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T)\QtoYy  of  Lowell 

and  Its  people 


BY 


FREDERICK  W.  COBURN 


ILLUSTRATED 


VOLUME  in. 


LEWIS    HISTORICAL    PUBLISHING   COMPANY 

NEW  YORK  CITY 

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copvright,  1920 
The  Lewis  Historical  Publishing  Company. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL 


BIOGRAPHICAL  163 

REDMOND  WELCH,  JR. 

For  ten  years,  1909-19,  Redmond  Welch  has  been  chief  of  police 
in  Lowell,  and  there  are  few  dissenters  to  the  statement  that  in  point 
of  efficiency  the  affairs  of  the  department  have  never  been  so  well 
administered.  He  has  made  a  deep  study  of  police  problems,  has 
developed  strongly  as  a  student  of  physiology,  and  depends  largely 
upon  a  keen  judgment  of  human  nature  and  plain  common  sense, 
application  of  the  known  laws  governing  human  nature,  to  guide  him. 
He  has  brought  about  a  close  co-ordination  of  effort  between  the 
various  divisions  and  ranks  of  the  police  department,  and  an  unusual 
good  feeling  exists  between  the  members.  This  in  itself  is  a  potent 
force  for  efficiency,  and  to  this  feeling  of  co-operation  and  good  will 
is  due  the  high  morale  of  the  Lowell  force.  The  chief  is  an  ardent 
advocate  of  physical  culture,  and  in  his  own  physical  perfection  a 
strong  argument  can  be  made  of  the  great  benefits  to  be  derived  from 
a  systematic  and  persistent  course  of  physical  training. 

Chief  Welch  is  a  son  of  Redmond  and  Ellen  (Broderick)  Welch, 
his  father  born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland,  his  mother  a  native  of  the 
same  county.  Both  came  to  the  United  States  in  their  youth,  met, 
and  married  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  there  Ellen  Welch  yet 
resides,  aged  eighty-eight  years.  Redmond  Welch,  Sr.,  was  a  farmer 
in  Ireland,  and  when  a  young  man  came  to  this  country,  settling  at 
Westford,  Massachusetts.  He  continued  a  tiller  of  the  soil  for  years, 
and  was  foreman  of  the  large  farm  owned  by  Zach  Read.  He  was  a 
man  of  great  physical  strength,  and  in  Westford  his  wonderful  feats 
gained  him  the  title  of  the  "strong  man"  of  Westford.  Later  he  moved 
to  Lowell,  where  he  became  assistant-foreman  in  the  construction 
department  of  the  old  Boston  &  Lowell  Railroad.  After  track  laying 
was  completed  on  that  road,  he  established  a  teaming  business  in 
Lowell,  and  for  thirty  years  he  conducted  that  business,  only  ceasing 
with  his  death  in  1901,  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven.  He  was  a  man  of 
industry  and  good  habits,  a  devout  Catholic,  and  highly-esteemed  by 
all  who  knew  him.  He  married  Ellen  Broderick,  who  at  the  time  of 
her  marriage  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Lawrence  Mills  Corporation. 
Three  of  their  nine  children  are  living:  Anna;  Mary,  married  Daniel 
Crowley,  a  United  States  letter  carrier  of  Lowell;  and  Redmond  (2), 
of  whom  further  mention  is  made. 

Redmond  Welch,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Westford,  Massachusetts,  June 
6,  1863,  but  from  his  sixth  month  Lowell  has  been  his  home.  He  was 
educated  in  the  city  public  schools,  entering  high  school  from  Coburn 
grammar  in  1877,  finishing  with  the  high  school  graduating  class  of 
1880.  He  was  developed  in  size  so  far  beyond  his  years  that  he  would 
not  seek  office  or  indoor  employment,  but  in  overalls  took  his  place 


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with  other  dri\ers  in  his  father's  eniiiloy,  and  for  seven  years,  1880-87, 
he  continued  in  that  business  neither  asking  nor  receiving  any  favors 
above  the  other  drivers  because  he  was  the  boss's  son.  In  1887  he 
went  up  with  the  first  class  for  physical  and  mental  tests  ever  held  in 
Lowell  under  the  new  civil  service  rules  governing  future  appoint- 
ments to  the  Lowell  police  force.  On  the  day  he  was  examined  he  was 
six  feet,  two  and  three-quarter  inches  in  height,  and  weighted  two 
hundred  and  thirty  pounds.  His  splendid  physical  condition  brought 
for  him  very  favorable  comment  from  the  examiner,  City  Physician 
Colton.  He  passed  the  mental  tests  with  the  same  high  standing  as 
the  physical,  and  on  February  8,  1887,  he  was  appointed  a  reserve 
patrolman.  On  September  13,  following,  he  was  appointed  a  regular 
patrolman,  and  until  April  5,  1892,  he  was  on  patrol  duty  on  the  streets 
of  Lowell.  On  .\pril  5,  he  was  promoted  inspector  of  police,  continu- 
ing in  that  position  for  a  time,  political  conditions  then  decreeing  that 
he  should  return  to  patrol  duty.  While  on  jiatrol  duty  during  this 
period  he  made  a  notable  arrest,  one  for  which  he  received  a  commen- 
datory notice  in  general  orders,  one  of  the  finest  ever  issued  by  the 
Department  Chief,  George  R.  Davis.  During  a  heavy  snow-storm, 
at  3  a.  m.,  March  3,  1876,  Officer  Welch  arrested  Louis  Jacquith,  a 
notorious  crook,  with  a  long  record  of  burglary  and  crime.  Jacquith 
\vas  armed  with  bnth  a  revolver  and  a  butcher's  cleaver  which  he 
several  time-  .ittenipted  to  use  upon  the  olficer  without  success.  After 
subdumg,  disarming  and  handcutfing  his  prisoner,  (  iffici  r  Wilch  sig- 
naled another  officer,  and  together  they  tLml;  Jaci|nith  Im  Ins  room 
where  they  found  his  jjartner  in  crime,  one  lamest  I'.cansi  ilit'l,  \vhom 
they  disarmed  and  took  with  them  under  arrest  to  police  headquarters. 
This  turned  out  ti3  be  a  very  important  capture  as  both  men  were 
notorious  criminals,  and  several  thousand  dollars  worth  of  stolen 
property  was  recovered.  This  was  the  first  time  an  officer  had  ever 
been  commended  in  general  orders  in  the  history  of  the  Lowell  depart- 
ment, but  Officer  Welch  was  again  named  in  commendatory  terms  in 
general  orders  of  .August  26,  1897.  and  again  on  October  18,  1898, 
the  only  member  of  the  Lowell  force  ever  receiving  three  citations. 
Officer  Welch  continued  the  courageous,  efficient  patrolman  until 
the  night  of  July  18.  1901.  when  he  was  ordered  to  appear  before  the 
Board  nf  Pulice  Cnnnnissioncrs  then  in  session.  Upon  his  presenting 
himself  ;is  ordered  he  was  informed  that  Officer  Welch  had  been  made 
deputy  superintendent  of  police,  that  he  was  relieved  of  further  duty 
for  the  night,  but  should  resume  the  duties  of  deputy  chief  the  fol- 
ic iwing  morning.  For  eight  years  he  filled  the  office  of  deputy  chief, 
and  tiiis  l)r(iught  the  period  to  October,  i(>i»>,  when  William  B.  Motlat, 
chief  of  police,  retired,  and  .'Assistant  Chief  W  elch  was  aj^pointed  his 
success<.>r.     He  seriously  dei)ated  declining  the  ajipointment.  ])olitical 


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conditions  rendering  the  tenure  of  office  uncertain.  There  was  pres- 
sure brought  by  business  men  of  the  city  to  induce  his  acceptance,  and 
finally  he  consented,  his  investure  with  the  full  dignity  of  chief  of 
police  dating  October  13,  1909,  the  board  vote  on  his  appointment 
being  unanimous.  Ten  years  have  since  intervened  and  Lowell  is 
prouder. each  year  of  her  chief  and  he  each  year  is  prouder  of  the 
department  which  has  grown  up  under  his  leadership.  There  is  a  gen- 
eral building  up  all  along  the  various  police  lines  and  the  force  reflects 
great  credit  upon  both  the  chief  and  his  assistants. 

Chief  Welch  is  a  member,  and  in  1910  and  191 1  was  president  of 
the  Massachusetts  Police  Chief's  Association;  is  a  member  of  the 
International  Police  Chiefs'  Association ;  was  an  organizer  and  charter 
member  of  the  Lowell  Policeman's  Relief  Associaton ;  is  a  member 
of  St.  Peter's  Roman  Catholic  Church  ;  and  of  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus. He  is  unmarried,  residing  with  his  widowed  mother  and  sister 
at  Xo.  ^71  Central  street.  Lowell. 


JOSEPH  BOWERS. 

One  of  the  ancient  and  honorable  families  of  New  England 
is  that  of  Bowers,  which  in  the  second  generation  located  at  what  is 
now  Lowell,  ^Massachusetts,  the  tract  then  granted  having  been  held 
in  part  in  the  Bowers  name  from  about  1685  until  the  present,  1918. 
Nine  generations  have  made  the  farm  their  home,  and  in  the  old  home- 
stead generation  after  generation  has  been  born,  the  first  home  having 
been  erected  on  the  farm  about  1696.  At  the  present  time,  Joseph 
Bowers,  of  the  eighth  generation  and  his  sons  and  grandchildren  are 
living  at  the  homestead,  where  all  were  born. 

George  Bowers,  the  founder  of  his  family,  was  the  only  early 
settler  of  the  name  in  New  England.  He  is  said  to  have  come  to 
England  from  Scotland,  then  to  Massachusetts,  and  in  1630  he  is 
recorded  in  Scituate,  Massachusetts.  He  was  admitted  a  ireeman 
there,  March  7,  1636-37,  was  a  town  officer,  a  land  owner  and  member 
of  the  early  Scituate  church.  He  sold  his  Scituate  lands,  April  2, 
1640,  and  located  at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death  in  1656,  his  home  not  far  from  the  railroad  bridge  on  the  east 
side  of  North,  now  Massachusetts  avenue.  He  also  owned  land  in 
Charlestown,  adjoining  Cambridge.  His  first  wife  Barbara  died  March 
25,  1644,  and  he  married  a  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Worthington.  who 
survived  him.  In  his  will  he  bequeathed  to  his  wife,  to  sons,  Benanuel, 
John.  Jerathmeel ;  and  daughters.  Patience  and  Silerici. 

Jerathmeel  Bowers,  son  of  George  Bowers  and  his  second  wife, 
Elizabeth  (Worthington)  Bowers,  was  born  in  Cambridge,  Massa- 
chusetts, May  2,  1650,  and  died  April  2,  1724.    He  moved  from  Cam- 


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bridge  to  Chelmsford,  was  admitted  a  freeman  there,  February  2, 
1685,  was  a  town  officer,  and  a  soldier  in  King  Philip's  War  and  was 
known  as  Colonel  Jerathmeel  Bowers.  For  his  services  in  that  war  he 
was  granted  a  large  tract  of  land,  and  he  built  the  first  house  within 
the  present  limits  of  the  city  of  Lowell,  that  house  standing  on  what 
is  now  Wood  street.  He  was  guardian  of  the  Pawtucket  Indians,  a 
neighboring  tribe,  and  for  five  years  represented  Chelmsford  in  the 
General  Court.  He  sold  his  homestead,  January  2,  1683.  By  wife 
Elizabeth,  he  had  two  sons,  Jerathmeel  (2)  and  Jonathan. 

Captain  Jonathan  Bowers,  son  of  Colonel  Jerathmeel  and  Eliza- 
beth Bowers,  was  born  in  Chelmsford,  April  13,  1674,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 12,  1744.  He  removed  to  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  in  1729.  He 
was  lieutenant  in  Captain  Wilson's  Company,  Colonel  Tyng's  regi- 
ment, and  in  1715  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain.  He  married, 
May  17,  1699,  Hannah  Barrett,  who  died  October  16,  1765.  Children, 
all  born  at  Chelmsford :  Jerathmeel,  married  Elizabeth  Failey  ;  Jona- 
than, married  Mary  Grimes:  John,  married  Anna  Crosby;  William, 
of  further  mention;  Benjamin,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  1733, 
and  ordained  a  minister  over  the  church  at  Middle  Haddam,  Con- 
necticut ;  Josiah,  married  Abigail  Thompson. 

William  Bowers,  son  of  Captain  Jonathan  and  Hannah  (Barrett) 
Bowers,  was  born  at  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  January  8,  1712.  He 
resided  all  his  life  on  the  original  tract  granted  his  grandfather.  Colonel 
Jerathmeel  Bowers,  the  homestead  standing  near  Pentucket  bridge, 
now  Lowell,  but  then  Chelmsford.  His  son,  Luke  Bowers,  entered  the 
Revolutionary  army  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and  served  seven  years. 
William  Bowers  married,  January  i,  1761,  Hannah  Kidder,  of  Bil- 
lerica, Massachusetts.  Children:  Jonathan,  Luke,  Hannah,  Sarah, 
William.  ()!ive,  Philip,  Timothy,  Joseph,  of  further  mention,  and 
Jesse. 

Joseph  Bowers,  ninth  child  of  William  and  Hannah  (Kidder) 
Bowers,  was  born  December  31,  1780.  at  the  Bowers  homestead  in 
Chelmsford,  now  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  there  passed  his  life. 
He  was  a  man  of  influence,  a  substantial  farmer,  and  a  colonel  in 
Mas.sachusetts  troops  during  the  War  of  181 2.  He  was  widely  known 
as  Colonel  Joseph  Bowers,  and  left  behind  him  an  honored  name. 
He  married,  April  I,  1803,  Rhoda  Butterfield,  born  .\.pril  10,  1780. 
Their  children  were:  Irene,  born  May  27,  1804:  .Mphius,  born  May  17, 
1807:  Sewall,  of  further  mention;  Susan  B..  l)orn  August  19,  1813, 
and  Mary  S.,  born  February  14,  1818. 

Sewall  Bovvers,  son  of  Colonel  Joseph  and  Rhoda  (Butterfield) 
P.owers,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  at  the  Bowers  homestead, 
July  2-j,  1810,  and  died  in  1893.  He  passed  his  life  in  agricultural 
pursuits  on  the  home  farm,  \arying  this  l)y  teaming  and  stock  dealing, 


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and  also  was  one  of  the  builders  of  the  Middlesex  canal.  He  married 
Philanda  Fisher,  born  in  Whitefield,  New  Hampshire,  and  died  at 
the  Bowers  homestead  in  Lowell.  Children:  Georg-e,  a  resident  of 
Lowell;  Lucena,  deceased;  Joseph,  of  further  mention;  and  Jesse, 
deceased.     All  these  children  were  born  on  the  Bowers  homestead. 

Joseph  Bowers,  of  the  eighth  generation,  son  of  Sewall  and  Phil- 
anda (Fisher)  Bowers,  was  born  at  the  old  homestead,  now  Wood 
street.  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  January  28,  1854,  and  there  spent  his 
life.  The  farm  which  he  owns  is  part  of  the  original  grant  to  Colonel 
Jerathmeel  Bowers,  and  now  contains  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres, 
one  hundred  and  ten  of  these  lying  within  the  present  limits  of  the  city 
of  Lowell.  There  he  conducts  general  operations,  devoting  a  part  of 
its  area  to  the  raising  of  hay  and  dairy  farming.  He  is  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial men  of  his  city,  a  fine  type  of  the  independent  American 
farmer,  quiet  and  unassuming,  but  self-reliant  and  forceful,  proud  of 
the  family  name  he  bears,  and  holding  that  name  above  reproach.  He 
is  thoroughly  respected  wherever  known,  and  has  a  wide  circle  of 
business  and  social  acquaintances.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a 
Unitarian  in  religion,  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  the 
Knights  of  Malta,  Dames  of  Malta,  and  Middlesex  North  District 
Agricultural  Society. 

Mr.  Bowers  married,  December  30,  1880,  at  Lowell,  [Massachusetts, 
Jennie  Toland,  born  at  Malone.  New  York,  who  was  brought  to  Lowell 
when  a  girl,  and  there  resided  until  her  death,  February  7,  1912,  at 
the  Bowers  homestead.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bowers  were  the  parents  of 
two  sons:  i.  Joseph  Walter,  born  April  19,  1882,  at  the  homestead; 
married  Eva  Goss,  of  Lowell,  and  has  four  children,  all  born  at  the 
Bowers  homestead  in  Lowell,  they  of  the  tenth  American  generation, 
and  of  the  ninth  to  reside  at  the  farm  in  Lowell  f^rst  granted  to  Colonel 
Jerathmeel  Bowers  for  gallant  service  in  King  Philip's  War.  These 
children  are:  Mildred,  Pearly,  Sewall  and  Sylvia  Bowers.  2.  Jesse 
Eugene,  a  farmer  at  the  old  Bowers  homestead,  where  he  was  born 
Jan^'uarv  29,  1888:  he  married  Amy  Laura  Holdsworth,  of  Lowell, 
'  and  has  a  daughter,  Mary  Ethel  Bowers,  born  at  the  old  homestead, 
December  18,  1916. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  BRIERLY. 

With  the  passing  of  William  Henry  Brierly,  the  city  of  Lowell 
lost  a  citizen  of  sterling  quality  and  a  business  man  of  industry,  abil- 
ity and  worth.  He  established  in  Lowell  the  f^rm  of  W.  H.  Brierly 
&  Son,  his  partner,  his  son,  Eugene  L.  Brierly,  who  is  now  his  suc- 
cessor. The  Brierlys  are  of  English  ancestry,  this  branch  founded 
in  the  United  States  by  David  Brierly,  who  arrived  in  New  York  City 


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from  his  native  England,  March  17.  1838,  he  then  being  a  young  man 
of  twenty-one  years. 

David  Briefly,  born  in  Leeds,  England,  July  4,  1817.  died  in 
Lawrence,  Massachusetts.  He  learned  the  dyer's  art,  and  in  both  his 
native  Leeds  and  the  United  States  followed  that  trade,  becoming 
one  of  the  skilled  men  of  the  textile  dyeing  guild.  He  was  barely  of 
age  when  he  came  to  the  United  States,  in  183&,  and  immediately  after 
his  arrival  he  located  in  Rome,  New  York,  where  he  rose  to  the  rank 
of  a  "boss  dyer"  in  a  large  textile  mill.  In  Rome  also  he  was  a  well 
known  musician,  playing  the  cello  in  the  leading  orchestra  of  the  city. 
There  too  he  married,  but  shortly  afterward  moved  to  Syracuse,  New 
York.  Later  he  located  at  Blackenton,  Massachusetts,  going  thence 
to  Lawrence,  Mas.sachusetts.  At  all  these  places  he  was  engaged  as 
a  dyer  of  textiles.  After  the  removal  to  Lawrence,  David  Brierly 
enlisted  for  service  in  the  Union  army  as  a  member  of  the  Fourth 
Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Infantry,  and  went  to  the  front.  While  in 
active  service  in  the  South  he  suffered  a  paralytic  stroke,  which  left 
him  unfit  for  military  duty.  After  receiving  an  honorable  discharge 
from  the  army,  he  returned  to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  and  there 
continued  his  residence  until  death.  He  married  Margaret  Wilson, 
born  in  Rome,  New  York,  who  survived  him,  moved  to  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, there  married  a  second  husband,  Robert  Lord,  and  resided  in 
West  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts.  She  died  in  Lowell,  while  visit- 
ing her  daughter,  Mrs.  Rebecca  Clark.  David  and  Margaret  (Wilson) 
Brierly  were  the  ])arents  of  the  following  children:  John,  deceased; 
Rebecca,  married  Edward  D.  Clark,  an  early  settler  in  that  part  of 
Lowell  known  as  Highlands  ;  William  Henry,  to  whose  memory  this 
review  is  inscribed. 

William  Henry  Brierly  was  born  in  Troupville,  New  York,  May 
10,  1855,  ^"d  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  December  29,  1917.  He 
was  very  young  when  his  parents  moved  to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts, 
and  there  and  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  he  attended  public  school  un- 
til twelve  years  of  age,  the  early  death  of  his  father  leaving  the  widow 
with  a  young  family,  whose  support  required  the  effort  of  each  one. 
William  FI.  did  a  boy's  work  in  stores  and  elsewhere  until  reaching 
suitable  age,  when  he  began  learning  the  painter's  trade  with  the 
firm  of  F"isk  &  Spaulding.  painting  contractors  of  Lowell,  located  at 
the  corner  of  Jackson  and  Central  streets.  For  twenty-five  consecu- 
tive years  he  remained  in  the  employ  of  that  firm,  becoming  their  most 
trusted  foreman.  After  the  death  of  Colonel  Fisk,  Mr.  Brierly  began 
business  under  his  own  name  as  a  painting  contractor  and  built  up  a 
very  ])rosperous  business.  His  shops  at  No.  56  Branch  street  were 
later  moved  to  their  present  location.  No.  836  Middlesex  street,  and 
there  he  coiuinued  in  Inisiness  until  his  death.     In  lyi  i  he  admitted  his 


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son,  Eugene  L.,  as  a  partner,  the  firm  of  W.  H.  Brierly  &  Son  being- 
then  formed.  Father  and  son  continued  as  partners  until  the  sudden 
death  of  the  father  in  the  closing  days  of  the  year  1917. 

