows
that he took a pride in its duties and gave faithful attention to its
drill and tactics, as a result of his early training in thoroughness and
detail so essential in successful army work.
CHARLES BEAN AMORY
[Official Copy]
Boston, October 3, 1865.
To THE Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
Sir, — I desire to recommend most earnestly and particularly^
that a brevet be conferred on Capt. Charles B. Amory, late A.A.G.,
U. S. Vols, (son of Jonathan Amory, Esq., of this city), for distin-
guished gallantry at the explosion of the mine in front of Peters--
burg, July 30, 1864. His conduct on that day was gallant in the
extreme, and his services of the greatest value in rallying the broken
troops after I was disabled. He has lately been mustered out upoa
his resignation after his return from imprisonment. I most respect-
fully request that the brevet of major date from that day, July 30^
1864.
Very respectfully,
Your obd. svt.,
W. F. Bartlett,
Brevet Major-Gen., U.S.A.
[Indorsement]
Approved,
U. S. Grant,
Lieutenant-General.
Headquarters Army, U.S., October 10, 1865.
Mr. Amory is a member of the Somerset Club, Loyal Legion,,
and served as its commander, also served as commander of Edward
W. Kinsley Post, No. 113, G.A.R., has been a life-long Republican^
is a member of the Episcopal Church. He enjoys country life
and driving as a source of health and amusement.
He was married twice: first to Emily A. Ferriday, daughter of
Wm. Ferriday of Concordia Parish, Louisiana; second to Lily C
Clapp, daughter of Emory Clapp of New Orleans, Louisiana, and
has four children: Charles B. Amory, Jr., major second Cavalry^
U.S.A. in France, Leita Perkins, wife of Charles E. Perkins, Jr.,.
John Austin Amory, Cotton Buyer for McFadden & Co., Boston,,
and Roger Amory, Captain Aviation Service, Austin, Texas.
From his experience, Mr. Amory believes that young Americana
to attain success must enter into active life with a firm and well-
grounded belief and trust in " patriotism, courage, honesty, indus-
try, and tact," all of which will tend to help attain for them the
summit of their ambition.
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JACOB JOHN ARAKELYAN
JACOB JOHN ARAKELYAN was born in Arabkir, under the
shadow of Mt. Ararat, in Asiatic Turkey. His father, Arakel
Arakelyan, 1812-1907, was a manufacturer of fabrics and is
remembered as a man optimistic, faithful and patient in every
trust given to him. His mother was Lucin Agadajanian.
Mr. Arakelyan received his education in one of the schools started
by the American missionaries which have done so much for the re-
generation of Turkey. He also attended the evening commercial
college under the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association.
As a boy, Jacob John Arakelyan was aspiring and ambitious, and
he early had dreams of the larger Uberty and opportunities for
advancement offered in the United States. As a young man, with-
out friends or funds, he landed in Boston, on July 15, 1867.
During his first year in America he worked as a carpenter.
In 1868, he secured a position with The Riverside Press of Cam-
bridge. His earnestness and intelhgence early attracted the
attention of the head of the firm, the Honorable H. O. Houghton of
Houghton MifSin Company, with whom he remained for fifteen
years. Mr. Houghton took a personal interest in him. To his
constant friendship and wise counsel is due, in the opinion of Mr.
Arakelyan, a large part of the success which he has achieved.
By 1883 Mr. Arakelyan had acquired a small printing plant of
his own. Close personal attention to details coupled with untiring
energy and keen business sagacity soon gave him an ever increasing
volume of trade which necessitated constantly enlarging facilities
until finally The Arakelyan Press, admitted to be one of the most
modern and complete printing, binding and mailing establish-
ments in Boston, occupied the entire floor of a building covering a
whole city square.
Mr. Arakelyan was for thirty years an important factor in the
printing industry of Boston, being always in the vanguard in the
use of new and improved machinery. He specialized in the printing
of rehgious literature. For many years he printed The Christian
Endeavor World upon a special great rotary press which he had
built for the purpose at a cost of more than thirty thousand dollars,
printing, folding and stapling seven thousand papers an hour, and
taking great pride in turning out the paper as nearly perfect as the
mechanical conditions of rapid printing render possible. He also
became the printer of The Congregationalist, and many other relig-
ious publications and finally transferred his business to the Con-
gregational Sunday-School and PubHshing Society in payment of a
suitable annuity for a term not to exceed fifteen years. For some
years it was his cherished purpose to bequeath his plant to this
Society at his death, but as he himself says: " It has seemed to me
better to be my own executor."
JACOB JOHN ARAKELYAN
Successful as he is as a business man, other interests take up his
time. No good cause appeals to him in vain. He takes a deep
interest in the Christian Endeavor Society, for, as he says, "It is
a means of training young people for successful service and earnest,
devoted Christian lives."
Several years ago he became a trustee of the World's Christian
Endeavor Union, and more recently the auditor of the United
Society. As trustee he has rendered valuable service in the exten-
sion of world-wide Christian Endeavor.
Mr. Arakelyan has translated and printed a large edition of the
Christian Endeavor constitution in the Armenian language for free
distribution, in addition to making generous gifts for the work in
other places, and for the International Headquarters building. He
was also the main contributor for the translations and printing
of Christian Endeavor literature in Spanish, for use in Mexico.
He is an active member of the Second Congregational Church of
Dorchester, Massachusetts, and a generous supporter of all good
causes.
Another benefaction was the payment of ten thousand dollars
to the United Society of Christian Endeavor in lieu of an annuity
as long as he lives, the money upon his decease becoming the un-
incumbered property of the United Society. Various reform and
philanthropic organizations find in him a good friend, and he is often
invited to attend national and international religious conventions.
Mr. Arakelyan is a member of the City Club, the Boston Chamber
of Commerce, the Economic Club, the Congregational Club, and
the Twentieth Century Club. He has served on the Committee of
Art and Libraries of the City Club, and on the Reception Com-
mittee of the Congregational Club.
In politics he is a Republican. In religion he is affihated with the
Congregational denomination, being a liberal supporter of the
work and deeply interested in the common activities of the sister-
hood of churches in the Metropolitan district.
On June 4, 1879, Mr. Arakelyan married Jane M., daughter of
Charles and Jane Humphrey, granddaughter of John and Hannah
Humphrey, and a descendant of Jonas Humphrey, who came from
England to America in 1634. Mrs. Arakelyan is equally devoted
and generous in the interest of Christian Endeavor movements.
Out of his experience and observation, Jacob John Arakelyan
gives good advice to young people when he says: "Be loyal to
trust, and faithful to duty. Devotion to right as one sees it should
be the highest aim. Shun evil companions, but do not withhold
the thing that would lift up a fellow-being. Keep busy in good
works, in all these be persistent and constant. To believe in the
guidance of God enables one to accomplish greater things."
CHARLES ANSELM BASSETT
AMONG the men of whom the Commonwealth is proud —
though their names may not be widely heralded, was Charles
Anselm Bassett of Fall River. He was born April 1, 1842,
at Taunton, Massachusetts, and died at Fall River, January 23,
1916.
He was the son of Charles Jarvis Holmes Bassett (1814-1891)
and Emeline Dean Seabury. His grandfathers, with dates of birth
and death, were: Anselm Bassett, born April 30, 1784, died Septem-
ber 9, 1863, and John Westgate Seabury, Jr., born July 17, 1791,
died April 28, 1857. His grandmothers' names before marriage
were RosaUnda Holmes and Emeline Dean.
His ancestors were of pure Pilgrim stock. William Bassett
emigrated from England to Ley den, Holland; and came thence in
the ship " Fortune " to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. He
was afterwards one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, — a man of good education, and a wealthy land-
owner. In the Pequot War he served as Volunteer, and was for
six years a Representative in the Old Colony Court. Peregrine
White, the first white child born in the Plymouth Colony, became
his son-in-law.
His grandson, WilHam Bassett (3), born in Sandwich, Massa-
chusetts, 1686, was Marshal of the Colony, Judge of the Common
Pleas, and Register of Probate, and one of the most distinguished
men of his time.
The father of Charles A. Bassett was Cashier and later President
of the Taunton National Bank — a man of notable integrity,
firmness and efficiency.
He was a clerk in a dry-goods store in 1859. For four years was
the youngest clerk in the National Bank of Taunton. He became
Cashier of the First National Bank of Fall River (1864-1877),
and Treasurer of the Fall River Savings Bank, 1877, to the time of
his death.
He was a member of the " Sinking Funds Board '* of Fall River
for nearly twenty years.
His social aflfiliations were with the Masonic Fraternity, and the
Quequechan Club of Fall River. He was a Repubhcan. He was
an attendant of the First Congregational Church of Fall River.
On June 15, 1870, he married Mary L., the daughter of Dr.
Foster and Nancy L. Hooper, and granddaughter of Salmon and
Rebecca Foster Hooper. They have one daughter, Mary Hooper
Bassett, wife of George H. Waring — a cotton broker.
Mr. Bassett's career furnishes a good illustration of the usefulness
and power of a faithful, modest, reputable citizen, and is one that
can be safely emulated by all young men in present and future
generations.
HORACE HOLLY BIGELOW
HORACE HOLLY BIGELOW was born June 2, 1827, in
Marlboro, Massachusetts, the son of Levi and Nancy
(Ames) Bigelow. His grandfather, Gershom Bigelow, was
born March 22, 1768, and died October 27, 1847. His grandmother,
Mary (Howe) Bigelow, was born February 22, 1769, and died April
20, 1820.
His father devoted his time to farming, teaching school, or sur-
veying, as convenience made it most profitable or desirable. He
was a man known for firmness, perseverance and honesty.
John Biglo, as he spelled his name, was the first to leave England
for this country. He settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. Colonel
Timothy Bigelow and others of the familj'- distinguished them-
selves for bravery in the War of the Revolution.
Mr. Bigelow had the benefit of a moral and intellectual atmos-
phere in his early home life, presided over by a mother who gave
her children good advice on all needed occasions, producing good
and lasting results.
Like other boys in his neighborhood, he began at the age of ten
years to work about his father's farm, performing such labor as
suited his strength. He gained his education in the pubhc schools
of Marlboro. He learned the shoemaking trade at the early age of
fifteen. He was diligent in everything he undertook, and gave such
close attention to his work and to the details of the trade, that, at
the age of twenty, or in 1847, he began the manufacture of shoes in
Marlboro, on his own account. In 1850 he formed a partnership
with his uncle, C. D. Bigelow of New York, for the manufacture of
brogans. He returned to Marlboro in 1854, where he devoted three
years to building a miscellaneous trade. He then estabhshed shoe
manufacturing industries in quick succession in Albany, New York;
Providence, Rhode Island; and Trenton, New Jersey; making
use of convict labor in performing the work. At Trenton he had
contracts for furnishing shoes for United States troops in the Civil
War.
About 1863, Mr. Bigelow organized the shoe industry in Wor-
cester, under the firm name of Bigelow & Trask, and acted as
superintendent. Subsequently the firm gave place to the Bay
State Shoe and Leather Company, of which he was manager and
held a large interest in its stock.
Mr. Bigelow had developed a decided taste for mechanics when
a mere lad, which was a prophecy of coming inventions in riper
years. When quite young he perfected a machine for turning out
meat skewers at a rapid rate, which replaced the hand-made method
previously in use.
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Following 1872, Mr. Bigelow was kept busy with the invention
of many machines connected with the production of shoes, for which
he received patents. Among which may be mentioned a machine
for gang punch pegging; another for channelUng and heel trim-
ming; and the Bigelow heeling machine, a wonderful labor-saving
device which has entirely changed the method of boot and shoe
manufacture.
In 1883, Mr. Bigelow obtained control of a large tract of real
estate on the west shore of Lake Quinsigamond, as well as of the
Worcester & Shrewsbury Railroad connected with it. This road
he put in thorough repair, and many buildings were erected on
this desirable property. The flourishing village of Lake View has
resulted from this enterprise, where pleasant homes for mechanics,
and others, have sprung up as if by magic, forming a dehghtful
suburb to Worcester.
In 1882, Mr. Bigelow closed a deal with the Boston & Albany
Railroad and became the owner of the original site of the Worcester
depot on Foster Street, on which he built a roller skating rink,
and located the first Electric Light Plant in the City.
In connection with the promoting of many enterprises, Mr.
Bigelow was successively President and Treasurer of the Worcester
and Shrewsbury Railroad, and President of the Worcester &
Shrewsbury Street Railway Company, also President of the Bigelow
Heeling Machine Company. Besides devoting much necessary
time to each of these enterprises, he found the time to originate a
plan for conducting Co-operative Banks. Mr. Bigelow was married
to Adelaide E. Buck, daughter of James Buck and Adeline Taylor.
These children have been born to them: Adelaide F. Stevens,
Francis H. Bigelow, and Irving E. Bigelow. Both of the sons are
engaged in Real Estate and financial business.
Mr. Bigelow was a Repubhcan, although he voted once for Gov.
B. F. Butler, for diversion. He was a member of the Worcester
Mechanics' Association. He said when he needed relaxation he
turned his attention to the developing of real estate, the planning
of amusement resorts, and city parks.
Replying to the question " What will most help young people to
attain true success in life," Mr. Bigelow suggested that the
" simple life and plenty of exercise in producing something visible,
and the proper amount of attention and study of the business one
is taking up will produce the results aimed for in any business,"
Mr. Bigelow wrought not for self alone; he studied the needs of
others, and produced much to add to the comfort of the masses.
Mr. Bigelow will long be remembered for his thoughtfulness, his
generous gifts, and his devotion to the pubhc weal.
LAFAYETTE GILBERT BLAIR
LAFAYETTE GILBERT BLAIR was one of thefamous Scotch
family of Blairs that furnished Scotland and this country
with so many of its noble sons. Among his ancestors was
Hugh Blair, the Scotch divine, rhetorician and author. His im-
mediate family were Scotch Presbyterians, who, with many others
of the same faith, left Scotland and migrated to the North of Ire-
land, that they might there follow unmolested the precepts of their
religious belief. During the last part of the eighteenth and the
earlier part of the nineteenth century many of them came to the
United States and settled in the back country of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. They acquired the misnomer of Scotch-Irish, but they
were Scotchmen from the North of Ireland. They had not mixed
or intermingled with the Irish race.
Mr. Blair's great grandfather's family came here from the county
of Londonderry in the latter part of the eighteenth century. They
settled in Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Hugh
Blair, the grandfather of Lafayette Gilbert Blair, was born on July
19, 1792, and died May 18, 1824. He married Ann Maria Gilbert.
On his mother's side Mr. Blair's grandfather was Samuel Pierpoint,
born in Baltimore. He married Rachel White, daughter of Captain
Thomas White of the Revolution. She was a descendant of Pere-
grine White of Pilgrim fame, Mr. Blair's father was David Gilbert
Blair, a pioneer of Kansas City, born March 11, 1821, and died
February 21, 1911. His mother was Mary Jane Pierpoint, born
March 23, 1830, and died April 23, 1908.
Lafayette Gilbert Blair was born in Cumberland, Maryland, on
May 8, 1849. He died December 7, 1912. In 1857 David Blair
and his family left Cumberland for the Western frontier. By
prairie wagon and by boat they journeyed to St. Louis and
from there took the " John Warner " to Kansas City, landing at
what was then Westport Landing. The first fall and winter the
family made their home in a grove by a spring near which
the Baltimore Hotel now stands — a small plot of ground on
the corner of what is now Ninth Street and Grand Avenue.
After the city began to grow this became the site of Mr.
Blair's hardware manufacturing establishment. It was originally
bought for two hundred dollars and a dapple gray mare. Just
twenty-nine years later, 1886, some seven years before David Blair
left Kansas City, he refused an offer of ninety thousand dollars
for the same property.
The youth of Mr. Blair was filled with experiences of western
frontier and border life. He was in Kansas and Missouri through
the terrible days of the Civil War. Though only a lad when Price
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raided Missouri in 1865, he took up his rifle and entered the fight.
He enrolled in the Missouri miUtia and served about two months.
He saw only one engagement, the Battle of Brush Creek.
But with all the rush and excitement of the times Mr. Blair had
not neglected his intellectual training. He was distinguished among
his companions for his brilhancy in his studies. While a lad he
studied at home, and when he was older he went to Professor
Mudge's school in Kansas City. In 1871 he came east and went to
PhilHps Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, from which he
was graduated in 1874. He entered Harvard College in the fall
and was graduated in 1878. His father had desired him to enter
the ministry but his natural talents were better fitted for the law.
On his graduation from Harvard he entered the Boston Law School,
where he studied for one year. He continued the study of law in the
office of Hale and Walcott. He was admitted to the bar and began
his law practice in 1881.
As a lawyer Mr. Blair attained a remarkable success. He was in
active practice thirty-one years.
Mr. Blair was greatly interested in Free Masonry and gave up
much of his time and energy to its development. He was one of
the prominent Free Masons in the East, and held practically all
the chief ofiices in the various organizations of the State and New
England.
He was a member of the various Bar Associations, of the Boston
Club, of which he was at one time President, of the Harvard and
other clubs. He was President of the Southern Society of Boston,
a member of the Historical Society of Watertown and an Associate
member of the Edward W. Kingsley Post G. A. R.
He was a member of the Democratic party. Religiously he was
affiliated with the Unitarian Church.
On June 30, 1887, he married Emma Augusta Coon, daughter of
James Coon and Sarah Tormay, Rev. Dr. Peabody officiating. Of
that union two sons are now living, Pierpoint, a graduate of Har-
vard College, 1911, and Floyd Gilbert, graduate of Harvard College^.
1913, and Harvard Law School, 1916.
Mr. Blair's career was singularly successful. His generous sym-
pathies had inspired many a heart and he had proved himself a
brother to hundreds with whom he came in contact. More than
one struggling student he helped on his way through school or
college or study of the law. He finished his life work all too soon,
but if Ufe is not a matter of years, but of influence, not of accumu-
lations, but of worth, he has left behind him for those who bear
his name and those who loved him the remembrance of a fine and
noble character.
ANDREAS BLUME
PROMINENT among those who have earned the enviable and
significant distinction of being known as self-made men must
be placed the name of Andreas Blume. His career has been
a notable one, for he achieved success by dint of native talent and
ingenuity as well as by energy and perseverance.
Mr. Blume was born at Wyhl Am Rhine, Baden, near Freiburg,
Germany, December 8, 1837, and died at his summer home in
East Hebron, New Hampshire, August 25, 1917. He was the son
of Joseph and Katterina Blume, and one of four boys. At an early
age his mother died, and his father emigrated to America with his
children, arriving here early in April of 1848. They journeyed to
Cincinnati, Ohio, where they made their home in the July of that
year.
Immediately after his arrival there Andreas Blume began the
active work of his Ufe in a pottery factory. At this time none of the
family could speak a word of EngHsh, but they made use of every
available opportunity and soon acquired a working knowledge of it.
Andreas later entered a tobacco shop.
Two years after their arrival in Cincinnati, the town was swept
by the disease of cholera in 1850 and 1851 and this resulted in the
death of Andreas' father. From that time he was forced to sustain
himself.
For a number of years he filled the position of bell boy in two of
the city's largest hotels, the Dennison House and the Spencer
House. While in this capacity he became handicapped by an
accident, and was later made clerk in the same hotels.
In these capacities he had earned enough to further pursue his
education. He entered Farmers' College, College Hill, Cincinnati,
and later at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he remained
until his sophomore year, when he lacked funds to complete his
studies.
Encouraged by the eminent law professors, Emery Washburn,
Theophilus Parsons, and Joel Parker, to enter a law school, Mr.
Blume came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1863, and entered the
Harvard Law School. He earned his expenses and living by acting
as secretary to Judge Leland, and acting as clerk during the sum-
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mer vacation at the Profile House in the White Mountains, and at
the Fillmore House, Newport, Rhode Island.
He graduated from the Law School in 1865, and spent the follow-
ing year in study in the law office of Judge Leland.
Mr. Blume was admitted to the Bar in 1866. Four years after
his entrance to Judge Leland's office, the judge died and he suc-
ceeded to a part of his business. When he entered the practice of
his profession he displayed, from the first, an abihty and skill
which combined sound judgment, industry and integrity, and won
for him a recognized leadership. His practice soon covered a wide
range, including conveyancing, probate practice, and the various
branches growing out of it, administration of estates, the handling
of trust property, and acting as guardian for minors and insane
persons.
From July, 1869, until his death Mr. Blume acted as conveyancer
for the EHot Savings Bank of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
In 1883 Mr. Blume was elected to the Boston City Council and
remained in it for five consecutive years. In 1888 he was elected to
the House of Representatives, where he served during 1889.
Mr. Blume was twice married. His second marriage occurred
August 15, 1900, to Mrs. Lizzie A. Toppan, daughter of Joseph J.
and Elmira Leighton. Mrs. Blume is of distinguished family, her
father having been a well known contractor of Boston. He leaves
a son, Howard Blume, a successful business man of Boston.
As a lawyer and advocate Andreas Blume has had a career which
exerts a powerful and exemplary influence upon the profession of
law throughout the country. He was a man of sterling character
and high standing, upright, honest, and universally respected.
At the Bar he gained an honorable reputation. To profound
legal learning he united a boundless range of intellectual reasoning,
and his death has removed a prominent member of the legal fra-
ternity.
The fife of Andreas Blume has been the exemplification of what
he says to young people that perseverance is the road to success.
JOHN ERVING BRADLEY
JOHN ERVING BRADLEY was born in Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, on February 26, 1860. He was the only son of
Henry Osgood and Sarah L. (Stockbridge) Bradley, and on
both his father's and mother's side was of New England descent.
Daniel Broadley, the American ancestor of his father's family,
came from England and settled in Rowley, Essex County, Massa-
chusetts, in 1623, and John Stockbridge, his mother's ancestor,
came from England in June, 1635, and settled in Hanover, Massa-
chusetts, in the old Plymouth Colony,
Another ancestor was William Brewster, of Plymouth fame.
Mr. Bradley's paternal grandfather was Osgood Bradley, who was
born January 15, 1801, and died May 11, 1884, and who married
Fanny Sanger; and his maternal grandfather was Lebbeus Stock-
bridge, his grandmother being, before her marriage, Lydia Lane.
The railway car manufacture, with which Mr. Bradley has been
long identified, was begun by his grandfather, Osgood Bradley, who
was the pioneer in that business in Massachusetts, and the first
manufacturer of railway cars in the United States. The business
was continued by his uncle and his father, the latter of whom was
born September 17, 1828, and died in 1901.
As a boy, John E. Bradley was fond of reading and enjoyed
especially works on history and the biographies of great men. His
early character, on the moral and spiritual side, was largely in-
fluenced by his mother. After graduating from the Worcester High
School, he spent one year in Amherst College, but his tastes were
in the direction of mercantile and mechanical pursuits, and at the
age of eighteen he entered the employ of the Jerome Marble Com-
pany of Worcester, Manufacturers and Wholesale and Retail
Dealers in Paints, Oils and Mill Supplies.
He remained with this concern for four years, obtaining a
thorough knowledge of the various details of the Mill Supply
business, and at the age of twenty-two, in order to comply with
his father's wishes, he became connected with the Car Building
firm of Osgood Bradley and Sons. At first he was a clerk; later he
was promoted to be Assistant Manager. After the death of his
uncle in 1896, he was made the General Manager of the business,
and continued in that position until the death of his father, five
years later, when he became the sole owner of the establishment.
In 1910, the Osgood Bradley Car Company was formed and he was
made President of that corporation. Under his management and
presidency the high reputation of that establishment has been
constantly maintained, and its business greatly increased.
Mr. Bradley is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Society of
Amherst College, and, through his interest in industrial affairs, he
is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers^
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the Master Car Builders' Association of America, the National
Association of Manufacturers; the American Railroad Appliance
Association, the New England Steam Railroad Club, the New
England Street-Car Railway Club, in which he is a member of the
executive board, the New York Railway Club, the Canadian
Railway Club, the American Electric Railway Manufacturers^
Association, the Railroad Business Association, the New England
Street Railway Club, the American Electric Railway Association,
the Worcester Metal Trade Association; and other organizations.
He is also a member of the Home Club and the Worcester Country
Club, of the Worcester Club, of whose membership committee he
has been a member; the Tatnuck Country Golf and Tennis Club,
the Tatassit Canoe Club, of which he is, or has been, the Commo-
dore, and the Up-Town Club, of which he is the President. He also
belongs to the Engineers' Club of Boston, the D.K.E. Club of N. Y.,
and the Railroad Club of New York.
He is interested in Masonic matters, having passed through all
but the highest degree.
For three years he was a member of the State Militia, in the
Worcester Light Infantry, and is a member of its Veteran Associa-
tion.
Mr. Bradley is the owner of the Osgood Bradley Building in
Worcester. He has served as director of the Citizens' Committee
on Taxation.
Politically, he has always been a Republican, but though fre-
quently invited to enter active political life, he has always felt that
his business and social interests would prevent his devoting the
necessary amount of time to poUtical affairs, and he has, therefore,
declined to be a candidate for poUtical positions.
His church affiliations are with the Congregationalist body, and
he is an attendant at the Piedmont Congregational Church of
Worcester. Traveling is his favorite form of recreation.
On October 13, 1887, he married Emma, daughter of Hon. James
and Maria (McKenney) Dingley. Her father was a prominent
business man of Gardiner, Maine, and the first mayor of that city,
to which position he was elected for several terms.
He has two children, Mrs. Helen Bradley Wood, and Katharine
Bradley, and the family residence is in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He commends fidelity and promptness, as qualifications most
helpful in building up a sound American character.
Mr. Bradley inherited his business, but the enormous expansion
of it in these modern times has been the product of the labors of his
busy brain and his tireless efficiency. He has become one of the
great manufacturers of the state, great in power and great in use-
fulness.
GARDNER COREY BROOKS
GARDNER COREY BROOKS was born in Brookline, Massa-
chusetts, September 10, 1856, and died there November 26,
1916. His father, George Brooks (November 28, 1819—
October 22, 1907) son of Kendall Brooks (January 10, 1792— January
1, 1872) and Mary Pettee, was widely known as a merchant and
dealer in shoe manufacturers' supplies; a man of integrity and of
sound principles. Mr. Brooks' mother, Ehza Corey, daughter of
Mary Gardner and Timothy Corey (April 2, 1782— August 10, 1844)
was a noble woman, strong in spirit and of fine character. Mr.
Brooks was of English descent, one of his ancestors being Thomas
Gardner, who came from England and settled in Brookline, Massa-
chusetts, in 1718. From one of his ancestors the region now known
as Corey Hill was named.
He became greatly interested in the business carried on by
his father and older brother, George K. Brooks, under the firm
name of Brooks and Company, dealers in shoe manufacturers'
supplies. His brother died in 1901 and his father in 1907. After
that time he carried on the business by himself. His father
founded the concern and he was the first dealer who introduced
the manufacture of French calf leather into the United States.
The house was a rehable and prosperous concern.
Mr. Brooks was politically a Republican, and a stanch supporter
of that party. He was a member of the Brookline Baptist Church.
Both he and his father, who for some fifty years was a member of
the board of deacons, were deacons of that church and were among
its most faithful attendants and deeply interested in its welfare,
especially the work in the Bible School.
March 13, 1883, he married Emily Janet Seaverns, daughter of
Henry G. and Emily (Hensho) Seaverns of Brookline, who died in
1907. In 1910 Mr. Brooks married Nelhe Hedlund, daughter of
Charles F. and Alma C. Hedlund of Jamaica Plain. Of this marriage
there were two children, Helen and Gardner Corey Brooks, Jr.
Mr. Brooks, like his father, had three interests which were of vital
importance to him, and to these he was thoroughly devoted, his
home, his business and his church. He was held in high esteem by
all who were acquainted with him because of his many fine qualities.
He was a very quiet, unassuming sort of person, with no ostentation
about him. Simple, direct and truthful in utterance, of high pur-
pose, and with a beautiful kindliness and sincerity of spirit which
won many friends. He was a business man in the true sense of the
word, sagacious and practical, untiring in energy and enthusiasm.
He was a wilhng and generous contributor to the work of his
denomination and to the various activities of the church. He
was greatly loved and esteemed, and left an influence which is a
blessing to all who knew him.
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NATHANIEL HADLEY BRYANT
NATHANIEL H. BRYANT, at the time of his death, which
occurred on February 28, 1916, was the dean of the whole-
sale coal business in Boston. He was born in that city on
August 18, 1823, and was the son of Nathaniel Bryant, an expert on
mahogany woods and a cabinetmaker, born September 5, 1784,
and died on November 8, 1870.
His mother, whose name before her marriage was Clarissa
Blodgett, was the daughter of James and Ruth Hadley Blodgett,
her father having been born in 1763 and having died on March 23,
1836. Mr. Bryant's paternal grandfather was Amos Bryant, a
Revolutionary soldier, who was born September 17, 1756, and died
December 9, 1796. His wife before her marriage was Eleanor Morse.
Another Revolutionary ancestor was Major Jeremiah Swain,
who had command of a regiment that was sent against the Eastern
Indians, and was a brave and talented ofl&cer and an able citizen in
civil Ufe, a physician, a Selectman, a Justice of the Peace.
He attended and graduated from the PubHc Latin School, then
located on School Street where the Parker House now stands, and
at the time of his death, he was the oldest living graduate of that
School.
He became at length identified with the coal business, and for
nearly sixty years was connected with that trade.
In pontics he was a Republican, and his church affiliations were
with the Trinitarian Congregational denomination.
Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, the author of the hymn " America,"
was his cousin, Mr. Smith's mother having been his father's sister.
On the 18th of June, 1872, he was married to Lucy Mason Par-
sons, daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Childs) Parsons, whose
grandparents were Solomon and Rebecca (Wesson) Parsons and
Samuel and Ehzabeth (Fricke) Child. The Parsons family are
descendants of Joseph Parsons, who came to this country from Eng-
land in 1630.
Four children were born to them who are still living: Miss AUce
M. Bryant, a kindergarten teacher, and Miss Marion A. Bryant,
both of Newtonville; Nathaniel F. Bryant, in the banking business
in Boston, and Arthur P. Bryant, in the wholesale coal business in
Boston.
Nathaniel Hadley Bryant was steady in the performance of
duty, efficient and honorable in business relations, stanch and
faithful in his loyalty to his town and to his church. He represented
soHd worth, and the power that comes from character. His family
and his fellow citizens found in him a never-failing source of quiet
strength. Upon men hke Mr. Bryant depends the stabiUty of the
state.
JOHN BROWN BUGBEE
THE life of John Brown Bugbee presents the career of a busi-
ness man who started in early manhood in an honorable
line of trade and devoted his Hfe assiduously to his one call-
ing, reahzing that success is only to be secured by absorption in his
work and fidehty to its details. His success has been the result of
whole-hearted, clear-headed and conscientious devotion to his work.
John Brown Bugbee was born in Windsor, Maine, June 21, 1839.
His father, John Bugbee (1810-1881), was the son of John Bugbee,
a farmer in that part of New England where plenty of hard work
develops a robust manhood.
His mother, Sarah Hatch (Brown) Bugbee, was the daughter of
John Brown. The Bugbee ancestors were English and came of
sturdy stock. The Brown family was of Scotch origin, coming tO'
this country from the vicinity of Edinburgh.
John B. Bugbee in his early tastes sought books and magazines
and he found special delight in roaming through the forests of his.
native state. His early work was on the farm, with added labor in
a shingle mill in spring and fall as the rains and freshets furnished
power for its operation. His mother held powerful sway in her
home, particularly in its moral and religious well-being. He met
many obstacles in acquiring an education. His reading was mainly
confined to historical works, magazines and the papers of the day.
His schooling was confined to the pubhc country schools with
three fall terms at the High School and that education derived from.
contact with men in the great enterprises of hfe.
He began his life work as a tally boy in the lumber concern
of Henry Cutter & Co., Boston. He adhered closely to his
duties with this firm, ever at his post, watching closely the details
and progress of the business until he early became a partner in the
concern, and now for a number of years he has been President of
the Holt and Bugbee Co. of Boston. He has become a pattern to.
many, won an enviable reputation and secured a competency for
the evening of his life. He has been a member of the Boston Art
Club and of the Algonquin Club and now is a member of the
Beacon Society. In poUtics he is Repubhcan on National issues^
on local and municipal questions he is Independent.
Automobiling for health and pleasure constitute his chief recrea-
tion.
He married Miss Frances E. Muzzey, December 25, 1863,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Muzzey of Montville, Me.,
who died Nov. 18, 1868. On December 25, 1873, he married
EUza E., daughter of Samuel W. and Lucinda Hewey.
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ALFRED MONSON BULLARD
ALFRED MONSON BULLARD, a prominent insurance
man, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21, 1845.
His father, Francis Bullard (1805-1887), was the son of
Jabez (1773-1852) and Mary (Hartshorn) Bullard. He was a
lumber merchant — a man of integrity and endowed with a re-
markably good disposition. Mr. BuUard's mother was Harriet D.
Monson, daughter of Mary Daggett and George Monson, a woman
whose moral and spiritual influence was particularly strong upon
his life. Mr. Bullard is a descendant of John Bullard, who first
settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, about 1630. Mr. Bullard's
great-grandfather, Seth Bullard, was a Major in the Revolutionary
War.
Mr. Bullard received a good education in the schools of Boston,
but he is not a college-bred man. In 1861 began his active career
in life as a clerk in an insurance office. By dint of industry and per-
severing effort he rose rapidly and is now associated with the firm
of Cyrus Brewer and Company.
Since 1886 Mr. Bullard has been a member of the Union Club of
Boston, and is a Trustee for the Institution for Savings in Roxbury,
and has been president of the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters.
In politics he is an Independent having changed his party on the
Cleveland-Blaine issue. In religion he is affiliated with the Uni-
tarian Church. As a mode of relaxation and diversion he greatly
enjoys reading and walking.
February 27, 1878, Mr. Bullard was married to Florence E.,
daughter of Frederick A. and Emeline A. (Hook) Todd, grand-
daughter of Francis and Abigail (Brown) Todd and of WilHam and
Abigail (Greenleaf) Hook. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Bullard, Lawrence, who is in the insurance business.
Mr. Bullard in his business life is straightforward and honest.
His moral character and personal virtue are above reproach and
his scrupulous integrity and exactness in his business life have
brought to him many friends. He is generous in thought and deed
and always broad and enlightened in his views on all questions,
and he stands as a worthy representative of the fine, dependable,
and reliable type of New England business man.
Mr. Bullard's success is due to hard, persistent, painstaking work,
fidelity to duty, a resolute determination to practice the " golden
rule " and in all his efforts to be useful to his fellowmen.
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT, a scion of one of Massa-
chusetts' distinguished famihes, who has achieved eminence
as a broad-minded, sagacious business man and a patriotic,
public-spirited citizen, was born February 26, 1861, at 11 Park
Square, Boston. His father, Samuel Cabot, born 1815, died 1885,
was an eminent physician and a noted ornithologist, ranking fore-
most in his profession; and his mother was Hannah Lowell Jack-
son. On the paternal side, his grandparents were Samuel Cabot
and EHzabeth Perkins, while on the maternal side were Patrick
Tracy Jackson and Lydia Cabot.
The Cabots are of EngHsh descent and came to Massachusetts
in the eighteenth century, while Patrick Tracy came from the
North of Ireland also in the eighteenth century. Godfrey Cabot
is a great-grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, founder of the Perkins
Institute for the Bhnd; and on his mother's side he is a descendant
of Patrick Tracy Jackson, to whom Lowell, Massachusetts, owes
its existence. The city was named in honor of Francis Cabot
Lowell, a brother-in-law of Mr. Jackson.
During his early life Mr. Cabot took a special interest in sciences
of every kind and in books on chemistry and physics. His mother,
a woman of gracious and genial personality, exercised a strong
influence on his moral and intellectual life and instilled in his mind
a sense of duty.
His education began in the Brimmer School, followed by a regu-
lar course in the Boston Latin School, and then by a course in
J. P. Hopkinson's School in Boston. He spent one year at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supplemented by a regular
course at Harvard College, from which he obtained his degree of
A.B., magna cum laude, in 1882. The year following was spent in
business with his eldest brother, Samuel Cabot, and the next year,
1883-1884, in post-graduate work abroad in the Zurich Polytechni-
cum and University in Switzerland.
In 1886 Mr. Cabot entered into a partnership with his brother,
Samuel, to make gas-regulators. In 1887, he began the manu-
facture of carbon black; the soot of natural gas — a species of
lamp black, at Worthington, Pennsylvania; and from that time
forward as he terms it, " he has paddled his own canoe." In 1899,
he built the Grantsville Carbon Works in West Virginia, the largest
carbon works in the world ; and he also owned a factory at Cabot,
Pennsylvania, which was named for him; and factories at Creston,
Glasgow, and Bristol, West Virginia. In 1911, the Pennsylvania
Carbon Company was purchased by him and he removed the plant
to Nancy's Run, W^. Va. After the purchase of the West Virginia
Carbon Company near Grantsville, in 1913, he extended a pipe
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system more than one hundred miles, and has been for fifteen years
the largest individual manufacturer of carbon black in the world.
Mr. Cabot has long and energetically striven to promote the
public welfare. On many occasions he has gone to Washington at
his own expense to plead for the metric system, for the bill that
abohshed making matches from poisonous phosphorus, and similar
reforms. As a firm behever in Preparedness, Mr. Cabot has con-
tributed large sums towards national defense in the air.
He was elected ensign A. D. 0. in the Massachusetts Volunteer
Militia, June 26, 1916, and resigned, in March, 1917, to accept a
commission as Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, in
the branch for Aeronautical Coast defense work, his particular
duties being to act as Aviation Aide to Captain Rush. On April 16,
1917, he was placed in charge of the Aviation Camp at Marblehead.
Mr. Cabot has received many patents, the most important being
on the transportation of liquefied gas ; he has also written a number
of articles on scientific and political topics.
Mr. Cabot is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Unitarian
Church. His favorite form of amusement is tennis, and he pursues
aviation as a duty of national defence.
Mr. Cabot is President of the Liquid Fuel and Gas Company,
Wheehng, West Virginia; Treasurer of the Bristol Oil and Gas
Company; Vice-President of the Carbon Black Manufacturers
Association; member of the Society of Chemical Industry, of
the American Chemical Society; Trustee of the Cabot Academy,
Cabot, Pennsylvania; Treasurer of the New England Watch and
Ward Society, Boston; President of the Aero Club of New England
and Vice-President of the Aero Club of America. Mr. Cabot put
$30,000 at the disposal of Rear Admiral Fiske, U. S. N., retired, to
be used for a torpedo plane capable of carrying the heaviest torpedo
from England to Kiel. If this sum is insufficient he will add more.
On June 23, 1890, Mr. Cabot married Maria B. Moors of Boston.
Five children were born to them, all of whom are now living;
James Jackson and Thomas D., both heu tenants in the army;
Eleanor, WilUam P. and John M. Cabot.
Mr. Cabot wrote the following expressly for this publication :
" Forget what the country owes you. Focus every faculty on what
you owe your country, your race, and your God. Without this,
one can neither live happy nor face death without fear." Mr. Cabot
has carried on very successful experiments in picking up burdens
in ffight with a view to faciUtating transatlantic flight and im-
mensely increasing the radius of operation of the Mihtary Airplane.
These experiments continue.
BENJAMIN OTIS CALDWELL
BENJAMIN OTIS CALDWELL was born in North Bridge-
water, now Brockton, Massachusetts, October 14, 1845, and
died at his home in the same city March 12, 1916.
He was the son of Ebenezer Caldwell and Deborah Holmes.
He attended the Whitman School of North Bridgewater for his
educational training and then went out into the world for the
business of life and had an honorable and successful career. He
was one of those men who make good in the changes and enterprises
of a busy life and left a good name and a fair amount of the
world's goods as a reward of his efforts.
In 1859, at the age of fourteen, Mr. Caldwell started in as a store
boy and clerk in a dry-goods store in Brockton and in a year went
to Taunton in the same capacity.
In 1862 he shared the inspiration of so many American youth to
serve the country in the Civil War, and enlisted in the 4th Regiment
of Massachusetts Volunteers. He served in Louisiana, participating
in several actions and in the campaign that resulted in the capture
of Port Hudson. Returning with his regiment he associated him-
self again with one of the dry-goods firms with which he had previ-
ously been connected and went to Newport, Rhode Island, but
returned to Brockton in 1867. In 1868 in connection with Embert
Howard he took over the business of Kingman and Hollywood and
formed the co-partnership of Howard and Caldwell, in the clothing
and men's furnishing business. This co-partnership lasted for
forty-three years and was marked not only by successful business
associations, but by a life-long friendship and social intimacy which
continued after the business was sold in 1911.
Not only was Mr. Caldwell eminently successful in his regular
business, but in real estate enterprises and in the ownership of store
property he entered into operations which showed his good judg-
ment and foresight. He conducted all his affairs in a way that made
him many friends. He had the qualities of an attractive personaHty.
He was always genial and optimistic. His integrity was unques-
tioned and he was ready with advice to those who desired the
benefit of his experience and had rehance upon his judgment and
friendly counsel. Not only in his own business affairs as the partner
of a long-established house did he contribute to the welfare of the
city, but in all respects he was a part and parcel of Brockton's
prosperity.
BENJAMIN OTIS CALDWELL
The enlargement of his store on five different occasions is evi-
dence of the extent and prosperity of an estabhshment which stood
among the largest and best known in New England.
Mr. Caldwell's home life was attractive. He had a handsome
residence, where he exercised his gift for hospitality.
His death was quite sudden, just as he was on the eve of departure
on one of his pleasure trips to the South, in gratification of the love
of travel and in association with his old partner. His funeral was
marked by the tribute of a large attendance, and many business
places closed during the hour of service out of respect to him.
Representatives were present from the many organizations of
which he had been an active and prominent member.
Mr. Caldwell was a member of the Paul Revere Lodge of Masons,
and Bay State Commandery of Knights Templar and Aleppo
Temple of the Mystic Shrine, a charter member of the Commercial
Club, the Country Club, Fletcher Webster Post of the Grand Army,
and the Brockton Agricultural Society. He was very much inter-
ested in this last organization, having been one of its originators,
and Vice-president. His executive abihty was recognized in the
arrangement for the famous Brockton fairs, as he was for many
years Chairman of the Track Committee. His straightforward
dealings won the respect of all with whom he had relations in the
exciting race events. His love for horses, whether he drove his own
over the road in the pastime of pleasure driving, or witnessed the
friendly contests on the race track, was a genuine quality of his
nature.
Although he had decided political views in support of the princi-
ples of the Republican party, he preferred to keep aloof from public
office and the vexations attendant upon political preferment.
In religious views he was of the Unitarian faith. He took a deep
interest in the Church of the Unity in Brockton and was prominent
in its affairs and served for years as its Treasurer.
Mr. Caldwell was married June 20, 1867, to Emma M. Fairbanks,
daughter of Nahum and Louisa (Perry) Fairbanks of Milford,
Massachusetts. Two children were born of the union, one of whom,
Arthur Fairbanks Caldwell, is living and is engaged in mercantile
pursuits.
Mr. Caldwell is another example of a man who, by good habits,
energy and high principles, works up from humble beginnings to
fortune and an honorable position in fife.
JAMES BERNARD CARROLL
THE judiciary of Massachusetts holds a high place in the annals
of American legal history. Its members have always been
of a superior order of inteUigence, their decisions have been
marked by uncommon sagacity and by a profound grasp of funda-
mental justice and equity. Few of these eminent men have rendered
broader and more effective service to the Commonwealth than
Judge Carroll of the State Supreme Judicial Court.
James Bernard Carroll was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, on
the tenth of January, 1856. His father, Patrick Carroll, and his
mother, Bridget (O'Rourke) Carroll, were industrious, upright and
respected citizens of Lowell. When the boy was six years old he
had the misfortune to lose his father, but his devoted mother
assumed the double burden of caring entirely for the family, and
James was thus enabled not only to pass successively through the
grammar and high-school grades, but ultimately to receive a college
education. The boy was devoted to his studies, quick to grasp
explanations, and unusually reflective for his years. His manly,
open countenance, his cheerful disposition, his gentle manner and
his willingness to oblige everyone made him a general favorite, both
with teachers and scholars.
After a brilliant course in the classics, in the sciences and in
philosophy he was graduated, in 1878, from Holy Cross College,
Worcester, Massachusetts. The law had always been the goal of his
ambitions and he followed with eminent success the prescribed
curriculum in the Boston University Law School, taking the degree
of LL.B. in 1880. In the following year, 1881, he began the prac-
tice of his chosen profession in the city of Springfield. His ability
and his oratorial powers soon brought him into public notice and
he began a career of honorable service in the Springfield Courts.
When the Industrial Accident Board was organized by Governor
Foss, it became necessary to appoint as chairman a man of pro-
found knowledge of the law, of broad acquaintance with human
nature and of intimate acquaintance with the complicated questions
under dispute between the forces of capital and of labor. Mr.
Carroll was almost unanimously suggested for the post, and the
excellent service which he rendered to the industrial life of
the Commonwealth can never be adequately described. That the
merit thus acquired should receive due recognition was admitted
by all, and there was, in consequence, sincere rejoicing in legal circles
when Mr. Carroll was appointed by Governor David I. Walsh to a
judicial position in the Superior Court and shortly afterwards pro-
moted to the State Supreme Judicial Court. In all these ofl&ces of
trust he has more than justified the fondest hopes of his friends and
JAMES BERNARD CARROLL
he stands today one of the foremost judicial lights of Massachusetts.
Judge Carroll married Mary, the daughter of Michael and Mar-
garet Corbett, on the fifteenth of July, 1884, and a bright, refined,
sunny home bears ample testimony to the happiness of this union.
In social circles, he is a member of Saint Vincent De Paul Society
and the Knights of Columbus.
Judge Carroll is a man of many rare and varied gifts, and as a
citizen he has given to his native state an example of untarnished
personal uprightness, of high civic virtues, of broad social sym-
pathies and of fearless courage in the pursuit of duty.
As a lawyer he was characterized by profound and well-nigh
universal knowledge, not only of matters connected with the law
but also of many other departments of learning, by his clear grasp,
of the definite point at issue in a trial, by his lucid presentation of
facts, by his orderly arrangement of arguments and by his forceful
insistence of the fundamental ethical principles upon which justice
and equity ultimately rest.
As chairman of the Industrial Accident Board, he was the very
personification of impartiahty. He declared that the establishment
of this Board made Massachusetts the foremost State in the Union,
as regards the legal protection given workingmen. He looked to
the Workingmen's Compensation Law for a solution of the compli-
cated problems of industrial life, and the removal of the vexatious
court delays and of expensive Htigation. In season and out of
season this farsighted and sincere lover of his fellowmen has
sought to bring capital and labor into relations of harmony.
As a dispenser of justice Judge Carroll is conspicuous by his
clear and masterly statement of the law as it bears upon particular
disputes, by his rigid sense of justice and by his absolute determina-
tion to protect by every power in the land the well-established rights
of the individual citizen. He holds emphatically that the state
exists for the welfare and development of the individual, and that
its highest praise is the expressed confidence of its citizens in the
security and protection afforded by its courts of law.
As an orator for important civic gatherings. Judge Carroll has
always been in great demand. Having a comprehensive grasp of
sound moral principles and a lofty view of American citizenship,
his utterances always command the attention of intelligent men,
while his polished diction, his command of clear crisp English, and
the ardor of a nature full of intense feeling render him a favorite
speaker with all classes of citizens. Men of this type are not only
a strong bulwark to the state in all emergencies, but they are
moreover an inspiration to the younger members of the community
to follow superior ideals and to cultivate the loftiest personal and
civic virtues.
WILLIAM ENDICOTT CLAPP
THE surname Clapp had its origin in Osgod Clapa, a Danish
noble in the court of King Canute. The ancient seat of the
family is at Salcombe in Devonshire. The American
branches of this family are descended from six immigrants, brothers
and cousins, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, about 1630,
and they and their descendants have scattered to all parts of the
country. Thomas Clapp, the immigrant ancestor, was born in
England in 1597, and in 1634 landed at Dorchester, and was ad-
mitted a freeman in 1636. He later removed to Weymouth, and
still later to Scituate, Massachusetts, where he was deputy to the
General Court, and a useful and eminent citizen. The Clapp
family has given to the nation a long line of distinguished per-
sonages. Among these may be included Thomas Clapp, born at
Scituate, Massachusetts, June 26, 1703, an American clergyman
and educator, who served as president of Yale College from 1740
to 1766, and was also pastor of the church at Windham, Connecti-
cut, from 1726 to 1740.
WilHam Endicott Clapp was born in Danvers, Massachusetts,
August 2, 1878. His father, Granville W. Clapp, June 3, 1849, is
21 retired shoe manufacturer of the firm of Clapp and Tapley, a man
of honesty, firmness, and perseverance. His mother, who before
her marriage was Adaline Dodge, was the daughter of Benjamin C.
Dodge, 1809-1858, and Almira Dodge. She is a woman of rare
personality. Through his father he is descended from Isaac P.
Clapp, 1800-1882, and Harriet Moore.
As a youth WilUam Clapp indulged in the study of the classics
and history. After graduating from the Danvers High School with
scholarship honors he entered Amherst College, graduating in 1900
with the degree of A.B. cum laude, and a winner of the Hardy Prize
for excellence in debate. During his preparatory school days h
was the organizer and for three years served as president of th
Sumner Club, Lyceum League of America, under the Youth's
Companion, for the purpose of promoting debating among boys.
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Having decided on the legal profession at the early age of twelve,
and never for a moment deviating, even in thought, from his pur-
pose to become a lawyer, Mr. Clapp entered the Harvard Law
School and graduated in 1903. Immediately after his graduation
he served apprenticeship in association with General E. R. Champlin
in Boston, but on the basis of acquiring his own clientage by general
practice for himself in Boston and Danvers. He was studious by
nature and by habit. His mind is active, his decisions clear and
his speech directly to the point. Mr. Clapp has always had the
strong convictions that one endowed with the privilege of an edu-
cation owes an obhgation to his community in the way of public
service. His fellow citizens have had in him a staunch and faithful
friend, and have often manifested their appreciation of his efforts
in their behalf.
From 1903, before his graduation from the Harvard Law School,
to 1912, he served as a member of the Danvers School Committee,
and as chairman from 1907 to 1912. His able advocacy of the
measures calculated to advance public interests gained for him a
wide reputation and much popularity. In 1906 he was appointed
Town Solicitor, and he served faithfully for four years. As a citizen
hs is public-spirited, liberally encouraging every commendable
work, and entertaining a deep interest in all worthy movements.
Since 1905 Mr. Clapp has served as attorney for the Danvers
Savings Bank, and since 1902 he has been a member of the Republi-
can Town Committee.
Mr. Clapp was a member of the English Six Law Club of Harvard,
the Pierian Sodality of Harvard, and he was leader of the Glee Club
in 1903. He is a prominent member of Amity Lodge of the Masons.
He has served as corporation treasurer of the Theta Delta Chi
fraternity, and is now financial secretary of the Amherst Alumni
Chapter.
In politics Mr. Clapp is a Republican. In religion he is a com-
municant of the Maple Street Congregational Church of Danvers,
and a teacher of a Sunday-School class of boys. For some time he
was the leader of an adult class for the discussion of the practical
problems of religion. He organized and was the first president of
the Men's Club connected with his church. For relaxation he finds
much pleasure in music.
On June 26, 1907, he was married to Abbie L. Yapp, daughter of
George and Sarah (Davis) Yapp of Littleton, Massachusetts. Two
WILLIAM ENDICOTT CLAPP
children were born of this marriage, Wilma Gertrude, and Warren
Endicott Clapp.
Mr. Clapp is a member of the Essex Bar Association and the
Salem Bar Association. He has served as president of the Danvers
Board of Trade since 1916.
The secret of WilHam Endicott Clapp's success lies in his sound
common sense, the logic and alertness of his intellect, and the tire-
less industry that has enabled him to master every detail of his
profession. Possessed of a hberal education, a close student of the
principles of the law, thorough in his investigations, methodical in
the arrangement, and discriminating in the selection of evidence,
he is successful before juries, forceful in his statement of facts, and
quick to see the weak points of his opponent's case and prompt to
take advantage of them.
As a lawyer he displays ample learning, unfaihng courtesy and
dignity, and a conscientious desire to do equal and exact justice.
Mr. Clapp's advice is:
" To young men with the endowment of an education, let me
say that I esteem most highly those men whose attitude and point
of view in life has for its foundation the being one's natural self,
with the spirit of a simple democracy antagonistic to anything that
savors of the aristocrat or snob. Assume nothing which you are
not, never pretend that you do or can know it all, and if you possess
the real substantial qualities that education and experience alone
can give you and which deserve to merit, tortoise-shell glasses or
other artificial means of pretension will not be required to impress
upon others the learning and dignity which you possess and the
respect with which they must regard you."
" The first and last thought should be to minister and serve."
"Amherst taught me this brand of democracy."
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CHARLES RUSSELL CODMAN
CHARLES RUSSELL CODMAN was born in Paris, France,
October 28, 1829. His father was a native of Boston and
bore the same name, Charles Russell Codman, and was born
December 19, 1784, and died July 16, 1852. His mother was Anne
MacMaster of New York City. His grandparents were John Cod-
man and James MacMaster, Margaret Russell and Anne Van Bus-
kirk. His father was a merchant, a man of sterUng integrity. His
lineage goes back to the Pilgrim Fathers of the Mayflower, John
Winslow and Mary Chilton; John Codman, his grandfather, was
also a distinguished Boston merchant. James Russell, his great-
grandfather, and Daniel Russell, his great-great-grandfather, were
both Councillors of the Colony of Massachusetts.
Among the books which occupied his attention were the ser-
mons of Phillips Brooks and of Frederick W. Robertson, the
histories of Rome, Greece, England, and France, the poems of
Tennyson and Shakespeare. His early education was obtained at
a private school in Boston and at a school in College Point, New
York. He graduated at Harvard in 1849, became a student of law,
and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar.
For a series of years he was President of the Boston Provident
Association, and of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital. He
has been chairman of the Trustees of the State Hospital for the
Insane at Westborough, and a member of the State Board of
Insanity. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives in the years 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875, and was a member of
the Massachusetts Senate in 1864 and 1865. He was a delegate at
the National Convention of the Republican party which nominated
General Garfield for President. He has belonged to the Board of
Overseers of Harvard College, and was President of the Board for
three years, and has been a Captain in the Boston Cadets. In the
Civil War, he was Colonel of the 45th Massachusetts Volunteers,
and served one year.
He is, in politics, an Independent. He is affiliated with the
Episcopal Church, attending on the services of Trinity Church,
Boston. His chief recreation has been golf.
He was married February 28, 1856, to Lucy Lyman Paine,
daughter of Russell Sturgis and Mary (Hubbard) Sturgis, and
granddaughter of Nathaniel Russell Sturgis and Susan (Parkman)
Sturgis, and of John Hubbard and Jane Parkinson.
His is a record of an active and useful life, the study of which
wiU be most beneficial to young men.
WILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN
WILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN, senior member of the
firm Codman and Street, was born in Cohasset, Massa-
chusetts, August 6, 1860. His father, WilHam C. Codman
(1821-1903), was for many years a Calcutta merchant, but in his
later years turned to specialize in real estate, and was a man of the
strictest honesty and true refinement. His grandfather was the
Reverend John Codman and his grandmother Mary Wheelwright
Codman. On the maternal side his mother was Ehzabeth Hurd,
daughter of John Russell Hurd and Catherine Amory Codman
Hurd. The Reverend John Codman was the fourth John Codman
in line from Stephen Codman, who emigrated from England to
America about 1660. WilHam Coombs, in England an ancestor on
the Wheelwright side, was said to have been the financial backer
of Shakespeare, and his name is still preserved in Stratford-on-
Avon as the founder of a fund for the benefit of the poor widows of
that place. The Hurds were noted silversmiths and engravers before
the days of the Revolution. His mother, Ehzabeth Hurd, was a
woman of rare quahty of mind and character, whose influence over
the educational and spiritual hfe of her children was strong.
During his boyhood, Mr. Codman was especially fond of athletics
and hunting. He loved the freedom of the country, and gratified
this taste in middle hfe by acquiring a four hundred acre farm at
Hingham, Massachusetts. Its meadows and groves answer to the
moods of his mind, and a walk through his favorite haunts is a
means of diversion from the arduous duties of business life but
nevertheless he insists that it shall be a producing farm or he
would have no right to hold it. As a boy, he voluntarily took up
manual labor, and learned the value of honest endeavor, persever-
ance, and industry.
Receiving his early training in the public schools of Boston, sup-
plemented by a course in Mr. Noble's School, he entered Phillips
Exeter Academy, from which he graduated in 1879. Owing to his
father's temporary financial reverses, and to his desire that his
younger brothers, John Codman and Ernest Amory Codman, might
continue their studies, he was obliged to give up college just at the
time of his entering. He has said that his reading of Abbot's " Na-
poleon," Kane's " Arctic Exploration," Wallace's " Fair God,"
and the works of Dickens, Thackeray, Dumas and Victor Hugo
were all helpful factors fitting him for his life work.
WILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN
At the age of eighteen, he began his active work in hfe as a clerk
for Henry W. Peabody and Company, exporters. Three years
later, at the age of twenty-one, he started in business on his own
account as an importer of Mediterranean and East Indian mer-
chandise, continuing in same for over 30 years.
In 1900 he assumed the real estate business of his father, who
retired on his eighty-first birthday, the firm being Wm. C. Codman
& Son and later changing to Codman & Street. He is best
known for his work in the improvement of the Beacon Hill district,
the widening of Charles and other streets in the old part of Boston,
and the promotion of certain prominent buildings and as trustee of
Real Estate. These improvements were undertaken largely from
pubHc spirit and love for the old city, but they have also proved
financially successful.
Pohtically, Mr. Codman is an Independent Democrat, and al-
though never interested in politics as a profession, he reahzes and
exercises the duties of every true American citizen.
From 1880 to 1889 he served with the First Corps of Cadets.
He is a member of the Eleuses Lodge of Free Masons, St. Andrew's
Chapter, Boston Council, St. Bernard Commandery, and the
Boston City Club, and has until lately been a member of a number of
other clubs. He was the promoter of the Exchange Club and was
its first secretary, holding that position and serving as a governor
for six years. In rehgious affihations, he is an EpiscopaUan. For
recreation from his business, he finds keen enjoyment in running
a farm, shooting, fishing and in a game of golf.
On November 16, 1887, Mr. Codman married Sophia Munroe,
daughter of Dr. Horatio Southgate Smith and Susan D. Munroe,
a descendant from the Munroes who came from Scotland to Lexing-
ton, Massachusetts. Four children were born to them, three of
whom are living: William C. Codman, Jr. (Harvard, 1912), an
agriculturalist in Georgia; John, now in Harvard College, and
Constance (Mrs. Edward Brooks).
Business integrity, sagacity, untiring energy and true public
spirit account for his success.
To young Americans he offers this advice : "Athletics, as much
work and leisure as possible spent in the real country, historic
fiction and nature books will strengthen character, mind and body,
and make life worth while. Have ambition to try to live up to or
better your forefathers and rear your children to better you. Think
before and while you speak, but do not hesitate to speak your
mind. Don't think it is necessary to be the biggest pebble on the
beach, as you are more likely to be thrown into the sea."
MARCUS ALLEN COOLIDGE
MARCUS ALLEN COOLIDGE of Fitchburg, was born in
Westminster, Massachusetts, October 6, 1865. He is
a son of Frederick Spaulding Coolidge and Ellen Drusille
Allen Coolidge. He comes of good New England stock and his
ancestors figured in pohtical and business history for many years.
He was named for his uncle, Marcus M. Coohdge, the first of her
sons that the town of Westminster gave to the country in the
Civil War, and who was killed in the battle of Booneville, Virginia,
June 17, 1861.
The immigrant ancestor, John Coolidge, came from England in
1630 to New England, settled in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay
Colony, and was made a freeman in 1636. For several years he
served as one of the Selectmen, a position to which, in those days,
only high-minded, honorable and trustworthy citizens were called.
Charles Coolidge, the grandfather of Marcus A. Coolidge, was
one of the active, progressive business men of Westminster. He
was a pioneer in the introduction of the Manufacture of Chairs in
that town. Beginning in a small way he built up a large business
for those days, did much for the industrial interests of West-
minster and held many town offices. Nancy (Spaulding) Coolidge,
his grandmother, was a descendant from Edward Spaulding, who
came from the Abbey of Spaulding, Lincolnshire, England, to
America in 1630 and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
Marcus A. Coolidge received his education in the public schools
and at the Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Boston. He
assisted his father for several years in the Superintendence of the
Boston Chair Shops at Ashburnham, and the Leominster Rattan
Works in Leominster. Soon after completing his school days he
had taken up the study of electric railways, and from 1894 he was
engaged in the Street Railway development of New England, in
the days when electric railway construction and equipment was a
very active industry. This kept him very busy for several years,
and unlike so much of the railway construction of that era, Mr.
Coolidge's work has stood the test of time, for good honest building
and equipment.
Mr. Coolidge was superintendent of several of the railways after
their completion. He earned the confidence of associates and
financiers by square dealing and energetic handhng of every business
problem. In 1897 a banking institution of Fitchburg induced
him to accept the presidency of the Fitchburg Machine Works, an
old established company in that city. Mr. Coolidge has the rare
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gift of handling men. He is always an optimist and his good nature
has in no small degree contributed to promoting his business and
public success. Every worthy call finds in him a prompt and gen-
erous supporter. The leading benevolent society of Fitchburg
paid him the high compliment of being " the most humane employer
of labor in the city."
From his coming to Fitchburg, Mr. Coohdge has been interested
and active in every project that promised to advance the welfare
of the city. In December, 1915, he consented to be a candidate and
was elected chief executive of the City of Fitchburg. An unusual
incident of the campaign was the impromptu parade of over five
hundred of Mr. CooHdge's own workmen, who thereby paid a
tribute to their " boss " in a demonstration the like of which was
never seen in Fitchburg before. The most surprised man in the
City was Mr. Coohdge, as the celebration had been planned and
carried out by the men without the knowledge of any of the Cam-
paign Committees, Every man was there. Superintendents, fore-
men, laborers and skilled mechanics all marching shoulder to
shoulder with a common purpose.
Mr. Coohdge was Vice-President of the Fitchburg Board of
Trade and Merchants' Association for two years, but dechned
election to the presidency. He was president of the Fay Club in
1914, and is a member of the Fitchburg Chamber of Commerce and
Fitchburg Historical Society, director of the Wachusett and Safety
Fund National Banks, and of the Northern Massachusetts Street
railway company. He is a member of Fitchburg lodge of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Apollo Lodge of Odd
Fellows of Fitchburg. He is an attendant of the Universalist
Church.
He was married October 1, 1898, to Ethel L. Warren of Spring-
field, Vermont, daughter of Charles N. and Sarah (Minott) Warren.
They have three daughters, Louise, Helen and Judith. His home
life is an ideal one, and as he is devoted to his family, his greatest
recreation is found in their company.
The administration of Marcus A. Coolidge as Mayor was marked
by friendhness and courtesy towards all having any business at the
City Hall. Making no reckless promises he took hold of the
duties with a fine sense of the obligations imposed by the people of
the City. His valedictory was characteristic of the man — "I did
not come to the City Hall as Mayor to make this job a drudgery,
but rather to have a good time doing for the city those things which
I saw could be done with great benefit to the city and its citizens."
A natural leader, his administration was a very successful one.
He positively refused, for business reasons, to accept a re-nomi-
nation for a second term.
ALVAH CROCKER
ALVAH CROCKER, successful as a representative of the
people and in the business world, was born in Leominster,
Massachusetts, October 4, 1801. When he was but eight
years of age, he began working in the paper mill of Nichols and
Kendall in Leominster. He had eight weeks of schooling each
winter until he reached the age of sixteen. When he had saved
enough, he supplemented his meagre school training with a term
in Groton Academy. Returning to Leominster he taught school,
intending to earn enough to enter college, but his father, who was a
stern, intensely religious man of Puritanical traits, was prejudiced
against a course at Harvard College on account of the strong Uni-
tarian spirit prevailing there and thus young Crocker went to
Frankhn, New Hampshire, to work in a paper mill.
In 1823, Mr. Crocker returned to Fitchburg, and engaged in the
manufacture of paper. He built his first paper mill there in a
section known as Crockerville, in 1826. He constantly built more
paper mills and enlarged his business. He also became interested
in railroad construction for the advantage of the manufacturing
towns.
In 1834, Mr. Crocker was employed by the town to construct
a road further up the Nashua Valley. He finally bought all the
farm land as far as the Westminster line, and gave to Fitchburg
the needed strip for the required road. By this pubhc-spirited
act he laid the foundation of his fortune, for the mills of Crocker,
Burbank and Company were later located in this valley. In
1835, Mr. Crocker was sent to the General Court as representa-
tive, and he laid before the people the project of a railroad be-
tween Fitchburg and Boston. In 1836 he was again sent to the
Legislature, and carried through a vote of a million dollars to
complete the Western Railroad between Worcester and Albany.