Practically  Mr.  Brierly's  entire  life  of  sixty-two  years  were  spent 
in  Lowell,  and  there  he  won  high  standing  among  business  men  for  his 
upright,  manly  life,  strict  attention  to  his  business  affairs,  and  his 
unwavering  honesty.  In  1880  he  built  the  residence  at  No.  74  South 
Loring  street,  which  is  yet  the  family  home.  This  was  one  of  the  first 
houses  built  in  the  Highland  section  of  Lowell,  now  a  prefered  resi- 
dential part  of  the  city.  J\Ir.  Brierly  was  a  Republican  in  his  political 
preference,  but  never  sought  nor  desired  to  hold  public  office.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  but  was  of  quiet,  domestic  tastes,  finding  in 
his  home  the  greatest  satisfaction  life  could  hold. 

William  H.  Brierly  married  Anna  Louisa  Thompson,  of  Lowell, 
April  II,  1873.  She  was  born  in  the  village  of  Lakeport,  town  of 
Guilford,  New  Hampshire,  daughter  of  John  Prince  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Rowell)  Thompson,  both  born  in  Lakeport,  where  both  died,  Mr. 
Thompson  at  the  time  of  his  death  a  retired  farmer.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Brierly  were  the  parents  of  a  son,  Eugene  Linwood,  born  in  Lowell, 
October  12,  1876.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  learned  the 
painter's  trade  with  his  father,  was  his  close  business  associate,  and 
continues  a  contractor  of  painting  and  head  of  the  firm,  W.  H.  Brierly 
&  Son.  He  married,  in  1905,  Maud  Ireland,  of  Lowell,  who  died  there 
in  1913.  Mr.  Brierly  resides  with  his  widowed  mother  at  the  old  home. 
No.  74  South  Loring  street,  Lowell. 


GEORGE  ARNOLD  WILLSON. 

A  retired  merchant  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  from  1914  until  his 
death,  George  A.  Willson  reviewed  a  life  of  activity  in  which  he  ac- 
complished much,  although  hardly  more  than  in  his  prime.  He  was 
born  in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  December  20,  1867,  son  of  Francis 
Willson,  his  father  a  machinist,  in  business  at  Lawrence. 

George  A.  Willson  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Bur- 
dette's  Commercial  College,  of  Lawrence.  After  completing  his  studies 
he  began  business  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  Lawrence  drug  store,  there 
remaining  for  about  six  years  and  becoming  a  skilled  pharmacist.  He 
spent  the  next  two  years  in  Boston  as  a  drug  clerk,  and  then  came  to 
Lowell,  entering  the  employ  of  John  I.  Gibson.  Later  he  was  with 
Goodale  &  C.  E.  Carter.  In  1895  Mr.  Willson  established  in  business 
for  himself,  opening  a  store  at  the  corner  of  Branch  and  School  streets, 
there  conducting  a  successful  business,  later  removing  to  a  new  busi- 
ness block  which  he  erected  just  across  the  street  from  his  first  store. 


170  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

In  191 4  he  sold  out  to  Fred  C.  Jones  and  retired.  His  business  life 
was  a  successful  one,  and  he  was  held  in  high  regard  by  all  whu  knew 
him.  Mr.  W'illson  was  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  \'esper  Country  Club,  and  High- 
land Congregational  Church 

Mr.  Willson  married  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  October  9,  1894, 
Alice  L.  Crossby.  They  were  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Marian  C. 
Willson.  Mr.  Willson  died  in  Lowell,  December  22.  1917,  honored 
and  respected  as  a  man  of  integrity  and  ability. 


HARRY  L.  STANLEY. 


Nearly  half  a  century  ago  George  E.  Stanley  inaugurated  the 
business  upon  which  the  Stanley  Coal  &  Transportation  Company  of 
Lowell  is  founded.  Light  and  heavy  trucking  and  other  forms  of  local 
freight  and  parcel  handling  was  the  first  department  established,  the 
coal  department,  anthracite  and  bituminous,  being  added  in  1887.  To 
this  business  came  Harry  L.  Stanley,  immediately  after  leaving  school, 
and  upon  the  death  of  his  honored  father,  in  1908,  became  its  managing 
head.  He  is  a  great-grandson  of  Phineas  Stanley,  who  came  to  Lowell 
from  his  native  England.  He  was  the  father  of  a  large  family,  one 
of  his  sons,  George  D.,  born  in  Lowell,  and  for  many  years  an  over- 
seer at  the  Massachusetts  Mills,  also  being  head  of  a  family,  including 
a  son,  George  E.  Stanley,  father  of  Harry  L.  Stanley. 

George  E.  Stanley  was  born  in  Lowell,  in  1845,  and  died  in  his 
native  city  in  1908.  After  leaving  school  he  became  a  clerk  in  a  shoe 
store,  but  his  health  gave  way  under  the  confinement  of  indoor  em- 
ployiTient.  Finally  he  decided  to  establish  a  business  of  his  own,  and 
from  that  decision  grew  the  Stanley  Coal  &  Transportation  Company. 
It  was  not  an  ambitious  com])any  at  its  birth  but  a  local  teaming  busi- 
ness, which  grew  more  and  more  important.  In  1887  the  coal  depart- 
ment of  the  business  was  added,  and  at  the  death  of  the  founder  in 
1908,  aged  seventy-three,  the  company  was  doing  and  for  many  years 
had  done  a  large  business  in  light  and  heavy  trucking,  and  in  the  sale 
of  anthracite  and  bituminous  c(-)al.  Air.  Stanley  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen,  a  school  committeeman,  director  of  the  City 
Library,  a  member  of  Lodge,  Chapter,  Council  and  Commandery  of 
the  Masonic  order,  and  in  politics  a  Republican.  He  married  Eliza- 
l)Cth  iiicks,  I)nrn  in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts,  wh<i  sur\-ivcd  him 
until  i(;i().  The)'  were  the  parents  of:  Gertrude,  married  Nathan 
Lams<)n,  and  Harry  L.,  of  further  mention. 

Harry  L.  Stanley,  only  son  of  George  F.  ;ind  l-'lizaheth  (Hicks) 
Stanley,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Ajjril  13,  1870  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  city,  and  after  finishing  his  studies 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  171 

was  admitted  to  business  association  with  his  father,  became  his 
trusted  assistant  and  partner,  and  his  successor  as  head  of  the  Stanley 
Coal  &  Transportation  Company.  The  freight  office  of  the  company 
is  at  No.  12  Thorndike  street,  elevator  at  No.  223  Moody  street,  coal 
yard  at  No.  53  Meadowcroft  street.  The  business  is  conducted  along 
the  lines  laid  down  by  the  founder,  all  modern  aids  and  appHances  in 
transporting  heavy  freight  being  freely  used.  The  son's  special  de- 
partment was  coal,  that  line  of  the  company's  business  having  been 
due  to  his  suggestion  and  personal  interest,  Mr.  Stanley,  Sr.,  giving 
his  attention  to  the  transportation  department  until  his  retirement. 
Harry  L.  Stanley  is  a  member  of  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons ;  Mount  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Boston 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  Boston  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar  ;  Aleppo  Temple,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  ;  Lowell  Board 
of  Trade ;  and  politically  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Stanley  married.  October,  1897,  iSIarie  \.  Crippen,  of  Con- 
cord, New  Hampshire,  they  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Kathleen,  wife 
of  Leslie  E.  Sutton.  The  family  home  is  at  No.  135  Beacon  street, 
Lowell. 


CHARLES  OLIVER  BARNES. 

A  little  over  lifty-two  years  ago  Charles  Oliver  Barnes  began  work 
as  an  apprentice  in  the  printing  department  of  the  J.  C.  Aver  Company, 
of  Lowell.  The  date  of  his  beginning  work  was  August  12,  1865,  the 
day  Saturday,  and  the  believers  in  signs  saw  in  that  fact  a  sure  indi- 
cation of  a  short  stay.  How  well  they  prophesied  is  seen  in  the  fact 
that  one-half  a  century  later,  on  Monday,  August  12,  191 5.  the  J.  C. 
Ayer  Company  presented  Mr.  Barnes  with  a  check  for  $500  and  a 
three  month's  vacation  in  recognition  of  his  fifty  years  of  continuous 
service,  and  in  appreciation  of  his  efficient  service  during  that  period. 
The  boy  of  fifteen  is  now  the  veteran  of  sixty-eight,  and  the  changes 
in  the  printing  plant  where  he  is  yet  employed  are  equally  apparent. 
When  he  entered  the  printing  department  the  equipment  was  three  large 
presses  and  two  small  job  presses,  to-day  six  large  presses  and  two  job 
presses  are  in  constant  use.  The  old  Adams  press  of  1865  has  been 
supplanted,  and  the  Degener.  Ruggles,  Cottrell,  Campbell,  Scott  and 
Whillock  presses  each  have  had  their  day.  In  1865,  thirty-two  copies 
of  Ayers  Almanac  were  printed  in  one  minute ;  now  they  are  printed 
at  the  rate  of  four  hundred  a  minute.  The  management  of  the  print- 
ing department  in  1865  was  in  the  hands  of  Clark  M.  Langley,  who  in 
1869  was  succeeded  by  J.  C.  Johnson,  who  resigned  after  twenty-eight 
years,  giving  way  in  1897  to  J.  J.  Brine,  who  continued  manager  until 
his  death  in  April,  1915.     Following  Mr.  Brine  came  the  present  man- 


172  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ager  of  the  departnu-nt,  E.  G.  lirown.  Through  these  changes  Mr. 
Barnes  remained,  developing  from  an  ajiprentice  to  a  skilled  printer, 
and  in  all  changes  of  equipment  and  methods  he  has  kept  pace  and 
is  fully  abreast  of  the  times.  His  unusually  retentive  memory  en- 
ables him  to  recall  names,  faces,  and  facts  far  back  into  the  last  cen- 
tury, and  he  is  a  rich  storehouse  of  history  and  tradition. 

C.  Oliver  Barnes  was  born  in  Lowell,  at  the  corner  of  Worthern 
and  then  jNIechanic  street,  now  Broadway,  July  31,  1850,  and  until 
August,  1915,  never  left  his  native  New  England,  and  Lowell  has  been 
his  home  during  his  entire  life  with  the  exception  of  two  years,  1853- 
55.  He  is  a  son  of  Charles  E.  and  Ann  (Mason)  Barnes,  his  father  a 
machinist  employed  on  job  work  at  the  Lowell  Machine  Shop.  In 
1853  the  family  moved  to  Chicopee,  where  for  two  years  Mr.  Barnes 
was  in  the  employ  of  the  Ames  Manufacturing  Company,  manufac- 
turers of  cannon.  During  the  two  years  in  Chicopee  he  perfected  and 
patented  a  self-loading  cannon.  The  model  for  this  cannon,  which  was 
patented  in  1856,  is  }et  in  the  possession  of  C.  01i\'er  Barnes,  a  cher- 
ished family  relic  and  a  memento  of  the  only  two  years  spent  else- 
where than  in  Lowell. 

C.  (Oliver  liarnes  began  his  education  at  Rock  street  primary 
school,  Aliss  Josephine  Soule  then  being  principal.  In  1858  the  family 
moved  to  Appleton  street,  the  boy  then  being  transferred  to  Eliot 
street  primary  school,  of  which  Miss  Jerrnie  H.  Dennis  was  principal. 
He  next  attended  Edson  school,  Perley  Balch  being  principal  there, 
other  Edson  school  teachers  being:  Harriet  C.  Hovey,  Miss  Hem- 
menway,  Miss  Dana,  Miss  Carliton,  Miss  Eaton,  and  Miss  Lovejoy. 
His  school  years  were  finished  at  Edson,  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  he 
began  his  long  connection  with  the  J.  C.  Ayer  Company.  From  this 
year,  1865,  his  life  has  flowed  along  in  the  same  even  channel,  his 
position  a  pleasant  one,  both  as  to  work  and  surroundings.  He  is  the 
oldest  man  in  the  employ  of  the  company,  and  there  is  no  employee 
more  highly  respected. 

On  November  4,  1866,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Appleton  Street 
now  the  Eliot  Street  Congregational  Church,  Rev.  Addison  P.  Foster 
then  being  pastor  of  the  same.  Fifty-one  years  have  elapsed  since  the 
pastor  extended  to  Mr.  Barnes  the  right  hand  of  fellowship,  and  of  all 
the  male  members  of  the  church  he  is  the  oldest.  This  church  has 
profited  through  his  earnestness  and  devotion,  his  service  being  con- 
sistent and  continuous.  (~)n  September  17,  1872,  he  was  made  a  Mason 
in  the  .Ancient  \'(irk  Lodge,  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons;  and  for 
forty-five  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  that  lodge.  He  has  taken 
an  unusual  interest  in  the  early  history  of  that  association,  has  gath- 
ered a  great  deal  of  history  concerning  the  twenty-one  charter  mem- 
bers, secured  with  the  f;icts  their  luirtraits,  had  them  made  into  one 


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large  picture,  and  in  May,  1914,  presented  to  the  lodge  the  picture  of 
its  founders.  In  political  preference  he  is  a  Republican  and  has  sev- 
eral times  been  requested  to  run  for  the  office  of  mayor,  but  always 
declined. 

IMr.  Barnes  married.  March  14,  1875.  Henrietta  Tilton,  of  Lowell, 
a  descendant  of  Jonathan  Tilton,  one  of  whose  ancestors  fought  with 
General  Wolfe  at  Quebec.  She  was  born  in  Boston,  Massachusetts, 
and  died  in  Newton  Highlands,  Massachusetts,  January  15,  1916, 
daughter  of  Walter  and  Ruth  (Webster)  Tilton,  her  father  a  native 
of  New  Hampshire.  Children  of  Mr.  and  ]\Irs.  C.  Oliver  Barnes: 
Emma  Leslie,  married,  June  27,  1907,  Edward  S.  Colton,  of  Newton 
Highlands,  whom  she  survives  with  a  son,  James  Byers  (2)  Colton ; 
Carrie,  married,  August  3,  1910.  Bertram  E.  Kellogg,  of  Holyoke, 
Massachusetts;  Helen  Isabel,  married,  September  25,  1907,  Walter 
E.  ]Morse,  of  Lowell,  ilr.  and  Mrs.  Morse  are  the  parents  of  Walter 
E.,  Jr.,  Ruth,  Marian,  Lester  A.  and  Cynthia  H.  Morse.  These  grand- 
children of  C.  Oliver  Barnes,  in  addition  to  descent  from  Jonathan 
Tilton,  the  Colonial  soldier,  are  great-great-grandchildren  of  Deacon 
Joseph  Barnes,  who  fought  at  Bunker  Hill. 


CHARLES  L.  MARREN. 

A  native  son  of  Lowell,  as  was  his  father  before  him,  the  life  of 
Charles  L.  Marren  has  flowed  smoothly  along  accustomed  lines  amid 
accustomed  scenes,  with  little  of  startling  incident  or  sudden  change. 
He  is  one  of  the  reliable  merchants  of  the  city,  his  place  of  business. 
Nos.  143-147  Gorham  street,  one  of  the  busy  merchandising  spots  of 
the  city.  Mr.  Marren  is  the  son  of  John  and  Elizabeth  (Deehan) 
Marren.  John  jMarren,  his  father,  was  born  in  Lowell  in  1835,  and 
died  there  in  1899.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Lowell  High  School, 
after  which  he  spent  some  time  in  the  grocery  and  shoe  business  in 
Lowell,  then  studied  law,  passed  the  required  examinations,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  Middlesex  Bar,  and  practiced  his  profession  success- 
fully. Elizabeth  (Deehan)  Marren,  his  mother,  was  born  in  Portland, 
Maine,  in  1837,  and  now  resides  in  Lowell.  The  Deehan  family  is  one 
of  the  old  families  of  Portland. 

Charles  L.  Marren  was  born  in  Lowell,  June  6,  1865,  and  until 
the  age  of  eighteen  was  a  student  in  the  public  schools,  finishing  at 
evening  high  school  after  he  had  become  a  worker  and  a  wage  earner. 
He  began  business  life  as  a  bookkeeper  with  P.  Dempsey  &  Company, 
but  later  was  promoted  to  be  manager,  and  remained  in  that  employ 
seven  years.  He  then  started  in  business  for  himself  at  Nos.  143-147 
Gorham  street,  and  there  has  since  conducted  a  prosperous  wholesale 
and  retail  business.     He  is  a  director  of  the  Lowell  Trust  Company, 


174  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

has  real  estate  interests,  and  is  liighly  esteemed  in  the  business  world. 
He  belongs  to  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  the  Washington  Club,  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Knights  of  Columbus, 
and  St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  in  earlier  years  was  much  interested  in  city  politics,  serv- 
ing Ward  Three  as  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  in  1887-88; 
and  in  1889-90  was  Overseer  of  the  Poor.  While  councilman  he  was 
chairman  of  the  finance  committee  and  one  of  the  active  working 
members  of  that  body.  He  is  a  good  sportsman,  was  at  one  time  the 
amateur  bowling  champion  of  Massachusetts,  and  yet  delights  in 
vacation  days  which  can  be  spent  in  the  sports  of  forest  and  stream. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Nashua  County  and  Longmeadow  Golf  Clubs, 
and  is  rated  one  of  the  golf  enthusiasts. 

Mr.  Marren  married,  in  Lowell,  October  7,  1903,  Theresa  McCue, 
a  native  of  Lowell,  and  a  daughter  of  John  and  Ellen  (Kelley)  McCue. 
Her  father  was  born  in  Lowell,  and  for  a  time  was  employed  at  the 
Lowell  Machine  Shop,  later  in  the  grocery  business.  He  served  in  the 
Civil  War,  and  was  prominent  in  G.  A.  R.  circles.  Her  mother  was 
born  in  Ireland.     Both  her  parents  died  in  Lowell. 


WILFRED  EMERY  COGNAC. 

At  the  age  of  ten  years,  Emery  Cognac  was  brought  from  his 
native  Canada  by  his  parents,  the  family  settling  in  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts. From  the  entrance  of  this  boy  Emery  into  the  business  life 
of  the  city,  the  name  has  been  one  honored  in  commercial  circles. 
When  at  a  ripe  age  Emery  Cognac  laid  down  the  burden  of  life,  his 
son,  Wilfred  Emery  Cognac,  although  only  twenty-three  years  of  age, 
assumed  the  responsibility  of  managing  and  conducting  the  large  busi- 
ness developed  by  his  honored  father,  and  under  his  energetic,  enthus- 
iastic direction  even  a  greater  prosperity  has  resulted. 

The  Canadian  home  of  the  family  was  in  the  Province  of  Quebec, 
Village  of  Stattsville,  and  there  Emery  Cognac  was  born,  March  i, 
1870,  and  spent  the  first  ten  years  of  his  life.  After  coming  to  Lowell 
he  continued  his  studies  in  the  public  school  for  some  time,  beginning 
his  wage  earning  as  a  boy  in  the  employ  of  the  Lowell  Hosiery  Com- 
pany, at  Lowell.  He  proved  to  be  the  right  quality,  and  as  he  grew 
in  years  he  attained  correspondingly  better  positions,  and  for  many 
years  held  im]iortant  and  responsible  positions  in  the  company's 
manufacturing  plant.  He  was  devoted  to  his  employer's  interests  and 
spared  not  himself  in  his  efforts  to  render  just  service.  Finally,  in 
the  year  1894,  he  was  compelled  to  seek  less  confining  occupation,  and 
having  thriftily  conserved  his  earnings  during  his  years  of  mill  con- 
nection, was  possessed  of  sufficient  capital  to  establish  a  commercial 


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enterprise,  but  being  unexperienced  he  first  entered  the  employ  of 
Joseph  Marin,  a  furniture  dealer,  at  No.  628  Merrimack  street.  For 
seven  years  he  remained  in  a  clerical  position  with  Mr.  Marin,  thor- 
oughly absorbing  every  detail  of  the  business,  office,  buying  and  sell- 
ing. In  1901  opportunity  was  offered,  and  he  purchased  the  Marin 
furniture  business,  continuing  it  along  the  same  lines  and  at  the  same 
location  until  his  death,  June  4,  191 5.  He  developed  strong  business 
ability,  and  at  all  times  directed  his  mercantile  interests  with  skill  and 
judgment.  He  was  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  upright  and  honorable  in 
all  his  ways,  meriting  and  receiving  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his 
business  associates  and  fellowmen.  Year  by  year  his  business  in- 
creased in  volume,  and  so  large  and  varied  was  the  stock  carried  in  the 
various  departments,  that  several  warehouses  were  required  to  accom- 
modate the  reserve  stock  of  furniture,  carpets,  and  household  goods. 
He  stood  unusually  high  among  the  French  residents  of  Lowell,  and 
was  associated  with  them  in  the  societies  which  bound  them  socially. 
He  was  an  ex-president  of  the  Corporation  of  the  Members  Associa- 
tion Catholic  (C.  M.  A.  C),  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Citoyens 
American,  of  Lowell.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican,  but  never 
sought  nor  held  public  office.  He  was  reared  and  died  in  the  Roman 
Catholic  faith,  a  communicant  of  the  church  of  St.  Jean  the  Baptiste. 
Emery  Cognac  married  Adele  Guimond,  born  in  the  Province  of  Que- 
bec, Canada,  who  came  to  Lowell  as  a  child,  and  died  at  Stattsville, 
Canada,  while  on  a  visit  there  in  1895.  They  were  the  parents  of  a 
son,  Wilfred  Emery  Cognac,  of  further  mention ;  and  a  daughter, 
Lillian  L.  Cognac,  the  latter  born  in  Stattsville,  Province  of  Quebec, 
Canada. 

Wilfred  Emery  Cognac,  only  son  of  Emery  and  Adele  (Guimond) 
Cognac,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  January  12,  1892.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell,  St.  John's  (Canada) 
Commercial  College,  and  Lowell  Commercial  College,  entering  his 
father's  furniture  store  upon  completing  the  course  of  study  at  the 
last  named  institution.  He  began  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder  in  1908, 
and  through  actual  contact  became  familiar  with  the  detail  of  the 
large  business  which  had  grown  up  under  the  intelligent  management 
of  Emery  Cognac.  As  he  grew  in  experience  and  knowledge  he  be- 
came his  father's  valued  assistant,  and  gradually  took  from  the  shoul- 
ders of  the  older  man  many  of  his  managerial  burdens  ere  the  end  came 
for  the  veteran.  He  then  became  head  of  the  Cognac  furniture  busi- 
ness, and  so  well  qualified  was  he  that  it  has  never  faltered  in  its  pros- 
perous course,  and  under  its  young  owner  and  manager  has  held  its 
high  rank  among  Lowell's  mercantile  houses.  The  responsibility 
was  heavy  for  a  young  man  of  twenty-three  to  carry,  but  he  has  met 
every  demand  made  upon  him,  and  is  one  of  the  young  merchants  of 


176  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Lowell  who  liave  fairly  won  the  position  he  lnjlds  in  the  business  life 
of  their  city. 

In  his  political  affiliation,  Mr.  Cognac,  like  his  father,  is  a  Repub- 
lican, and  in  religious  connection  identified  with  the  church  of  St. 
Jean  the  Baptiste  (Catholic).  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Citoyens 
American  ;  the  Corporation  of  the  Members  Association  Catholic  (C. 
M.  A.  C),  and  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 


THOMAS  WILLIAM  JOHNSON. 

At  the  end  of  a  five  years'  a])prenticeshi])  to  the  carpenter's  trade 
during  which  his  compensation  had  been  one  penny  daily  in  addition 
to  board  and  lodging,  Thomas  W.  Johnson  came  to  Canada,  obtaining 
employment  on  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railroad,  then  in  course  of  con- 
struction. I'hat  was  in  1878  and  the  next  year  he  came  to  the  United 
States,  finally  reaching  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  1883.  During  the 
thirty-five  years  which  have  since  elapsed  he  has  built  up  high  repu- 
tation as  a  builder,  and  in  connection  with  his  sons  forms  the  well- 
known  T.  W.  Johnson  Company,  building  contractors.  It  is  a  note- 
worthy fact  that  when  Mr.  Johnson  first  started  in  business  for  him- 
self he  never  missed  a  day  of  hard  work,  starting  early  and  taking  any 
kind  of  carpenter  work  that  was  offered.  He  never  borrowed  one 
dollar  at  any  time,  but  through  perseverance  and  hard  labor  saved 
money  to  continue  to  broaden  his  business  until  as  now  he  is  affluent 
in  consequence. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  a  son  of  John  and  Ursula  (Pearson)  Johnson,  of 
Northumberland,  England,  and  grandson  of  Joseph  Johnson,  a  farmer 
of  Northern  England,  whose  farm,  "Kingswood,"  near  Hayden  Bridge, 
was  long  the  ancestral  home  of  the  Johnson  family,  and  otherwise 
famous  in  local  annals.  John  Johnson  was  born  at  Kingswood,  in 
Hayden  Bridge  parish.  Northern  England.  He  owned  a  fine  farm  in 
Northumberland,  and  there  died.  This  farm,  "Wall  Fell,"  he  culti- 
vated until  his  death,  there  lived  a  prosperous,  influential  farmer,  held 
several  parish  offices,  and  after  a  long  and  useful  life  there  ended  his 
days,  his  son,  John  Pearson  Johnson,  now  cultivating  'AN'all  Fell," 
which  is  also  the  home  of  his  widowed  sister,  Eleanor,  widow  of 
Thomas  Heppell,  her  four  sons  all  soldiers  in  the  British  army,  serv- 
ing against  the  Hun  in  France,  one  of  them  having  been  four  times 
wounded.  He  married  Ursula  Pearson,  who  was  born  on  the  Pearson 
farm.  ".Midgclmlni,"  in  the  parish  of  Bardon  Mill,  her  family  having 
held  that  estate  for  many  generations.  She  resided  at  "Midgeholm" 
until  her  marriage,  then  "Wall  Fell"  became  her  home,  there  her  seven 
children  were  born,  and  there  she  died.  Four  of  these  children  are  yet 
living:    Sarah,  wife  of  Thomas  Holmes,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts; 


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John  Pearson,  who  manages  "Wall  Fell,"  the  old  English  farm ; 
Thomas  William,  of  further  mention ;  Eleanor,  widow  of  Thomas 
Heppel,  the  mother  of  four  sons  and  three  daughters,  her  sons,  pre- 
viously mentioned,  soldiers  with  the  British  Army  in  France.  She 
resides  at  "Wall  Fell." 

Thomas  William  Johnson  was  born  at  "Wall  Fell,"  near  Hex- 
ham, parish  of  St.  Johnby,  Northumberland,  England,  February  28, 
1857.  He  attended  the  public  schools  nearby  and  when  arriving  at 
proper  years  was  apprenticed  and  regularly  indentured  to  William 
Prudhoe,  of  Barrasford,  England,  who  agreed  to  teach  him  the  car- 
penter's trade,  give  him  board  and  lodging  and  furthermore  pay  him 
one  penny  daily  wages.  This  agreement  was  faithfully  carried  out  by 
the  lad.  and  as  there  is  no  evidence  to  the  contrary  it  may  be  pre- 
sumed that  the  stipulated  wage  was  faithfully  paid.  At  the  expiration 
of  his  five  years  term,  which  brought  the  lad  to  legal  age,  he  decided 
in  1878  to  come  to  America.  That  year  saw  him  engaged  in  carpenter 
work  on  the  Canadian  Pacific  Railroad  in  Canada,  and  the  year  later 
he  was  working  in  Marquette.  Michigan.  There  he  followed  his  trade 
for  four  years  and  then  came  to  New  England,  beginning  his  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  residence  in  1883.  He  secured  employment  at  his 
trade  with  James  Bennett,  a  leading  contractor  of  the  city,  his  first 
work  being  done  on  the  Waterhead  Mills.  Later,  and  for  seventeen 
years,  he  was  foreman  for  the  important  contracting  firm,  Whittet  & 
McDonald,  then  for  eighteen  months  was  the  carpenter  boss  at  the 
plush  mills,  this  bringing  him  to  the  year  1901.  That  year  witnessed 
the  end  of  his  career  as  a  journeyman  carpenter,  and  the  beginning  of 
his  contracting  activities.  He  did  not  confine  his  business  to  building 
for  others,  however,  but  bought  vacant  lots,  developed  them  by  the 
laying  out  of  streets,  grading  and  paving  them,  and  erecting  buildings 
thereon  which  were  sold  to  homeseekers  on  the  modern  plan  of  partial 
payments  monthly  or  as  otherwise  agreed.  This  business  he  has 
since  continued  very  successfully,  and  is  now  assisted  by  his  two  sons, 
who  were  admitted  partners  in  191 1,  the  firm  then  becoming  the  T.  W. 
Johnson  Company,  one  of  the  principal  tracts  developed  by  Mr.  John- 
son being  the  Belvidere  section  of  Lowell,  where  one  of  the  streets 
in  remembrance  of  the  town  in  England,  where  he  learned  his  trade, 
is  named  Barrasford  street.  Mr.  Johnson  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
a  member  of  St.  Paul's  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  is  one  of 
the  leading  substantial,  successful  men  of  the  contracting  and  build- 
ing business. 

Mr.  Johnson  married,  in  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  Chicago,  Illi- 
nois, November  13,  1880,  Annie  Thomas,  born  in  Newry,  County 
Down,  Ireland.     Her  youth  was  spent  in  Northumberland,  England, 


178  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

where  she  and  her  husband  became  acquainted.  She  is  the  daughter 
of  Hugh  and  Ann  (Moore)  Thomas,  he  born  in  Bangor.  Wales,  and 
she  in  Ireland.  Thomas  being  the  name  of  a  very  ancient  Welsh  fam- 
ily. Hugh  Thomas,  a  stone-cutter,  lived  for  a  time  in  Ireland,  then 
in  iMigland,  coming  to  the  United  States  in  iS8i,  settling  in  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  and  here  died  in  Pawtucketville.  His  wife,  Ann 
Moore,  was  born  in  Newry,  County  Down,  Ireland,  and  died  in  Low- 
ell. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Johnson  are  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter: 
I.  Jiihn  ilumphrey,  born  in  Rc])ublic.  Michigan,  August  i8.  1882.  now 
in  business  with  his  father  and  brother  as  the  T.  \\'.  Johnson  Com- 
pany :  married,  in  1903,  Agnes  Lovejoy,  of  Tilton,  Xew  Hampshire, 
who  died  in  Lowell,  in  1905,  leaving  a  daughter,  Elizabeth  Don  Agnes, 
born  in  Lowell.  August  19,  1905.  2.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  in  Dracut 
Massachusetts  ;  married  Fred.  A.  Barber,  president  and  treasurer  oi 
the  Glol)e  Ear  Phone  Company,  of  Reading,  Massachusetts.  Air.  and 
Mrs.  Barber  are  the  parents  of  Thomas  Oilman,  and  Marguerite 
Annie  I'.arlier.  3.  Hugh  Thomas,  born  in  Dracut,  Massachusetts 
Novemljcr  19,  1892,  and  now  engaged  with  his  father  and  brother  a.' 
the  T.  W.  Johnson  Company.  He  married  Gladys  ^\'ood,  of  Sharon 
Vermont.     Their  son,  John  Nelson,  died  in  infancy. 


ERWIN  A.  WILSON. 


The  firm  of  E.  A.  Wilson  &  Company,  coal  and  mason's  su])plies 
Nos.  152  Paige  street,  700  Broadway,  and  15  Tanner  street.  Lowell,  i; 
the  outgrowth  of  the  business  founded  by  Mr.  Wilson  in  1891,  hi; 
first  business  venture  on  his  own  behalf,  although  he  was  thoroughly 
experienced  in  mercantile  life  through  long  years  of  clerical  service 
He  has  won  honorable  position  among  Lowell  merchants,  and  is  at  the 
head  of  a  business  well  established  and  prosperous.  He  is  a  native 
son  of  Vermont,  son  of  Calvin  P.  Wilson,  a  farmer,  who  died  in  1913 
aged  seventy-seven  years.  He  was  a  man  of  quiet,  retiring  nature 
but  highly  esteemed  in  his  community.  He  is  the  grandson  of  Benja 
min  Wilson,  also  a  Vermont  farmer.  Calvin  P.  Wilson  married  Louist 
Goff,  of  Pomfret,  Vermont,  born  in  1842,  died  in  1910. 

Erwin  A.  Wilson  was  born  in  Pomfret,  Vermont.  June  10,  1861 
and  there  spent  his  boyhood  days  in  attendance  at  the  public  school; 
and  in  farm  duties.  Farming  did  not  appeal  to  him,  but  an  educatior 
did,  ;ind,  after  finishing  public  school  studies,  he  began  a  course  a' 
the  State  Normal  School  at  Randolph.  Vermont,  reaching  the  end  o: 
the  course  and  being  graduated  with  the  class  of  1S79.  He  was  ther 
eighteen  years  of  age,  and  the  liare  record  does  not  tell  the  entire 
stor\-  of  those  vears  at  nurinal.     The  funtls  which  financed  the  course 


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were  provided  by  himself,  and  were  earned  by  teaching  school  at  Ran- 
dolph, Hartford,  and  Sharon,  Vermont,  his  winters  being  spent  in  that 
manner  while  the  normal  school  was  not  in  session.  After  graduation, 
in  1879,  he  taught  at  Sharon  for  a  time,  then  came  to  Lowell,  which 
has  ever  since  been  his  home  and  the  scene  of  his  business  activity. 

His  first  position  in  Lowell  was  as  clerk  with  Whithed  &  Com- 
pany, coal  dealers,  seven  years  being  spent  in  their  employ,  he  remain- 
ing for  a  time  after  the  business  changed  hands.  Having  gained  an 
intimate  knowledge  of  the  retail  coal  business,  during  his  seven  years 
as  clerk,  Mr.  \\'ilson  determined  to  enter  the  same  business  on  his 
own  account,  and  some  years  after,  securing  the  co-operation  of  La- 
forest  Beals,  formed  the  firm.  E.  A.  Wilson  &  Company,  coal  and 
mason's  supplies,  beginning  with  a  yard  at  No.  700  Broadway,  and 
with  four  single  teams  for  delivery.  Now  two  yards  are  necessary  for 
the  coal  department,  sixteen  horses  and  three  motor  trucks  being 
necessary  to  keep  up  deliveries  in  both  departments  of  the  business. 
The  first  offices  of  E.  A.  Wilson  &  Company  were  on  Merrimack 
street,  now  occupied  by  the  Five  and  Ten  Cent  Store,  and  there  were 
continued  until  they  were  moved  to  No.  4  Merrimack  square,  in  the 
building  now  occupied  by  the  Dow  Drug  Store.  On  December  31, 
1915,  the  offices  were  moved  to  their  present  location,  No.  152  Paige 
street.  The  yards  at  No.  700  Broadway  are  yet  retained,  and  addi- 
tional space  was  secured  by  opening  a  branch  yard  at  No.  15  Tanner 
street.  The  firm  specializes  in  coal  for  family  use,  and  also  does  a 
large  business  with  firms  and  corporations.  Mr.  Wilson  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Republican. 

Mr.  Wilson  married,  in  Lowell,  May  21,  1893,  Evelyn  A.  Carroll, 
of  Lowell,  daughter  of  Henry  L.  Carroll,  of  Croydon,  New  Hampshire, 
later  of  Lowell,  a  contractor  and  builder  who  died  in  1910,  aged  sixty- 
four  years.  Henry  L.  Carroll  married  Elizabeth  Gunston,  born  in 
Canada,  who  died  in  1905,  aged  fifty-four  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wilson 
are  the  parents  of  two  sons,  one  deceased,  and  of  a  daughter,  all  born 
in  Lowell :  Walter  C.  Wilson,  born  Alay  21,  1896,  and  educated  in  the 
grade  and  high  schools  of  the  city,  finishing  with  graduation,  class  of 
1914.  From  high  school  he  entered  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology, class  of  1918,  taking  the  course  recently  added  to  the  curri- 
culum, engineering  and  business.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Tech.  fra- 
ternity. Phi  Beta  Epsilon,  and  deeply  interested  in  school  work  and 
life.  The  second  son,  Henry  C.  Wilson,  born  September  15,  1897, 
died  in  .\pril,  1 901.  Doris  Evelyn  Wilson,  the  only  daughter,  was 
horn  April  25,  1903,  and  is  a  high  school  student. 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


ROBERT  FRIEND. 


Friend  Brothers'  Company  was  incorporated  in  1916,  with  Victor 
A.  Friend,  president,  Lester  Friend,  treasurer,  Robert  Friend,  clerk. 
This  was  the  official  beginning  of  the  company,  but  not  the  com- 
mencement of  their  Lowell  business,  the  Lowell  branch  having  been 
started  in  1898.  Robert  Friend,  the  manager  of  the  Lowell  branch, 
came  to  Lowell  in  1900,  and  from  his  able,  energetic  management 
came  the  Friend  Brothers'  Company,  Inc.,  the  largest  baking  firm  in 
Lowell,  located  in  their  own  building,  No.  2  Westford  street,  and 
ojjerating  a  large  modern  "daylight"  bakery,  dealing  both  in  whole- 
sale and  retail  in  the  usual  bakery  lines,  bread,  cake,  pastry,  etc.  This 
Liiwell  plant  is  Ijut  one  of  a  chain,  Friend  Brothers  also  having  well 
established  bakeries  at  Lynn  and  Melrose,  Massachusetts.  But  that 
does  not  cover  their  activities ;  realizing  that  their  machinery  bills 
were  so  high,  they  secured  patents,  incorporated  as  the  Friend  Ma- 
chine Company,  established  a  factory  in  Lowell,  and  are  manufacturers 
of  a  line  of  machines  used  in  bakeries,  including  a  machine  which 
wraps  the  paper  covering  around  the  loaves,  this  guaranteeing  perfect 
cleanliness  in  handling  after  leaving  the  ovens.  This  is  the  spirit  of 
all  the  baking  plants  operated  by  the  Friend  Brothers'  Company, 
cleanliness  and  every  sanitary  precaution  being  held  paramount. 

Robert  Friend,  manager  of  the  Lowell  branch,  was  born  in  Brook- 
lin,  Maine,  February,  1877,  son  of  Robert  Alonzo  Friend,  a  general 
merchant  and  proprietor  of  a  canning  factory  in  Brooklin.  He  was  a 
veteran  of  the  .Sixth  Regiment,  Maine  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  saw 
hard  service  with  his  regiment  during  the  Civil  War.  Both  he  and 
his  wife,  ."Mona  B.  (Mirrick)  Friend,  are  deceased.  Robert,  the  son, 
attended  the  grade  and  high  schools  in  Brooklin,  Maine,  Bridgewater 
and  Melrose,  Massachusetts,  completing  his  studies  in  the  Melrose 
High  School.  He  began  his  connection  with  the  baking  business  in 
the  bakery  owned  by  his  brothers  at  Melrose,  and  there  mastered 
every  detail  thereof,  both  as  a  trade  and  as  a  business.  The  brothers 
had  started  a  branch  at  Lowell  in  1898,  and  about  1900  Robert  Friend 
was  sent  there  as  its  manager.  The  ovens  and  store  until  December, 
1907,  were  at  the  old  Scripture  Bakery,  No.  547  Central  street,  but  in 
that  year  the  entire  Ijusiness  was  removed  to  the  building  which  had 
been  erected  for  its  reception  at  No.  2  Westford  street,  the  present 
location.  Friend  Brothers  have  the  largest  bakeries  in  the  city,  their 
business  extending  to  all  parts  of  Lowell  and  the  surrounding  country. 
The  quality  of  their  product  is  high,  and  Mr.  Friend  ranks  with  the 
sterling  business  men  of  the  city.  Mr.  Friend  is  a  member  of  the 
Association  of  Master  Bakers  of  Lowell ;  the  Board  of  Trade ;  Pen- 
tucket  Lodge,  Free  and  .Accepted  Masons;  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal 


)cirinie  Hcpinc 


BIOGRAPHICAL  i8i 

Arch  Masons;  the  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  Middlesex 
Chevalier  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias ;  the  Vesper  Country  Club ;  an 
attendant  of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 
Mr.  Friend  married,  in  Lowell,  June  8,  1900,  Mary  Ann  Phelps, 
of  Boston.  They  had  two  children:  Lillian  May,  born  June  8,  1901, 
at  Lowell,  died  December  6,  1904,  and  Robert  A.  (2),  born  in  Lowell, 
February  20,  1906. 


MICHAEL  J.  MEAGHER,  M.  D. 

In  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  on  August  27,  1868.  Michael  J. 
Meagher  was  born,  son  of  John  and  Mary  Meagher,  his  father  a 
farmer.  In  Ireland  the  boy  attended  the  National  schools  and  later 
was  a  student  at  Emmet  College,  in  County  Clare.  He  left  Ireland 
in  1885  and  resumed  study  soon  thereafter  at  Mount  St.  Mary's  Col- 
lege, Emmetsburg,  Frederick  county,  Maryland,  there  receiving  his 
degree,  bachelor  of  arts,  with  the  graduating  class  of  1889.  Deciding 
upon  medicine  as  his  profession  and  life  work,  he  entered  Bellevue 
Hospital  Medical  College,  New  York  City,  and  in  1890  was  graduated 
doctor  of  medicine.  He  pursued  post-graduate  study  at  the  Post- 
graduate Medical  School  and  at  Harvard  Medical  School,  thus  com- 
pleting an  exhaustive  preparatory  course  of  education,  with  which  he 
started  practice  in  Lowell,  in  1894.  In  1895  he  was  appointed  to  the 
medical  staff  of  St.  John's  Hospital,  and  for  twelve  years  he  continued 
a  member  of  that  staff.  His  private  practice  had  grown  to  such  pro- 
portions that  in  1907  he  resigned  from  the  post  he  had  held  so  long. 
He  examines  for  the  Metropolitan  Life  Insurance  Company,  the  Union 
Central  Life  Insurance  Company,  the  Foresters,  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  and  the  American  Medical  Associations.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  several  medical  societies,  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  and 
St.  Michael's  Church.  He  is  a  physician  of  learning  and  skill,  min- 
istering to  a  large  clientele. 

Dr.  Meagher  married,  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  October,  1902, 
Grace  A.  Mylott.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Meagher  are  the  parents  of  four  sons : 
John  Raymond,  born  July  6,  1903:  William  Brendan,  born  July  16, 
1910;  Joseph  Vincent,  born  March  16,  1912;  Francis  Patrick,  born 
February  i,  1914. 


MAXIME  LEPINE. 