Financial troubles arose, and this project was laid aside, but he
was again re-elected to the General Court and he took up the
railroad measures with renewed vigor. In 1842, he again urged
an independent line of railroad connecting Fitchburg with Boston,
and in spite of the opposition of Lowell and Worcester he was
fortunate in securing a charter for the Fitchburg Railroad. He
was the first President of the road and rode on the first locomotive
passing over it. When he resigned the presidency of the Fitchburg,
it was to accept the same office in the Vermont and Massachusetts
Railroad. He later resigned from this position, but not until he
had achieved what he set out to do, and carried the extension of
the Fitchburg to Greenfield, Mass., and Keene, N. H. During the
years from 1847 to 1850, Mr. Crocker was interested in the exten-
sion of the railroad to Troy, New York, and in the Hoosac Tunnel
project. He was instrumental in getting the Commonwealth to
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assist in the tunnel and in financing the railroad by hundreds of
speeches he made in favor of it.
He entered partnership with Gardner Burbank, a nephew of
one of his early employers. Other partners were admitted, and
after the retirement of Mr. Burbank in 1866, and the death of Mr.
Crocker in 1874, the business was carried on by the surviving
members of the family under the same name of the Crocker, Bur-
bank Company.
In company with several capitalists, he organized the Turner's
Falls Company, in 1866, purchasing land and building a dam with
a fall of 30 feet and a capacity of 30,000 horsepower. The death
of Mr. Crocker prevented his carrying out his project to its com-
pletion, but Turner's Falls owes its existence as a town to him.
He was interested in the establishment of the Keith Paper Mill,
one of the largest mills of fine paper making in the country; in
the Montague Mills and in securing other enterprises for the town.
He organized and became President of the First National Bank
of Turner's Falls, and also organized the Crocker Institution for
Savings. While developing his great project at Turner's Falls, his
interest in Fitchburg did not lax. He was an incorporator of the
Rollstone National Bank of Fitchburg, in 1849; director the re-
mainder of his life, and President after 1870.
In politics, Mr. Crocker was a Republican. As representative
he served the state during the years 1835-36-42-43 ; as Senator in
1862, and as commissioner for the construction of the Hoosac
Tunnel. He also filled the unexpired term in Congress of the late
Governor Washburn, when he was elected to the governorship,
and was re-elected a member of the Forty-third Congress.
Mr. Crocker was thrice married. His first wife, Abigail Fox, a
native of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, died at Fitchburg, leaving five
children — four daughters and one son. In 1851, he married Lucy
A. Fay, who died in 1872. The same year he was married to
Minerva Gushing, who survives him.
Mr. Crocker was a remarkable man and highly successful in all
the varied activities of his life. He was never idle and no one con-
tributed more to the material development of Fitchburg. By his
untiring energy and business sagacity in benefiting the whole
community. He was a generous giver and delighted in aiding those
less fortunate. In serving his community he did not forget the
greater service he owed his nation. During the War of the Re-
bellion, he was unable to participate actively, on account of ad-
vanced years, but he forwarded troops at his own expense, and
voyaged to England to plead the cause of the mutual benefit at-
tached to a community of interest and fellowship between the two
countries.
CHARLES THOMAS CROCKER
CHARLES T. CROCKER was born in Fitchburg, Massa-
chusetts, March 2, 1833. He died there January 6, 1911.
He was the son of Alvah Crocker and Abigail (Fox) Crocker.
His father was the foremost citizen of Fitchburg for many yearS;,
the largest real estate owner and largest taxpayer in the city. Ta
his untiring efforts was due the building of the Fitchburg Railroad
to Boston and he was President of the road for years. He was the
leading spirit in the building of the Vermont and Massachusetts
Railroad from Fitchburg to Greenfield and Cheshire Railroad to
Keene, New Hampshire, and of the Hoosac Tunnel. In every-
thing that would advance the business interests or promote the-
growth of Fitchburg he was always a leader, and his time, money
and influence were enthusiastically at her service. Few enterprises
were proposed or started to which he did not give substantial aid.
He served the city and town in many important offices, in both
branches of Legislature and as a member of Congress. His con-
nection with the banking interests of the city was very important.
He built up the extensive business of paper manufacturing and was
the head and manager of Crocker, Burbank & Co. No name was
more widely known in railroad, financial and manufacturing
circles or in pubhc affairs in the State of Massachusetts for years,
than that of Alvah Crocker.
Charles T. Crocker was educated in the Fitchburg pubUc schools,
and from the High School entered Brown University, from which he
graduated in the class of 1854.
On leaving college he entered the mills of Crocker, Burbank &
Company and thoroughly learned the business of paper making in
all its details. He was soon after admitted to the company, and
upon the death of his father in 1889 he succeeded to the many
positions of trust and responsibility with which his father was
associated. It was during the thirty years of active management
of Charles T. Crocker that the greatest advancement and success
in the manufacture of paper had been made. He became a director
of the Fitchburg Railroad and of the Vermont and Massachusetts
Railroad, retaining the Directorships during his life. He was
President and Director of the Crocker National Bank of Turners
Falls, and there was little of the manufacturing or other business of
Turners Falls in which he did not have a part. He was President
and Director of the Turners Falls Company, Director of the John
Russell Cuttery Co., and of Keith Paper Company. It was largely
due to the efforts of his father, Alvah Crocker, that the water power
of Turners Falls was developed and the town was built up, and
Charles T. Crocker carried on the work inaugurated by his father.
He was one of the organizers and largest stockholder in both the
Oswell and Nockege Corporations (Cotton Mills) of Fitchburg,
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and President of both, and also of the Star Worsted Co.; Director
of Putnam, Machine Company, Director of Fitchburg Gas and
Electric Light Company, and interested in many of the other
business enterprises of his native city. For years he was a promi-
nent figure in the paper manufacturing business of the country,
and in the railroad, financial, textile and steel and iron interests,
especially of New England.
His steady, calm, and accurate judgment made him a valued co-
worker in many fields of diversified industry. With all these
varied interests and responsibilities, in addition to his paper busi-
ness and his large real estate ownerships, he was one of the most
prominent men in the civic life of the town and city of Fitchburg,
and for more than a half century one of thfe strongest influences in
its political and corporate life. He found time for many public
and political duties, and to all of these obligations he gave the same
care and attention as to his private affairs.
He was a member of the First Board of Aldermen of the City of
Fitchburg in 1873 and in 1877 and was urgently desired to accept
a nomination as Mayor, but he did not feel that he could devote the
time that he thought should be given to the duties of that office.
He was Representative in the Legislature in 1879, and Senator in
1880, serving on many important committees. He was a staunch
Republican and could have had many state and national appoint-
ments had he felt he could accept them.
He was named as one of the incorporators of the Burbank Hospi-
tal and served until his death as a member of the Executive and
Finance Committees, giving loyal service in its management.
He was a liberal supporter of the Benevolent Union and its suc-
cessor the Fitchburg Associated Charities; a member of the Board
of Trade, the Merchants Association, the Manufacturers Club,
and a charter member of the Park Club (now Fay Club).
He was one of the most generous supporters of Christ Episcopal
Church of Fitchburg, of which he was a member and one of the
Vestry for more than 25 years.
October 14, 1857, he was married to Helen E. Tufts, daughter of
William Tufts of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and their children
are: Alvah, who is the head of the firm of Crocker, Burbank &
Co.; Emma Louise, who married Rev. E. W. Smith, a former
Rector of Christ Church; Kendall F., of the Crocker Real Estate
Trust; Charles T., Jr., member of Crocker, Burbank & Co., Rev.
WilHam T. Crocker of New York City, and Paul Crocker of Fitch-
burg.
He married second, June 1, 1881, Helen T. Bartow, daughter of
Samuel Bartow of New York City. Their children are: Edith
and Bartow C.
LINCOLN CLIFFORD CUMMINGS
LINCOLN CLIFFORD CUMMINGS was born August 23,
1857, in Portland, Maine. When only two years old, he
suffered an irreparable loss in the death of his father, Enoch
Lincoln Cummings, a rising young lawyer of great promise, who
died in Portland, Maine, at the age of thirty-two years. The father
possessed the mind of a philosopher and the h% standards of the
best type of New England progenitors. He was born May 23,
1827, and died January 21, 1859. Lincoln Cummings's maternal
grandfather was Nathan Clifford, born August 18, 1803, and died
July 25, 1881, a justice of the United States Supreme Court for
twenty-four (24) years and Attorney-General in President-Polk's
cabinet, and president of the Electoral Council (Hayes & Tilden).
His grandfather on his father's side was Colonel Simeon Cummings,
born June 2, 1783, and died February 2, 1831, whose wife, Lincoln
Cummings's grandmother, Polly Cushman, was a descendant of
the redoubtable Isaac AUerton, Pilgrim on the Mayflower and
noted in Puritan annals. His other immigrant ancestor was Isaac
Cummings, 1638, of Ipswich, with family traditions reaching back
to the Norman Conquest; the Red Cummin of Badenoch, Inver-
ness, 1080-1330, was a prominent figure in this Hne.
One of his ancestors, Isaac Bolster (History Paris, Maine, p. 526)
was in Revolutionary War and previously in Colonial service
(from 1755 to 1761). He was one of the Minute Men who marched
to Concord, April 19, 1775, serving as Lieutenant in Captain John
Putnam's Company of Colonel Ebenezer Learned's Regiment, and
later commissioned Captain. Another was Robert Cushman,
born in England, 1580, and died in England, Jan., 1625, Historic
Founder of Plymouth Plantation (Cushman Gen., pages 9, 77,
84), and another who died Apr. 21, 1799, helped to build the old
State House on State Street, Boston.
Although born with such a wealth of ancestry, Lincoln C. Cum-
mings had the enormous handicap of orphanage and poverty to
surmount. But he had a noble mother, Annie Chfford Cummings
born January 19, 1830, died November 14, 1899, who brought up her
boy with a proper sense of his worthy antecedents and who in-
spired him with ambition to honor them. He had a responsive in-
tellect and a nature to be strongly and permanently influenced in
youth by matters religious, humanitarian, patriotic and political.
He was obliged as a boy to lend all the help he could to support the
home and to help pay for such educational facihties as he could
command. He obtained a good common school education and such
advanced training as Gorham Academy could give him. He fitted
for Harvard, from which his father had graduated in 1848, but
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LINCOLN CLIFFORD CUMMINGS
was unable to command the means to take the College Course.
He was fond of reading, and pored eagerly over Scott, Dickens,
Cooper, Irving, Emerson and the Bible, all of which had an im-
portant part in shaping his tastes and moulding his ideals.
At eighteen years of age, he became clerk in a cotton mill; but
his advancement in business enterprises from this time on was
rapid, considering the handicap with which he began life. In 1882
at the age of twenty-five he was president of the Portland Plaster
Mills and of the L. C. Cummings Manufacturing Company. He
continued in these enterprises until 1887. In 1887 he became
treasurer of the Bartlett & Albany Railroad. From 1887 to 1889
he was president of the Cummings Buffum Lumber Company of
Maine and New Hampshire. He was president of the Blue Ridge
Lumber Company of North Carolina from 1889 to 1891; of the
N. C. Cummings and Brother Packing Company, Maine, from
1890 to 1901. During these years he was contracting agent of
the ConsoHdation Coal Co. of Maryland, handling their steamship
and railroad business in Maine and New Hampshire.
Mr. Cummings was one of the Founders of the Navy League
of the United States, and a pioneer for adequate naval and military
preparedness. He has been elected honorary member of boards
of trade and chambers of commerce in Cahfornia, Washington,
Virginia, Georgia, Florida. He was made president of the National
Navigation Movement, 1906-1907; also chairman of the State
of Massachusetts Committee Navy League of the United States
for 1916. He also held membership in the First District (Maine,
New Hampshire and Massachusetts) Committee for Naval Re-
cruiting. He is a member of the Permanent Navigation Com-
mission of New York. He was made one of the Honorary vice-
presidents of the Navy League of the United States in 1911. He
was Vice-Commodore of the Portland Yacht Club in 1899 and
in 1900 was elected Commodore of same. The celebrated 90 ft.,
Herreshoff Steam Yacht " Lucile," was his Flag-Ship as Com-
modore. He also owned the 63 ft. steam yacht " Cara " built
after his own designs; the 60 ft. Schooner Yacht " Halcyon," and
the power-cruiser " Elsie III." The latter was turned over to the
Government in 1917 and as U. S. Naval Coast Patrol No. 708
was assigned to patrol of the Maine Coast during the German
War. Mr. Cummings holds government license as Master and
Pilot of steam propelled Vessels.
He is a member of the Mayflower Descendants of Massachusetts.
Yachting and Golf are his favorite recreations and amusements.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Woodland
Golf Club, Boston. In Religious matters he is an Episcopalian. He
was Vestryman of St. Stephens Episcopal Church, Portland, Maine,
LINCOLN CLIFFORD CUMMINGS j
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from 1892 to 1901; and Vestryman of All Saints' Episcopal Paristi
Brookline. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Secretar |
of the Brookline Federation of the Men's Church Clubs of Brookline',
He was president of St. David's Church Club, Roland Park, Balti;
more, Maryland, 1910-1911. He was president of All Saints;
Church Parish Club, Brookline, Massachusetts, for the years 1915
1916 and 1917. He has served as Trustee of estates. In politic;]
he is a loyal Republican. His first wife was Jessica Hooper Jose o!
Portland, Maine, whom he married in 1882. His daughter, Gwen
dolyn, born at Portland, Maine, July 2, 1885, is her child. De-.
cember 14, 1892, he was married to Sarah, daughter of Henrji
Savage and Sarah (Leverett,) Chase of Brookline, Mass. As the;
issue of this marriage there were born five children, of whom three I
are now living: Rosamond, Henry Savage Chase, and WiUiam,
Leverett. Margaret Atherton was born October 19, 1896, and'
died August 8, 1897. 1
Lincoln Clifford, Jr., a young man of unusual promise, who had
just won his degree of bachelor of arts at Harvard, class of '17 in
three years, was born June 18, 1895, and died suddenly of infantile
paralysis, September 11, 1916, at the age of twenty-one years three
months.
The following is copied from the Baltimore American :
" A man of national reputation, who has thrown himself with
power into the arena of national politics and civic reform, as cham-
pion of equal opportunity for all American citizens, Lincoln C.
Cummings is strong for adherence to the Constitution, a public
benefactor and self-made man of affairs, whose public writings and
utterances have commanded wide editorial and press notice."
" He was the candidate of many leading men and organizations
for Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the Taft Cabinet and was
head of the national movement for government inspection of
passenger steamships crews.
" His labors, at his own expense, for better protection of hves at
sea were instrumental in securing Federal legislation largely cover-
ing his recommendations, and for which he was publicly thanked by
the Department and by formal resolutions of many of the com-
mercial organizations of the United States."
The Los Angeles Herald said editorially (March 19, 1911):
" Much of the success of the National Convention of the Navy
League here is due to the indefatigable efforts of Lincoln C. Cum-
mings, the honorary vice-president. Mr. Cummings, who made
the leading address at the convention, stands in the foremost
rank as a speaker of great power and magnetism. The Navy
League and the country have reason to be proud of him as a leader
of thought."
JOHN HENRY CUNNINGHAM
JOHN HENRY CUNNINGHAM, long prominent in manu-
facturing circles, and a leader in military and business affairs,
was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He was born there on
March 9, 1851, and died August 19, 1918. He was the son of
Thomas and Sarah W. (Miller) Cunningham.
The early days of Mr. Cunningham's life were spent in his native
community, and it was in the public schools of that city and Charles-
town that he received his education. This training w.is supple-
mented by a course in a commercial college in Boston in 1871.
Immediately after graduation he entered his father's iron works,
founded in 1852, and three years later became superintendent of
the works. He continued in this business during the rest of his
active business life and gained a wide reputation for rehable methods
and honorable success.
In 1876 Mr. Cunningham was admitted to partnership, the firm
name becoming Thomas Cunningham and Son. Upon the death of
his father on July 9, 1882, the firm name was changed to J. H. and
T. Cunningham, his brother having been taken into partnership,
and it so remained until the business was incorporated under the
title of the Cunningham Iron Works Company, with Mr. Cunning-
ham as treasurer, a position which he filled acceptably until Febru-
ary, 1887. He then established the J, H. Cunningham Company,
wholesale dealers in wrought iron pipe and fittings for steam, gas
and water, of which he became president and treasurer, and con-
tinued as such, retiring from business some 5 years previous to his
death. He had been Vice-president of the Lone Star Iron Com-
pany of Texas and was active in other iron concerns.
He was also actively interested in many business institutions
and was especially prominent in financial circles. In Chelsea,
Massachusetts, to which city he removed from Charlestown in
1874 he founded the Winnisimmet National Bank, of which he
became president. Many positions of public responsibihty and
preferment were given to Mr. Cunningham for his fellow citizens
were quick to recognize his powers of leadership, his loyalty and
JOHN HENRY CUNNINGHAM
trustworthiness just as they had measured his business abihty and
honesty. He was one of the incorporators of the County Savings
Bank, serving as a member of the Committee on investments; was
a large owner in and a director of the Winnisimmet Ferry Com-
pany, and was also interested in the New England street railways.
He was president of the Plymouth and Kingston Street Railway
Company, Plymouth; vice-president of the Gloucester Street
Railway Company, Gloucester; vice-president of the Boston
Construction Company and a heavy stockholder in and a director
of the following street railway companies: the Worcester, Leicester
and Spencer, the Worcester and Millbury, the Lynn and Boston,
and the Haverhill and Amesbury. He was president of the Massa-
chusetts Street Railway Association, and of the Boston Construc-
tion Company; and a director of the Beacon Trust Company of
Boston.
Mr. Cunningham's miHtary career covered a period of twelve
years, nine years of which were spent in the Fifth Regiment,
Massachusetts Volunteer Mihtia, and three years on the staff of
Governor WilUam E. Russell, as assistant adjutant-general with
the rank of colonel.
Socially he was well known and esteemed. He was a past master
in Robert liash Lodge of Free Masons of Chelsea, a Knight Templar,
a thirty-second degree Mason, and a life member of the Massachu-
setts Consistory. He was also a member of the Boston City Club
and the Boston Athletic Club and the Review Club of Chelsea.
In politics he was a Democrat, having served as president of the
Chelsea Democratic Club, and was a member of the Young Men's
Democratic Club of Massachusetts. He was fond of travel and
had made several trips around the world.
On April 10, 1873, Mr. Cunningham was married to Miss Frances
E. Prouty of Cohasset. She survives together with one son. Dr.
John Henry Cunningham of Boston, at present in the U. S. Army
on the staff of Surgeon General Gorgas at Washington, D. C,
and a daughter Mrs. Arthur Willis of Brookhne.
The name of Colonel John Henry Cunningham will long be
honored in his community for his prominence in business and pub-
lic affairs, and for his own worth and stability as a citizen and a
man.
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FRANKLIN HERBERT DOWNS
FRANKLIN HERBERT DOWNS was born in Mechanic
Falls, Maine, December 13, 1859. His parents were Asa L.
Downs — who was born January 28, 1828, and died January
28, 1892; and Clara Jane (Perkins) Downs. His father's parents
were Jedediah Downs — who was born in December, 1794, and
died October 1, 1875, at the age of 80 years and 10 months — and
Dorcas (Clark) Downs, who died November 13, 1879, at the age of
77 years and 5 months. His mother's parents were Isaiah Perkins,
who was born in October, 1795, and died March 22, 1876, at the
age of 80 years and 5 months — and Matilda (Peterson) Perkins,
who died January 18, 1859, at the age of 64 years and 6 months.
Three of his great-grandparents came from England, while his
great-grandmother Clark was an Indian.
At eleven he began to clothe himself from the money earned
by peddling candy in the paper mills, and by driving cows to
pasture. At the age of thirteen he worked in a gun factory. He
entered Hebron Academy and fitted for college.
At the age of eighteen he started to learn the shoe business. His
first position was in the making room of a shoe factory in Mechanic
Falls, in his native state. The very next year, however, he went to
Kennebunk, then to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he entered the
employ of the Ventilating Water-Proof Shoe Company, with Joseph
Davis as the President of the Company. He remained with this
company six years, when a partnership was formed under the
firm name of Cushing and Downs, shoe manufacturers. This
continued for five years until, in 1889, he associated himself with
J. N. Smith and Company. At the end of five years, in 1894, he
bought out the business of J. N. Smith and Company, and formed
the Downs and Watson Company, which continued until Decem-
ber, 1906. Then Mr. Downs retired from business for a year and
a half. But in 1908 he became a partner in the P. J. Nangle and
Company, cut sole manufacturers.
Mr. Downs is a Republican in politics and a Universalist in his
religious affiliations. He has been a director of the Lynn Hospital
and of the Lynn Safe Deposit and Trust Company. He is a member
of the Lynn Historical Society Oxford Club Lynn, and of the Boston
Art Club. Algonquin, Boston Athletic Association, and Corinthian
Yacht Club. He has been prominent among the Masons and the
Elks. Is fond of horses, baseball, golf, — in fact — all athletic sports.
On June 20th, 1895, Mr. Downs married Anne Ballantyne,
daughter of Adam S. and Mittie (Tilton) Ballantyne. She is a
granddaughter of Jeremiah and Anne (Carter) Tilton, and of James
and Christina (Rae) Ballantyne, and is of Scotch descent. There
have been no children born of this marriage.
By devotion to business, he has succeeded in his chosen career.
LOUIS STOUGHTON DRAKE
LOUIS STOUGHTON DRAKE was born at West Rush,
Munroe County, New York, August 5, 1865. His father,
Andrew Jackson Drake (October 8, 1825-May 18, 1894) was
the son of John Drake (April 12, 1782-November 19, 1855) and
Prudence Dean of Taunton, Massachusetts. He was a cotton manu-
facturer and afterwards became a dealer in grain, and was character-
ized as " a quiet Christian gentleman, of the old school." He was
a descendant of Thomas Drake who was born at Colyton, Devon
County, England, September 13, 1635, and in 1653 sailed from
England to settle in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and was a de-
scendant in the tenth generation of John Drake of Mount Drake,
Devon, England. The records of this family throughout have
shown great patriotism. Eighteen of them ralhed to the Lexington
Alarm in 1775, and forty served later for the State of Massachusetts
and in the Continental Army.
Mr. Drake's mother was Laura Miranda Clark, born January
28, 1835. She was a daughter of Foster Clark (May 21, 1808-
December 28, 1867) and Harriet (Blake) Clark. She was a de-
scendant of Hugh Clark who settled among the early colonists of
Watertown, Massachusetts, in the year 1640. To her son she proved
to be most helpful and it is with sincere regard he speaks of her
influence upon his intellectual life.
He had no special difficulties to overcome while securing an edu-
cation. He spent much time studying the New England flora and
preparing his herbarium which ranked among the largest privately
owned at that time. After graduating from the High School, he
began his active business career as a salesman in 1885, in one of
Boston's old East India Importing Houses. His office was filled
with the atmosphere of the famous clipper ships whose pictures
adorned the walls, and was fragrant with the aroma of the samples
of their cargoes. Thus was fostered that love of the romance of
the seas which has always appealed to the adventurous in the heart
of man, and which has made him a successful follower of the old
LOUIS STOUGHTON DRAKE
East India merchants who, in earUer days, carried the flag over the
Seven Seas.
In 1899, he became engaged in the business on his own account
and is now President and Treasurer of " Louis Stoughton Drake,
Incorporated, East India Merchants, of Boston, Massachusetts."
Mr. Drake has also spent many years in genealogical research
and compiled and pubhshed in 1896 " The Drake Family in Eng-
land and America, 1360-1895, and The Descendants of Thomas
Drake of Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1635-1691."
He is a life member of the " New England Historic-Genealogical
Society," the Exchange Club of Boston, and the Boston Chamber of
Commerce. Politically, he is an Independent Republican, having
left the Democratic Party on the silver and Bryan questions. He
is affiHated with the Grace Episcopal Church of Newton, Massa-
chusetts. For diversion, and as a means of recreation he is par-
ticularly fond of canoe racing, and for twenty years was an active
participant in all the leading contests which took place in the
Eastern United States and Canada. Later he became an enthusi-
astic small boat and canoe sailor.
January 15, 1894, he married Laura, daughter of Albert D. S.,
and Susan (Stoughton) Bell, a grandaughter of Robert G. and
Sophronia (Bruce) Bell and of Henry E. and Laura (Clark) Stough-
ton, and a descendant from Wilham Bell who came from Northern
Ireland, to Tewksbury, Massachusetts, about 1715. They have
had three children; Laura, Andrew Jackson, and Prudence Drake.
Mr. Drake's life demonstrates the well-known fact that only by
great perseverance with enthusiasm can success and prominence in
the business world be attained. Through his integrity, kindhness,
and tireless industry, he has attained a place in the hearts of his
friends and associates, and is recognized as an influential business
man and as an example and an incentive for other young men just
beginning their business careers. Through the influence of a good
home environment, of the best of companionships and constant
contact with men in the various walks of life, he has been fully
equipped to meet the difiiculties and trials which encompass the
life of every business man. He stands as a worthy representative
of the fine, dependable, and rehable type of the New England
merchant.
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER ELY
CHARLES CHRISTOPHER ELY, by occupation, Treasure!
and General manager of the Trimont Wrench Manufactur-
ing Co. of Boston, and by nature, a Poet, was born at Owego,
Tioga County, New York, April 19, 1847. His father, William
Alfred Ely (1789-1863), born at Lyme, Connecticut, son of Ehsha
Ely (1748-1801), who served as an officer in the Revolutionary
Army, and Susannah (Bloomer) Ely, was a successful general i
merchant and merchant-manufacturer of lumber at Owego. His 1
mother, Ann Smith (Gregory) Ely, (1810-1884). daughter of
Samuel Odell Gregory (1770-1849) and Ruletta (Cook) Gregory,
had a strong influence on his character and development. The
immigrant ancestor of Charles Christopher Ely was Richard Ely,
who came from Plymouth, England, to America in 1660, and
settled at Lj^me, Connecticut.
In 1865, after leaving school, he entered the employ of a drug
company, New York City, where he studied pharmacy two years.
Mr. Ely began his business career in 1868, when he engaged in
the drug business with his brother, Alfred G. Ely, and afterwards
with his brother Frederick Ely, in Owego. In 1887 he moved
with his brothers to New York and engaged in the manufacture
and sale of a drug specialty. In 1896 he sold out his interest in
this business to his brothers. In 1902, at the death of his brother,
Edward 0. Ely of Boston, Mr. Ely moved to that city and in
February of that year became treasurer and general manager of
the Trimont Manufacturing Company of Roxbury district, Boston,
succeeding his brother Edward O. Ely in that business. In June,
1905, he resigned his position and returned to New York City,
but took it again in May, 1908, and still holds it. Mr. Ely's life
work is and has been business, but he has taken up the writing of
poetry in recent years as a pastime and recreation, and is now
making a reputation as an author and a poet. In 1912 he pub-
lished "The Image Makers, and Other Poems"; and is at present
preparing to bring out a second edition of the first book with later
poems not yet published except in brochure form, in which the
following subjects are treated: — Inspiration, Imagination, Fancy,
Nature's Voice, Man's Dual Nature, The Garden of the Soul,
Love, Life, Happiness, Joy, Immortality, The Pure in Heart, and
The Kingdom at Hand. Loyalty to what Mr. Ely considers his
duty, has been a marked characteristic of his life, expressed in
self-sacrifice to business interests with which he has been connected
Mr. Ely is a member of the Presbyterian Church; and is identified
with the Republican party. Biographies, says Mr. Ely, are the
greatest educators; to know others what they have done, and
thereby to know ourselves what we may do, are inspirations to
high ideals and accomplishments.
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CLARENCE HOUGHTON ESTY
THE earliest record of the Esty family in England is found in
Essex County in 1484 in the will of a Richard Esthey.
From there the family spread into Sussex and Suffolk from
whence the American family came. The name is still represented
in Ipswich, England.
The American Esty family are descendants of Jeffrey Esty who
was given a grant of land in Salem in 1637 and of his son Selectman
Isaac Esty of Salem and his wife Mary Towne Esty one of the
martyrs of Salem witchcraft. In the will of Isaac Esty recorded at
Salem in 1711 he spells his name Esty, Estie and Estey. In various
records of his activities as selectman we find the name spelled also
Este and Easty.
Isaac Esty's son Benjamin moved to Dorchester in 1706, his
grandson, Joseph, born in 1724, and his great grandson, Joseph,
fought in the battle of Dorchester Heights in the Revolutionary
War. Isaac Esty's great-great-grandson, Elijah, married Sally
Winslow Williams of Roxbury, daughter of John Williams, Rox-
bury's well known tanner. Through her mother she was the direct
descendant of Mary Chilton Winslow.
The young couple went to the then wilderness of Central New
York where their son, Joseph Esty, was born in 1798. He became
a successful tanner at Ithaca and one of the founders of Ithaca's
business prosperity. He was elder in the Presbyterian Church for
fifty consecutive years.
His son Edward Selover Esty became a large manufacturer of
leather. He represented his constituency in the New York state
assembly in 1858 and in the Senate in 1882. He helped to reorganize
the school system of Ithaca, was President of the Board of Educa-
tion till his death in 1890 and was actively interested in every-
thing pertaining to the public welfare.
Clarence Houghton Esty, the third child of Senator Edward S.
Esty and Frances Amelia Wilgus Esty, was born at Ithaca, New
York, October 18, 1854. He entered the public school at seven,
at nine he took up the study of Latin, and at eleven that of Greek.
He was an omnivorous reader; his favorite authors were Dickens
and Scott whose characters became such familiar friends that
throughout his life he could recall any incident of these novels. He
inherited a strong musical taste from his father who was a volun-
CLARENCE HOUGHTON ESTY
teer organist for thirty years. One of his earliest recollections was
sitting on his mother's knee in the choir loft where she sang in the
choir.
As his brother went to Yale and his sister to Vassar his parents
wished him to enter the home University then newly founded by
Ezra Cornell at Ithaca. He entered Cornell when sixteen years old,
but left College for a year to travel with his family in Europe at
the close of the Franco-Prussian War and to join his brother
Albert who was studying in Leipsic University. They traveled
through England, France, Germany and Austria. After his return
he continued his college course and distinguished himself in Latin,
Greek, modern Languages, Philosophy and Oratory. He won the
Latin and Greek prizes and the Woodford gold medal for prize
speaking. He also delivered the Ivy Oration at his graduation in
1876. He was elected to represent Cornell at the Intercollegiate
speaking contest held at New York two weeks later, but a nervous
breakdown, to the great disappointment of his friends, necessitated
his giving up this honor and taking a complete rest. His record of
faithfulness in his work was remarkable. For two years he left his
home in the valley and climbed Ithaca's steep hill to the University
for an eight o'clock recitation and never was tardy and never missed
a day. Mr. Esty was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, when that chapter
was installed at Cornell.
After his graduation, together with his brother Albert, he entered
his father's business in the manufacture of leather. He took up at
the same time the study of law at Columbia University where he
obtained his degree of LL.B. in 1881 and was admitted to the New
York State Bar. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar on
April 5, 1901, to practice " as an attorney and by virtue thereof as
a Counsellor-at-Law in any of the Courts of the said Common-
wealth." He did not practice law, however, but continued a suc-
cessful business career under the name of E. S. Esty and Sons and
on the death of his father under E. S. Esty's Sons, until the forma-
tion of the U. S. Leather Company in the early nineties when he
retired from active business affairs.
The prominence of his family made him a familiar associate of
the founders and benefactors of Cornell University. His home was
an intellectual and social centre for the many brilhant visiting
lecturers of Cornell. Goldwin Smith, George WilUam Curtis, and
Joseph H. Choate were a few among the many entertained at his
house. He was an intimate friend and visitor at the home of
Andrew D. White. When the Alumni of Cornell gave the bust of
CLARENCE HOUGHTON ESTY
Andrew D. White to the University Mr. Esty was the speaker
chosen for the unveiHng. His histrionic abihty combined with his
exceptional deep, rich bass voice and thorough musicianship made
him a great success in the leading roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan
Operas which were produced in the late eighties at Ithaca.
Mr. Esty married February 23, 1893, Miss Rosamond A. Field,
daughter of Thomas Bassford Field and Mary Coe Field of Wells-
boro, Pennsylvania. Among her ancestors was Zechariah, a
grandson of the English Astronomer, John Field, who settled in
Dorchester, in 1627, and whose descendants moved, in 1629, to the
Connecticut Valley and were identified with the struggles of the
earliest settlers in the wilderness. They fought the Indians, were
in the massacre of Bloody Brook and Deerfield, two ancestors were
carried captive to Canada, later redeemed and brought back to
Deerfield. Mrs. Esty's father and the late Marshall Field, second
cousins, were playmates and desk mates at school in Conway,
Massachusetts, throughout their boyhood days. Mrs. Esty grad-
uated at Vassar College in 1888, received a diploma in music in
1889, and pursued post graduate work at Cornell, receiving her
master's degree at Cornell University in 1890. After a year spent
in New York in the further study of music and a year spent in
Minnesota as teacher she was married to Mr. Esty. They had five
children. Edward Selover Esty, Harvard 1916, an Ensign in the
U. S. Navy in the present war; Mary Chilton Esty, Vassar 1919;
Frances Field Esty, Vassar 1922; Rosamond Claire Esty, and
Geoffrey Winslow Esty.
In 1897 after a year's residence abroad Mr. Esty removed with
his family to Brookhne, Massachusetts, where he chose for his
permanent home the summit of Aspinwall Hill. He died on October
19, 1917.
Mr. Esty was gifted with an exceptional judgment and under-
standing of people. It enabled him to advise a number of leaders
of the country who sought and acted upon his judgment and thus
he exercised an influence on pubhc ajffairs although his health never
permitted him to take an active part.
He had a marvelous memory, a brilliant intellect, strong love for
Music and Art, was widely read and traveled, devoted to his home
and family and bore suffering with a true Christian spirit.
All who came in contact with him felt the kindhness of his heart
and the purity of his character and his hfe will be an inspiration to
all who were privileged to know him.
JOHN CALVIN FERGUSON
JOHN CALVIN FERGUSON was born in Lonsdale, Ontario,
Canada, March 1, 1866. His father, the Reverend John
Ferguson, July 8, 1830-January 1, 1916, was a clergyman of
the Methodist Episcopal denomination, and served many churches,
in the central part of Ontario. He was a man of sturdy, religious,
and independent character. Through his father Mr. Ferguson is.
descended from Duncan Ferguson, 1808-1865, and Susannah
(Preston) Ferguson. His mother, who before her marriage was
Catherine Matilda Fomeroy, was the daughter of Daniel Pomeroy,,
1801-1855, and Sarah (Taylor) Pomeroy. She exerted a strong and
beneficent influence over the moral and spiritual welfare of her son.
The Ferguson family of Scotland traces its origin to Fergus Mor
MacEarca in 498 A.D., and his descendants form one of the " three
pure Scotic Tribes." The family is scattered in all parts of Scotland
and in Northern Ireland. The branch of the family from which
Mr. Ferguson is descended came from Balquider (Balquhidder) ,
near Stirhng, in Perthshire where the family has been represented
continuously for at least six centuries. Here Robert Bruce took
shelter with a Ferguson in 1306 and there are many traditions,
connecting Bruce with the Fergusons. In Balquider was Ar-
dandamh House, the home of the head of the local clan. From
this family came Peter Ferguson who arrived in America in 1818
and settled near Perth, Ontario, Canada, where he gave his name
to the local village of Ferguson's Falls.
On his mother's side Mr. Ferguson comes from the Pomeroy
family of Windsor, Connecticut, the first Pomeroy in America
being Eltweed Pomeroy who landed at Dorchester, Massachusetts,
in 1630.
The name of Ferguson is indelibly inscribed among the first on,
the immortal scroll of Scotland, and is synonymous with patriotism,
loyalty to principle, practical commonsense, and all that may be
credited to pubhc and private virtue. It has been represented in
all fields of art, literature and religion.
As a youth, John Calvin Ferguson, was especially fond of reading,
and in addition to a careful rehgious training received a sound
classical education. His preliminary education was received in the
pubhc schools of Ontario, and at Albert College, Belleville, where
he received honors in classics, and his collegiate education was
attained in Boston University from which he graduated in 1886.
He spent a year in post-graduate study which together with extra
undergraduate studies entitled him to the degree of Ph.D. which
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he received in 1902. Mr. Ferguson made a special study of philology
at the university and speciahzed in Greek and Latin.
It was the wish of his parents that their son should be a minister,
and in 1887 he went as a missionary to China under the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
In 1888 he accepted the position of first president of Nanking
University which had been established by the Methodist Episcopal
Missionary Society. He raised the money for the erection of its
four buildings and remained as president for nine years until the
first classes in arts, medicine and theology had graduated. During
this time he became one of the founders of the Educational Society
of China and served it as Secretary, Editor and Vice-President.
In 1897 he was called from Nanking to Shanghai to become the
first President of Nanyang College, recently founded by the Chinese
Government. This institution flourished to an extraordinary degree
under his administration and reached a high standard of efficiency.
Nanyang College has the finest buildings and equipments of any
government college in China and its graduates are now filhng many
positions of high honor in the service of their country. During the
last year of his presidency of Nanyang College Mr. Ferguson was
sent by the Chinese Government to Europe and to the United
States to investigate higher commercial schools for the purpose of
introducing their methods into the Nanyang College.
Upon his return to China in 1902 Mr. Ferguson, who had already
been connected with the Viceroy of Nanking in an advisory ca-
pacity for several years, was transferred from his educational work
and was made secretary of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and
in 1903, chief secretary of the Imperial Chinese Railway Adminis-
tration, in which capacity he remained until 1905. As early as
1898 he was foreign adviser to the Viceroy of Nanking, and in 1900
was appointed concurrently foreign adviser to the Viceroy of
Wuchang, which official positions he filled until 1911. During this
time he continued to reside in Shanghai, and on behalf of the
Chinese Government settled with the French Government the
celebrated Ningpo Joss House case, was special commissioner for
the extension of the Shanghai Foreign Settlements, arranged the
plan for the protection of the southeastern provinces in 1900 during
the Boxer rebellion, thus saving the fives and property of foreigners,
and settled many other cases of dispute between China and foreign
countries. In 1902-3 he was a member of the Chinese Commission
for the revision of treaties with the United States, and also with
Japan. In 1904 and again in 1907 the Chinese Government sent
Mr. Ferguson to the United States on a special mission, in con-
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nection with the settlement of the dispute with the American- i
China Development Company concerning the construction of the i
Canton-Hankow Railway,
During his fourteen years' residence in Shanghai he was con- j
nected with important pubhc interests. For many years he was a \
member of the Educational Committee of the Shanghai Municipal I
Council and a founder of Municipal Schools for Chinese. He was
for ten years Secretary of the North China Branch of the Royal
Asiatic Society and Editor of its Journal. In 1911 he was President
of this Society. He was one of the promoters of the study of the ;
Chinese language by Municipal employees in Shanghai. He was
actively interested in rehgious work, was Superintendent of the j
Sunday School of Union Church, Shanghai, for ten years and was j
Secretary and Vice-Chairman of the first Committee to commence j
Young Men's Christian Association work in China. !
In 1898 Mr. Ferguson purchased the Sin Wan Pao, a Chinese
daily newspaper, and owned it exclusively for several years. Later
it was organized into a joint stock company in which he retains a
controlling interest. He continues to control the policy and organi-
zation of this newspaper which has now the largest circulation of
any newspaper in the Chinese language. From 1906 to 1911 he
also was the owner and Editor-in-chief of " The Shanghai Times,"
a daily paper published in the English language.
In 1911 he removed to Peking having been appointed Foreign
Secretary of the Board of Posts and Communications on account
of his familiarity with the development of railways in China. He
did not hold this position long on account of the breaking out of the
Revolution. In 1915 Mr. Ferguson was recalled to Government
service and was appointed Counselor of the Department of State of
China and in 1917 was made adviser to the President of China.
He has been actively interested in Red Cross work, and was one
of the founders, vice-president and councillor of the Red Cross
Society of China, and in 1912 was the delegate of China to the
Ninth International Red Cross Convention at Washington. During
1910 and 1911 he was chairman of the Central China Famine Relief
Committee.
Mr. Ferguson was decorated with the first class button and also
with the order of the Double Dragon when China was an Empire.
Since the establishment of the Republic he has received the order
of the Chia Ho. His services in diplomacy have been recognized
by the French Government, which made him a Chevalier de la
Legion d'Honneur, and the Emperor of Japan for similar reasons
conferred upon him the order of Sacred Treasure. He also holds
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the order of St. Anne from the Russian Government, and the Order
of Merit of the Red Cross Society of China, 1912, and of Japan,
1913.
Mr. Ferguson has made a careful and broad study of Chinese
Art in collaboration with noted Chinese connoisseurs. He has con-
tributed various articles to journals on art subjects and has lectured
on Chinese Art in many American Universities and Colleges. He
was chiefly instrumental in introducing several branches of Chinese
Art into American Museums and for his work in its behalf was
elected a Fellow in Perpetuity of the Metropolitan Museum, New
York. Of clubs he is a member of the Shanghai Club, the Peking
Club, the Shanghai Golf Club, the Century Club, and India House,
New York; the Hunnewell and Tuesday Clubs of Newton; of
learned societies he is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of
London, the American Oriental Society, the Archaeological Insti-
tute, the International Law Society, and numerous other leading
societies. As an educator Mr. Ferguson translated into Chinese,
" Steele's Chemistry," " Regulations Governing the MiHtia of the
State of New York," and Froebel's " Education of Man," which
first appeared in 1826, and had already been translated into the
languages of the more progressive nations of the world.
On August 4, 1887, Mr. Ferguson was married to Mary E.,
daughter of the Reverend Robert and Helen (Hurd) Wilson, grand-
daughter of Thomas and Mary (Neville) Wilson and of Ehzur and
Phoebe (Goldsmith) Hurd and a descendant from John Hurd who
came from Somersetshire, to Windsor, Connecticut, before 1640.
Nine children were born of this marriage, the eldest being Luther
M., graduated Harvard A.B. 1910, M.D. 1914, United States Army
Medical Corps, deceased 1916; seven are now living — Helen
Matilda, now Mrs. G. E. Tucker; Florence Wilson; Charles John,
Harvard A.B. 1915, lieutenant Company B, Fourteenth Regiment
of Engineers, United States Expeditionary Forces in France; Mary
Esther, Robert Mason, Duncan Pomeroy, and Peter Blair.
In 1907 he purchased an estate in Newton where he makes his
home while traveling to and from China in the performance of his
duties.
John Calvin Ferguson who has achieved success as missionary,
educator, art critic, and statesman, from his own experience and
observation offers this advice to his younger fellow-citizens: " De-
votion to the principles of our Christian religion, a thorough edu-
cation in a few subjects rather than a superficial acquaintance with
many, respect to elders and superiors, and a constant interest in
writings."
GEORGE CLEMENT FISK
GEORGE CLEMENT FISK, the eldest son of Thomas
Trowbridge, and Emily H. Fisk, was born in Hinsdale,
New Hampshire, March 4, 1831 and died April 6, 1917 at
his home in Springfield, Mass.
He received an exceedingly scanty education in the Hinsdale
district school and soon entered a general store in the village, but
the miscellaneous character of his duties was by no means to his
Hking. In 1851, at the age of twenty he therefore left Hinsdale
with fifteen dollars in his pocket with which to begin his conquest
of the world. He went first to Springfield and because he saw
nothing better in prospect entered a dry goods store there, but
presently relinquished this employment and was next heard from
as a clerk in a grocery store. A few months' trial convinced him
that mercantile pursuits were not to his taste and he decided to go
West in search of work. As a book agent he did not succeed in
Cleveland, his first objective point, and he went on to Beloit, Wis-
consin. Here he spent some time in looking about for work, but
he presently returned to Springfield.
At this juncture Eleazer Ripley was about to begin the manu-
facture of locomotives in Springfield and needing a bookkeeper
offered the position to young George Fisk who accepted it and while
they waited for the machinery, Mr. Ripley requested the young
man to take a temporary position in the car shops of T. W. Wason.
This Mr. Fisk did and Mr. Wason soon made him an offer of a
permanent position, and this offer, with Mr. Ripley's consent, was
accepted. This was in 1853 and the next year Mr. Fisk acquired a
partnership interest in the business. He served both as bookkeeper
and cashier and when the business was organized as a corporation
he became Treasurer. On the death of Mr. Wason he was chosen
President and then General Manager of the business.
In 1871 new car works were built at Brightwood, near Springfield,
named after the country seat of Dr. J. G. Holland, whose home over-
looked the site. Mr. Fisk planned the new shops, utiHzing to the
best advantage the sixteen or more acres devoted to the business.
The aim which he kept continually in mind in the erection and
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lacing the many structures composing the Brightwood plant, was
lat the shops should be light, airy, symmetrical in plan and perfect
1 convenience, an intention ably carried out, as those who visit
ae Brightwood works will readily perceive.
The product of the company will be found in service in every
art of the United States and their goods have gone also to Argen-
ina, Brazil, Chili, Panama, Venezuela, Yucatan, China, Central
Lmerica, Cuba, Egypt, Mexico, Nova Scotia, and Portugal.
The Fisk Casino, built by Mr. Fisk, is a small but well-equipped
heatre which furnishes an attractive place of amusement for the
5rightwood people. The drop curtain displays a view of Mount
(lonadnock and the Ashuelot Valley.
The Brightwood Paper Mills at Hinsdale which were built by
dr. Fisk supply employment to many persons and constitute one
if the chief industries.
Mr. Fisk took great pride in his thoroughbred cattle of which he
lad many highly valued specimens. He purchased the homestead
arm at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, with other farms, including
ibout six hundred acres, and there he spent many of his summers.
ie retired from the Wason Company in 1907, after thirty-seven
;-ears service as its President.
Mr. Fisk was married to Maria Emerson, a daughter of Daniel
3. Ripley. His son, George, died at the age of eleven, another son
Uharles A., died August, 1904, while Robert and Lena died in in-
fancy. Their daughter Isabel R., was married to Oliver Hyde
Dickinson, June 20, 1888. There are seven grandchildren and one
;reat-grandchild .
Mr. Fisk's career illustrated the power of self-help, of patient
purpose, resolute working, and steadfast integrity, issuing in the
formation of truly noble and manly character. The instances of
men in this country who, by dint of persevering application and
snergy, have raised themselves from the humblest beginnings to
Bminent positions of usefulness and influence in society, are so
numerous that they have long ceased to be regarded as exceptional.
Looking at some of the more remarkable instances, it might almost
be said that early encounter with difl&culty and adverse circum-
stances was the necessary and indispensable condition of success.
George Clement Fisk overcame adverse conditions and obstacles
and achieved true success.
RICHMOND FISK
RICHMOND FISK was born in Bennington Center, Vermont,
February 23, 1836, the son of Richmond Fisk and Lurana
Matteson Fisk. The father was born February 10, 1804,
and died October 16, 1877. Dr. Fisk's grandfathers were Jeremiah
Fisk (1766-1823) and George Matteson. Richmond Fisk, Senior,
was Deputy Sheriff, and Sheriff of Bennington County, a farmer and
lumber dealer, — a man of energy and incisive mind, but also a
man of broad sympathy and large benevolence. In the Fisk genea-
logical line is found Captain Phineas Fisk, who was born in Eng-
land in 1610 and was Captain of Militia in Wenham, Massachusetts,
in 1664. He was of the fifteenth generation in descent from Symond
Fisk, lord of the manor of Standhaugh, Suffolk, England.
In his youth Dr. Fisk learned to work. He was helper on his
father's farm and in the lumber yard. He claimed that his powerful
voice was gained from delivering orations out-of-doors to the
astonished farm animals. No other member of his family was noted
for such power of voice. He learned to live right by the teaching
and example of his parents. He learned self-reliance through the
discipline of earning his way through school and college. He pre-
pared for college in Ball Seminary, Hoosick Falls, New York, and
entered Williams College from that school in 1854. Two years
later he transferred to Union College, Schenectady, New York, from
which he graduated in 1858. He received the honorary degree of
D.D. from Tufts College in 1871. Upon leaving Union College he
studied law in Hudson, New York, and completed his course in the
Albany Law School.
Law was not to be the profession to which he devoted his strength
and life. The influence of the great teachers in Union College,
notably Professor Taylor Lewis and Professor Laurens P. Hickok,
remained as a spell upon him. He was drawn more and more
strongly toward the ministry. He studied for a time privately and
then began his ministry over the Universalist Church in Newark,
Wayne Co., New York, in 1859. Two years later he was ordained.
He then served churches in Lockport, New York and Auburn, New
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York, until 1868, when he was elected President of St. Lawrence
University, being the second incumbent of that office. During his
administration the preparatory school, which had formerly been a
department of the college, was discontinued; a law school was
established; a system of free scholarships was inaugurated for
northern New York, which remained in force for upwards of twenty
years, and Herring Library Hall was erected.
He resigned the college presidency in 1872, and returned to the
more direct service of the churches. He was pastor of Universalist
churches in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Syracuse and Watertown,
New York, and of Unitarian societies in East Boston, Massa-
chusetts, and Fargo, North Dakota. Wherever he was settled he
was always active in charitable and reform work. At Syracuse he
was foremost in establishing the bureau of labor and charities, of
which he was Secretary for seven years; and he also organized a
Red Cross Society, and was Secretary of the Civil Service Associa-
tion. A similar record remained of his work in all cities which
claimed him for a time in Societies such as Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, organizations for rehef of human ills, and various other
forms of appHed and practical Christianity.
Dr. Fisk was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon College
Fraternity, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he was a
Thirty Second Degree Mason. In politics he was a Republican.
On May 8, 1861 he was married to Adelaide Bartle, daughter of
James P. and Beulas L. (McNeil) Bartle, granddaughter of A. McNeil
and Mary (Miller) McNeil, who came from Holland and Scotland
and settled in New York. Two children were born to D^. and Mrs.
Fisk, of whom one survives, AHce Fisk, wife of Dr. Edwin
Bynner Butterfield, Ayer, Mass. There is also one grandson,
Fisk H. Butterfield.
Dr. Fisk's last professional service was as pastor of the Unitarian
Church in Ayer, and his death occurred in that town at the ad-
vanced age of seventy-nine.
He was author of many articles contributed to the public press,
and published addresses and sermons.
WALTER GRANT GARRITT
WALTER GRANT GARRITT, one of the organizers and
also vice-president of the United States Leather Company,
was born in Liberty, New York, May 12, 1854, and died
at his home in Brookhne, Massachusetts, October 20, 1917. He
was the son of Cyrenus and Dorothy (Burr) Garritt.
As a young man Mr. Garritt took a zealous interest in the leather
trade and after many years of patient labor developed an unusual
skill and knowledge of the business. He won the respect of other
manufacturers and dealers in leather for his sound judgment and
he was frequently consulted on important business matters in the
industry.
Mr. Garritt was a director of the Commonwealth Trust Company,
and vice-president of the Central Leather Company, also a member
of its Executive Committee devoting a day each week in New York
to the affairs of the organization. He was also a trustee of Boston
University and trustee of St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church
of Brookline.
Mr. Garritt was an authority and expert in regard to all matters
pertaining to the leather industry. He gave his time and thoughts
to the introduction of constantly new and valuable features, which
were adapted to meet the needs of the business. In the successful
carrying out of his ideas he manifested much enterprise, fertility of
resource and executive ability.
This business experience of Mr. Garritt taught him the close
relationship of the tariff to the successful building up of our great
industries. He never failed to make clear his earnest convictions
that tariff adjustments should be made along the lines strictly
scientific, with constant care to avoid excesses and the closest dis-
crimination in the application of rates. His interest in these
economic questions and his identification with the upbuilding of the
leather trade throughout the United States brought him into close
touch with public men and leading economists.
But Mr. Garritt was more than a business man. He was ready
to serve many uses and numerous ends in life. He was a man of
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wide sympathies, of broad views, of comprehensive purposes and
aims, and of a Hberal spirit. He was restricted to no one Une of
effort, and to no narrow field of desire or endeavor. Nothing
relating to the pubhc good or to the prosperity and welfare of the
community was foreign to him or failed to enhst his interest and
active support. His abihty, his manly character, his disinterested
spirit were recognized by his fellow citizens, who were quick to
acknowledge them and ready to honor him by suitable tokens of
confidence and regard. He was one of the One Hundred members
of the PubHc Safety Committee of New England.
The success of Mr. Garritt was due chiefly to himself, to his
untiring industry, his determined purpose, and to his unfaltering
perseverance, which no obstacles could deter or check. These
native endowments gave him success and won for him well earned
and durable honors.
In fraternal circles he was a member of the Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, having taken the Knights Templar degree.
Mr. Garritt was married February 18, 1891, to Polly Burr Hall,
daughter of Amos and Emily (Burr) Hall of Liberty, New York.
There were three children born of this marriage: Walter G. Garritt,
Junior, at present with the Ambulance Corps in France, Robert H.,
a member of the Naval Reserve, and Helen, now Mrs. Sheldon
Eaton Warwell of Brookline.
Personally Mr. Garritt was one of the most genial and approach-
able of men. He was ever ready to listen when appealed to, and his
sure and ripe judgment never failed to solve a problem placed
before him. He was a good citizen, one who cherished the best
American principles, and he left an influence that will Uve in the
memory of those who knew him for many years.
EUGENE ALBERT GILMAN
EUGENE ALBERT GILMAN, a native of the state of Maine,
was the son of Albert and Rachel Gilman. His father was
a teacher by profession.
The immigrant ancestor of Eugene Albert Gilman was Sir Ed-
ward Gilman, who came from Hingham, England, and settled in
Hingham, Massachusetts. He crossed the ocean in the ship
Diligence, which arrived in Boston on August 10, 1638.
Eugene Gilman was always much interested in chemistry and,
from his earhest boyhood, medical books held a special charm for
him.
He went to Harvard University, where he graduated from the
Medical School with the doctor's degree in 1872. It was as a physi-
cian that he became generally known.
He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and of the Republi-
can Party. In the later years of his life, driving was his favorite
amusement and recreation.
On February 4, 1889, he married Harriette D., daughter of Parker
and Ehzabeth Foster, of Boston.
Fifteen years before his death, he took up the study of Spanish,
and became a fine Spanish scholar.
Dr. Gilman had a ready pen and he was the writer of many
pamphlets, several of them of technical character.
Eugene Gilman was very fortunate in the conditions of his home
life; his mother was a noble and beautiful character who strongly
impressed the intellectual and moral development and spiritual
life of her son. To compose a poem in a foreign tongue would be
difficult for most men. Dr. Gilman was a hnguist as well as a
scientist and to his vigorous mind the composition of a Spanish
poem was a recreation not a burden. It is well that in America
and in our own day there are men like Dr. Gilman who by their
mental eagerness and freshness show how far the gulf stream of
our youth may flow into the arctic regions of our lives.
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GEORGE HENRY GRAVES
GEORGE HENRY GRAVES was born in West Fairlee,
Vermont, March 10, 1844, the son of George W. Graves,
born February 14, 1805, died July 26, 1879, and Laurinda
Watson, His grandfathers were Abner Graves, born 1780, died in
1860, and David Watson, born in 1776, and died 1865; his grand-
mothers, Katherine KibHng Graves and Nancy ElHot Watson. His
father, one of the early California gold seekers, was a hotel pro-
, prietor and postmaster at East Randolph, Vermont. His marked
characteristics were kindliness and integrity. He descended from
John Graves, who came from England prior to 1643 and settled in
Concord, Massachusetts, and John Kibhng, who came from Ger-
many in 1758 and settled in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. He is
descended on his mother's side from Matthew Watson, who came
from Ireland and settled in Boston in 1718, and John Elliot, who
settled in Roxbury. One of his ancestors was Major Joseph Elliot,
who served in the War of the Revolution.
Mr. Graves, who was an only son, was very fond of animals and
especially of horses; he assisted his father on the farm in his youth.
Mr. Graves enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a good mother's
strong influence upon his moral and spiritual life. Next to the
powerful impression made upon him by his mother and his home,
he counts the contact with men in active life as valuable in a
general way in molding his character and his career. His early
school life at Randolph Academy, Vermont, was interrupted by his
volunteering in 1861 to serve in the Civil War. He has always been
deeply interested in commercial literature and in history, and, no
doubt, this solid reading in early life formed an important part of
ihis education. After the war he attended Comer's Commerical
College in Boston.
I' His personal inclination toward a commerical life impelled him,
in 1865, to enter the counting room of J. J. Walworth and Company,
now the Walworth Manufacturing Company. Mr. Graves was
appointed cashier of the Walworth Manufacturing Company in
1870, and elected Treasurer in 1886 and a Director in 1889; he
jiwas Treasurer and Active Executive Officer from 1903 to 1913,
jjand has served continuously ever since as Treasurer. From 1888
"to 1891 he served as a Director of the Prudential Fire Insurance
Company of Boston, Director of the Maiden Board of Trade,
j 1892-97; Director Maiden Co-operative Bank, 1892-1904; Vice-
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president, 1903-04; Trustee of the Home Savings Bank of Boston, \
1903-04; Trustee of the Maiden Savings Bank since 1904, Vice- i
president since 1915, Director of the Kernwood Club, and Trustee i
since 1896, and President in 1905 and 1906, Trustee of the Massa- \
chusetts Soldiers' Home since 1912, Assistant Treasurer since 1915, ]
Director of the Boston Credit Men's Association from 1897 until j
1911, and President in 1907-08; and from 1901 to the present time, j
Sinking Fund Commissioner of the city of Maiden. I
Nothing, in his estimation, in his public service, exceeds in real j
usefulness the part he took in the Civil War, in which he enlisted in
Company G, 8th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, in 1861; he was ,
transferred to the signal corps (secret service), United States regular I
army, 1862, with rank the same as a sergeant in volunteer service;
he was honorably discharged at New Orleans, Louisiana, at the
expiration of his term of service in 1864.
Mr. Graves is a Freemason, member and pastmaster of Winslow
Lewis Lodge, Boston, and Chairman of its relief fund, member of
Pastmasters Association, First Masonic District, Boston; Chapter,
Council and Knight Templar Orders, of Maiden; past commander
of Edward W. Kinsley Post, 113, G. A. R., and trustee of its relief
fund, member of the United States Signal Corps Association, and
President 1918, ex-president of the Vermont Veterans' Association,
and member of the Exchange Club, Boston, the Maiden Young
Men's Christian Association, the Boston City Club, the Maiden
Associated Charities, the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics'
Association, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Graves has been identified with the Democratic Party, but
since the silver free coinage issue was raised has been independent
in voting. He is connected with the Trinitarian Congregational
Church. He enjoys a hfe in the woods, near to nature, and all out-
of-door sports.
He married Anna J. RoUins in 1880, who died the following year.
On June 20, 1888, he married Stella, daughter of Orison and Aurilla
(Manuel) Hadlock, and granddaughter of Gardner and Susan
(Morse) Manuel and of Joseph and Alvira (Bailey) Hadlock. Their
home is in Maiden and they have one son, George Elwyn Graves,
an architect, educated at Harvard and now an olEcer in U. S.
Army.
Asked to furnish from his own experience a suggestion as to the
principles which will contribute most to the strengthening of sound
ideals in our American life, Mr. Graves has written the following,
expressly for this pubhcation: " To make service assist success
one should show earnestness of purpose; enthusiasm; loyalty, a
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willingness to study and improve his job, whatever it may be, and
sometimes help his neighbor, putting aside the tendency to watch
the clock."
In a Boston paper for 1912 appeared the following: " On the
70th anniversary of the founding of the Walworth Manufacturing
Company twin loving cups were presented to George H. Graves
and George T. Coppins, treasurer and secretary, respectively, of the
firm, by 20 employees, all but two of whom have seen service under
these officers for more than 20 years.
The twin loving cups are inscribed with two quotations. One,
by Carlyle, is, " The leafy blossoming present time, springs from
the whole past." The other, from Thackeray, reads, " If we mayn't
tell you how we feel, what is the use of friends? "
The presentation address, delivered on the afternoon of March
16, was by William A. Jackson, purchasing agent of the company.
" The love and sentiment that go with these cups," said Mr. Jackson
in the course of his remarks, " are but poorly conveyed by either
the cups or their inscription. We ask you to remember that the
subscribers count the years as 20 or more that they have served with
you; that this company here assembles with an active service
record together, which, doubtless, can hardly be equaled, is in itself
remarkable and will make the occasion remarkable.
" On this 70th anniversary of the founding of our grand old
company, it seems fitting that we, who have so long been associated
together, should show in this way our affection and respect to the
two men who to us so intimately represent, by their present example,
the traditions of the Walworth Manufacturing Company.
" It is sometimes hard to live up to a reputation, but if either of
you have found it a difficult task you have never let us know it.
In all these years the greatest or the least among us has been free
to counsel with you at any time. You have both made us
always to feel that our troubles were yours. You have never,
either of you, found it necessary to keep any of us at a distance.
" There have been trials for you both; financial panics, sharp
competition, slack trade, and many other troubles, but through it
all, Mr. Treasurer and Mr. Secretary, you have both endured
bravely and inspired us to wait and hope for better things. We are
proud of our secretary and our treasurer. They are the * real
thing.' "
This spontaneous expression of appreciation on the part of Mr.
Graves's fellow workers testifies not only to the sohd worth of his
services but also to the genuiness of his character.
WILLIAM BLAIR GRAVES
WILLIAM BLAIR GRAVES was born at West Fairlee,
Vermont, February 3, 1834, and died May 5, 1915, at
Andover, Massachusetts. He was the son of Cyrus
Graves (December 9, 1803-January 29, 1846), a manufacturer of
wind instruments, a skilful workman, faithful and intelligent. The
ancestors on the father's side came from England. John Graves
is mentioned in history as one of the early settlers of New Hamp-
shire. Mr. William Graves' grandmother was Jean Blair Graves,
a direct descendant of James Gregg, one of the original thirteen
who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in London-
derry, New Hampshire, in 1718. He was a native of Ayreshire,
Scotland.
Mr. Graves' mother was Lucena Thayer, a native of Richmond,
New Hampshire, daughter of Alanson Thayer. She was a mother
who exerted a powerful influence over her son's career and life.
When he was two years of age his parents moved to Winchester,
New Hampshire, where his father engaged in the manufacture of
brass musical instruments.
As a lad he was fond of books and school. Leaving home at twelve
years of age to live on a farm, he did the work required of a young
boy. At sixteen he began to teach school, but his health faiUng him
he returned to agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-two.
Mr. Graves studied much during this time and at twenty-four
entered college. He borrowed the funds for his college expenses and
repaid them principal and interest. He prepared for college at
Lawrence Academy, Groton, and graduated at Amherst College in
1862. He received the degree of A.M. in 1865. He received an
honorary A.M. from Yale in 1902. He commenced his work in
1862, teaching in Rhode Island, and later in Medfield, Massachu-
setts. In the choice of this work he was governed by circumstances,
the wish of parents, the presence of opportunities and his own
tastes. He became an instructor in Amherst College in 1865, and
he was then successively instructor in Phillips Academy 1866-70;
Professor of Natural Science in Marietta College, Ohio, 1870-74;
Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering in the Massa-
chusetts Agricultural College, 1874-1881; Professor of Natural
Science, Peabody Foundation, Phillips Academy, 1881-1909. In
WILLIAM BLAIR GRAVES
1909 he resigned his position in the Academy on account of ill
health and received from the trustees the title of Professor Emeritus.
He served on the School Boards both of Amherst and of Andover
and on the Charity Fund Board of Amherst College.
He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and of the Phi
Beta Kappa, Amherst College; of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; the American Social Science Association,
and the American Forestry Association.
He belonged to the Republican Party, and was a member of the
Seminary Congregational Church of which he was deacon. He
was fond of walking and of golf.
On August 26, 1863, he was married to Luranah Hodges Cope-
land, daughter of Elijah and Nancy Hodges Copeland, grand-
daughter of Joseph and Luranah (Williams) Hodges, and Wilham
and Martha (White) Copeland, and a descendant of John Alden
and Priscilla Mullens, who came on the Mayflower.
There were four children of this marriage, two daughters died
early in life; William Phillips Graves, a surgeon, head of the Free
Hospital for women in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Professor of
Gynecology at the Harvard Medical School, and Henry Solon
Graves, Chief Forester of the United States, and Head of the
Forestry department in France with the rank of Lieutenant-
Colonel, are the surviving sons.
Professor Graves was a man of remarkable judgment and of fine
personahty. In his work he was faithful and loyal to the interests
of the school and was greatly loved by the students. He was a
great reader, possessed of an excellent memory and fine hterary
tastes, and had accumulated a valuable library. His brain was ever
devising something new in the sphere of his own personal activity
and for the general welfare. Under his tutelage the students
acquired knowledge of the principles of the studies which they were
pursuing and were greatly aided by his own keen perceptions,
retentive memory, assiduity, and hard work.