When  a  lad  of  seventeen  Mr.  Lepine  left  his  Canadian  home  and 
came  to  the  United  States,  locating  in  the  city  of  Worcester,  Massa- 
chusetts. Nearly  forty  years  have  since  elapsed,  and  the  boy  of  seven- 
teen has  become  the  veteran  of  fifty-six,  but  Massachusetts  has  been 


i82  JIISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

his  home  during  the  entire  period,  and  for  thirty-five  of  those  years 
Lowell  has  been  his  home  and  the  seat  of  his  business  activity.  Dur- 
ing his  years  of  American  residence  he  has  retained,  until  recently, 
his  connection  with  the  trade  he  learned,  printing,  and  in  addition  was 
the  publisher  of  a  newspaper  printed  in  the  French  language.  In  191 7 
he  assumed  the  duties  of  the  position  he  now  holds  in  the  city  govern- 
ment. He  is  highly  esteemed  wherever  known,  but  especially  is  he 
honored  by  his  countrymen  of  French  Canadian  birth,  his  endeavor 
in  their  behalf  being  constant  and  long  continued.  Through  his  ad- 
vice, aid  and  encouragement,  and  that  of  others,  the  buying  of  homes 
has  become  common,  and  the  standard  of  citizenship  raised  to  a  higher 
level. 

Ma.xime  Lepine  was  Imrn  in  the  parish  of  L'Assomption,  Prov- 
ince of  Ouebec,  Canada,  July  8,  1861,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  the  city 
of  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  He  attended  school  until  eleven  years  of 
age,  then  began  learning  the  printer's  trade,  going  later  to  Joliette, 
Canada,  where  he  continued  his  apprenticeship  until  seventeen  years 
of  age.  He  then  decided  to  leave  his  native  land  and  come  to  the 
United  States,  this  decision  being  followed  up,  and  a  residence  ac- 
quired in  Worcester,  Massachusetts.  This  was  in  1878,  his  Worcester 
residence  continuing  until  1882,  the  four  years  interval  being  spent  as 
a  printer  on  the  Worcester  Evening  Times.  In  1882  he  removed  to 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  for  seven  years  he  was  employed  in  the 
dififerent  printing  establishments  of  the  city.  He  was  an  expert  com- 
positor and  always  found  his  services  in  demand.  In  1889  h^  entered 
into  a  co-partnership,  forming  the  firm,  Lepine  &  Company,  and  pub- 
lishing a  newspaper  printed  in  the  French  language.  This  paper  was 
well  edited  and  still  occupies  a  distinctive  place  in  Lowell  journalism. 
In  1909  Mr.  Lepine  sold  his  interest  in  the  paper,  but  for  several 
years,  thereafter,  worked  at  his  trade  in  various  printing  shops  of  the 
city.  In  191 7  he  was  appointed  purchasing  agent  for  the  city  of 
Lowell.  He  is  also  a  trustee  of  the  Foxboro  State  Hospital;  member 
of  the  French  Naturalization  Association  ;  the  French-American  CIuli ; 
the  Artisans  Canadian  Society ;  the  Lafayette  Club,  and  the  United 
States  Bunting  Cricket  and  Athletic  Association.  He  takes  a  deep 
interest  in  these  societies,  and  enjoys  the  companionship  of  his  fellow- 
men  whii.  with  earnest  purpose,  are  seeking  to  lighten  men's  burdens 
and  make  life  [ileasanter.  He  is  a  hard  worker,  the  responsibility  of 
life  teaching  him  the  value  of  time  and  well  directed  elifort. 

Mr.  Lepine  married,  July  24,  1882,  at  Worcester,  Massachusetts. 
Zenaide  Duiiont,  who  died  in  1911,  leaving  two  children:  I'.cnjaniin, 
a  printer  of  Worcester,  ^Massachusetts  ;  and  Stella,  residing  with  her 
brother  at  No.  276  Plantation  street,  Worcester,  Massachusetts. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  183 

HERMANN  H.  BACHMANN. 

In  i8go  Mr.  Bachmann  came  to  the  United  States  from  his  native 
land,  Germany,  being  then  well  informed  in  textile  manufacture  and 
well  advanced  as  a  designer.  Twenty  years  later,  after  perfecting  his 
art  in  many  mills  in  different  cities,  and  under  varying  conditions,  he 
came  to  the  Lowell  Textile  School  as  head  instructor  of  the  depart- 
ment of  textile  design,  fabric  structure,  and  weaving.  He  has  devel- 
oped a  deep  interest  in  these  subjects  in  his  classes  each  year,  and 
sends  out  men  thoroughly  equipped  to  manage  similar  departments 
in  textile  mills.  He  is  a  man  of  high  character  as  well  as  attainment, 
holds  the  perfect  confidence  and  respect  of  his  associates,  and  takes  a 
deep  interest  in  Lowell's  welfare. 

Born  and  educated  in  Germany,  and  there  taught  the  theory  of 
designing  and  weaving  in  a  textile  school,  also  serving  an  actual  prac- 
tical apprenticeship  in  designing,  Hermann  H.  Bachmann  brought  to  the 
L'nited  States,  in  1890,  a  fund  of  practical  manufacturing  knowledge, 
which  at  once  gave  him  standing  as  a  textile  worker.  The  years 
1S90-97  were  spent  as  textile  designer  with  the  Parkill  Manufacturing 
Company,  of  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts.  There  he  grafted  upon  the 
knowledge  and  skill  brought  from  abroad  the  peculiar  advantage  of 
American  methods  and  styles,  becoming  thoroughly  proficient  in  his 
work.  In  1897  he  went  to  the  Fitchburg  Worsted  Company,  for  one 
year;  spent  another  year  as  designer  with  the  Boston  Button  Com- 
pany :  was  with  the  Lorraine  Manufacturing  Company  of  Pawtucket, 
Rhode  Island,  for  nine  years,  as  designer ;  two  years  with  the  Smith 
Webbing  Company,  of  the  same  city,  as  head  designer.  This  brought 
him  to  the  year  1910,  and  the  beginning  of  his  service  as  head  in- 
structor in  textile  design,  decorative  art,  fabric  structure  and  weaving, 
at  the  Lowell  Textile  School,  a  position  he  has  most  ably  filled,  and 
yet  holds. 

In  the  department  of  design,  original,  combined  and  applied  design 
in  weave  and  color  and  cloth  analysis  is  taught ;  in  weaving,  the  mak- 
ing of  cloth  up  to  the  finest  and  most  varied  fabric  comes  under  Mr. 
Bachmann's  dominion,  and  upon  the  correctness  of  his  teaching  de- 
pends in  a  measure  the  textile  manufacturing  greatness  of  the  United 
States  in  the  future,  for  many  men  sit  under  his  instruction  and  go  out 
to  positions  of  responsibility. 

Mr.  Bachmann  married,  in  1894,  Fannie  Otto,  of  German  birth 
and  parentage.  They  are  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  two  daughters : 
I.  Helen  F.,  married  Raymond  A.  Wilson,  a  jeweler  and  stone  setter 
of  Providence.  Rhode  Island,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one  son, 
Raymond  Bachmann  Wilson.  2.  Walter,  born  .August  26.  1897.  3. 
Gertrude,  born  February  10,  1899.     4.  Alfred,  born  January  18,  1901. 


r84  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ALBERT  B.  CAMERON. 

Until  eighteen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Cameron  remained  with  his  par- 
ents at  the  home  farm  in  Canada,  building  up  a  strong,  healthy  body, 
and  acquiring  an  education.  His  life  in  Lowell  dates  from  the  year 
1889,  his  business  experiences  in  the  city  covering  a  variety  of  occu- 
pations, and  he  began  business  for  himself  as  a  retail  confectioner. 
As  that  business  became  firmly  established,  a  wholesale  department 
was  added,  and  still  later  the  manufacture  of  Quality  ice  cream  was 
begun,  the  firm,  Cameron  Brothers,  being  now  located  at  No.  155  Mid- 
dlesex street,  the  business  as  a  partnership  dating  from  1898,  when 
James  Cameron  was  admitted  a  partner.  The  brothers  are  sons  of 
.Alexander  Cameron,  of  Scotch  descent,  and  Barbara  (Smallman) 
Cameron,  their  father  now  deceased. 

-Albert  B.  Cameron  was  born  in  Dundee,  Province  of  Quebec, 
Canada,  April  19,  1871.  He  attended  the  village  school  and  worked 
on  the  farm  as  his  father's  assistant  until  1889,  then  left  home  and 
came  to  the  L'nited  States,  finding  employment  in  Lowell,  with 
A.  C.  Stevens,  a  druggist.  He  was  with  Air.  Stevens  as  clerk  for 
about  one  year,  then  with  the  C.  L  Hood  Company  in  their  mailing 
department  for  three  years.  Having  conserved  his  resources  during 
the  four  years  in  Lowell,  he  was  in  possession  of  a  small  capital 
which,  in  1893,  he  invested  in  a  retail  confectionery  store  at  No.  155 
Middlesex  street.  This  store,  known  as  Cameron's  Store,  acquired 
a  reputation  for  especially  toothsome  confections,  and  a  good  trade 
developed  on  special  brands  of  his  own.  For  five  years  Mr.  Cameron 
conducted  a  profitable  retail  business  then,  feeling  that  a  wholesale 
department  would  prove  equally  profitable,  he  admitted  his  brother, 
James  Cameron,  and  organized  as  Cameron  Brothers.  This  was  in 
1898,  and  from  that  time  they  have  been  both  wholesale  and  retail 
confectioners  and  ice-cream  manufacturers.  Cameron  Brothers  are 
agents  for  Lennox,  Lowney's,  and  Schraft's  chocolates,  and  in  all 
their  departments  maintain  a  reputation  for  high  grade  goods.  Mr. 
Cameron  also  conducts  a  retail  store  at  the  corner  of  Stevens  and 
Pine  streets,  Lowell,  the  l)uil(ling  occupied  ha\'ing  been  built  l)y  him 
for  the  business. 

Albert  B.  Cameron  married,  in  Lowell,  January  4,  1901,  Cath- 
erine Brown,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Hazel  Barbara, 
and  two  sons.  Earl  Albert,  and  Kenneth  Alexander.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cameron  are  members  of  Highland  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Mr. 
Cameron  is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade.  He  holds  no 
club  or  fraternal  memberships,  his  business  and  his  family  filling  his 
life  to  the  brim. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  185 

EMMANUEL  G.  SOPHOS. 

At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  Mr.  Sophos,  now  a  successful  import- 
ing merchant  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  came  from  his  native  land  of 
Greece  to  the  United  States,  joining  relatives  in  Lowell.  This  was 
in  1896.  The  young  Greek  being  unacquainted  with  the  language  of 
the  country  to  which  he  had  come,  and  being  the  son  of  poor  par- 
ents, brought  little  of  this  world's  goods  with  him,  but  he  possessed 
a  strong  body  and  a  stout  heart,  was  not  afraid,  and  began  at  once 
to  fit  himself  to  his  new  surroundings.  He  has  succeeded  far  beyond 
his  own  hopes,  his  energy  and  natural  ability  forming  a  perfect 
union,  with  the  fuller,  freer  opportunities  of  this  country.  He  fought 
his  own  way,  and  from  the  bottom  he  came  to  honorable  position. 
Knowing  his  own  struggles,  he  has  a  deep  sympathy  for  others  in 
like  circumstances,  and  it  is  his  greatest  joy  to  aid  some  one  whom 
he  sees  is  working  with  might  and  main  to  help  himself.  But  for 
the  idler,  he  has  nothing  but  contempt.  He  is  a  son  of  George  E. 
and  Catherine  (Beleses)  Sophos,  both  living  in  Earakas,  Greece,  his 
father  a  farmer.  One  other  member  of  the  family,  a  sister,  is  in  the 
United  States,  living  in  California,  and  John  G.  Sophos,  a  brother, 
now  resides  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

Emmanuel  G.  Sophos  was  born  in  Earakas,  Greece,  September 
20,  1880,  and  until  the  age  of  twelve  attended  the  village  school. 
From  twelve  to  sixteen  he  was  employed  in  a  grocery  store,  then 
having  relations  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  he  determined  to  join 
them.  He  landed  in  New  York  City  in  the  Fall  of  1896,  remained 
there  four  days,  then  came  to  Lowell,  which  place  has  since  been  his 
home.  In  a  few  days  he  began  working  in  the  spinning  room  of  mill 
No.  2,  of  the  Tremont  and  Suffolk  group,  there  remaining  six  years, 
until  1901.  During  this  period  he  attended  night  school  and  pursued 
a  course  of  study  in  English.  In  May,  1901,  he  started  his  present 
business,  importing  from  Greece  the  products  of  that  land  coming 
under  the  head  of  groceries,  and  selling  in  wholesale  quantities  to 
the  smaller  dealers.  These  specialties,  olive  oil,  cheese,  etc.,  found 
ready  market,  and  in  the  course  of  a  few  years  he  was  compelled  to 
enlarge  his  place  of  business.  In  1908  he  removed  from  the  basement  at 
No.  568  Market  street,  in  which  he  started,  to  his  present  store  at 
the  corner  of  Adams  and  Salem  streets.  Imported  olive  oil  is  his 
principal  specialty,  and  with  imported  groceries  the  volume  of  busi- 
ness he  transacts  is  very  large,  his  present  quarters  having  recently 
been  enlarged  by  the  addition  of  two  more  stores.  He  is  the  only 
importer  of  importance  in  his  specialties  in  this  city,  and  he  has 
developed  the  business  from  a  very  small  beginning.  He  is  also  a 
manufacturer  of  Greek  style  cheese,  having  cheese  factories  in  dif- 


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ferent  parts  of  Vermont,  having  started  that  line  of  manufacture 
very  recently.  He  is  the  sole  owner  of  the  business  he  conducts 
under  the  name  of  E.  G.  Sophos,  and  in  all  the  city  no  business  is 
better  conducted  in  all  its  departments.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  the  United  Commercial  Travelers'  Associa- 
tion, and  a  member  of  the  Orthodox  Greek  church.  He  is  devoted 
to  his  business,  but  not  selfishly,  his  hand  ever  ready  to  help  any  one 
in  need  of  a  lift  over  a  hard  place. 

Mr.  Sophos  married  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  September  2,  1906, 
Catherine  C.  Andrean,  of  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  a  native  of  Greece. 
They  are  the  parents  of  five  children,  three  of  whom  are  being  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools :  George  E.,  Christo  E.,  Georgia  E., 
Alkeveadis  E.,  and  Helen  E.  Their  home  is  at  No.  98  Mount  Vernon 
street,  Pawtucketville. 

Note. — The  E.  is  for  Emmanuel,  the  middle  name  of  all  his  chil- 
dren, following  the  Greek  custom,  the  children's  middle  name  (all 
children)  is  the  same  as  the  father's  first  name. 


DANIEL  J.  DONAHUE, 

For  thirty  years  a  member  of  the  Middlesex  County  Bar,  Mr. 
Donahue  has  in  that  period  accumulated  a  vast  fund  of  experience, 
and  is  an  authority  on  local  bar  history.  Of  his  own  part  in  making 
the  history  of  that  bar  from  1887,  when  he  was  admitted  a  novice, 
until  the  present,  191 7,  when  he  stands  the  veteran  attorney,  respected 
by  all,  he  is  loth  to  speak,  but  he  is  one  of  the  men  who  have  continued 
steadily  in  practice,  and  through  industry  and  ability  won  honorable 
standing  at  a  bar  noted  for  its  strong  men.  He  is  well  known  as  a 
lawyer,  with  a  wide  reputation  as  a  platform  orator,  lecturing  on 
varied  subjects  of  timely  interest.  He  has  been  called  in  important 
cases  far  beyond  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Middlesex  courts,  and  in  his 
platform  work  has  faced  audiences  far  and  near.  He  is  a  native  son 
of  Erin,  his  parents,  Daniel  and  Mary  (Cole)  Donahue,  coming  from 
County  Kerry,  in  1861,  a  year  after  the  birth  of  their  son,  Daniel  J. 
Donahue.  They  located  in  Lowell,  Mr.  Donahue  entering  the  employ 
of  the  Boston  and  Lowell  Railroad  as  a  stationary  engineer.  He  died 
in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  aged  seventy-two  years.  He  married  Mary 
Cole,  born  in  County  Kerry,  died  in  Lowell,  aged  seventy-five  years. 

Daniel  J.  Donahue  was  born  at  Kerry,  in  the  County  of  Kerry, 
Ireland,  April  19,  i860,  and  the  next  year  was  brought  to  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  by  his  parents,  he  knowing  no  other  home.  He  was 
educated  in  the  grade  and  high  schools  of  the  city,  attended  Lowell 
Commercial  College  for  two  years,  then  began  life  as  a  wage-earner, 
performing   clerical    work    for   seven   years   before   definitely   settling 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  187 

down  to  the  study  of  law.  He  then  entered  Boston  University  Law 
School.  He  was  admitted  to  practice,  August  7,  1887,  he  then  having 
reached  the  age  of  twenty-seven.  The  spirit  and  energy  which  car- 
ried him  through  college  nerved  him  through  those  hard  first  years 
for  every  young  lawyer,  and  in  time  he  had  a  good  practice  estab- 
lished. With  a  foothold  gained,  he  could  not  be  denied,  and  has  gone 
forward  to  a  leading  and  honored  position  among  the  leaders  of  the 
Middlesex  bar.  The  first  thirteen  years  of  his  practice  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  W.  F.  Courtney,  at  one  time  city  solicitor,  and  later  mayor 
of  Lowell.  Since  Mr.  Courtney's  death,  in  1900,  Mr.  Donahue  has 
retained  the  same  office.  No.  97  Central  street,  rooms  13-14,  but  has 
practiced  alone  until  the  present  admission  of  his  son.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  local  and  State  bar  associations,  and  highly  esteemed  by 
his  brethren  of  the  profession.  A  Democrat  in  politics,  he  has  served 
the  party  as  a  campaign  orator,  and  for  four  years  was  a  member  of 
the  Lowell  School  Committee,  serving  as  chairman  the  last  two  years. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Central  and  Washington  Social  clubs,  the 
Aliddlesex  Lawyers'  Club,  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  Loyal  Order  of  Moose,  and  Longmeadow  Golf  Club.  Mr.  Don- 
ahue is  a  devout  Catholic,  belonging  to  Immaculate  Conception 
Church. 

Mr.  Donahue  married,  March  5,  1884,  Katherine  Donovan,  of 
Lowell,  daughter  of  Timothy  Donovan,  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donahue  are  the  parents  of  a  son,  Joseph  P.  Donahue, 
born  October  19,  1890,  who  prepared  in  the  Lowell  High  School; 
Dartmouth  College,  A.  B.,  class  of  1913;  Harvard  Law  School,  LL.  B., 
1916;  now  associated  in  practice  with  his  father.  He  enlisted  in  the 
United  States  army,  in  1918,  infantry  branch  ;  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  regimental  sergeant  major,  and  was  a  student  at  the  Ofificers' 
Training  Camp,  at  Camp  Sherman,  Ohio. 


JOHN  MARCOPOULOS 

Partly  upon  the  site  of  ancient  Sparta,  of  which  but  scanty  re- 
mains survive,  lies  the  modern  Sparta,  a  town  of  Greece,  of  about 
five  thousand  population,  arisen  since  the  Greek  Revolution.  This 
modern  Sparta  was  the  birthplace  of  John  Marcopoulos,  born  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1883.  He  is  the  son  of  George  and  Diamanto  (Giannaco- 
poulos)  Marcopoulos,  both  natives  of  Sparta,  Greece,  his  father  a 
highly-educated  man  and  land  owner.  The  father's  property  lay  near 
the  town  of  Sparta,  and  was  devoted  to  the  growing  of  olives,  the 
orchards  being  great  in  their  extent.  There  were  twelve  children 
in  the  Marcopoulos  family,  five  of  them  coming  to  the  United  States, 
three  of  them  yet  living  here.     Demertrius,  who  later  returned   to 


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Greece;  Christos,  a  prosperous  grocer  of  Newton,  Massachusetts; 
Alexander,  who  settled  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  where  he  died; 
John,  of  further  mention;  Catherine,  wife  of  Apostolos  A.  Johnson,  a 
"cigarette  manufacturer  of  Lowell,  whose  sketch  follows  this. 

John  Marcopoulos  attended  the  Sparta  schools  until  the  age  of 
fifteen.     In  1898  he  came  to  the  United  States  and  found  a  home  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where  many  of  his  countrymen  had  preceded 
him.      Here   he   continued   his   studies   in   the   public   schools,   finally 
accomplishing  the   full  course   and   then   attended   the   Lowell   High 
School.     This  he  supplemented  by  a  special  business  course  at  the 
School  of  Commerce  and  Finance  in  Boston,  then  began  his  success- 
ful mercantile  career.     He  began  in   1905  as  a  dealer  in  fancy  fruit, 
renting  a  store  in  the  center  of  the  "high  rent"  district  at  the  corner 
of  Merrimac  square.     After  demonstrating  the  value  of  the  location 
as  a  good  one  for  a  fruit  store,  he  sold  out  at  the  end  of  a  year,  and 
in  1907  returned  to  his  home  in  Greece.     He  remained  in  Sparta  until 
the  fall  of   1909,  then  came  again  to  the  United  States,  locating  in 
Newton,   Massachusetts,  where  he   conducted  a  grocery   store,  then 
sold  out  to  enter  a  new  line  of  business  activity.     He  formed  a  part- 
nership with  his  brother-in-law,  Apostolos  A.  Johnson,  and  under  the 
firm   name,   A.   A.  Johnson   &   Company,  began   the  manufacture   of 
high-grade  Turkish  and  Grecian  cigarettes.    They  located  their  factory 
at  No.  613  Merrimack  street,  Lowell,  where  they  built  up  a  fine  trade, 
particularly  on  their  Pygros  brand  of  cigarettes.     Thts  cigarette  has 
won  the  approval  of  the  Greek  taste,  and  in  every  New  England  city 
or  town  that  boasts  a  Greek  colony  that  cigarette  is  in  heavy  demand. 
The  firm  makes  a  specialty  of  blending  tobaccos  to  suit  the  individual 
taste,  and  special  brands  are  a  popular  item  of  their  trade.     A.  A. 
Johnson  &  Company,  as  well  as  the  individual  partners,  operate  in 
real  estate  considerably,  and  have  been  successful  in  wisely  choosing 
locations  in  which  to  invest.     By  foreclosure  the  firm  came  into  pos- 
session of  the  property,  Nos.  507-51 1-513-515  Market  street,  Lowell, 
in  the  very  center  of  the  Greek  Colony,  part  of  this  property  bemg 
operated  as  a  cafe  at  the  time  of  foreclosure  and  since. 