As a citizen he was a model of faithfulness to civic duty, ready to
assist in whatever seemed to him right, and equally ready to oppose
what seemed to him wrong. He was always deeply and actively
interested in the cause of education for the community. Probably
no other man did so much to advance the best educational interests
of the towns in which he lived, and, certainly, no one deserves higher
credit for efforts in this connection.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS GRAVES
WILLIAM PHILLIPS GRAVES is of Pilgrim stock, a
descendant on his mother's side from John Alden, of
Mayflower fame. His father, WiHiam Blair Graves, was
for many years a Professor in Phillips Andover Academy, and the
son was reared in an atmosphere of refinement and culture amid the
influences of that famous school. His mother's maiden name was
Luranah Hodges Copeland.
William Phillips Graves was born in Andover, Massachusetts,
January 29, 1870. In childhood and youth he was interested in
athletic sports, chiefly tennis, football, baseball, and skating. In
his studies, his special tastes included drawing, and he was particu-
larly fond of Latin and Greek.
He fitted for college at Phillips Andover Academy and entered
Yale in 1887, graduating in 1891 with the degree of A.B. For four
years following his graduation he was teacher in the Hill School at
Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Deciding to study medicine he entered
the Harvard Medical School, graduating at the head of his class in
1899, when he received the degree of M.D. On completing his pro-
fessional studies he began the practice of his calling, in 1900, in
Boston.
In 1902 he became Assistant Surgeon in the Free Hospital for
Women, in BrookHne, Massachusetts, and in 1907 was made
Surgeon in Chief in that institution. Meanwhile, in 1904, he was
appointed Assistant in Gynecology at the Harvard Medical School
and, in 1911, he was promoted to a full professorship of that depart-
ment of medicine in the University. In 1912 he was appointed
Consulting physician to the Boston Lying in Hospital. In 1916
Doctor Graves' " Gynecology," was pubUshed. Of this volume
the British Medical Journal says: " A new and magnificent
volume on Gynecology has emanated from the Harvard Medi-
cal School from the pen, and as regards the illustrations in
greater part also from the brush, of the professor of Gyne-
cology. Both Professor Graves himself and the school are to be
congratulated on an achievement which is well worthy of the best
WILLIAM PHILLIPS GRAVES
traditions of its historic birthplace. It is satisfactory to find in the
sections dealing with the various ductless glands a very clear and
reasonably full discussion of most of the modern work in this very
complex, fascinating, and important subject." Doctor Graves has
also contributed numerous important papers to Medical Journals.
Doctor Graves has made a special study of heredity, and his
views and expressed opinions have thrown much light on that
complex science.
He is a member of the American Gynecological Society, the
American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society,
the American Association for Cancer Research, the New England
Surgical Society, the Boston Surgical Society, and the Obstetrical
Society of Boston. He is a Fellow, and on the Board of Regents
of the American College of Surgeons. His social clubs are the
Harvard, the St. Botolph, the Somerset, the Tennis and Racquet,
the Country Club of Brookhne, and the Boston Athletic Association.
He has always had a fondness for athletics. He played on the
football and tennis teams at Phillips Academy, and when at Yale
he played on both the football and baseball teams of the college.
He now enjoys golf and racquets, and has won several prizes in
the latter in recent years. His College fraternities are the Skull
and Bones and the Psi Upsilon. In rehgious faith he is a Congre-
gationalist, and in pohtics he is a Republican.
On October 10, 1900, he married Alice M., the daughter of Sidney
and Ella Chase. Three children have been born of this union, —
Sidney Chase, William Phillips, Jr., and AUce.
Doctor Graves holds a high rank in the medical profession and he
has the confidence and esteem, not only of his medical associates,
but of his fellow-citizens. He has achieved much in personal suc-
cess and advancement, and has rendered valuable service in dis-
covering, developing, and applying methods for the alleviation of
human suffering. He gives these simple, practical rules for the
attainment of success: " Rise early in the morning and get to work,
hard work, with constant application."
JOSIAH GREEN
JOSIAH GREEN, who has been called " the founder of the
wholesale peg boot manufacturing interests in this country,'^
was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, on August 9, 1792. He
died December 28, 1876. He was the son of Jabez and Hannah
(WiUis) Green, and a direct descendant of Thomas Green, of
Leicestershire, England, who came to America in 1635 or 1636,,
and settled in Maiden, Massachusetts. General Nathanael Green,
of Revolutionary fame, one of Washington's most loved and trusted
lieutenants, was of the same family stock.
Jabez Green, Josiah Green's father, was a farmer, born September
18, 1718. Josiah Green's early hfe was that of a farmer's boy,
arduous, with limited educational opportunity, but discipHnary in
self-reliance and resourcefulness. He walked two miles on the
infrequent occasions when he could attend the common school.
In the fall of 1811, when nineteen years of age, Josiah began,
making boots in company with an older brother, Nathanael, on
a joint capital of five dollars and forty cents. The mother of the
boys raised the flax and spun and made the thread used for the
sewing. By the spring of 1812 the young bootmakers had two
hundred and thirty pairs of made-up boots on hand. Such an
accumulation of shoes was unusual at that time. Boot-making was
a custom trade. The village shoemaker, or a traveling craftsman,,
came to the house, took his orders for work, stayed with the family
for whom he was working and in due time delivered the goods.
The inventive minds of the Green brothers perceived the com-
mercial possibilities of ready-made boots.
In the beginning the leather used for the boots and shoes was the
left over splits and remnants of Card leather, such as was used by
the card manufacturers of Leicester. This was in natural color
and had to be oiled, blacked and finished ready for use. Mr.
Green bought a stock of new leather in whole sides.
In 1814 the enterprise went farther afield. A " two horse '^
wagon load of boots was designed for the Albany market. On the
road, however, the opportunity came to dispose of the goods to an
army trader.
The year 1816 opened a new chapter in Josiah Green's career.
The brothers were worth three thousand dollars. Nathanael
decided to tempt industrial chances no further. So large a sum
was too valuable to be risked in business uncertainties. He with-
drew from the partnership, and with his share bought a farm in
Maine. Josiah moved to Spencer, Massachusetts, and married
Tamer, daughter of Robert Watson, of Leicester. He bought for
their use the farm that was later owned and occupied by Samuel
Adams. His wife died childless on October 12, 1820. On October
2, 1821, he married Sybil, daughter of Deacon Reuben Underwood^
JOSIAH GREEN
and Sybil (Whittemore) Underwood of Spencer. Of this marriage
eight children were born, of whom three, Charles W. Green, Sybil
Ann (Green) Temple, and Sarah Jane Green, are now living.
In 1816, the year of his first marriage, Mr. Green began the mak-
ing of pegged boots, another mark of his originative mind. Hitherto
boots were hand-sewed, a slow process, resulting in a flexible sole,
but increasing the cost. Mr. Green saw the market for a cheaper
boot, suited for the rough work of the farm and highways. He con-
ceived the idea of fastening the shoes with wooden pegs. At first
the pegs were made by himself with a common shoe-knife. Thus
was begun a method of making boots and shoes which continued
until well after the general use of machine-sewing. The method
of distributing was to' arrange with storekeepers in country towns
to place an assorted lot in their stores for sale. On a subsequent
visit Mr. Green would collect for the goods sold and, if the returns
seemed entirely satisfactory, he would replenish the stock and
continue the arrangement. Again, as in the original venture, the
" sale boots," as the ready-made goods were called, were denounced
by the old-time shoemakers.
Mr. Green's business steadily increased. In 1831 he bought the
homestead which he occupied until his death in 1876, using a room
in the mansion as his workshop. In 1834 he built a small shop
across the street from his dwelUng. It was enlarged with the
increasing business of the years. In 1852 one of his sons, Henry
R., and a son-in-law, Emory Shumway, became associated with
Mr. Green as partners. From that time until his retirement in
1865, the active management passed more and more to his sons and
grandsons. In 1874 a large new factory was erected. As a con-
necting link with the pioneer days the old sign was placed over the
main entrance: " Josiah Green's Boot Manufactory, Established
in 1812."
" Opportunity " was the challenge to such youths as Josiah
Green. It meant a fair field, but no special privilege or favor. In
that field his originative mind and business insight found their
rewards. He showed too, an ability to keep as well as to acquire,
which the pioneer does not always possess. Through all the periods
of business depressions, in 1837 just as he was fairly estabhshed,
down to 1873, shortly before his death, he passed uncrippled, pre-
pared at any time to meet all his Habihties to the full. Vigor of
mind and body, tireless industry, persevering, indomitable will,
joined to judicious management and commercial foresight, were
the sources of his success. He had imagination, without which no
man rises above the commonplace. He not only rose from simple
beginnings himself, but was noted for giving assistance and en-
couragement to other struggling young men.
FREDERICK GREENWOOD
FREDERICK GREENWOOD was born at East Templeton,
Massachusetts, June 5, 1850 and died May 13, 1918. His
father, Thomas Temple Greenwood (March 25, 1817-July
10, 1885) son of Jonathan (April 18, 1786-October 24, 1846) and
Phoebe (Temple) Greenwood, was a manufacturer in Templeton, a
man of determination, with great business energy. In 1864 he
equipped his factory for the manufacture of furniture and con-
tinued in that business the remainder of his life. He was an assessor
of the town, was on the committees in charge of trust funds and
always actively concerned in matters relating to the town's progress
and development. Mr. Frederick Greenwood's mother was Louisa
French before her marriage, daughter of Polly Pierce and Stephen
French (June 27, 1788-July 28, 1858).
The ancestors of Mr. Greenwood were of an ancient English
family, many of whom had titles and bore arms. Thomas Green-
wood, the immigrant ancestor, came to America in 1667, and settled
at Newton, Massachusetts. He was a weaver by trade. When
Newton was incorporated in 1679, he was elected constable. He
was also the first town clerk and served as selectman in 1686, 1687,
1690 and 1693. Then there was Deacon Wilham Greenwood, who
for twenty-four years was town clerk of Sherborn, six years select-
man, and deputy to the general court in 1747. Another was Jona-
than Greenwood, a soldier in the Revolution in Captain Henry
Leland's Sherborn Company, and in Colonel John Bullard's regi-
ment in the Lexington alarm. He was corporal in Captain Abner
Perry's regiment, in Rhode Island, in 1780.
Coming from such a lineage Mr. Greenwood naturally inherited
many of their best traits and characteristics. Much credit is due
to his mother who, being a woman of strong character, cast an
influence on the life and development of her son which played an
important part in his career. His father was a believer in education
and was always willing to assist his children in whatever would prove
helpful to them. At the age of ten young Greenwood was placed
in his father's factory at manual labor, and worked at all hours when
school was not in session. He became skillful in the use of ma-
chinery and thoroughly learned his father's business. He had
planned on becoming a partner but the long hours and tediousness
of the work caused him to change his mind, and he prepared for a
different line of work, which led him finally into the newspaper
world.
In 1869 graduating from the Templeton High School he then took
a two year course in civil engineering at Wesleyan Academy, Wil-
braham, Massachusetts.
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FREDERICK GREENWOOD
In 1771 he began his active career as a civil engineer in Temple-
ton, but followed that vocation only two years. In 1873 he became
connected with the Boston Post as a newspaper reporter and held
that position four years; later in the same capacity with the
Boston Daily Globe. In 1878 he took a position offered him in
the editorial department of the New York Tribune, followed by
four years service in the editorial department of the Chicago Daily
Inter-Ocean.
About 1885, the manufacturing business of his father being some-
what unsettled because of his death, Mr. Greenwood entered into
a partnership with his three brothers to carry on at East Templeton
the manufacture of furniture his father had established and the
large retail department located at West Gardner, Massachusetts.
Mr. Greenwood has been a member of many special committees
of the town, and in 1911 was elected a member of the Board of
Overseers of the Poor which position he held until his death. He
was an incorporator of the Templeton Street Railway Company
and was its first President; he has also been vice-president of the
railway company and several years a director.
He has compiled and published a Greenwood genealogy which
contains an early history of the family in England, and the origin
of the name.
He was a charter member of the Press Club of Boston, Massa-
chusetts. In pohtics he was a member of the Republican party.
He was an attendant of the Unitarian Church.
May 11, 1880 Mr. Greenwood married Grandine Leuthesser,
daughter of Professor Frederick Henry and Eleonora (Goltz) Leu-
thesser, granddaughter of Daniel and Sophia (Ruhl) Leuthesser,
and of Mathias and Dorothea (Loberth) Goltz. Her father, Fred-
erick Henry Leuthesser was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main,
Germany, May 20, 1833, and came to America in 1857. Mr. and
Mrs. Greenwood have one son, Talma Temple Greenwood, a gradu-
ate of Tufts College in 1911, cum laude, an electrical engineer.
In offering his suggestions to young people Mr. Greenwood said
" Every young man should have a technical education; try and be
skilful in every line of work or occupation. It is only the skilled in
any employment who command large wages."
Mr. Greenwood died on May 13, 1918, after a protracted illness
of several years.
Mr. Greenwood was a man of sincerity and earnestness, with re-
markable energy and true kindliness of heart — therein lies the secret
of his success. Starting in life with priceless qualities of mind and
character inherited from a long line of worthy ancestors, he fol-
lowed up this advantage by receiving a good education and an
excellent business training in the world of affairs.
SOLOMON BULKLEY GRIFFIN
SOLOMON BULKLEY GRIFFIN, managing editor of the
Springfield Republican, for over forty-five years a member
of its editorial force, and since 1878 a director of The Republi-
can Company, was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, August
13, 1852. He is the son of Reverend Nathaniel Herrick GriSin and
Hannah E. (Bulkley) Griffin, who was daughter of Major Solomon
Bulkley of Williamstown. On the father's side he is descended from
Jasper Griffin of Southold, Long Island, who was born in Wales
about the year 1648, and died at Southold in 1718. On his mother's
side his first American ancestor was Reverend Peter Bulkley, one
of the founders of Concord, Massachusetts, and its venerated first
minister.
Doctor Nathaniel Griffin was long connected with Williams
College, as librarian and professor, and prepared his son to enter
college with the class of 1872, but because of lack of health Solomon
Griffin took only a partial course of study. In 1881, however, after
he had accomplished nine years of serious work in journalism, he
was given the degree of A.M., and enrolled with his class. He had
been one of the editors of the Vidette, the college weekly. In July,
1872, he took a place in the local department of The Repubhcan,
where under the thorough training of that master in journalism,
Samuel Bowles, he proved his " effectual calhng."
When Mr. Bowles in his last illness came to set his house in order,
and the new Republican Company was formed to succeed the old
firm of Samuel Bowles & Company, Mr. Griffin was appointed
managing editor, and made one of the board of three directors,
Samuel Bowles, Jr., becoming president. He has held these posi-
tions ever since, completing forty years in January, 1918, and during
all this period doing constant editorial writing. From the day
he entered The Repubhcan office he has devoted himself wholly to
his profession, and is now one of the veterans of Massjichusetts'
journalism.
Mr. Griffin as an editor is progressive and alert, quick to adopt
the best of new methods, while holding fast to the old and tried
ones, thus tempering advance with a wise conservatism. No
disciple of Samuel Bowles has been more faithful than he, and none
has been more influential in the growth and character of The
Republican. The many young men he has trained in these forty
years, and the keen judges of the composing room, would all agree
that he is an all-round newspaper man of the first order.
His graphic skill as the special correspondent of The Republican
at the political conventions and on other occasions has always
been recognized, and in 1885, spending a long vacation in Mexico,
when Porfirio Diaz was at his height of power, he wrote notable
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letters to the paper, which were collected and published in 1886
by Harper & Brothers, under the title " Mexico of Today." With
his equipment he might have successfully essayed larger literary
ventures, but his sole allegiance has been to The Republican.
Naturally Mr. GriflBn has been an independent in politics, and
his friendships have not been limited by any labels. He has had
the confidence of men of all political parties, and the extent to
which he has given judicious counsel will never be known. It all
came in the line of duty and as part of the day's work.
Of some historic interest is the article which Mr. Griffin pub-
lished in the Atlantic Monthly of January, 1912, on " The Political
Evolution of a College President." It was a study of Woodrow
Wilson's ideas of political leadership as appHed through the gover-
norship of New Jersey, and since made famihar to the people of the
United States and the world. Mr. Griffin became a strong ad-
vocate of Gov. Wilson's nomination and election to the presidency
— as well as of his re-election — and believes that through the re-
sult of the election of 1912 the interests of the nation were greatly
served then and after.
Mr. Griffin is a member of the Authors' Club of New York and
of the Nyasset, the Winthrop, the Country and Colony Clubs of
Springfield. He was given the degree of L.H.D. by Williams
College in 1907 and has been twice chosen alumni member of the
Board of Trustees. He was elected to succeed the late Samuel
Bowles on the advisory board of the Pulitzer School of Journalism.
He is president of the Hampshire Paper Company of South Hadley
Falls, vice-president of the Carew Manufacturing Company of
South Hadley Falls, and director of the Southworth Company of
Mittineague, Massachusetts. In 1887 he went to Europe with
Judge William S. Shurtleff of Springfield, and while there wrote
for The RepubHcan letters deahng with the Irish question.
Mr. Griffin was married November 25, 1892, to Miss Ida M.
Southworth of Springfield, daughter of the late John H. South -
worth. They have two sons, Bulkley Southworth Griffin, and
Courtlandt Brooke Griffin, both in the army aviation service.
Looking back over nearly half a century's observation in politics
Mr. Griffin is convinced that holding to the ideal of disinterested,
courageous service of one's fellow men, whether in office or in
private fife, is the surest way to influence and real success. The
careers of men so opposite as Grover Cleveland and W. Murray
Crane, not to speak of others in both pohtical parties, serve to
demonstrate that unselfish service is the thing the people are
most ready to welcome and to honor. The test will show that in
the long run republics are not ungrateful or incapable of forming
sound judgment regarding those who serve them.
CHARLES EDWARD GRINNELL
CHARLES EDWARD GRINNELL was characterized
throughout hfe by a lively and varied interest in all
phases of thought and the affairs of men. To him
there was nothing dull or indifferent. The traits which were notable
in his youth of high spirits, great capacity for enjoyment, open-
hearted sociability and personal independence were never lost.
He held opinions with ardor and with well-sustained enthusiasm.
His religious faith was strong and his intellectual interests were
broad and varied. His reading was wide and liberal. He graduated
from Harvard college in 1862 when he was twenty-one, studied
three years in the Yale and Harvard Divinity Schools and a year
at Gottingen, and entered on life as a Unitarian minister. To his
latest years wrote ably on religious subjects. Turning to the law
in middle life he coyld not rest content with his regular practice,
but took great pleasure in the analysis of unusual cases, the result
being several admirable monographs. Regarding life as a field of
endless interest, his education never found an end. He began at the
age of sixty-three to study the piano, the history of music and the
makers of music and players, and got an immense amount of
pleasure out of it. He met many musical people, his hearing was
trained, and he learned to enjoy opera and concert as he never had
done before. Warm in his friendships, he was a source of influence
rather than was influenced. He was an independent in politics as
in religious affiliations. He was fond of the attractions of Nature;
his exercise was in working out of doors in the country, in walking
and cHmbing among mountains, in saihng and swimming. He was,
in short, a fine example of rich and attractive individuality. His
son says of him, " I think he got more real enjoyment out of life
than any other man I ever met."
Mr. Grinnell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, May 7, 1841,
and died in his seventy-fifth year, February 1st, 1916, at the home
of his eldest son in Boston. His father, Charles Andrews Grinnell,
was born in Providence, Rhode Island, December 4, 1817, but
went to Baltimore when about fourteen years old and there married
Anna Almy Cobb. He is remembered as an amiable, dignified, and
much respected gentleman. The Grinnell ancestry is traditionally
French Huguenot, and to that strain some of the finest and strongest
traits in the nature of Charles Edward Grinnell may well be due,
while from his mother it is testified that he drew important elements
of moral and spiritual character.
CHARLES EDWARD GRINNELL
His schooling began with his entrance in 1854 into the University
of Maryland school of letters and sciences. Thence he passed to
the boarding school of Mr. John Prentiss. He entered Harvard
College in 1858. He took kindly to all sorts of sociabihty, and he
was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding Club,
the Harvard Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi, and the A. D. Club.
Mr. Grinnell was class orator of '62. The first three years after
graduation he spent in the Yale and Harvard Divinity Schools,
graduating in 1865.
He was married on July 11, 1865, and sailed with his bride for
Europe, where for eleven months he dwelt in Gottingen, a student
in theology at the University. His wife was Elizabeth Tucker
Washburn, daughter of W. R. P. Washburn of Boston and Susan
Tucker. Her grandparents were Abiel and Elizabeth (Pierce)
Washburn, and Alanson and Ehza (Thom) Tucker, and she was a
descendant from John Washburn, one of the original proprietors of
Bridgewater, from Abraham Pierce of the Plymouth colony, and
from William Rounseville, whose son Philip came over from Honi-
ton, Devon, England, in 1700. The Grinnell and Washburn
families are among the best of New England stocks and have many
cross-connections, Charles and Elizabeth Grinnell had two sons.
The elder, Charles Ewald Washburn Grinnell, was born in Gottin-
gen during his parents' sojourn there; his second name memorializes
the noted Orientalist, then one of the faculty, who was compelled
to retire from his professorate in that very year of 1866 because he
refused to take the new oath of allegiance imposed upon Prussian-
ized Hanover. Mr. C. E. W. Grinnell is a shoe manufacturer in
Boston, as his grandfather was. The younger son, Frank. W
Grinnell, is a lawyer in the same city, and secretary of the Massa-
chusetts Bar Association.
Mr. Grinnell had joined the Associate Reformed church in the
winter of 1858, when he was not yet seventeen, but found himself,
after all his study of theology, a Unitarian. Two or three months
after reaching home (having preached some Sundays meanwhile)
he was invited to become pastor of the First Unitarian church in
Lowell and on February 19, 1867, he was ordained. At this time he
translated from the German, and published, in June, 1868, Uhl-
horn's " Modern Representations of the Life of Jesus." In October
1869 he accepted a call from the Harvard church of Charlestown,
and was installed pastor November 10.
A few events in the period of his ministry may be mentioned.
He preached the election sermon before the governor and newly
elected officers of the Commonwealth, January 4, 1870, in the Old
CHARLES EDWARD GRINNELL
South Church. From June 21, 1870 to May 8, 1872 he was chaplain
of the Fifth regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Mihtia. On the
last day of 1873 he resigned the pastorate of the Harvard Church of
Charlestown, and in the following August he retired from the
ministry altogether.
The next fall Mr. Grinnell moved to Cambridge and entered the
Harvard Law School, studied the full two years' course, took the
degree of bachelor of law in June, 1876; went into the office of
Chandler, Ware, and Hudson, and in November was admitted to
the Suffolk bar. He immediately opened his own office at fifty-six
Court Street, and there and at Number thirty was engaged in the
general practice of his profession until his retirement in 1910. In
July, 1878, he moved to Boston with his family, and in that year
was commissioned master in chancery. From 1880 till December
1882 he was editor of the American Law Review, and he edited it
again for three years, ending in 1909. Among other activities, he
delivered the Memorial Day oration at Milton in 1893, and made
an address in May, 1897, before the general convention of Alpha
Delta Phi in Providence.
Mr. Grinnell spent the greater part of the year 1909 in Paris and
Italy with his wife. Mrs. Grinnell died at Naples and for three
years Mr. Grinnell traveled extensively, hving for months in
Paris and London, and traveling in Germany, Russia, Egypt, the
Holy Land, Greece, France and Spain. After 1913 he made his
home with his son, Charles, in Boston.
Mr. Grinnell's writings on legal subjects were many. His books
include: " A Study of the Poor Debtor Law of Massachusetts and
Some Details of Its Practice," 1886; " Points in Pleading and
Practice Under the Massachusetts Practice Act," 1889; " The
Law of Deceit," " A Legal View of the Inquiry Granted Rear
Admiral Schley and of Other Inquiries by Military Courts," 1902;
among his Essays are: " Subsequent Payments Under Resulting
Trusts," 1887; " Why Thomas Bram Was Found Guilty," 1897;
" Beyond a Reasonable Doubt," 1897; " The Task of the Jury in
the Maybrick Case," 1900; " Modern Murder Trials and News-
papers," 1901. One of his latest essays, on " The Pretended Failure
of Christianity," was written for the Springfield Republican, and
appeared in that journal on Sunday, December 19, 1915, and is a
singularly strong and lucid consideration of the effect on humanity
and religion of the world-war, — a survey marked by high trust and
spiritual faith.
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CURTIS GUILD
CURTIS GUILD, one of the foremost sons of the Common-
wealth, who was honored at home and abroad by Emperor
and King ahke, was born in Boston, February 2, 1860, and
died in the city of his birth, April 6, 1915. He came of mingled
Scotch and Welsh stock. One of his Colonial ancestors. Captain
Samuel Guild, in 1678, received the freedom of the town of Salem
for distinguished services during King Philip's War; another on his
mother's side, General David Cobb (great-grandfather), served on
General Washington's staff during the Revolutionary War, and
was later Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts.
His father, Curtis Guild (1827-1911), was the founder and owner
of " The Commercial Bulletin," a man of fine literary taste, who
traveled extensively and pubhshed an entertaining account of his
experiences. He married Sarah Crocker Cobb of Taunton, Massa-
chusetts, a woman of high character, who had a strong influence on
the moral and intellectual development of her children.
As a boy, Curtis Guild attended Miss Lewis' private school in
Roxbury until he was ten; then he entered the famous Chauncy
Hall School, where he was fitted for college. He entered Harvard
in 1877, where he was a good scholar and distinguished for his
abihty as a public speaker. This won for him the honor of election
as the Class Orator on graduation in 1881. He was an editor of
the " Crimson " and of the " Lampoon," also an all-round athlete.
He made a specialty of fencing, and in 1879 he won the cup offered
for excellence in that art, retaining the championship until he
received his degree. It was his ambition to attend West Point and
enter the army, and, although he was disappointed in this, he was
always attracted by military affairs. He became an expert in
saber-practice and was a skilful horseman. He was one of the
charter-members of the Boston Athletic Association, in 1889 and
1890, winning the fencing championship of that club.
After his graduation, he visited Europe and on his return he
entered his father's employ as advertising-solicitor and bill-collector
CURTIS GUILD
for the Commercial Bulletin. He rapidly won promotion and
became a partner in 1883.
In June, 1892, he was married to Charlotte H. Johnson, whose
father was a member of the long-established firm of C. F. Hovey
and Company.
He was one of the five original founders of the Republican Club
of Massachusetts, taking a prominent part in the agitation against
" Free Silver " in 1896. He was selected as delegate-at-large to
attend the National Republican Convention at St. Louis, and was
one of the Vice-presidents at the meeting which gave William Mc-
Kinley his first nomination for the Presidency of the United States.
On the outbreak of the war with Spain, Curtis Guild, who held
a commission as Brigadier-General on the staff of Governor Wol-
cott, was the first man in the State to volunteer. He was com-
missioned as First Lieutenant in the Sixth Massachusetts regiment,
and was soon appointed Lieutenant-Colonel and Inspector-General
on the staff of General Fitzhugh Lee in command of the Seventh
Army Corps. He served in Florida and Georgia, and finally went
to Cuba where he was also chief of the secret service, entrusted with
the duty of protecting the Spanish inhabitants who were in danger
of being massacred by guerrillas. At end of Spanish War, offered
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Regular Army by President McKinley.
Lieutenant-Governor 3 years. In 1905 he was elected Governor.
He was re-elected the following year. When he was chosen for the
third time, his success at the polls showed that he was one of the
most popular governors that Massachusetts had ever elected.
In the autumn of 1910, he was sent as Ambassador-extraordinary
to Mexico to represent this country in the Centennial celebration of
Mexican Independence.
The following year. President Taft appointed Curtis Guild as
Ambassador to the Court of the Emperor of Russia. Ambassador
Guild was received by the Emperor with conspicuous friendliness,
and it was universally recognized that he managed the difficult
negotiations following the abrogation of the commercial treaty of
1832 in a dignified and skilful manner. Resigning the ambassador-
ship, he returned to America in the Spring of 1913. A short time
after his return, the Emperor Nicholas conferred upon him the
decoration of the Imperial Order of Alexander Nevsky, the second
highest honor within his power. He had already been decorated
by the King of Italy and made a Grand Official of the Crown.
CURTIS GUILD
The Holy Cross College of Worcester granted him the degree of
LL.D., and he also received the degree of LL.D. from WilUams
College and University of Geneva.
Mr. Guild was a thirty-third degree Mason. He was President
of the National Forestry Association ; was a member of the Republi-
can Club of Massachusetts, of which he served as President for
one year; a member of the Tavern, University, Press, Boston, and
Middlesex Clubs, of the Union Club, the Nahant Country Club,
the Civil Service Reform Association, the Massachusetts Society of
Mayflower Descendants, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society
of Foreign Wars, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Military
and Naval Order of the Spanish-American War, and of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce. He was connected with the Arlington
Street Unitarian Church.
Mr. Guild had a remarkable gift for languages. He never lost
his famiharity with the classics, which he enjoyed in the original.
He read and spoke French fluently, and was able to make addresses,
or carry on conversations in German and Italian. He picked up a
considerable knowledge of Spanish before he went to Mexico, and
had a working knowledge of Russian. He was a most gracious
and genial friend and treated strangers with affability and cor-
diality. He was fond of children, and was always on the lookout
to see that they had not only their rights, but also their pleasures.
The people of Boston have erected in his memory a flight of
steps, known as the Curtis Guild Memorial Steps, built on the
Common leading from the Mall to Beacon Street. They are made
of Quincy granite, the railing and lamp-posts on the Mall are of
wrought iron in effective design; on one post is carved the State
coat of arms, and on the other is a medalhon of Mr. Guild. A
memorial has also been dedicated in the State House, consisting of
a bas-relief of the former Governor mounted on Istrian marble.
Curtis Guild accomplished vastly more than many who Hve to
greater age. Although it was not permitted him to reach the
maturity of his powers, he won the love and esteem of friends in
many countries as one of the finest and most public-spirited citizens
Massachusetts has ever produced. High-minded, straightforward,
and of sterling honesty, he was a true type of the preux chevalier so
much admired in history.
HENRY FROBISHER GUILD
HENRY FROBISHER GUILD was born at Meeting House
Hill, Dorchester, December 25, 1849, and died at his home
in Newton Highlands, December 18, 1916. He was the
son of Henry and Louise (Frobisher) Guild. His maternal grand-
father was Benjamin Frobisher. The immigrant ancestor of the
Guild family was John Guild, who came to this country in 1636,
was admitted to the church at Dedham in 1640, and bought twelve
acres of upland, upon which he built a house which was occupied by
himself and his descendants for more than two hundred years.
Members of the Guild family served in the Revolutionary War and
have been prominent in local affairs wherever they went. Their
good judgment, ability, probity and interest in rehgion and in the
public welfare are almost too well known to require mention. It is
from such stock that the subject of this sketch was descended.
Mr. Guild's father was, at the time of his death, the oldest manu-
facturing jeweler in Boston. He had been in the jeweler's business
for fifty years. Mr. Guild's mother was a woman of excellent men-
tal endowments, a gracious character and a vigorous rehgious faith,
and she exerted a strong influence, both upon the intellectual and
upon the moral and spiritual life of her son. Even in childhood he
exhibited a passionate love of the sea. In his youth he had no
regular tasks to perform which involved manual labor, and his only
difficulties in acquiring an education arose from his own ill health.
He was an inveterate reader. Biographies and books on philosophy
were his choice; he always read the " Outlook " with especial
interest, and he was a great magazine reader. His formal education
was obtained at the English High School and at the Latin School, in
Boston.
His father had long cherished an ambition for his son to share his
business enterprise; accordingly, when Henry Frobisher Guild's
school days were over, he became associated with his father in
business in the firm of Guild and Delano. In 1884, Mr. Guild
became junior partner in the firm, now known as Henry Guild and
Son. In 1894, on the retirement of his father, Mr. Guild became the
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head of the firm. He remained in business until 1901 and then
retired, after serving for thirty years as a manufacturing jeweler.
Mr. Guild was not a club man, though he was for a long time a
member of the Newton Club, from which, however, he resigned in
1903. He was a Unitarian in his religious affihations, and always
attended Arlington Street Church, in Boston.
In politics he was a Republican, and he never cared to change
his party allegiance. He was an amateur photographer of con-
siderable skill, and he found endless amusement in this art. He
never outgrew his boyish love of the sea.
In 1903, Mr. Guild was married to Minnie McLaren, of Port
Clyde, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of Charles Edward
McLaren, of Barrington, Nova Scotia, and Agnes S. Greenwood, of
Port Clyde. Her grandfather was Charles McLaren, of Edinboro,
Scotland, and her great grandfather belonged to the McLaren
family of Aberdeen, Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Guild had no children.
Mr. Guild considered that the influence of his home was of the
greatest assistance to him in working out his successful career.
From many testimonials to Mr. Guild, the following is quoted
from the pen of the friend who knew him best: " Mr. Guild was
one of the finest men in every way that Massachusetts has ever
produced. He was of a quiet, retiring, unassuming manner, not a
public man at all, but loved by every person who came in contact
with him. He was very philanthropic, never giving to pubHc
charities, but continually to the personally deserving poor. He
was always thoughtful of others, never thinking of himself. He
was an especial friend of children of all ages, being very fond of
them, and had a long list of poor he remembered each year. Mr.
Guild was an ideal man in every way, a fine Christian character,
kind, gentle, brave and true, always deeply interested in Boston's
welfare."
MOSES HADJI GULESIAN
MOSES HADJI GULESIAN, of Boston, Mass., manu-
facturer and philanthropist, was born in 1864 in Marash,
an important city of about 25,000 inhabitants, one of the
centers for the manufacture of rugs in Armenia. Armenia has been
described as the mother land and the cradle of humanity; all other
lands and countries are her daughters. Her mountain tops of
perpetual snow are a crown of glory. She supplies the beautiful
Euphrates, the Tigris and the Pison from the jewels of her crown,
as they flow onward to girdle and water what men say was once
the Garden of Eden, the first cradle, as well as Mount Ararat, the
second cradle of the race. Both He within this favored country,
whose people trace back their ancestry to the records in the tenth
chapter of Genesis, and which prophecy declares shall furnish the
theater, on its field of Armageddon, for the final overthrow of evil
and the ushering in of the new heavens and the new earth.
In the midst of these inspiring associations the subject of this
sketch passed his childhood and entered into early manhood.
While young he learned the trade of a coppersmith, and was in
business for himself at the age of seventeen. He became interested
in America through one of his schoolmates, whose eldest brother
was one of the first Armenians to come to the new world, twenty-
five years previous to the time our narrative begins. Hearing from
afar the call of the distant West, he bent all his energies for three
years to collecting funds for the journey. About a year before
his departure, he joined a band of about one hundred and fifty
pilgrims from Marash and its vicinity who were purposing to visit
the Holy Land. With them he visited Damascus, the Sea of
Galilee, Nazareth, Joppa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, the River
Jordan and the other places of interest. Four months were passed
in this way on horseback, as at that time there were no railroads.
On the return journey the party passed along the sea-coast, now
beheld for the first time, and whenever they halted the youthful
Gulesian spent most of his time watching the steamers, yearning
to be on board one of them, headed for America.
After returning home to Marash, the visions of the journey re-
doubled his desire to go to the United States. He finally left
Marash in 1883 with the purpose of embarking for America. He
did not tell his people for he knew that they would endeavor to
prevent his leaving the country. When he reached Alexandretta
to take the steamer, he wrote a letter of farewell to his father and
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mother, telling them that he had started for America, and that the
first stop would be Smyrna. On reaching that city he would have
been thrilled, indeed, had he then been familiar with the dramatic
story of Martin Kotzba, the Hungarian refugee in whose behalf,
not long before, the sharp and decisive struggle, in that very harbor,
had vindicated for all time the right of the oppressed to claim
America for their home. Uninspired by any such recollection,
young Gulesian was compelled to learn that for him the difficulties,
instead of being over, had only just begun, for no sooner had he
landed than he was invited to meet an American missionary and
an Armenian pastor. The missionary's dragoman accompanied
Mr. Gulesian to the house. Here, to his surprise, he was locked in
a room, and to his bitter disappointment, he heard read a telegram
from his father, instructing his captors to seize all his money and
return him to Marash. There appeared to be no escape, as the
doors were all locked, and the dragoman stood there armed. There
was nothing to do but to hand over the money, consisting of eight-
een Turkish pounds, or about $75.00, which he did. However,
after hard begging, the youth procured the consent of the captors
to delay sending him home until he could telegraph to his father
and receive an answer. So they returned two pounds to him to
use until the answer should be received. Mr. Gulesian then sent
the following telegram: " Sarkis Gulesian — Dear Father: They
have got my money, but they haven't got me. Would you rather
lose the money or never see me again? (Signed) Moses." For the
next four days he went to the wharf to see what chances there
might be to work his passage, in case the money was not forth-
coming, being determined not to return to Marash in any event.
At the end of the fourth day, the same dragoman as before came
to his lodgings and told him that he was wanted at the mission.
There the missionary informed him that a telegram received from
his father had directed that the money be returned to him, but
strongly advised and urged him to come home. That very hour
he purchased his ticket, and went on board the steamer at once,
lest another telegram should announce that they had changed their
minds. After two days of great anxiety on his part, the steamer
set sail for Palermo, Italy, where connections were to be made for
New York.
It may be remarked at this point that before Mr. Gulesian's
parents had finally decided to withdraw their opposition, a great
council of the family, relatives and elders of the church had been
held, and the whole city of Marash had been stirred to its depths,
as no other Armenian from there had ever ventured on such a
journey except the man already alluded to, who had left twenty-
five years before, and who was unknown to most of the people ex-
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cept by hearsay. In connection with the excitement aroused
during the whole discussion, America was advertised to Marash as
it never had been before, and within a year twenty-five other
Armenians from Marash and its vicinity followed Mr. Gulesian.
Among them were a minister and a poet, who at first had been
especially vigorous in their opposition to young Gulesian's de-
parture. This was practically the beginning of the exodus of
Armenians from that part of Asia Minor, and up to the time of
the massacre and deportations by the Turks and Germans in 1915,
nearly 8,000 had found safety in America.
Mr. Gulesian's troubles by no means ended with the sailing of
the ship, for his approach to the New World was under conditions
about as unpromising as could well be imagined. He landed at
Castle Garden in the late afternoon on May 4, 1883, without any
friends except a few Itahans whose acquaintance he had made on
the voyage, and from whom he had learned enough Italian to make
himself understood. He had only two Turkish pounds left, which
of course could not be negotiated except at the office of a broker,
but, with characteristic hopefulness, he supposed that at last the
winter of his discontent was, to adapt a Shakesperian phrase, to be-
come glorious summer, now that he had become a son of (New)
York. He was soon to be undeceived.
He started to find the brother of an old chum, not having his
address except New York, but thinking that almost any one could
direct him to the place. His first experience was apparently re-
assuring, for within two hundred feet of the gate of Castle Garden,
he encountered two men who appeared to be friendly, and when
Mr. Gulesian said " Iskyan? " to them, meaning could they tell
where Mr. Iskyan lived, they nodded and at once proceeded ap-
parently to guide him to the place, and went so far as to offer to
carry his valise for him; but, as they seemed rather too eager, he
concluded to keep the valise in his own possession. The two men
conducted him on toward a dark place, when Mr. Gulesian, thinking
that things did not look just right, turned suddenly, and ran back
toward Castle Garden. On turning to look back, he saw the
strangers making great haste in the opposite direction.
By good fortune, when he arrived at Castle Garden, the Italian
friends, from whom he had parted about twenty minutes earher,
were still there. He told them his experience, and they kindly
offered to assist him in getting located in the morning. All night
he lay thinking how he had come all the way from Asia Minor alone
and friendless and without knowing a word of any language but
his own, except what he had picked up on his travels, and no one
had interfered or tried to rob him until the very first hour of his
landing on American soil. And he said to himself: " Is this the
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America of my ambition, ' the land of milk and honey/ ' the gate-
way of opportunity '? Can it be so wicked? Can this be the
country from which the missionaries came?" It was several years
before that feehng of disappointment passed away, and it led in
after years to his making arrangements for a very different kind
of reception on behalf of strangers at the gate. Ever since he mas-
tered the English language, he has strongly advocated the ap-
pointment of commissioners — either by the state or federal
government — to meet and befriend newly arrived emigrants and
provide means for placing them where they can work to the best
advantage.
The next morning he took his valise and started forth once more
in quest of Mr. Iskyan, but it did not seem so easy a task to find
his countryman in New York as he had anticipated. For two days
he searched in vain, hungry and tired, nor could he find again his
Italian friends, not having taken their address, as he thought he
would easily find his countryman before the day was over. No
less than one hundred policemen shook their heads when asked if
they knew Mr. Iskyan. Whenever he showed his Turkish money
in order to buy food, people shook their heads. Finally, being on
the verge of starvation, he made up his mind to eat at the first
place where he could find anything, before showing his money.
He saw some bread in a bakeshop, and went inside and pointed to
the bread. The woman gave him a loaf and a glass of milk and he
ate voraciously. Then he offered his Turkish money. The woman
took a second glance at it, opened the door and said: " Get out!"
The only resting place he had for those two days was the benches on
City Hall Common. In the afternoon of the second day he chanced
to look into a basement on Canal Street, and saw something moving
back and forth hke a loom. He went down two or three steps for a
closer scrutiny, and saw a man weaving. As weaving was a very
common industry in Marash, it looked as though possibly some of his
countrymen were operating the machine. But the entrance was
very dark and forbidding, and he dared not venture in for fear of
another experience hke his first. He walked on a couple of blocks,
but, thinking of another night of exposure, he concluded that, live
or die, he must go back and go into that basement, as the long-
sought Iskyan was a weaver, and this man might know something
of him. He entered, and said: " Iskyan ?" That, with gestures,
was the best he could do in English. The man nodded that he
knew Iskyan, and motioned him to sit down, which he was very
glad to do to rest his weary feet. After waiting half an hour, a man
came in who proved to be the proprietor of the place. After con-
siderable gesturing and many signs Mr. Gulesian made the proprietor
understand that he would give him one-half of a Turkish pound to
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be conducted to Mr. Iskyan's place. This man beckoned him to
follow, and led him a short distance to a building at No. 7 Bowery,
which, in his condition, appeared to him like a second heaven.
There to his great joy, he found three of his countrymen. They
exchanged his Turkish pounds for United States coin, and he was
able to pay his guide. About a week afterward he obtained work
in the latter place, which was Mr. Iskyan's factory, at two dollars
a week, with the privilege of sleeping in the building.
Mr. Gulesian's occupation at first was that of winding bobbins.
Soon after he learned to weave carpets, and made from six to eight
dollars a week. During his apprenticeship he was expected to do
extra work in sweeping and cleaning the floor of the factory in pay-
ment for his lodging. This might not seem a very ambitious prop-
osition, but it was the beginning of much larger things, and when
Mr. Gulesian goes to New York, he occasionally visits No. 7 Bowery
and the City Hall Park.
After working in New York for six months, he felt that he was
not getting altogether what he had come to America for. He was
not learning English fast enough, and was having very little op-
portunity to mingle with Americans. He therefore decided to
go to Worcester, Mass. Here he lived for four and a half years,
doing various things as chance offered, often out of work, not
knowing enough English to find out that his trade of coppersmith,
learned in Armenia, would be useful in this country. When he had
learned this important fact he at once looked up a coppersmith
and appHed for work. The proprietor asked: "How much do
you want a week?" Mr. Gulesian replied: " I will come Mon-
day morning, and work for you a week; then you can pay me
whatever you think I am worth." When at the end of the week
he opened his pay envelope and found fifteen dollars, he was
nearly stunned with surprise. Then he said to himself: " Oh,
if there had only been someone when I landed at Castle Garden
to find out from me what trade I followed in the old country,
I might have earned fifteen dollars the second week after I landed,
instead of getting from two to nine dollars a week for the past five
years." The first fifty dollars he saved in America he sent to his
parents in Marash, in appreciation of their returning to him his
money in Smyrna.
While in Worcester, realizing that he was not progressing rapidly
enough in English, he attended the Worcester Academy for two
terms. In order to pay his tuition, he went to school in the fore-
noon and worked in the machine-shop in the afternoon, doing his
studying at night. This proved too strenuous, and he had to give
up school. After working in this place for six months, business
became slack, and Mr. Gulesian, learning that there were a number
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of places in Boston where skilled coppersmiths readily found em-
ployment, he moved to Boston, in July, 1887. He bought a
daily paper at the station and, looking through the advertise-
ments, found one asking for cornice-makers. He applied, and
was told to come at once.
After working in Boston two years he started in business for
himself not a stone's throw from where his six-story factory (12 to
16 Waltham St.) stands today, and in less than two months he was
employing twenty-two men. His business grew rapidly, and in
a few years he built his factory and moved there.
In 1891, he married Cora Frances Plummer, a woman of culture
and refinement, daughter of Jonathan P. and Caroline (Vincent)
Plummer. Mrs. Gulesian died October 10, 1916. Her father
was one of Boston's oldest and most respected citizens. They
have one daughter, Margaret Ahce. Mr. Gulesian now lives in a
beautiful home which he built seventeen years ago, at the corner
of Commonwealth Avenue and Waban Hill Road, Chestnut Hill,
overlooking the lovely waters of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.
Aside from his regular business, from which he has now retired,
Mr. Gulesian has dealt considerably in real estate for the past
fourteen years, and his success in that direction has been remark-
able. His shrewd observation and keen conception of the value
of real estate have been recognized, so that some of the best known
real estate investors and firms constantly seek his advice on such
subjects. Among the many buildings which he has erected is the
attractive St. James Theatre on Huntington Avenue, of which he
is proprietor.
At the time of the Armenian massacres from 1894 to 1896, Mr.
Gulesian spoke at a large number of meetings in different parts of
the country with telHng effect of the woes of his fellow countrymen,
suffering under the barbarous rule of the Turk, rousing the interest
of the American people and assisting in raising money for the starv-
ing thousands in Armenia. He also helped the Red Cross Society.
In 1896, after the Constantinople massacre, Lady Henry Somer-
set and Miss Frances E. Willard sent a large number of refugees
to America by way of Marseilles. Two hundred refugees were
sent to Boston. Mr. Gulesian offered to shelter them, and gave
up a part of his factory for the purpose. With the aid of these
ladies and many prominent Bostonians who were interested, he
soon had established a systematic and well-kept home. A tem-
porary kitchen was built and classes formed, and American ways
and methods were taught. Even the smallest details were scruti-
nized by Mr. Gulesian. He was so deeply interested in making the
lot of his unfortunate countrymen easier that he worked with un-
ceasing energy, and his business-like method of conducting this
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temporary home was a wonder to all concerned. Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell said: " Mr. Gulesian works like a horse." The refugees
remained there until suitable places were found for them at various
occupations.
All this time he had been working hard through the British
Ambassador at Constantinople to have his relatives, who had been
in the midst of the massacre, and whose property had been burned
or seized by the Turkish Government, come to America. No
sooner had the first refugees been arranged for than he got word
that his family and near relatives had arrived in New York, twenty-
two in number. They were detained at Ellis Island, and he went
to New York to release them. When his mother, who was in the
party, first saw him, she said: " Thank God that, in His Providence,
we decided to send that second telegram to the missionary at
Smyrna, fifteen years ago, bidding him return the money to you,
for this brought you to America, and you have been the means of
saving us."
He placed them in the Waltham Street temporary home, where
they remained for a year, until they were able to care for them-
selves.
He has always been ready to lend a helping hand to any of his
countrymen, and they are always welcome to his ofiice, where they
are greeted with a pleasant smile and a warm handshake, and the
poorer the visitor, the more he is made welcome.
He has written many articles for newspapers and magazines
upon the Armenian question, the titles of some being: " Armenia
of To-day and its Possibihties," " The English Hand in Turkish
Massacres," " The Armenian Refugee."
While his native country and countrymen have a warm place in
his heart, he is equally interested in everything American, and
no more patriotic American could be found anywhere. One of his
patriotic acts which is still fresh in mind was his offer to Secretary
Bonaparte of $10,000 for the ship " Constitution." This he in-
stantly decided upon making when he first read of the plan to use
the grand old ship as a target. He thought that to destroy that
frigate would be to destroy one of the most precious relics in our
possession, one fraught with cherished memories. Mr. Gulesian says:
" This priceless relic will do more to preserve and inspire American
patriotism in our youth, than almost any other object." He claims
that England would not part with Nelson's Flagship for its weight
in gold. " Are we poorer than England, that we have to econo-
mize by destroying the dear old ship? " The following is a copy of
the telegram to Secretary Bonaparte which electrified the country,
and many give Mr. Gulesian the credit of being the means of
arousing the enthusiasm which saved the ship at that time.
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** Chas. J. Bonaparte, Boston, Dec. 11, 1905.
Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.
Will give ten thousand dollars for the Constitution (Old Iron-
sides). Will you sell?
M. H. Gulesian,
16 Waltham St., Boston, Mass.
Here is another instance of American patriotism shown by Mr.
Gulesian: fourteen years ago, when, authorized by the City of
Boston, he made the lion and unicorn of copper to replace the
historic ones on the Old State House, he bought the old ones to
ensure their preservation, and today they adorn the lawn in front
of his house.
Mr. Gulesian has numbered among his friends and co-workers
JuUa Ward Howe, Wilham Lloyd Garrison, Henry B. Blackwell,
Alice Stone Blackwell, Frank B. Sanborn, Richard Humphreys,
Frances E. Willard, Samuel J. Barrows, Isabel C. Barrows, Edward
Everett Hale, Mary A. Livermore, Lord Bryce, and Wilham T.
Stead, all of whom have had an influence on his hfe.
He is president of the Huntington Avenue Improvement Asso-
ciation, of the Old Ironsides Association, member of the Republi-
can Club of Massachusetts, the Columbian Lodge of Masons, the
Bostonian Society, the Boston Press Club, the Chamber of Com-
merce, the Boston City Club, the Bay State Automobile Club and
the Boston Economic Club. He was also an organizer and at one
time a director of the CosmopoHtan Trust Company, and he was
Secretary of the United Friends of Armenia, of which Julia Ward
Howe was President and Wilham Lloyd Garrison, Treasurer.
He is an executive member of the Men's League for Woman Suf-
frage, and honorary member of the Playwriters' Club. He is
associated with the Baptist denomination. For recreation, motor-
ing and walking are his favorite diversions.
When, in 1915, it was decided to form a citizens' training camp
at Plattsburg, Mr. Gulesian was one of the first to volunteer as a
private. He proved himself an enthusiastic " rookie," and made
some remarkable scores in marksmanship for a man who had never
handled a gun.
In the spring of 1917 he sent the following letter to Colonel
Roosevelt :
*' Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, April 14, 1917.
Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
Dear Colonel : —
It appears now that you will raise your Division of United States
Volunteers to go to France, and I want to ask you, if, when the time
MOSES HADJI GULESIAN
comes, you will consider me as a private to serve under you? I
am an Armenian by birth, resident of America for over thirty
years. I am fifty-two years of age, but I am strong and healthy
and know how to shoot.
I consider it not only a privilege but the greatest honor to fight
under the American flag for the liberation of poor Belgium and the
defense of dear France.
My military experience consists only of training at the 1915
Plattsburg Camp, where I was a member of C Company, Second
Battalion.
I earnestly hope you will place my application on file, and that
I may hear from you favorably at the proper time.
With sincerest regard, I remain
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) M. H. Gulesian."
He is an earnest advocate of universal military training, to
promote discipline and obedience as the only means of true effi-
ciency. He is also an advocate of practically free immigration,
and claims that every able-bodied man or woman should be al-
lowed to land, whether having any money or not. His own life is
a splendid illustration of his favorite theory that the immigrants
who want to come to this country are the ones whom the country
wants and needs, and that the truest Americans are not always
those to the manner born, but often the wise men of the East, who
behold and follow the Star leading to the Ufe of higher possibihties
and achievement. He beheves that two things more than any-
thing else have made this country the most wonderful in the world :
first, immigration, and secondly, the railroads. As he says, " You
can put a hundred milhon more foreigners in the country, and still
have plenty of room left." He laughs at those immigrants who
object to other immigrants coming. He has made a special study
of the near Eastern question, and thoroughly understands all
phases of Turkish and European politics.
Mr. Gulesian gives the following message to young Americans,
particularly to the young foreigners who come to these shores:
^' Be neat and clean in personal appearance; be honest; do every-
thing that comes along cheerfully and willingly. Do not impair
your faculties by smoking and drinking, which are detrimental to
your success in life. Above all, endeavor to associate with the best
type of American men and women."
Mr. Gulesian has wrought well for the people of his native land,
has been a true Moses in leading many of them out of darkness to
the Land of Liberty, has brought their best traditions to the New
World, and has helped with distinguished success to upbuild his
adopted country.
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HOWARD PRESTON HAINES
HOWARD PRESTON HAINES, a man of learning and an
esteemed resident of Maiden, Massachusetts, was born
January 17, 1855, at Saco, Maine, and died August 3, 1917.
His father, Samuel Haines (born at Saco, Maine, December 25,
1825 — died February 22, 1903), son of Hannah Milliken and Asa
Haines, was for thirty years a mill agent for the Columbian Manu-
facturing Company, a self-made, far-sighted man with great finan-
cial ability, loyalty, and faithful devotion to the business interests
entrusted to his care, and endowed with a strong sense of humor.
He was fond of music, the theater, and fine horses.
His mother, Minerva L. McFadden, daughter of Andrew and
EHzabeth (Reirdan) McFadden, of Scotch descent, was a noble
woman of strong character, quiet dignity and independent thought,
whose encouragement and excellent training proved helpful in
fitting her son for his life work. Mr. Haines was of English and
Scotch descent, the ancestors on the paternal side settling in Maine
among the early colonists of this country. His uncle, Dr. Reuben
Haines was a skilful surgeon, doing wonderful brain surgery in
1878.
In childhood Mr. Haines evinced a strong love for reading and
games. He also had many small tasks at home which were a benefit
to him throughout life, teaching obedience, disciphne and self-
reliance.
His education was received at PhilHps Academy at Andover,
Massachusetts, and at Harvard College, from which he was gradu-
ated with the degree of A.B. in 1881. During college days Emer-
son's works, histories, biographies, and humorous literature were
his companions, with mathematics and science for deeper reading
and study.
At the completion of his college course he began his business
career with the Columbian Manufacturing Company. Later he
traveled West and became engaged in agricultural pursuits. After
several years he returned East and took up teaching as a profession
for which he had a special preference. This was in 1892. In 1896
he accepted a position in the Boston Customs' Service which he
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filled for eight years, then returning to private study and tutorinj'
In 1912 and 1916 he was elected a delegate to the Progressiv!
Presidential Conventions. i
Mr. Haines was a member of the Pi Eta fraternity of Cambridge'
the Kappa Omicron Alpha of Andover, the University Club o
Maiden, and the Amphion Club of Melrose. Politically, he was i
member of the Progressive Party. Until 1912 he had always votec,
the Republican ticket and changed his party because of the meanf|
taken to elect the Republican nominee to the Presidency. He was'
a Unitarian in belief, but a member of the First Universalist Parish,
Maiden. His recreations were the theater, grand opera, and the
attendance at University games. He traveled extensively in hisj
own country and abroad, making special visits to university cities',
and towns, observing very closely the methods of instruction.
September 3, 1890, he married Lottie B. Smiley, daughter of I
Orrin C. Smiley and Mary (Huston) Smiley, granddaughter ofi
Joseph Smiley and David Huston, who were of English and Scotch '
descent and early settlers of Maine.
The following were some of the rules of success which he often
advised young people to follow: "Obedience, frugahty, industry.
Strict attention to business as the first consideration. Amusements
secondary; with due cultivation of mind and heart."
Mr. Haines was an instructor of marked ability, an educator
with natural endowments that brought him success in his pro-
fession. He had a strong sense of justice and right, was kind
hearted and sympathetic with those in distress and a hberal con-
tributor toward educational advancement, giving financial help
to many young men and women in college. He was a most con-
siderate man, ever thoughtful of those with whom he was intimately
associated. His students and those connected with the various
institutions in which he taught were recipients of many acts of
thoughtful kindness at his hands.
Mr. Haines' fife was full of good works, publicly and privately
bestowed, and in the many activities in which he served and repre-
sented the community his usefulness was far-reaching and the high
appreciation in which he was held was richly deserved. It reflected
honor upon his kindred as well as upon the home of his life-time,
and affords a noble example to those upon whom his duties now must
fall. May his influence as a true citizen, his philanthropy and un-
failing interest in humanity ever be emulated.
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WILLIAM TAYLOR HARLOW
A STERLING citizen of Worcester County, faithful and efB-
cicnt in the many civil positions which he held, a veteran of
the Civil War, a valued officer in two Massachusetts regi-
ments, and a man respected wherever known, was William Taylor
Harlow, who was born in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, October
3, 1828. He died in Worcester, Massachusetts, December 1, 1915.
He came of the best Pilgrim stock, for in his veins ran the blood of
Governor WiUiam Bradford, John and Priscilla Alden, William and
Alice Mullens and Richard Warren. These with Sergeant William
Harlow, who came from England nine years after the landing of the
Pilgrims, constitute an ancestry of which he might well have been
proud.
William Taylor Harlow was the son of Gideon Harlow, who was
born February 17, 1799, and died October 26, 1877. His mother
was Harriet Howe. His paternal grandfather was Thomas Harlow,
who was born in 1775 and died in 1865; and his maternal grand-
father was Nathan Howe. His grandmothers were Thankful
Bannister and Mary Parker. His father was a farmer, public
spirited, always interested in the welfare of the community in which
he lived, of untiring energy, lovable in his home and devoted to his
family. His mother was a highminded woman whose influence
was strong and wholesome and left its impress on his moral and
spiritual life.
In the home thus guarded Mr. Harlow's boyhood days were
passed. With such an inheritance and environment he grew to be
the loyal and highminded soldier and citizen. The farm, then as
now, offered no royal road to wealth, and the farmer's boy had his
daily tasks. He early had the ambition to obtain an education
beyond that which the pubUc schools of a small country town could
give, and in gratifying his desire he had many difficulties to sur-
mount, but through his own efforts, and with his father's generous
and unfailing assistance, he reaHzed his ambition in preparatory
school and college. His favorite reading in youth was the Greek
Testament; as an example of lucid English style he studied Ad-
dison's " Spectator." The effectiveness of his work and study
is shown by the record that he graduated from Yale when he
was twenty-three years of age, having fitted himself for college with
one term at Monson Academy. After he graduated from Yale he
studied law and was admitted to the bar in Worcester, in 1853,
when he was twenty-five.
Mr. Harlow had been in the practice of his profession but a few
years when the Civil War broke out; and when the call came for
volunteers he responded at once and enlisted for three years. He
WILLIAM TAYLOR HARLOW
joined the Twenty-first Massachusetts Regiment, which was or-
ganized at Worcester in the early summer of 1861, and was made
First Lieutenant of his company and later was promoted to be its
Captain. He saw service under General Burnside at Roanoke
Island and Newbern, North Carolina; was under General Pope in
Northern Virginia; fought with the Army of the Potomac at
Antietam and Fredericksburg, serving until his company was re-
duced to nine men, while the whole regiment was nearly blotted out.
He resigned with the other surviving ofiicers and sought service in
another regiment. Receiving a commission as major in the Fifty-
seventh Veteran Regiment, he assisted in recruiting it, but was
unable to return to the field, on account of malaria contracted
earlier in the service.
Major Harlow practiced law again in Worcester, and later in
Red Bluff, Tehama County, California. He there received ap-
pointments and served as County surveyor, and assistant assessor
of United States Internal Revenue. Again his old malaria found
him out, and finally drove him back to Worcester, where he spent
the rest of his life. In 1869 he was appointed Assessor of Internal
Revenue and held that office until the office was abolished. He
was then chosen Assistant Clerk of Courts and held that position
from 1877 to 1904, for twenty-seven years, at the end of which
time he retired to private life. For more than forty years Mr.
Harlow had been in the public service as soldier and citizen, and in
all of these years he gave to the service the best that was in him.
Mr. Harlow was with the Republican party in its beginning and
remained loyal to it until his death. He was a " Companion of
the MiUtary Order of the Loyal Legion." In his religious belief he
was a Unitarian and was a member of the Second Parish Church of
Worcester.
Mr. Harlow was married May 31, 1863, to Jeannette, daughter of
Lewis and Maria (Stearns) Bemis, and granddaughter of Joshua
and Phcebe (Bemis) Bemis and of Charles and Elizabeth (Mc-
Farland) Bemis, and a descendant of Samuel Bemis, who was the
second settler of Spencer, coming there from Watertown in 1721.
She was also a descendant of Joseph Bemis, who came to Water-
town from England in 1640. Mr. and Mrs. Harlow had three
children, of whom two are living: Frederick Bemis Harlow, a
lawyer, and Margaret Harlow.
William Taylor Harlow died at the advanced age of eighty-seven
retaining to the last his vigorous faculties, and active interests and
influence in the community. In his life full of years and of honor,
with its many friendships and his loyalty to them, and his love of
home, we have the record of one who in home, community, state
and nation has been true to the highest New England ideals.
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SETH HEYWOOD
SETH HEYWOOD was descended from John Hey wood, who
came to New England before 1651, and settled in Concord,
Massachusetts, John Heywood, son of the above John, was
a prominent man, and had a son, Phineas, who was born in Concord
in 1707, and removed to Worcester, and thence to Shrewsbury in
1739.
Phineas Heywood was a Selectman, a Representative in the
Provincial Congress and a member of the committee of Corre-
spondence and Safety. Seth Heywood, son of Phineas, was born
in Worcester, December 4, 1737, and married in 1762, Martha,
daughter of Isaac and Mary Temple, of Shrewsbury. He was a
farmer and blacksmith, and served as Lieutenant in the Revolution,
being at that time a resident of the town of Lancaster. After the
war he bought a farm on the borders of Ashburnham and West-
minster, which was included within the limits of Gardner on the
incorporation of that town in 1785. The larger part of the town-
hall lot, the burial-ground, and hotel lot, and some intervening
streets in Gardner, are parts of the old Heywood farm. Mr. Hey-
wood took an active part in securing the incorporation of the town,
and was its first clerk and treasurer.
Benjamin Heywood, son of Seth and Martha (Temple) Heywood,
was born in Lancaster, July 10, 1773, and was the Treasurer of the
town of Gardner many years, and died in 1849, He inherited the
farm of his father, and married Mary, daughter of William Whitney,
of Winchendon, Massachusetts. His children were Levi, Benjamin
F., Walter, Wilham, Seth and Charles.
Seth Heywood, son of Benjamin and Mary (Whitney) Heywood,
was born in Gardner, November 12, 1812, and died at his home
there February 23rd 1904. His grandfather, William Whitney,
was a prominent citizen of Winchendon, and represented that town
in the Massachusetts General Court in 1803, 1805, 1806, 1807 and
1808.
Seth Heywood received his education in the district schools of
his native town, and until he was twenty years of age assisted his
father on his farm. In 1832, the year before he attained his ma-
jority, he entered the employ of B. F. Heywood & Co., a firm con-
sisting of Walter Heywood, B. F. Heywood, Wilham Heywood and
Moses Wood, of Gardner and James W. Gates of Boston, and ex-
tensively engaged in the manufacture of chairs. He continued in
the employ of the above firm and of his brother Levi (who for a
SETH HEYWOOD
time carried on the business alone) until 1844, when he became a
member of the firm of Heywood & Wood, consisting of Moses Wood,
his brother Levi and himself. In 1847 Mr. Wood retired, and Calvin
Heywood, son of Levi, and Henry C. Hill came into the firm, which
continued business under the style of Levi Heywood & Co. In
1851 the firm became organized as a joint-stock corporation under
the name of the Heywood Chair Manufacturing Company, to which
the employees of the company were admitted upon subscription to
its capital. In 1861 the mills of the company were burned, and the
company was dissolved. In 1862, after the mills had been rebuilt,
a new firm was organized under the name of Heywood Brothers &
Co., consisting of Levi and Seth Heywood, Charles Heywood, son
of Levi, and Henry C. Hill. In 1868 Charles Heywood and Henry
C. Hill retired, and Henry and George Heywood, sons of Seth,
became members of the firm. At a later date, Alvin M. Green-
wood, son-in-law of Levi Heywood, and Amos Morrill, son-in-law
of Benjamin Heywood, who had died some years before, entered
the firm, and in 1876 Charles Heywood re-entered it, remaining
until his death, June 24, 1882. Levi Heywood died July 21, 1882.