John  Marcopoulos  is  president  of  the  Greek  Progressive  Union  of 
Lowell,  is  a  member  of  the  Orthodox  Greek  church,  is  secretary  of 
the  Pan  Hellenic  Union,  and  one  of  the  prominent  and  progressive 
young  Greeks  of  the  Lowell  Colony.  In  politics  he  has  affiliated  with 
the  Republican  party. 


APOSTOLOS  A.  JOHNSON. 

In  1898  Apostolos  A.  Johnson  and  John  Marcopoulos  came  from 
Greece,  and  in  the  United  States  formed  the  partnership,  A.  A.  John- 


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son  &  Company,  manufacturers  of  Pygros  cigarettes,  with  factory  on 
Merrimack  street,  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  The  two  men  are  connected 
by  both  business  and  family  ties,  being  brothers-in-law. 

Apostolos  A.  Johnson  was  born  in  Greece,  in  1874,  was  there 
educated,  and  spent  the  first  twenty-four  years  of  his  life  becoming 
familiar  with  the  drug  business  and  acquiring  a  good  education  in 
excellent  Greek  institutions  of  learning.  In  1898  he  came  to  the 
United  States,  spending  one  year  in  New  York  City,  in  a  Greek  res- 
taurant. In  1899  he  came  to  Lowell  and  for  twelve  years  was  owner 
and  proprietor  of  a  drug  store  on  Market  street.  This  business  was  a 
profitable  one,  but  after  his  brother-in-law,  John  Marcopoulos,  arrived 
at  legal  age  he  admitted  him  a  partner  and  later  began  the  manufac- 
ture of  cigarettes.  In  1912  the  partners  sold  their  drug  business  and 
gave  their  entire  attention  to  their  cigarette  factory,  that  business 
having  become  a  very  important  one.  In  1914  George  Gazolas,  pro- 
prietor of  the  Cosmopolitan  Cafe  and  Restaurant,  went  into  bank- 
ruptcy, A.  A.  Johnson  &  Company  taking  over  the  business  to  protect 
themselves  from  loss.  This  business  they  yet  retain,  operating  it 
under  the  firm  name.  The  firm  is  also  interested  in  Lowell  real  estate, 
and  have  built  up  a  good  business  reputation. 

Mr.  Johnson  married,  in  Lowell,  in  1903,  Catherine  Marcopoulos, 
a  sister  of  John  Marcopoulos,  his  business  partner,  the  latter  born  in 
Greece,  in  1885,  and  came  to  the  United  States  in  1898.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Johnson  reside  at  No.  41  Mt.  Vernon  street,  Lowell. 


ASSADOUR  H.  KLUDJIAN,  M.  D. 

In  Antioch,  a  city  and  the  ancient  capital  of  Syria,  founded  300 
B.  C,  and  one  of  the  chief  centers  of  early  Christianity,  Dr.  Kludjian 
first  saw  the  light,  and  was  there  living  when  the  city  was  visited  by 
a  severe  earthquake  in  1872,  although  but  four  years  of  age.  His 
father,  Hagop  Kludjian,  an  Armenian,  was  born  in  Antioch  in  1822, 
died  at  Deurt  Yol,  Asiatic  Turkey,  in  1873.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Derderian,  born  in  Antioch  in  1835,  died  at  Deurt  Yol,  in  1895.  They 
were  the  parents  of  Assadour  H.,  of  further  mention;  Abraham,  Hov- 
hanness,  Housep,  Yesaye,  Michael,  and  a  daughter  Nouri. 

Dr.  Assadour  H.  Kludjian  was  born  March  12,  1868,  and  when 
young  was  taken  by  his  parents  from  his  native  Antioch  to  Deurt 
Yol,  there  obtaining  his  preparatory  education.  Later  he  entered 
Central  Turkey  College  at  Aintab,  a  town  of  Asiatic  Turkey,  on  the 
southern  slope  of  Mount  Taurus,  about  sixty  miles  from  Alleppo. 
Aintab  is  the  great  center  of  American  missionary  and  educational 
work,  the  college  above  referred  to  being  under  American  control 
and    supported    by   the    missionary    funds.     There    Dr.    Kludjian    re- 


190  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

mained  until  nineteen  years  of  age,  taking  a  preliminary  course  of 
medical  study  in  connection  with  his  classical  course.  He  came  to 
the  United  States  in  1889,  and  in  that  year  entered  Baltimore  Medical 
College.  In  1894  he  received  his  degree  of  M.  D.,  and  until  1897  was 
an  interne  in  New  York  City  hospitals.  In  1897  he  moved  to  Boston 
and  began  practice  in  that  city,  locating  offices  on  Huntington  avenue, 
and  there  remaining  until  1900,  in  which  year  he  determined  to  return 
to  his  old  home  in  Asiatic  Turkey  and  practice  his  profession  among 
his  people,  but  after  arriving  in  Turkey  he  found  that  political  con- 
ditions were  such  that  he  would  not  be  allowed  to  practice  as  he  in- 
tended, and  two  years  later  he  returned  to  the  United  States,  and 
again  located  in  Boston.  He  continued  in  practice  there  eight  years, 
1902-1910,  then  moved  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  opening  offices  at 
No.  loi  Gorham  street,  and  there  ministers  to  a  large  clientele.  He 
became  a  naturalized  citizen  in  New  York  City,  in  1895,  and  in  political 
faith  has  been  ever  allied  with  the  Republican  party.  He  is  a  member 
of  Ancient  ^'urk  Lodge.  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  National  Geo- 
graphic .'^(iciety,  iMasonic  Clul.)  of  Lowell,  and  of  Kirk  Street  Congre- 
gational Church. 

Dr.  Kludjian  was  married  in  New  York  City,  April  15,  1907,  to 
Vartouhie  Girogosian,  Ixirn  in  Constantinople,  Turkey,  and  educated 
in  an  English  College.  She  is  a  fluent  linguist,  speaking  Greek,  Turk- 
ish, Armenian,  French,  German  and  English.  For  ten  years  she  was 
secretary  of  the  Christian  Endeavor  Society  of  Wisbech,  England, 
and  also  private  secretary  to  a  sister  of  Lord  Reckover  for  the  same 
period.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Hegpos  Girogosian,  an  M.  D.,  educated 
in  the  United  States,  a  graduate  of  New  York  Homoeopathic  College, 
practicing  his  profession  in  Turkey,  where  he  died  in  1896,  aged  fifty- 
three.  His  wife  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight  years.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Kludjian  are  the  parents  of  two  children  :  Araxie  P.,  born  .\pril  2, 
1908;  and  Haig  H.,  liorn  .\ugust  9,  1909. 


FRANCIS  CABOT  LOWELL. 

Of  this  name  and  nu-mory  uur  city  is  :\  monument.  His  connec- 
tion with  the  manufacturing  business  will  not  be  understood  without 
some  brief  sketch  of  the  progress  of  that  business  in  New  England. 

The  Beverly  Cotton  Factory  was  the  first  in  this  country  to 
engage  in  the  manufacture  of  cotton.  It  was  organized  in  1787,  with 
a  capital  of  £90,000  sterling.  The  Messrs.  Cabots,  Thorndike,  Fisher 
of  Beverly,  and  Henry  Higginson  of  Boston,  were  its  chief  proprietors. 
John  Cabot  and  Joshua  Fisher  were  appointed  agents  for  the  manage- 
ment of  its  concerns.  It  continued  in  operation  upwards  of  fifteen 
years,    making   corduroys,   l)ed-ticking?,   cotton   velvets — durable   and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  191 

approved  fabrics ;  yet  the  business  was  not  profitable,  the  loss  having 
been  as  great  as  ninety  cents  on  the  dollar. 

Samuel  Slater  came  from  England  in  November,  1789.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1790,  he  established  a  small  factory  at  Pawtucket,  near  Provi- 
dence, Rhode  Island.  In  1793  another  factory  was  built  by  JNIessrs. 
Brown,  Almy,  and  Slater,  in  Pawtucket,  in  which  they  set  in  motion, 
July  12  of  that  year,  seventy-two  spindles.  For  many  years  the 
progress  of  the  business  was  very  slow,  and  as  late  as  January,  1807, 
there  were  but  four  thousand  spindles  in  operation  in  Pawtucket  and 
its  neighborhood.  These  supplied  yarns  for  hand  weaving,  and  the  cloth 
that  was  made  was  almost  entirely  of  family  manufacture.  At  that 
time  the  country  received  nearly  all  its  cotton  cloth  from  Great  Brit- 
ain and  the  East  Indies.  In  1807-08  there  were  imported  from  Cal- 
cutta 53,000,000  yards,  principally  of  course  cotton  goods,  and  worth, 
as  prices  were  then,  over  $12,000,000.  In  1810  there  were  made  in  all 
the  factories  in  the  United  States,  as  appears  by  returns  made  by  order 
of  Mr.  Gallatin,  then  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  only  856,046  yards  of 
cotton  cloth.  This  is  not  so  many  yards  as  four  of  the  establishments 
in  Lowell  can  now  (1846)  turn  out  in  one  week.  The  whole  number 
of  yards  made  in  the  United  States  in  that  year  was  16,581,299.  Of 
this,  15,724,654  yards  were  of  family  manufacture,  so  imperfect  was 
the  machinery  then  in  use.  The  weaving  of  the  yarn  alone  cost  double 
the  whole  process  of  making  the  fabric,  after  the  introduction  of  the 
power-loom  in  1815. 

Francis  Cabot  Lowell,  son  of  Hon.  John  Lowell,  LL.  D.,  and  a 
grandson  of  the  Rev.  John  Lowell,  of  Newburyport,  was  born  in  that 
town,  in  1774.  He  was  graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1793.  In  a 
memoir  of  Mr.  Lowell's  son,  John  Lowell,  Jr.,  the  founder  of  that 
course  of  lectures  in  Boston  known  as  the  Lowell  Institute,  Mr.  Ed- 
ward Everett  thus  writes  (Memoir,  prefixed  to  first  volume  of  "Lowell 
Lectures,"  by  John  Gorham  Palfrey)  : 

In  1910  Mr.  Francis  Cabot  Lowell  was  induced  to  visit  England 
with  his  family,  on  account  of  the  state  of  his  health.  The  vast  im- 
portance of  manufacturing  industry  as  a  source  of  national  wealth, 
was  no  doubt  impressed  with  new  force  upon  his  mind  in  consequence 
of  his  observations  in  that  country,  and  some  branches  of  manufac- 
tures were  examined  by  him  with  care,  but  it  is  not  known  that  he 
paid  particular  attention  to  that  of  cotton.  On  his  return  home  and 
shortly  after  the  commencement  of  the  War  of  1812,  Mr.  Lowell  was 
so  strongly  convinced  of  the  practicability  of  establishing  that  manu- 
facture in  the  United  States,  that  he  proposed  to  a  kinsman  and  friend 
(Patrick  Tracy  Jackson)  to  make  the  experiment  on  an  ample  scale. 
The  original  project  only  contemplated  the  weaving  of  cotton  by 
machinery.  The  power  loom,  although  it  had  been  for  some  time 
invented  in  England,  was  far  less  used  in  that  country,  in  proportion 


192  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

to  the  quantity  of  cotton  spun,  than  at  the  present  day,  and  was  wholly 
unknown  in  the  L'nited  States.  After  deliberation,  the  enterprise  was 
resolved  upon.  A  model  of  a  common  loom  was  procured  by  Mr. 
Lowell  and  his  friend — both  equally  ignorant  of  the  practical  details 
of  the  mode  in  which  the  power  loom  was  constructed — and  their  joint 
attention  was  bestowed  on  the  reinvention  of  that  machine.  The 
winter  of  1812-13  was  passed  at  Waltham,  where  a  water-power  had 
been  purchased,  in  bringing  the  loom  to  perfection.  On  being  com- 
pleted, it  was  found  to  answer  the  purpose  so  completely,  as  to  warrant 
the  immediate  construction,  on  the  same  plan,  of  all  the  looms  needed 
for  the  establishment. 

These  were  the  first  power  looms  that  were  brought  into  suc- 
cessful operation  in  this  country.  They  were  the  invention,  as  is  stated 
above,  of  Messrs.  Lowell  and  Jackson,  which  the  genius  of  Paul 
Moody  supplied.  Power  looms  had  been  invented  in  this  country  prior 
to  that  of  Lowell  and  Jackson's,  and  no  less  than  twenty-five  models 
had  been  patented  in  Washington  at  the  time  they  set  theirs  up.  But 
theirs  was  the  first  that  wove  cloth  to  any  considerable  amount.  A 
machine  upon  which  he  had  spent  so  much  time  and  thought,  was 
naturally  an  object  of  interest  to  Mr.  Lowell.  A  friend  of  his,  once 
finding  him  almost  wholly  lost  in  thought,  while  intently  surveying 
the  model,  asked  him  what  he  could  find  in  the  machine  which 
absorbed  so  much  of  his  attention.  Mr.  Lowell  replied,  "That  he  had 
been  reflecting  upon  the  immense  results  which  that  jjiece  of  mech- 
anism was  destined  to  work  out,  and  that  he  would  make  the  predic- 
tion that  within  fifty  years  cotton  cloth  would  be  sold  for  fourpence  a 
yard."  At  a  time  when  ten  cents  was  paid  per  yard  for  weaving  alone 
and  the  cloth  cost  thirty-three  cents  per  yard,  this  prediction  was 
regarded  as  the  efifusion  of  an  enthusiast.  It  is  needless  to  add  that 
the  prophecy  has  been  literally  fulfilled. 

In  a  speech  made  in  the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives 
in  January.  1828,  Mr.  Nathan  Appleton,  referring  to  the  successful 
efiforts  of  Mr.  Lowell,  has  the  following  brief  but  emphatic  sentence : 
"Seldom  has  a  mind  of  so  much  science  been  turned  to  this  subject, 
and  never  was  a  triumph  more  complete.'' 

In  consequence,  however,  of  the  ill  success  which  had  attended 
previous  attempts,  the  public  feeling  was  strong  against  any  further 
manufacturing  efiforts.  It  is  stated  by  Henry  Lee,  Esq.,  of  Waltham, 
in  one  of  a  series  of  interesting  articles  contributed  by  him  to  the 
Boston  "Daily  Advertiser,"  1830,  that  when  Mr.  Lowell  first  made  the 
proposal  to  engage  in  the  business,  "many  of  his  nearest  connections 
used  all  their  influence  to  dissuade  him  from  the  pursuit  of  what  they 
deemed  a  visionary  and  dangerous  scheme.  These,  too,  were  among 
those  who  knew,  or  thought  they  knew,  the  full  strength  of  his  mind, 


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the  accuracy  of  his  calculations,  his  industry,  patience  and  persever- 
ance, and,  withal,  his  power  and  influence  over  others  whose  aid  was 
essential  to  his  success ;  they  still  thought  him  mad,  and  did  not 
recover  from  that  error  till  they  themselves  had  lost  their  own  senses, 
of  which  they  evinced  symptoms  at  least,  by  shortly  purchasing-  into 
the  business  of  this  visionary  schemer  at  thirty,  fort}^  fifty,  and  even 
sixty  per  cent,  advance."  From  the  memoir  by  Mr.  Everett,  we  again 
quote: 

Mr.  Francis  Cabot  Lowell  repaired  to  Washington  in  the  winter 
of  1816;  and,  in  confidential  intercourse  with  some  of  the  leading 
members  of  Congress,  he  fixed  their  attention  on  the  importance,  the 
prospects,  and  the  danger  of  the  cotton  manufacture,  and  the  policy 
of  shielding  it  from  foreign  competition  by  legislative  protection. 
Constitutional  objections  at  that  time  were  unheard  of.  The  Middle 
States,  under  the  lead  of  Pennsylvania,  were  strong  in  the  manufac- 
turing interest.  The  West  was  about  equally  divided.  The  Xew 
England  States,  attached  from  the  settlement  of  the  country  to  com- 
mercial and  navigating  pursuits,  were  less  disposed  to  embark  in  a 
new  polic}',  which  was  thought  adverse  to  some  branches  of  foreign 
trade  with  India,  from  which  the  supply  of  coarse  cottons  was  prin- 
cipally derived.  The  planting  States,  and  eminently  South  Carolina, 
then  represented  by  several  gentlemen  of  distinguished  ability,  held 
the  balance  between  the  rival  interests.  To  the  planting  interest  it 
was  demonstrated  by  Mr.  Lowell  that  by  the  establishment  of  the 
cotton  manufacture  in  the  United  States  the  southern  planter  would 
greatly  increase  his  market.  He  would  furnish  the  raw  material  for 
all  those  American  fabrics  which  should  take  the  place  of  manufac- 
tures imported  from  India,  or  partly  made  in  England  from  India 
cotton.  He  would  thus,  out  of  his  own  produce,  be  enabled  to  pay 
for  all  the  supplies  which  he  required  from  the  north.  This  simple 
and  conclusive  view  of  the  subject  prevailed,  and  determined  a  por- 
tion of  the  South  to  throw  its  weight  into  the  scale  in  favor  of  a 
protective  tarifi".  The  minimum  duty  on  cotton  fabrics,  the  corner- 
stone of  the  system,  was  proposed  by  Mr.  Lowell,  and  is  believed  to 
be  an  original  conception  on  his  part.  It  was  recommended  by  Mr. 
Lowndes ;  it  was  advocated  by  Mr.  Calhoun,  and  was  incorporated 
into  the  law  of  1816.  To  this  provision  of  law,  the  fruit  of  the  intelli- 
gence and  influence  of  Mr.  Lowell,  New  England  owes  that  branch  of 
industry  which  has  made  her  amends  for  the  diminution  of  her  foreign 
trade ;  which  has  kept  her  prosperous  under  the  exhausting  drain  of 
her  population  to  the  West ;  which  has  brought  a  market  for  his  agri- 
cultural produce  to  the  farmer's  door ;  and,  which,  while  it  has  con- 
ferred these  blessings  on  this  part  of  the  country,  has  been  productive 
of  good  and  nothing  but  good  to  every  portion  of  it.  For  these  public 
benefits — than  which  none,  not  directly  connected  with  the  establish- 
ment of  our  liberties,  are  of  a  higher  order  or  of  a  more  comprehensive 
scope — the  people  of  the  United  States  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Francis 
Cabot  Lowell :  and  in  conferring  his  name  upon  the  noble  city  of 
the  arts  in  our  neighborhood,  a  monument  not  less  appropriate  than 

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U)4  HISTORY  OF  L0\V]-:LL 

honorable  has  been  reared  ia  his  memory.  What  memorial  of  great 
public  benefactor  so  becoming  as  the  bestowal  of  his  name  upon  a 
prosperous  community  which  has  started,  as  it  were,  from  the  soil, 
at  the  touch  of  his  wand?  Pyramids  and  mausoleums  may  crumble 
to  earth,  and  brass  and  marble  mingle  with  the  dust  they  cover,  but  the 
pure  and  well  deserved  renown,  which  is  thus  incorporated  with  the 
busy  life  of  an  intelligent  people,  will  be  reinembered.  till  the  long 
lapse  of  ages  and  the  vicissitudes  of  fortune  shall  reduce  all  of  America 
to  oblivion  and  decay. — (From  "Lowell,"  by  Rev.  Henry  A.  Miles, 
1846.  The  following  narratives  concerning  Kirk  Boott,  Paul  Moody, 
Warren  Colburn  and  Luther  Lawrence  are  from  the  same  volume). 

:\Ir.  Lowell  died  in   181 7.  at  the  age  (if  forty-three. 


KIRK  BOOTT. 

The  early  history  of  Lowell  is  a  history  of  the  services  of  this 
gentleman.  It  recei\'ed  the  deep  impress  of  his  character,  and  is  more 
indebted  to  his  energy  and  great  business  talents  than  to  those  of  any 
other  individual.  He  was  here  wdien  the  first  mill  was  erected,  super- 
intending the  interests  of  the  Merrimack  Company,  and  was  appointed 
to  the  agency  of  the  Locks  and  Canals,  upon  the  reorganization  of 
that  corporation  in  1825.  From  that  time  to  his  death  he  was  the 
master  spirit  of  the  place,  laying  out  plans  for  the  extension  of  its 
works,  devoting  the  powers  of  a  strong  and  cultivated  mind  to  its 
prosperity,  and  observing  the  highest  satisfaction  every  step  it  took 
towards  the  great  city  to  which  he  lived  to  see  it  attain. 

Mr.  Boott  was  born  in  Boston,  in  1791.  At  an  early  age  he  was 
sent  to  England,  and  for  some  time  was  a  memljcr  of  the  Rugby 
School,  afterward  made  celebrated  by  the  late  Dr.  .\rnold.  On  his 
return  he  entered  Harvard  College,  but  did  not  remain  long  enough 
to  receive  a  degree.  Choosing  a  military  profession,  his  father  obtained 
for  him  a  commission  in  the  English  army,  with  which  Mr.  Boott  was 
connected  about  five  years.  He  served  in  the  Peninsidar  War  under 
the  Duke  of  Wellington,  and  commanded  a  detachment  at  the  siege  of 
San  Sebastian  in  July,  1813.  After  this  his  regiment  was  ordered  to 
New  Orleans  to  serve  against  the  United  States  in  the  war  then 
existing  between  the  two  countries.  Mr.  Boott  obtained  leave  to 
withdraw  and  entered  a  military  academy,  where  he  obtained  a 
thorough  knowledge  of  the  arts  which  were  afterwards  of  such  eminent 
service  to  him,  engineering  and  surveying.  Upon  the  death  of  his 
father,  in  1817,  Mr.  Boott  returned  to  Boston  and  entered  into  business 
with  his  brothers.  He  did  not  long  remain  in  this  employment ;  and 
the  summer  of  1821  found  him  at  leisure.  Then  occurred  one  of  those 
incidents  which,  though  they  appear  chance  and  trifling  at  the  time. 


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often  give  direction  and  shape  to  a  man's  life.  Passing  a  daj^  at 
Nahant,  in  company  with  Patrick  T.  Jackson,  the  latter  gentleman 
expressed  great  delight  in  having  even  that  brief  respite  from  his 
numerous  and  pressing  cares.  Mr.  Boott  expressed  a  wish  that  he  had 
cares  too,  and  offered  to  accept  any  post  of  service  which  Mr.  Jackson 
might  assign  him.  The  conversation  soon  resulted  in  an  offer  to  Mr. 
Boott  of  the  superintendence  of  the  new  works  at  East  Chelmsford. 
In  the  autumn  of  that  year  Mr.  Boott  visited  the  place.  In  the  suc- 
ceeding spring  he  came  to  Lowell  to  reside,  and  from  that  time  gave 
his  whole  strength  and  zeal  to  promote  the  prosperity  of  the  new 
village  and  town.  He  watched  its  growth  with  a  paternal  interest, 
resolving  here  to  live  and  die. 

It  is  impossible  to  present  any  extended  account  of  his  services. 
As  a  man  of  prompt  business  habits,  of  great  power  to  manage  men 
and  to  grasp  and  master  extensive  and  complicated  details,  rarely  has 
he  been  excelled.  Naturally  of  a  strong  and  impetuous  will,  he  made 
everything  yield  to  the  perseverance  and  energy  of  his  character.  It 
is  related  that  once  in  his  absence,  his  workmen  finding  it  difficult  to 
make  a  current  of  water  flow  in  a  desired  channel,  it  was  proposed 
that  ^Ir.  Boott's  hat  and  walking  stick  should  be  broug'ht  and  laid  on 
the  bank,  they  feeling  sure  that  even  the  water  would  obey.  At  the 
same  time,  by  his  high  sense  of  honor,  his  lofty  integrity,  his  quick 
perception  and  decided  practice  of  what  was  just  and  right,  he  had 
alwavs  a  respect  and  afi'ections  of  those  he  employed.  Towards  the 
close  of  his  life,  the  mechanics  of  Lowell  had  a  full  length  portrait  of 
Mr.  Boott  taken  by  Harding,  which  was  placed  in  their  Hall.  In 
whatever  situation  Mr.  Boott  was  found,  as  representative  of  Lowell 
in  the  Legislature,  as  undertaking  more  of  the  company's  cares  than 
any  other  two  men  could  meet,  or  as  its  agent  abroad  to  procure 
skillful  artisans,  for  which  purpose  he  once  or  twice  visited  England, 
he  proved  himself  fully  competent  to  his  post,  tlis  constitution  was 
impaired  by  a  long  camp  sickness  while  in  the  army,  and  by  a  spinal 
complaint  from  which  he  sufifered  many  years,  and  of  which  he  finally 
died.  On  the  morning  of  April  11,  1837,  he  dropped  dead  from  his 
chaise. 


PAUL  MOODY. 


When  the  history  of  the  progress  of  mechanical  invention  in  this 
country  shall  be  written,  the  name  of  Paul  Moody  will  be  honored  as 
one  of  the  chief  men  in  this  line  of  distinction.  He  was  born  in  New- 
bury, in  1777.  He  was  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  business  in 
Amesbury,    in    partnership    with    Mr.    Ezra    Worthen.      In    1814   he 


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removed  to  Waltham,  and  rendered  the  most  valuable  assistance  in 
starting  the  first  mill  in  that  town.  A  few  anecdotes,  illustrative  of 
his  talents  and  success,  will  constitute  the  only  notice  of  his  life 
which  can  here  be  taken. 

Mr.  Moody  supplied  an  important  movement  in  the  power  loom 
invented  by  Messrs.  Lowell  and  Jackson,  to  which  that  machine  owed 
its  successful  operation.  He  invented  what  is  called  the  "dead 
spindle,"  which  was  introduced  at  Waltham.  and  is  still  used.  The 
Rhode  Island  machinery  employed  the  "live  spindle"'  copied  from  the 
English.  The  product  of  the  former  is  greater,  though  it  requires 
more  power.  About  the  time  of  starting  their  mill  at  Waltham, 
Lowell  and  Moody  went  to  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  to  procure  a 
machine  for  winding  and  filling  upon  the  bobbin.  Just  as  the  former 
gentleman  was  concluding  a  contract  for  these  machines,  Mr.  Moody 
suggested  that  if  they  would  return  to  Waltham  without  them,  he 
thought  he  could  invent  a  machine  to  spin  the  yarn  upon  the  bobbin 
in  the  same  conical  form  in  which  the  winder  put  it  on,  and  thus 
supersede  the  necessity  of  the  intervention  of  that  machine.  Upon 
their  return  he  invented  what  is  called  "the  filling  frame,"  a  machine 
wliich  he  at  once  perfected,  and  which  is  still  in  use.  Near  the  same 
time  Mr.  Lowell  told  Mr.  Moody  that  they  must  have  a  "governor" 
to  regulate  the  speed  of  their  wheels.  This  was  an  apparatus  of  which 
Air.  Moody  had  never  heard,  and  the  only  information  concerning  it 
which  his  friend  could  supply  was  that,  having  seen  one  in  England, 
he  remembered  that  there  were  two  iron  balls  suspended  on  two  rods, 
connected  at  one  end  like  a  pair  of  tongs.  W'hen  the  wheels  were  in 
too  rapid  motion  these  balls  were  driven  apart,  and  produced  a  partial 
closing  of  the  water  gate;  when,  on  the  other  hand,  their  motion  was 
slow,  the  balls  approached  each  other  and  effected  a  greater  opening 
of  the  gate  by  which  an  increased  motion  was  produced.  This  con- 
versation was  held  in  Boston,  at  Mr.  Lowell's  house.  The  gentlemen 
separated  with  an  understanding  that  a  "governor"  should  be  forth- 
with ordered  from  England.  Mr.  Moody,  on  his  ride  to  Waltham, 
could  not  get  those  balls  out  of  his  mind.  They  were  flying  round 
in  his  brain  the  whole  of  that  day  and  night.  The  next  morning  he 
went  to  the  shop,  and  chalked  out  the  plan  of  some  wheels,  which  he 
ordered  to  be  made.  Not  long  after  this  Mr.  Lowell  was  at  Waltham, 
and  Mr.  Moody  inquired  if  the  "governor"  had  been  ordered  from 
England.  On  learning  that  it  had  not,  Mr.  Moody  produced  the  "gov- 
ernor" which  he  had  made.  It  was  set  up  in  the  mill,  and  that  iden- 
tical (ine  was  in  use  until  1S32.  The  "governors"  now  used  are  all 
c(>i)icil  from  that.  Mr.  Moody,  with  the  assistance  of  Mr.  Lowell,  was 
the  inventor  of  the  "double  speeder."    The  machine  was  set  in  opera- 


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tion  at  Waltham,  and  was  patented.  Some  time  after  this  the  patent 
right  was  infringed  upon  by  some  mechanics  who  had  worked  upon 
the  machine  at  Waltham,  and  a  prosecution  ensued.  The  case  was 
tried  before  Judge  Story,  and  was  argued  by  Mr.  Webster.  The  late 
Mr.  Bowditch,  then  of  Salem,  was  requested  to  examine  the  principles 
both  of  the  original  and  the  imitated  machines,  in  order  to  appear  as 
witness  at  the  trial.  Mr.  Bowditch  was  afterward  heard  to  say  that  his 
mind  had  been  more  severely  taxed,  for  the  "double  speeder"  required 
for  its  construction  the  greatest  mathematical  power  of  any  piece  of 
mechanism  with  which  he  had  become  acquainted.  The  idea  of  this 
machine  originated  with  Mr.  Moody,  but  the  mathematical  regulations 
necessary  for  its  construction  were  made  by  Mr.  Lowell.  Beside  the 
"double  speeder,"  the  Waltham  Company  patented  a  spinning  frame, 
dressing  frame,  and  warper,  all  the  invention  of  Mr.  Moody.  It  is  an 
evidence  of  the  great  value  attached  to  Mr.  Moody's  services  that 
when  in  1823  he  went  to  Lowell,  taking  with  him  models  and 
mechanics  from  W'altham,  the  company  in  the  latter  place  was  remu- 
nerated for  the  loss,  by  the  payment  to  them  of  $100,000. 

Air.  Moody  was  at  the  head  of  the  machine  shop  in  Lowell  until 
the  time  of  his  death,  July  7,  1831.  No  man  could  be  more  valuable  in 
the  place  he  filled,  not  only  in  his  great  talent  in  inventing,  but  by  a 
rare  tact  in  arranging  and  combining  machinery  in  convenient,  econ- 
omical, and  effective  forms.  Modest  and  unpretending,  a  "born  gen- 
tleman" in  his  manners,  as  one  called  him,  and  of  the  strictest  integ- 
rity of  character,  he  was  greatly  esteemed  while  living,  and  was  much 
mourned  when  dead.  Had  he  lived  in  England,  he  would  have  won 
for  himself  some  of  the  highest  honors  which  that  country  is  prompt 
to  bestow  upon  the  inventive  genius. 


WARREN  COLBURN. 


Nine  years  of  Mr.  Colburn's  life  were  spent  in  Lowell  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  Merrimack  Manufacturing  Company.  He  was  born  in 
Dedham,  in  1793,  and  for  several  years  was  a  practical  mechanic  in 
that  town.  Under  the  impulse  of  a  strong  thirst  for  knowledge,  he 
commenced  rather  late  in  life  and  in  struggle  with  untoward  circum- 
stances, preparation  for  Harvard  University,  which  he  entered  at  the 
age  of  twenty-four.  He  graduated  from  that  institution  in  1820. 
While  there  he  developed  that  fondness  for  mathematical  studies 
which  constituted  a  remarkable  feature  of  his  mind,  and  as  an  under- 
graduate read  through  a  considerable  part  of  the  great  work  of 
Laplace.  For  a  few  years  he  taught  a  school  for  boys  in  Boston,  and 
while  thus  engaged  wrote  and  published  the  well  known  works  on 


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Arithmetic   which   revolutionized   the   system   of   elementary   instruc- 
tion in  that  science. 

In  April  of  1823  Mr.  Colburn  went  to  Waltham  to  take  charge  of 
the  upper  mills  in  that  town  ;  but  in  a  little  mi)re  than  a  year  he  was 
invited  to  Lowell,  to  fill  the  office  made  vacant  by  the  death  of  Mr. 
Worthen.  \\'hile  in  Lowell,  Mr.  Colburn  prepared  and  published  his 
work  on  Algebra.  His  deep  interest  in  the  subject  of  education  led 
him  to  take  an  active  part  in  the  care  of  the  public  schools  of  the 
town  ;  and  by  his  labors,  in  connection  with  those  of  the  first  minister 
of  Lowell,  was  an  excellent  system  of  public  instruction  matured  and 
established.  A  man  of  great  mechanical  skill,  Mr.  Colburn  introduced 
many  new  improvements  and  applications  of  power,  by  which  he 
rendered  important  service  to  the  manufacturing  interest.  Rarely 
has  it  happened  to  any  one,  by  a  spirit  of  truest  benevolence,  by 
peculiar  charms  of  social  intercourse,  and  a  manifestation  of  high 
moral  worth,  to  leave  a  deeper  impress,  not  only  on  the  minds  of 
frienils  by  Avlmin  he  was  lieloved,  but  in  those  wider  circles  in  which 
he  had  his  walk  in  life.     Mr.  Colburn  died  September  13,  1833. 


LUTHER  LAWRENCE. 


During  the  last  eight  years  of  his  life  Mr.  Lawrence  was  a  citizen 
of  Lowell,  and  although  not  directly  connecte<l  with  manufacturing 
interests,  he  exerted  an  important  influence  in  the  growth  and  pros- 
perity of  the  place,  as  a  man  of  public  spirit,  as  president  of  the  Rail- 
road Bank,  and  the  second  mayor  of  the  city,  in  which  office  he  died. 
He  was  born  in  Groton,  September  28,  1778,  graduated  at  Harvard 
College  in  1801,  and  entered  into  successful  professional  practice  in 
his  nati\e  town,  where  he  held  various  offices  of  honor  and  trust.  In 
1831  he  removed  to  Lowell.  In  183S  he  was  elected  mayor  of  the 
cit_\',  the  duties  of  which  he  discharged  with  great  fidelity  and  success. 
Soon  after  his  re-election  in  1839,  his  life  was  suddenly  terminated  by 
a  fall.  By  a  slight  trip  of  his  foot  he  was  precipitated  into  the  wheel 
I)it  of  a  mill,  which  produced  almost  instantaneous  death.  April    17, 


ROBERT  MEANS. 

To  the  names  of  men  whom  Lowell  has  occasion  to  remember 
with  honor  and  gratitude,  may  be  added  that  of  Robert  Means,  the 
late  agent  of  the  Suffolk  Manufacturing  Company.  Mr.  Means  was 
burn  in  Amherst,  New  Hampshire,  was  graduated  at  Bowdoin  College 
in   1807,  stutlied  law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  Jeremiah  Mason,  then  of 


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Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  and  was  for  many  years  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  his  native  town.  He  removed  to  Lowell  in  1831, 
to  take  charge  of  the  Suffolk  Mills,  in  which  station  he  remained  until 
his  death,  September  2j,  1842.  Mr.  Means  was  a  gentleman  in  the 
true  English  sense  of  that  word;  and  left  a  remembrance  of  his  fine 
personal  appearance,  of  his  courtly  manners,  and  high  moral  influence. 


FREDERICK  WILLIAM   COBURN. 

Frederick  William  Coburn  was  born  at  Nashua,  New  Hampshire, 
August  6,  1870,  the  oldest  son  of  Frank  and  Susan  (Whitney)  Coburn. 
He  is  descended  in  the  following  line  from  Edward  Colborne  (or 
Coburn),  first  settler  of  Dracut.  whose  house,  in  the  Pawtucketville 
district  of  Lowell,  is  still  standing:  Edward^ ;  Thomas-;  Josiah^ ; 
Simon'' ;  Simon"  ;  George  Washington*' ;  Frank".  Through  the  mar- 
riage of  Alary,  daughter  of  Major-General  Joseph  Bradley  \'arnum, 
to  Brigadier-General  Simon"  Coburn,  he  is  descended  from  Samuel 
Varnum,  whose  lands  in  Dracut  were  adjacent  to  those  of  Edward 
Colburne.  Simon*  Coburn  was  a  second  lieutenant  in  the  Revolution. 
Simon=  Coburn  rose  through  the  successive  grades  in  the  Massachu- 
setts volunteer  militia  to  be  a  brigadier-general,  and  was  "on  call" 
during  the  war  of  1812,  though  he  saw  no  active  service.  On  his 
mother's  side,  Mr.  Coburn  comes  from  John  Whitney,  the  emigrant, 
who  settled  at  Watertown,  and  whose  royal  lineage  is  interestingly 
traced  in  the  Whitney  genealogy  prepared  through  the  initiative  of 
the  late  William  C.  Whitney,  of  New  York,  and  other  members  of  the 
Whitney  family. 

His  parents,  whose  stay  in  Nashua  was  only  temporary,  removed 
to  Lowell  when  Frederick  W.  Coburn  was  two  years  old.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city,  and  was  graduated  from 
the  local  high  school  in  1888,  winning  one  of  the  six  Carney  medals 
annually  awarded  to  the  best  students  of  the  senior  class.  He  entered 
Harvard  College  with  credit  in  six  subjects,  and  completed  the  under- 
graduate course  in  three  years.  He  took  highest  second  year  honors 
in  classics,  and  final  honors  in  cla.ssics  at  graduation  in  1891. 

Mr.  Coburn  had  expected  to  return  to  Harvard  for  further  study, 
but  an  opportunity  to  teach  at  the  Friends'  School,  Washington,  D.  C, 
changed  his  plans.  He  was  there  three  years.  In  his  second  year  at 
Washington  he  registered  as  an  afternoon  and  evening  pupil  at  the 
Art  Students'  League  of  Washington,  where  he  had  inspiring  instruc- 
tion in  drawing  and  composition  from  Edward  C.  Messer,  R.  X. 
Brooke  and  Harold  McDonald.  By  their  advice,  in  the  autmun  of 
1894,  he  entered  the  Art  Students'  League  of  New  York,  where  during 


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several  years  of  more  or  less  interrupted  study  he  had  as  masters 
Douglas  Volk,  George  DeForest  Brush,  Kenyon  Cox  and  others.  In 
1895  Mr.  Coburn  married  Grace  Mollison  Denton,  of  Albany,  New 
York,  and  simultaneously  began  teaching  at  the  school  of  the  Ethical 
Culture  Society  of  New  York,  of  which  his  League  instructor,  Mr. 
Volk,  was  one  of  the  directors.  This  connection  continued  during  five 
years,  in  which  Mr.  Coburn  attended  Mr.  Brush's  evening  life  class  at 
the  League,  and  for  two  years  served  as  secretary  of  its  lioard  of  gov- 
ernors. 

The  publication  of  several  articles  on  subjects  connected  with  the 
fine  arts  and  with  pedagogy,  led  to  Mr.  Coburn's  taking  an  editorial 
position,  in  1900,  with  E.  L.  Kellogg  &  Company,  educational  pub- 
lishers. New  York  City.  While  there,  besides  writing  extensively 
for  the  five  periodicals  issued  by  the  firm,  he  prepared  two  small 
books,  one  of  plans  for  rural  school  houses,  the  other  on  schoolroom 
decoration.  A  series  of  special  articles  on  the  fundamentals  of  art 
teaching,  written  for  the  Prang  Educational  Company,  led  to  an  invita- 
tion to  assist  John  S.  Clark,  then  managing  head  of  the  firm,  at  the 
Boston  office,  upon  a  revision  of  the  Prang  textbooks  for  elementary 
schools.  This  connection  was  terminated  by  the  completion  of  the 
work  in  the  summer  of  1902,  though  Mr.  Coburn  later  assisted  in  the 
preparation  of  the  Prang  Company's  important  book  for  high  schools. 

He  had  in  the  meantime  written  a  number  of  special  articles  for 
the  Boston  "Evening  Transcript"  and  was  beginning  to  find  a  market 
for  his  articles  elsewhere.  In  January,  1903,  he  became  simultaneously, 
art  critic  of  the  Boston  "Herald"  and  a  writer  of  special  advertising 
literature  for  the  Publicity  Bureau  of  Boston.  His  work  since  then 
has  been  that  of  a  general  writer  of  newspaper  and  magazine  articles, 
covering  a  very  wide  range  of  subjects.  With  two  brief  interruptions, 
he  has  contributed  a  weekly  review  of  the  fine  arts  in  Boston  to  the 
"Suntlay  Herald"  since  1903.  He  has  reviewed  many  books  in  this 
field  for  "The  Nation."  He  has  had  special  articles  in  the  "Atlantic 
Monthly,"  the  "Review  of  Reviews,"  the  "Outlook,"  the  "World's 
Work,"  the  "\\'orl(l  To-day."  "llarjier's  Weekly,"  the  "Burlington 
Magazine,"  the  "International  .Studio,"  the  "American  Magazine  of 
.\rt,"  and  many  others.  In  1912  he  served  as  managing  editor  and 
principal  contributor  of  the  "American  Business  Encyclopedia"  (pub- 
lished l.y  the  J.  1!.  Millet  Com])any,  Boston),  having  as  his  editors-in- 
chit-f  the  late  John  D.  Long,  some  lime  Secretary  of  the  Xavy,  and 
Dr.  William  1'.  Wilson,  director  of  the  Philadelphia  Commercial 
Museum.  For  some  years  past  Mr.  Coburn  has  been  press  represen- 
tati\e  of  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  Music,  and  editor  of  its 
monthly  bulletin  of  school  and  alumni  news.     In  the  summer  of  191S. 