Soon after the death of Levi Heywood, Seth Heywood retired from
the firm, and the year 1883 opened with its composition of four
members, Henry Heywood, George Heywood, Alvin Greenwood,
and Amos Morrill. Through all the changes above mentioned the
style of the firm continued to be Heywood Brothers & Co.
Mr. Heywood received, as he deserved, the confidence of his
fellow citizens, and was repeatedly called by them to positions of
trust and honor. He was for several years Treasurer of Gardner,
and was from the organization of the First National Bank of
Gardner, in 1865, and of the Gardner Savings Bank, in 1868,
respectively a Director and Trustee. In 1860 he was representative
to the General Court, chosen, not only by the votes of the Demo-
cratic party, of which he was a member, but by the added assistance
of many of his political opponents. Mr. Heywood was a member
of Hope Lodge Free and Accepted Masons. He was a respected
and active member of the First Congregational Parish, and was a
generous contributor to its support.
Mr. Heywood married, February 11, 1835, Emily, daughter of
Joseph and Rebecca (Nichols) Wright, of Gardner, granddaughter
of Nathaniel and Martha Wright and of David and of Rebecca
(Burnap) Nichols, the sister of the wife of his brother Levi, and
there were born to them the following children: Henry; George;
Frances S. (Mrs. Frank W. Smith); Mary; and Mary E., who
married Howard L. Ballard.
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GEORGE HEYWOOD
GEORGE HEYWOOD, second son of the late Seth and Emily
(Wright) Heywood, was born January 3, 1839. He was
educated in the pubhc schools of Gardner, Massachusetts,
at Westminster Academy, and Barre Academy, Vermont. After
completing his course in the latter institution he went to Bos-
ton, where he represented the Heywood Brothers. He remained in
this office for a few years, after which he entered the office of the
Heywood Brothers and Company, located at Gardner, where he
remained for some time. In 1868 he was admitted as a partner to
the firm and in this connection continued until 1889, a period of
twenty-one years, when he retired from business, and, surrounded
by his loving family, led a quiet life up to the time of his death,
September 23, 1905.
Mr. Heywood was a Democrat or Independent in politics, and
although he displayed a lively interest in the important issues of
the day, his business affairs prevented him from taking any active
part in poHtical matters beyond the exercise of his elective privileges.
He was frequently chosen to fill various positions of trust and
responsibility, in which he displayed the utmost efficiency and
capabihty.
He was a Director of the Gardner Savings Bank, and his counsel
was highly esteemed by the other members of the board. He
took an active interest in the work connected with the First Con-
gregational Church, of which he was a consistent and influential
attendant.
He was a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery and
the different Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the Thirty-
second degree. He was one of the charter members of the Hope
Lodge, of Gardner, in which he served for a time as Secretary. Mr.
Heywood was a man of many sterhng characteristics, with a strict
regard for commercial ethics, with a high standard of citizenship
and with social quahties which rendered him popular with a wide
circle of friends. He was a man of honor, integrity, and high
GEORGE HEYWOOD
standing in the business community, and his career should serve as
an example to young men who are ambitious and desire to succeed
in the business world.
Mr. Heywood married, May 1, 1878, Laura A. Riddell, born in
Amherst, New Hampshire, daughter of Albert A., and Sarah
(Wheeler) Riddell, and granddaughter of Gawn Riddell, born in
Bedford, New Hampshire, where his entire hfe was spent. Albert
A. Riddell was born in Bedford, and followed agricultural pursuits
throughout the active years of his Hfe, and died in his native town
at the age of fifty-one. His wife, Sarah (Wheeler) Riddell, was a
native of Merrimac, New Hampshire, and her death occurred at
the age of eighty years. Mr. and Mrs. Riddell were the parents of
seven children, two of whom are living, as follows; Laura, widow of
George Heywood; and Mrs. Charles E. Clement, of Nashua, New
Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Heywood were the parents of two
children: AHce W., educated in the schools of Gardner and at Miss
Heloise E. Hersey's private school of Boston; and Henry E.,
educated in the schools of Gardner and at the preparatory school
for boys at Lakeville, Connecticut, after which he entered Williams
College at WiUiamstown, Massachusetts, and is now President
of the F. W. Smith Silver Company.
George Heywood left the heritage of a noble life as an inspiration
to the young men of today. Very early in his life he learned the
wisdom of honesty, the uplift of true Christian charity, the faith in
his fellow men that is above sordid selfishness and the sneer of
small souls. No better proof of his broad view of God's love and
care for all created beings need be adduced than his well known
affection for dogs. He was a true sportsman as well as a nature
lover, and early learned to find his chief recreation in hunting and
fishing.
His wide circle of friends appreciated and trusted him. His long
record of work in the upbuilding of his own town was notable, and
the good he did will never be forgotten.
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HENRY HEYWOOD
HENRY HEYWOOD came from a long line of English an-
cestors. In 1651 representatives of the Heywood family-
settled in Concord and their descendants were prominent
in the early history of the state of Massachusetts. He was born at
Gardner, Massachusetts, June 25, 1836 and died there May 5, 1904.
His father was Seth Heywood, born in 1812, the son of Benjamin
Heywood, born in 1773, died in 1849. Seth Heywood died in 1904.
Henry Heywood's mother was Emily Wright, the daughter of
Joseph Wright, born in 1760, died 1824. Her mother's name before
her marriage was Rebecca Nichols.
Seth Heywood was a chair manufacturer, a man of modest but
upright nature. The moral and spiritual atmosphere of the home
did much to mould the character of the son Henry, who evinced a
nature extremely active and energetic. The influence of home, of
private study, of school, and of early companionship was such that
it exerted a potent, though quiet and unseen influence on his hfe.
Coming of a prosperous family, Henry Heywood received a
liberal education, attending first the schools in his own town and
then Westminster Academy from which he was graduated. At the
age of eighteen, Mr. Heywood entered the chair factory as an em-
ployee of his father, working up to the position of foreman. This
position he held until 1868 when he became a member of the firm
of Heywood Brothers and Company. In 1897 he was elected the
first president of the firm of Heywood Brothers and Wakefield
Company, which position he held until his death.
Mr. Heywood was a Mason, but refused oflScial positions in either
fraternities or pohtical hfe. In politics he was a Democrat. As a
pastime, Mr. Heywood delighted in farming, which was to him a
most enjoyable relaxation from his business cares. Mr. Heywood
held many responsible financial positions. He was a director of the
First National Bank of Gardner and a trustee of the Gardner
Savings Bank, and his advice and judgment were much sought by
people who needed the guidance of a wise counselor in financial
matters, Mr. Heywood was a constant attendant and generous
HENRY HEYWOOD
supporter of the First Congregational Church. He was modest and
unostentatious, but was greatly esteemed for his large business
ability and his unquestioned integrity.
On November 12, 1857, he was married to Martha, daughter of
Seth and Phoebe (Jackson) Temple and granddaughter of Ahio
and Betty (Heywood) Temple and of Ehsha and Relief (Beard)
Jackson. She was a descendant from Abraham Temple, who came
from England to Salem sometime prior to 1636. Three children
were born to Mr. and Mrs. Heywood, of whom one, Helen R. is
living.
Mr. Heywood, although he traced his lineage through successive
generations of sturdy ancestors nevertheless owed the high position
he attained to his own efforts and ability. He possessed a strong
character. His dominant characteristic as a business man was his
untiring energy and enterprise. Honest goods made the name of
Heywood famous throughout the country. His house is the largest
and best known chair manufactory in the world. The influence of
his quiet and generous benefactions will live long. Many received
his unostentatious charity. The loss of such a man to the com-
munity is great, but his influence will long be felt, as he always
stood for the best in everything.
The Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital of Gardner was built
and named for him by his wife and daughter. The property was
placed in the hands of a corporation, the members of which they
selected. They contributed an endowment of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to help provide for the running expenses.
Thus his name and influence will be perpetuated by this far-reaching
charity.
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GEORGE HENRY HEYWOOD
GEORGE HENRY HEYWOOD, only son of Henry and
Martha (Temple) Heywood, was horn in Gardner, Massa-
chusetts, July 28, 1862.
He began his education in the pubhc schools of his native town,
and was graduated from the high scihool as valedictorian of his class
in 1880. In 1884, aft^r four years of study in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Boston, he was graduated in the course
in mining engineering. He then entered the office of Heywood
Brothers and Company, and the next year went to Boston to open
a branch store, of which he had charge and where he remained two
years. Retaining his management of the Boston business, he then
returned to take up his residence in Gardner. A year later he went
to Chicago to superintend the erection of a large factory for the
Heywood and Morrill Rattan Company and to open a retail store.
After residing in Chicago three years, he returned to Gardner, and
there became, next to his father, Henry Heywood, the leading spirit
in the business, and when the Heywood and Wakefield Companies
consohdated their interests, Mr. Heywood became one of the
directors in the new company and also the Treasurer, continuing
in that office until his death.
Upon his return to Gardner to take up his permanent residence,
he displayed much interest in the town's affairs, and for six years
served on the school committee, being Chairman of that body the
last three years and directly instrumental in the adoption of ad-
vanced measures for the management of the committee and of the
schools.
He was a prominent member of the First Congregational parish,
and a hberal contributor to every worthy cause, both within and
outside the church. In social life he was also active, being a member
of Hope Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, North Star Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar,
Massachusetts Consistory, attaining the thirty-second degree in
Free Masonry. He was one of the Directors of the Levi Heywood
Memorial Library and President of the Gardner Boat Club. He
was also a Trustee of Gushing Academy, but resigned on account
GEORGE HENRY HEYWOOD
of lack of time to attend to such duties. A public spirited citizen,
he occupied a large place in the community and his death was
universally mourned.
About May 1, 1898, he went to Haines Landing, Rangeley Lakes,
Maine, accompanied by his wife, for rest from business cares and
to enjoy fishing. There he died May 17, 1898.
The Gardner Journal paid the following tribute to Mr. Hey wood
as part of its comment on his sudden death: —
" Of his character it can be said without exaggeration that he
lived an exemplary hfe. He was high minded and scorned every-
thing that was low and mean. He was true and faithful in all the
relations of life, loyal to his friends, loyal to his town, to his state,
and to his country. His was a busy life. He had never been an
idler or mere pleasure seeker, but always applied himself closely
to his business. He was a man of good intellect, clear-headed and
of sound judgment. The cares and duties of his business did not
prevent him from taking an active part in all that tended toward
the welfare of his home community. His faithful interest in the
public school system and the work he accomplished while on the
board, will long be remembered to his credit."
Mr. Heywood was married in Gardner, October 27, 1886, to
Harriet G. Edgell, daughter of John D. and Sarah (Greenwood)
Edgell, all of Gardner. The children born of this union were;
Seth, born July 28, 1887; John, April 28, 1890; Richard, born
April 23, 1891, died August 29, 1891; and George Henry, born
July 4, 1896.
This is the story of a comparatively short life. Yet who can
recount the far reaching effects of his influence and his achieve-
ments?
" No act falls fruitless; none can tell
How vast its power may be,
Nor what results enfolded dwell
Within it silently."
If no single act falls fruitless, how much more must it be true that
no life time of work for the attainment of character can fall wholly
into oblivion. Certainly the exemplary life of George Henry Hey-
wood has powerfully affected for good, not only his own family and
his intimate friends, but also the public school system, the business
world of Gardner, and all the interests of the community in which
he moved. He built himself into the history of his town.
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HENRY LEE HIGGINSON
HENRY LEE HIGGINSON, soldier, banker, philanthropist,
was born in New York City, November 18, 1834, His first
ancestor in this country was the Reverend Francis Higgin-
son, a graduate of Cambridge University, England, who arrived in
Salem the last of June, 1629, and three weeks later was chosen
minister of the church established there. Francis Higginson wrote
the famous book entitled " New England's Plantations, or A Short
and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of
the Country," as well as an account of his voyage.
Mr. Higginson's father was born in 1804 and his life covered a
large part of the century. His characteristics were honesty, sim-
pHcity, kindness, charity and patriotism. He married Mary Cabot
Lee, daughter of Henry Lee, a merchant and good citizen.
Henry Lee Higginson entered Harvard University in 1851, but
did not stay long. When asked once if he had had any difficulties
to overcome in acquiring an education, he rephed: " Yes, stupidity.
I never was educated." He has served for many years on the
governing Board of the University and is a member of the Corpora-
tion.
Mr. Higginson first entered the counting-house of S. and E.
Austin, and remained there nineteen months; then he went to
Europe and later to Vienna where he studied music. Returning at
the end of 1860, when the Civil War broke out, he and James
Savage went to Fitchburg and recruited a company. He says:
" This recruiting was strange work to us all and the men who
came to our Httle recruiting office asked many questions which I
did my best to answer."
In October 1861, Mr. Higginson was transferred, as captain, to
the First Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry. He was
promoted to Major on March 26, 1862, was wounded in the Battle
of Aldie and on August 9, 1862, was discharged for disability re-
sulting from wounds. Later he served on the staff of Major General
Barlow, commanding the First Division of the Second Army Corps,
and on March 13, 1865 was brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. V.
for gallant and meritorious service during the war.
HENRY LEE HIGGINSON
After the end of the war, he, with two friends, planted cotton in
Georgia for two years, and then early in 1868 became a member of
the banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Company.
In 1881 Mr. Higginson estabhshed the Boston Symphony Or-
chestra.
In June, 1890, Mr. Higginson wrote a letter to the President and
Fellows of Harvard University offering them a tract of land ad-
joining the Charles River. In this letter he said: "The estate
henceforth belongs to the College without any condition or restric-
tion whatsoever. I wish that the ground shall be called ' Soldiers'
Field ' and marked with a stone bearing the names of some dear
friends, alumni of the University, and noble gentlemen who gave
freely and eagerly all that they had or hoped for to their country
and to their fellow-men in the hour of their great need — the War
of 1861 to 1865 — in defense of the RepubHc."
And after paying a beautiful tribute to the men whose names he
wished to have associated with his gift, he spoke a few words which
evidently came from his very heart and well illustrate the purposes
and ideals of his own life : —
" What do the lives of our friends teach us? " he asks. This is
his answer: — " Surely the beauty and the holiness of work and of
utter unselfish, thoughtful devotion to the right cause, to our
country, and to mankind. It is well for us all, for you and for the
boys of future days, to remember such deeds and such lives and to
ponder on them. These men loved study and work, and loved play
too. They delighted in athletic games, and would have used this
field, which is now given to the College and to you for your health
and recreation. But my chief hope in regard to it is that it will
help to make you full-grown, well-developed men, able and ready
to do good work of all kinds, steadfastly, devotedly, thoughtfully;
and that it will remind you of the reason for living, and of your
own duties as men and citizens of the RepubHc."
Some years later Mr. Higginson made Harvard the gift of a
splendid new Club-house, the Harvard Union, as the center of its
social hfe. At the meeting held at Sanders Theatre when this gift
was announced on November 13, 1899, he uttered these words: —
" When I was a small boy, a companion said to me one day,
* Father says that if he can ever help Harvard College, he will do
it.' The father died long ago, having fulfilled his promise and his
son's name stands first on the tablet on Soldiers' Field. His words
HENRY LEE HIGGINSON
and thoughts, with those of my other friends over there, have rung
in my ears and remained in my heart during all these long years, a
pious legacy of early friendship. What good luck, then, to have the
chance and power to help Harvard College: Whatever we may do
for her, it will not equal what she has done for us; and be sure also
that no Harvard man will outstrip the limit of his duty toward his
University or his country."
In his speech delivered on the completion of the noble building
he said : —
" Looking back in life I can see no earthly good which has come
to me so great, so sweet, so uplifting, so consoling, as the friendship
of the men and the women whom I have known well and loved —
friends who have been equally ready to give and to receive kind
offices and timely counsel."
In December, 1863, he married Ida, the daughter of the great
scientist, Louis Agassiz. They have one son, Alexander Henry.
From his own experience and observation Major Higginson offers
these suggestions to young Americans.
" If there were just one thing I could tell the boys of this country,
it would be to tell them to be experts in whatever they set out to do.
This country sorely needs experts. There is a scarcity of experts
and a great opportunity for the boy who wants to be of the greatest
service."
A remarkable tribute of admiration and love was paid in the
Copley-Plaza Hotel to Major Higginson on his eightieth birthday.
About three hundred of Boston's most representative citizens
gathered to honor the man whom Senator Lodge, as their spokes-
man, called " a great public servant in the highest and largest
sense."
Bishop Lawrence described the " genius for friendship " of the
guest of the evening.
Major Higginson responded in a characteristic speech from which
the following is quoted:
" There are many things in life hard to bear, and if any man can
make the path of anybody else happier, he is fortunate."
JAMES LANGDON HILL
JAMES L. HILL, D.D., was born in Garnavillo, Iowa, March;
14, 1848. His parents were Rev. James J. Hill, born May^
29, 1815, died October 29, 1870, and Sarah EHzabeth Hyde.
His grandparents on his father's side were Mark Langdon Hill,
1772 to 1842, and Mary McCobb Hill; on his mother's side,
Gershom Hyde, 1793 to 1875, and Sarah Hyde Hyde. His immi-
grant ancestors were Peter Hill, who came from the west of Eng-
land and settled at Biddeford Pool at the mouth of the Saco River
in 1653; and WiUiara Hyde, who came from England and settled
at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1635. His grandfather Hill was a
large owner of land, the Collector of the Port of Bath, a Trustee of
Bowdoin College and United States Senator from Maine. Dr. Hill
was named for Governor I^angdon of New Hampshire, one of his
relatives.
The parents of Dr. Hill were home missionaries. His father gave
the first dollar to found Grinnell College, Iowa; and, later, the son
followed in his footsteps by giving the first dollar to found Yankton
College in South Dakota. That dollar was found in the President's
desk, after his death, and brought to the East to aid in the campaign
to secure a Hbrary fund. The mother of Dr. Hill, Uke his father,
sacrificed much for Grinnell College. Dr. Hill says everything good
in my fife is from my mother's character and memory.
Dr. Hill's special tastes and interests in boyhood centered in two
things: first, in gathering, for a museum, objects that would show
the customs and habits of men and animals; and, secondly, ly-
ceums, which in those days provided elocutionary entertainments
and opportunities for debate. His father started these lyceums in
his churches.
The good effects of manual labor in Dr. Hill's college days were
operative all through his life, giving him the habit of industry,
making him put a price upon every hour of his time, and securing
for him physical endurance. He never had a dollar from home
during nine years of consecutive study. He writes, " In student
days I had one more study than my associates, The Study of
Economy." Yet the last year he was an undergraduate, besides
carrying all of his studies he earned $800; and in college he was
offered a tutorship, the highest honor given, and on graduating at
the seminary he had the best place on the graduating program.
In youth Dr. Hill found those books most stimulating that sup-
plied motive, books like the " Autobiography " of Franklin.
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JAMES LANGDON HILL
Dr. Hill obtained his preparatory training at Grinnell Academy,
from which he entered Grinnell College and was graduated with the
degree of A.B. in 1871. He studied at Andover Theological Semi-
nary, from which he was graduated with the degree of B.D. in
1875. Grinnell College conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in
1891, the first of her graduates upon whom Grinnell bestowed this
degree.
Dr. Hill began his experiences in the teacher's profession when he
was seventeen. He taught in public schools for five winters, from
1865 to 1870, and was elected tutor in Grinnell College in the year
1871-2.
On his graduation from Andover Theological Seminary, he was
called to be pastor of the North Congregational Church in Lynn,
a pastorate which he entered in September, 1875. Here he remained
till 1886, when he assumed charge of the Mystic Church of Med-
ford. Mystic Church is and always has been very influential. Dr.
Manning, pastor of the Old South, was once pastor of it. Here Dr.
Hill ministered until 1894. Since that time he has been occupied as
writer, lecturer, platform speaker, pamphleteer and minister at large
— being one of a syndicate that acquired The Golden Rule and made
it the champion of the Christian Endeavor cause, he being one of
its trustees from the beginning. He was the largest giver, $15,000,
to the new Y. P. S. C. E. Building in Boston.
He was one of four clergymen to visit England to make addresses
and to plant Societies of Christian Endeavor, and founded the
Society in Old Boston, in England, after which our Boston is
named.
Dr. Hill is a Trustee of Grinnell College, Iowa, a trustee of
Grinnell College and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, being
nominated by the Faculty of the College when the local chapter
was formed. For this beloved college he had assembled a very
elaborate and costly museum, worth, perhaps, $30,000, which waa
destroyed in his home in the great Salem conflagration.
He served in the Civil War, and was paid by a check from the
U. S. Government.
He has made many addresses among them the address at the
dedication of a tablet " in commemoration of the enterprise and
resolute spirit with which Salem arose from her ashes, looked
calamity in the face, and rebuilt her walls." He was also the
author of the inscription upon the tablet. Langdon Street in Salem
was named after Dr. Hill's middle name, he having more houses
on the street than any other owner.
JAMES LANGDON HILL
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He is a member of the Boston Congregational Club and of the
Sons of the American Revolution ; he is President of the Grinnell
Club of New England. He is a member of the Tabernacle Con- 1
gregational Church of Salem. |
Dr. Hill is a Repubhcan in pohtics. His favorite amusement for \
the last twenty-five years has been driving a spirited horse. i
On March 28, 1878, he was married to Lucy B. Dunham, daugh- i
ter of Rev. Isaac and Marbra S. (Brown) Dunham, a descendant
from John Dunham, who came from England to Plymouth, Mas- ,
sachusetts, in 1633, and was a Representative in 1639 and often j
after. The Dunhams are early related to the Aldens and the I
Mortons. Dr. Hill gives this advice to young people: " Learn to ,
take the initiative. It is the art and act of doing things."
Dr. Hill has conducted scientific investigations regarding pre- ;
historic life in Iowa. He is the author of many books and pamph- j
lets. His writings have been published by both the states in which ;
he has lived, Iowa and Massachusetts, and published at the ex-
pense of the states. He preached the Election Sermon, 1878, be-
fore the Governor and legislature of Massachusetts. i
He gave the address at Andover on the twenty-fifth anniversary \
of his graduation from the theological seminary, elected to this
honor by his class. He helped to organize the Associated Charities
in Lynn. He wrote " The Lynn of Forty Years Ago " and " Salem
As I Found Her." He wrote the " Pilgrimages " to Salem, Concord
and Lexington, Cambridge, and Plymouth, which were published
at the time of the great Y. P. S. C. E. Convention in Boston.
He is also the author of " Boys in the Late War," " Woman and |
Satan," "The Scholar's Larger Life," "The Immortal Seven," ;
" The Worst Boys in Town," " The Growth of Government," j
" Modern Methods of Christian Nurture," " The Century's Cap- |
stone," " The Sunday Evening Problem," " Memoir of Wilham
Salter," " A Crowning Achievement," " Favorites of History,"
" Some of My Mottoes." I
Dr. Hill has been a great power for righteousness, not only in
Iowa and Massachusetts, but also throughout our country and in
many localities across the sea. He has used effectively both the '
spoken and the written word. He has lived a well rounded life
and he has enjoyed varied opportunities for enlightening the
generation which he has so effectively served. To thousands in
this country his spirited addresses have been an inspiration, and
the very sound of his name suggests a cheerful courage and a
hearty interest in aggressive Christianity.
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FREDERICK MILTON HODGDON
AMONG the manufacturers who in the last half century have
brought Massachusetts into the foremost place in the shoe
industry is Frederick Milton Hodgdon. He is a native of
New Hampshire, as were his immediate forbears, although the
family was originally established in America by Nicholas Hodsdon
or Hodgdon (spelled both ways) who came from Hertfordshire,
England, in 1635, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts.
Mr. Hodgdon's father (born 1833 in Milan, New Hampshire,
died 1882) was James C. S. Hodgdon, the son of Hanson and Abbie
(Scates) Hodgdon, and a descendant of Major Caleb Hodgdon of
Dover, New Hampshire, an officer in the Revolutionary Army.
As a school teacher he was noted for his patience and refinement,
as a merchant and shoe contractor for his scrupulous integrity. He
married Mary Ehzabeth Brooks, and their first son, Frederick
Milton Hodgdon was born in Farmington, New Hampshire, June
17, 1864.
The cares of the family early fell upon the oldest child who was
but a boy when his father died. From a care free lad, fond of out-
of-door hfe, attending school where his aptitude for drawing was
marked, he became the support of his mother and the younger
children. Six months before finishing the Grammar School, at the
age of sixteen years, he left school and went to work in Haverhill,
Massachusetts, as a chore boy in Gardner Brothers shoe factory.
Having the care of the widowed mother and smaller children
he was spurred on and this without question was an aid in develop-
ing his resources and ambition to push on and succeed in the
struggle. From chore boy he was advanced through several depart-
ments and became experienced in various branches of the factory
work. He was made a foreman and later a salesman. In 1888,
only eight years after beginning work, he commenced in a very
small way the manufacture of shoes for his own profit. He has
continued in the same line of business ever since, constantly in-
creasing his production until he has become a large employer of
labor, and an important figure in the industrial world.
FREDERICK MILTON HODGDON
Mr. Hodgdon is a great reader and has found inspiration in the
study of biography, historical writings, and the substantial current
magazines. Out-of-door life has always held a strong attraction
for him and he has realized keen pleasure and profit from nature
studies. Automobiling and golf keep him in the open air in the
time which he finds for recreation.
In politics Mr. Hodgdon has generally been loyal to the Republi-
can party, but became a Progressive on the issue of " stand pat-
ism." He is a member of various Masonic bodies, of the Twentieth
Century Club of Boston, of the Monday Evening and the Pen-
tucket Clubs of Haverhill. He is accustomed to attending the
Congregational Church.
On June 3, 1890, Mr. Hodgdon married the daughter of George
A. and Abigail (Shackford) Bennett, of Newmarket, N. H., grand-
daughter of Abigail Adams Shackford, and a descendant of EngHsh
colonists who came to Massachusetts from England before 1700.
The advice which he gives young men is from his own practical
experience and includes principles which he practiced with such
success that they should be very valuable to those who are trying
to shape their futures as he did his from small beginnings to large
attainments. He says: " Have a definite aim in life and allow no
obstacle to interfere with its accomphshment. Don't drift with
the crowd; do your own thinking. Aim to do everything well;
better than it has ever been done before."
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FRANK HOPEWELL
FRANK HOPEWELL, long prominent in business circles as
senior member of the firm of L. C. Chase and Company, was
born in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1857, and died
in Pasadena, California, April 24, 1918. He was the son of John
Hopewell and Catharine (Mahoney) Hopewell. His father was a
native of London, England, who emigrated to the United States
when he was fourteen years old. He served as an apprentice for
seven years to learn the cutler's trade in Springfield, and subse-
quently became a manufacturer of cutlery.
Frank Hopewell received his education in the pubhc schools of
Springfield, graduating from the High School in 1875. He then
entered the Springfield Collegiate Institute, from which he was
graduated in 1879. The following year he began his business career
in New York, but subsequently returned to Massachusetts, and
entered the employ of L. C. Chase and Company.
In 1887 Mr. Hopewell was admitted to partnership, and from
1892 until his decease was managing partner.
As a business man Mr. Hopewell was highly successful, and
possessed the quahties essential to the management of large and
diversified interests. Few were better known in his special line of
industry or more sincerely respected for sterhng integrity of charac-
ter. No one who ever knew him doubted the honesty of his motives.
His word was unquestioned, and every action had the impress of
sincerity.
In 1887 Mr. Hopewell was elected assistant treasurer of the
Sanford Mills, Sanford, Maine, and in 1896 became treasurer,
holding ofiice until 1915. He was also a director of the mills,
a director of the Reading Rubber Manufacturing Company,
and of the Holyoke Plush Company. He was a trustee of the
Boston Five Cent Savings Bank for many years. He had the
keenness and quickness of perception which enabled him to grasp
the intricacies of large transactions and quickly reach a decision.
It was these qualities with his active temperament, which won
for him a high standing in the business world.
FRANK HOPEWELL |
Mr. Hopewell was a member of the Boston Athletic Association,
the Brae-Burn Country Club, and the Belmont Spring Country i
Club. He maintained his home in Newton, where he enjoyed to ;
the fullest degree the respect and confidence of all who knew him. !
He had a summer residence in Wolfboro, New Hampshire. I
Mr. Hopewell is survived by his wife, who was Helen Buckman, !
daughter of George P. Buckman and Mary A. Buckman of Lowell |
Massachusetts, and one daughter, Mrs. William L. Van Wagenen j
of Pelham Manor, New York. I
In the best sense of the term Mr. Hopewell was a fine example of I
the self-made man. His leading characteristics in his business '
relations were his pronounced convictions and courage in main- j
taining them, his quick perception of advantageous circumstances i
and ability in utiHzing them, the thoroughness of his plans, his ;
cordial and trusted relations with his associates and his genial and i
equitable dealings with his fellow officers. \
A friend said of Mr. Hopewell: " With the passing of Frank I
Hopewell a beacon light has gone out in trade circles. His was a
forceful personality with such business acumen that it often seemed
to his friends to be prescience. A man of wonderful observation,
memory, command of detail and keenness of perception he was one
of those rare individuals who would have made a success in almost
any line. Having a big, well uniformed mind he handled questions
and poHcies in a broad gauged way and his advice was much sought
and followed.
While he was a leader among business men he was far more
notable for those qualities of character and friendship which so
impressed all with whom he came in contact. Combined with a
spontaneous high spirited democratic good fellowship was a warm
heart.
Frank Hopewell was quick to relieve any trouble among his
fellows, so that hardly a day passed without adding to the quota of
individuals who thought of him with gratitude. Ever miUtant in i
denunciation of deceit or wrong doing he was considerate to the
last degree of honest shortcomings or weaknesses and alive with a
spirit of helpfulness.
Those who were privileged to know him intimately subscribe
with one accord to the sentiment, " I shall not look upon his like
again."
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FREDERICK ALLEY HOUDELETTE
FREDERICK ALLEY HOUDELETTE, for many years
prominently identified with the iron and steel business, and
president of the firm of Frederick A. Houdelette and Son,
Incorporated, was born in Dresden, Maine, December 26, 1840,
and dropped dead at the South Station while on his way to his
home in Newton, Massachusetts, December 17, 1917. His father,
Philip Frederick Houdelette, February 20, 1811 — September 7, 1885,
was a stalwart sea captain, later a country store-keeper, a worthy
and estimable citizen of his community. On the paternal side Mr.
Houdelette was descended from George and Mary (Theobald)
Houdelette. His mother was Maria Greeley (Alley) Houdelette.
She was a woman of strong character and her early moral and
spiritual teachings left a lasting impression on his life.
Mr. Houdelette's maternal ancestors came from England and
settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The progenitor, John
Alley, an English curate, was a descendant of a Lord Mayor Alley of
Dubhn, Ireland. A descendant of John Alley settled in Boothbay,
Maine, where in turn his descendant, Samuel Alley, married Elizabeth
Gove, maternal grandmother of Mr. Houdelette. Her ancestors
came from Saxony, Germany, and settled first in Southern New
Hampshire, a branch of the family moving to Edgecomb, Maine (at
one time a part of Boothbay) and subsequently to Dresden, Maine.
As a youth Mr. Houdelette used to carve toys for the village
children, and developed considerable skill. He continued to do
carving as a pastime almost up to the time of his death.
Mr. Houdelette profited much by the good example and excellent
advice of his parents and in early years displayed persistent effort,
self-reliance, and determination to do the best that was in him.
At the age of sixteen Mr. Houdelette went to Boston, where he
obtained a position as clerk in the hardware store of Eaton, Lovett
and Wellington. Later he was Boston manager of the Charles
Cammell and Company, of Sheffield, England. For the following
two years Mr. Houdelette was manager of the New York City
branch of this firm. He then returned to Boston and entered the
iron and steel business, taking charge of the Sales Department of
the Bay State Iron Company with which he was connected for ten
years.
In 1878 Mr. Houdelette engaged in business on his own account,
first as a partner in the firm of John H. Reed and Company, and
then successively as Houdelette and Ellis, Houdelette and Dunnels,
which next became the firm of Frederick A. Houdelette and Com-
pany, and in 1908 was incorporated as the firm of Frederick A.
Houdelette and Son. He was also a director of the Chfton Manu-
facturing Company.
FREDERICK ALLEY HOUDELETTE
Mr. Houdelette was an active worker in church affairs. It was
through his instrumentality that two mission churches were estab-
Ushed, one of which is in Boston. From November 1, 1905, ta
November 1, 1910, he served as deacon of the Congregational
Church at Melrose Highlands. For one year, 1896 to 1897, he
was auditor, was on the church committee for one year, 1897 to
1898, and was clerk of the Church from 1898 to 1899. In the
latter year he conducted a large class of men and women in the
Sunday School. He was a Bible Class teacher for almost fifty
years. He was formerly a member of the Eliot Congregational
Church of Newton, and at the time of his death was a member of
the Harvard Congregational Church in Brookhne. A lover of
music, he was a violinist, and for many years was a bass singer in
church choirs.
Mr. Houdelette was a life member of the American Poultry
Association, of the Young Men's Christian Association, a member
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and of the Medfield His-
torical Society. He wrote various articles on poultry, and was the
originator of the Silver Laced and White Wyandottes. For recre-
ation and relaxation he was engaged in farming, in rearing pedigree
stock, and breeding cattle.
When the Civil War broke out he enhsted and served as a
corporal.
Mr. Houdelette was twice married. On January 1, 1865, he was
married to EUzabeth Maria Baker of Wellfleet, Massachusetts,
whose ancestors came to America on the " Mayflower." Four
children were born of this union, three of whom are living: Ethel
Burgess, Mabel Stuart (Mrs. Andrew F. Crocker) and Marcellus
R. Houdelette. Mrs. Houdelette died July 7, 1907. On November
12, 1913, he was married to his second wife Florence Amy Nickerson
of Harding, Massachusetts, whose ancestors on both sides came to
America on the " Mayflower."
Mr. Houdelette represented without assumption the best type
of that successful, high-minded character which embodies all the
highest qualities of our New England life.
Mr. Houdelette's life exemplified the success which has been well
described in these words: " He has achieved success who has lived
well, laughed often, loved much; who has gained the respect of
intelHgent men, and the love of little children; who has accom-
plished his task ; who has made some part of the world better than
he found it; who has not lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or
failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others
and given the best he had; whose life has been an inspiration, and
whose memory is a benediction."
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OLIVER HUNT HOWE
OLIVER HUNT HOWE comes of goodly lineage. His an-
cestors were among the original settlers of Roxbury, Dor-
chester, Watertown, Dedham, Medfield and Concord,
men who had a part in establishing the free institutions of Massa-
chusetts. He is the son of Elijah and Julia Ann (Hunt) Howe and
represents the ninth generation of the Howe family in this country.
The name was originally spelled How, an immigrant ancestor,
Abraham How, was made freeman in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in
1638, and in 1645 was one of the signers of a covenant to establish
a free school in the town of Roxbury. The school has had a con-
tinuous existence and is now known as the Roxbury Latin School.
Prom Abraham How the line is traced through Isaac, Isaac (second),
Thomas, Thomas (second), Thomas (third), Elijah and Elijah
(second), the last named being Dr. Howe's father.
The following ancestors served in the Revolutionary War:
Thomas Howe, the Doctor's great-great-grandfather, Ebenezer
Battle, Timothy Stow, and Elijah Withington, senior. Further
family records give one Humphrey Atherton, who was Deputy to
General Court 1638-46; speaker of the House of Deputies, 1653;
Lieutenant 1643, Captain of a Dorchester Company, 1646; " Assis-
tant " 1654-61; major for Suffolk County, 1652, and Major-
General 1661. Another ancestor was Henry Withington, ruHng
elder in the Dorchester church for twenty-nine years. Doctor
Howe's maternal great-grandfather, Ohver Hunt, blacksmith of
East Douglas, Massachusetts, early in the 19th century made
axes of superior quahty. This resulted in 1835 in the incorpora-
tion of the Douglas Axe Company. Doctor Howe was born in
Dedham, Massachusetts, May 29, 1860, and acquired the
rudiments of his education in the public schools of Dedham.
From 1878-81 he was Clerk in the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds
in Dedham. He graduated from the Harvard Medical School in
1886. He was House Surgeon in the Boston City Hospital in
1885-86, and became Assistant to the Superintendent in the fol-
lowing year. In 1887 he settled in Cohasset and since then has
been engaged there in the practice of medicine. He has been
keenly alive to the progress of medical science, and exemplifying
the broad view and the resourcefulness of the general practitioner,
has acquired a large and successful practice.
Doctor Howe is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society;
the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health; is Medical
Examiner for the district of Cohasset; and in 1917, a member of
the local board for selective military draft. He has been also
OLIVER HUNT HOWE
School Physician for Cohasset since 1907; Trustee of the Cohasset
Free Pubhc Library since 1900, and its Treasurer since 1905. He
has been a trustee of the Cohasset Savings Bank since 1904, and a
member of its Board of Investment since 1912. Dr. Howe has also
been President of the Norfolk South District Medical Society,
1910-11; President of the Literary Club of Cohasset 1915-17;
President of Sandy Beach Association 1917; and Vice-president of
Cohasset Improvement Association 1917. He is a member of the
Second Congregational Church in Cohasset, one of its deacons
since 1900 and treasurer of the parish since 1899. He is a Mason, a
member of the American Medical Association; the Massachusetts
Medico-Legal Society, of which he was Recording Secretary 1907-15,
and its president in 1917. He was President of the Men's Club of
Cohasset in 1916-17, and is also a member of the Boston Society
of Natural History, and the New England Historic-Genealogical
Society. He has been for many years an enthusiastic botanist and
field geologist, and is fond of travel.
In 1889, Doctor Howe married Martha Dresser Paul, of Dedham,
daughter of Ebenezer and Susan (Dresser) Paul. They have four
children: Paul, Juhan Cheever, Richard Withington and Henry
Forbush.
Doctor Howe has contributed occasional articles to magazines and
medical journals, among them: " The Personal Relation of the
Physician to his Patients "; " Cultural Education "; " Historical
Evolution of European Nations"; and "War as National Disci-
pline." Since 1894, he has been secretary of the Committee on Town
History of Cohasset, eagerly collecting local historical data and
assisting in the preparation and publication of two historical vol-
umes. He wrote four important chapters in the second of these
works (Cohasset Genealogies and Town History, published in
1909.) The record of such earnest, active, fruitful years is an
inspiration.
From experience Doctor Howe gives this advice to the new
generation: — " Let them take some responsibility in the conduct
of their immediate surroundings, the family, the school, the church,
the town. Unfortunately, city life discourages this responsibility,
not only in young people, but in adults also. Country hfe, especially
life in small towns, gives abundant opportunity for it. Neverthe-
less, even in the country, the disposition to assume such responsi-
bihty needs to be encouraged. There has never been more need of
intelligent co-operation and of conscientious activity in support of
pubhc interests. By these means alone can our American ideals
and hfe be made safe and permanent."
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FRED MARSHALL HUDSON
FRED MARSHALL HUDSON was born at Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, April 9, 1867. His father, Horace Orville Hudson,
1839-1907, was a leather belt manufacturer, whose most
outstanding characteristics were stability, progressiveness, in-
tegrity and charity. His mother, Lycia Lucina Pratt, daughter of
Cooledge Pratt, was a home loving woman devoted to her husband
and children, and giving her life to their advancement. The an-
cestors of Mr. Hudson were of old English stock, coming to America
among the early settlers of this country.
Mr. Hudson spent his early life in Worcester, where he attended
the public and high schools until he arrived at the age of sixteen.
Being fond of books he was always well up in his school work, but
he was also glad when the vacations came and he could devote all
his time to outdoor life on a farm. Well developed mentally as
well as physically, he began to long for the active work of life at
an early age, and when opportunity gave him a chance to enter
business life he left the high school for a more practical school of
experience.
At the age of sixteen Mr. Hudson began to earn his own living,
although he had already been helping to support himself by selling
newspapers, and clerking in a store after school hours. His first
official position was in the Bookkeeping and Shipping Department
of his father's factory. He took the position temporarily and
intended to study later to fit himself to be a mechanical engineer.
But he became interested in the manufacture of leather belting as
his knowledge of the work increased, and he decided to make it his
business in life. He then worked steadily through the various
departments, learning every detail, until at the end of several
years of steady progress he became Superintendent of the plant.
A Httle later he became a partner of the firm, under the name of
the H. O. Hudson and Company, Leather Belt Manufacturers. In
1902 the Hudson Belting Company was incorporated, and he was
elected President. In 1907, he became Treasurer and holds both
FRED MARSHALL HUDSON
offices at the present time. Mr. Hudson has designed three special j
machines for his factory, but has not as yet taken out the patents.
Mr. Hudson is a member of several Masonic Orders, including
the Athelstan Lodge, Worcester Chapter, Hiram Council, Worces- !
ter County Commandery Forty-five, Worcester Lodge of Perfec- J
tion. Princes of Jerusalem, Lawrence Chapter, Rose Croix Massa- I
chusetts Consistory, Aletheia Grotto, and Stella Chapter, Eastern i
Star. He also holds the rank of Past Noble Grand, Ridgely Lodge .
112, and of Past High Priest of Mount Vernon Encampment 53, |
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Hudson is a Repub- |
lican. He has always attended the Grace Methodist Episcopal i
Church of Worcester, and served as Trustee during 1908, resigning '
owing to pressure of other matters. His favorite modes of relaxa- |
tion are fishing and motoring. I
Mr. Hudson was married November 22, 1887, to Lilla M., j
daughter of James H. and Mary J. (Tenney) Buck, granddaughter '
of Thomas H. and Polly B. (Brewer) Buck, and of Chauncy B.
Tenney and Martha Brewer Tenney. They have three children
living, Phihp Orville, Warren James, and Bertha Louise.
Mr. Hudson has been a student all his Hfe and has read ex-
tensively, finding books on travel, engineering and chemistry most
helpful. He believes his success is due largely to private study,
combined with contact with men in active life, and based on good
home influences during childhood. His business creed is interesting
and instructive: "Work regularly and honestly at any trade or
profession which you like and are interested in. Study and im-
prove your knowledge of your work, and read for general informa-
tion. Save something. What you get amounts to nothing. It is
what you save that counts."
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HENRY STANLEY HYDE
THE name of Henry Stanley Hyde long stood among the
foremost in New England for successful financiering and for
business integrity; and the city of Springfield has had no
more loyal citizen,
Mr. Hyde was born in Mt. Hope, Orange County, New York,
August 18, 1837, and died at his home in Springfield, February 2,
1917. He was the son of Ohver Moulton and JuHa Ann (Sprague)
Hyde, and a descendant of William Hyde who came to Newton,
Massachusetts, in 1633. When he was but three years of age his
parents removed to Detroit, Michigan, and there he was educated
in private schools and began the active work of his life as a bank
clerk.
The law was not without its attraction and he studied for a time
in the offices of Howard, Bishop, and Holbrook, and later with
Jerome, Howard, and Swift,
In 1862, he came to Massachusetts, locating in Springfield, and
immediately became connected with the Wason Manufacturing
Company, railway car builders. In 1864, two years after his
advent, he became treasurer of the company and remained in that
capacity until his death. There have been but few men who have
presented a business career of such unvarying success, won not by
chance, but by the application of sound judgment.
Mr. Hyde was connected with a number of the leading business
concerns of Springfield. He was president of the E. Stebbins Brass
Manufacturing Company, and of the Springfield Printing and
Binding Company, vice-president of the Hampden Savings Bank,
and of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and
a director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
He was also treasurer of the Springfield Steam Power Company,
and a director in several manufacturing corporations in and out of
the state.
Mr. Hyde was connected with the telephone company from its
infancy and was practically the founder of the first exchange in
Springfield in 1879. The organization before its absorption was
known as the Springfield Telephone Company.
HENRY STANLEY HYDE
Mr. Hyde served as president of the Agawam National Bank!
for over twenty-two years, and it was, in a large measure, due to!
his able management that the institution held the place it did!
among the national banks of New England. He possessed in I
an eminent degree, the requisite quahfications of tact, executive i
ability, energy, and firmness essential to a bank president. Hisj
character and reputation were alike so favorable that the mere{
fact of his being its head was a guarantee of the bank's reliability, j
Mr. Hyde was actively interested in the Springfield Hospital I
from its establishment as a city hospital, he served as first president ;
of the Board of Trustees. j
In 1875 Mr. Hyde was elected to represent the First Hampden |
district in the State Senate. His sterling integrity and his adminis- j
trative and executive abihty gave him large influence. '
In politics he was a Republican, and he served at various times }
as a member of the Common Council and the Board of Aldermen. ;
In 1884 and in 1888 he was a delegate to the National Repubhcan j
Convention at Chicago, and from 1888 until 1892 he was a Massa- \
chusetts member of the Republican National Committee. He was
also a member of the State Central Committee.
From 1887 to 1903 Mr. Hyde served as chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, being auditor
from 1888 to 1889, and vice-president from 1900 to 1903. He was
also chairman of the Sinking Fund Commission of West Springfield, ,
and retired from that position only a few days before his death. j
Mr. Hyde was president of the First Universalist Society of |
Springfield, the Nayasset Club, the Springfield, and the Country j
clubs.
In 1860, Mr. Hyde was married to Jennie S. Wason, daughter of
Thomas W. and Sarah Longley Wason who died in 1889. Four
children were born of this marriage: Jerome V., Henry S., Thomas
W., and a son who died in infancy. They later adopted a daughter
Fayohn J. Hyde. In 1892, he was married to Ellen Trask Chapin,
daughter of the Honorable EHphalet Trask of Springfield.
As a man of sound sense and practical wisdom in all that related
to the every-day concerns of life, Mr. Hyde was preeminent
among his fellows. He was a man of quick perception, fine faculties,
and a large power of generalization. Liberal and philanthropic, he
aided every well directed public enterprise, and enjoyed the un-
mixed respect and esteem of his fellow citizens.
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JOHN BROOKS JENKINS
IN an old fashioned homestead built in 1786 at Andover, Massa-
chusetts, the birthplace of his father, John Brooks Jenkins
was born October 11, 1829, and died September 12, 1915. He
was the son of Benjamin Jenkins, born April 15, 1786, a man who
was greatly interested in the welfare of his farm and who took great
pride in his country estate. He married Betsey Berry Brooks who
was thrifty, energetic, and greatly interested in the intellectual hfe
of her children. She was of a religious temperament, and an influ-
ential guide throughout his life. Mr. Jenkins ancestors were all
of American birth for four generations so that when the war of
1861 took place Mr. Jenkins' patriotism knew no bounds.
He attended the schools in his district and the education there
received, allied with the splendid training of his mother, gave him
a good foundation. He inherited from his parents a fine constitu-
tion and, being extremely fond of outdoor life, he decided to become
a lumberman. He liked the floating of logs down the river, the
free and easy hfe, the companionships and brotherly kindness
among the men. For fourteen years he engaged in that work,
seven years in Maine and seven in Vermont.
When the war broke out in 1861, Mr. Jenkins enlisted in Com-
pany B, Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment. During this period he
passed through untold sufferings. The friends with whom he had
enhsted were killed. He was at Petersburg during the nine months
before the surrender. The hardships of tramping through the
marshes and the severity of the climate at various times during the
campaigns were experiences which he often related to interested
friends. Later in life Mr. Jenkins suffered the loss of both his
limbs, amputation being necessary after severe accidents. The
second accident occurred while he was fighting a forest fire in the
Scotland District about twelve years before his death.
When a young man Mr. Jenkins served as a special commissioner
of Essex County and also as a selectman of Andover. He was
later a member of Bartlett Post 99, Grand Army of the Republic,
JOHN BROOKS JENKINS
and of Saint Matthews Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
He was a Republican in his political associations and aflfihated with
the South Congregational Church.
Mr. Jenldns was very well known as a Grand Army Veteran, and
highly esteemed among his comrades. Despite many years of
suffering he maintained his cheerfulness and optimistic spirit. He
was not unmindful of the importance of the service he had rendered
to his country, and was endowed with an unquenchable patriotic
zeal.
He was married September first, 1853, to Ellen Holt, daughter of
Sarah and Dean Holt, granddaughter of Sarah and Dean Holt.
Her ancestors were among the first settlers of Andover. They had
seven children three of whom are hving, Charles B., Frank, and
Ehzabeth.
It may be said without exaggeration that few men in the State,
not occupying official positions, have been so widely and sincerely
mourned as Mr. Jenkins. His genial, unselfish spirit made his loss
singularly felt. He took an active interest in the welfare of his
community and his sound judgment with ripe experience assisted
materially in promoting its prosperity. Always frank and fearless
he faithfully discharged his public duties. He maintained for him-
self and required from others the highest standards of integrity
and gave the Commonwealth a dignified and efficient service with
no thought of personal aggrandizement. Never once did he shirk
an opportunity or flinch from any responsibility which presented
itself before him as right. In such a record as this there is neces-
sarily revealed all the sturdiness of his New England stock and all
the force of character which he himself developed during a man-
hood of hard work and service for his country.
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ERASTUS JONES
ERASTUS JONES, a shoe manufacturer of Spencer, Massa-
chusetts, was born in Spencer, September 11, 1825 and
died March 14, 1907.
He was educated in the Spencer pubhc schools. After several
years in the employ of his brother Asa T. Jones, a manufacturer
of Spencer the two formed a partnership in 1846, the firm name
becoming A. T. and E. Jones. This partnership continued until
1862, when the senior member of the firm retired and Hezekiah P.
Starr was admitted in his place. The firm then became E. Jones
and Company, a name familiar to the shoe trade in the country
for forty years or more. The Jones factory has been several times
enlarged since it was first built in 1860, and it has always been
equipped with the latest types of machinery.
Mr. Jones was President of the Spencer National Bank from its
organization in 1825, and for some twenty-five years was president,
trustee and member of the board of investment of the Spencer
Savings Bank. He was town treasurer of Spencer for several years
and also town clerk. In 1874 he was representative to the General
Court and in 1896-97, was State Senator from the fourth Worcester
Senatorial district. During his first term in the Senate, he was on
the committee on banks and banking, and chairman of the joint
standing committee on Hquor laws. While in his second term he
was chairman of the committee on banks and banking and a member
also of the committee on taxation and printing.
In pontics Mr. Jones was an active RepubHcan. Mr. Jones was
a member of the Congregational Church.
He was married June 5, 1850, to Mary I. Starr, daughter of John
Starr of Thomaston, Maine. The children of this union are:
Lucy I.; Julia F.; Mary P.; Everett Starr.
Both in public and in private life long years of intercourse en-
deared him to his many friends and business associates, while his
generous contributions to charitable and public causes aroused a
warm regard among all who knew him.
EBEN S. S. KEITH
EBEN S. S. KEITH was born in Sagamore, Massachusetts,
October 24, 1872. He is the son of Isaac N. Keith and Ehza
F. Smith. Mr. Keith comes of distinguished hneage.
Among his ancestors was Sir Wilham Keith, Knight, who was
created Earl Marischal of Scotland, by James II, of that kingdom
in 1458. This office remained in the family by regular succession
to George Keith, who joined in the rising of 1715, and whose honors
and estates fell under the Act of Attainder in 1716. The Rev.
James Keith, the first of the name in this country was born and
educated in Aberdeen, Scotland and came to this country in 1662
at about 18 years of age. He was ordained in 1664 and settled in
Bridgewater where he labored in the ministry for fifty-six years.
Mr. Keith passed his boyhood in his native region, enjoying the
sports which enter into the typical life of the American boy. After
graduating at the High School of Bourne, he entered the machine
shop of the Keith Manuafcturing Company in 1890. His father
was the head of the concern and the young man took up the busi-
ness of building cars. He served as inspector of cars and bookkeeper
and displayed such an efficient understanding of the business that
in 1894, at the age of twenty-two he was admitted to partnership.
The title of the firm from 1899 to 1907 was I. N. Keith and Son.
Since January 1907 the name of the concern has been the Keith
Car and Manufacturing Company of which Mr. Keith has been
the president. In its operations this company is well known for
its large and important business in the equipping of railroads.
The business has contributed to the industrial development of the
part of the state in which it is located.
Mr. Keith, for his business experience and his sterling qualities
as a man of discernment and decision and for his pohtical principles,
was elected to the Massachusetts Senate and served in that body
in 1907 and 1908 and 1909. His constituents were not confined to
any one party for although a Repubhcan he was actively supported
by many other political associations. He represented the Cape
Senatorial district which has generally sent men of marked business
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and political sagacity. After service in the Senate he served for
three terms in the Executive Council. He declined further service
much to the regret of the people of all political parties. Though
rigid and decided in his views and actions, taking the course on
public questions which he deemed for the best interests of the
state, without fear or favor, he made many friends by his adhesion
of high principles of public poHcy.
In local politics Mr. Keith has served as Chairman of the Re-
publican Town Committee and showed a disposition to assist in
the honest work of a party as well as to receive its honors. The
civic duty which so many avoid for the sake of business or from
disinclination to engage in any party work was recognized by him
as a citizen's part. He also served his constituents as a delegate
to the Republican National Convention of 1908 and as an alternate-
at-large in 1916.
Mr. Keith has taken an interest in Masonic Associations, and
those of a kindred nature. He is a thirty second degree Mason; a
Shriner, and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
On February 8, 1900, he married Miss Malvina M. Landers of
Cotuit.
The record of Mr. Keith's life reveals his sound principles and
singleness of purpose in every event and result. He is widely
recognized as a man of influence, business abihty and public spirit,
and above everything else, is characterized by fidelity to principle
and faithfulness to duty, and these qualities added to his rare mental
powers and executive abihty have made his success as deserved as
it is great and manifold. He is a good type of the New England
citizen, a man by inheritance and practice of the strictest integrity
and highest sense of honor and justice. Unassuming in manner,
but strong with whom he counsels, his influence permeates all those
about him and reaches far beyond.
JOHN ERLE KENNEY
DR. JOHN ERLE KENNEY, one of the prominent physicians
of Chelsea, Massachusetts, was born in Underhill, Vermont,
on September 8, 1861, and died at the home of his sister,
Mrs. Sarah J. Balch on March 5, 1916. He was the son of Francis
(1810-1882) and Mary Kenney. His father was a farmer and great
lover of animals and birds. The ancestors of Dr. Kenney came
from Glasgow, Scotland, and from Ireland. They settled in St.
Johnsbury, Vermont.
Dr. Kenney had great difficulties in gaining the education that
he desired, his time being taken up by hard work on the farm. He
early determined to study hard to acquire a profession and as a
result of his earnest efforts graduated from the University of
Vermont.
He began active work in his profession at St. Elizabeth's Hospital
in Washington, District of Columbia continued later in Howard,
Rhode Island. For fourteen years he practiced medicine in the
city of Chelsea.
In politics he was a member of the Republican Party, and in
religion he was affihated with the Methodist Church. He was also
a member of the fraternal order of the Masons. He was a great
lover of his home, and was a student all his days. With his study
went a great love of flowers, and he spent many hours working in
his flower garden.
Dr. Kenney was a man of scrupulous honesty and great industry,
giving his time indefatigably to his profession. He was unmarried.
What Doctor Arnold said of boys is equally true of men, — that
the difference between one boy and another consists not so much
in talent as in energy. Given perseverance, and energy soon be-
comes habitual. Given habits of application and perseverance, such
as John Erie Kenney possessed, a man will effectively cultivate
himself. This he did, and he thereby acquired not only success in
his chosen profession, but the respect and esteem of his fellow
citizens. Massachusetts does well to honor such a man.
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WILLIAM BARTLET LAMBERT
WILLIAM BARTLET LAMBERT, President of the Boston
Plate and Window Glass Company, is a son of Massa-
chusetts by direct descent on his mother's side. His
father, Henry Calvert Lambert, was an English Unitarian clergy-
man. His grandfather, Luke Lambert, died at Chatham, England,
April 11, 1824. Henry Lambert was born in Winchelsea, England
on the fourth of April, 1812 and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts,
October 1, 1836. The war between the tv/o English-speaking
nations in Henry Lambert's infancy seems not to have prejudiced
him in later years against the United States. Indeed, we have
every reason to suppose that his thoughts turned early toward New
England, and Boston eventually became his home. Loyal to every-
thing English as his family always had been this young divine,
fired with the new rehgious liberahsm, waked to find himself an
alien in the dominion of an Established church. He found across
the Atlantic a community of rare souls with whom he was in closest
sympathy — Emerson and the Concord group, the Cambridge men
of letters, and the Abohtionists in Boston.
So it happened that this earnest young EngHshman migrated
to America because he believed that he would find there the en-
vironment in which he rightly belonged. He came in the spirit
of 1620 — a Pilgrim of a later day. Freedom for thinking, for
worship, for working out his own ideals of Hfe.
He gladly gave hostages to his new country when he married
Catherine B. Porter, daughter of John Porter, of an old New Eng-
land family. Catherine Porter's maternal grandfather, William
Bartlet, a wealthy East Indian merchant of the early trading days,
endowed the Andover Theological Seminary with over one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. He was a gentleman of scholarly attain-
ments, noted for his pubhc spirit, and one of the influential charac-
ters of his time.
The son of this union, William Bartlet Lambert, was born in
East Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1845. He enjoyed,
from childhood, the finest advantages of his environment. His
home and social surroundings were exceptional. His mother, a
woman of distinguished mental and spiritual endowments, was a
strong influence in his development, at the same time that his
father's loyalty to high ideals, also exercised a strong influence
over his son.
Everything at home in those early days was made eminently
worth the doing, a wholesome, well rounded existence, in which natu-
ral confidence and hopefulness were deeply ingrained in his nature.
From the Newton High School he was sent to Mr. Allen's Eng-
lish and Classical School in West Newton where he prepared for
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Harvard College. In 1867 he graduated from Harvard with the
degree of A.B. and in 1872 was made a Master of Arts.
On leaving the University in 1867, he began his career as Trea-
surer of the Siemens Regenerative Gas Furnace Company of Boston.
Two years later, he became a partner in the glass firm of Lambert
Brothers. It was circumstances, far more than personal inchna-
tion, which led Mr. Lambert into business. Seldom, however, has
a man grasped circumstances more firmly, or moulded arbitrary
conditions more resolutely to his own desire. He proved that a
college education is no stumbling block to practical success.
The glass firm of the Lambert Brothers was an independent con-
cern from 1869 until 1893. In the latter year WiUiam Lambert
assisted in organizing the Boston Plate and Window Glass Company
by the consoHdation of Lambert Brothers, Hills, Turner and Com-
pany and R. Sherburne. A little later he was made President of the
new corporation. He was also elected a Director of the Washington
National Bank and of the Mercantile Trust Company, both of
Boston.
On October 4, 1870, Mr. Lambert married Anna K. Lombard,
daughter of Israel and Susan (Kidder) Lombard. A son, Edward
Bartlet Lambert, who graduated from Harvard University in class
of 1895, was born in 1872 and died in Cambridge in 1903.
A daughter, EHnor, is the wife of Professor H. J. Hughes of
Harvard.
Mr. Lambert's second marriage took place October 14, 1884, to
Annie Read, daughter of William Read of Cambridge.
Half a century of unremitting service in building up the business
prosperity of the Commonwealth is indeed an unusual record, and
one which could not easily be overestimated. Mr. Lambert is a
member of the Union Club of Boston, a Director of the Oakley
Country Club of Watertown, and was Commodore of the Hull
Yacht Club, more recently merged into the Boston Yacht Club.
He is also active in the Boston Harvard Club. In politics he is a
Republican — with a single exception, that he voted for Cleveland.
Mr. Lambert attends the First Parish (Unitarian) Church of Cam-
bridge.
" Loyalty to ideals," says Mr. Lambert, " is the first principle of
success. My father, one of the most high-minded men I ever knew,
taught me, as far back as I can remember, to work toward the loftiest
standard of which my reason was capable. Integrity and close
apphcation to the thing in hand amounted to a kind of devotion in
me while I was a student, and I carried the same method into
business. One thing the American boy must learn is ' Never say
die ' — that spirit will take him any length he is determined to
go."
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GEORGE VASMER LEVERETT
GEORGE VASMER LEVERETT, long identified with the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, in a legal
capacity, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on
February 16, 1846, and died at his home in Boston on October 18,
1917. He was the son of Daniel and Charlotte (Betteley) Leverett.
Mr. Leverett was of notable ancestry. The family name in this
country is chiefly associated with Sir John Leverett, Colonial
Governor of Massachusetts, who was born in England in 1616,
who at the age of seventeen emigrated to America with his father,
Thomas Leverett, and settled in Boston. He returned to England
in 1644 and took part in the struggle between the parliament and
the king, and as commander of a company of foot soldiers gained
mihtary distinction and the friendship of Cromwell. On his return
to America he held successively some of the most important civil
and mihtary offices in the gift of the colony, and finally, in 1673,
became Governor. His skill and energy were instrumental in con-
ducting to a fortunate issue the war with King Philip. He was
knighted by Charles II in acknowledgment of his services to the
New England Colonies during this contest. Another member of
this family was John Leverett, a former president of Harvard
College.
The First Church of Boston from which George Vasmer Leverett
was buried contains a tablet to the memory of Governor Leverett,
and will shortly have two others, one for John Leverett, and one
for Thomas Leverett, who was one of the old-time elders of the
church. The family has been identified with this church for a
hundred and fifty years.
George Vasmer Leverett attended the Harvard grammar school
in Charlestown, the High School, where he ranked first in his class,
and entered Harvard College in 1863. He graduated in 1867 as
the first scholar in his class. He then entered the Harvard Law
School, where, in 1869, he received his degree of LL.B. He received
his degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1870. From 1868 to 1870 he
was instructor in mathematics at Harvard.
In 1871 Mr. Leverett entered upon the practice of law in Boston.
He moved to Cambridge in 1880, and on April 3, 1888, he married
Mary E. L. Tebbetts. She was interested in social welfare and
charity work. After her death in 1897, he moved to Boston to
remain there until the end of his fife.
In 1886 he became official attorney for the Bell Telephone Com-
pany, and later its general counsel. It is believed that the parent
GEORGE VASMER LEVERETT
company was organized in his office. It was in his office, also, that
the Trustees of the Huntington Avenue Lands, organized in 1871,
made their headquarters, and he was their clerk and later one of
their number.
As general counsel for the Bell Company, and for its successor,
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mr. Leverett
had charge of all its legal matters. Every law of state legislatures
or of Congress, that might effect the company's interests, and every
decision of the courts in the United States that bore upon those
interests was studied by him.
Mr. Leverett was fond of Greek and was particularly interested
in reading the words of the fathers of the Church in the original
language. He kept up this study of Greek all his hfe for the enjoy-
ment he got out of it. So proficient was he in this study even in
school days that his schoolmates nicknamed him " Sophocles."
He found in music also another source of pleasure and was a regular
attendant at the Boston Symphony orchestra concerts. He ex-
celled in mathematics as well as in Greek and music, and enjoyed
solving problems in that science.
He was a director in the Conveyancers' Title Insurance Company;
the State Street Trust Company, and others; a trustee of the Frank-
fin Savings Bank; member of the Bar Association of the City of Bos-
ton; of the Massachusetts Historic-Genealogical Society; of the Co-
lonial Society of Massachusetts; a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences; a member of the Harvard Clubs of Boston
and of New York; the University Clubs of Boston, New York and
Chicago; the Union Club of Boston; and the Oakley Country
Club. He was also a member of the Bostonian Society, the Bunker
Hill Monument Association, the Charlestown High School Associa-
tion and of the Old Schoolboys' Association. Of the High School
Association he was successively secretary, vice-president, and
president, each for two years, and was orator at one of its annual
meetings.
He resigned as general counsel for the Telephone and Telegraph
Company at the end of 1915 but remained consulting counsel of
the company, and was held in great esteem not only for the efficient
manner in which he had watched over its interests for so long, but
for his sterling personal qualities and high character. His genial
personafity and fine memory for persons endeared him to many.
Throughout a long and active life Mr. Leverett bore himself
worthily. Profound as was his legal learning, his innate sense of
right was quite as conspicuous. He left a noble example of high
personal attainment and honorable citizenship.
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PERCIVAL LOWELL
PERCIVAL LOWELL was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
March 13 ,1855, and died in Flagstaff, Arizona, November
12, 1916.
He was the son of Augustus and Katherine Bigelow (Lawrence)
Lowell. His brother A. Lawrence Lowell is president of Harvard
University. Percival Lowell was a graduate of Harvard in
the class of 1876. In 1907, Amherst College conferred on him the
degree of LL.D; while Clark University conferred the same degree
on him in 1909. In 1883 Lowell went to Japan, where he lived
during the ten years following, serving as counsellor and foreign
secretary to the Korean Special Mission to the United States. On
his return to America in 1894, he established the Lowell Observa-
tory at Flagstaff, Arizona, and was engaged in astronomical studies
and authorship until his death. In 1900 he organized an eclipse
expedition to Tripoh, and in 1907 sent an expedition to the Andes
mountains in South America, for the purpose of photographing the
planet Mars. His previous discoveries on Mars won for him in
1904 the Janssen medal of the French Astronomical Society. He
was also presented with a gold medal in 1908 by the Sociedad
Astronomica de Mexico.