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through  the  resignation  of  Lewis  E.  MacBrayne  to  become  director 
of  war  gardens  of  New  York  State,  a  vacancy  was  created  in  the  man- 
aging editor's  office  of  the  Lowell  "Courier-Citizen,"  and  Mr.  Coburn, 
by  invitation  of  his  old  friend,  Philip  S.  Marden,  editor  of  the  paper, 
undertook  the  work  of  associate  editor,  spending  three  days  each  week 
at  Lowell  and  contributing  editorials  by  mail  on  the  other  days.  This 
position  he  holds  at  the  present  writing,  continuing  his  work  for  the 
"Sunda}-  lierald"'  and  the  New  England  Conservatory  of  ]\Iusic. 

Mr.  Coburn  is  secretary  of  the  Copley  Society  of  Boston  (orig- 
inally the  Boston  Art  Students'  Association),  whose  loan  exhibitions 
and  other  activities  are  internationally  famous.  He  is  on  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  Lowell  Art  Association.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  Fabian  Club  of  Boston,  his  interest  in 
socialism  dating  back  to  college  days  when  he  became  familiar  with 
the  then  newly  published  Fabian  Essays,  and  a  lifelong  admirer  of 
George  Bernard  Shaw. 

He  belongs  to  no  other  organizations  except  the  Winchester  Boat 
Club,  and  he  has  no  church  or  political  affiliations.  His  residence 
from  1903  until  the  summer  of  1917  was  at  Winchester;  since  then,  at 
4  Arlington  street,  Cambridge. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coburn  are:  Selena  A'arnum 
Coburn,  an  art  student,  and  Eric  Denton  Coburn,  U.  S.  N. 

NOTE — In  addition  to  these  activities,  Mr.  Coburn  has  written  the  present 
work,  "History  of  Lowell,"  a  most  interesting  narrative,  on  a  higher  plane  than 
most  local  histories,  and  among-  whose  unusual  features  may  be  named  the 
chapters  on  "Literary  Lowell,"  and  "Art  and  Artists." — The  Editor. 


CHARLES  HOVEY. 

The  following  is  taken  from  a  memento  of  Charles  Hovey,  read 
November  7,  1889,  by  James  S.  Russell : 

In  July,  1832,  a  country  boy,  born  in  the  neighboring  town  of 
Acton,  but  then  living  in  Cambridgeport,  embarked  on  board  a  packet 
boat  on  the  Middlesex  canal,  on  his  way  to  Lowell,  to  commence  the 
service  of  an  apothecary's  apprentice.  A  friend  of  the  family  had 
engaged  the  place  for  him,  and  introduced  him  to  his  future  master. 
Till  then  the  boy  and  master  were  total  strangers  to  each  other.  Only 
those  who  have  had  like  experiences  away  from  home  for  the  first 
time,  only  fourteen  years  of  age,  among  strangers,  in  a  strange  busi- 
ness and  subordinate  to  older  apprentices,  can  appreciate  the  trials 
and  home  sickness  of  this  lad.  To  enable  me  to  imagine  how  he  jjassed 
the  long,  tedious  years  to  the  remote  time  when  he  should  be  released 
from  his  servitude  and  became  a  free  man,  I  have  fortunately  been  per- 
mitted to  read  a  diary  kept  by  him  the  last  six  months  of  his  appren- 
ticeship.    It  exhibits  so  free,  frank  and  honest  an  expression  of  his 


202  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

mind  that  it  is  with  the  greatest  satisfaction  that  I  speak  of  the  sub- 
jects that  attracted  my  special  notice.  At  the  beginning  of  the  book 
he  states,  his  object  is  to  improve  his  handwriting  and  acquire  a  facil- 
ity in  writing  his  thoughts.  At  the  end  of  the  ninety-third  and  last 
page,  he  reflects  that  he  cannot  claim  to  have  improved  his  handwrit- 
ing, whatever  other  ad\antages  he  may  have  gained.  His  writing  on 
the  earlier  pages  was  excellent  and  very  much  like  that  of  his  later 
years.  But  later,  there  is  appearance  of  hurry.  He  often  speaks  of 
being  too  tired  to  write  after  ten  o'clock  at  night  and  a  hard  day's 
work.  His  room  also  is  too  cold  for  writing.  He  always  has  a  reason 
to  ofi'er  if  he  should  omit  his  page  of  an  evening.  His  style  was  plain 
and  forcible ;  his  language  was  good,  grammatical  and  well  spelled. 
In  after  life  he  indulged  frequently  in  writing  for  the  press ;  he  had 
an  extensive  correspondence,  and  he  presented  numerous  and  valu- 
able papers  before  the  Old  Residents'  Association,  as  you  well  know. 
Without  doubt,  his  diary  writing  had  a  marked  influence  upon  his  lit- 
erary habits.  The  diary  shows  his  commendable  solicitude  for  the 
welfare  of  his  parents.  The  brothers  combined  to  build  a  house  for 
them.  Charles  was  able,  from  his  scanty  savings,  to  furnish  $200  for 
that  object.  He  manifested  great  interest  in  the  progress  of  the  build- 
ing, its  final  completion  and  occupation.  His  family  afifections  were 
kept  alive  by  constant  correspondence,  chiefly  through  his  younger 
brother,  Albert,  who  resided  at  home  with  his  parents. 

Another  revelation  of  his  diary  was  his  care  of  his  personal  char- 
acter. He  frequently  resolves  to  be  strictly  honest  and  faithful  in  the 
service  of  his  Master,  hoping  thereby  to  deserve  well  of  Him  in  the 
future.  He  resolves  to  be  cautious  of  the  company  he  keeps,  to  avoid 
certain  young  lady  acquaintances,  because  he  has  seen  them  in  the 
compan}'  of  some  young  men  whose  characters  were  not  agreeable  to 
him.  He  laments  his  lack  of  decision  of  character,  inability  to  say  no, 
and  resolves  to  strive  for  that  ability.  If  his  father  had  had  more  deci- 
sion, refusing  to  endorse  for  others,  he  might  have  been  independent. 
He  would  never  indorse  beyond  one-fourth  of  his  ready  means,  and 
that  not  until  he  had  $20,000  at  command.  He  cultivated  a  taste  for 
flowers,  and  enjoyed  excursions  with  intelligent  friends  in  search  for 
them.  He  conceived  a  favorable  idea  of  double  entry  bookkeeping, 
studied  the  sul)ject  and  resolved  to  keep  his  own  books  in  that  way 
when  he  should  l)e  in  liusiness  for  himself.  Indeed,  he  strove  for  self 
improvement  in  various  ways ;  in  mental  culture  as  well  as  in  the 
technical  knowledge  of  his  business.  He  early  anticipated  engaging 
in  business  for  himself,  and  meant  to  qualify  himself  for  successful 
pursuit  of  it.  He  counted  the  da_\-s  to  the  time  when  he  should  be  a 
free  man,  and  ])erhaps  he  taken  into  partnership  l)y  his  master,  for 
he  foresaw  his  necessary  connectinn  with  the  concern.     If  disapixiinted 


BIOGRAPHICAL  203 

here,  he  would  not  follow  the  example  of  another  apothecary  of  his 
acquaintance,  who  got  married,  bought  a  house,  set  up  business  with 
small  means  and  burst  up  in  a  few  months.  He  was  not  disappointed, 
however ;  his  long  and  faithful  service,  and  his  knowledge  of  the  busi- 
ness made  him  necessary  to  the  establishment,  and  he  was  taken  into 
partnership  on  favorable  terms.  No  other  security  than  his  own 
promise,  without  endorser,  was  required  to  install  him  the  owner  of 
a  third  of  the  stock  anil  business. 

Mr.  Hovey  was  born  and  educated  in  a  Baptist  family,  and  when 
he  came  to  Lowell  he  was  so  well  grounded  in  sound  principles  that 
his  good  moral  character  was  well  insured.  He  probably  knew  no 
other  mode  of  worship  than  that  of  his  family.  But  his  master,  a 
member,  officer  and  constant  attendant  at  St.  Anne's  Church,  to  be 
sure  that  his  apprentice  attended  church  on  Sundays,  provided  for  his 
attendance  where  he  could  look  after  him.  Mr.  Hovey  imitated  his 
master  in  this  particular.  It  was  not  done  in  a  proselyting  spirit, 
though  I  have  heard  such  motives  attributed  to  him,  probably  from 
the  fact  that  most  of  these  boys  became  attached  to  the  church  ;  and 
several  of  them  became  the  staunchest  of  churchmen.  Mr.  Hovey  was 
a  consistent  prayer-book  churchman,  a  constant  attendant  at  church, 
and  many  years  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school.  He  succeeded 
Mr.  Carleton  as  treasurer,  and  member  of  the  vestry,  and  held  those 
ofiSces  as  long  as  he  lived,  and  his  memorial  tablet  occupies  a  conspicu- 
ous position  upon  the  walls  of  the  church.  The  knowledge  of  his  char- 
acter and  zeal  as  a  churchman  was  not  limited  to  St.  Anne's  people. 
He  had  familiar  acquaintance  with  the  bishops  and  manj-  of  the  clergy 
of  the  church.  He  was  clerk  and  treasurer  of  the  corporation  of  St. 
Mark's  Episcopal  School  of  Southborough,  Massachusetts,  from  its 
beginning  until  his  death.  He  gave  to  the  trustees  of  donations  of  the 
Episcopal  church  a  liberal  lot  of  land  on  Holywood  Hill  for  an  Epis- 
copal church,  in  anticipation  of  the  wants  of  Phoenix  Village,  the 
settlements  of  the  syndicate's  land,  and  the  Tewksbury  annex.  His 
name  as  donor  is  inscribed  upon  one  of  the  bells  in  the  chime  on  St. 
Anne's  Church. 

Mr.  Hovey  was  not,  in  common  parlance,  a  popular  man.  He 
sought  not  popularity  otherwise  than  to  deserve  well  of  the  people 
He  was  not  much  of  a  politician.  In  his  minority  he  was  a  Whig,  not 
so  much  that  he  understood  the  principles  of  that  party,  as  that  he 
preferred  to  side  with  those  for  whom  he  had  the  most  respect.  He 
entered  with  enthusiasm  into  the  first  Harrison  campaign,  following 
the  log  cabin  with  the  crowd,  and  was  a  member  of  a  flute  club,  which 
contributed  to  the  music  of  the  campaign.  In  after  years  he  was  very 
conservative,  quiet,  and  reticent  on  political  matters.  He  rarely 
attended  a  caucus,  but  always  voted,  and  then  retired  to  his  private 


204  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

business.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  late  rebellion,  when  most  people 
were  excited  to  red  heat,  he  was  too  calm  to  satisfy  some  of  his  neigh- 
bors. But  no  one  had  just  cause  to  question  his  patriotism.  When  an 
apprentice,  he  was  a  member  of  an  engine  company,  and  in  his  diary 
speaks  triumphantly  of  No.  3  being  first  at  a  fire.  He  never  sought 
public  office,  nor  joined  secret  societies.  He  willingly  stood  aside  for 
those  whose  ambition  led  them  to  seek  political  preference;  and  his 
benevolence  was  too  expansive  to  be  limited  to  society  membership. 
I  have  heard  him  say  that  he  had  observed  that  those  who  gave  lib- 
erally were  generally  blessed  with  means  to  continue  giving;  while 
those  who  withheld  more  than  was  meet,  tended  to  poverty. 

Mr.  Hovey  was  a  director  of  the  Railroad  Bank  from  1846  to  1886, 
forty  years.  Only  one  other  person  ever  served  the  bank  so  long.  He 
was  the  youngest  person  ever  elected  to  that  office,  he  being  only 
twenty-nine  years  old.  He  was  made  eligible  to  the  office  by  being 
furnished  with  one  share  of  the  capital  stock.  The  result  shows  the 
foresight  of  the  management  in  selecting  a  man,  and  continuing  him 
in  office  to  the  end  of  his  life,  who  furnished  the  bank  a  large  amount 
of  business  not  only  in  the  conduct  of  his  private  affairs,  which  were 
extensive,  but  that  of  a  trustee  of  numerous  estates,  some  of  which 
were  large,  requiring  extensive  banking  privileges.  \\'hen  the  Me- 
chanics' Savings  Bank  was  started  in  1861,  Mr.  Hovey  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  corporation,  and  at  the  same  meeting  was  elected  trus- 
tee, which  office  he  held  over  eighteen  years,  until  he  declined  reelec- 
tinn.  During  that  time  he  served  on  various  important  committees. 
One  of  the  jiresent  officials  of  the  bank  says  of  him  :  "He  was  an 
esteemed  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  gave  to  the  duties  of 
his  office  faithful  and  conscientious  service."  The  first  book  of  deposit 
the  bank  issued  was  taken  by  Mr.  Hovey,  he  making  a  deposit  in  favor 
of  one  of  his  children,  who  still  keeps  it,  not  only  as  a  valued  curiosity, 
but  as  a  cherished  memento  of  a  loving  father. 

On  Tiilv  I,  1850,  Mr.  Hovey  was  elected  clerk  of  the  Lowell  Gas 
Light  Company,  which  office  he  held  by  reelection  for  eight  years, 
until  he  was  elected  treasurer  and  director  of  the  company,  but  these 
offices  he  held  only  one  year.  It  is  usual  for  the  directors  to  lie  nearly 
life  tenants  of  the  office,  unless  their  private  business  prevents.  This 
exceptionally  short  term  of  service  seems  to  call  for  explanation.  The 
circumstances  were  well  understood  by  all  interested  parties.  At  that 
time  the  manufacturing  companies  were  large  consumers  of  gas,  and 
it  was  common  to  elect  their  agents  directors  of  the  company.  A  cer- 
tain agent  of  the  Merrimack  Comjiany  was  desired  for  director.  But 
no  rnom  was  large  enciugh  to  accommodate  both  him  and  Mr.  Hovev 
at  the  same  time,     l^'ven  the  cl-.ime~  uihmi   St    Anne"-  Chiirrbi    nhi:'^ 


BIOGRAPHICAL  205 

contained  a  bell  given  by  Mr.  Hovey,  were  so  disagreeable  to  the 
agent  that  he  would  have  suppressed  their  sound  had  he  been  able. 
This  hostility  also  calls  for  explanation.  There  was  an  important  con- 
test between  the  Merrimack  Company  and  St.  Anne's  Church,  to  which 
both  of  these  gentlemen  were  ardent  partisans.  It  would  have  been  a 
grief  to  Mr.  Hovey  to  incur  the  displeasure  of  anyone,  even,  as  in  this 
case,  when  conscious  of  no  dishonorable  action.  At  the  organization 
of  the  Lowell  Cemetery  Corporation,  Mr.  Hovey  was  elected  clerk  and 
treasurer,  and  he  held  the  office  eleven  years,  until  declining  reelection, 
March  3,  1852.  It  was  an  office  involving  much  interruption  of  busi- 
ness ;  the  numerous  inquiries  about  the  choice,  purchase  and  grading 
of  lots,  the  anxious  mourners,  solicitous  about  the  burial  of  their 
friends,  demanded  not  only  courteous  patience  but  exhausting  sym- 
pathy. Few  have  held  the  office  so  long  as  Mr.  Hovey  did  until  the 
present  incumbent,  who  is  a  distinguished  example  of  the  qualities  the 
office  requires.  The  next  year  after  Mr.  Hovey's  resignation  he  was 
elected  trustee.  He  continued  in  that  office  for  sixteen  years,  when  the 
board  of  trustees  was  revolutionized  b}-  parties  who  assumed  that  they 
could  improve  upon  the  old  board,  but  who,  in  their  turn,  found  that 
their  gratuitous  services  were  not  duly  appreciated.  Mr.  Hovey  was 
clerk  of  the  Stony  Brook  Railroad  Corporation  for  eleven  years,  be- 
tween 1851-62.  Indeed,  he  was  ever  ready  at  the  call  of  any  honorable 
service,  whether  gratuitous  or  otherwise,  even  to  the  detriment  of  his 
]3rivate  business. 

On  examining  the  file  of  the  Lowell  "Daily  Citizen"  for  May  4, 
1886,  I  find  some  additional  facts  and  sentiments  so  true  and  just  that 
I  cannot  do  better  than  to  repeat  them  here : 

The  community  was  pained  and  shocked  this  morning,  to  learn 
that  Mr.  Charles  Hovey,  one  of  our  oldest  and  most  respected  citizens, 
who  yesterday  was  in  the  apparent  enjoyment  of  good  health,  had, 
during  the  night,  passed  forever  from  the  associations  of  half  a  cen- 
tury; from  the  fellowship  of  men  whose  respect  and  confidence  he  had 
richly  earned ;  from  the  cares  and  pleasures  of  a  life  strongly  marked 
with  the  distinguishing  traits  of  industry  and  Christian  rectitude.  Mr. 
Hovey,  who  had  spent  the  day  in  his  store,  retired  last  evening  at 
about  half-past  nine,  and  made  no  complaint  of  illness.  About  eleven 
o'clock  he  aroused  his  wife  and  complained  that  he  could  not  breathe. 
At  his  request  Mrs.  Hovey  opened  the  windows,  but  that  failed  to  give 
relief.  Drs.  Johnson  and  Fox  were  summoned.  An  examination 
showed  the  patient  to  be  suffering  from  congestion  of  the  lungs  and, 
although  every  remedy  known  to  science  was  applied,  human  skill 
could  not  avail,  and  death  ensued  at  half-past  twelve.  The  end  was 
peaceful. 

For  fifty-four  years  Mr.  Hovey  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  time 
in  the  store  in  City  Hall,  where  he  gained  a  reputation  for  business 


2o6  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

probity  and  fair  dealing  which  was  not  confined  to  Lowell,  but  spread 
abroad  to  the  surrounding  towns,  and  gave  the  firm  of  Carleton  & 
Hovey  a  prestige,  which  was  mutually  beneficial  to  the  public  and  the 
proprietors.  He  was  a  warm  friend  to  the  young,  manifesting  an 
especial  pleasure  in  counselling  and  aiding  them,  who  were  bereft  of 
home  influence  Mr.  Hovey  was  a  man  to  command  respect  and  invite 
confidence.  His  disposition  was  courteously  genial,  and  he  was  kindly 
considerate  for  the  faults  and  failings  of  others.  His  honesty  was  of  a 
sterling  quality,  and  his  Christianity  of  a  practical  and  unobtrusive 
character.  Another,  who  knew  him  much  more  intimately  than 
myself,  though  he  was  my  intimate  friend,  with  whom  I  almost  daily 
held  sweet  converse,  says  of  him:  "The  great  characteristic  of  his 
life  was  certainly  his  goodness  ;  and  when  to  that  is  added  his  unfail- 
ing tenderness  and  delicate  sense  of  courtesy  and  affability  to  every- 
body without  exception,  it  seems  to  me  that  we  have  a  character  of 
unusual  attracti\eness."  The  life  of  Mr,  Hovey  is  certainly  a  model 
life,  worthy  of  admiration  and  imitation.  Born  of  pious  parents, 
brought  up  in  the  "Nurture  and  admonition  of  the  Lord,"  having  only 
a  common  school  and  limited  academic  education,  leaving  home  at  a 
tender  age  to  make  his  abode  among  strangers  to  learn  a  life  business, 
to  make  for  himself  a  name  and  praise  among  men,  he  departed  not 
from  his  early  training.  The  limited  diary,  which  we  have  mentioned, 
reveals  the  development  of  the  boy  into  a  successful  business  man,  the 
Christian  gentleman  and  the  happy  father  of  a  happy  family,  whom 
he  left  not  only  t(i  mourn  their  sad  bereavement,  but  to  enjoy  the  fair 
I)nispect  of  cnntinued  cimfort,  usefulness  and  happiness. 

Mr.  Hovey  was  married  in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  December  7, 
1843,  to  Catherine,  daughter  of  Colonel  Joseph  Smith.  He  leaves  a 
widow,  one  son,  the  Rev.  Henry  Emerson  Hovey,  of  Portsmouth, 
New  Hampshire,  and  one  daughter,  Mrs.  Kate  S.  Martin,  the  widow 
of  the  late  Laurin  Martin,  of  this  city. 

The  ancestor  of  the  Hovey  family  in  this  country  was  Daniel 
Hovey,  who  landed  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  about  1637.  He  was 
born  in  England  in  1619.  From  him  the  descent  to  Charles  Hovey  is 
,•!'<  follows:  John,  l),.rn  ir)4_'.  died  1695;  Luke,  born  1676,  died  1756; 
Abijah,  liorn  1719:  S<ilomon.  horn  1748,  died  1825;  William,  born  1785, 
died  1852;  Charles,  born  in  Acton,  Massachusetts,  November  17,  1817, 
died  in  Lowell,  May  4,  1886,  aged  sixty-eight  years.  These  men,  from 
Daniel  down  to  William,  Charles'  father,  were  farmers  and  land 
holders  in  various  parts  of  Middlesex  and  Essex  counties.  William 
was  in  the  book  business  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  On  .\pril  10, 
1810,  he  married  Sally  Howe,  who  was  born  in  Northboro,  Massachu- 
setts, September  24,  1793,  and  died  December  15,  187a. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  207 

REV.  HENRY  EMERSON  HOVEY. 

Rev.  Henry  E.  H.)\ey,  the  only  son  of  Charles  and  Catherine 
(Smith)  Hovey,  did  not  emulate  his  father's  example  in  the  choice  of 
a  life  work,  but  chose  the  holy  calling,  and  from  ordination  in  1870 
until  his  death,  in  1909,  Rev.  Henry  Emerson  Hovey  was  a  zealous, 
devoted  priest  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church.  He  was  born  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  November  23,  1844,  died  in  Portsmouth,  New 
Hampshire,  August  6,  1909. 