At a special session of Section A (Mathematics and Astronomy)
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Lowell made the following statement regarding his discovery of
new canals on the planet Mars:
" New canals on Mars in the first sense, though always interesting
and at times highly important, are no novelty at my observatory,
inasmuch as at least four hundred have been discovered in the last
fifteen years.
" When Schiaparelli left his great work he had mapped one
hundred and seventeen canals: with those detected at Flagstaff,
the number has risen to six hundred or more.
" On September 30, 1909, when the region of the Syrtis Major
came into view again after its periodic hiding of six weeks, two
striking canals were evident to the east of the Syrtis in places where
no canals had ever previously been seen. Not only was their
appearance unprecedented but the canals themselves were the most
conspicuous ones on that part of the disc. The new canals were
recorded in independent drawings and shortly afterward were
photographed as the most conspicuous canals in the images.
" Subsequent examination of the records showed that they were
indeed new, and this was conclusively established by examina-
tion of records of previous years. The records of the observatory
date back to 1894. Nor had any observer previous to 1894 recorded
them. Schiaparelli had never seen them, nor had his predecessors
PERCIVAL LOWELL I
or successors. This determined definitely that no human eye hac|
ever looked upon them before." i
When asked the question whether the canals had not always beeni
there, Lowell said as follows : i
" This may be answered definitely in the negative. When it isi
realized that a canal of such size, while it might not have beeni
visible elsewhere, on account of the character of the air, the im-j
proved instrumental means and the long experience of the obser-J
vers, could not have escaped the director's assistants." Dr.
Lowell also dwelt on another theory, as to whether the canals could I
be due to the annual change of seasons which might affect the
features of the planet. He stated that " there are canals which are
quickened solely from the melting of the North polar cap such as
the Thoth and others like the Ulysses which are beholden only to >
the Southern one. But the present canals are not of that category, '
for they did not appear in past Martian years, which, had they been
so conditioned, they should have done. The records are decisive
on the point. They do not belong to the class of uni-hemispherio
seasonal canals. The records at Flagstaff covering several years i
needed to estabhsh the fact are able to give an absolute verdict."
Lowell spared no expense in the interests of science, and the
observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, was maintained entirely by him.
It was here that the observations on Mars were made that have
furnished the scientific world with the theory of life on that planet.
Lowell was appointed in 1902 non-resident Professor of As-
tronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was
a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was
a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Asiatic
Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Soci6t6 Astronomique de
France and the Astronomische Gesellschaft, to the National and
the American Geographical Societies and he held an honorary
membership in the Sociedad Astronomica de Mexico.
Lowell wrote numerous articles on the subject of astronomy,
and was the author of many works of note including " Chosen,"
1885; " The Soul of the Far East," 1886; " Noto," 1891; " Occult
Japan," 1894; " Mars," 1895; " Annals of the Lowell Observa-
tory," in the three volumes, 1898-1905; " The Solar System,"
1903; " Mars and Its Canals," 1906; " Mars as the Abode of Life,"
1908; and the " Evolution of Worlds," 1909.
He was member of Somerset, Union, and St. Botolph Clubs, Boston.
On June 10, 1908 Percival Lowell was married to Constance
Savage Keith, of Boston.
Lowell's whole life was given to science. He was generous in
thought — broad and enlightened in his views on all subjects.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN McDANIEL
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN McDANIEL was born in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1845, and died April
25, 1914, at Dorchester, Massachusetts.
He came of good family, of Quaker stock, his father being a man
of industry and integrity engaged in the manufacture of hats.
His education was received in the Philadelphia schools. When
fifteen years of age he enlisted as a drummer boy and first served in
the Civil War with the Philadelphia infantry. A year later he
enhsted and served during the remainder of the war with the
First Delaware Battery, being a participant in the Red River
expedition. Though only fifteen he showed his manliness and
patriotism in responding to Lincoln's call.
Upon his return from the battlefield, the Reverend Increase
Smith of Dorchester coached him for college and he entered the
Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1869. He entered at
once upon his active career as minister of the Unitarian church
at Hubbardston, Massachusetts. From there he went to the
Exeter, New Hampshire, Unitarian Church, which he served
for eleven years. Following his service in Exeter came four years
of faithful and loyal ministry to the Barton Square Church at
Salem, Massachusetts.
From Salem he went to San Diego, California, preaching there
for seven years. While in that city he served on the School Com-
mittee introducing new methods and features into the courses and
causing himself to be termed " the teachers' friend." Upon his
return from San Diego he accepted a call to the Newton Centre
Unitarian Church. In this city he organized a Young People's
Religious Union which was recognized as a model in its spirit and
methods for others of the denomination. After six years' service
there he became pastor of both the Norfolk Street Unitarian Church
in Dorchester, and the Children's Church of the Barnard Memorial
in Boston, as well as Superintendent of that Institution.
In his service there he manifested a sunny disposition and an
enthusiasm which immediately won the children's love. As a
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leader in the various activities such as the classes, clubs, enter-
tainments and festivals he possessed a wonderful power for inter-
esting and holding their attention. He had traveled extensively
in Europe, and during his travels he had collected many engrav-
ings and photographs which he now used in stereopticon lectures
for their instruction and entertainment. He was truly their friend
and a constant uplift and inspiration in the work, the very soul
and life of the place. Endowed with rare qualities and a magnetic
personality he was most successful. While at Exeter and Salem he
accomplished great results with the boys and young men of these
places. Being a natural mechanic he instructed them in carpentry
and was a pioneer in the movement to educate the hand as well as
the brain.
He was politically identified with the Republican party and a
member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He was particularly
devoted to Nature study and his chief mode of recreation from his
responsible tasks was the collecting of insects, minerals and fossils.
During his ministry at Exeter, New Hampshire, he organized a
Natural History Society for that community.
On October 14, 1869, he married Mary EHzabeth, daughter of
Sumner and Ehzabeth H. (West) Wellman, granddaughter of
Ebenezer and Carrie Parker Wellman and of William and Mercy
Larkin (Gray) West, and a descendant from the Wellman family
who came from Wales and England and settled in Lynn, Massa-
chusetts, about 1625. There were three children born to Mr. and
Mrs. McDaniel, two of whom are living: Arthur Sumner, a law
librarian in New York, and Professor Allen Boyer McDaniel of
Union College, Schenectady, New York.
Mr. McDaniel had a varied and exceedingly interesting career.
His chief distinction lay in his optimistic, unselfish, and sympa-
thetic disposition. He was endowed with fine intellectual gifts
which gave him power and place among the leaders of his denomi-
nation, but his most congenial and successful field of endeavor was
among children and youth.
It can most truthfully be said of him that in his death the chil-
dren of the Barnard Memorial lost a friend, the church a noble and
faithful servant, and the city an esteemed and useful citizen.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS McKENNEY
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS McKENNEY, President and
Director of the McKenney and Waterbury Company, of
Boston; was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 9,
1855. His father, Charles Henry McKenney, born March 9, 1826,
was engaged in the manufacture and sale of gas fixtures; he married
Susan A. Dodge, a woman whose gentle influence in the training of
her son he realizes has been the chief factor in his successful career.
His education was received in the Boston pubhc schools. Upon
his graduation from grammar school in 1879 he became an errand
boy in a Boston store.
Since that time he has been connected with the manufacture
and sale of gas fixtures and lamps. For many years he was a sales-
man, but in September of 1888 he engaged in the business on his
own account and the firm of McKenney and Waterbury was formed.
During the fifteen years preceding the establishment of this
firm he was a commercial traveller or salesman, his field being New
England. In his line of work he made many trips abroad and
besides acquiring much information in regard to the business, he
became thoroughly acquainted with the foreign market, and the
development of his special branch of trade.
Mr. McKenney has been President of the Boulevard Trust
Company of Brookline, Massachusetts, for the past five years. He
is President and Director in several corporations including the
Crowell and Thurlow Steamship Company, which owns amongst
others a modern steamer named the William A. McKenney in
honor of Mr. McKenney. He is also Vice President of the Atlantic
Coast Co. of Boston Shipyards at Boothbay Harbor and Thomaston
Me.
He is a member of the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Boston
Athletic Association, the City Club, the Boston Yacht Club and
the Belmont Spring Country Club, the Commercial Travellers
Association and the Boston Art Club. In politics he is a member of
the Republican party. He is a faithful member of the Unitarian
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS McKENNEY
Church of Brookline, Massachusetts. His favorite form of recrea-
tion is yachting in which he takes an active interest.
Mr. McKenney was married March 24, 1896, to Anna Laura
Owen.
From his experience and observation he offers this suggestion to
those who would know the one quahty on which all success rests:
" Be truthful and honest, and upright in all things."
Mr. McKenney belongs to that school of men who do business on
honor, and whose word is considered as good as their bond. He
possesses sterling integrity, great firmness and a pure character.
He is one of the leading business men of Boston, and is classed with
the most energetic and public spirited citizens of the city. His
career is a source of encouragement to young men who start in life
with no capital except a good character and the blessings of a public
school education. He early evinced a decided talent for business
Ufe and its varied pursuits, and today is recognized as a business
man of commanding presence, pleasing address and of marked
executive ability. By his daily life of usefulness he has won the
deep respect and confidence of his fellow citizens.
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DAVID HAVEN MASON
HON. DAVID HAVEN MASON was born in Sullivan, N. H.,
March 17th, 1818 and died at his home in Newton, Mass.,
May 29, 1873. He graduated at Dartmouth College in
1841. He gathered around him a large circle of appreciative
friends.
After several years of close attention to the law, he entered public
life and by the various offices whose functions he discharged with
admirable judgment, zeal and success, he made his influence felt,
as a public benefactor throughout the Commonwealth. Mr.
Mason was a resident of Newton for twenty-five years. He early
won the confidence of his fellow citizens and was a very active
and influential member of the House of Representatives in the
years 1863-1866 and 1867. The patriotic Governor John A.
Andrew leaned upon him with implicit confidence and often
applied to him for counsel and aid in important and difficult
emergencies. In the struggles of the country, during the war of
1861-65, he showed the most devoted patriotism by word and
deed.
He declined the honor of being a candidate for the Senatorship
which he was urged to accept, on account of the claims of his pro-
fession.
While he was a member of the House of Representatives, Mr.
Mason attended to the business of the Commonwealth with great
fidelity and won for himself the reputation of being one of the best
debaters in that honorable body. He watched carefully every
measure that came before the Legislature. His speeches before the
Legislature or Committees of the Legislature, on the Consolidation
of the Western and the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corpora-
tions, on equalizing the bounties of soldiers, on the adoption of the
Fourteenth Article, Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, on making the Milldam free of toll, and on the levehng of
Fort Hill.
In 1860 Mr. Mason was appointed on the Massachusetts Board
of Education, of which for several years he was a very efficient
member and discharged the duties of that office with exemplary
faithfulness. No demands of his business were permitted to inter-
fere with his obligations to the State in this department of service.
It was to him a labor of love. Mr. Mason was also deeply interested
DAVID HAVEN MASON |
in sustaining the high character of the schools in the town of New- i
ton. " Mason School " at Newton Centre was named for him as ■
an honorary testimonial of his interest in the cause of education. \
During the war of 1861-65 he was unwearied in his zeal to pre- j
serve the country and its free institutions unharmed and to stimu- i
late his fellow citizens to all right and noble efforts. A notable '[
instance of this occurred in an emergency in the war, when a large |
and enthusiastic meeting of citizens was held in the town hall of j
Newton; the design of the meeting was to take measures for equip- ]
ping one or more companies of volunteer mihtia and to take further ;
measures for the support and comfort of the families of such as
should be called into service. He said calm judgment should ;
rule the hour; the minds of men should not in their enthusiasm be j
carried beyond the proper hne of duty; while they are willing to '
give of their substance, judgment and discretion should so guide j
their actions that while everything needed should be given un- |
sparingly, nothing should be wasted. Millions of gold and rivers j
of blood will not compare with the influence of this question, for \
on its solution hangs the hopes of civil liberty and civilization
throughout the world for ages to come. Let it not be said that :
we of this generation have been unfaithful to the high and holy
trust.
These resolutions, which were passed unanimously, are as honor-
able to the mind that originated and the pen that drew them as to
the citizens of the town which passed them.
December 22, 1870, Mr. Mason was appointed to the office of ;
United States District Attorney for Massachusetts in place of j
George S. Hillard, resigned, but Mr. Mason was nominated by !
the President and confirmed by the Senate above all competitors,
his appointment being regarded as a strong one for the Govern-
ment and highly acceptable to the people and the bar of Massa-
chusetts. While Mr. Mason administered this, his last public
office, some very important and celebrated cases were decided by
the Court, which evinced the Attorney's wisdom, sagacity and legal
knowledge.
At the time of his death the number of distinguished persons
holding official positions in church and state and who had par-
ticipated with him in important enterprises and the resolutions
passed by Courts and various Associations of which he was a mem-
ber attested how high was the estimation in which he was held.
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EDWARD HAVEN MASON
EDWARD HAVEN MASON was born in Newton, Massa-
chusetts, June 8th, 1849, and died in Boston, March 21st,
1917. His father, David Haven Mason, who was born
March 17, 1818, was of high rank as a jury lawyer, a proHfic writer,
and an excellent speaker. He held the position of United States
District Attorney from 1870 until his death in 1873. Edward
Mason's mother, Sarah Wilson White, was the daughter of John
Hazen White (1792-1865) and Roxanna Robinson. His paternal
grandmother was Mary Haven.
The family traces its descent from Hugh Mason, who was born
in England in 1606 and died in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1678.
He was a tanner, and one of the first settlers of Watertown. He
was admitted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony a freeman in 1634,
was a representative for ten years between 1644 and 1677, and
selectman for twentj^-nine years, between 1639 and 1678. He was
a lieutenant in 1649, and a captain in 1652. His wife, Esther, was
born in England in 1610. Wilham White, one of the maternal
ancestors was born in England in 1610, and settled in Haverhill,
Massachusetts. Many of the progenitors on both sides were
officers in the War of the Revolution and in the Colonial Wars.
With such heritage and native environment, the social and in-
dustrial conditions of Mr. Mason's childhood and youth, augmented
by wise maternal influence, could not fail to result in well-developed
character and tastes. The education supplied by the public schools
of Newton, laid the foundation for the course at Harvard College,
from which he graduated in 1869 with the degree of A.B., receiving
the degree of A.M. from the same institution in 1872. He was a
law student in Boston from 1868 until 1872 and from that time
practiced law in that city, devoting himself chiefly to office consulta-
tions, trust responsibihties and corporation law.
From 1876 to 1902 he was Associate Justice of the Newton Police
Court. During the years 1882, 1883, and 1884, he was a member of
the Common Council of Newton; Alderman in 1885 and 1886, and
a member of the Newton School Committee in 1894, and 1895 and
1896. He was Clerk for the Newton Home for Aged People;
Trustee of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital 1899-1917;
vice-president from 1908 to 1912; member of the Hospital Com-
mittee 1909-1917, and President of the Hospital from 1912 until
EDWARD HAVEN MASON
his death. Upon Mr. Mason's death the trustees of the hospital
adopted the following resolutions: "In every position he served
the hospital with conspicuous zeal and never failing fidehty. He
looked upon service to the public as a duty and for over twenty-six
years served his native city of Newton with the same faithfulness
which characterized his work with the hospital. A trained lawyer,
he freely gave the trustees the benefit of his advice and experience.
In the details of the administration his counsel was wise and far-
seeing; in the problems which arose his judgment was clear, his
opinion judicial and his action straightforward. Always considerate
of others his courtesy was unfailing, his kindness unceasing. In
his death the hospital lost a stanch supporter and devoted officer,
the trustees a true friend and loyal companion, and the community
a modest high-minded citizen whose whole career has been one of
ever increasing usefulness and value." He was Director and counsel
for many corporations and was Vice-President and Director of the
Newton Trust Company.
Mr. Mason was a member of the University Club, the Brae-Burn
Country Club, the Boston Athletic Club, the Boston Art Club,
the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and the Harvard Clubs of
Boston and New York. From his allegiance to the Republican J
party he never wavered. I
February 1, 1877, Mr. Mason married Leha Sylvina, the daughter
of Thomas Nickerson and Sylvina (Nickerson) Nickerson. Three
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Mason: Edna Sarah (Mason)
Hyde, the wife of Henry Stanley Hyde; Ella Sylvina Mason; and
June (Mason) Mills, the wife of Harold P. Mills.
From his experience and observation Mr. Mason left these sug-
gestions to young Americans as to the principles, methods, and
habits which he believed would contribute most to the strengthening
of sound ideals in American life, and would most help young people
to attain true success in life. " Do some public service in politics
and with charitable organizations. Keep up athletics and meet
men who are worth while."
Aided by a steadiness of appUcation, and by a readiness and
power of argument, Mr. Mason made a place for himself at the bar,
not merely successful, but always so honorably filled that his ability
was early recognized. His life was full of service; of that kind of
service that exalts a man; and the impulse of that service was an
educated conscience. Thoroughly imbued with ennobling princi-
ples of conduct and life Mr. Mason was always a sincere defender
of right and justice. ;
JONATHAN MASON, jR.
JONATHAN MASON, JUNIOR, was born in Boston, August
20, 1756, and died in his native city on November 1, 1831.
He was the son of Deacon Jonathan Mason of the Old South
Church and Susannah (Powell), Mason. His father was a leading
merchant of Boston during the Revolutionary period and an active
patriot.
Mr. Mason's mother, a woman of noble character, exerted a
strong influence upon his intellectual, moral and spiritual life.
The influences of home, of school, of early companionships, of
private study and of contact with men in active life, in the order
named, affected his character for good and guided him in the
development of his career.
Mr. Mason received his degree from Princeton in 1774, studied
law with John Adams and was admitted to the bar in 1777. He
happened to be an eye-witness of the Boston Massacre; and on
March 5, 1780, before the authorities of Boston, he delivered the
official oration on the tenth anniversary of that occurrence. He
was actively engaged in politics and was elected representative to
the General Court for several terms. He was also a member of the
executive Council, and in 1800 was elected United States senator
as the successor to Benjamin Goodhue of Salem, who had resigned.
He served as senator till the end of the term in 1803. In the Senate
he was particularly active in the debates on the repeal of the judici-
ary act of 1801. He was also a member of Congress from 1817 to
1820, where he acted with the Federalist party. He resigned his
seat May 15, 1820, after voting for the Missouri Compromise,
March 3, 1820.
He was interested with Harrison Gray Otis in the association
called the " Mount Vernon Proprietors " which developed property
on Beacon Hill, the western of the three summits on which Boston
was originally founded. The celebrated artist, John Singleton
Copley, during the Revolutionary period owned an estate of about
eight acres, situated on what is now Beacon Hill, and in 1795 this
estate was sold to Mr. Mason and his associates. Beacon, Walnut,
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Mount Vernon, Ivy and Pinckney Streets were laid out and other
extensive improvements were undertaken. The enterprise proved
highly profitable. Mr. Mason also was active in the development
of Dorchester Neck, now South Boston, and was one of the incorpo-
rators of the Bridge Company. He was among those who organized
the Massachusetts Bank in 1784, and was chosen one of the direc-
tors.
He was married in 1779 to Susannah, daughter of John Powell.
They had five daughters: Susannah, wife of John C. Warren;
Ehzabeth, wife of Samuel D. Parker; Anna Powell, wife of Patrick
Grant; Miriam, wife of David Sears; and Mary Bromfield, wife
of Samuel Parkman; and two sons: William Powell Mason and
Jonathan Mason. His wife was a social leader in Boston, and it
was under her auspices and at her home that the first meeting of
the organizers of the Boston Female Asylum was held in 1800.
This was the first charitable society to be founded by the women
of Boston.
Senator, business man, lawyer, statesman, banker, Jonathan
Mason, Junior, was a leader of his generation. His was a brilhant
mind, keen in business operations and pioneer in the organization
of new forms of public service. He knew by a sort of instinct where
population would be likely to increase and which portions of the
city would be in demand by those who contemplated the purchase
of homes. He was a lawyer of ability and was held in high repute.
He was possessed of great dignity of character. His service in the
Senate of the United States was substantial. He filled a large
position in his day, in his city and in the nation.
Surrounded from his infancy by the noble standards of the most
cultivated society, he improved the advantages that were his and
added greatly to the family prestige. He paved the way for the
honorable careers of his son, William Powell Mason, and his grand-
son, William Powell Mason, Junior.
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WILLIAM POWELL MASON
WILLIAM POWELL MASON was born in Boston, Decem-
ber 9, 1791, and died in his native city December 4, 1867.
His father, Jonathan Mason, was a distinguished jurist
and United States senator; the son of Jonathan and Susannah
(Powell) Mason. His mother was a daughter of John Powell.
William Powell Mason prepared for college in the Boston public
schools. He graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1811,
and at once took up the study of law in the office of Honorable
Charles Jackson. He was admitted to practice in the Court of
Common Pleas in Boston in September, 1814, and in the Supreme
Judicial Court in December, 1816. In that year he succeeded John
Gallison as reporter of the first circuit of the United States. From
1819 to 1831 he pubhshed the " Reports of Cases in the United
States Circuit Court for the First Circuit, from 1816 to 1830," in
five volumes. He published a second series of five volumes in 1836.
These reports comprise the decisions of Mr. Justice Story and
relate to a great variety of legal subjects, constitutional, admiralty,
personal and real law and chancery. " The profound learning,
acuteness and thoroughness of research " that distinguished their
illustrious editor adorn the pages of this record and make it a
veritable store house of legal information. The careful preparation
of these reports was Mr. Mason's life work, the great legacy which
he left to posterity. His exactness and discretion in the performance
of his task left nothing to be desired.
Mr. Mason was a member of the Massachusetts legislature during
several terms, and for seven years was treasurer and secretary of
the Boston Social Law Library. He was married to Hannah,
daughter of Daniel Dennison Rogers, and three children were born
to them: William Powell Mason, Junior, Edward Bromfield Mason,
and EUzabeth Rogers Mason, who married Walter C. Cabot. He
was characterized not only by learning but by rectitude, not only
by legal lore but by a thirst for righteousness. An upright man of
conservative disposition, he held a commanding position in the
community and his memory is blessed.
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WILLIAM POWELL MASON, JUNIOR, was born in
Boston, on September 7, 1835, and died in Vienna,
Austria, on June 4, 1901. His father, William Powell
Mason (December 9, 1790-December 4, 1876), was a lawyer noted
for his uprightness and conservatism; the son of Jonathan and
Susannah (Powell) Mason. His mother, Hannah (Rogers) Mason,
was the daughter of Daniel Dennison Rogers.
William Powell Mason, Junior, went from the Boston Latin
School to Harvard University, where he graduated in 1856. He
traveled in Europe for three years, and then entered the Harvard
Law School, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1861.
In November, 1861, he accepted an appointment as aide-de-
camp on General McClellan's staff, with the rank of Captain in the
regular army, and participated in the first campaign on the Poto-
mac. Being invalided shortly afterward he was obliged to return
home. On March 31, 1863, he resigned and received his discharge.
He became officially connected with many financial corporations
including the Suffolk Savings Bank, the Merchants' National
Bank, and the Edison Illuminating Company. He was director
of the Old Colony Trust Company, the Edison Electric Company,
the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the Boston Pier Corpora-
tion, and the Massachusetts Humane Society.
He was a member of the Somerset, Eastern Yacht, and Essex
County Clubs, and the Country Club of Brookhne.
In his earlier years he was what was known as an independent
Whig. In religion he was a Unitarian.
He was married on November 25, 1863, to Fanny, daughter of
George Peabody of Salem, and they had two children: WilUam
Powell Mason and Fanny Peabody Mason, the former of whom
died October 22, 1881. Mrs. Mason died May 10, 1898.
He was not afraid of steady work: and his rise in his profession
and his prosperity as a business administrator bear witness to his
upright character and his rectitude of mind and morals. He had
the confidence of the community. Like his father he was of the i
old New England type and he did a man's work in the world.
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JOHN MAXWELL
JOHN MAXWELL was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, June 26,
1829, and died August 14, 1908. He was the son of Samuel
Galbraith Maxwell, (1786-1839) and Anna Livingston (Blair)
Maxwell.
Samuel Galbraith Maxwell was a financier. He was the son of
Sir John Maxwell (1758-1842), one of the distinguished orators of
his day, and of Katheryn Sterling (Tillinghast) Maxwell. His wife
was the daughter of Bradford Jefferson Blair (1762-1817) and
Rebecca Dorcas (Craig) Blair, who emigrated from their native
Scotland in 1787 and settled in Philadelphia.
John Maxwell studied at Glasgow University. He sought
practical experience in Philadelphia at the age of twenty-one,
apprenticing himself to a leather manufacturer. He subsequently
removed to Massachusetts and developed large leather manu-
facturing interests in both Winchester and Woburn.
He married, January 6, 1852, Mary Jane Nicholls, daughter of
George Henry and Beulah (Middleton) Nicholls. She was the
granddaughter of Clinton Alexander and Virginia " Frances Ham-
mond Nicholls and Newell Blandin Hemingway and Cynthia
ElUnwood (Ware) Hemingway. Newell Blandin Hemingway was
a descendant of Robert James Hemingway, who came from Eng-
land to New Jersey in 1793.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell had twelve children.
Mr. Maxwell attributed much of his success in life to the influ-
ences of his early home training, where his mother's help and
inspiration, both moral and spiritual, were strong.
Mr. Maxwell was a Presbyterian. He was affiliated with the
Masonic order, and in politics he was a Republican. He was a
great horseman and exceedingly interested in aquatic sports. He
retired from active business life several years before his death,
retaining, however, large land interests in the South.
The life of Mr. Maxwell was one of purity of motive and nobiUty
of purpose, of unusual benevolence; of unostentatious striving to
make good every law of brotherly love; an example of rectitude
and unselfishness. As the years rolled on, his character ripened
more and more richly. Unspoiled by material possessions and
successes, he turned them, not only to the temporal, but to the
spiritual welfare and happiness of his home life, and to that of the
community which speaks his name with reverence and gratitude.
His career furnishes a beautiful example of useful service to man-
kind.
WILLIAM GIBBONS MEDLICOTT
WILLIAM GIBBONS MEDLICOTT was born in Bristol,
England, on November 7, 1816, and on February 17,
1883, died at Longmeadow, Massachusetts. His father,
William Medlicott, son of James Medlicott, was a shipping mer-
chant; he married Mary Ann Josephs, daughter of Joseph Josephs.
In the late 30's, Mr. Medlicott left England for America. He
landed from a shipwreck on Long Island and found himself without
a friend in this country. From his earhest boyhood he had been
devoted to books but when he left school his scholarly attainments
consisted of a capacity to read Latin and French with moderate
difficulty, and it was only by his own determination and persever-
ance that he finally acquired these languages so that he could read
them fluently. He received his education in private schools of Eng-
land, and later in life the degree of A.M. was conferred upon him
by both Amherst and Williams Colleges.
When a very young man he became interested in the study of
Anglo-Saxon, and acquired a thorough knowledge of the available
literature long before this study became a course in Seminary or
College. These tastes and interests enabled him later to collect
valuable works which are now in the libraries of our leading Uni-
versities. Some of these editions were Caedmon's Paraphrase and
the Codex Exoniensis collated and annotated from early manu-
scripts by some of the leading scholars on that subject, such as
Conybeare and Thorpe now in Harvard College Library.
Mr. Medlicott's business career began in New York. He became
a clerk in a large warehouse, and from 1846-1864 he was manager
of a large manufacturing company at Enfield, Connecticut; in
1863 he founded the woolen mills since known as the Medhcott
Co. of Windsor Lock, Conn. Previously in 1851 he had removed
to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, remaining in that place as a
resident until his death. During the years he was engaged in busi-
ness he gradually built up an extensive library, valuable not only
for its unusual size as a private library comprising about twenty
thousand volumes, but for its choice collection of Anglican ecclesi-
astical law, ritual and history; heraldry; lives and works of the
Reformers; archaeology; and early versions of the Bible. The
Anglo-Saxon portion of his library was such as many a college would
be proud to possess. The ecclesiastical books of the early English
church were numerous and fine. The Bibles were of all kinds,
dating back as far in Enghsh as 1611 with reprints of earlier editions
from 1535. Many of these ecclesiastical varieties are now in the
Boston Public Library.
Among some of its specialties were Shakesperiana, including
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most of the Halliwell-Phillips publication and reprints; Ballads
and Ballad literature; Liturgiology, with a good collection of Books
of Common Prayer for the Anglican Church, and a few Oriental
liturgies, and many fine illuminated manuscripts. Some went to
the British Museum. The Boston PubHc Library was enriched with
many early versions of the Bible in English, including a copy of
the 1611 edition of the authorized or King James translation.
One of the chief features of this remarkable library was the fact
that it was formed by one who was not a college graduate but one
who was appreciative of the finest and best in the world of letters.
Seldom does one find a business man treasuring and knowing the
value and usefulness of books as he did.
Books were his chief diversion, New York and London firms
acting as his agents in searching the British markets for literary
" finds." He even made trips to Europe himself, partly in the inter-
ests of his business but also in pursuit of his hobby.
His sympathies were largely Republican in politics. In religious
faith he was a member of the Church of England, although he was
a stanch supporter of the Congregational church at Longmeadow,
it being the only religious body of the town. He was regarded as
one of the leading and most influential citizens of that community.
Mr. Medlicott married Marianne, daughter of Israel and Agnes
(Abbatt) Dean on September 17, 1843. Of this marriage there
were three children. His second marriage was on May 2, 1854, to
Eliza Bliss, daughter of Ambrose and Sylvia CoUins, and a descen-
dant from Thomas BHss and Benjamin ColHns who came to America
from England, in the early part of the seventeenth century. There
were two children of this marriage. The names of those who sur-
vive him are: Mary, for 30 years reference librarian of the City
Library of Springfield. Mrs. Agnes M. Cooley, mother of the late
Judge Alford W. Cooley formerly asst. atty. general of the U. S.
Bertha, a house mother at Smith College, Wilham Bliss, general
agent of the Atlas Assurance Company, Limited, of England and
Boston, also a lecturer on Insurance at the School of Business
Administration Harvard University. Another son, Arthur Dean
Medlicott, the eldest of his family, whose business career was
devoted to railroading, died in 1908.
Mr. Medlicott was a true " gentleman of the old school." His
kindhness and generosity were known afar, as well as his scholarly
attainments and acquirements.
Sincerity, earnestness, absolute uprightness, joined to hard
common sense and rare reach of intellect, with inextinguishable
energy and kindliness of heart dominating all — therein lies the
secret of his marvelous success both as a business man and as a
collector of choice works in literature.
GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER
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GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER, former Secretary of !
the Navy, United States ambassador to Italy and Russia, i
postmaster-general, and one of the foremost citizens of \
Massachusetts, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 24, 1858,
and died there on March 9, 1918. His father, George Augustus I
Meyer, 1825-1889, was widely known as a merchant, engaged in i
the East India trade. He married Grace Helen, daughter of |
William and Sarah (Stevens) Parker, and a descendant from {
William and Zerviah (Stanley) Parker, who came from England to
America in 1703, and settled in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 1
Among the distinguished maternal kinsmen of Mr. Meyer was
Samuel Parker (1744-1804) second Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Massachusetts and the tenth in succession in the American Episco-
pate, who was the son of Judge Wilham and Ehzabeth (Grafton)
Parker of Portsmouth, and grandson of WiUiam and Zerviah
(Stanley) Parker. Mr. Meyer's mother was a woman of culture,
and one whose example and teachings were a great help to him.
Mr. Meyer received his education in the schools of Boston, and
was prepared for college at Mr. Noble's Private School. He entered
Harvard College and graduated 1879 with the degree of A.B. In 191 2
his Alma Mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D.
He began his business career in the counting room of Alpheus H.
Hardy and Company, commission merchants, of Boston. He
remained with this house until 1881, when he became a member of
the firm of Linder and Meyer, commission merchants — a firm
which his father had established on India Wharf in 1841. In the
course of a comparatively short business career he filled many
positions of responsibility.
Mr. Meyer early took an active interest in politics and city
administration, and in 1889 was elected to the Common Council on
the Republican ticket.
He was re-elected for 1890. During this term he served on the
Finance Committee; the Committees on water; on laying out and
widening streets and on the Charles River bridges. In the fall of
1890 he was elected to the Boston Board of Aldermen from the
fourth district, receiving the nomination of both Republicans and
Democrats, and in 1891 he was elected to represent Ward 9 in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives. In the Legislature of
1892 he served on the Committee on Cities and Taxation, and in
1893 was House Chairman of the Committee on Railroads. In
this same year his " stock at auction " bill was successfully intro-
duced and passed. He was elected and served as Speaker of the
House in 1894 and was re-elected in 1895 and 1896.
In March, 1899, Mr. Meyer was appointed by Governor Wolcott
chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Managers at the Paris
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'Exposition. In the same year he entered National politics and was
elected Republican National Committeeman from Massachusetts.
In that capacity he attended the National Convention in 1900.
In December of the same year President McKinley appointed him
United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to
Italy as successor to General William F. Draper of Massachusetts,
and in January, 1901, he estabhshed the American Embassy in
Palazzo Brancaccio, Rome, Italy. When leaving his post there as
ambassador Mr. Meyer received from His Majesty the King of
Italy, the order of St. Maurice and of St. Lazarus.
I In March, 1905, Mr. Meyer was transferred by President Roose-
velt to St. Petersburg, Russia, where he succeeded Ambassador
Robert S. McCormack, appointed to the post in 1902, and he ably
represented the Government of the United States during the trying
times of the Russo-Japanese War; and the internal dissensions in
, Russia that followed the peace between the two Nations.
{ It was due to Mr. Meyer's diplomacy and tact in securing a
! personal interview with the Czar at the time of peace negotiations
between Russia and Japan that the Treaty was signed at Ports-
mouth. When leaving Russia the Czar presented Mr. Meyer with
the Grand Cordon of Alexander Nevskii order — the highest
Russian decoration, founded by Catherine II. Japan likewise
; decorated him with the order of the Rising Sun. In 1907 he was
recalled from St. Petersburg to enter the cabinet of President
Roosevelt as Postmaster-General, taking the oath of office March 4,
1907. It was during his term as Postmaster-General that he started
his campaign for the parcel post which has now become so great a
: factor in the business world. In 1908 he was chairman of the
Republican State Convention held at Boston. Mr. Meyer was made
' Secretary of the Navy under President Taft, taking the oath of
office March 6, 1909.
During his term as Secretary of the Navy he made an enviable
record, being credited with vitalizing the Navy department, an
achievement now more than ever appreciated by the nation. He
put the Navy on a business basis. He was the champion of " the
j fleet in being," set up by executive order a general staff, and intro-
I duced into the administration of the Navy economies and effi-
ciencies which are standing the Nation in good stead at the present.
Mr. Meyer was President of the Ames Plow Company, Director
of the Old Colony Trust Company, and Director of the National
Bank of Commerce. He also served as director of the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Company, the Electric Securities Company, the
Electric Corporation, the Manchester Mills, the Amory Manu-
facturing Company, Trustee of the Provident Institution of
Savings, and treasurer of the Boston I.jdng-in-Hospital.
GEORGE VON LENGERKE MEYER
He was a member of the Somerset, the St. Botolph, the Puritan I
and the Tennis and Racquet Clubs of Boston, of the Myopia Club I
and Tavern Club, of Hamilton Massachusetts, the Knickerbocker '
and Harvard Clubs of New York City, and the Metropolitan Club \
of Washington, D. C. He served as president of the Myopia Club 1
of Hamilton and the Puritan Club of Boston. His church rela- I
tionship was with the Episcopal denomination. {
Mr. Meyer was an enthusiastic and skilful sportsman, and always I
enjoyed hunting and sea-fowl shooting. He was an active mem- !
ber of the Restigouche Salmon Club.
On June 25, 1885, Mr. Meyer was married to Alice, daughter of A
Charles H. and Isabella (Mason) Appleton, and granddaughter of i
Wilham Appleton and Mary Ann Cutler Appleton, and of Jonathan '
and Isabella (Weyman) Mason, and a descendant of Samuel Apple- |
ton, who settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635, and died at |
Rowley, Massachusetts, in June, 1670. There were three children, ',
born of this marriage; Captain George von Lengerke Meyer, [
Junior; Mrs. Christopher R. P. Rodgers, wife of Commander C. R. 1
P. Rodgers U. S. N., and Mrs. Guiseppe Brambilla, wife of a former
councilor of the Italian embassy at Washington, now in Rome, J
Italy. ;
What George von I^engerke Meyer set out in life to do, that he '
did with diligence and distinction. To definiteness of purpose he
added persistency of effort. So it was that his record on every
round of the ladder of public service up which he went, from
councilman of his city through the Legislature of his State to a
place in the friendship and official family of three Presidents, be-
came a recommendation for advancement that did not depend
upon the indorsement of popular applause. An aptitude for busi-
ness he indulged without subjecting himself to its absorption; the
life of leisure which the rewards of wealth and social position offered
him he put aside for hard work as a public servant. As legislator,
diplomat and administrator he was never content with the com-
fortable satisfaction of fiUing his predecessor's shoes, but to each
tour of duty he applied his own peculiar gifts — good judgment of
men, sound business sense, a talent for organization, thoroughness
in execution, and in insistence upon results as the only reliable
barometer of progress.
It is given to few men in any generation to serve their country
in as many public stations of influence as those that claimed and
benefited by the best that was in Mr. Meyer. In these fateful
days when so many of his countrymen are looking and longing for
an opportunity to justify their citizenship, his work as legislator,
diplomat and administrator will be an example, and in his death
the Nation loses a leader it can ill afford to spare.
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STEPHEN MOORE
STEPHEN MOORE was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts,
February 9, 1835. He is the son of Ephraim Moore and Mary
Rogers and a descendant on the Moore side from John Moore
who settled in Sudbury in 1635 or 1638 and on the mother's side
; from John Rogers who came to America in 1640. His father was a
miller, conducting a country saw and grist mill. He was a man of
; some prominence in his time and represented his town in the
Legislature for several terms. The son helped in the mill in boy-
1 hood and developed some mechanical ingenuity.
' He attended the public schools commencing in the little " Red
' Schoolhouse " which he considers his university and completing his
■ course in the Saxon ville High school. Home study was his chief
i means of education. This was supplemented in after years by a
I correspondence course with the University of Chicago in Psychology
\ and also a course in the Psychology of Religion. Fond of reading
he paid little attention to the lighter literature and at first gave his
attention to works on mechanical subjects. Later in life he was a
great reader of rehgious works and those treating of social and
economic problems. Bible commentaries and books relating to the
i mysteries of religion and psychology and the higher literature are
now his favorite reading and study. His poetic fancy gained an
inspiration from his habits of study and he early tried his hand at
versification.
In 1860 Mr. Moore began the active business of life in a hat
factory in Natick and later in Sudbury. In 1865 he was associated
with S. B. Rogers and Company as a member of the firm in the
manufacture of leather board and when the concern was merged
into the South Sudbury Manufacturing Company he became
Treasurer and Manager. At present he is Treasurer of the National
Fibre Board Company, and of the Mousam Counter Company and
Assistant Treasurer of the Leatheroid Manufacturing Company.
He has devised many patents for machines and processes in con-
nection with the manufacture of Fibre Board and kindred products.
Though now over four score years of age he is active in business,
and may be found almost every day at his office as ready in atten-
dance to the operations of his companies as his younger associates.
Since his early manhood Mr. Moore has been devoted to rehgious
work as a layman in the Baptist denomination. He is especially
interested in the Sunday School and it is his conviction that it is
one of the most potent influences for good in the world. He has
seen the good seed sown in hundreds of youthful hearts and has
lived to see it bear abundant fruit. Not only by his example but by
his voice and pen has he been a strong advocate of the Sunday
School. He was President of the Massachusetts Baptist Sunday
School Association for twenty five years and as one of the projectors
STEPHEN MOORE
gave the first three thousand dollars for its chapel fund. He was'
one of the originators of the Baptist Sunday School Superintendents;
Association and has been President of the association. He was I
President of the Baptist Social Union and a member of the Building i
Committee of the Ford Building, and a Director in numerous!
charitable and religious organizations. He has been Superintendent '
of the Sunday School at the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Newton i
for over nine years, and for forty years a teacher or Superintendent (
in Sunday School work. In church work, apart from the Sunday |
School, his services as Deacon for nearly thirty years; as chair- i
man of the Building Committee for a new church edifice; as aj
trustee for the Baptist Old People's Home in Cambridge; a Dir- 1
ector of the North End Mission. ;
Mr. Moore has a large acquaintance with books and has devoted 1
his pen to writing for the religious papers and magazines. His |
poems are characterized by a reverent spirit and breathe the j
feelings of the author towards all that makes hfe beautiful and '
exemplary. Many of these poems are embodied in a book called j
" Sunshine in Song " which has met with high commendation and |
also a booklet entitled " The Journey " of which nearly 10,000
copies have been distributed and hundreds of letters received
expressing gratitude for its cheering help. Many fugitive poems
have come from his pen. He learned French after he was sixty.
In pontics Mr. Moore is a Republican. |
Mr. Moore was married in 1858 to Lizzie M. Blanchard. His
wife and one child died a few years after. On October 18, 1864, ?
he was married a second time to Miss Alice R. Goulding of Natick.
Seven children have been born of this union of whom five are living: i
Leshe R. Moore a Technology graduate and State Gas Inspector; |
Ahce May, Mrs. Arthur J. Ball; Clarence V., in business with the |
Leatheroid Manufacturing Company; Edith Harriet, Professor j
of Art at Mount Holyoke College; Ethel Allegra, Mrs. Dr. Leslie H. i
Naylor. 1
On October 18, 1914, Mr. and Mrs. Moore celebrated their golden ,
wedding at their home in Newton, Massachusetts, the invitations '
to which had the novelty of being written in verse by Mr. Moore. :
A large representative gathering of friends, including nine grand-
children, greeted the aged and beloved couple.
Mr. Moore attributes his long and active life in good health and
spirit to careful attention, to mental and physical habits, to exemp-
tion from the use of alcoholic stimulants and tobacco, to moderation
in diet, to exercise in the open air, especially in walking, and to a
cheerful disposition. He tries to eliminate worry from his mind.
These simple rules, faithfully followed, have resulted in a happy,
well-rounded life.
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GEORGE MASON MORSE
DR. GEORGE MASON MORSE was born in Walpole, New
Hampshire, on August 27, 1821. He died in Clinton, Massa-
chusetts, September 23, 1901. He was of the 8th generation
in line of descent from Samuel Morse, who came to this country on
the ship Increase from Dedham, England, where he was born in
1585. Samuel's wife, Elizabeth, and one son, Joseph, aged twenty,
came with him. The family settled in Watertown. In 1638 a
Company, of which Samuel Morse was one, having received a grant
of land South of the Charles River, afterwards called Dedham, he
moved to that place. On his arrival in Watertown he joined the
church and was admitted as a citizen, but soon changed his church
membership to Dedham, where he was one of the first Board of
Selectmen of that town. When the town of Medfield was estab-
Ushed in 1650 his farm was within its borders. In King Philip's
War, 1675, his house was burned, but was at once rebuilt. The
place has never passed out of the family. Samuel Morse died, in
Medfield, April 5, 1654.
On his mother's side Dr. Morse was descended from Lieutenant
Griffin Crafts, who came to this country on the ship Arabella in
1630 along with Governor Winthrop, and settled in Roxbury. In
1631 he was admitted a freeman, and was active in pubKc affairs; —
twenty-one years a Lieutenant in the militia, twenty-one years
one of the Selectmen and eleven years a commissioner. At different
times he was Deputy to the General Court, and to special sessions
of the same, and twice to the Court of elections.
From such ancestry came the Puritan virtues which marked Dr.
Morse's character through Ufe — on the one hand, high ideals of
integrity and honor, loyalty to convictions of duty and generous
pubhc spirit; and on the other hand a warm heart and strong do-
mestic affections. He was early set apart for the medical profession,
both from his own choice and from the wishes of his parents. His
early education fitted him for the calHng. Under the training of a
stern father he was disciplined to habits of industry and taught the
value of work in the development of mind and body, which made
him independent and self rehant in thought and action. From his
devoted mother he inherited kindliness of heart and humane sym-
pathies.
He attended the Academies of Walpole and Keene, and in 1841
began the study of medicine at Dartmouth Medical College. Later
he entered the Harvard Medical School, from which he received his
degree in 1843.
On receiving his degree he began practice in Claremont, New
Hampshire, where he remained three years. He then went to
Clinton ville, afterwards Chnton, Massachusetts.
GEORGE MASON MORSE
His skill and devotion to his profession, united with his sympathy
and loyalty to his patients, soon won a large clientele, which never
left him until age and failing health compelled him to withdraw from
practice.
It was his often expressed desire in his later years that when he
had gone the site of his house might be utihzed for a public Hbrary
building. His wish was fulfilled. After his death the lot was pur-
chased by the town and on the spot where Dr. Morse had had his
home for more than fifty years now stands a beautiful pubUc
library, a lasting honor to the town and its people.
First of all, Dr. Morse was a physician. He was a student of his
profession through his whole hfe. To him it was a science, and he
was never content until he had reached the fundamental cause of the
disease he was treating, and the most effective means of cure. In
the diagnosis of a case his judgment rarely erred. He made himself
the friend of his patients. In surgery he was a skilful operator and
stood among the very first in his community. He was a member
of the Massachusetts Medical Society and also of the Worcester
County Medical Society for many years.
The year of his arrival in CHntonville he was appointed trustee
of a private school, out of which ultimately grew the CHnton High
School. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of District
No. 10, was one of the School Committee of Lancaster in 1848,
and had charge of the construction of the first High School building
in Chnton. When the Bigelow Mechanics Institute was established,
he was active among its promoters, and lectured before it in the
Winter of 1846 and 1847. The Institute afterwards estabhshed a
hbrary, and in 1873 its books were turned over to the Bigelow Free
Pubhc Library. For twelve years Dr. Morse was a member of its
Board of Directors, most of the time serving as Chairman and
writing its reports.
He read none but the best books, and in the choice of friends
selected those in whom he found exemplified the qualities kindred
to his own. Besides the study of medicine he was fond of science,
being deeply versed in Botany, and was a close student of insect
life. His pastime in the open seasons was his garden. He loved
plants and flowers and cultivated them with great success.
He was Secretary of the first meeting called to consider the
separation of CHntonville from the town of Lancaster; served the
town as Assessor and Fire Engineer, and in 1874 was one of
the building committee of the Town Hall erected that year. The
Clinton Savings Bank was organized in 1851 and he was chosen one
of the trustees, serving on the Board until 1877. He was one of the
incorporators of the Chnton National Bank in 1864, and the first
certificate of stock was issued to him.
GEORGE MASON. MORSE
When the conscription act was enforced in 1863 he was made
examining surgeon to the Provost Marshal's ofl5ce. On the estab-
lishment of the office of medical examiner, in 1877, Dr. Morse was
made the first medical examiner for Worcester County, a position
which he held until 1892, when under a change of political adminis-
tration, his successor was appointed. For more than forty years he
was examining surgeon of the U. S. Pension Bureau. In the battle
of Antietam, in 1862, a large number of Clinton men were killed
or wounded. The Ladies Aid Society of the town made up a box of
supplies for the relief of the wounded, and commissioned Dr. Morse
to go to the battlefield, hunt up the Clinton men and relieve them
as far as possible with the hospital supplies that the ladies had
furnished him.
The Chnton Hospital was founded in 1889. Dr. Morse was one
of the incorporators, and at its organization was made 1st Vice-
President and Chairman of its medical staff, holding both offices
until his death.
At the graduation of the first class of nurses from the hospital
he gave the address. His advice to the class was a complete code
of rules for their guidance in the practice of their profession.
At his death the trustees placed upon the records of the Associa-
tion a beautiful tribute to him as a gentleman and a physician, and
a fitting recognition of the loss the hospital had sustained in his
death. May 6, 1846, in Claremont, New Hampshire, Dr. Morse
married Eleanor Carlisle, daughter of Right Rev. Carleton Chase,
(the First Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire) and Harriet
(Cutler) Chase. Seven children were born of this marriage, of
whom only one survives, George F. Morse, Esq., now a resident of
Lancaster, Massachusetts. Mrs. Eleanor C. (Chase) Morse died
November 6, 1861. January 15, 1863 Dr. Morse married Mary
Frances, daughter of William and Mary Ann (Brown) Stearns, of
Chnton, by whom he had two children, — Esther Crafts and
Mary Stearns, both of whom are living.
In politics Dr. Morse was Repubhcan, and in religious belief a
Unitarian. Though a member of the Masonic Order and an Odd
Fellow, he held no official position in either body.
To all his various activities Dr. Morse gave the best of a sound
judgment and loyal heart. His labors exemplified the virtues of
the Puritan that he was, and illustrated the highest type of the
patriotic American.
For more than fifty years he filled a large place in the com-
munity, an example of everything that was generous in spirit, and
upright and moral before his fellow men. His passing left a void
that has never been filled. It was the end of a long, useful, and
finished life.
SAMUEL MAYO NICKERSON
IT was in Chatham on June 14, 1830, that Samuel Mayo Nicker-
son was born. He died July 20, 1914. His parents were Ensign
and Rebecca Mayo Nickerson. These are good old Cape Cod
names. You can hardly see or hear them anywhere on the face of
the earth without thinking at once of Cape Cod or " The Vineyard."
Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson were self respecting, prudent, patriotic,
ambitous for their boy. They wanted to give him every advantage,
and so they removed to Boston in 1837, and he there began his
education which was continued in the Academy at New Hampton,
New Hampshire. He concluded his schooldays when he was
seventeen. His intellectual, moral and spiritual Ufe was largely
moulded by his noble mother. It may appear that this was an
inadequate equipment of education for success, but we must
remember that the education of those times was a good deal like
the food, very simple, but very nourishing. The boys did not learn
so much, but most of what they learned was true. It was elemental
and gave range for the play of intelligence and common sense.
When his schooldays were completed, in 1847, Samuel faced
the world eagerly with a capital of character and brains, an eager
ambition to win in business, and money enough to pay his passage
on a saihng packet to Appalachicola, Florida, where an elder
brother had opened a general store, and had promised him employ-
ment. For three years he worked hard to earn his small salary,
obtaining meanwhile what he most desired, the business experience
which was later to serve him in good stead. Then he started out
for himself, and through various experiments, some of them suc-
cessful and others failures, he at length commanded the support
of some northern friends. The money they advanced, together
with his own savings, enabled him to enlarge his enterprises; yet
the way was difficult and there came many discouragements, and
at last a fire, which took all he had. Undaunted, though apparently
ruined, his purpose and his pluck never deserted him. He de-
termined to preserve his most valued asset, his good reputation,
and though the outstandmg indebtedness against him was legally
compromised, he never rested until, when prosperity again smiled
upon him, he had paid up every cent, — one hundred cents on the
dollar.
In 1858 after eleven years in business as a country merchant,
during which time he had been studying other fines of trade, the
turning point in his career came and he removed to Chicago, where
upon borrowed capital he began anew. His first venture was in
the distilfing of alcohol in which he was so successful that he pres-
ently began to take part in other and larger business enterprises.
He abandoned the distilfing business in 1864. In 1862 and 1863
there seemed to be a demand for a National bank, and a group of
SAMUEL MAYO NICKERSON
men, of whom Mr. Nickerson was one, ardently advocated the
project. Mr. Nickerson subscribed Uberally to the stock of the
First National Bank of Chicago, assisted in its organization, and
was elected one of the first directors. Not long afterwards he was
chosen First Vice-President, and in 1867, on the death of the
President, he was selected as the successor. He served for twenty-
four years in this capacity, and resigned in 1891, finally, as he sup-
posed. But in 1897 he was prevailed upon once more to direct the
affairs of his bank, and for three years he remained its president.
It is a long step from a humble cottage on Cape Cod to the
presidency of the First National Bank of Chicago, with all its
serious responsibilities and its splendid opportunities, its dignities
and its honors. Samuel Nickerson took the step, a victor over
circumstances, and came into wealth and emoluments which he
honored by holding them modestly and always as a sacred trust
that he was to administer for the good of humanity.
Of course with the development and disclosing of his financial
talent, he was of necessity drawn into the great projects which
unfold in a rapidly growing city. The year after his election to the
presidency of the bank, he was made president of the City Horse
Railroad Company, in which place he displayed distinguished
ability. He held this position for seven years. Another bank,
" The National Live Stock," was organized a few years later and
he became its first president, serving in that capacity for six years,
and as director for a longer time. He was also largely interested
in important railroad and commercial enterprises. But the presi-
dency of the First National Bank gradually absorbed his interest
and attention, and to it he gave a large measure of his life, in " a
career of indefatigable activity," carrying it through a number of
critical periods with marvelous abihty, winning for it a place in
the front rank. Incidentally, he was called upon no less than three
times to plan for the building of an edifice to house the Bank.
With all his achievements in the business world, and with
the attainment of material success which must have exceeded the
wildest dreams of the Cape Cod boy, Mr. Nickerson never lost the
charm and worth of a personality. After all, it is not what we
have, not what we do, but what we are, which fixes the standard
by which the enduring judgment of men and time, as well as eternity,
is formed.
Mr. Nickerson with all the changes in his social and financial
position, never lost his democratic tastes and habits. His disposi-
tion was genial and his manner gracious, and his consideration of
the point of view of others, marked. He never sought public office
nor renown, but, whenever duty or opportunity called, he never
shirked. He held riches to be a trust to be sacredly administered
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for the welfare of humanity. His work was strenuous but always
straightforward; his pleasures were simple and genuine. It may
be that his mind was centered in his business, but not less was his
heart centred in his home. Life there was ideal.
In December, 1858, Mr. Nickerson was married to Mathilda,
daughter of Isaac Crosby of Brewster, Massachusetts, and two
of the oldest and most honored Cape Cod names were thus con-
nected.
One son was born, Mr. Roland Crosby Nickerson, first associated
with his father's bank, the First National Bank of Chicago, and
later in the banking business in New York City. He married
Adelaide T. Daniels of Chicago, Illinois, June 16, 1886, daughter of
WilHam Y. Daniels, and Ann (Atkinson) Daniels.
Two sons and a daughter were born of this union Roland C, Jr.,
and Samuel Mayo Nickerson, 2nd, (deceased,) and Helen Nicker-
son.
In the marriage of Samuel L. Nickerson and Mathilda Crosby
two people of like tastes were associated for life in work and plea-
sure. After their first residence had been destroyed by the great
Chicago fire, they built a beautiful house, in which their own love
of art, and artistic tastes found expression. Their private art
gallery was renowned for its choice collection of pictures.
Mr. Nickerson was one of the real art patrons of Chicago. Along
with the growth of his ability to buy the best pictures, he cultivated
his taste until he was a judge of the best, and in his collection there
were numbered some of the masterpieces of the world. For several
years he was a director of the Art Institute, the pride of the city,
and to it he devoted many hours of valued service. He gave most
generously to its maintenance.
In 1900 Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson removed to New York where
their son, Roland C. Nickerson resided, and on their departure from
Chicago donated their splendid collection of paintings, engravings,
Chinese and Japanese porcelain, jades and lacquers, ivory carvings,
arms, and other works of art, to the Institute, and later, Mr. Nicker-
son in his will left the sum of fifty thousand dollars to the Institute
for the maintenance of this collection.
After retirement from business Mr. Nickerson Hved in New York
about six months of the year, spending the other six months on
Cape Cod, at East Brewster. Thus he came back after his voyag-
ing, as did his ancestors after their voyages over the wide ocean,
to find rest and peace and well earned happiness, amid the unique
beauties and charms of his childhood's home.
None may say that romance has all passed out of American life,
when such a biography as that of Samuel Mayo Nickerson, is
available for the encouragement and example of American youth.
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ROLAND CROSBY NICKERSON
ROLAND CROSBY NICKERSON was born at Chicago,
Illinois, July 27, 1859. He died June 9, 1906, at East
Brewster, Massachusetts. His parents were Samuel Mayo
Nickerson and Mathilda Crosby, each a representative of an
honored Cape Cod family. His grandparents on his father's side
were Ensign Nickerson and Rebecca Mayo; his mother's father
was Isaac Crosby of Brewster, Massachusetts. These names all
stand for honest, sturdy, God-fearing families, in more than one
instance of Pilgrim ancestry.
Roland Nickerson was brought up in the city of Chicago, nomi-
nally, but actually the days of his youth were largely spent in
Europe, as at 11 years of age he entered Sehg's School at Vevey,
Switzerland, and further completed his education in Germany and
France, being a wonderful linguist and master of four languages.
Under his father's expert guidance he early acquired a taste for
pictures, and became a collector of many of the best works of the
old world artists. His own taste was of a high artistic order. His
mother was a woman of bright, brave spirit and decided mental
endowments, and she exerted a strong influence upon the intellec-
tual, moral and spiritual hfe of her son. He had every advantage
from his youth.
It was Roland Nickerson's ambition to become a banker like his
father, and, especially, to serve in the First National Bank of
Chicago, his father's bank. It was there, accordingly, that he
began his apprenticeship in business, learning the details of banking
under his father's eye. Later, as he grew in power to handle finan-
cial problems, he became a partner in the banking firm of Jamieson
and Company, Chicago, Illinois. Afterwards he was a special
partner in the firm of Marshall Spader and Company, bankers and
brokers, of New York City, in whose business he was interested up
to the time of his death. He was a member of the New York
Stock Exchange.
Mr. Roland Nickerson held memberships in nearly all of the
leading clubs in the United States, among which may be mentioned
the Chicago Club in Chicago; and the New England Society in
New York City, the Metropolitan, Union League, the New York
Yacht Club, the Ardsley, the Eastern Yacht Club, and the Algon-
quin Club.
Mr. Nickerson was a Republican in his political allegiance,
somewhat Independent, however, for he once voted for Grover
Cleveland. He was a member of the Governor's Council from the
Barnstable County district in the state of Massachusetts, under
Governors John L. Bates and William L. Douglass.
KOLAND CROSBY NICKERSON
From boyhood, water sports had especially fascinated Roland
Nickerson; and so perhaps it was not strange that yachting and
hunting should be particularly attractive to him in manhood. He
maintained a hunting preserve of 2000 acres on Cape Cod and was
owner of many fine yachts for cruising and racing, notable amongst
which was the famous sloop " Meemer " racing champion of the
30 foot class in Massachusetts Bay for three consecutive years.
On June 16, 1886, he was married to Adelaide T. Daniels, of
Chicago, Illinois, daughter of William Y. Daniels and Ann (Atkin-
son) Daniels. Mrs. Nickerson's ancestors came from England,
and noteworthy among them was Colonel William Ball of Virginia,
the brother of Joseph Ball who was the grandfather of George
Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson were born two sons and
a daughter: Roland C, Jr., Samuel Mayo Nickerson, 2nd (de-
ceased), and Helen Nickerson.
In 1900 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Nickerson removed from Chicago
to New York, in order to be with their son, Mr. Roland C. Nicker-
son. The mild climate of Cape Cod called them back to its shores,
and so for about six months of each year the Nickerson famiHes
lived in New York, and the other six months they were accustomed
to spend together at their summer home at East Brewster, Cape
Cod. It was Mr. Roland Nickerson's pleasure to make the later
years of his parents happy and delightful, and to cheer them by
his presence and by his companionship. He was himself a man of a
rarely even temperament, cheerful and optimistic at all times. His
public spirit and utter lack of selfishness is shown in the fact that
he acquiesced in his father's decision to present to the Art Institute
of Chicago his magnificent private collection of paintings and other
objects of art.
Mr. Roland Nickerson was like his father in absolute integrity;
like him too, in his unusual grasp of the principles that underlie
all business complications.
His singularly optimistic temperament was a blessing, not only
to himself but to all who were associated with him. Honored and
respected in the business world, for his father's sake as well as for
his own, hailed joyfully as a welcome presence in most of the best
clubs of the United States, loved and admired by the inner circle of
his relatives and intimates, he lived a fortunate life and crowded
into his comparatively few years the "honor, love, obedience, troops
of friends," that most men enjoy only at the end of a long life.
With life full of promise before him his early death was greatly
regretted and his memory will live long to bless the world that
knew him.
CHARLES SUMNER NORRIS
CHARLES SUMNER NORRIS was born in Watertown,
Massachusetts, December 9, 1856. He is the son of David
Holden and Ruth Blake (Norris) Norris. His grandparents
on his father's side were John Norris, Jr., 1794 to 1870, and Mira
Holden, 1800 to 1867; on his mother's side, Jacob Norris, Jr., 1804
to 1884, and Mary Brown, 1809 to 1849. Among his immigrant
ancestors were Nicholas Norris, born before 1640, who came to
this country, and married, January 21, 1664, Sarah Cox of Hamp-
ton, New Hampshire, and settled at Exeter, New Hampshire, in
1676; and Richard Holden, who came on the ship Francis, in
1634, to Watertown and then to Groton, Massachusetts.
The father of the subject of this sketch was born March 29,
1824, and died April 1, 1905. He was engaged in the Insurance
business, in Boston. Besides being a good man, he was fond of
music and musically gifted, and he wrote hymn-tunes for Lowell
Mason's pubHcations. The mother of Charles Sumner Norris was
a woman of excellent mental endowments, a gracious personality
and a vigorous rehgious faith, and her influence was strong upon
the intellectual, moral and spiritual life of her son. She aroused his
ambition to excel in his studies. In youth he was greatly interested
in his school work and in American Political History. The Bible
and biographies of noted people furnished his favorite reading. He
earned the money for his own classical and musical education.
He began the active work of life as a clerk in a furnishing goods
store, July 1, 1872, an arrangement which his father had made
for him. But his sphere in Ufe was music. On January 1, 1876, he
started as a clerk in a piano store, and rose until he became a partner
in the firm, January 1, 1888. In 1907 he became sole owner on the
death of his partner, and he is still in business, making, in all, a
service of more than thirty years as a piano merchant. He has
been organist and choir master of All Saints' Episcopal Church,
Brookline, Massachusetts, since its foundation September 30,
1894, giving his services without compensation.
Mr. Norris is an ardent churchman. He was one of the founders
of All Saints' Church, Brookline, in 1894, and has been a vestryman
CHARLES SUMNER NORRIS
in this church since its foundation. For many years he has served
as delegate to the Diocesan Convention.
Mr. Norris is deeply interested in the civic life of the community
where he resides, and is a town-meeting member of Brookline. He
belongs to many clubs, among which are the Boston Art Club,
the Episcopalian Club, and the New England Chapter of the
American Guild of Organists.
He is a Republican in politics, and he has never cared to change
his political party.
He delights in relaxation in the open air, and he takes a daily
morning walk of four miles, with an occasional game of golf to keep
him in good condition.
On March 10, 1881, he was married to Mary Lizzie, daughter of
Elam Smith and Mary T. (Hollenbeck) Marsh, who died January
3, 1896. Ethel Norris is the daughter of this marriage.
On June 15, 1897, he was married to Ahce Waterman, daughter
of Joseph Merrill and Susan Rhynar (Hewett) Greenough, and
granddaughter of Freeman Parker and Tryphena (Faunce) Green-
ough, and of George and Lucy Ann (Bangs) Hewett, and a de-
scendant from Robert Greenough, who came to Rowley, Massachu-
setts, before 1685 and was town clerk in 1691.
To Mr. and Mrs. Norris have been born two children: Richard
Greenough Norris, a student at Groton School, and Guy Holden
Norris, attending school at Cambridge.
Asked to give from his own observation and experience some
suggestions to young Americans, Mr. Norris says this: " A young
man should maintain his reputation, character and credit as ' the
apple of his eye.' He must get away from newspapers, magazines
and fiction, and get into the habit of reading a few serious books
each year, not neglecting the great poets."
Mr. Norris has made in his own life a practical application of the
principles he would have others follow. That he has found happi-
ness as well as honor in carrying out these principles speaks well
for their soundness, and for his clearness of vision.
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RICHARD OLNEY
RICHARD OLNEY was born at Oxford, Worcester County,
Massachusetts, September 15, 1835. He died at Boston
on April 8, 1917.
He was of English and French Huguenot descent, being a descen-
dant in the direct line of Thomas Olney, who came to New England
from St. Albans, England, in 1635, settled first in Salem, and,
sharing the sentence and expulsion of Roger Williams, of whom he
was a strong adherent, became one of the founders of Rhode Island
and the Providence plantations. Mr. Olney's grandfather, Richard
Olney, born in 1770 at Smithfield, Rhode Island, was a leading
merchant in Providence for some years, and was one of the pioneers
of the New England cotton manufacturing industry. He estab-
lished mills in East Douglas, Massachusetts, as early as 1811. In
1819 he moved to Oxford, where he became prominent as a citizen
as well as a merchant and manufacturer. He held numerous offices
and died in the neighboring village of Burrillville in 1841. His
eldest son, and the father of Richard Olney was born January 10,
1802, in Providence, Rhode Island, and died February 24, 1874,
in Oxford.
On the maternal side Mr. Olney was of French Huguenot descent
through his mother's grandmother, Mary Sigourney Butler, great-
granddaughter of Andrew Sigourney, who fled from France at the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and was a leader in the settle-
ment of Oxford by the Huguenots in 1687. His mother's grand-
father was James Butler, and her father was Peter Butler, both
leading citizens of Oxford in their day. Mr. Olney was the eldest
of five children, the others becoming prominent in their respective
undertakings.
It was at Leicester Academy that Mr. Olney received his early
education. He went to Brown University and was graduated with
honors in the class of 1856. He studied law at the Harvard Law
School, taking his degree in 1858 and was admitted to the Suffolk
bar the following year. Entering the office of Judge Benjamin F.
Thomas, he continued in association with him until the latter's
death in 1878, after which he practiced alone. He early devoted
himself especially to the law of wills and estates and the law of
corporations, becoming upon both a recognized authority.
His characteristics as an advocate were thus described by a
competent pen: " His logic was keen-cut, his diction wonderfully
pure, his rhetoric always perfectly adapted to his subject; his
power of condensation was remarkable; his arguments represented
a view of the case that was a perfectly adjusted series of perspec-
tive."
EICHARD OLNEY
Politically Mr. Olney was always a Democrat. Several times he
was offered a judicial place, but declined to serve because of the
extent of the interests by which he had been retained. He was for
long periods counsel for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and the Boston and Maine rail-
roads. He was director and attorney for the Old Colony Trust
Company. He served one term, 1874, as a member of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives from West Roxbury. He was
appointed by President Cleveland in 1893 United States Attorney-
General, and he entered upon his duties on March 6 of that year.
On June 10, 1895, Mr. Olney was made Secretary of State by
President Cleveland. As head of the State Department he achieved
his crowning success and lasting reputation as a statesman of com-
manding abihty and force.
Upon retiring from official Ufe in 1897, Mr. Olney resumed the
practice of law in Boston. He occasionally pubhshed articles and
delivered addresses upon public questions. In the Atlantic Monthly
of May, 1898, was published an address dehvered by him at Har-
vard University upon the " International Isolation of the United
States," and in the issue of March, 1900, was pubhshed an equally
clear and strong article by Mr. Olney upon " The Growth of Our
Foreign Pohcy." In 1897 he was offered a post as professor of
International law at Harvard.
In 1913, he was offered the post of American Ambassador to
Great Britain but he declined the honor.
Of a retiring nature, he rarely made a public speech; but when
he did he spoke with authority. Pubhc office came to him unsought
and he refused for personal reasons diplomatic positions and many
other opportunities for distinction which were pressed upon him.
Mr. Olney also served as President of the Franklin Foundation —
Benjamin Franklin's legacy to Boston. He was a member of the
Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Philosophical
Society. From 1894 to 1897 he was a Fellow of Brown University;
and from 1900 to 1908 he served as regent of the Smithsonian
Institution.
On March 6, 1861, he married Agnes Park Thomas, daughter of
Judge Thomas, his old law partner. Besides his wife, Mr. Olney
is survived by two daughters, Mrs. George R. Minot of Boston, and
Mrs. C. H. Abbot, of Harvard, Massachusetts; a brother, Peter
Butler Olney, in legal practice in New York, five nephews, Peter
Butler Olney, Jr., Wilson Olney, Sigourney Butler Olney, George
H. Olney, and Congressman Richard Olney, 2d, of Dedham, and
a niece. Miss Catherine Olney, of Leicester.
The following message was sent by President Wilson to Mrs.
Olney :
RICHARD OLNEY
" I am sure that I am expressing the opinion of the whole country
when I express to you my heartfelt grief at the death of your dis-
tinguished husband. I had relied upon him for counsel and the
whole nation honored his wisdom and patriotism in affairs. A great
citizen has passed away."
From Senator Henry Cabot Lodge came the following :
" I greatly regret to learn of the death of Richard Olney, an old
and valued friend whom I held in the highest regard. One of the
most distinguished lawyers in the country, he added to his reputa-
tion while Attorney General of the United States and still more as
Secretary of State. He will stand in our history as one of the most
distinguished men that ever held that high ofl&ce."
Governor McCall in speaking of the death of Mr. Olney says:
" In the death of Richard Olney, Massachusetts and the country
have suffered a very great loss. When I was in the practice of law
opportunity was given me to be associated with him in some very
important litigation, which continued for a long time. I then
gained an insight into his extraordinary capacity. I believe he
did not have his superior anywhere at the American bar. I re-
member hearing Senator Hoar once say that Mr. Olney's argu-
ment in the income tax cases was one of the three or four greatest
arguments ever made before the supreme court. I think he may
fairly have been called the first citizen of Massachusetts."
Mr. Olney was straightforward and ruggedly honest in all his
walks and ways, as a citizen, as a lawyer and as a statesman. He
showed himself a man of resourcefulness and capacity, luminous in
his exposition of legal principles, and effective in their execution.
He may be said to have come but slowly to the front in our public
affairs. As attorney general he was conservative rather than
partisan or reformatory. His ideas and his nature fitted in ad-
mirably with those of his chief. President Cleveland, and his promo-
tion to the secretaryship of state proved that Mr. Cleveland was a
man who did not in the least object to having at the head of his
cabinet a man whose positiveness and independence of character,
as well as his natural abilities, might be equal to his own.
Mr. Olney's career, like that of Mr. Cleveland, showed him to be
the patriot first and the partisan afterward. The highest light in
all his career fell on the stand which he took against Great Britain
in the aggression upon Venezuela in 1895. From that day on Mr.
Olney's name was a power in our national affairs. A true son of
Massachusetts, coming out of our Commonwealth's ancient life,
he always held the broadly national view, he never abandoned a
just course and never retreated from a righteous stand.
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS OSBORN i
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS OSBORN was born in that part of
Danvers, Massachusetts, which is now known as Peabody,
on September 22, 1833. He died at his home in Hingham,!
March 11, 1914.
Augustus Kendall Osborn, the father of General Osborn, was born
July 7, 1800. He died at the early age of forty-eight years, oni
March 18, 1849. His father, Sylvester Osborn, lived to the ripei
old age of eighty-seven years, dying in 1845. As a boy of sixteen '
years he took part in the Battle of Lexington. He married Eliza-
beth Poole.
General Osborn's mother, Mary Shove, was the daughter of
Quaker parents, Squiers Shove and his wife, Esther (Marble) Shove.
After graduation from the Latin School in 1849, he entered the !
employ of William Ropes & Company, Importers of Russian Goods.
Mr. Osborn joined the Militia in 1855 and in 1861 he had become
a Captain in the New England Guards. On the breaking out of the
Civil War the Guards were organized into a battalion of two
companies and he was commissioned Captain of the original Com-
pany, April 19, 1861. After a month spent with the battahon,
Major Thomas G. Stevenson (of the Guards) and Captain Osborn
offered their services to Governor Andrew. They were authorized
to raise a regiment, later known as the 24th Regiment of Massa-
chusetts Volunteers. Major Stevenson was appointed Colonel
and Captain Osborn Lieutenant Colonel.
Leaving Boston on December 9, 1861, the Regiment joined the
Burnside Expedition to North Carohna where it took part in the
battles of Roanoke Island and of Newbern, besides which it was in
several minor engagements. On December 28, 1862, Lieutenant
Colonel Osborn was promoted Colonel of the Regiment to fill the
vacancy caused by the promotion of Colonel Stevenson to be
General of Brigade. On August 26, Colonel Osborn commanded his
regiment in the charge upon the rifle-pits in front of Fort Wagner.
On September 30, 1863, the regiment was sent to St. Augustine,
Florida, to recuperate. Here Colonel Osborn remained in command
of the post till February 18, 1864, when he was ordered with his
regiment to Jacksonville to take command of that post.
During the summer of 1864 the regiment was with the Army of
the James and took part in the following engagements: Green
Valley, Drury's Bluff, Proctor's Creek, Richmond and Petersburg
Turnpike, and Weir Bottom Church. On August 13, Colonel
Osborn was assigned to the command of the Third Brigade of the
Second Division of the Tenth Army Corps during the absence of
its Commander. On August 16, he was struck by a spent ball which
disabled him for a few says. On October 28, 1864, he was ap-
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pointed by President Lincoln, Brevet Brigadier General of Volun-
teers " for distinguished services in the movement on the enemy's
works near Newmarket, Virginia." On November 14, 1864, he
resigned and was mustered out of service.
Returning to Boston General Osborn occupied for one year the
office of Cashier for Blake Brothers and Company, Bankers, and
later, in partnership with Hubbard Brothers and Company, he
was a Stock Broker for five years, and a Member of the Boston
Stock Exchange. On January 1, 1874, he was elected Treasurer
of the Corbin Banking Company of Boston and New York and he
remained in that position till June 1883, when he resigned. In
November following he organized and became President of the
Eastern Banking Company which was incorporated in 1887.
General Osborn was the first Treasurer of the New England
Mortgage Security Company, Director of the Tremont National
Bank, President of the Boston Real Estate Exchange and Auction
Board.
In politics General Osborn was an Independent Republican. He
was appointed Chairman of the Civil Service Commissioners of
Massachusetts in 1886. For five years he was President of the
Citizens' Association of Boston and then declining re-election he
was made Vice-President. He was also Vice-President of the
Municipal League.
He was a member of the Unitarian Club of Boston, the Union
and St. Botolph Clubs of Boston, Wompatuck Club of Hingham,
and was a Member and Treasurer of the Music Hall Association.
He served as Commander of the Massachusetts Commandery of
the MiUtary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States in
1868, and as Grand Commander of the Department of Massa-
chusetts G. A. R.
In religious behef he was a Unitarian.
He served as one of the Committee to visit the Botanic Garden
of Harvard University from 1881 to 1892. He belonged to the
Society for Psychical Research.
In 1867 General Osborn married Miss Mary M. Mears, daughter
of Granville Mears of Boston, by whom he had one daughter, Miss
Esther Osborn of Needham. On June 17, 1879, he married as his
second wife Miss Emily T. Bouv6, daughter of Thomas T. Bouv6
and his wife E. G. (Lincoln) Bouv6. Mr. Bouve was of French
Huguenot stock while on her mother's side Mrs. Osborn was de-
scended from the Lincolns of England who early settled in Hingham
and from whom President Lincoln was also descended.
Five children were the result of this last union and these with
Mrs. Osborn survive him: Mrs. C. C. Lane of Hingham, Francis B.
Osborn, Violet Osborn, Reginald A. Osborn, and Danvers Osborn.
RAYMOND HANSEN OVESON
RAYMOND HANSEN OVESON was born at Newton, Iowa,
March 24, 1876. His father, Anders Oveson, born 1850, and
his mother, Hanna M. Hansen, born 1850-died 1917, were
both born in Denmark and combined in an eminent degree those
general characteristics of the Danish people, whole-souledness,
frankness, directness and simphcity of character. His grand-
father, Anders Oveson, was a colonel in the Danish army. Hisi"
maternal grandfather was Niels Hansen. His maternal grand-
mother before her marriage was Marie Christensen.
The out-of-door life on a ranch, during his boyhood and early I
manhood, gave Mr. Oveson not onl}'^ the physical ability to carry ;
through a long course of study, unaided, for his father at this time
met with financial misfortune, but also helped him to cultivate re-
flection, initiative, and independent thinking.
Mr. Oveson entered the Kansas State Normal school in 1895
and graduated four years later. Thence he came to Hotchkiss
school, Lakeville, Connecticut, to prepare for college. At Hotch-
kiss he was captain of the football team and leader of the Glee
Club. He then went to Harvard where he graduated, cum laude,
in 1905. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the
Harvard Law School in 1908. While in the law school he acted as
President Lowell's assistant, as instructor in Government.
At Harvard he was prominent in athletics, played tackle on the
'Varsity Football Eleven, and was champion hammer-thrower on
the 'Varsity Track Team. He was also president of his class,
organizer and first president of the Philhps Brooks House Associa-
tion, and was elected First Marshal of his class.
In Harvard he stood for democracy and in developing this trait
among Harvard men he raised the necessary funds to put modern
improvements into certain yard dormitories which he had petitioned
the Corporation to reserve for seniors. Before beginning actual
practice as an attorney, with the firm of Ropes, Gray and Gorham
in Boston, he spent a year abroad in travel and study, and at-
tended a course of lectures at the Ecole de Droit, at the Sorbonne
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in Paris, in 1909. He also spent some months in Egypt and rode
horseback across country from Jerusalem to Damascus.
His professional career has been eminently successful. After
two years with the above mentioned firm, in 1911, he started for
himself, under the firm name of Hale, Oveson, and Kendall. He
is director of the Cosmopolitan Trust Company, Boston; director
and treasurer of the Boston Journal ; director and treasurer of the
New England Co-operative Society; director of the Charles River
Co-operative Society; director and treasurer of The American
Match Company; besides holding various trusteeships. Since
1913 Mr. Oveson has been chairman of the Selectmen of the town
of Southboro.
In pohtics Mr. Oveson is a Republican, but allied himself with
the Progressive party in 1912, and was a member of the state
Executive Committee. In 1914 he was candidate for the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives from the tenth district.
He is a member of the Bar Association of Boston; the Hasty
Pudding Club, the Fly Club, the Signet Club, and the S. K. Club
of Harvard ; also of the Boston City Club, the Harvard Club, and
the Agricultural Club of Boston, Union Boat Club, and the Harvard
'Varsity Club, and of the Copley Society of Boston. Besides all of
these various associations Mr. Oveson finds time for recreation in
automobiling, playing tennis, and running a farm on Turnpike
Road, Southboro, Massachusetts. He also finds time to do his-
torical reading and to study foreign languages. While in the
Kansas Normal School he received mihtary training, was captain
of a company, and major of the battalion, so, in this his country's
emergency he gives of his military knowledge and training, being
Major of the Third BattaHon, 13th Regiment, Massachusetts State
Guard.
On June 11, 1908, he married Catharine Sabine, daughter of Dr.
G. K. and Carohne Webb Sabine, and granddaughter of WiUiam H.
and Catharine Krans Sabine, and of Stephen P. and Hannah
Robinson Webb, and to them have been born two daughters,
Margaret and Caroline Sabine Oveson.
Mr. Oveson believes that habits of industry, economy, and cour-
tesy should be emphasized in the early Hfe and education of the
young rather than habits of leisure and extravagance. Less should
be said about rights and more about duty and obligation.
CHARLES JACKSON PAINE
GENERAL CHARLES JACKSON PAINE, a Civil War
veteran of note, a railroad man of ability, and a notable
figure in yachting circles was, born in Boston, Massachu-
setts, August 26, 1833, and died at his summer home in Weston,
Massachusetts, August 12, 1916. Few people in this country could
boast of a more distinguished line of ancestry than General Paine.
Nearly fourscore of the early settlers of this country, in Plymouth,
Cambridge, Boston, Salem, in Connecticut, and in Virginia, con-
tributed of their blood to combine in their descendant. The names
of Thatcher and Willard, Sherman and Whitman, Cushing and
Shaw, Conant and Sumner, Cogswell and Quincy, Hutchinson,
Bradstreet and Dudley, Cabot and Higginson, Gardner and Bord-
man, are a few of those numbered in the family book from the early
days of the seventeenth century. He was third in direct descent
from Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence,
and back of that he derives from John Cotton and not less than two
colonial governors. His father, Charles Cushing Paine, was a
lawyer. His mother was Fanny Cabot Jackson.
During his vacations from his studies at the Boston Latin School
and Harvard College he principally devoted himself to saihng and
shooting, and he was fond of playing ball. While at Harvard,
rowing was his chief college sport — he was a member of the famous
Oneida crew of Harvard, which rowed a Yale crew for the first
time on August 3, 1852 — but sailing a cat-boat was his greatest
private pleasure.
He took his degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard in 1853, with
Charles W. EHot, Robert S. Rantoul, Justin Winsor and several
others of note, and after pursuing his regular law studies in the
office of Rufus Choate, he was admitted as a member of the Massa-
chusetts Bar in 1856. Two years later he received the degree of
Master of Arts.
When the Civil War broke out General Paine enlisted and served
throughout. He was made captain of the Twenty-Second Massa-
chusetts Infantry in October, 1861; major of the Thirtieth Massa-
chusetts Infantry, January, 1862; colonel of the Second Louisiana
Infantry, 1862; brigadier general of volunteers July 4, 1864, and
was brevetted major general of volunteers, January 15, 1865, " for
meritorious and valuable services," and was honorably mustered
out on January 15, 1866. He commanded a brigade during the
siege of Port Hudson in 1863 and in 1864 resigned in order to accept
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a place on the staff of General Benjamin F. Butler in Virginia.
He led a division of colored troops in the attack on Newmarket,
Virginia, September 29, 1864. After Lee's surrender he com-
manded the District of New Berne, North Carolina. On his re-
turn from the war he served a term as a member of the Massachu-
setts House of Representatives.
General Paine later ventured in railroad investments, and his
unusual abiHty and clear-sightedness in this field led to his election
to the Boards of Directors of various railways. Between 1875 and
1901 he was director of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the
Chicago, Burhngton and Quincy, the Mexican Central and other
less important railways. He became a pioneer railway promoter,
and a power among the Boston capitalists who laid the steel bands
across desert and mountain that first bound the East to the great
West.
In 1897 he was sent as an associate with Senator Wolcott and
former vice-president Adlai E. Stevenson as a special envoy to
France, Great Britain and Germany to represent the United States
Government in an investigation in the interests of international
bimetalhsm. He rendered valuable service at the time on the
international monetary commission, which greatly strengthened
the financial status of the United States.
General Paine came honestly by his powers as a master yachts-
man. He was Boston born and bred and in his early years came in
close association with the sea. He managed three successful cup
defenders, the " Puritan," the " Mayflower," and the " Volun-
teer," and Bostonians retain in their hearts a warm place, for the
dashing manner in which he upheld America's supremacy on the
sea in 1885, 1886 and 1887. In 1877 he purchased the New York
schooner "Halcyon," and so improved and changed her that she
became one of the fastest yachts then sailing. In 1885 the
" Puritan," designed by Edward Burgess, was built by a syndicate
formed by General Paine, who with Commodore J. Malcolm Forbes
had charge of her in her races. The " Puritan " outsailed the
" Genesta " in the International test of 1885. In 1886 he built
the sloop, "Mayflower," also designed by Burgess, which defeated
the "Galatea." She achieved great honors over America's fastest
yachts of all classes, as well as securing the renown of successfully
defending the challenge for the America's Cup in 1886.
In 1887 he built the " Volunteer," at that time the fastest sloop
in the world. General Paine turned again to his designer, Edward
Burgess, and together they labored long and hard to produce this
craft, and their work resulted in one of the greatest American
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victories in American yachting. On the victory of the defender!
"Volunteer " over the challenger " Thistle " in 1887, the City of
Boston gave a celebration in Fanueil Hall in honor of the event,!
and the New York Yacht Club presented General Paine with a|
silver cup, in recognition of his great success in defending the trophy'
on this side of the Atlantic. Probably no other yachtsman in thisj
section was ever tendered such a tribute as was General Paine by}
the City of Boston. It was a gathering that has seldom been seen,]
the men coming from every section of New England, to do honor to \
the one man who, through his Hberality and his energy, brought to i
Boston the honor of having three times successfully defended the,
America's Cup. i
General Paine married Julia, a daughter of John and Mary Anna '
Lee Bryant. They had a beautiful home in the town of Weston.
As becomes one whose ancestry is entwined with the finest traditions !
of New England history. General Paine's whole hfe was devoted to !
strengthening and broadening American interests in some of its i
most vital phases. General Paine is survived by three sons and
three daughters: John Bryant Paine, Charles Jackson Paine and
Frank Cabot Paine, all of Weston; Mrs. Frederick Winsor, of Con-
cord, Massachusetts; Mrs. Thatcher R. Kimball, of Weston, and
Mrs. Richard T. Fisher, of Petersham, Mass.
In speaking of General Paine, Major Henry Lee Higginson pays
the following tribute :
" Another old friend, who has also lived in the shade, and yet has
been keenly alive to the events of our day, died yesterday —
Charles Jackson Paine.
" He was the grandson and namesake of Judge Charles Jackson —
an upright, learned, high-minded judge and gentleman of courteous
mien and manners. His grandson inherited many of his character-
istics. At school he led in play and in studies, showing in debate
his power of logic and clearness. In leaving Harvard College in
the class of 1853, he studied law, and presently served with dis-
tinction in the Civil War; and later took much interest in various
railroads, of which he was an important director. A great railroad
president said to me: ' When, on an important question, I can
convince Charles Paine of my view, I know that I am right.' He
was a noted yachtsman of his day, and won for his country renown
on the water. In short, whichever way he turned, he showed the
same quality and character. To his comrades he was true, loyal
and courteous, and to his intimates something more; and we, his
old friends, will miss him sadly. I wish that the younger gener-
ation had seen oftener this modest, high-minded gentleman."
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GEORGE JUDSON PARKER
GEORGE JUDSON PARKER was born at Reading, Massa-
chusetts, February 10, 1850, and died in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, May 6, 1917. His father, Samuel Worcester
Parker (September 8, 1820-December 4, 1886), son of Jabez D.
Parker and Betsey (Holden) Parker, was a cabinet and piano
manufacturer, and a man of skill and invention, with Puritan
characteristics. His mother, Charlotte Bowen (George) Parker,
daughter of Gideon George and Nancy (Chase) George, was a
woman of character and decision, who exerted a strong influence
on her son's hfe.
Mr. Parker was of EngHsh descent, his first American ancestors
being Thomas Parker, who came from England to Plymouth,
Massachusetts, on the " Mayflower."
George Judson Parker received his early education in the pubhc
schools of his native town and in the Dwight School of Boston and
the English High School. During his school days he became
deeply interested in music and everything pertaining to it and with
the willing consent of his parents he decided to make that his life
work.
Mr. Parker began the active work of his life in 1867 as an ap-
prentice in the finishing department of the pianoforte factory of
George M. Guild. He later became associated with Allen and
Jewett of Leominster, Massachusetts, then entered the piano house
of Henry F. Miller, now known as the Henry F. Miller and Son's
Piano Company of Boston.
In 1872 he began the study of vocal music and for the following
eight years devoted his whole time to his work, studying at Boston,
at London, England; Paris, France; and Milan, Italy. In 1880 he
returned to America and began his career as a professional musician
at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, A few years later he removed to
Boston and worked as a teacher and a professional public singer in
church, concert, and oratorio work. He filled many church en-
gagements, including one with the First Church of Boston, where
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he remained for twenty years, and where he was associated with
Arthur Foote and Clarence Hay.
Mr. Parker had many pupils, continuing to teach for several
years after he had retired from public life. From 1874 until his
death in 1917 he was closely associated with the musical circles of
Boston, and his ability and skill made him a prominent figure in
every musical gathering.
Mr. Parker was a member of the Boston Apollo Club from 1877
until 1893. He also belonged to the Temple Quartette, the Beacon
Quartette and to the Schubert Quartette. He was a member of
the Masonic Order. He belonged to the St. Botolph Club and to
various other local clubs and societies.
He was identified with the Democratic political party, and he
was affiliated with the Bahai philosophical movement.
Mr. Parker found much help and inspiration in theological,
biographical, and historical works, and his private study along these
and musical lines was accounted the chief factor in his success.
Mr. Parker had a wonderful collection of jewels which has been
stated to be the largest private collection in the country. He
also had a fine collection of canes, numbering at least a thousand,
many of which he had cut and finished himself as a pastime. He
had a large library with many rare volumes, and he was also a col-
lector of paintings.
Mr. Parker was married May 14, 1873, to Helen, daughter, of
Helen and Elkanah Crosby who died six years later. On April 28,
1882, he married Adehne, daughter of Adeline and Frederick
Nickerson. She died February 13, 1916. Mr. Parker had five
children, of whom one is living: Helen Parker, wife of Gifford
Le Clear of Waban, Massachusetts.
George Judson Parker had many splendid quahties that gave him
as high a rank as a private citizen as he had as a musician and
singer. He was a kindly neighbor and a loyal citizen of his com-
munity, and was devotedly attached to his summer home at Brew-
ster where he found relaxation and peace after his busy winters in
the city.
A man of genial presence and sympathetic understanding Mr.
Parker was respected and liked by all and his loss has been deeply
regretted.
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WALTER EDWARD PARKER
WALTER EDWARD PARKER was born in Princeton,
Massachusetts, September 27, 1847, son of George Parker
I and Emily R. (Coller) Parker, grandson of Ebenezer
i Parker, a farmer of Princeton, and of Hezekiah Coller, a Methodist
preacher of Northfield, Massachusetts. He is a descendant of
Thomas Parker, a farmer who embarked at London, March 11,
1635, with Sir Richard Saltonstall, with whose family he was con-
nected by marriage. Captain John Parker, who led the company
of farmers in Lexington in 1775, also Rev. Theodore Parker, the
eminent preacher, were of this family. George Parker, the father
of Walter E., was a farmer and also a manufacturer of textile
goods. The farm was in Illinois and Walter lived there from
March, 1857 to April, 1861.
Walter Edward Parker started his business life in the Social
Cotton Mills. He was appointed Superintendent of the Globe
Mills, owned by the Social Manufacturing Company, in 1876, and
remained until 1881, when he became Superintendent of the Cotton
Department of the Pacific Mills of Lawrence. In 1887 he was made
Agent of all of the mills and print works controlled by that company.
He was a Trustee from the organization of the Lowell Textile
School; a Trustee of Tufts College and Chairman of the finance
committee; Trustee and President of the Essex Savings Bank,
Lawrence; of the " White Fund " of Lawrence, and- of the Law-
rence Pubhc Library. He has served as Chairman of the Advisory
Board of the Lawrence General Hospital and as Chairman of the
Board of License Commissioners of Lawrence by appointment of
Mayor Rutter; President of Lawrence City Mission, and of the
Lawrence Lumber Company; Director of Merchants National Bank,
New Merchants Trust Co. of Lawrence, and of several textile mills.
He is a life member of the Royal Society for the encouragement
of Arts, Manufacture, and Commerce, London, England; of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, of the National Asso-
ciation of Cotton Manufacturers, serving as President of the Asso-
ciation in 1889-92; of the Geographical Society of Washington,
D. C. He was admitted a member of the Boston Society of Civil
Engineers and of the Society of Arts, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, he was a founder and second Vice-president of the
Textile Club.
In 1902 he received the degree of M.A. from Tufts College. A
member of the Republican party, he was a delegate to the Chicago
Convention which nominated Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, and to
the Republican Convention of 1908, which nominated William H.
Taft.
In 1877, Mr. Parker married AHda C. Wilhs, daughter of Rev.
John Howard Wilhs and in 1888, he married Mary Bradley Beetle.
FRANCIS HOWARD PEABODY
FRANCIS HOWARD PEABODY was born in Springfield,
Massachusetts, October 9, 1831. He died September 22,
1905. Of a long-lived stock, he counted back only six
generations to Lieutenant Francis, who in 1639, at the age of
twenty-four, emigrated from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Eng-
land, to Ipswich, and thence removing to Topsfield in 1651 be-
came one of the wealthiest and most prominent men in that Essex
County town. His great-grandson Oliver, son of Lieutenant
Oliver, lived in Exeter, New Hampshire, was judge of the Su-
preme Court, President of the Senate, and State Treasurer, and
died in 1831 at the age of seventy-eight. His son, William Bourne
Oliver Peabody, entered Harvard College at the age of thirteen
and was graduated in the class of 1816. He studied theology
and in October, 1820, was ordained minister of the Third Con-
gregational (Unitarian) Church in Springfield. He was a bril-
liant scholar and poet. He contributed to the North American
Review. He was an enthusiastic student of birds; he was also a
student of anatomy and frequently lectured on that subject. He
was a man of singular refinement in his tastes and of the loftiest
character. He died at Springfield in May, 1847. His wife, Eliza-
beth Amelia White, was the daughter of Major Moses White who
was born at Rutland, Massachusetts, in June, 1756. She was a
noble-minded woman, of beautiful Christian character, and greatly
beloved. She had decided literary tastes and wrote a number of
short stories as well as a catechism for the Sunday school. Her
grandfather, John White of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was a Revo-
lutionary soldier and served through the war. Her mother was
EUzabeth Amelia, daughter of the Hon. William Augustus Atlee
of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a judge of the Supreme Court. Judge
Peabody's wife was Frances Bourne of Marblehead. One of his
daughters, a lady of rare character and abihty, Lucretia Orme
Peabody, was married to the Hon. Alexander H. Everett, who,
after graduating from Harvard College, accompanied John Quincy
Adams to St. Petersburg as secretary of legation, and was ambas-
sador to the Hague, to Madrid and to China. He died and was
buried in Canton, China, in 1847. He was the author of a number
of books, the best known being " Europe, or a General Survey of
the Present Situation of the Principal Powers," pubhshed in 1822.
Five years later he published a similar work on America.
FRANCIS HOWARD PEABODY
Francis Howard Peabody was an omnivorous reader — in English,
German, French and Latin. He acquired languages easily and had
a very retentive memory. Though his mother died when he was
only eleven she had a great influence upon him. For a time he
studied at the private school kept by George Eaton at Springfield,
but left when he was fourteen, and kept up his studies under the
direction of his father who gave him a thorough foundation in the
elements of Latin, French, and German. In 1845 he began his life-
work as a clerk in the Chicopee Bank of Springfield. The following
year, having been highly recommended by WilUam Dwight, a
family connection, he went to Boston and entered the employ of
John E. Thayer and Brother, bankers. In 1865 he entered into
partnership with his brother OUver W. Peabody and Henry P.
Kidder, who, under the name of Kidder, Peabody and Company,
succeeded the firm with which he began his career. As a success-
ful financier he was called upon to take the office of director in
many large and important railway enterprises, both steam and
electric. All this appealed to him, because he was naturally of an
inventive nature. He made the plans for a steam yacht, and in-
vented a microscope, which is still preserved in the museum of the
Harvard Medical School. Although he was not a college graduate
he took a lively interest in the affairs of Harvard University and
was appointed to serve on the Committees of the Observatory, the
Herbarium and the Department of Modern Languages.
He was identified with the Republican party, but took no active
part in National politics. He shunned publicity, and was most
modest and unassuming; but he served two terms as a member of
the Boston City Council. He was connected with the Unitarian
denomination and served as superintendent of the King's Chapel
Sunday school. His favorite recreations were walking, riding
horseback, and boating, also botany and astronomy. He cared for
wealth only " in the light of its potentiality for doing good to
others." He was a generous contributor to all worthy objects.
He was said to be always on the look out to find causes that re-
quired aid. He was particularly keen in his interest in young
men.
He was married April 27, 1854, to Lucy Adelaide Kinsley,
daughter of Lyman and Louisa (Bilhngs) Kinsley; one daughter
survives.
SAMUEL ENDICOTT PEABODY
SAMUEL ENDICOTT PEABODY was born in Salem, Massa-
chusetts, April 19, 1825, on the anniversary of the famous
battle of half a century before. Doubtless that fact served
in some degree to quicken the ardent patriotism of his later life.
He came of noble Puritan stock, which well maintained its vigor in
this descendant.
His father, Francis Peabody (1801-67), was the son of Joseph
Peabody (1757-1844), an eminent merchant of Salem, who early
made voyages to the far East, and later became the owner of many
ships, employing at different times some seven thousand seamen
and extending widely both the name and influence of the maritime
town.
His mother, Martha, was the daughter of Samuel Endicott
(1763-1829), a direct descendant of John Endicott. His grand-
mothers were Ehzabeth Smith and Elizabeth Putnam.
The Peabodys were first represented in this country by Lieut.
Francis Peabody, who came from St. Albans, England, and landed
in Salem in June, 1635. John Endicott came from Dorchester,
England — commissioned as first Governor of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony — and founded the town of Salem in 1628. Mr.
Peabody's ancestral tree was thus a notable one, of which he was
justly proud.
Francis Peabody, his father, was interested in developing the
manufacturing, mercantile, and educational interests of Salem and
was highly esteemed by its citizens. He was colonel of the First
Regiment of the State Mihtia. A student of natural science, an
inventor and administrator, he succeeded in applying his knowledge
and skill to the popular needs, and he inspired his son with a worthy
ambition to emulate his industry and enterprise.
The childhood of Samuel Endicott Peabody was a happy one,
spent amid elevating and beautiful influences, in abundant comfort^
and under the watchful care of wise parents. His mother's strong
moral and religious nature made its due impression upon the duti-
ful son. His boyish tastes were for the sailor's life, which charmed
so many of the youth of Salem to try their fortunes in foreign
waters. The hfe of the soldier also had its attractions for him.
This taste early led him to enlist in the militia and he was ap-
pointed captain of the Salem Light Infantry, which office he held
for several years. He was educated in the Salem schools and
entered Harvard College, but remained there only one year. He
then sailed as super-cargo in one of his grandfather's vessels, and
rapidly advanced to important positions in foreign and domestic
commerce. He was associated for a number of years with Francis
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Curtis (under the firm name of Curtis & Peabody) in the East
India trade, with offices on India Wharf, Boston.
In 1871 Mr. Peabody removed to London, where he became a
partner in the banking house of J. S. Morgan & Company, suc-
cessors to George Peabody & Company, and remained in the
London office for eight years. When he returned to America, he
intended to retire from active business Hfe, but found himself un-
able to withstand the calls which naturally came to a man of his
powers of initiative judgment and his wide experience. He was
president of the American Loan and Trust Company of Boston;
director of the Eastern Audit Company; president of the Salem
National Bank; director of the Thomson-Houston Electric Com-
pany; trustee of the Massachusetts Electric Corporation; of the
West End Land Company; director of the Peabody Academy of
Science from its incorporation, and he was connected with a number
of local financial and charitable associations.
He was a member of various social clubs but had no desire for
political notoriety. A pronounced and loyal American, he came
back to its duties, opportunities, and traditions, from hfe in London,
fearing lest his family would be weaned from them if he tarried
longer under another flag. For years he acted with the Democratic
party, but, later, usually supported the measures and candidates
known as Independent.
His religious affihations were with the Unitarian body and he
was connected with and a liberal giver to the North Church in
Salem.
Mr. Peabody married, November 23, 1848, Marianne Cabot,
daughter of John C. and Harriet (Rose) Lee, granddaughter of
Nathaniel and Mary Ann (Cabot) Lee, and of Joseph and Harriet
(Paine) Rose.
He died at his home in Salem, October 30, 1909.
Four children, John Endicott, Francis, Endicott and Martha
Endicott, survive him.
His home, " Kernwood," was one of the finest and most pic-
turesquely located estates in Essex County. In its care and im-
provement he found great pleasure. He had traveled extensively,
was an intelligent patron of the arts and a lover of those who prized
the best things in social life. His charity was constant but un-
ostentatious. No worthy cause which benefited the community
appealed to him in vain.
In figure and carriage he was the perfect gentleman, with a
heart genuine in its sympathies and a spirit which rejoiced in the
true, the beautiful and the good.
ENDICOTT PEABODY
THE Groton School illustrates the effects of applying to the
education of boys in America certain methods and ideals
brought from England. The experiment has been inter-
esting and important; and the marked success of the school has
been chiefly due to the fact that the founder and headmaster
Endicott Peabody, is a man unusually well fitted by character,
training and attainments to conduct such an educational experi-
ment.
His own education, from the age of fourteen to twenty-two, was
obtained in England, first in Cheltenham College, where he was
prepared for the University, and then at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, in 1880. During this formative period of his life, he was
not separated from his family; for his father was then a member of
the London banking firm of J. S. Morgan and Company, and re-
sided in London. The father, Samuel Endicott Peabody, was a
sturdy and loyal American, and was not disposed to allow his son
to forget that he, too, ought to grow up an American. What the
home influence was may be learned from the accompanying biog-
raphy of the father, of whom it is recorded that he came back
from London to the duties, opportunities, and traditions of Ameri-
can life, " fearing lest his family would be weaned from them if he
tarried longer under another flag." Under influences of this kind,
the son became deeply imbued with the spirit of English education
without, however, losing his American attachments and ideals.
The headmaster of Groton is thus a man inspired but not subdued
by the English spirit in education, and the school, while embodying
English methods and ideals, flourishes in American soil and is
American in its essential aims and character. Aside from any
special characteristics, the school has become famous for its thorough
scholarly work, high tone, athletic prowess, and wholesome disci-
pline. The headmaster well merits the high renown his success has
won for him.
Endicott Peabody was born at Salem, Massachusetts, May 31,
1857. His father was Samuel Endicott Peabody, and his mother
was Marianne Cabot Lee, daughter of John C. Lee. The details
of his ancestry may be found in the biography of the father.
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ENDICOTT PEABODY
After a boyhood spent in Salem, he Hved with the family in
England for a period of eight years, where his university education
was received, and the degree of LL. B. was conferred upon him by
the University of Cambridge in 1879. Returning to America he
entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Cambridge and re-
ceived from that institution the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.
Soon afterwards he entered upon his work at Groton and has ever
since devoted himself to the interests of the school.
He was for three years one of the Board of Preachers to Harvard
University. From Yale University he received the honorary de-
gree of Master of Arts in 1902; and from Harvard University the
degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1904.
Doctor Peabody married, June 18, 1885, Fanny Peabody,
daughter of Francis and Helen Bloodgood Peabody.
He is an athlete, scholar, churchman, and yet acquainted with
the affairs of the world. His personality is especially adapted to
win the confidence of the lads who attend the Groton School.
The school began with a small number of pupils and instructors
selected according to their social standing. This school has at-
tained unequalled social prestige. It possesses an English atmos-
phere and is recognized as one of the most remarkable institutions
in America to-day.
Doctor Peabody is an exceedingly well-read man. His thoughts
and deeds are actuated by high motives. To the carrying out of
high and noble ideals he brings a strength of will, intellectual re-
source, and a wealth of wide and varied learning. He loves his
school and the responsibihties which it engenders. His attain-
ments are but the outward expression of his remarkable character
and of his spiritual gifts. Of distinguished birth and valorous
soul, his life is based not only on force, truth and courage, but his
personahty is expressed in the institution which has these high
qualities. His is an aristocracy of birth, culture and accomphsh-
ment, creating in him a nature which radiates far beyond his im-
mediate circle. Doctor Peabody may well be regarded as a typical
son of New England living in the larger world of affairs, and mak-
ing his contribution to the comfort and joy of a multitude of grate-
ful men and women. Within the circle of his personal influence he
is powerful. His name is an inspiration to upright living, to in-
dustry, to efficiency and to courage.
GEORGE LEE PEABODY }
MUCH is expected of a man who is the heir, not only of <
wealth, but of superior intellectual, social, and moral 1
antecedents. George Lee Peabody enjoyed these ad- |
vantages to an unusual degree. He honored a family name which ]
has always stood high in Massachusetts, and his untimely death {
left many hearts sorrowing over their loss. i
He was the son of Samuel Endicott Peabody and Marianne |
Cabot Lee, and was born in Salem, Massachusetts, May 16, 1865. I
His father, Samuel Endicott Peabody (1825-1909), Francis Pea- j
body, his grandfather (1801-1867), and John C. Lee, his mother's |
father, were distinguished citizens of their respective communities, j
His grandmothers were Martha Endicott (1763-1829) and Harriet I
Paine Rose. The first of the family name in America, Lieutenant j
Francis Peabody, came from England to Salem in 1635. He was j
also directly descended from Gov. John Endicott, Nathaniel Lee, i
and Joseph Rose Saltonstall, who are among the foremost of the i
founders of New England.
Samuel Endicott Peabody, the father of George Lee Peabody,
was widely known and respected in the financial world. He was a
member of the London banking house of J. S. Morgan & Co. His
career was unusually successful. Integrity, fairness, and good judg-
ment were marked characteristics of this honorable business man.
The mother of George Lee Peabody was a gentlewoman of great
force of character, training her children with care, wisdom, and
grace. Education was primal in her thought for them, and her
counsel, inspiration, and high standards of conduct they well
exemphfied.
Mr. Peabody prepared for college at St. Mark's School, South-
boro, and entering Harvard, was graduated in the class of 1886.
Having a decided taste for a business life, he became a clerk in the
banking house of Lee, Higginson & Co. (Boston), of which his
grandfather, John C. Lee, was one of the founders. There he
developed marked ability, later becoming a partner in the firm,
in which connection he remained till compelled by ill health to
withdraw.
GEORGE LEE PEABODY
Mr. Peabody was not specially active in political matters,
though interested in the election of able and worthy candidates for
public office. He was, for three years, a member of the Salem
Common Council, and acted in general with the Republican party.
He was an enthusiastic sportsman, being especially fond of, and
expert in, golf and polo. It was while engaged in the latter game
that he met with an accident which eventually resulted in his
death. He was a member of the Somerset, Myopia, Country,
Exchange, Tennis, and Racquet Clubs, and of the Harvard and
University Clubs of New York.
June 4, 1891, Mr. Peabody married Ehzabeth Copely Crownin-
shield. He left an honorable record and made numerous and abid-
ing friendships.
In speaking of Mr. Peabody, Major Henry L. Higginson said:
" When, at George Lee Peabody's funeral, the organ began to send
forth the notes of Handel's beautiful Largo, so famihar to us, the
music seemed to be telhng of George Peabody's life — at first cheer-
ful, kindly, earnest, strong — and then the single voice singing a
more plaintive note which told us of life's doubts and troubles.
But presently came forth a full, strong tone giving in the noble
melody and the splendid, sure chords the assurance of victory over
all ills, be they physical or spiritual. The music spoke of his
steadfastness and sweetness under the great suffering and sorrow
of his last year and of his quiet courage. So it seemed to me while
sitting in the church and thinking of the true gentleman who for
twenty-five years had sat beside us and thought and worked and
shared with us — most cheerful in the dark days, and ever solicitous
for our general good, and ever eager to guard our friends and cus-
tomers against mistakes and losses. A young friend said of him:
* I have been around the world with him, and would go again.
He was the most perfect gentleman of my acquaintance.' Thank
heaven, he had his little faihngs, else he would have been no com-
panion for us, and would not have been so dear to us.
" When we die let only friends and lovers speak of us, for they
alone have known us well. His great virtues and little charms
offset his weaknesses, and made up for them. We have known
George Peabody well, and have respected and loved him. Can we
say more of any man?"
WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON
WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON has been identified with the
business life of Boston for over seventy years. He was em-
ployed in a retail shoe store before the year 1850. In 1857
he entered a partnership in the shoe trade on Hanover Street, then
the center of the retail district. As the trade center changed, he
removed his store to Washington Street, north of West Street, and
when Temple Place ceased to be residential and was cut through to
Washington Street, he removed to that thoroughfare, where his
store was located for many years. He manufactured boots and
shoes at Woburn and afterwards at Lynn. During the last twenty-
five years of his active business life, he was a Deputy Collector of
the City of Boston, and all but the first five years of that time, his
district comprised a large portion of the business section. His
success in filling this position to the satisfaction of the successive
administrations and to the great numbers of the business men of
the district was largely due to his genial nature and to his efficient
methods. He retired from the office in his eightieth year (1912),
his former associates in the Collecting Department attesting their
friendship and appreciation of his services and companionship.
As a shoe manufacturer he was affiliated in early life, with the
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. He was a mem-
ber and chairman of various committees for the triennial fairs that
were so successfully conducted, especially since the completion of
Mechanics' Building on Huntington Avenue. He was one of the
earnest supporters of Mr. Slack, who at that time was the President
of the Association, in the erection of that building, which ultimately
has proved to be a remarkably fortunate investment for the Associa-
tion. Mr. Pearson was repeatedly elected as a Trustee of the
Association and was a member of the committee to administer their
Charity Fund. He retired from the board in the year 1916.
His early membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
makes him, now (1918), one of the oldest members in the Order.
For many years he was a Director and Treasurer of the Odd Fellows
Beneficial Association of Massachusetts and for them disbursed
large sums for the benefit of the members, their widows and kindred.
He was also a Trustee of the Odd Fellows Burial Lot in Mount
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Hope Cemetery and was entrusted with the care of their funds.
He acted in a fiduciary capacity for many other of the alhed bodies
in the Order. He was for many years Clerk of the Corporation of
the Odd Fellows Hall Association and also one of their Directors.
Mr. Pearson was a member of the Mercantile Library Association
and was closely in touch with the many pubhc-spirited men who
composed the membership of that representative body of men
between the years 1850 and 1870.
He attended the meeting for the organization of the Massa-
chusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and was
chosen a member of the first Board of Managers of the Society. He
was sometime Vice-President of the Roxbury Chapter of the
Society. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
He attends worship at the church of the First Unitarian Society
in Newton.
As a youth he participated in the amateur games of baseball on
Boston Common. He was one of those who organized the Bowdoin
Baseball Club in the year 1859. The Club was consolidated with
other players, resulting in the formation of the Lowell Baseball
Club and he played with them for several seasons. Among his chief
pleasures has been the reading of works on natural history and
travel.
Mr. Pearson is the son of Wilham and Lucinda Maria (Green-
leaf) Pearson and was born at Lancaster, New Hampshire, July 31,
1832. He married at North Whitefield, Maine, February 21, 1861,
Nancy Delia Benjamin. They had a married life of more than
fifty-six years. The portrait of Mr. Pearson accompanying this
memoir, together with one of Mrs. Pearson, was painted in observ-
ance of his seventy-fifth birthday. Their family included two sons
and a daughter: Seth Greenleaf Pearson, who died in 1864; Nella
Jane Pearson and Arthur Emmons Pearson.
In the year 1910 Mr. Pearson presented the President's Pew in
the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
in memory of his parents. The inscription placed upon the pew
cites certain interesting facts pertaining to the history of Valley
Forge, as well as attesting the tribute of Mr. Pearson to his parents.
The pew is of oak, Gothic in design and surmounted by carved
poppy heads.
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The Screen to the President's Pew was given in the following
year by Mrs. Pearson. Like the pew, the screen is of oak. The
symboUsm of the frequent references by Washington to the
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by angels in the attitude of prayer. These figures carved in the
oak kneel on the central buttresses of the screen. The ends of the
screen are also surmounted by carved poppy heads. •
Mrs. Pearson was devoted to her family and to her many friends,
who deeply valued her sterling and kindly attributes. Her opti-
mistic and generous spirit finely balanced her strong will and strict
code of ethics. She died at their home in West Newton, June 9,
1917.
The emigrant ancestor of Mr. Pearson was John Pearson (1615-
1679), who came from England in 1637 and settled at Lynn and
then at Reading, Massachusetts. His son, Lieutenant John Pear-
son (1652-1728), was chairman of the committee appointed to effect
the establishment of Lynnfield as a separate town and was chosen
as Representative to the General Court (1702-3, 1710-11). Mr.
Pearson is descended through the son, Captain James Pearson.
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War were Amos Pearson, who, as Sergeant of the Third Parish
Company of Reading, answered the call at Lexington; Ensign
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in the Continental Army, and was at the Surrender of Burgoyne;
Emmons Stockwell, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, whose family
and one other family did not retire from the frontier town during
the continuance of the war; David Page, a soldier from Lancaster
and the first-named Grantee of Lancaster, New Hampshire. Among
those of his ancestors who gave service to the Colonial governments
were Isaac Morrill of Roxbury, Massachusetts, a member of The
Mihtary Company of the Massachusetts (now the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company) in 1638, the year of the formation
of the Company: Timothy Barron, a soldier in the Indian Wars
1724-5, and afterwards severely wounded at the Siege of Louis-
burg (1745) : Cornet Thomas Dewey of the Windsor (Connecticut)
Troop : Thomas Ford of Windsor, Connecticut, repeatedly elected
to the General Court of Connecticut and an influential citizen:
Major Jeremiah Swayne of Reading, an officer in command at the
WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON
Great Swamp Fight, where King Phihp was slain; he was badly
wounded in this engagement; Captain of the Military Company of
Reading; appointed Commander-in-Chief of all the Forces of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony and led an expedition against the
" Indian Enemy — in the direction of the Kennebec "; many times
Deputy and Representative to the General Court; Member of the
Council: David Greenleaf, in frontier service on the Upper Coos:
Emmons Stockwell, one of Roger's Rangers: Thomas Nichols,
Captain of the Reading Mihtary Company, Deputy to the General
Court, and Selectman of Reading for thirty-one consecutive years:
Richard Swan of Rowley, a soldier in King Philip's War, in service on
an Expedition to Canada, Deputy to the General Court : Sergeant
John Heald of Concord, who marched to the rehef of Brookfield,
the father of Lieutenant John Heald, who commanded the Concord
troops when the company marched to Boston to participate in the
overthrow of Sir Edmund Andros, as Governor: Simon Gates of
Cambridge, a soldier in King Philip's War and a descendant of Sir
Geoffrey Gates and Ehzabeth, daughter of Sir WilHam Clapton, the
parents of Sir John Gates, Master of the Horse to Edward VI of
England; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Peter Emmons of
Ipswich, Edward Culver of Dedham and New Haven, John Batchel-
der of Reading, Sergeant Josiah Dewey of Westfield, Joseph Jewett,
Jr., of Rowley, Thomas Wood of Rowley, soldiers in King PhiHp's
War: Lieutenant John Pearson of Lynnfield, Ensign Nathaniel
Lawrence of Groton, John Page of Watertown, Joseph Jewett of
Rowley, WilHam Titcomb of Newbury, Captain Joseph Boynton
of Groton and Rowley, and Lieutenant John Smith of Reading,
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ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON
ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON has been for nearly thirty
years connected with the HoUingsworth & Whitney Com-
pany, one of the largest paper manufacturing concerns of
New England.
He was a Frankhn Medal scholar of the Boston Schools and
passed the examination for entrance to the Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology, but entered immediately on business hfe.
He has been much interested in American history, particularly
of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. He has compiled a
genealogical record of about four thousand descendants of John
! Pearson (1615-1679) of Ljmn and Reading and of John Benjamin
I (circa 1598-1645) of Newtowne, now Cambridge and Watertown,
I his paternal and maternal emigrant ancestors. He has also made a
I record of more than four hundred of the progenitors of his parents,
I including their mihtary and civil services and their ecclesiastical
' ministrations. These records have been edited by Mr. Pearson
' and pubhshed in Colonial Families of the United States of America
: (Baltimore, Vol. II and Vol. VII, the latter named volume in
preparation), the Benjamin Genealogy (Winthrop, 1900), American
Families of Historic Lineage (New York), the Noyes Genealogy
(Boston, 1904), and the Cyclopedia of American Biography (Ap-
pleton's Revised — New York, 1918), Colonial Wars, Vol. I, and
the Chart Book of The Society of Colonial Wars in the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts, in preparation.
Mr. Pearson is a member of the Massachusetts Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and was a member of the Com-
mittee on Dedication of the Massachusetts Bay in the Cloister of
the Colonies of the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1909. The Washington Chapel Chron-
icle of June 15, 1915, describes his connection with the Memorial
as follows :
" The New Hampshire Bay in the Cloister of the Colonies will be
built this summer. This has been made possible through the
generosity of Mr. Arthur E. Pearson, . . . who will give the Bay
in honor of the men of New Hampshire. . . . Mr. Pearson and
his father were deeply interested in the erection of the Massachu-
setts Bay, and gave largely of their own time and means to have
this memorial erected at Valley Forge.
" The New Hampshire Bay will adjoin the Chapel and like it
will be built of Holmsburg granite and Indiana limestone. The
floor will be of Knoxville marble and in the centre will be a re-
production in bronze of the seal of the Colony of New Hampshire.
The ceiling will be of hand-carved oak, and on the central boss
will be the arms of the State, carved and colored.
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" In this Bay will be two entrances into the Chapel. To the
west will be the * Inauguration Door ' ... in commemoration
of Washington's inauguration as First President of the United
States. . . . The North door will open into the choir room. . . ."
The maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Pearson was John Ben-
jamin (1758-1814), seven years a soldier in the Continental Army,
and at Valley Forge; his powder-horn, carried in the service, has
been given by Mr. Pearson to the Valley Forge Museum of Ameri-
can History. Lieutenant Samuel Benjamin, a brother, was also
in service at Valley Forge.
The following article from the Philadelphia Inquirer of May 28,
1917, describes another of Mr. Pearson's gifts, a letter written by
General George Washington, dated at Cambridge, December 16,
1775, and addressed to the General Court of the Province of Massa-
chusetts Bay: —
" As a personal gift to the new Museum of American History at
Valley Forge, Pa., Arthur Emmons Pearson, of West Newton,
Mass., . . . today will present to it ... an unpublished letter
of George Washington. The letter has been in Mr. Pearson's
possession for a number of years. It is a remarkably fine example
of the first President's handwriting and of his pecuhar diction.
It is in fine condition, being torn only at the point where the seal
was broken."
The presentation, which took place in the New Hampshire Bay,
was the object of a pilgrimage to Valley Forge on the part of Mr.
Pearson and his guests, including his parents, sister, relatives and
friends.
In the year 1917, Mr. Pearson and his sister. Miss Nella Jane
Pearson, also gave the New Hampshire State Panel in the ceiling
of the Memorial Chapel.
Mr. Pearson was unanimously elected a Vice-President of the
Valley Forge Historical Society on the formation of the society
(1918). The society is sponsor for the Washington Memorial
Library and the Valley Forge Museum of American History.
Mr. Pearson naturally belongs to many patriotic and historical
societies.
He is a life member of The Society of Colonial Wars in the Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts, and was a member of their Commit-
tee on Membership for several years. He was a delegate from the
Massachusetts Society to the Eighth Triennial Assembly of the
General Society of Colonial Wars, held at Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, in June, 1918, and attended the assembly.
He is a life member of the Bostonian Society and was privileged
to be one of the members to contribute to the repair of the Town
House in Boston, England.
ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON
He is a member of the Society of the War of 1812 in the Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts, and was a delegate to the meeting
of the National Society, held at Philadelphia, during the later
presidency of Mr. John Cadwalader of the Pennsylvania Society,
He is a life member of the Society for the Preservation of New
England Antiquities. He is a member of the Brae-Burn Country
Club and the Neighborhood Club of West Newton.
Henry W. Keyes, Esq., Governor of New Hampshire, accepted
for his State at the hands of Mr. Pearson, a whip which was made
and used by Daniel Webster in his later years while pursuing his
favorite pastime of hunting and fishing in the vicinity of his Marsh-
field home. It is appropriately mounted and is in the keeping of
the New Hampshire Historical Society at Concord.
Mr. Pearson has made substantial gifts of many and valuable
books to a large number of libraries.
Mr. Pearson is the son of William Henry and Nancy Delia
(Benjamin) Pearson, and was born in Boston, January 9, 1869.
His father was a Boston business man. His emigrant ancestor,
John Pearson (1615-1679) was one of the first seven members of the
First Church in Christ of Reading and a Deacon (1652). His son.
Lieutenant John Pearson, was chairman of the committee to con-
struct the meeting house on Lynnfield Common. This building
was built in the same year as St. Michael's at Marblehead, and the
only meeting-house in Massachusetts now standing, constructed at
an earlier date is the church of the Unitarian Society at Hingham.
All the civil affairs of Lynnfield were conducted in this building
until the new Town Hall was built in the year 1892; the old meet-
ing-house is still used for town purposes. The timbers of oak are
sound and should last for many generations.
The mother of Mr. Pearson was the daughter of Benaiah
Benjamin and Elizabeth (Noyes) Benjamin. Her paternal emi-
grant ancestor was John Benjamin, who arrived on the Lion,
the ship dropping anchor in Boston Harbor on Sunday evening,
September 16, 1632, after a voyage of three months from Plymouth,
England. He settled in Newtowne, now Cambridge, and in 1642
owned the largest homestead in the town. He was appointed con-
stable by the General Court (1633). Governor Winthrop speaks
of John Benjamin in the following terms:
" Mr. Benjamin's house was unsurpassed in elegance and comfort
by any in the vicinity. It was the mansion of intelligence, religion
and hospitality; visited by the clergy of all denominations and by
the literati at home and abroad."
The will of John Benjamin is in the handwriting of Governor
Winthrop.
ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON
The maternal grandmother of Mr. Pearson was Ehzabeth Noyes.
Her emigrant ancestor was Nicholas Noyes, who sailed from Lon-
don in the Mary and John, and landed at Parker River in the
year 1633-4. He was Deputy to the General Court of Massachu-
setts (1660, 1679-81). His brother, Rev. James Noyes, settled
at Newbury and his house is still standing (1918). His son, Rev.
James Noyes, Jr., was the first minister at Stonington, Connecticut,
one of the founders of Yale College, sharing the administration
under the first president. Rev. Abraham Pierson. Nicholas Noyes
married Mary Cutting, daughter of Captain John Cutting, for-
merly shipmaster of London. Their son. Rev. Nicholas Noyes, Jr.,
was a noted divine of Salem and Chaplain of the Massachusetts
Regiment at the Great Swamp Fight, King Phihp's War.
Nicholas Noyes, Sr. was the son of Rev. Wilham Noyes, Rector
of Choulderton Parish, near Salisbury, England, for about thirty
years; he was succeeded in the parish by his son Rev. Nathan
Noj^es. Rev. William Noyes married Anne Parker, sister of Rev.
Robert Parker, to whom Mather refers as one of the greatest
scholars of the Enghsh nation.
Further services given by the maternal ancestors of Mr. Pearson
to the Colonial Governments of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
include Henry Poore of Newbury, Ephraim Brown and Richard
Currier of Sahsbury, Thomas Tolman of Lynn and Worcester, Ben-
jamin Mills and John Rice of Needham, Jonathan Gay and Na-
thaniel BuUard of Dedham, Joseph Jewett, Jr. and John Pickard, Jr.
of Rowley, Thomas Hale, Sergeant of the Newbury Military Com-
pany — Soldiers of King Philip's War: John Nutting, killed while
defending his garrison house at Groton (1676) : Abel Platts, Ensign
of the Rowley Company on the expedition against Canada and
died on the voyage (1690) : Thomas Wells, Jr., of Ipswich, Ensign
of the Mihtary Company of the Massachusetts, now the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company: Ephraim Brown, Jr., of Salis-
bury, one of the snow-shoe men of Essex County under Captain
True, Queen Anne's War: Moses Platts, of Rowley, who died from
wounds, Siege of Louisburg (1745): Abel Benjamin, of Water-
town, soldier in the French and Indian Wars, perished on expedi-
tion to Fort Wilham Henry: Ephraim Currier, of Chester, New
Hampshire, soldier at Crown Point (1755) : Joseph Jewett and
John Pickard of Rowley, Deputies to the General Court of Massa-
chusetts.
Mr. Pearson well sustains the reputation of his honorable an-
cestry.
Mr. Pearson effected an agreement with the American Unitarian
Association which provides for a perpetual series of addresses,
designated as The Unification Addresses, to be given at five-year
ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON
intervals by " such scholars of humane and cultured attributes
as the President of the Association shall beheve to be best equipped
by inclination and abihty " — to most perfectly consummate
" complete mutual understanding and helpfulness between the
people of all denominations and creeds " — the addresses never
being allowed to become an agency — "to further the particular
beliefs of any sect or association of persons in any manner such as
a just interpretation could regard as an unwarranted affront to
the followers of any faith." No personal beUef nor associated ties
can be any impediment in the matter of choice of the person to
give any of the addresses.
Rev. Samuel A. Ehot, D.D., the President of the American
Unitarian Association, happily and concisely sets forth the object
of the agreement as an intended assistance in " unifying all the
forces of righteousness and good-will in the world." The founda-
tion, donated by Mr. Pearson, is to be continuously invested in
funds of the United States of America under the care and direction
of the President and Directors of the Association. Dr. Charles W.
EHot, President Emeritus of Harvard University, has accepted the
invitation to dehver the First Unification Address, which will be
given at the Horace Mann Auditorium, Columbia University, in
New York City, on October 20, 1918.
Mr. Pearson has made two journeys to Washington since the
United States of America entered the World War, and, although
considerably over the enlistment age, he has offered his services
for the duration of the war without remuneration.
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WILLIAM EDWARD PEARSON is essentiaUy a Massachu-
setts man, as the major portion of his business life has been
hved in the Old Bay State, although he was born in New
York City. His childhood and youth were passed in Orange, New
Jersey, which naturally led to his attendance at Princeton College;
he was in the Class of 1892 and attended the John C. Green School
of Science, where he speciahzed in civil engineering. He was born
October 24, 1869, the son of Edward Asher and Sophia Downing
(Owens) Pearson. His mother was a woman of great personal
charm and beauty. She died when he was but a lad. As a boy
he was very fond of out-of-door life and he was a good horseman
before his college days.
During the construction of the White City of the World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, he was engaged as the civil
engineer for one of the interests that held one of the most impor-
tant concessions granted by the Commission. He then became
identified with the quarrying of granite in Massachusetts, and for
the five years previous to 1901 he was superintendent of the Glou-
cester and Rockport quarries of the Cape Ann Granite Company.
On December 18, 1901, he sailed from Seattle for Manila. When
some days out a fire on board was discovered, but the heavy winds
and seas delayed the return to port. The ship returned to
Port Townsend, and docked at Seattle, where the cargo was dis-
charged, and the ship was reloaded and sailed again. Heavy seas
made the voyage a long one. On his arrival at Manila he was
placed in charge of the quarrying and the stone work incidental
to the improvements in Manila Harbor. These undertakings were
under construction by the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company for
the United States Government. Certain of their contracts in the
course of this work were of a magnitude that had never before been
attempted in the East. Mr. Pearson later took examinations for
the Bureau of Engineering of the Civil Government of the Philip-
pine Islands, then under the administration of Governor-General
Taft, and was appointed Supervisor of Cagayan Province, the most
northern portion of Luzon. The seat of the local government was
at Tuguegarao and the trip from Manila was a matter of two weeks.
WILLIAM EDWARD PEARSON
In his work of improving the roads and bridges of the Province,
he several times penetrated districts which had undoubtedly never
been visited by an American, and by few, if any, of the Spaniards,
some of this country being inhabited by the head hunters. His
service in this chmate, so ill adapted to white men, covered three
years and he won and held the confidence of the natives. Much of
this service was given under great danger. He returned to the
United States in 1905 by the Pacific Mail Steamship Line, after a
visit to several port cities of China, a tour of Japan and a stop at
the Sandwich Islands. He landed at San Francisco, and im-
mediately crossed the continent to Massachusetts.
He next became Assistant Superintendent of Construction at the
Yuma Dam in Arizona, and was later engaged on the great dam at
Rockingham, North Carohna, then in course of construction by
the Rockingham Power Company. In 1908 he was employed by
the Connecticut River Power Company and was connected with
the installation of their dam at Brattleboro, Vermont and after-
wards adjusted most of the claims occasioned by the flowage of
the great basin that was inundated when the dam was put in use.
The New England Power Company took over this work and he is
still with that company (1918) being in charge of their department
for acquiring rights of way for their high power transmission fines
for distribution of electrical power through five of the New England
States.
Mr. Pearson is descended from John and Madefine Pearson, who
emigrated from England. John Pearson was in Lynn, Essex
County, Massachusetts, before the year 1637 and he was one of
the founders of the First Church of Reading, Massachusetts. Mr.
Pearson had six ancestors in the American forces of the Revolution-
ary War, and more than twenty progenitors who gave civil and
mifitary services under the Colonial Governments of Massachu-
setts and Connecticut. He is a member of the Massachusetts
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Union Lodge,
No. 11, of Orange, New Jersey, Free and Accepted Masons, the
Economic Club of Worcester, Massachusetts and the Princeton
Club of New York City. He is a communicant of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.
He married at Gloucester, Massachusetts, December 23, 1909,
Caroline Frances Hilfier, daughter of Joshua Frankhn and Kate
A. (Tucker) Hillier. Their home is in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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GEORGE HENRY PENDERGAST
GEORGE HENRY PENDERGAST was born in Charles-
town, Massachusetts, November 25, 1848. He died very
suddenly on June 3, 1915, after an operation. His parents
were George Sherburne and Sarah (Dearborn) Pendergast. Mr.
George S. Pendergast his father was a well-known business man of
Charlestown and was Chairman of the Board of Assessors in the
last years that Charlestown was a City — and when it became a
part of Boston through consolidation a First Assistant Assessor
for Boston.
His mother was a modest, unassuming woman, devoted to her
son and home. Her gentle influence instilled many of her excellent
qualities in her son's life. Mr. Pendergast entered a wholesale store
in Boston, Massachusetts, after completing his education in the
pubhc schools of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was compelled
to rehnquish this position on account of ill health. In 1873, he
entered the underwriting business. Gradually advancing to
positions of trust, he was elected Secretary of the Mutual Pro-
tection Insurance Company, in 1873; and on July 19, 1901, he was
made President of this Company, He was the head of the firm
of Pendergast & Noyes, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, until he
retired from business in 1914. At the time of his death, Mr.
Pendergast was senior Vice-president of the Charlestown Five
Cents Savings Bank, and a member of the investment committee.
Mr. Pendergast was a Past Vice-president as well as an honorary
member of the Mutual Fire Insurance Union; Sons of the American
Revolution; Universalist Club; Twentieth Century Club; Eco-
nomic Club; Vesper Country Club, and associate member of Abra-
ham Lincoln Post, G. A. R., of Charlestown, a member of the
Somerville Historical Society, and of the standing committee of the
First Universahst Church, Charlestown.
On July 8, 1873, Mr. Pendergast married Ella Worth, daughter
of Ira A. and Emily T. (Jones) Worth. Two children, Mrs. Florence
Worth Morey and Harold W. Pendergast, survive their father.
Mr. Pendergast was very fond of traveling and, with his family,
enjoyed an extended trip through Europe, and later on, a Med-
iterranean cruise, including Egypt and the Holy Land, Turkey
and Greece.
Mr. Pendergast was for years one of the most popular and
respected business men in town. A leader in local life, he well re-
paid the confidence reposed in him as a citizen by living a hfe that
finely typified the best qualities of manhood. His personal and
business career was without a blemish, and his fine traits of char-
acter, his great kindness of heart, and his generosity to all, won for
him affection and honor.
JAMES THAYER PENNIMAN
IT is seldom if ever that we record in our biographical sketches the
life of one living so near the century mark as James Thayer
Penniman, of Quincy, Massachusetts. He is an illustration
of honored longevity after years of industrious life. James Thayer
Penniman was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, June 5, 1819.
He died at his home in Quincy, February 7th, 1918. He was
the youngest of a family of nine children. His paternal ancestor,
James Penniman, came over from England in the ship Lion in
1631, and was admitted a freeman the same year. He married
Lydia Eliot, a sister of John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians,
with whom he came over in the Lion. A maternal ancestor,
Richard Thayer, came from England in 1640 and settled in Boston.
James Penniman settled in Braintree, and the homestead was
near the house where President John Adams was born.
The subject of this sketch was the son of Stephen Penniman, a
farmer of Braintree, and Relief Thayer, a descendant of Richard
Thayer. A grandfather, Stephen Penniman, was distinguished in
the Revolutionary Army in service at the siege of Boston and at
Saratoga, rising to the rank of Major and afterwards Colonel.
Mr. Penniman, when a boy seven years old, went to live with
Mr. Charles French of Braintree, with whom he remained doing a
boy's work on the farm until he was sixteen years old. His limited
school education, inducing a fondness for reading history, especially
Rollins' Outhnes of Ancient History, a standard of those days, was
completed in the public schools. At the age of sixteen he went to
Quincy to learn the shoe trade with his brother. Quincy was at
that time the centre of the hand-made boot and shoe industry.
Here he remained and continued working at his trade until 1844,
when he started in business with Ozias Pope, as a manufacturer,
under the firm name of Pope and Penniman. This partnership
continued until 1848, when Mr. Penniman retired and came to
Boston, estabhshing himself as a manufacturer of boots and shoes
on Devonshire Street. He continued this business in different
locahties in Boston for many years, finally locating on Summer
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Street. In those days leg boots were quite generally worn by men;
and Penniman's custom made high-top boots had a high reputation
for well fitting and stylish foot wear. He returned, however, to
Quincy and formed a partnership with John R. Graham in the same
line of business. This partnership continued for four years when
Mr. Penniman retired to go into business with his son, James H.
Penniman, in the manufacture of leather innersoles and heelings.
This business was continued to about 1913.
Mr. Penniman was a Democrat in pohtics and has always main-
tained that political faith. In religion he is a Unitarian.
He was an honorary member of the Granite City Club and of the
Quincy Yacht Club. In his younger days he was a member of
the Board of Engineers of Quincy, and he prides himself on being the
oldest fireman in the city, his service going back to seventy years
ago. He still kept up his interest in the associations of fire service
when the old hand engine was in vogue and the spirit of comrade-
ship prevailed among the companies; and no firemen's reunion of
a recent day was considered in good form and character without
his presence. He was popular among both the older and the younger
members of the firemen's fraternity and was familiarly known as
" Uncle Jim," a cognomen of affection and good fellowship. He was
a member of the Odd Fellows though he did not ajfihate with any
lodge actively. He was once a member of the Quincy Light
Infantry.
Mr. Penniman was married on December 13, 1843, to Maria A.
Brooks, daughter of Thomas and Ehza (Thayer) Brooks. Seven
children were born of this marriage, two of whom are living: —
Ada M. W. Penniman, and James H. Penniman, leather dealer in
Boston. His daughter Harriet T. Dolliver died October 27, 1917.
After the death of his first wife in 1879, he was married a second
time to Mrs. Elizabeth Osborne, whom he survives.
Mr. Penniman enjoyed the devoted services of his daughter with
whom he resided. He was approaching the centennial of his birth,
which it was hoped he might reach; in the evenings of his days he
was blessed by the esteem of his fellow citizens and the memories
of times and events far beyond those of almost any living person.
JOHN BARTLETT PIERCE
JOHN BARTLETT PIERCE, founder and vice-president of J
the American Radiator Company, was born in Emden, Maine,
June 2, 1843, and died at his home in Peabody, Massachu-
setts, June 23, 1917.
His advent into the business world was extremely modest, be-
cause of the limited means at his command. He was conscious of
his own powers and laudably ambitious to create and direct. He
early entered upon the manufacture and sale of steam and hot
water apparatus and appliances.
He was hopeful, prudent and pertinacious, and he never lost:
courage. By application and perseverance his business grew and
prospered until the American Steam Radiator Company was
organized in 1892.
Since then the value of much of the stock in the earlier company,
merged with the stock of the company which succeeded it, was
largely augmented by the splendid results achieved by the com-
pany. To the business associates who demonstrated clear and
thorough business ability, combined with a fine sense of honor,
high quahty of integrity, and a conscientious and loyal devotion to
the performance of their respective duties, Mr. Pierce attributed
the success of the American Steam Radiator Company.
Gratefully paying this tribute to his co-workers, he manifested;
his appreciation by providing tangible benefits for many of them
out of the estate which they had helped to expand.
In his will Mr. Pierce made a specific bequest of shares of common
stock of the American Radiator Company to upwards of four
hundred employees of that company. These employees were
classified into form divisions, based on the length and importance
of service. The employees again benefit through an endowment
known as the Employees Fund, of which the income is to be dis-
tributed to such employees of the company previously mentioned
who survive, and continue to be employed by the company in ten
years time. The will also provides for the organization of the
" John B. Pierce Foundation," whose object is the promotion of
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research, educational, technical or scientific work in the general
field of heating, sanitation and ventilation for the increase of
knowledge to the end that the general hygiene and comfort of human
beings and their habitations may be advanced.
The disposition of the property is made in a manner so unusual
and noteworthy that it is bound to commend itself to the atten-
tion of all interested in educational, philanthropic and industrial
problems.
Of brilhant practical endowments, public spirited, and prone
to large undertakings, Mr. Pierce identified his private interests
with the welfare of his employees. He thoroughly understood that
whatever would directly or indirectly be of service to each of them
would be repaid in cordial, intelligent co-operation.
Mr. Pierce was married February 8, 1904, to Adelaide Leonard,
daughter of Walter L. and Annis (Forrest) Leonard, granddaughter
of Marcus M. Forrest and Sarah H. Forrest and of Wilham Leonard
and Mary Leonard, and a descendant from Edwin Forrest. Mrs.
Pierce survives her husband.
Mr. Pierce's hfe was eminently one of labor-loving service, and
like the granite-walled farm from which he sprung, he ever stood
dauntlessly for high principles and honorable convictions. The
memory of his valorous spirit will long be treasured. He lived
above all else to carry forward steadfastly the life work which he
was ever grateful that God had given him the wisdom, the courage,
and the years to do. Amid the distractions and temptations of a
remarkable business career he preserved the sweetness and sim-
plicity of Christian living.
ANDREW W. PRESTON
ANDREW W. PRESTON, President of the United Fruit
Company, was born at Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, June
29, 1846. His father was Benjamin Preston, of New Eng-
land ancestry, a man of sterling character and business energy.
His mother was Sarah Preston, a woman who exemplified the
virtues of wife and mother in the household, gentle and firm in
disposition, refined and educated. Both parents were of Christian
character and impressed their influence upon the family in all the
relations of life.
As a boy, Mr. Preston attended the pubUc schools of his native
town and apphed himself industriously to whatever might con-
tribute to useful knowledge. Ambitious to engage in some busi-
ness larger than the field open to him in his home surroundings, he
went to Boston at the age of nineteen and entered the employment
of a produce commission merchant. This employment gave him
an opportunity to observe the products of other regions. In
those early days of the business the banana was rarely enjoyed and
was comparatively little known as a nutritious article of food. Mr.
Preston believed that the development of tropical lands might be
brought about by well-organized plans, and a systematized pro-
duction achieved by capital and good judgment. He believed that
the market could be regularly supplied with adequate quantities
on which reasonable profits could be realized, that the lands of pro-
duction could be benefited by intelligent cultivation, and the con-
dition of the fruit growers themselves vastly ameliorated.
In 1884 Mr. Preston was a fruit merchant of good standing, but
with limited resources. He enlisted the support of others in a
scheme to further the practical operation of his ideas. He in-
duced nine Boston men to join in an organization for the establish-
ment of a fruit raising industry with Boston as the American
centre of the business. The banana was to be the principal
article to be exploited in the venture. Two thousand dollars was
invested by each party, making twenty thousand dollars as the
capital of the Company, and the Boston Fruit Company was
organized and put into active operation with Mr. Preston as
Manager.
The West Indian Islands of Cuba, Jamaica and San Domingo
were first developed as a field for a great banana industry. Then
the Central American countries were developed on a large scale.
Success was achieved by the intelligent and broad minded manage-
ment of the Boston Fruit Company. In 1899, following the ex-
ample of this company in its activities, as many as twenty fruit
companies operating in these tropical countries were in existence,
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engaged in an extensive business. In 1899, the Boston Fruit
Company was consolidated with the interests of the Central Ameri-
can Companies represented by M. C. Keith, of San Jose, Costa
Rica. The consolidation was incorporated under the name of the
United Fruit Company; and Mr. Preston became its President.
The company is engaged in Freight and Passenger trafl&c and is
a large exporter of general merchandise. It is said to be the largest
agricultural organization in the world. Not only is the work of
production carried on over vast areas of territory in different
countries, but a humane policy has gone hand in hand with the de-
velopment of miasmal regions into fertile tracts. Especial atten-
tion has been given to sanitation and to work which will minimize
the direful effects of tropical diseases. The company has con-
verted jungles into productive lands fit for the habitation of man.
Disease laden swamps have been developed so that crops are raised
and employment given to people who before hardly had the means
of sustenance. Homes with healthy surroundings have been
provided for their families. No wonder that Mr. Preston's name
stands high in all countries bordering upon the Caribbean Sea.
Besides being President, Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee and Director of the United Fruit Company, he is a Director
of many other companies; Vice-President and Director of the
Abangarez Gold Fields (Costa Rica); President and Director
of the Fruit Dispatch Company; Director of the First National
Bank, Boston, and the National Bank of Cuba at Havana; of
the United States Smelting, Refining and Melting Company;
Director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; Chairman of the
Directors of Elders and Fyffes, Limited (London); President and
Director of the Fruit Wharf Company; Director of the Inter-
national Railways of Central America; Treasurer and Director of
the M. D. Cressy Company; President and Director of the Nipe
Bay Company; Vice-President and Director of the Northern
Railway (Costa Rica); Director of the Pacific Commercial Com-
pany; President and Director of the Revere Sugar Refinery,
President and Director of the Santa Marta Fruit Company;
Director of the Saetia Sugar Company; Director of the Sevilla
Banana Company; President and Director of the Simmons Sugar
Company, Limited; Chairman of the Directors of the Tropical
Radio Company.
Mr. Preston was married August 5, 1869, to Miss Frances E.
Gutterson, of Weymouth, Massachusetts. They have hving one
daughter, Bessie, the wife of Eugene W. Ong, Esq., Vice-President
and in charge of the Law Department of the United Fruit Company.
Mr. Preston belongs to the Algonquin and Country Clubs, and
to the Tedesco Country Club.
ABEL HARRISON PROCTOR
ABEL HARRISON PROCTOR, a prominent financier and
business man of Boston, was born at South Danvers (now
Peabody), Massachusetts, September 24, 1858, and died in
Salem, Massachusetts, March 6, 1913. His father, Abel Johnson
Proctor (June 12, 1836-February 21, 1861), son of Abel Proctor
(March 28, 1800-December 30, 1879) and Lydia Porter Emerson,
was a member of the firm of Abel Proctor and Son, Leather Mer-
chants, a most considerate man, and of a generous disposition.
Mr. Proctor's mother was Lucy Howe Harwood, daughter of Mary
Robinson and Harrison Harwood (September 24, 1808-September
14, 1843), a woman endowed with many fine qualities and of good
influence upon the moral and spiritual life of her son. He was de-
scended from most distinguished ancestry, among them being John
Proctor, who emigrated from England, 1635, and settled in Ipswich,
Massachusetts; Henry Harwood, who emigrated from England in
1630 and settled first in Boston, and in 1631 in Charlestown,
Massachusetts; Thomas Dudley, second Governor of the Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony; Simon Bradstreet, eighth Governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony; Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, first
American poetess; and William Bradford, second Governor of the
Plymouth Colony.
Mr. Proctor had no particular difficulties to overcome in attain-
ing an education. He attended Miss Morgan's School of Salem,
Massachusetts, the Salem Grammar School, and the High School
of that city.
In 1875, he entered the employ of his uncle, Thomas E. Proctor,
engaged in the leather business in Boston. It was by personal
preference that he chose this fine of endeavor for a business career.
From 1875 to 1887 he was in the employ of Thomas E. Proctor;
from 1887 to 1893, he was in the employ of the Thomas E. Proctor
Leather Company; from 1893 (when the United States Leather
Companj'- was formed and took over the Thomas E. Proctor
Leather Company) until some time subsequent to December 7, 1894
(when his uncle, Thomas E. Proctor, died), he was with the United
States Leather Company; from January 10, 1895, when he was
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appointed by the Probate Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
one of the trustees under the will of T. E. Proctor, until March 6,
1913 (when Abel Harrison Proctor died), he gave his entire atten-
tion to the management of the trust, and various matters incident
thereto. While still a young man, he was elected a director of the
Webster National Bank of Boston. From 1899 to 1908 he was a
director of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and in
1904, a member of its Executive Committee. He was also a mem-
ber and a director of the Boston Real Estate Exchange.
Mr. Proctor was affihated with the following societies: the Salem
Club of Salem, the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Boston Art
Club, and the Boston Athletic Association. Politically he was a
RepubHcan. In local affairs, however, he was always more or less
independent. During the latter years of his life he on one or two
occasions voted for the Democratic Presidential candidate.
In the management of the estate of his uncle, Thomas E. Proctor,
he showed marked abihty. In Boston real estate matters, he be-
came a leader. As a director of the Webster National Bank of
Boston, and of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, he
showed energy and sagacity. At his death, the Boston Real
Estate Exchange adopted the following resolutions: "He was an
interested and enthusiastic friend of the Exchange, and, in his
service as a Director for seven years, he gave the best of his unfaihng
energy, and his clear and excellent business judgment, to its affairs.
His high character and uprightness and his genial friendliness and
generous disposition endeared him to his associates. Fortunate in
his temperament, he joined simplicity, kindhness and charity with
practical good sense and unusual sagacity."
Few men carried larger business responsibilities than did Mr.
Proctor and few men of affairs found more time for interests which
concerned the larger life of the community. He had a native
capacity for intense and continuous work, a rare power of endur-
ance, a rapidity of mental activity and a fine Hterary taste. He
was a man of marked executive abihty, of a genial temperament,
and one whose personality has been greatly missed among his
many friends and associates. For everyone he had a kind word,
and to many in need he gave counsel and encouragement.
CHARLES COOLIDGE READ
CHARLES COOLIDGE READ was a lifelong resident of
Cambridge. He was born there on March 1, 1843, and
died there on January 2, 1918. His parents were William
and Sarah (Goodwin) Atkins Read. On the paternal side he was
a direct descendant of Christopher Read, an early settler of Cam-
bridge. His maternal great-grandfather was Nathaniel Goodwin
of Charlestown.
Mr. Read fitted for college at the Private Latin School of Mr.
E. S. Dixwell in Boston, and graduated from Harvard College in
the class of 1864. The year following his graduation he spent in
the office of Messrs. C. T. and T. H. Russell. Deciding upon the
law as his vocation in hfe, Mr. Read entered the Harvard Law
School in September, 1865, and studied there until the end of the
winter of 1867.
At graduation Mr. Read was First Marshal of his Class, and on
the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of his graduation he was
the Chief Marshal of the Alumni Association. On Commence-
ment Day, 1867, he received the degrees of A.M. and LL.B. His
sincerity, kindhness, honor, and magnetic personahty made him
one of the most popular men of his college class.
After leaving the Law School Mr. Read re-entered the office,
where he remained one year, where he had begun the study of the
law. He was admitted to the Bar in July, 1867, and continued
successfully in the practice of his profession in Boston until his
death. In September, 1870, he was admitted to the Circuit
Court of the United States. In his service of his chents he com-
bined extraordinary ingenuity with perfect candor and simplicity.
The vigor and interest with which he threw himself into the study
of a question of law and the lucidity and fairmindedness with
which he presented his arguments always commanded the best
attention of the courts. His ready sympathies, his capacity to
receive as well as to give pleasure, not only made him a favorite
wherever he went, but won for him the affection from his brother
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lawyers and the respect of all the different classes of men with
whom his active hfe brought him into contact.
His love for his profession, his untiring efforts in elevating the
standard of practice, his excellent knowledge of human nature,
unfailing courtesy and liberality, were among his characteristics.
The confidence in his ability and learning was not confined to his
legal associates alone, however, for his generous and whole-souled
nature commended him to the esteem of the general pubUc.
In his home city Mr. Read showed a deep interest in all move-
ments concerning the welfare and happiness of the people. In
1874 he was a member of the Cambridge Common Council, and
was counsel for the " Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children "
for over 20 years.
He was most unselfish, possessing a genial and affable nature,
and a radiant sympathy which animated all his doings. He lived
a manly, unblemished life.
Devoted to the best traditions and loyal to the highest standards
in the profession of the law, it was the lifelong purpose and con-
stant effort of Mr. Read to uphold, in connection with the courts
of the Commonwealth, the highest conception of professional
honor.
His death is a loss to the legal fraternity and in his community
there are many who, as time goes on, will reahze that he filled a place
in their fives which no one else did, and that both they and the
community are better for his having lived.
JAMES CLARENCE ROBERTSON
JAMES CLARENCE ROBERTSON was born in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, May 6, 1846, and died in Hudson, August
22, 1916.
His father was Gilbert Robertson. He was born in Glasgow,
Scotland, April 20, 1820, and died in Hudson, Massachusetts,
Feb. 21, 1872. He married Jane Ehzabeth Davis, a daughter of
Oliver Davis and Jane Whitman Taylor. Oliver Davis was born
in Boxboro, Massachusetts, April 10, 1794. He was about nineteen,
when he left his home town, and went to Hudson, Massachusetts.
He was ambitious and very quickly advanced in his chosen calhng,
and became a contractor and builder. In 1881, he associated him-
self with Edgar P. Larkin, in the lumber and mill business, and was
the senior partner in this concern when he died. His reputation in
business was enviable, — he was ever noted for his square and
honest deaUngs.
Mr. Robertson did his duty as a citizen and as a resident of the
town. He served his state in the Mihtia, and, for twenty-five
years, he was Hook and Ladder Foreman in the Hudson Fire De-
partment. In politics, he was, all his life, a Democrat, but he
never held any political office.
He was a Mason. When a young man, he had joined the Doric
Lodge; later, he was also a member of the Commandery and of
Aleppo Temple.
He was a man of simple tastes. He cared nothing for society or
show; his home and business claimed all his time and energies.
His only recreations were working in his garden, and going on long
tramps through the woods. He was charitable, in a very unos-
tentatious way ; his charities were known only to the recipients and
to his intimate friends.
He was married twice. His first wife was Charlotte Burnham
Tobey. She died Jan. 2, 1890. On Dec. 2, 1899, he married, for
his second wife, Helen Gardner Wilson. She is the daughter of
Charles and Mary Ehzabeth Bird Gardner, and granddaughter of
Charles and Tolman Gardner and of Elijah and Sarah Fuller Bird;
she is a direct descendant of that Dr. Samuel Fuller who came
from England to Massachusetts in the Mayflower. She survives
him.
Mr. Robertson had only one child, — Ralph Arthur, his son by
his first wife. This son was associated with his father in business,
and survives him.
Mr. Robertson's career is a notable example of what a man may
do and be if he has the determination to succeed, and is wilhng to
work hard to attain his ambition.
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JAMES ELI ROTHWELL
JAMES ELI ROTHWELL was born at Providence, Rhode
Island, August 26, 1852. His father, James Rothwell, born
October 3, 1820-died July 6, 1894, son of Wilham Rothwell,
1790-1886, and Sarah (Hargrave) Rothwell, was a merchant. He
was a man whose characteristics were ambition and energy, and his
sense of justice extended to a liberahty which he constantly prac-
ticed. His mother, Emily (Aylsworth) Rothwell, daughter of
Judge Eli Alysworth, was a woman who exerted a deep moral in-
fluence on her son, and who strove to better his interests in every
way.
Mr. Rothwell is of EngHsh descent on both sides, his father, of a
well-to-do English family, coming to America in 1841. His ma-
ternal ancestor, Arthur Aylsworth, came from England to Massa-
chusetts in 1681.
James EH Rothwell was surrounded by the influences which are
potent in developing honorable character. His education was re-
ceived in the pubhc and private schools of Providence. As a boy
he was of a studious disposition, and fond of reading, especially
along scientific and historical hnes. Together with this he had the
normal boy's liking for sports and outdoor life, and his parents took
precautions to train both his mind and body by a judicious amount
of work and play. After leaving primary school he entered Mowry
and Goff's Classical High School of Providence, where he com-
pleted his schooling with credit to himself and his instructors.
In 1871 he left Providence and came to Boston as a bookkeeper.
From 1872 to 1875 he served as accountant and credit manager for
Rothwell, Luther Potter and Company, and in three years' time
he was made a partner in the firm. From that time on he made
steady progress in business, assuming more responsible positions,
until today he holds the offices of director, president, and treasurer
of several important corporations throughout New England and
the West.
Mr. Rothwell is a firm believer in the good effects of mihtary
training, having had four years training as a cadet in his school
life. He is a member of the Boston Art Club, the Eastern Yacht
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Club, the Brae Burn Country Club, and of many scientific societies
in America and in England.
In politics he is a loyal member of the Republican party. For
years he has devoted a large part of his time to advancing the in-
terests of church work in his home town and has served as treasurer
of the trustees of the St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church in
Brookline. At present he is a member of the Christian Science
Church. His favorite recreations are yachting, agriculture, horti-
culture, and he enjoys art study, and his collection of paintings.
At Mr. Rothwell's country place, " Rosemead " in Cotuit,
Massachusetts, there is a remarkable collection of many unusual
trees and shrubs. These were grown under most adverse circum-
stances, for much of the native soil is almost a desert sand. Mr.
Rothwell is a lover of birds, and a student of bird lore, and birds of
many varieties from all parts of the world frequent the estate. At
his Brookline estate, Mr. Rothwell has indulged in cultivating
flowers, particularly orchids, and his collection of them has become
known all over America. Many unique hybrids have been raised
in his greenhouses.
Another hobby is the development of Guernsey cattle, not merely
for the milk and butter produced, but for the beauty of the animals
themselves.
On November 16, 1875, Mr. Rothwell was married to Juliene
Eleanor, daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Quayle, who came from
England to America in 1850. Two children were born of this
marriage: Eleanor and Edmund Aylsworth.
Speaking of the principles, methods, and habits that have been
essential in his successful career, he says: "As a boy I was taught
that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well; and I have
been greatly influenced in life by this teaching. I have found that
absolute integrity, combined with intelligent activity is necessary
to financial success."
Mr. Rothwell is a typical New Englander. He possesses a re-
markable executive abihty, a genius for organization, untiring
energy and notable business foresight. He ranks and deserves to
rank conspicuously in that select group of New Englanders who
have, by energy and abihty, maintained the leadership of this
section of the country.
HARVEY GEORGE RUHE
HARVEY GEORGE RUHE was born in Allentown, Penn-
sylvania, June 23, 1860. He died in West Newton, De-
cember 5, 1912. His father was George Lehman Ruhe,
who was born in Allentown, August 29, 1822, and died there,
August 22, 1901. His mother was Mary Stem. His grandfathers
were John Frederick Ruhe, who was born in London, April 6, 1781,
and who died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1861, and Jacob
Stem. His grandmothers were Elizabeth (Kramer) Ruhe and
Hannah (Hartz) Stem.
His great-grandfather was John Frederick Ruhe, who was born
November 25, 1745, and died in Allentown, Pennsylvania, July 27,
1841. John Ruhe became a druggist and physician. He emi-
grated to England in 1767, and was married in St. George's Church,
London, August 14, 1777, to Catherine Maria Henrietta Macken-
rod. She was born August 30, 1754, and died in Allentown, July
16, 1840. She was the daughter of John Henry and Margaret
Christina (Werner) Mackenrod. In 1790, Dr. Ruhe with his wife
and four children came to this country and Hved in New York
and Philadelphia until 1794, when they moved to Allentown, where
Dr. Ruhe opened the first apothecary shop in the town. He was
also actively engaged in building in the town.
His son, John Frederick Ruhe, grandfather of Harvey G. Ruhe,
was a public-spirited citizen of the country. He was captain of the
local company of mihtia known as the " Northampton Blues " in
the War of 1812, and saw active service. His company was a part
of the fourteen thousand troops which President Madison req-
uisitioned from Pennsylvania. After the war he was the first
high constable of the town, was burgess in 1836 and had held at
different times practically all of the local offices. He was cashier
of the Northampton Bank of Allentown and was for many years
an associate judge of the courts. He was also active in business
and established the leading tobacco business in the state. George
Lehman Ruhe continued the tobacco business estabhshed by his
father and became a large grower, importer and manufacturer of
tobacco. He was also active in pohtical affairs and was internal
revenue agent for many years.
Harvey G. Ruhe, his son began his business career when he was
thirteen, as evening messenger boy for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company. He was the first messenger to wear the company
uniform in Allentown. At sixteen years of age he accepted the
position of office boy in the Allentown Rolling Mills. He was
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faithful and efficient and was promoted step by step until, at the
age of twenty, he was the company's paymaster for two or three
thousand men. His capacity and love of work and his ambition
soon tempted him to enter a larger field of usefulness and at twenty-
three he entered the employ of Keck, Mosser and Company, tan-
ners and leather merchants. He continued with this company
fifteen years, first as bookkeeper and then as salesman and, when
the company in 1896 went into the cut sole business, he went to
Lynn and established there their cut sole plant.
In 1898 he formed a partnership with WiUiam F. Mosser. Mr.
Mosser's death in 1908 caused a change in the firm but the business
was carried under the same name, the members of the company
being Edward Morris of Morris and Company, the Chicago packers,
and Harvey G. Ruhe. Mr. Ruhe was president and general
manager. March 1, 1910, Mr. Ruhe withdrew from the company
and after a short vacation he formed the Cattaraugus Tanning Com-
pany. Mr. Ruhe was at one time a director of the National Se-
curity Bank of Lynn and of the Lynn Safe-Deposit Trust Company.
He was always a Republican and before he was a voter he organized
the Young Men's Repubhcan Club of Allentown and was its presi-
dent. He was a member of the Repubhcan City Committee of
Newton, Massachusetts. As a member of the Congregational
Church in Newton Center he gave expression to his religious faith.
Mr. Ruhe was a thirty-second degree Mason. He was a member
of the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Brae Burn Country Club of
Newton and the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead.
Mr. Ruhe was married March 13, 1884, to Agnes M. Boyer of
Allentown, daughter of Solomon Boyer, and granddaughter of
John Boyer, and a descendant from Frederick Boyer. They had
three children: Willard Lewis Ruhe, with the J. F. Mosser Com-
pany of Boston; Carleton Ruhe, Vice-President of the Cattaraugus
Tanning Company of Olean and New York; and Miss Helen Ruhe,
at home with her mother.
His fellows in business held Mr. Ruhe in high esteem. His in-
tegrity, his energy and his confidence that he could accomplish the
seemingly impossible, all won for him the respect of men who value
spiritual and mental power; and his sweet Christian character and
whole hearted kindliness won for him the affection of all who had
the pleasure of his acquaintance. As a worker he was unusually
strong and effective; as a Christian his character was wholesome
and just and kindly. He made the world richer and brighter and
better by his presence.
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GEORGE HENRY SARGENT
GEORGE HENRY SARGENT, the sixth child and third
son of Colonel Joseph Denny Sargent, and Mindwell
Jones Sargent, was born at his father's farm on Denny Hill
in Leicester, Massachusetts on Oct. 29th, 1828.
His ancestors both paternal and maternal, had lived for many
generations in this neighborhood, and had been closely identified
with its civic and military history.
On the paternal side, his grand-parents were Joseph Sargent
(1757-1787) and Mary Denny, and on the maternal side Phineas
Jones (1762-1850) and Lucy Baldwin. Among his immigrant
ancestors in America were William Sargent, who came from Eng-
land to Massachusetts in 1632 and settled in Maiden; Thomas
Greene, from England in 1648, also domiciled in Maiden; Francis
Peabody, known as the " founder of New Hampshire," Richard
Woodward from England 1634; Daniel Whittemore, from England
to Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1637; Lewis Jones, from Wales
to Watertown, and Daniel Denny, Esquire, who in 1718 came from
England and settled in Leicester.
Colonel Thomas Denny distinguished himself as a member of the
First Provincial Congress, while others were prominent in mihtary
affairs, among them being Major-general Humphry Atherton,
Captain Thomas Bancroft, Major Asa Baldwin, Lieutenant James
Trowbridge, and Captain James Draper.
Mr. Sargent's boyhood was spent on the farm where he grew up
under the strict disciphne of regular work.
His great physical strength and love of nature and the domestic
animals made this sort of Hfe congenial to him and all through his
later career as a city-dweller and man of affairs, he kept his strong
interest and sympathy for country folk and country ways, especially
those of his native town.
His father was able, enterprising and rather conservative and
puritanical in disposition.
His mother was a woman of much power and dignity of character.
In spite of her many family cares, she kept pace with the liberal
movements of her day. She was an abolitionist, a founder of the
Unitarian Church at Leicester, and a suffragist at a time when all
these movements were distinctly unpopular.
The Sargent children all went to school at Leicester Academy,
then a flourishing institution, where Mr. Sargent later in the in-
tervals of his college career became a teacher.
As a school-boy, he disHked mathematics, loved mischief and had
a fondness for the orations of Clay and Webster. He developed a
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GEORGE HENRY SARGENT f
genuine taste for Latin and in after years as a busy merchant, he
often carried in traveUng a Uttle volume of Caesar and Cicero.
He was always glad to help his own children with their Virgil and
Horace, and remained a strong advocate of the value of the classics
in education.
During his school-boy years, his father became a manufacturer
of cotton-cards or " Card-clothing " as the industry was termed, and
built a factory at Leicester.
In the lad's vacations he helped at the factory as he had helped
on the farm, and thus acquired the foundation of his commercial
training.
In 1849 he entered Harvard College where for two years he fol-
lowed the regular course and then, deciding that he would follow
the law as a profession, went to the Harvard Law School where he
spent a year. Although he did not finish his undergraduate
course, his dearly loved college later gave him his Baccalaureate
degree as a member of the distinguished class of 1853.
.Before he completed his law course, his elder brother, Joseph
Bradford Sargent, already a pioneer in the Hardware business,
persuaded him to abandon the project of a professional career, and
join him in New York City where they started the little firm of
" Sargent Brother & Co."
To this enterprise, he gave his whole heart and devoted himself
to it with sagacity and perseverance.
Up and down the Mississippi River on ancient steamboats and
through the Southern and Central Western States the enthusiastic
young salesman went in the interests of this business, acquiring
that genial talent for remembering names and faces and personal
characteristics which helped to make him a successful merchant.
He did not guess in those early days that his firm would later
occupy a huge group of buildings covering a floor space of over
twenty acres, employing four thousand workers, and turning out
more than sixty thousand different patterns of hardware, but he
was determined to make good by hard work, and his Puritan and
Pilgrim traditions urged him forward until he became the much
loved dean of the hardware trade, the president of Sargent & Co.,
in New York and, after the death of his equally enterprising brother,
in 1907, the president of the extensive plant in New Haven, Conn.
On October 15th, 1855, as a happy result of a romance begun in
the Leicester Academy school-days, he married in Nantucket,
Massachusetts, Sarah, daughter of the Hon. John H. and EHza
Ann (Swift) Shaw and grand-daughter of John and Deborah
(Gardner) Shaw, and of Benjamin and EHzabeth (Swain) Swift all
of Nantucket, and a descendant of WilUam Swyft of Sandwich who
GEORGE HENRY SARGENT
came from England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630 and of
Tristram Coffin, who came to America in 1642.
Three children were born of this marriage, Leicester, Rupert and
Emily, the latter now the wife of Wilfred Lewis of Philadelphia.
In 1883 the tragic death of Leicester and Rupert Sargent in the
loss of the yacht " Mystery " brought to their father the great
sorrow of his hfe, and softened his heart to all who came to him for
help in poverty and affliction.
He did not allow this personal grief to interfere with the duties
of his increasing business and became also a member of the Chamber
of Commerce, president of the Hardware Club, vice-president of
the FideUty Trust Company and a member of the Union League,
Harvard, and University Clubs, all of New York.
His social and business intercourse with his fellowmen was
marked by a sincere personal interest in their affairs and an
irrepressible sense of humor which made him a charmingly original
companion.
Although he dehghted in foreign travel he was a staunch up-
holder of American ideas and his home showed the unostentatious
comfort and dignified simplicity of his New England traditions.
He was a Unitarian in religion and his pohtics believed devoutly
in the tenets of the Republican party, sweeping aside in a
masterful manner all arguments contrary to his own convictions.
His dominant personahty and unusual endowment of strength
and good looks made him a noticeable figure in his generation.
His word was as good as his bond and his name stood for the
strictest business integrity and justice.
He died in his eighty-ninth year at his home, Number 2 West
50th Street in New York and was buried at Leicester, Massachu-
setts.
When his funeral procession passed through his native town the
flags there hung at half-mast. The church bells tolled for him and
the school children dropped flowers into his open grave.
He had always loved to go back to Leicester in the summer, and
" be a boy again " and in spite of sixty-six years of life in New York,
the home of his affection was always in the old hill-town where he
now lies " gathered to his fathers " after a long life enriched by
much joy and sorrow and a great capacity for loyalty and self-
expression.
Besides his daughter, three grandchildren survive him: Wilfred
Sargent Lewis, Millicent Lewis, and Leicester Sargent Lewis.
The first-named left Yale College to volunteer for the service, and
is now with the American Expeditionary Forces in France.
QUINCY ADAMS SHAW
QUINCY ADAMS SHAW, capitaUst, financier, and late
president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, was
born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 8, 1825, and died
there June 12, 1908. His parents were Robert Gould Shaw, a
native of Gouldsboro, Maine, and EHzabeth Willard Parkman
Shaw. The surname, Robert Gould, is the name of the founder of
Gouldsboro, the town on Frenchman's Bay which Robert Gould
and Francis Shaw undertook to develop before the Revolutionary
War.
The Shaw family, long representative of that which is foremost
in America in culture, social leadership, and pubHc spirit, is also
typically American.
Robert Gould Shaw, a nephew of the subject of this sketch, whose
death occurred in leading his negro regiment in the assault on Fort
Wagner, North Carolina, in 1863, is commemorated by the Shaw
memorial opposite the State House, Boston.
Quincy Adams Shaw received his collegiate education in Harvard
University and was graduated in the class of 1845. After his grad-
uation he traveled extensively, and made a trip across the country
with the American historian and author, Francis Parkman.
Mr. Shaw became interested in mining about 1860. The Calu-
met and Hecla mining properties are copper mines situated upon
the southern shores of Lake Superior and are regarded as the
richest in copper ore of any in the world. These mines were
dynamized and brought to their wonderful issue under the engineer-
ing skill and mangement of Mr. Shaw's brother-in-law, Professor
Alexander Agassiz, zoologist and geologist. In 1871 Mr. Shaw was
instrumental in organizing the Calumet and Hecla Mining Com-
pany of which he became president, and remained in that oflScial
capacity until about ten years before his death.
Although this had been his chief connection, his interests in
other directions were wide-spread and important. He served as
director in numerous large industrial and financial institutions, and
at the time of his decease was a director in the Lockwood Manu-
facturing Company. In these occupations Mr. Shaw found plenty
of work, and he performed all of it with the zeal and thoroughness
that were characteristic of him in all his undertaking.
Mr. Shaw took a practical and keen interest in philanthropic
work, even though he shrank from the appreciative gaze of the
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world upon his good works. They were so many and so hidden
from view, that those who knew him best even were never aware
of their full value and extent.
Mr. Shaw was married to Pauline the daughter of the noted
Swiss scientist and naturalist, Louis Agassiz, and his second wife,
Elizabeth (Carey) Agassiz. Four children were born of this mar-
riage: Quincy Adams Shaw, Junior, Second, vice-president of the
Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, Robert Gould Shaw, Mrs.
Henry Pratt McKean of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. L.
Carteret Fenno of Boston,
Mrs. Shaw and her husband were known as the foster mother and
father of the kindergarten schools of Boston, Mass. In 1870 the
Shaws opened the first free pubhc kindergarten in the country.
At a later date they opened two classes for the summer months, at
their own expense, one in Jamaica Plain and the other in Brookhne,
Massachusetts. In the following year two more were opened, and
during the first few weeks of their opening, Mrs. Shaw presided
over each.
In 1883 Mr. and Mrs. Shaw were maintaining three kinder-
gartens, in Boston, Brookhne and Cambridge, which continued
until 1887, when they induced the School committee of Boston to
take over the work. And the indigent people of Boston, whose
children have free access to that department of the school system,
owe that inestimable privilege to the wise benevolence and en-
lightened abihties of Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams Shaw.
After this accomplishment they turned their attention and de-
voted their time to the estabhshment of day nurseries in various
sections of the city.
Mr. Shaw had, like many others, a fondness for country life, and
maintained his residence the year around in the old fashioned
mansion on the borders of the Parkway bounding Brookline and
Jamaica Plain.
Among the citizens whom Boston might gladly put forth as types
of the best citizenship, in probity, enterprise, and culture, the
figure of Quincy Adams Shaw stands conspicuous.
As financier and as philanthropist he held a place of especial
honor. His mission in life was the performance of constant acts
that alleviated and reduced human suffering, and the manner in
which that service was rendered, modestly, abundantly, and with
no desire for pubhcity remains a permanent memorial of Christian
ROBERT GOULD SHAW, 2d
ROBERT GOULD SHAW, 2d, was born in Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts, June 16, 1872. He is the son of Quincy
Adams Shaw and PauUne (Agassiz) Shaw. The father was
a financier and President of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Com-
pany, The Calumet and Hecla properties are copper mines upon
the southern shores of Lake Superior and are regarded as the
richest of any in the world.
The mother of Robert Gould Shaw was Pauline Agassiz, daughter
of the noted naturalist, Louis Agassiz, and his second wife, Elizabeth
(Gary) Agassiz. Robert Gould Shaw, 2d, is a cousin of the Robert
Gould Shaw, whose heroic death in leading his negro regiment in
the assault on Fort Wagner, South Carohna, in 1863, is commemo-
rated by the Shaw memorial opposite the State House, Boston.
The prasnomen, Robert Gould, is the name of the founder of Goulds-
boro, Maine, a town on Frenchman's Bay, which Robert Gould
and Francis Shaw undertook to develop before the Revolution
held up their venture and wiped out the investment of Francis
Shaw.
The educational pathway of young Shaw was uneventful. He
graduated from the Hopkins School, entered Harvard and in due
time was graduated. He entered the office of the Calumet and
Hecla Mining Company and has continued to further its affairs.
The care of his own large property has, however, of late years been
his chief business care. He has always been fond of animals and
of nature. His interest has not taken the direction of the Scientific
investigator but is a human Hking for five things, their ways, their
care and training.
Whatever may be the truth about heredity in general, in the
case of Robert Gould Shaw, 2d, his tastes and occupations com-
bine the paternal tendencies toward finance, and the naturahst
instinct inherit from his mother's side. While active in the con-
duct of a great business he has turned his attention toward farming
in something more than amateur fashion.
The problems of business involved in successful agriculture are
complicated and serious enough to try fully, and to provoke to the
highest exercise any capacity inherited from a long line of eminent
ROBERT GOULD SHAW, 2d
business ancestors, while the touch with all nature, still and ani-
mated, should be a satisfaction of all the instincts inherited from
his distinguished naturahst grandfather. The estate which he has
named Bowlder Farm, and which has a huge bowlder marking the
entrance to the winding avenue leading from the highway to his
house seven hundred yards away is situated on Oak Hill three miles
from Newton Centre. There Mr. Shaw is developing a stock farm.
While the farm is laid out artistically it is also laid out economically.
He has for many years been well known for his blooded horses and
polo ponies. He has been an enthusiast in the polo game, a pop-
ular member of the Myopia Hunt and the New York Hunt Clubs.
His horses have taken prizes in the Boston Horse Show. He has
also on his farm a brood of Shetland ponies, intelhgent, educated
creatures. He has pigs which are curiosities, being of the variety
called mule footed from their solid, instead of cloven hoofs. They
are said to be immune to hog cholera. Mr. Shaw is taking special
pride and pleasure in a herd of registered milch cows and a model
stock barn. The cows are the best strain of Guernsey.
Mr. Shaw says of them: — "My cattle, — they pay. I sell
some milk. Farming pays, — farming in general I mean. It's
just a question of carrying it on economically, — just making the
thing as efficient as it's possible to make it." He declares that his
farm earns regular dividends. While Mr. Shaw thus vindicates
his business sagacity in conducting a farm that pays he allows him-
self the luxury of a deer park of twenty-five acres of woodland and
glade and a herd of deer. Just outside the park is a big black bear,
caged. In an adjacent ravine is a fox run with captive foxes.
Ducks and pheasants are among his feathered charges.
Mr. Shaw is a member of the Country and the Somerset Clubs.
He is a Repubhcan in politics. His church relations are with the
Unitarians.
August 27, 1897, he married Nancy Langhorne. One child, a
boy, was the fruit of this marriage. February 6, 1903, Mr. Shaw
was married a second time to Mary, daughter of George and Emma
Hannington. Four boys have been born of this marriage, —
Gould, George Alexander, Louis Agassiz and Paul Agassiz.
ROBERT GOULD SHAW
ROBERT GOULD SHAW is a descendant of a family which
includes many of the famous men of the New England
states. The first ancestor in this country was John Shaw
of Scotland, who came to America in 1640. Shaw is an old English
word, denoting a grove of small trees, and was first used in refer-
ence to persons in the expression " atte shawe " or " at the shaw "
and finally adopted as a surname by the person living " at the
shaw." Mr. Shaw's grandfather was Robert Gould Shaw, an old
time Boston merchant of noted sagacity and business acumen, and
another relative of the same name was his cousin, Colonel Robert
Gould Shaw, who was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carohna, in
the Civil War, while in command of the 54th Regiment of Massa-
chusetts Volunteers. A portrait of him hangs in Memorial Hall at
Harvard, and a bas-relief, designed and executed by St. Gaudens,
representing Shaw riding at the head of his regiment, was placed
on Boston Common, opposite the State House in 1898.
The subject of our sketch was born in Parkman, Maine, May 6,
1850, the son of Samuel Parkman and Hannah Buck Shaw. His
grandparents were Robert Gould Shaw and Elizabeth W. Parkman
on the paternal side, and on the maternal side Levisa Barnes and
Joshua Buck.
He received a good education and was brought up in the best
environment. Upon completing his preparatory course for college
he entered Harvard University and graduated in 1869. Later, in
1872, he received the degree of A. M.
Mr. Shaw has made a remarkable collection of theatrical memo-
rabilia, a priceless collection, even better than that which the
British Museum owns. This collection Mr. Shaw has presented to
the Widener Library of Harvard University. While in college Mr.
Shaw took a great interest in the stage, seeing all the best players
and keeping himself well informed on everything that related to
current stage history. He began to collect books, prints, playbills
and theatrical letters soon after leaving Harvard. The gift to the
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library includes more than thirty thousand prints, an equal number
of photographs and a quarter of a million playbills. The auto-
graph letters alone number more than five thousand.
It has been a custom with Mr. Shaw to visit England, France and
Germany from time to time and while there he has often found
rarities that would have escaped all but the most indefatigable
collector. He has always been exceedingly fond of books and
pictures.
Mr. Shaw is a member of the Harvard Club of New York, and
the Somerset Club of Boston.
September 14, 1875, he married Isabella, daughter of Hollis H.
and Isabella Hunnewell. There are five children: Susan Welles
(Mrs. John C. Lee), Robert Gould, Jr., Hollis Hunnewell, Theo-
dore Lyman and Arthur Hunnewell Shaw.
A man of scholarly tastes and attainments, Mr. Shaw possesses
a hearty and genial manner, which makes him popular in all gather-
ings of a social nature. On both sides of the family he comes of a
sturdy ancestry and has lived and expressed their principles during
his life. He is a prominent resident of Boston.
ABRAHAM SHUMAN
ABRAHAM SHUMAN was born May 31, 1839, in Germany,
and died at his home in Boston, Massachusetts, June 26,
1918. When he was a small child his parents came to this
country and settled in Newburg, New York, in which place he
attended the public schools. His parents reared their family in
habits of industry and frugahty and did not forget to inculcate by
precept and example the principles of robust morality. When not
at school young Shuman labored on a neighboring farm until he
was thirteen years old, when he began work in a retail clothing
house. There by close apphcation and observant faculties he be-
gan to store the knowledge by which he made his success in hfe.
At the age of sixteen he started in business for himself in Provi-
dence, Rhode Island. After four years of hard work in that city
he became dissatisfied with the opportunities there afforded and
came to Roxbury, where he opened a clothing store at Vernon and
Washington Streets, and found a sphere of activity better suited to
his abihty.
While still retaining the Roxbury store, in 1869, he entered into
partnership with Mr. John PhilHps, under the name of Phillips,
Shuman and Company, for a wholesale business in boys' clothing.
This concern prospered greatly, but in the disastrous fire of No-
vember 9, 1872, the business was destroyed.
Immediately after this calamity the firm secured a building on
Washington Street occupying what afterward became a portion of
the site of the present great estabhshment of A. Shuman and
Company. At this place the firm opened a retail department for
the sale of boys' clothing. In 1876 Mr. Philhps retired from the
business, and Mr. Shuman branched out into more extensive enter-
prises. The immense establishment at the corner of Washington
and Summer Streets, denominated the " Shuman Corner," is the
result of Mr. Shuman's business energy.
As an employer Mr. Shuman proved ideal, disciphning his em-
ployees with firmness and strength, and helping them with tact,
sympathy, democracy, and brotherhness. His guiding principle
was that of their unity with the Company and among themselves,
and he succeeded in inculcating a unique spirit of loyalty and co-
operation. He was always ready to advise and assist others,
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ABRAHAM SHUMAN
especially those in his own employ, and he aided them in organizing
a mutual Benefit ReHef Association. His work among his em-
ployees was rewarded by an efficient and loyal service that rarely
prevails in the mercantile world. Mr. Shuman was an admirable
type of the progressive, honest, enterprising merchant.
Even so full, fruitful and thorough a business career is not an
adequate measure of his activities and achievement. He was
pubhc-spirited and always ready to devote his energies to the best
interests and material welfare of Boston. He was a founder of the
Boston Merchants' Association, of which he was vice-president for
many years; and a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He served in Mayor Quincy's Advisory Cabinet on the Board of
Consultation on Municipal matters in 1896. He was a director in
the Commonwealth Trust Company, the United States Trust Com-
pany, the Manufacturers National Bank, and the Puritan Trust
Company.
For thirty-three years Mr. Shuman was connected with the
Boston City Hospital, being president of the Board of Trustees for
twenty-six years. Under his direction the South Department or
hospital for contagious diseases was constructed, as well as many
other new buildings and additions, thus doubling the capacity of
the institution and largely increasing its value to patients and the
medical sciences. To his untiring zeal and earnest effort much of
the success and prestige of the hospital is due. It was also through
his instrumentahty that the Rehef Station in Haymarket Square
was built and equipped.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. Shuman's appointment
as trustee, he was paid a high tribute by leaders in political and
business life and was presented with a silver loving cup, inscribed
thus: " To Abraham Shuman, by his fellow citizens, in friendship
to him and in recognition of his loyal civic spirit, and especially
to commemorate his twenty-five years' devoted service as trustee
of the Boston City Hospital."
Mr. Shuman was called upon to fill many positions of public
service and private trust. He was one of the trustees of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, a member of the Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Company, and in 1888 was chairman of the Finance
Committee of arrangements on the occasion of the 250th anniver-
sary of this old military company. He was president of the
" Fifteen Club " of Boston, which had its origin with the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company; was one of the organizers of
the John Bojde O'Reilly Club, and served as its president; and one
of the founders and for many years had been perpetual president
ABRAHAM SHUMAN
of the Atlantic Conference, composed of Bostonians who traveled
to Europe during the summer. He was a member of the Exchange
Club, the Boston Athletic Association and the Boston Art Club.
On November 3, 1861, Mr. Shuman was married to Miss Hettie
Lang. She died in 1904, The following year he gave a sum of
money to the Women's Charity Club for use in the aid of needy
nurses, and in 1906 in her memory he provided Floating Hospital
excursions for mothers and children. He is survived by three sons
Edwin A., Sidney E., and George H. Shuman, and three daughters,
Mrs. August Weil, Mrs. Alexander Steinert and Mrs. I. A. Rat-
shesky, all of Boston, His j'oungest daughter, Lihan Gertrude
Shuman, a gifted writer of verse, died in 1913.
As a pubhc-spirited citizen, a wise counsellor, a man eminent in
the business world, a lover of humanity, happy in doing good,
Boston was incalculably benefited by Mr. Shuman's life, and he
will be greatly missed by those who had the pleasure of association
with him and profited by his judgment and advice. He was looked
upon as one of the leading citizens, and the highest office of the city
could have been his for the asking had he been willing to enter
pohtical hfe. The great and enduring usefulness of the Boston
City Hospital is a tribute to his genius and will remain a monu-
ment to his memory.
Mr, Shuman possessed the happy faculty of making and re-
taining warm friends. No one in the city had a wider circle of
acquaintances. He will be widely mourned, for he was the finest
type of the New England merchant and philanthropist.
Governor IMcCall paid the following tribute to him:
" In the passing of Mr, Shuman we all have suffered a distinct
loss. Out of the sterhng quahties with which he was so richly
endowed he was ever ready to contribute in full measure to the
cause of humanity. A respected and valued citizen, a real Ameri-
can, and a humanitarian of whom we have all been proud has left
us, but the influence of his Ufe will long remain."
Lieutenant Governor CooUdge said:
" Mr, Shuman was a citizen of the finest type. We have perhaps
known him best as a philanthropist, and in that he has been dis-
tinctive. His philanthrop}^ has been as varied and extensive as it
has been wise and helpful. We have all lost a friend. The State
and the city have been honored by him. It is proper that the
State and city should in mindfulness of that do honor to him now
that he has left us."
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RUFUS ADAMS SIBLEY
RUFUS ADAMS SIBLEY was born in Spencer, Massachu-
setts, December 3, 1841. His father was Brigham Sibley,
who was born in 1807 and died in 1891. His family was
one of the earhest of the English immigration coming to Massa-
chusetts, as his ancestor, John Sibley, came to Salem with Capt.
John Endicott in 1628, two years before Governor Winthrop came
and settled at Boston. His mother was Adaline Adams. Her
ancestor was Henry Adams, who came from England and settled in
Braintree. The line of descent is direct from Henry Adams,
through Edward, John, Obadiah, David born in 1716 and David
born in 1744, to Rufus Adams, the grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, who inherited the homestead.
The grandparents were respectively Paul Sibley, Jr., 1769 to
1851, and Abagail Livermore; and on his mother's side, Rufus
Adams, 1784 to 1864, and Susanna Guilford. Rufus Adams was
representative to the General Court three or four terms and was
Selectman and Assessor for many years.
Rufus Adams Sibley attended the pubhc schools of Spencer and
completed his education at the High School. He taught school for
two periods when he was sixteen and seventeen years of age. As
a boy he was interested in works on mathematics, including sur-
veying and engineering.
At the age of seventeen he entered business life by taking a
situation in a country store as salesman and bookkeeper, though
his preference was to become a Civil Engineer. At the age of
twenty-two he took the position of bookkeeper and cashier in a
Boston Dry Goods house. Three years later, in 1868, he organized
the firm of Sibley, Lindsay, and Curr, of Rochester, New York, to
conduct a department store, which was afterwards turned into a
corporation of the same name, and has been the President of this
corporation since its organization. He is also Vice-President of
the Minneapolis Dry Goods Company and of the Erie Dry Goods
Company. He has been a Trustee of the Rochester Savings Bank
and the Security Trust Company. He was elected Trustee Emeri-
tus of the University of Rochester, having been a member of the
Executive Committee, Treasurer, and President of the Board of
Trustees.
RUFUS ADAMS SIBLEY
He has been much interested in hospital work and in institutions
for the amelioration of the sufferings of mankind. He was an
honorary trustee of the Hahnemann Hospital and of the Institu-
tion for the Deaf and Chairman of the Board of Directors of
Rochester City Hospital. He contributed liberally to the fund for
the erection of St. Paul's Church, Rochester, New York, and the
Hahnemann Hospital at Rochester. He was Vice-President of
the Reynolds Library; President of the Chamber of Commerce of
Rochester; and was one of the Committee of five to prepare a
constitution and by-laws for the latter institution.
He owns the Moose Hill Farms and a summer residence in
Spencer, Massachusetts, and takes a great interest in the im-
provement of farm lands and live stock.
Mr. Sibley was never active in pohtics, though affihated with the
Republican party.
He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He has
been Vestryman of St. Andrew's, and St. Paul's Episcopal Churches
of Rochester, New York, and has been Deputy to the General
Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church six times.
He is a member of the Genesee Valley Club, the Country Club
of Rochester, and the American Jersey Cattle Club.
Mr. Sibley was married November 21, 1885, to EHzabeth Conkey,
daughter of Eleazer and Sarah Munger Conkey, and granddaughter
of Perley Munger and Zerviah Chapin, and of David Conkey and
Eunice Thompson. She is a descendant from Robert Abercrombie
who came from England to Pelham, Massachusetts, about 1718.
He has two sons and one daughter: Dr. Edward R. Sibley of
Philadelphia, Elizabeth Sibley Robins, and John R. Sibley.
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FREDERICK GLAZIER SMITH
DR. FREDERICK GLAZIER SMITH was born in Wilton,
New Hampshire, December 12, 1867. His father, Samuel
W. Smith (1830-1905) son of Samuel Smi*h (1787-1852)
and Rebecca (Spaulding) Smith, was a furniture manufacturer, a
man of sound judgment, social and business integrity, even tem-
perament, charity, sense of humor, and loyalty to friends and to
duty. His mother, still living, is Frances C. (Jones) Smith, daugh-
ter of the Reverend Nelson Bishop Jones (1806-1890) and Lucy
Keyes (Glazier) Jones. Among the well-known ancestors of
Frederick Glazier Smith are Uriah Smith, builder and manufacturer
in colonial New Hampshire; Samuel Smith, well-known road
builder in the same state during the administration of Jackson,
Van Buren, Tyler, and Polk; Rebecca Spaulding Smith, writer and
poet of local fame; Uriah Smith, distinguished historian and
journaHst of Michigan; and Nelson Bishop Jones, eloquent clergy-
man and at one time member of the Massachusetts Legislature.
Frederick Glazier Smith received his early education in the
pubHc schools of Wilton, New Hampshire. He prepared for col-
lege at Gushing Academy. He took his medical course in the
University of Michigan, graduating with the degree of M.D. in
1893. Since graduation he has pursued post-graduate courses in
the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, the New York
Polychnic, and the Harvard Medical School, and also abroad in
the hospitals of Vienna and Berhn.
Doctor Smith commenced his professional career in Omaha,
Nebraska, in 1893, as resident physician of one of the large hospitals
there. In 1894 he began practice in the City of Somerville, Mas-
sachusetts, where he has an extensive cUentele. In 1895 he was
appointed visiting physician to the Somerville Hospital, a posi-
tion he still fills with skill and ability.
Doctor Smith is a member of the American Medical Association.
He has been a Councillor and Censor of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, and is Ex-President of the Somerville Medical Society.
He belongs to the Central Club of Somerville, the Boston City
Club, and has been President of the Michigan University Club of
New England. He is affihated with the Soley Lodge Ancient Free
FREDERICK GLAZIER SMITH
and Accepted Masons; with the Somerville Royal Arch Chapter,
the Orient Council of Royal and Select Masters, the Paul Revere
Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Franklin
Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He is a RepubUcan.
Doctor Smith was married October 21, 1896, to Mabel, daughter
of the late Judge Edward F. Johnson and Belle G. (Carlton) John-
son, granddaughter of Noah and Letitia (Clagget) Johnson, and
Stephen and Jane Elizabeth (Kneeland) Carlton, a descendant of
John Alden, who came from England to Plymouth in the May-
flower. Doctor and Mrs. Smith have two children, Irene Ivers
and Frederick Wilton.
Doctor Smith is a man who has attained success through early
acquired habits of industry and accuracy. In view of Doctor
Smith's own career these suggestions of his to his younger fellow-
citizens are of value: "True success may be attained by safe-
guarding one's health, by the early inculcation of the doctrine of
a sound mind in a sound body, the belief in a power above money,
the ultimate worth of invincible honesty, an appreciation of the
essential dignity of individual hfe, self-rehance, wilHngness to work,
respect for all honest labor, whatever its name, and lastly, a com-
mon-sense genuine resolution, whether one's day be dark or bright,
to add something to the sum total of human comfort."
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JOHN BUTLER SMITH
JOHN BUTLER SMITH was born in the town of Saxton's
River, Vermont, April 12, 1838, and died at his home in
Hillsborough, New Hampshire, August 10, 1914. His father,
Ammi, and his mother, Lydia (Butler) Smith, were typical New
England people. The original Smith of this Hne, Thomas by name,
came to this country from the North of Ireland in 1719, as a part
of the famous Londonderry colony which settled in New Hamp-
shire and Vermont.
John Butler Smith's father was a native of Acworth, New Hamp-
shire, and in early hfe he operated a saw mill; later, a woolen mill
at Saxton's River and in 1847 he retired from business and came to
Hillsborough to reside, dying there in 1887 at the age of eighty-
seven years.
At the age of twenty-five John Butler Smith began the manu-
facturing of knit goods in Washington, New Hampshire. He
moved in about a year to Weare, and a year later to Hillsborough,
the home of his childhood, and there built a mill for himself. From
that small beginning has grown the splendid corporation known as
the Contoocook Mills.
Here for more than half a century Mr. Smith developed a great
manufacturing business with a skill, and a loyalty to high ideals
that resulted in a success which placed him among the great cap-
tains of industry.
Mr. Smith was a Republican of the old school. In 1884 he was
chosen alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention
at Chicago, and in the fall of that same year was chosen one of the
presidential electors from New Hampshire. In 1887 he was
elected a member of Governor Sawyer's Executive Council, and
from then on, without his seeking, he was continually in the minds
of his constituents as one worthy and able to fill the Governor's
chair, and in 1892 he was nominated by acclamation, and by an
overwhelming vote, elected, and re-elected the following year.
Dartmouth College conferred upon him its honorary degree.
He knew much because he was receptive; some one has said that
he was a great listener. With his development there came natur-
JOHN BUTLER SMITH
ally social position and its obligations, to which he proved himself
entirely equal, whether in his own beautiful home, or at the func-
tions connected with the office of the Governor of the state. And
yet through all stages of his growth, he remained a man of the
people; a democrat, to whom nothing human was foreign. Especi-
ally did he feel an interest in, and exert a profound influence over
the young men of the community.
Mr. Smith was a member of the Congregational Church. He
took a personal interest, and gave most generously to its support
in money, time, and work. He had strong convictions but they
were held with great tolerance, and his helping hand was extended
to all good causes.
On November 1, 1883, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Emma E.
Lavender of Boston, a woman of culture and refinement. She was
a descendant from the ancient Lavender family of Kent, England.
In the heartiest sympathy she worked with her distinguished
husband in the charitable work of the community in which they
Hved.
Three children were born to them. Butler Lavender, born
March 4, 1886, died two years later in Florida; Archibald Lavender,
born February 1, 1889, graduated from Harvard in 1911; and
Norman, born May 8, 1892, now in the Insurance business in Boston.
The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their children is said to
have been ideal; there was genuine happiness in the simplicity
and nobility of Christian manhood and womanhood.
Mr. Smith was a Thirty-Second degree Mason. He was a man,
whom to know was to respect, and among the achievements which
place him among the men of mark of the world, his greatest achieve-
ment was the noble manhood which made all others possible.
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WILLIAM STANLEY
WILLIAM STANLEY, electrical engineer and inventor, was
born in Brooklyn, New York, November 22, 1858, and
died at his home in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, May
14, 1915. He was the son of Wilham and Ehzabeth A. (Parsons)
Stanley, and a descendant of Captain John Stanley who came from
England in 1635 to Hartford, Connecticut, and there, at Farmington,
founded the family of Stanley in America. His father was a prom-
inent lawyer, and entertained the hope that his son would follow in
his footsteps. The early education of William Stanley was under
private tuition until he was able to enter Williston Seminary to fit
for college. At seventeen years of age he entered Yale University,
class of 1881. With a yearning for a more active occupation, he
left college to enter a business career in New York City. His first
business venture was in Nickel Plating, and owing to his energy he
made it a success; but Nickel Plating was not in accordance with
his desire, and he turned to the estabhshment of Hiram Maxim, the
creator of many marvels in armament. His progress was rapid,
promotions came rapidly and it was not long before he was recog-
nized as an electrical inventor and engineer of remarkable promise,
and commanded the esteem and confidence of his employer.
There was no such word as fail in the lexicon of such a young
man. With the continued unfolding of his mind, Maxim's great
place became too small, and he turned to various electric estab-
lishments in Newark, New Jersey, and Boston, Massachusetts,
where he could find scope for his talent. In the latter place he
took out one of the most important of his earlier patents, a device
for exhausting incandescent lamps by machinery, which has con-
tinued in use until the present day.
In 1883 he returned to Englewood, his father's home, to devote
himself in his own laboratory to experimental work. In 1885 he be-
came chief engineer for the Westinghouse Electric Company, where
he continued for three years. In the same year he began experi-
menting with what was to prove his greatest contribution to elec-
trical science, the alternating current system of long distance light
and power transmission. At first, he received but little encourage-
ment. He was not to be deterred in his plans, however, but went
to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the home of his forebears, and
there worked out his idea by practical demonstration.
Mr. Stanley's fruitful mind was not exhausted with a single
great achievement. Together with two other electricians, a plant
was established in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1890, known as the
Stanley Electrical Manufacturing Company. This company was
engaged in manufacturing electrical apparatus, combining to form
what was known as the S. K. C. system, of such importance that
WILLIAM STANLEY
it was later taken over by the General Electric Company. From
1898 to 1903 he was identified with the Stanley Instrument Com-
pany.
The number of inventions of Mr. Stanley are too many to be
listed here, but are of untold value to the scientific world.
There was another side to William Stanley. It was the gener-
osity of his manhood which poured its strength out in service to
humanity; it was the honesty of his manhood which found expres-
sion in the truthfulness of his work; and it was the great warm love
for mankind which gave motive power to his genius.
He was a member of many American, English and French Elec-
trical societies, and was vice-president of the Society of American
Electrical Engineers, He was a speaker of grace and power, and
a debater of much force. While no politician in the sense of self-
seeking, Mr. Stanley was loyal to his duties as a citizen, and as
an Independent Democrat took his part in all civic duties, and
throughout the community was regarded as a far-seeing and in-
fluential citizen.
On December 22, 1884, he was married to Lila C, daughter of
Jacob S. and INIary L. (Lovejoy) Wetmore, of Englewood, New
Jersey, granddaughter of David W. and Harriet (Cooper) Wetmore,
and of Ezikel and Clarissa (Baldwin) Lovejoy, and a descendant
of Thomas Wetmore who came from England to Connecticut in
1635. To this family came nine children: Harold, Wilham Wet-
more, Leonard Lovejoy, George Courtney, Lila, Christine, Ruth,
Clarence, and Gilbert.
The following tributes were paid to Mr. Stanley: Professor
Jackson said of him: " I know I am speaking for you all when I
say of William Stanley, how deep down in our hearts is established
our regard for his work, our affection for his personality, our re-
spect for his achievement, and our love for his character."
A letter from Sir Hiram Maxim says: — " Mr. Stanley was tall
and thin, but what he lacked in bulk he made up in activity. He
was boihng over with enthusiasm. I believe that he preferred each
week should contain about ten days and each day should be forty-
eight hours long. Whatever was given him to do, he laid himself
out to do in the most thorough manner."
Professor EHhu Thomson, himself one of the masters in the
field of electrical invention, said: — "There is one thing that he
has accompHshed that even he did not thoroughly reahze. He
put a heat coil around all our hearts and kept it warm with current.
The warmth of our affection is hkely to grow. I want to testify to
his character as a man; I have always found him most honest,
most generous, possessed of all those quahties which mark the per-
fect gentleman."
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HEZEKIAH PRINCE STARR
HEZEKIAH PRINCE STARR was born in Thomaston,
Maine, January 14, 1832. He was a son of John Bentley
and Isabella (Prince) Starr, of Thomaston and a grand-
son of Richard Starr, a Baptist minister of Maine. Mr. Starr's
immigrant ancestors were English. John Prince, rector of East
Shefford Church in Berkshire, England, came to Hull, Massachu-
setts; Dr. Comfort Starr came from Ashford, Kent, England, to
Duxbury, Massachusetts. The Starrs were distinguished in the
Revolutionary War.
Such educational advantages as were within his reach, includ-
ing terms of attendance at the common schools of Thomaston,
and the grammar school at Bath, Hezekiah Prince Starr eagerly
embraced. Schooldays at an end, he served an apprenticeship at
the trade of tin and sheet-iron worker, lasting five years. He sup-
ported himself from the time he was sixteen years of age.
In 1854 he removed to Spencer, Massachusetts, where he entered
the employ of A. T. & E. Jones, boot and shoe manufacturers, and
was associated with the firm till 1862, when the senior member
of the firm retired from the company and Mr. Starr became a mem-
ber of the firm of E. Jones & Co. Mr. Starr retired from business
in 1888.
Mr. Starr was one of the founders of the Spencer Savings Bank
and also one of its Board of Trustees. His political sympathies
are with the Republican party and he has served as a member
of the Board of Selectmen. In his youthful days he was an active
member of the Spencer Fire Department and at a much later
period of the Commonwealth Club of Worcester. He is a member
of the Congregational Church of Spencer, and of the Congrega-
tional Club.
Mr. Starr has been twice married; first to Ellen Smith Prouty,
born November 1, 1833, died January 7, 1860. She was the daughter
of Isaac Prouty and Mary Ann Goodell. She was the mother
of one daughter who was the wife of Chester Linley, and the
mother of three children, Helen, Isabella, and Richard. On April
23, 1867, Mr. Starr was married to Ellen E. Lamson of Worcester,
who died March 22, 1894. She was the daughter of EH B. Lam-
son and Diadamia Prouty, granddaughter of Richard Prouty,
whose emigrant ancestor settled at Scituate in 1667. The children
of Mr. and Mrs. Starr are Sarah and Erastus J. Starr.
RICHARD PEARSON STRONG
RICHARD PEARSON STRONG, of the eleventh generation
of the Strong family in the United States, was born at
Fortress Monroe, March 18, 1872. His father, Richard
Polk Strong, served as an officer in the United States Array through-
out the Civil War, retired as a Colonel in the Adjutant General's
department, and died in 1903, at the age of sixty-one. He was a
man distinguished for his courage, integrity and modesty. Dr.
Richard Pearson Strong's mother was Marian Bufort Smith, of
Washington, District of Columbia. His grandparents on his
father's side were the Honorable Demas Strong, born April 22,
1820, and died March 9, 1893, and Jane (Leaycraft) Strong; on
his mother's side, Thomas Smith, born in 1800, died in 1862, and
Mary Anne (Pearson) Smith. His great-grandmother was before
her marriage Hannah Goffe, the daughter of Hezekiah Goffe,
Junior, of Woodstock, Connecticut, the great-grandson of General
WilHam Goffe, the Regicide, born in 1605, and died in 1679 at
Hadley, Massachusetts.
His earhest immigrant ancestor was Elder John Strong who was
born in Taunton, England, a man of Puritan sympathies and con-
victions. He sailed March 20, 1630, from Plymouth, England, and
after a passage of seventy days landed at Nantasket, and after
some delay settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. John Strong
eventually made a home in Northampton, where for forty years
he was a leading citizen in civil and religious affairs. He was
appointed leading Elder in 1663. He died in 1699.
Dr. Strong was married January 1, 1916, to Agnes Leas (Freer)
daughter of Augustus S. and Electa M. Leas.
The effect of companionship with his mother, an exceptional
woman of a singularly noble spirit, was particularly evident in his
intellectual as well as in his moral and spiritual life.
Richard Pearson Strong was educated in the Hopkins School,
New Haven, Connecticut, (the oldest school in the United States,
founded in 1660), graduated a Bachelor of Philosophy from Yale
University in 1893, and from Johns Hopkins University as a Doctor
of Medicine in 1897. His Alma Mater bestowed upon him
the honorary degree of Sc.D. in 1914, and Harvard University the
honorary degree of S. D. in 1916. In 1915 he was decorated by the
Serbian Government with the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of
St. Salva. His first medical position was as resident-house officer
in the Johns Hopkins Hospital (1897-1898) but on the breaking
out of the Spanish American War he entered the Army as a medical
officer and served from 1898-1902, as Assistant Surgeon in the
United States Army, both during the Spanish American War and
the military occupation of the Philippine Islands, especially in
the earlier campaigns in Luzon. He was appointed by the Secre-
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RICHARD PEARSON STRONG
tary of War as President of the Board for the Investigation of
Tropical Diseases in the PhiHppines, 1899-1901, and while acting
in that capacity he established and directed the Army Pathological
Laboratory at Manila. Later when Civil Government was es-
tabUshed in the Philippine Islands he became Director of the
Government Biological Laboratory of the Bureau of Science there
until 1903, when he was sent by the Government to BerUn to prose-
cute scientific investigations. He was a delegate to the International
Congress of Hygiene and Demography in 1907, and Honorary
Vice-president of the Pathological Section at the International
Congress on Tuberculosis at Washington in 1908. He was Pro-
fessor of Tropical Medicine in the University of the PhiHppines,
1907-1913, and Chief of the Medical Department of the General
Hospital of the PhiHppines, 1910-1913. He was editor of the
medical section of the Philippine Journal of Science, published at
Manila. He was America's delegate to the International Plague
Conference at Peking in 1911.
For his work in the suppression of the epidemic of Pneumonic
Plague which raged in North China and Manchuria, 1910-1911, the
Chinese Government bestowed upon him a special gold medal, and
the American National Red Cross Society the gold medal of honor
for bravery.
Since 1913 Dr. Strong has been Professor of Tropical Medicine
in the Harvard Medical School, and as an expert in this branch of
medicine he has been connected with the Massachusetts General
and the Boston City Hospitals. In 1916 he delivered the Lowell
lectures on the subject of " The plagues of Man." He has also
been Professor of Tropical Medicine in the School for Health
Officers, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, since 1913. In 1915 he was Medical Director of the
American Red Cross Sanitary Commission in Serbia; and of the
International Sanitary Commission which he organized. He is a
member of the Corporation of the Harvard Medical School of China,
and of the Medical Advisory Board of the Yale Hospital in China.
He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Para-
sitology, Urbana, Illinois. During the years that he has been
engaged in these broad fields, he has pubHshed particularly Studies
in Plague Immunity, 1900; Studies on Pneumonic Plague and
Plague Immunization, 1912; the Etiology of Beriberi, 1912; on
his expedition to South America 1913 and Serbia 1916, and on
many other technical subjects germane to Tropical Pathology.
One of his most noteworthy achievements was accomplished as
Director of the Rockefeller Sanitary Expedition to Serbia in 1915.
He organized an International Board of Health at Nish with Prince
Alexander as President, and was himself made Medical Director.
RICHARD PEARSON STRONG
His experience in the Orient, in combating epidemic diseases, par-
ticularly cholera and plague, gave him great advantage in the task
in Serbia as he undertook the work of abating the ravages of and
in eradicating the typhus epidemic. Sir Thomas Lipton, who had
converted one of his yachts into a hospital ship, and who visited
Serbia at two different times, wrote of the service that Dr. Strong
had rendered, saying: — " The first time I was at Ghevgheli,
there were fourteen hundred patients there, mostly with typhus.
When I was there the other day there were only three typhus cases.
I could hardly believe that the staff sent out here by the Red
Cross Society could have made such a change."
Dr. Strong is credited with valuable discoveries in relation to
the etiology, prevention and treatment of infectious, exotic and
tropical diseases, which is good evidence that he is alert to the
necessity of extending the boundaries of medical science to all
possible degrees.
In 1916 he was Chairman of the United States Financial Com-
mission to Brazil, and in 1917 he was sent to France and England
by the U. S. Government as Representative of the Council of
National Defence.
He is a member of the following medical and scientific societies:
the Association of American Physicians (Alternate delegate to the
Congress of Physicians and Surgeons); the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences; the American Association of Pathologists and
Bacteriologists; he is a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science; a member of the American Society for
the Advancement of Clinical Investigation; a Fellow of the Society
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London; a member of the
Society de Pathologique Exotique, Paris; of the Massachusetts
Medical Society; of the American Medical Association; he was
President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine, 1913-
1914; he is also a member of the Society of Experimental Biology
and Medicine; of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement; of
the American Society for Experimental Pathology; of the Boston
Society of Natural History; and of the International Association
of Medical Museums. He is also a member of the Aurelion Honor
Society of Yale University, the Travelers' Club from which he re-
ceived the gold medal for 1916 for distinguished travel and of the
Army and Navy (Washington), Brookline Country, Harvard,
St. Botolph, University, Yale, Tavern and Union Clubs, (Boston);
Bankers', India House, and Harvard Clubs of New York City.
Massachusetts may well take pride in the achievements of such
a man as Dr. Strong. He has worthily upheld the traditions of
his family, and his notable service in the relief of suffering humanity
is an honor to the profession of which he is a member.
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WALTER BABCOCK SWIFT
WALTER BABCOCK SWIFT was born in the city of
Geneva, Switzerland, but is of the best American stock.
His parents were tourists in Europe at the time of his
birth, December 24, 1868. His father was Nathaniel Hathaway
Swift (1826), son of Jireh and EHzabeth (Hathaway) Swift, known
as a wholesale oil merchant honest and altruistic. Dr. Swift's
mother was Isabella Beecher Babcock, daughter of Eliza Hibbard,
and the Reverend Ehsha Gulhver Babcock. She had a powerful
influence upon her son, and to this day he gives her the honor of
his successful career.
Dr. Swift's ancestors originally came from England. There
were three brothers. One settled in New Bedford, one on Cape
Cod, and the other became a pioneer of the West. His grand-
father, Jireh Swift, served in the legislature longer than any one
had done up to his time. On the maternal side he is a descendant
of Captain WiUiam Babcock. His paternal ancestors were pre-
sented by the English royalty with a coat of arms decorated with
a figure of that species of bird known as the swift.
Dr. Swift received his preparatory training at the Newton High
School and Mr. Hopkinson's School in Boston. From 1895 to
1897 he received training in pubUc speaking and graduated from
the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston. Four years were spent
at Harvard College where he graduated in 1901. From 1901 to
1903 he studied at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Col-
lege receiving at the completion of liis course there the degree of
S. B. in Hygiene. The Course in Hygiene constituted a special
preparation for medical study. In 1907 he graduated from the
Harvard Medical School. Meanwhile, in 1902, he had received,
from the New England Conservatory of Music the College of
Oratory degree of O. B.
From 1904 to 1907 Dr. Swift served during the summers in the
out-patient department of numerous hospitals in Boston and
practised along general medical Knes. From 1906 to 1907 he was
an intern at the Long Island Hospital. He says that this year's
experience amounted to ten years' private practice and was an
adequate general medical foundation upon which to build his
specialty in nerve and speech disorders.
In taldng up this work he had ample financial backing, and it
was solely his personal desire which determined his choice of the
medical profession. Three years from 1907 to 1910, were spent in
Europe, studying in Berlin, as follows: one half year in the nerve
dinics of Berhn under Ziehen, Forster, Oppenheim, Toby Cohn,
Liepmann and Shuster. In 1908 he was appointed "Assistant to
Professor H. Oppenheim " Germany's authority on Clinical Neu-
rology. Then followed one year's work in the laboratory of Pro-
WALTER BABCOCK SWIFT
fessor L. Jacobsohn on a research upon Tone Differentiation in
Dogs after Temporal Lobe Extirpation. He took courses in nerve
anatomy, in neuropathology, physiology, psychiatry and speech
disorder. The other lecture courses pursued were Gutzmann's
didactic lecture course in Phonetics, his demonstration course on
the History of Instrumental Production, and his clinical course on
the Diagnosis and Treatment of Speech Disorder.
In 1910 he read the results of his year's research in Jacobsohn's
Laboratory upon Tone Differentiation in Dogs, before the Berlin
" Gesellschaft fur Psychiatric und Neurologic." He visited seventy-
two nerve specialists throughout Europe, in Germany, Austria,
Bohemia, Hungary, France, and England. That year he returned
to America with a collection of over two thousand nerve slides.
From 1910 to 1914 he was appointed Assistant to Physicians for
nervous diseases at the Boston City Hospital and was in service with
Professor John Jenks Thomas. In 1911 he was assistant in Neu-
rology at the Tufts Medical School where Professor Morton Prince
was the chief of the Neurological Department. In 1913 he was made
assistant in Neuropathology; in 1914 he received the appointment
as instructor in Neuropathology; from 1912 to 1917 he was in charge
of the voice clinic at the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston.
Doctor Swift founded the speech clinic at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, under Professor A. Coolidge, Chief of the Laryn-
gological Department. During 1916 he gave courses on speech
disorder in the Harvard Graduate School of Medicine, and lectures
were also given to the Harvard Medical students with the title,
" Clinical Assistant in Laryngology." In 1917 he was appointed
Medical Supervisor of speech classes in the public schools of Fall
River, Massachusetts, and instructor in Speech Disorder in the
Wheelock School, Boston. In 1918 was appointed Instructor in
Speech Disorders in the School of Education of the Western Re-
serve University, Cleveland, and instructed eighteen teachers
who will correct Speech Defects in Cleveland Pubhc Schools. He
was also appointed " Consultation Expert " to guide this move-
ment. In this way the Swift methods and systems have been recog-
nized and adopted by America's highest educational authorities.
This will make Cleveland America's model in Speech Improvement.
Five American cities, five normal schools and nine speech clinics
now teach his methods of speech correction.
He has given numerous addresses and as an author is well
known, having written four medical works and over one hundred
articles. His researches on speech have been printed in over two'
hundred papers. He is president of the " National Society for the
Study and Correction of Speech Disorder," with 250 memboi- — his
own former students.
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JOSEPH WARREN TEMPLE
AMONG the many men in the Commonwealth who have
quietly met the obligations of life in such a manner as to
win the esteem of their associates and to merit more than a
passing notice, Joseph Warren Temple surely deserves a place.
Mr. Temple was born in Spencer, Massachusetts, which was his
home, February 17, 1833. He died there November 11, 1914,
He was the son of Alonzo Temple, who was born November 19,
1797.
Alonzo Temple was a successful contractor and builder. He
married Adahne Rider, who was an estimable woman. Her in-
fluence was strongly felt in the home and was always exerted to
make her son the man that he was. The strength of his intellectual
life, his unblemished moral character and his sincere and earnest
spiritual convictions were, to a great degree, the result of his
mother's careful training and example.
Joseph Warren Temple had the educational opportunity which
the country schools of his day afforded, supplemented by the
Leicester Academy of which he was a graduate. He was especially
interested in history and added to the knowledge obtained in the
schools by extensive reading. He remembered well what he read
and as a result became an authority upon historical subjects. In
1889 he published an historical sketch of Spencer. Mr. Temple
found great pleasure and recreation in travel and indulged this
taste extensively.
Mr. Temple began the active work of hfe in a country store.
Here he supplemented the education which books and the schools
had given him with the education which contact with men gives.
In a country store one meets all sorts and conditions of men, and
the knowledge of men gained there is a valuable acquisition.
After a few years he left the store and became a manufacturer of
boots and shoes. This business he followed for twenty years, when
he became Treasurer of the Spencer Savings Bank, a position
which he held for eighteen years. He was then President for six
years covering a quarter century of association with this institu-
tion. During these years he served with marked fidehty, making
many friends by his quiet, kindly courtesy.
JOSEPH WARREN TEMPLE
Mr. Temple was a constant attendant and consistent member of
the Congregational Church, an earnest and sincere supporter of
its work.
In politics he was a Republican. He never sought public office,
although he held several of the offices in the town. For many-
years Mr. Temple held these offices with credit. He was also a
member of the Massachusetts Legislature. He was Justice of the
Peace and Notary Public, and held these positions until his death.
He was married April 19, 1859, to Sybil A. Green, daughter of
Josiah and Sybil (Underwood) Green. They had no children,
but an adopted son, Ellis Lazelle.
A friend said of Mr, Temple: —
" Mr. Temple has been a valuable citizen in many ways.
'' He was valuable because he was interested in every movement
that sought the betterment of his native town. He was valuable
because of his kindly nature and habit of helping make pleasant
the ways of others. He was valuable because of a courage to de-
fend and support what he believed to be the right things. He was
valuable because of the wholesome influence which he exerted with
kindred spirits in his earher days upon the musical life of the town.
He never lost his interest in musical matters.
" He was valuable because he never grew old in spirit and could
appreciate the things which youth enjoyed. He was valuable be-
cause of his deep interest and large information upon matters of
local history, which he helped to preserve through investigation
and by his writings."
In the winter of 1883-1884 he represented the district in the
General Court at Boston; was appointed Clerk of Mercantile
Committee.
He had served the town as Assessor, Town Clerk and on Com-
mittees of conference.
He was active in the inception, progress and completion of the
branch railroad connecting the village with the main line of the
Boston & Albany railroad at South Spencer.
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OAKLEY SMITH WALKER
AMONG the many men in this country who can rightly be
called self-made, Oakley Smith Walker clearly belongs in
the front rank. He was born in South Ruthland, Jeffer-
son County, New York, in 1857. His father was Benjamin F.
Walker, who was born in 1833 and died in the Union Army in
1864, and was a descendant of Nathaniel Oakes of Marlborough,
who came from England in 1660. His mother was Ursula C.
(Smith) Walker. His grandfathers were Benjamin Walker, who
married Sarah Oakes, and John Smith, who married Polly Under-
wood.
Benjamin F. Walker was a cooper by trade. He was a man of
great industry and was also intensely patriotic. When the call
for volunteers came in 1861, although he could have made an ex-
cuse for remaining at home from the fact that he had a wife and
five small children, he did not hesitate but answered the call at
once by enlisting in a New York regiment. He died in the service
at the age of thirty-one, having thus early given to his country his
full measure of sacrifice.
Ursula C. (Smith) Walker, the mother of Oakley Smith Walker,
was a woman of extraordinary abihty and noble character. She
had no income and had to give up her home with her children for a
time that she might better fit herself to take up the burden of their
support. Instead of sitting down and mourning over her hard lot
she immediately found temporary homes for her children while
she went through the course at the Albany Normal School. She
taught school for many years and became Principal of a large
grammar school in Watertown, New York. Later she became
Secretary of the Bureau of Charities in that city and died there at
the age of eighty-three. Hers was a wonderful achievement for a
woman starting under such adverse circumstances.
Under these strenuous conditions Oakley Smith Walker grew to
manhood. He was but seven years of age when his father died.
He had to work on a farm, and alternated what schooling he re-
ceived with farm duties. Besides the grammar school he had two
terms of High School. The farm work was hard and distasteful to
him but he acquired there the virtue of patience. At the age of
fifteen he was apprenticed in a machine shop. The work there was
more to his liking for, although he entered the shop at that age
from force of circumstances, the study of machinery was his delight.
OAKLEY SMITH WALKER
While his mother's influence was of great assistance to him, he had
no real home Hfe as a boy and so the influence of home upon his
success in hfe was less than that of private study, school discipline
and of contact with men in active life. As a boy he was especially
interested in history and was proficient in mathematics and me-
chanical subjects.
It was in 1872 that he was apprenticed in the machine shop and
such was his aptness for the work, his skill and perseverance that
he became the foreman of a shop in 1883. In 1887 he came to
Worcester, where he has since lived. He had been for three years
connected with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute as Designing
Engineer, when in 1890 he accepted the same position with the
Norton Emery Wheel Company. He stayed with them seven years
when he estabhshed his present business under the name of the
O. S. Walker Company. He started the company with a capital
of one hundred dollars and it has grown in twenty years until now
it has been conservatively capitahzed at ninety thousand dollars.
The business has been built up by a pohcy of fair dealing and
upon the principle that dishonesty never pays.
Mr. Walker has had patented many of his inventions, the chief
of which is the magnetic chuck, the original patent for which was
issued in 1896. At that time there was practically no demand for
magnetic chucks and Mr. Walker had to create his market. He
has been so successful in proving its worth that his magnetic chuck
is now used over the entire world and the idea has been copied by
both English and German manufacturers.
Mr. Walker has always been a Repubhcan in politics. He has
always refused public office and his public services have been
rendered by financial contributions, which have been liberal. He
takes his relaxation from business cares in motoring about the
country.
He was married December 22, 1880, to Mary Cutler, daughter
of Orville and Delia (Babcock) Cutler, and a granddaughter of
Isaac and Mary Cutler and of Ambrose and Hulda Babcock, and
a descendant of John Cutler, who came from England in 1637 and
settled in Hingham. They have had three children: Mildred A.
Walker, living at home; Dorothy C. Walker, a student; and
Oakley C. Walker, also a student.
Wrote the following, expressly for this volume: " First of all, in-
dustry and determination to succeed. In business always deal
fairly. Live and let live is a good motto. True success lies in do-
ing one's duty according to one's conscience. Dishonesty never
pays."
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FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WASHBURN
THE Washburn family originated in the county of Worces-
ter in England. Below the Bredon hills to the south are
two Httle villages of Washburn, which gave name to an
ancient and illustrious family stock, noted for ability, philanthropy
and statesmanship. From this stock came Dr. Frederic Augustus
Washburn, who was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Novem-
ber 22, 1869. His father was Frederic Augustus Washburn (January
5, 1834-January 23, 1908), a son of Marsena Washburn (1789-1876)
and Lucy (Gifford) Washburn. Frederic A. Washburn, Senior,
was for fifty-eight years a banker in New Bedford banks, a man
endowed with fidelity, piety, and a love of mankind. Dr. Wash-
burn's mother was Mary J. Swan, daughter of Perez Wheeler Swan
(1811-1864) and Almada A. Shurtleff (Swan), a woman of fine
character, whose early training and influence made a strong im-
pression upon his intellectual and moral fife. Among his dis-
tinguished ancestors were John Washburn from Evesham, England,
who emigrated to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, in 1630. Among
the Mayflower ancestors were Francis Cooke, Isaac Allerton, and
Peter Brown, who settled in 1620 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Dr. Washburn received his education in the public schools of
New Bedford going through the high school, graduating there in
1888. Then he took a course at Amherst, and graduated in 1892,
with the degree of A. B. He was always fond of reading biographi-
cal and historical works, and military affairs greatly attracted him.
As a youth he did all the chores about the house, such as cutting
the grass and chopping the kindhng wood. These beneficial tasks
instilled in him regular habits of industry.
Dr. Washburn graduated from the Harvard Medical School in
1896. While studying there he acted as an intern at the Children's
Hospital. In 1896 he became house officer at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. It was by his own choice that he took up the
practice of medicine. In 1899 he became Assistant Resident
Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, also, from 1903
to 1908. He was elected Administrator and Resident Physician
in 1908, and he still retains that position.
At the time of the Spanish American War in 1898, Dr. Washburn
was first heutenant and assistant surgeon of the Sixth Massachu-
setts United States Volunteers. In 1899 he became captain and
assistant surgeon of the 26th United States Volunteers and served
in the PhiUppine Islands. In 1901 he became a surgeon with the
rank of major and served as such until 1903 with duty in the Philip-
FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WASHBURN
pine Islands, to which he made two trips during his army service^
returning to Massachusetts in 1903. In July, 1917, Dr. Wash-
burn went to France as head of the Massachusetts General Unit,
Dr. Washburn is a member of the Chi Psi fraternity, the Uni-
versity Club of Boston, the Masons, the American Medical Asso-
ciation, the Massachusetts Medical Association, the Society for
Medical Improvement, and the American Hospital Association,
and in 1913 was President of that society. He belongs to the
St. Botolph Club, and is Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
Society of Mayflower Descendants, and Director Massachusetts
General Hospital, Base Hospital No. 6. His favorite forms of
diversion are reading and playing golf.
January 10, 1911, Dr. Washburn was married to Amy, daughter
of Francis Henry and Fanny Rollins Appleton, a granddaughter of
Francis Henry and Georgianna Crowninshield Appleton and of
Sewell and Ehzabeth Sawyer (RolUns) Tappan, a great grand-
daughter of Nathaniel Silsbee, United States Senator from Massa-
chusetts, and a descendant from Samuel Appleton who came from
Waldingfield Parish, Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, Massachusetts,
in 1635. They have had two children, one of whom is living, Amy
Washburn.
Dr. Washburn is greatly interested in the building of a hospital
for the care of persons of moderate means. In a report of the
Massachusetts General Hospital made by him there is this state-
ment: " Such a hospital would meet a want which is generally
felt, as people of moderate means are getting to-day the least
efl&cient care of any class in the community.
Under his direction the Massachusetts General Hospital has
been organized and equipped by the Red Cross Society for a base
hospital of five hundred beds for the service of the government in
time of war. It consists of a medical staff of twenty-six physi-
cians, two dentists, fifty nurses, twenty-five nurses' aids, twenty-
five in reserve, one chaplain, seventy-seven male administrative
personnel and fourteen civilian employees. This base hospital
can only be called in time of war in which the United States is a
party. If so called the physicians of the staff, who are required
to be members of the officers' reserve corps, become officers of the
medical department of the United States Army. The nurses
become members of the army nurse corps and the male per-
sonnel become enlisted men of the medical corps.
It is through men of the type of Dr. Washburn, filled with
his energy, industry and persistence, and practicing his methods,
that new discoveries in the medical world are being constantly
made and the erection of modern hospitals accomplished.
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WEBSTER WELLS
WEBSTER WELLS was born in Boston, September 4, 1851,
and died in Arlington, Massachusetts, May 23, 1916.
His father was Thomas F. Wells, who was born July 22,
1822, and died January 30, 1903; his mother was Sarah Morrill.
On the paternal side, he is the grandson of Thomas Wells, born
1790, died 1861, and Anna (Foster) Wells; while on the maternal
side, Joseph, born 1790, died 1861, and Nancy (Whiting) Morrill
were his grandparents. Samuel Adams, the revolutionary hero,
was his great-great-grandfather. If he was fortunate in his heredity,
he was also fortunate in his opportunity. His father, who was a
merchant and a man of culture, gave his son every opportunity
for a thorough education. His preparatory training was secured
at Allen's EngHsh and Classical School at West Newton. He
graduated from the Institute of Technology in 1873, taking the
degree of Bachelor of Science.
After graduation, Mr. Wells had no need to hunt for work; his
task was ready at hand. His remarkable talent for mathematics
had already attracted attention, and in October after his gradua-
tion, he became instructor in mathematics in the Institute of
Technology. This position he held from 1873 to 1880 and from
1882 to 1883. From 1883 to 1885 he held the position of assistant
professor in mathematics. In 1887 he was promoted to the asso-
ciate professorship in mathematics, and in 1893 became full pro-
fessor of mathematics, a position he held until his voluntary re-
tirement in 1911.
Some idea of the industry of this scholar may be formed from a
glance at the long list of books he wrote, especially if we remember
that his chief work was in the classroom. His first book, " Elemen-
tary Treatise on Logarithms," came from the press in 1878. Then
followed " University Algebra," 1880; " Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry," 1883; "Academic Algebra" (with key), 1885;
''Plane and Solid Geometry" (with key), 1887; "Essentials of
Trigonometry " (with key), 1888; " Four Place Tables," 1888;
" College Algebra," 1890; " Six Place Tables," 1891; " Academic
Arithmetic " (with key), 1893; " Revised Plane and Sohd Geom-
etry " (with key), 1894; " New Plane and Spherical Trigonometry "
(with key), 1896; "Essentials of Algebra" (with key), 1897;
" Essentials of Geometry " (with key), 1898; " Complete Trig-
WEBSTER WELLS
onometry " (with key), 1901; "Advanced Course in Algebra,"
1904; "Algebra for Secondary Schools " (with key), 1906. He also
published works entitled " Higher Algebra," " New Higher Alge-
bra," and " Text Book in Algebra," which consist, respectively, of
" Academic Algebra," " Essentials of Algebra," and "Algebra for
Secondary Schools," in each case with certain important additional
chapters.
Professor Wells was married on June 21, 1876, to Emily, daughter
of John H. and Emily W. (Dodge) Langdon, granddaughter of
John and Mary E. (Jones) Langdon, and Reuben and Sarah
(Peters) Dodge, and a descendant from Governor Dudley, and
from John Winthrop, who came from Groton, England, to Boston,
Massachusetts, on the " Arbella " in 1630. No children were born
to Mr. and Mrs. Wells.
Professor Wells was a Unitarian in religion, and a Republican
in pohtics. He was a member of the M. P. Club, the Technology
Club (Boston), the Technology Club (New York) and the American
Mathematical Society. He was old-fashioned enough to say,
" Walking always has been my form of exercise."
He accounted for his own success with such phrases as " capacity
for, and enjoyment of work, and attention to details." Not a
little of the explanation for his place of honor in the educational
world was to be found also in his unusually rich mental endow-
ment and training. So remarkable was his memory that he could
locate almost any picture in the leading galleries, could give the
starting time of the principal trains from almost every leading
station, and could name practically every Alpine peak from what-
ever point seen. The range and accuracy of his information were
extraordinary. With a prodigious capacity for hard work, for him,
rest meant simply a change of occupation.
As an enthusiastic traveler and mountain climber. Professor
Wells explored all the important countries of Europe, where he also
devoted a great deal of time to the art galleries of the different
cities, at one time satisfying his longing to mount to great heights;
at another, spending long hours studying the works of the Old
Masters. Not only was he a lover of art, as applied to painting
and sculpture, but he possessed also a thorough knowledge of music
as written by the best composers. From nature, he learned many
valuable lessons, and was a firm believer that music and art had
the power to " enable him, enlarge him, and set him free."
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EDMUND MARCH WHEELWRIGHT
EDMUND MARCH WHEELWRIGHT was born in Rox-
bury, Massachusetts, on September 14, 1854. He died
August 12, 1912. He was the son of George WiUiam
Wheelwright (1813-1879) and Hannah Giddings (Tyler) Wheel-
wright. His grandparents on his father's side were Jeremiah and
Mary (Blunt) Wheelwright. His mother was the daughter of
John Tyler. His father was a paper manufacturer. Rev. John
Wheelwright, who came to New England in 1636, was his emigrant
ancestor. Among those of his ancestors who left an impress
upon their times, besides the emigrant, were Colonel John Wheel-
wright of Wells, Maine, noted in the Indian Wars; Abraham Wheel-
wright of Revolutionary times: and Rev. John Tyler of Norwich,
Connecticut.
In his early days his special tastes were shown by a fondness for
drawing and genealogy. He was fitted for college at the Roxbury
Latin School and was graduated at Harvard in the class of 1876,
with the degree of A. B. He chose the profession of architecture
for his life work. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and secured training as a draftsman in the offices of
architects in Boston, in New York and in Albany. He studied some
time abroad, notably at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
In 1882 he opened an architect's office in Boston. For more
than twenty-five years he was in partnership with Parkman Haven.
Fr^'m 1891 to 1895 he was the City Architect of Boston and in that
position he set a high standard of civic efficienty by the uncompro-
mising honesty of his methods. He performed a pubHc service of
great value by reforming the abuses which had crept into that
office. In the scholastic year 1905-1906 he deHvered a course of
lectures on architecture at Harvard University. Besides the
many private dwellings which attest the high character of his
work he has left examples of his artistic conceptions in various
pubhc buildings, among which may be noted the beautiful mortuary
chapel of the Boston City Hospital, the Massachusetts Historical
Society Building, the Cambridge Bridge across the Charles River
and the one at Hartford over the Connecticut, two of the most
beautiful bridges in this country, the Art Museum of Cleveland,
the restoration of the old brick church at Jamestown, for the Colonial
Dames, Randall Hall at Harvard, the New England Conservatory
of Music and Horticultural Hall in Boston and the unique and
fascinating building of the Harvard Lampoon at Cambridge (of
which paper he was one of the founders), besides many school
houses in Boston. His advice as an expert was sought on the con-
EDMUND MARCH WHEELWRIGHT
struction of school, hospital and museum buildings in various
parts of the country.
In 1901 he pubUshed a book entitled " School Architecture."
He also wrote and pubhshed " A Frontier Family " relative to his
ancestors John Wheelwright and his daughter Esther de Sacr6
Cceour, Mother Superior of the Ursulines at Quebec. " The Mean-
ing and Origin of the Cruciform Plan." Until the Cleveland
campaign in 1884 his political sympathies had been with the Re-
pubhcan party. From that time he was a Cleveland Democrat.
His rehgious sympathies are indicated by his attendance at the
services held in King's Chapel. He was a Unitarian.
He was married on June 18, 1887, to EHzabeth Boott Brooks,
daughter of Francis and Louise (Winsor) Brooks. She is a de-
scendant of Peter Chardon Brooks. Five children were born from
this marriage, of whom three, Louise, Edmund March, and John
Brooks are living.
Mr. Wheelwright was a fellow of the Boston Society of Archi-
tects; and a fellow and for two terms a director of the American
Institute of Architecture. He was a member of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon Fraternity and of various clubs and learned societies.
In so far as Boston at all approaches the City Beautiful, a large
share of the praise is due to Edmund March Wheelwright, for de-
vising structures excellently suited to their purpose and yet fair
in hne and beautiful in proportions, a joy to all who have
occasion to observe them. It would be an interesting journey
which should include a study of all the buildings which he left be-
hind him as, in some sense, his monuments.
Mr. Wheelwright wisely spent years in his preparation for service.
His aim was high and no preUminary discipline was too long or too
difficult, if it brought him nearer to his goal. He did not make
the mistake of trying a short cut to success nor an easy road to
proficiency.
But Edward March Wheelwright the man was greater than
Edmund March Wheelwright the architect. He hated shams and
false pretense of every kind. He loved honest work and honor in
business as well as in art; indeed, his buildings themselves testify
to his love of truth. As City Architect of Boston he proved him-
self a man of inflexible probity, able to reform a long standing
wrong and to inaugurate an era of just and honorable dealing. The
noble edifices which had their origin in his bright imagination are
characterized by purity and truth, by spaciousness and classic
beautJ^ Dignity and breadth of vision were his, and a soul filled
with fair visions. He touched no earthly work that he did not
adorn, and his own character was his greatest achievement.
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SHERMAN LELAND WHIPPLE
SHERMAN LELAND WHIPPLE, one of the foremost
members of the Massachusetts Bar, was born in New London,
New Hampshn-e, on the fourth of March, 1862. His earUest
ancestor in this country was Matthew Whipple who emigrated
from Bocking, County Essex, England, probably about 1632 and
settled in Ipswich Hamlet, now the town of Hamilton, where in
1638 he received a grant of land, and held some of the chief offices.
His grandson. Deacon James Whipple, served as captain in the
French and Indian War and was captain under Colonel Artemas
Ward with the regiment that marched from Grafton on the alarm
of Fort William Henry. Military service occupied also his de-
scendants in the fourth, fifth and sixth generation: Deacon Whip-
ple's son, Jacob, was an alarm soldier in the French and Indian
war; his grandson, Moses, was Captain of Croydon Town com-
pany in Colonel Jonathan Chase's regiment of New Hampshire
Militia commanded by Major Francis Smith which marched to
reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga in 1777. He joined the Con-
tinental Army under General Gates near Saratoga and fought in
the battle of Bennington. His son, Aaron, was a soldier in the
same company.
Solomon Mason Whipple, of the eighth generation from Matthew,
married Henrietta Kimball Hersey, whose mother was Dorothy
Shaw. He was born in 1820 and became a physician. He was a
deep student, devoted to his profession and attained skill beyond
that of the ordinary country doctor. Unfortunately, however, his
health gave way and though he lived to the age of sixty-four, he
was prevented from acquiring a wide practice and providing amply
for his family. His wife was a woman of intense ambition and was
determined that her children should have as good an education as
could be procured. She was ready to make any sacrifice and her
devotion was the greatest stimulus to her sons.
Sherman L. Whipple as a boy was fond of the ordinary sports of
a lad reared in the country. Speaking of this period of his life Mr.
Whipple says, " I did the ordinary chores of a country lad. I had
no regular tasks as my health was considered somewhat dehcate up
to the time I entered college at fifteen years. I think my mother's
self-sacrificing devotion and intense ambition did more to bring me
through than any other single thing. My family was in hmited
circumstances and my father an invalid when I was prepared for
SHERMAN LELAND WHIPPLE
college, but through the energy and self-sacrifice of my mother and
brother, aided as far as possible by my father in his invalid con-
dition, and by self-help in tutoring, I was enabled to complete my
college course." Mr. Whipple prepared for college at Colby
Academy. He graduated from Yale University in 1881 the young-
est man in his class. He helped pay his way by tutoring during his
last year. He received his degree of LL.B. from the Yale Law
School in 1884, and returning to New Hampshire practiced for a
year in Manchester. Since then he has been actively engaged in his
profession in Boston. At the first he was alone, but later asso-
ciated himself with partners and estabhshed the firm of Whipple,
Sears and Ogden. He had prepared himself carefully for his pro-
fession and rose rapidly into prominence. His legal knowledge and
ability were recognized and he almost immediately entered upon a
very lucrative practice.
He has been one of the Board of Examiners for the admission of
candidates to the Bar of Suffolk County. He is a member of the
American, Massachusetts State, Suffolk and Norfolk Bar Asso-
ciations, and a Trustee of Colby Academy. He is greatly inter-
ested in the development of American fife, especially its beginnings ;
he is a member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society
and of the Bostonian Society. He belongs to the University Club,
the Algonquin Club, the Twentieth Century Club, the Country
Club and the Yale Clubs of Boston and New York.
Mr. Whipple has always been affiliated with the Democratic
Party, and recently has taken part in poHtical campaigns. In
1911 he was nominated by the Legislature as the party candidate
for the United States Senate against Senator Lodge, who was can-
didate for re-election. Two years later he was again selected as
the party candidate against Senator Weeks. Both nominations
were entirely unsought. He has never held or aspired to public
ofl&ce.
In 1917 Mr. Whipple had the honor of being chosen as attorney
in the famous " Leak Inquiry " at Washington.
Mr. Whipple married Rebecca Louise Clough, daughter of
Lucien Bonaparte Clough, in 1893 and they have three children —
Dorothy, Katharyn Carleton, and Sherman Leland Whipple, Jr.
The high order of Mr. Whipple's legal attainments is indisputable
and his personal popularity is well deserved. He is the type of
American citizen to whom Massachusetts may well point with pride
as an example for the coming generation.
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CHARLES GOODRICH WHITING
As literary editor, editorial writer, author and reporter, the
experience of Charles Goodrich Whiting, for forty-five years
with the Springfield Repubhcan, has had very few equals
among newspaper men. Beginning at the bottom, he has worked
his way not only to a commanding position but has contributed
"not a httle as a member of the editorial staff that has made that
paper rank with the foremost dailies of the land. Besides this, he
has found time for independent hterary work of large merit.
He was born in Saint Albans, Vermont, Januarj^ 30, 1842, of
Puritan ancestry. He is descended from Deacon Nathaniel
Whiting, who came from England to Dedham, Massachusetts, in
the colonial period (about 1640) and from whom most of the
Whitings, Whitins and Whitons in America are descended. Mr.
Whiting's grandfathers were Enoch Whiting, and Josiah B. Good-
rich. His father was Calvin Whiting who in his youth was a tan-
ner, but who afterward became a papermaker of note, being super-
intendent of mills in Holyoke, Springfield, Philadelphia and other
large paper making centres. He was not only a man of ability but
of highest integrity.
His mother was a woman of deep spirituality and grace, and in-
fluenced her son very largely on the intellectual and moral side of
his nature; her personality, indeed, was felt throughout the com-
munity wherever she happened to reside.
Mr. Whiting's elementary education was received largely at
home, he being of poor health in his childhood and not able to
attend the district school more than a single session up to the age of
nine years. But he was an omnivorous reader and fortunately
had his mind directed to the best in American and English literature .
Being a lad of retentive memory, his wide reading reinforced the
heritage of a cultivated ancestry, both of the Whitings and Good-
riches, which became invaluable to him, when he had taken up
Uterary work. His academic education was received in the Chico-
pee FaUs High School in 1851-2.
In youth, being much out of doors, he soon became friends with
the wild things of the woods, the birds and the flowers. He gar-
dened, he farmed, in fact he Hved the typical life of a Yankee boy
of his day.
In young manhood he became a country merchant in Hunting-
ton, Hampshire county, Massachusetts. In 1868 he entered the
CHARLES GOODRICH WHITING
employment of the Springfield Republican as a reporter. Mr.
Whiting's rise was rapid and sure. It was not long before he
was in charge of one of the editorial departments. For 36 years
(1874-1910) he was hterary editor and critic of art, and an all-
round editorial writer With the Republican he has remained,
with the exception of eighteen months (1871-2), when he was
the assistant editor of the Albany Evening Times.
Besides his editorial work, Mr. Whiting is the author of a
number of works. In 1885 he published his " Ode on the Dedi-
cation of the Soldiers' Monument "; in 1886 he put forth his " The
Saunterer "; " Walks in New England " followed in 1903; "Arts
and Letters in Springfield " (in " Springfield, Present and Pro-
spective ") appeared in 1906. He is a member of the Authors
Club of New York and in 1908 was elected member of the National
Institute of Arts and Letters.
Mr. Whiting married Ehza Rose, the daughter of Isaiah and
Eliza Rose Gray, June 13, 1869. Her ancestry was English from
about 1640. Her mother was a descendant of Thomas Rose, who
settled in Ledyard, Connecticut, buying his farm of the Mohegans
and inscribing his initials on a great boulder at " Rose Hill "
where they may be seen to this day. Isaiah Gray was of a family of
English origin, which settled in this country in the 18th century.
There have been three children of this union two of whom survive.
Agnes Mary is the wife of Philip Henry Wynne, a scholar in Physics
and other sciences. Edward Elwell is editor of the Boston Evening
Record, after some years' service on the staff of the Boston Adver-
tiser.
When asked to give from his own experience some suggestions
that might be of service to others who seek success in life he re-
phed, " Be honest, be true, be loyal, never compromise, never
favor, never pretend, never flatter, be sober in mind and in body.
Do your work as well as if every bit of it was to be your last. Hold
high ideals."
He has been Springfield's poet of occasion for many years,
writing odes for singing for public celebrations and a poem in
the Spenserian Stanza for the 275th anniversary of the first set-
tlement by the Puritans in 1911. While for the musical opening
of the Municipal Auditorium in 1913 he produced an ode, " The
Temple of Democracy," and wrote the " Springfield Hymn " for
the dedication of the magnificent group later in the same year.
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LEONARD WHITNEY, Jr.
PROMINENT among the names of those whose enterprise
has established the financial prosperity of Massachusetts is
that of Leonard Whitney, Junior, who was born in Sudbury,
Massachusetts, June 15, 1819, and who died at Watertown, July 5
1882.
The family of Whitney was early prominent in England, the
name, Witenie, being mentioned in the Domesday Book (1081-
1089), as that of an estate in Herefordshire which was bestowed by
William the Conqueror upon Turstin, son of Rolf the Fleming, of
whom nothing further is known beyond the fact that the name of
his wife was Agnes, and that his son. Sir Eustatius Miles, was
called Lord of Whitney and so founded the family of de Whitney,
the particle being dropped in the twelfth century. Agnes, widow
of Turstin, and her son. Sir Eustace de Whitney, bestowed upon
the church of St. Peter at Gloucester about 120 EngHsh acres of
land in the parish of Pencombe. In 1306 a Eustacius de Whyteneye
was knighted and was a member of parHament for Hereford in
1313 and 1352. Sir Robert de Whitney, son of Sir Eustace, was
one of two hundred gentlemen who went to Milan in the retinue of
the Duke of Clarence on the occasion of the latter's marriage in
1368. Sir Robert Whitney, son of Sir Robert, was sent abroad to
negotiate a treaty with the Count of Flanders in 1388. As Sheriffs
of the county and knights of the shire, the name Whitney is men-
tioned from the reign of Henry V to that of George III. John
Whitney, the progenitor of the Whitneys in America, was the son
of Thomas Whitney of Lambeth Marsh, gentleman, and his wife
Mary Bray, and was baptized in St. Margaret's Church, West-
minster, July 20, 1592. He was educated in the Westminster
School, was apprenticed to a merchant tailor at the age of fourteen,
and at twenty-one became a freeman of the Merchant Tailors'
Company. In April, 1635, he embarked with his wife, Elinor, and
his sons, John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, as a
passenger in the ship " EHzabeth and Ann, Roger Cooper, Master,"
for the new world.
From John and Elinor Whitney, Leonard Whitney was descended
in the ninth generation, through John and Ruth (Reynolds) "VMiit-
ney; John and Ehzabeth (Harris) Whitnej'; Benjamin and Abigail
(Hagar) Whitney; John and Bethia (Cutter) Whitney; Ezekiel
and Catherine (Draper) Whitney; Ezekiel and Lydia Whitney;
and Leonard, Senior, and Ruth Richards (Larrabee) Whitney.
Benjamin Whitney was born in 1660 and died in 1736; John was
born in 1694 and died in 1776; and Ezekiel was born in 1768 and
died in 1830. Mr. Whitney's father was born in 1793 and died
LEONARD WHITNEY, JR.
October 4, 1878. He was a man of strict integrity and firm but
kindly nature.
Leonard Whitney, Junior, when quite a young man removed to
Watertown and there purchased the Whitney mansion, built about
1780 and known as " The Elms," which is still one of the family
residences.
Mr. Whitney counted the influence of his mother as of the
greatest assistance to him in his moral and spiritual growth; while
the -influences of home and early companionship, as well as the
companionships of his later years, all conduced to his success in
life. His favorite reading was history.
At his father's desire, he early began active life as a paper manu-
facturer — like his father and grandfather before him. In this
business he was eminently successful and founded the well-known
firm of Hollingsworth and Whitney. Being possessed of much
inventive abihty he introduced a number of innovations which
were highly serviceable to the trade, and in 1870 obtained several
patents for improved devices for the manufacture of paper bags.
He was prominent as a director in many banks and railroads, and
was one of the original trustees of Boston Universit5^
In pohtics he was a staunch Republican; he was a Free Mason
and an Odd Fellow; and an active member of " St. Johns " Method-
ist Episcopal Church, which was founded by his mother. He
found his principal relaxation in riding and driving, being extremely
fond of horses.
April 3, 1843, Mr. Whitney married Caroline Isabel, daughter
of Elmore and Tryphosa (Eager) Russell, granddaughter of Abner
and Sarah (Hayward) Russell, and of Moses and Sarah (Stratton)
Eager; and a descendant from Thomas Russell who was the immi-
grant ancestor from England to this country. Mrs. Whitney died
in 1889.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had five children; Emily Frances, who
died young; Charles Elmore, who married Alice G. Noah, and whose
two children are Emily Frances, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Allan L.
Briggs, U. S. A., and Helen Cole, wife of George C. Bourne, New
York City; Emily Frances, who married Andrew S. Brownell, and
who died in 1885, and whose only child was Arge Whitney Brownell;
Arthur Herbert, who now owns the ancestral residence, The Elms,
and Frederick Adelbert, who was educated at Chauncey Hall
School and afterwards at the University of Berlin, at Leipsic and
at Munich, Germany. Arthur Herbert was educated at Chauncey
Hall and both he and Charles Elmore were trained to become paper
manufacturers. All three of Mr. Leonard Whitney's sons have
now retired from business.
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HENRY JOSHUA WINSLOW
HENRY JOSHUA WINSLOW belongs to a family that has
given to the nation many men distinguished in business,
literature, and the professions, as well as in pubHc life; and
he has contributed his share in maintaining the distinction and
prestige of the family name.
Mr. Winslow was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 27,
1880. His father, Henry Hedden Winslow, born May 5, 1847, is
a lawyer whose integrity is beyond dispute, and who, in private life
as well, wins the confidence and esteem of all with whom he comes
in contact. Through his father, Henry Joshua Winslow is de-
scended from Joshua Baker Winslow, who was engaged in the whal-
ing business at New Bedford, Massachusetts. His mother, who
before her marriage was Margaret Ella Givens, was the daughter
of Benjamin Givens, a coastwise skipper of Maine. Mr. Winslow
comes from the best New England stock, being a descendant from
Kenelm Winslow who was born in Droctwich, Worcestershire,
England, April 29, 1599, and came to Plymouth, Massachusetts,
in 1629, where he was admitted a freeman on January 1, 1632.
As a youth Henry Joshua Winslow was always industrious.
With every advantage for the attainment of a complete education
he prepared for college at the public schools of Cambridge, and
subsequently entered Harvard University, graduating in 1902 with
the degree of A. B. Personal preference coupled with parental
wishes induced Mr. Winslow to follow a legal career. He entered
the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1904 with the degree of
LL.B. While a student he was manager of the Cambridge Latin
High School Review, and of the Harvard Quarterly. He entered
upon the general practice of his profession upon graduation, with
the firm of Warren and Garfield, and remained there for two years.
He then entered into independent practice. Comprehensive
knowledge of the law, painstaking accuracy and thoroughness in
the preparation of cases, and consummate skill in forensic pro-
ceedings, are his chief professional characteristics.
His fellow-citizens have confidence in his character and public
spirit. In 1906 he was elected to the Common Council of Cam-
HENRY JOSHUA WINSLOW
bridge, where he rendered invaluable services and was elected for
four successive years, serving as president in 1908 and 1909. In
1912 he was representative to the House of Representatives from
his district.
Mr. Winslow was formerly a member and officer of the First
Corps of Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Mihtia, from January,
1902, to April, 1912, and from April 10, 1912, to March, 1914, was
major and judge advocate in the judge advocate general's depart-
ment of the Massachusetts National Guard.
Mr. Winslow is an incorporator of the Cambridgeport Savings
Bank, a member of the Cambridge Board of Trade, the Middlesex
County Bar Association, and the Economy Club, of which he is
serving as president for 1917 and 1918.
In politics he is a Republican in national and state affairs, while
in Cambridge he is a member of the Non-Partisan party. In
rehgion he is identified with the Unitarian Church.
On June 27, 1906, Mr. Winslow was married to Grace Coolidge,
daughter of Bennett F. and Annie EmeUne Davenport, grand-
daughter of John and Martha Coohdge, and a descendant of John
and Mary Coolidge, original settlers of Watertown. The Daven-
ports are descended from Thomas Davenport, another original
settler. One child, Henry Davenport Winslow, was born of this
marriage.
To young people who are desirous of success, Mr. Winslow gives
the following advice: " Seek education; and be willing to work
conscientiously and never get discouraged."
The career of Henry Joshua Winslow is marked by straight-
forwardness of thought and purpose. He believes a good name
more to be desired than riches. His success in material things has
been continuous; and this success was won honorably, by the
observance of honest principles, by a thorough mastery of his
profession, by industry, energy, and perseverance.
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EDWARD LEANDER WOOD
EDWARD LEANDER WOOD, a prominent mill official of
Massachusetts and Maine, with which interests he had
been identified for upwards of forty years, was born in
Gardner, Massachusetts, October 6, 1845. He died at his Brook-
line home, March 20, 1916, in the seventy-first year of his age.
He was the son of General Moses Wood who was a prominent
business man, a state Senator, and Brigadier General of the Militia.
The father was a commanding figure in those days in all the affairs
of life, with a high reputation for integrity and patriotism. The
mother of Edward L. Wood was Mary Comee. On both sides the
ancestry is among the earliest settlers from England and Scotland
who located in Concord, Sudbury and Danvers.
On his father's side he was descended from Aaron Wood (October
10, 1762-July 4, 1815) and Bethia (Beard) Wood. Aaron Wood
held many offices; he was Justice of the Peace in Westminster,
and for five successive years in the state legislature. His father,
the Honorable Nathan Wood, was sent to the Colonial Legislature
from Westminster and served in two succeeding Provincial Con-
gresses. His father was Abraham Wood of Concord, who was
Town Clerk from 1701 to 1703, and Selectman from 1700 to 1704.
The father of Abraham Wood of Concord was Abraham Wood of
Sudbury. His father was Michael Wood of Concord, and his
father, WilHam Wood, who came to Concord in 1627, had been a
Mayor of Sandwich in Kent, England, and wrote " The Prospects
of New England." Two generations behind him was another
Wilham Wood who was Mayor of Sandwich in Kent, England.
On his mother's side, Edward Leander Wood's grandparents
were James Maltman Comee (1777-1832) and Sarah (Putnam)
Comee. Among his ancestors also were Walter Haynes who came to
Sudbury in 1638; David Comee came to Concord in 1657; Andrew
Beard who came to Billerica in 1675; John Putnam and Samuel
Porter of Danvers; and Peter Noyes and Deacon Rice of Sudbury.
As a boy he grew up under the quiet influences of country hfe
and the teaching of a devoted mother, which supplemented the
sturdy example of the father. He attended the pubhc schools of
Fitchburg, where the family resided after his early youth, and
entered the High School.
His mother's influence was particularly strong upon both his in-
tellectual development and his moral and spiritual life. As a
child, he was a normal, healthy, active boy, tender-hearted and
ambitious. The Fitchburg High School was too slow to suit him,
and so Edward Leander Wood, with his father's consent, hired a
tutor and by studying alone with him entered Harvard College
much earlier than he could otherwise have done. He was gradu-
ated from Harvard with the degree of A. B. in 1867. The wishes
EDWARD LEANDER WOOD
of his parents, his own preference and circumstances united to de-
termine his choice of a profession.
After graduation he went into the Rollstone National Bank of
Fitchburg of which his father was President. In a few years seek-
ing a larger and different field of activity he went to Lewiston,
Maine, where he was connected with several corporations in the
line of manufactures. In 1885 he moved to New York where he
remained three years; and in 1888 he established his business rela-
tions more permanently in Boston with his residence in Brookline.
He was first agent and then for forty-five years was Treasurer of
the FrankUn Company of Lewiston; Treasurer of the Lewiston
Gas Company; President of the Union Water Power Company;
president of the Continental Mills; and Director of the Androscog-
gin Mills. He was a large Real Estate owner in Lewiston and
Auburn and originally the principal portion of Rangcley Lakes.
This was largely his life work. Other positions in corporation
management and the exercises of financial ability gave evidence of
his standing in industrial enterprises.
He was a man of natural force of character and displayed the
qualities of sturdy integrity and capability in his contact with men
in active life. In his intellectual diversion from business he was
devoted to the reading of history and kept well in touch with current
events. His character and qualifications for such an honorable
degree were recognized by his alma mater, Harvard College, in be-
stowing upon him the degree of A. M.
In politics he was a Republican and always maintained his
strict allegiance to the principles and general policy of that party.
In religious affiliations he associated with the Congregational
and Episcopal denominations.
He belonged to the Essex Country Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea.
February 1, 1871, he was married to Elzo E. Carpenter, daughter
of William H. and Isabelle E. (Slocomb) Carpenter, and a descen-
dant of William Carpenter who came from England in 1638 in the
ship Bevis and settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Mrs. Wood's
grandparents on her father's side were Christopher and Mary
(McCrillis) Carpenter; and on her mother's side Rufus and Betsey
(Sargent) Slocomb. Two children were born to Mr. Wood —
Edward L., Junior, who died in 1902, and Elizabeth Carpenter
Wood. Mrs. Edward L. Wood died March 28, 1915 at her home
in Brookline.
Mr. Wood was of the class of men who have done so much for
New England in the development of its natural resources in
the water power of its streams, and in the establishment and
maintenance of its manufactories of textile fabrics and kindred
industries.
WILLIAM MADISON WOOD
WILLIAM MADISON WOOD was born in Edgartown,
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, June 18, 1858. His
father was WilHam Jason Wood, and his mother was AmeHa
Christian Madison. His father came from the Azores, avaihng
himself of the opportunity of serving on the American vessels,
especially whaHng vessels, which frequent those islands, and finally
locating in America. On account of deUcate health he gave up
sea-faring hfe and through the friendship of one of the sea captains
with whom he sailed, he estabHshed himself in a httle home in
Edgartown, married a girl of Enghsh descent and settled down in
that quiet little town. From this home and parentage the future
eminent manufacturer and head of great mill operations was
born and passed the years of infancy. In early youth the family
moved to New Bedford and located a httle out of the city. Here
the boy at four years of age began going to school and laying the
foundation of useful education which was to stand him well in the
practical hfe he was to follow. He was fond of study, of an in-
quiring mind and remarkable memory, with habits of industry and
perseverance, and passed his early boyhood in the usual duties of
the home and attendance upon school. The father, always in
dehcate health, competing in the struggle for livelihood, passed
away when the boy was but eleven years old, leaving besides the
mother and son, three Httle daughters and three other boys who
had blessed the httle home. But he left the inheritance of strict
integrity, industry and honesty of purpose.
Now came the period in the youth's hfe when he must not only
try to support himself but contribute to the care and support of
others. Among the little ventures showing the trend of the youth's
mind and his disposition to engage in transactions of profit and
utility was an instance of his purchase of a barrel of apples at
auction, sorting them out and then selling them a peck at a time to
neighbors, and thus doubling his money. It showed the character
of the young trader to seize a good opportunity and avail himself of
a chance to display self-rehance and make a profitable investment.
Necessity compelled him to be industrious, and with energy, good
principles, and commendable enterprise he started early to win his
way in the world and to overcome the many obstructions that al-
ways are quite inseparable from the strenuous struggles of hfe.
WILLIAM MADISON WOOD
Attending the public schools of New Bedford and graduating at
the Grammar School, he entered the High School, but was obhged
by circumstances to relinquish the coveted opportunity of continu-
ing his education, and to seek some employment. Let it be said
to his credit that he did not thus abandon the idea of acquiring
an education and a fund of useful knowledge. After leaving
school he spent his evenings, and even nights, for several years in
study. He took up Latin, French and German and became well
versed in Algebra and the higher mathematics, giving a discipline
to his mind beyond the ordinary topics of study and a practical ex-
perience in information that might be of material advantage in
the ambitious but uncertain life before him.
He had before attracted the attention of Andrew G. Pierce one
of the leading men of the Wamsutta Mills in New Bedford, and as
his first active employment he was given a position in the counting
room of the mills as messenger boy and boy of general utility in the
routine work of the office. But he soon showed ability far beyond
his position or his years. When not running errands or performing
other duties his habits of observation were active and he was
taking notes of everything going on about him and studying the
details of the business. He was anxious to get ahead and know
more of the manufacturing branch of the business. So after three
years of clerical work, assisting in the routine of the superintendent's
duties, with a desire to learn the technical part of the industry, at
his request he was transferred to the manufacturing department in-
side of the mill. Here he entered enthusiastically into every detail
of the work and spent all the time possible around the machinery.
He was not a mill employee in the ordinary sense of the term, but
an active person in the service of the company in looking after the
details of manufacture and practically learning the processes from
raw material to the finished product. He had with the friendly
interest of many leading men and stockholders an unusual op-
portunity, and his willingness to work and study insured his
advancement. He realized his advantage with the access given
him to all avenues of knowledge in the business. His personal
traits drew to him the friendship and interest of those above him.
After three years of experience in the mill he had a thorough
knowledge of the cotton manufacturing industry and a reputation
for marked abihty.
On completion of six years service in the mills Mr. Wood re-
ceived an offer of a position in a banking house in Philadelphia
and went there for a short period. His experience there was quite
invaluable in giving him an insight into financial affairs and the
WILLIAM MADISON WOOD
operations of railroads and other enterprises of public nature and
the varied interests handled by banking institutions. Still his
incHnations were turned to the manufacturing business and the op-
portunities for again embarking in such industries where his abilities
could be more fully and more congenially employed were awaited
with ardent hopes to be reahzed.
The opportunity came when his old friends and benefactors
Mr. Otis N. Pierce and Mr. Edward L. Anthony sought his asso-
ciation in reorganizing some Fall River mills which had met with
heavy losses. They were sound, shrewd business men, and wise
counselors of the best type who recognized the abihties of this
young man for the work desired and encouraged the ambition of
Mr. Wood to serve as assistant in management and as paymaster.
Now began his special career in which he has won deserved renown.
He soon got in touch with the interests of all the mills in the finan-
cial and manufacturing administrations. For six years he remained
in Fall River, and with his administrative abilities brought great
success to his efforts. He was then but a young man in the twenties
and had estabhshed a reputation for mill management extending
far beyond the range of his operations. In 1884 the Washington
Mills of Lawrence had met with reverses and had been taken over
for debt by Frederick Ayer, and in 1890 Mr. Wood was offered the
superintendency. The problem of restoring these mills and putting
them on a paying basis was considered a task beyond the abihty
of any man. He was told that it was impossible, men whom he
succeeded had failed and lost courage. But he found the right
men in the mills waiting for the right man to guide them to success,
and in ten years he solved the problem, established the mills in
sound condition and divided a surplus. His policy was to win the
confidence of associates, give them an opportunity for self-rehance
and success would follow no matter how big the problem. In due
time, encouraged by the solution of the Washington affairs, he
paralleled that adventure by the great Wood Mill.
As a great organizer and head of combined interests of different
corporations Mr. Wood's abihty was widely recognized so that in
1899 in association with a number of prominent wool men he
organized the American Woolen Company which is now the largest
single corporation manufacturing woolen goods in the world.
He was at first Treasurer, but is now its President and active head.
This organization has in its continuation upwards of 50 great
plants of the country and insures union of interests and joint
economy of management, beneficial alike to producers and con-
sumers of goods. Mr. Wood is President or prominent official of
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many of these companies and they all feel the inspiration of his
guiding influence. Without a peer he stands as the foremost
textile man in the country, directing the largest number of em-
ployees of all the industries of New England. The story of his life
is a wonderful illustration of the rise of the poor boy to affluence and
high position with his guiding principles of thoroughness in what
he does and the sacred keeping of his word.
Mr. Wood is President and Director of the American Woolen
Company, the Wood Worsted Mills, Ayer Mills, National and
Providence Worsted Mills, Washington Mills, and Director of the
Southern Ilhnois Coal and Coke Company. He is also Director in
many Corporations in the manufacturing line associated with the
American Woolen Company, Vice-president of the Home Market
Club, Director of the Merchants Bank, New Bedford, and of the
Rhode Island Insurance Company, President and Director of Kil-
burn Mills, Vice-president of the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers, Vice-president of the Massachusetts Real Estate
Exchange; Director of the Pierce Manufacturing Company, the
Nyanza Mills. He is an active man in all these positions.
In politics he is a Republican though not especially active as
such, and in religious associations he is an Episcopalian.
He belongs to the Metropolitan and Union League Clubs in New
York, and to the Algonquin, Country, and Essex Country Clubs of
Massachusetts, N. Y. Yacht Club, Eastern Yacht Club and Co-
rinthian Yacht Club.
Mr. Wood married the daughter of his great business associate,
Frederick Ayer, and has four children: WilHam M., Jr., CorneHus
Ayer, both in United States Naval Service; RosaHnd, and Irene.
His daughter Irene was married Jan. 12, 1918, to Capt. Bernard
L. Sutcliffe of the British Army in the Northumberland Fusiliers
and who is the son of a prominent wool merchant, Thomas Sut-
chffe of Sutcliffe & Co., Hahfax, Yorkshire, England.
He has a beautiful country home in Andover and another resi-
dence on the island of Cuttyhunk.
In his own words the greatest opportunity of any man " is the
opportunity of being with limited means and thus compelled by
necessity to persevere, to be industrious, to have patience, to be
self-rehant, and further to be square with everybody, to do more
than you are paid to do, and be honest with yourself." His Hfe is
a concrete example for an American youth without wealth, without
family influence, to rise to eminence in the great industrial world.