After  passing  the  graded  and  high  school  courses  of  the  Lowell 
schools,  he  entered  Trinity  College,  Hartford,  Connecticut,  whence  he 
was  graduated  in  1866  at  the  head  of  his  class.  He  next  pursued 
studies  in  divinity  at  the  General  Theological  Seminary,  New  York 
City,  was  graduated,  class  of  1869,  then  went  abroad,  and  for  a  time 
was  a  student  at  Oxford  University,  England.  While  under  deacon's 
orders  he  had  been  in  charge  of  St.  John's  Church  at  Fort  Hamilton, 
New  York  Harbor,  and  after  ordination  as  a  priest,  in  1870,  was  in- 
stalled rector  of  the  Church  of  the  Ascension,  Fall  River,  Alassachu- 
setts.  There  he  continued  the  spiritual  head  of  the  parish  for  two 
years,  then  accepted  a  call  from  St.  Barnabas  Parish,  Brooklyn,  New- 
York.  Later  he  was  rector  of  St.  John's  and  Christ  churches,  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire,  there  continuing  until  his  death.  He  was  a 
man  of  high  intellectual  attainment  and  spiritual  power,  an  eloquent 
pulpit  orator,  and  deeply  in  earnest  where  the  good  of  mankind  was 
concerned.  Many  of  the  virtues  of  the  father  descended  upon  the  son, 
and  he  was  greatly  beloved  by  his  people  of  the  parishes  he  served. 
Rev.  Henry  E.  Hovey  married,  April  15,  1871,  Sarah  Louise  Folson, 
daughter  of  Charles  James  and  Sarah  (Carman)  Folson.  Rev.  and 
Mrs.  Hovey  were  the  parents  of :  Sarah  Whittier ;  Katherine  Emer- 
son, married  William  Seabury  ;  Louise  Folson,  married  Lieutenant- 
Commander  Austin  Kautz  ;  Ethelfreda  Downing,  married  Lieutenant 
Scudder  Klyce ;  Lieutenant  Charles  Emerson  Hovey,  of  the  L'nited 
States  Navy,  killed  in  action  with  the  Moros  in  the  Philippines,  Sep- 
tember 24,  191 1.  The  torpedo  boat  destroyer  "Hovey"  was  named  irt 
his  memory  in  United  States  Navy,  launched  in  the  spring  of  1919. 


KATE  SMITH  (HOVEY)  MARTIN. 

Kate  Smith  (Hovey)  Martin,  the  only  daughter  of  Charles  and 
Catherine  (Smith)  Hovey.  of  Lowell,  and  the  last  of  her  immediate 
family  since  the  death  of  her  brother.  Rev.  Henry  E.  Hovey,  in  1909. 
Mrs.  Martin  is  surrounded  in  her  home  by  many  relics,  heirlooms  and 
memoirs  of  the  past,  for  the  Hovey  ancestry  carries  far  into  the  past 
and  in  its  course  touches  well  known  New  England  names.  The 
Hovey  descent  has  been  previously  outlined,  and  on  her  mother's  side 


2o8  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Mrs.  Martin  is  a  great-granddaughter  of  Xehemiah  Emerson,  who 
married  Mary  Whittier,  these  being  names  to  conjure  with  in  New 
England.  Nehemiah  Emerson  was  a  "minute  man,"  marching  on  the 
"alarm"  at  Lexington,  April  19,  1775,  under  Lieutenant  Samuel 
Clement's  command.  That  was  but  the  beginning  of  his  service,  for  he 
continued  a  soldier  until  the  war  closed.  He  attained  rank,  and  when 
the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  was  formed,  became  a  member.  General 
Washington,  the  first  president  of  the  society,  thus  spoke  of  Nehemiah 
Emerson :  "He  was  a  brave  officer,  a  good  disciplinarian,  and  who 
never  lost  his  temper."  In  her  own  right  Mrs.  Martin  is  an  artist  of 
merit,  best  known  for  her  oil  painting  and  china  decorating. 

Kate  Smith  Hovey  was  born  in  Lowell,  at  the  Park  street  home 
of  the  family,  and  was  educated  in  Miss  Dana's  private  school.  She 
also  pursued  art  studies,  and  is  one  of  the  art  lovers  and  artists  of  her 
native  city.  She  married,  November  17,  1870,  Laurin  Martin,  born  in 
Bradford,  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  August  27,  1843,  died  April 
25,  1878.  son  of  Captain  Leonard  and  Priscilla  (Abbott)  Martin. 
Laurin  Martin  spent  his  youth  at  the  home  farm  in  Dixville,  Quebec, 
there  residing  until  1862,  when  he  came  to  the  United  States  and 
located  in  Lowell.  He  was  first  employed  by  N.  Hosford  &  Company, 
going  from  that  firm  to  the  J.  C.  Ayer  Company,  and  from  the  Ayer 
Company  to  Adams  &  North.  He  enlisted,  July  7,  1S64,  at  Readville, 
Massachusetts,  in  Company  G,  Sixth  Regiment,  ]\Iassachusetts  Volun- 
teer Infantry,  and  served  until  mustered  out  with  honorable  discharge, 
October  27.  1864.  His  service  was  with  his  regiment  in  garrison  at 
Arlington  Heights  and  Fort  Delaware.  After  the  war  Mr.  Martin 
returned  to  Lowell  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Merchants'  National 
Bank.  He  was  also  in  the  service  of  the  Old  Lowell  National  Bank, 
going  thence  to  the  Lowell  Institution  for  Savings  as  assistant  treas- 
urer. He  continued  with  the  last  named  institution  until  his  death. 
Well  known  and  highly  esteemed,  Mr.  Martin  was  a  man  who  inspired 
respect  and  one  who  was  deeply  interested  in  his  fellowmen.  Poultry 
raising  was  one  of  his  recreations,  he  being  at  one  time  president  of 
the  Middlesex  Poultry  Association.  In  religious  faith  he  was  an 
Episcopalian. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Martin  are  the  parents  of  two  sons  and  a  daughter, 
all  born  in  Lowell:  i.  Charles  Abbott,  born  .August  24,  1873:  he 
attended  public  school,  Phillips  Andover  Academy,  and  Harvard 
University,  now  connected  with  the  Brown  Company,  sulphite  manu- 
facturers of  Berlin,  New  Hampshire;  he  married,  September  12,  191 1, 
Marion  Elizabeth  Herring,  of  Philadelphia.  Pennsylvania,  daughter 
of  Frederick  Clark  and  Elizalieth  (Potts)  Herring,  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  2.  Laurin  Hovey,  b(jrn  May  30,  1875:  completed  public  school 
courses   of   stud}-    in    Lowell  ;   he   then    studied    decorative    design    at 


BIOGRAPHICAL  209 

Cowles  Art  School  of  Boston,  later  going  to  England,  where  he  pur- 
sued a  course  of  practical  designing  at  the  Birmingham  School  of 
Art;  in  1899,  while  a  student  at  Birmingham,  he  exhibited  some  of 
his  work  at  the  National  Exhibition  held  in  London,  and  was  awarded 
a  medal  for  excellence  of  design  and  workmanship ;  he  is  now  instruc- 
tor in  arts  and  crafts  at  Massachusetts  Normal  Art  School,  Boston, 
and  at  Rogers  Hall  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  that  city  also  being  his 
home:  he  married.  September  17,  1904.  Harriet  Nesmith  Greenhalge 
their  children:  Isabelle  Grace  and  Shirley  Laurin  Martin.  3.  Louise 
Hovey,  born  April  17,  1878:  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Rogers 
Hall,  Lowell,  and  Miss  Low's  School,  Stamford,  Connecticut;  she 
married  (first)  Waldo  Parry  Kennard,  (second)  Isaac  Hasbrook 
Chahoon.  of  Ausable  Forks,  Essex  county.  New  York ;  she  died  at 
her  home  in  Ausable  Forks,  May  31,  1908,  and  was  buried  in  Fair- 
view  Cemetery  in  that  town. 

Since  being  widowed,  Mrs.  Martin  has  continued  her  residence  in 
Lowell,  that  city  the  onh-  permanent  home  she  has  ever  known.  Her 
home  surroundings  bespeak  her  artistic  taste  and  temperament,  and 
her  love  for  the  old  masters.  Her  own  artistic  attainment  is  high, 
and  she  has  won  an  enviable  reputation  in  local  art  circles. 


ADAM  ERNEST  SHAW,  M.  D. 

When  a  child  of  six  years.  Dr.  Shaw  was  l)roug-Iit  by  his  parents 
from  his  native  city  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
and  here  his  life  has  been  spent  with  the  exception  of  his  college 
years.  His  professional  career  began  upon  his  return  from  medical 
college  in  1906,  and  in  hospital,  private  and  city  ambulance  practice 
has  gained  skill  and  reputation.  He  is  a  son  of  Adam  and  Margretta 
(McClure)  Shaw,  both  born  in  Ireland,  his  father  January  i,  1S52. 
his  mother  March  16,  1856,  near  Ballymena,  County  of  Antrim. 
Later  they  moved  to  Glasgow,  Scotland,  where  Adam  Shaw  worked 
at  his  trade,  carpentering,  until  leaving  for  the  United  States  in  1888. 
In  Lowell  he  secured  employment  in  the  Lawrence  mill,  and  has 
there  continued  without  interruption.  Adam  and  Margretta  (Mc- 
Clure) Shaw  are  the  parents  of:  William;  Adam  Ernest,  of  further 
mention  :  Jeannie.  a  teacher  in  the  schools  of  Lake  Forest,  Illinois ; 
Margretta.  who  married  Charles  Tucker,  of  Lowell,  and  Thomas, 
twins,  the  latter  connected  with  the  Department  of  the  Interior,  Wash- 
ington,  D.  C. ;  Matilda,  deceased  :  and  Agnes.  Adam  Shaw  was  a  son 
of  Adam  Shaw,  a  North  of  Ireland  farmer,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
sixty-two  years. 

Adam  Ernest  Shaw  was  born  in  Glasgow,  Scotland,  September 
22,  1882,  and  in  1888  was  brought  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  by  his 


210  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

parents.  Here  he  attended  the  grade  and  high  schools,  completing 
the  full  course  of  study,  choosing  the  medical  profession  as  his  life 
work.  He  prepared  at  Bowdoin  Medical  College,  here  receiving  his 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  the  class  of  1906.  Previous  to  gradu- 
ation he  had  acted  as  interne  at  the  Maine  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary 
during  the  years  1905-1906,  also  pursuing  his  studies  with  the  med- 
ical class.  The  year  following  graduation  he  was  on  the  house  stafi" 
of  St.  John's  Hospital,  Lowell,  and  since  lyoj  city  ambulance  sur- 
geon, and  also  has  a  private  practice.  He  is  an  earnest  worker,  a 
careful,  conscientious,  skillful  physician,  taking  his  work  as  well  as 
his  pleasures  rationallx'.  He  enjoys  golf  and  his  motor  car  above 
other  recreations. 

Dr.  Shaw  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  ha\ing  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree,  and  belongs  to  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons;  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Ahasu- 
erus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  Pilgrim  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar;  is  past  patron  of  Puritan  Chapter,  Order  of  the 
Eastern  Star.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows ;  the  Manchester  Unity,  Knights  of  Pythias ;  Order  of 
Scottish  Clans ;  Center\ille  Lodge,  Daughters  of  Rebekah  ;  the  Mas- 
sachusetts State  Medical  Association,  and  the  local  medical  society. 

Dr.  Shaw  married,  June  8,  1910,  at  East  Petpeswich,  Canada, 
Matilda  Jessie  Anderson,  daughter  of  William  J.  and  Celina  Ander- 
son, her  father  a  sea  captain  in  the  coastwise  trade,  now  fifty-three 
years  of  age.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Shaw  are  the  parents  of:  Lister  Harvey, 
born  March  16,  1911.    Marjorie  Jeannie,  born  September  18,  i(>i2. 


LEVI  SPRAGUE. 


This  family  name  was  originally  Sprake,  and  was  brought  from 
England  t(.)  this  country  prior  to  1720  by  Nicholas  Sprake,  who 
settled  in  that  part  of  the  town  of  Billerica,  known  as  North  Biller- 
ica.  He  was  a  cluthier  by  trade,  married,  and  head  of  a  family. 
.\mong  his  children  was  a  son,  Samuel  Sprake,  whose  son,  Levi,  mar- 
ried Sally  Syms,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  the  Levi  Sprague  to 
whose  memory  this  review  is  dedicated.  Levi  Sprague  left  a  well 
written  story  of  his  life,  and  from  that  autograph  the  facts  herein 
contained  are  largely  drawn.  Thr  name  Sprake  prevailed  during  the 
first  three  generations,  but  "previtnisly  to  my  recollection  and  for 
siimc  reason  I  never  knew  m\-  sisters  and  brothers  always  spelled 
llicir  name  Sprague."  The  home  of  Levi  and  Sally  (Syms)  Sprague 
was  in  Billerica,  on  the  west  side  of  the  Concord  river,  opposite  what 
is  known  as  Sprague's  Eddy,  about  one  mile  south  of  Edson  Cem- 
etery, in  Lt)well,  on  the  Lowell  and  Boston  highway.     They  were  the 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  211 

parents  of  thirteen  children,  ten  of  whom  reached  years  of  maturity, 
as  follows:  Thomas,  Sarah,  Judith,  Paschal,  Harriet,  Henry,  Eliza- 
beth, Mary,  Levi,  and  Susan.     Levi  Sprague  was  a  farmer. 

Levi  (2)  SpragTje,  youngest  son  of  Levi  (i)  and  Sally  (Syms) 
Sprague,  was  born  at  the  homestead  in  Billerica,  above  described, 
September  16,  1810,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  August  28,  1902, 
a  nonagenarian.  He  attended  the  district  school  for  a  few  weeks  each 
winter  until  his  seventeenth  year,  the  remaining  weeks  of  the  year 
being  spent  in  a  boy's  work  on  the  farm.  In  1827  he  went  with  an 
older  brother,  who  was  living  in  (now)  Arlington,  Massachusetts, 
going  on  foot,  carrying  a  capital  of  a  lone  dime,  which  was  given  him 
by  his  sister  Sally.  He  stayed  with  his  brother  until  he  found  an 
eniplo\er.  Francis  Bowman,  a  market  gardener  and  milk  dealer,  who 
hired  the  lad  at  a  salary  of  $5.50  monthly,  with  board.  His  labors 
began  with  the  milking  at  2  a.  m.,  as  the  milk  was  sold  in  Boston. 
He  remained  with  Mr.  Bowman  five  months,  then  became  an 
employee  of  the  grocery  firm,  Mansur  &  Reed,  of  Lowell,  their  store 
the  present  site  of  a  part  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  passenger  station. 
He  returned  home  after  two  months  with  Mansur  &  Reed,  but  came 
again  to  Lowell,  early  in  1828,  and  secured  employment  with  Thomas 
Hurd,  a  woolen  manufacturer.  On  March  18,  following,  he  began 
working  with  Samuel  Willard,  a  building  contractor,  as  apprentice  to 
the  bricklayer's  trade,  his  wages  to  be  $30  yearly,  with  board.  A 
vear  later,  Mr.  Willard  retired  from  business,  which  relieved  the 
young  man  from  further  obligation  to  him.  For  the  next  five  or  six 
years  he  worked  at  the  mason's  trade,  and  on  September  3,  1835,  he 
married  Lydia  P.  Wood,  of  Blue  Hill,  Maine.  He  had  previously 
bought  a  two  story  house  on  Gorham  street,  opposite  the  court  house, 
jointly,  with  Peter  Powers,  and  there  he  was  married  by  Rev.  Amos 
Blanchard,  and  began  housekeeping.  He  lived  in  his  Gorham  street 
home  for  a  year,  then  sold  his  half  interest  to  his  partner,  Mr.  Powers, 
and  moved  to  Chapel  street,  which  was  his  home  until  March  13, 
1837.  On  that  date,  with  John  Tuttle  and  Enoch  Carlton,  he  started 
for  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  After  a  long  journey  via  Boston,  New  York, 
Philadelphia,  Pittsburgh,  and  Louisville,  they  arrived  at  St.  Louis, 
having  traveled  by  boat,  coach,  and  car,  on  ocean,  river  and  over- 
land. He  worked  for  a  time  in  St.  Louis  at  his  trade,  then  went  to 
Quincy,  Illinois,  thence  to  Burlington,  Iowa,  thence  to  Lowell,  where 
he  remained  all  winter.  The  following  spring  he  returned  to  Bur- 
lington, where  he  erected  the  first  brick  building  in  the  town.  The 
following  winter  he  returned  to  Lowell,  and  there  in  the  spring  of 
1839  he  began  working  at  his  trade  with  Caleb  Crosby,  with  whom 
he  formed  a  partnership  in  1841,  which  existed  until  1846.  They 
built  the  original  mill  of  the  Lawrence  Corporation :  the  Savings 
Bank  building,  corner  of  Middle  and   Shattuck   streets;  and  one  of 


212  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

the  mills  for  the  Prescott  Company.  In  April,  1846,  he  went  to  Law- 
rence, Massachusetts,  and  completed  a  culvert  built  in  a  ravine  over 
which  the  canal  was  to  pass,  that  culvert  now  a  part  of  the  city 
sewer  system.  In  that  same  month  and  year  he  moved  with  his  family 
to  Lawrence,  and  there  in  that  year  built  the  Upper  Atlantic  block  of 
tenements,  the  first  brick  buildings  erected  in  Lawrence.  He  became 
an  important  contractor  of  Lawrence,  erected  several  mills  and  many 
tenements,  employing  at  times  three  hundred  hands  on  his  various 
contracts. 

In  Lawrence,  Levi  Sprague  served  four  terms  as  selectman, 
1848-1849,  1851-1852,  and  in  1848  was  chosen  a  director  of  the  Man- 
chester &  Lawrence  Railroad.  He  also  organized  the  Pemberton 
Bank,  and  for  about  thirty-eight  years  was  the  able  president  of  that 
bank.  He  removed  to  Lowell,  where  he  first  built  a  residence  at 
No.  115  Nesmith  street,  and  in  1867  erected  his  Mansur  street  home, 
in  which  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  did  little  contracting  after 
his  return  to  Lowell,  but  gave  himself  to  corporation  affairs,  being  a 
director  of  the  Traders'  &  Mechanics'  Insurance  Company,  and 
elected  its  president  in  February,  1874;  a  director  of  the  Lowell  Gas 
Light  Company  (elected  in  1858)  ;  president  of  the  Lowell  Water 
Commission,  1870-1873;  chairman  of  the  Lowell  Water  Board,  1873- 
1876;  director  of  the  Erie  Telegraph  &  Telephone  Company,  elected 
in  1887,  and  president  in  June,  1889.  He  was  a  leading  organizer  of 
the  Lowell  General  Hospital ;  chairman  of  the  house  committee  ;  also 
during  the  period  from  about  1854-1892  he  was  president  of  the  Pem- 
berton Bank  of  Lawrence,  but  about  ten  years  prior  to  his  death  he 
sold  his  stock,  resigned  the  presidency,  and  retired.  So  a  very  active, 
useful  and  successful  life  was  passed,  Levi  Sprague  being  one  of  the 
pioneer  business  men  to  whom  Lowell  and  Lawrence  owe  a  great 
deal.  They  bore  the  burden  and  heat  of  the  day,  and  to  them  belongs 
much  of  the  credit  for  the  establishment  of  industries  and  the  found- 
ing iif  corporations  which  it  is  now  an  honor  to  be  connected  with, 
but  in  the  early  days  were  weaklings  and  hardly  able  to  exist. 

Levi  Sprague  married  Lydia  Parker  Wood,  in  Lowell,  Septem- 
ber 3,  1835,  and  together  they  walked  life's  pathway  for  fifty-nine 
years,  Mrs.  Sprague  dying  November  23,  1894,  her  husband  surviving 
her  until  August,  1902.  Mrs.  Sprague  was  of  Revolutionary  stock, 
her  ancestors  fighting  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  her  mother  a  descendant 
of  Mary  Parker,  who  was  burned  at  the  stake  during  the  witchcraft 
delusion.  They  were  the  parents  of  two  daughters  and  two  sons : 
Augusta,  widow  of  Ami  Sewell,  a  banker  of  Albany,  New  York,  that 
city  yet  her  home;  Mary  J.,  widow  of  \\'illiam  G.  Mansur,  of  Lowell, 
whose  career  is  reviewed  in  this  work  ;  William  H.,  who  died  in 
Lowell,  November  24,  1918  (((.v.);  Levi  Kirk,  who  died  in  Lowell. 
November  8,  1917  (q.  v.). 


BIOGRAPHICAL  213 

WILLIAM  GAGE  MANSUR. 

Mary  Jane  Sprague,  second  daughter  of  Levi  and  Lydia  Parker 
(Wood)  Sprague,  married,  October  8,  1863,  William  Gage  Mansur, 
whom  she  has  long  survived,  a  resident  of  Lowell.  It  is  to  the  mem- 
ory of  William  Gage  Mansur  and  his  honored  father,  a  former  mayor 
of  Lowell,  that  this  review  is  offered,  to  grace  the  pages  of  a  history 
of  the  city  in  which  the  son  was  born  and  passed  his  life,  and  to 
whose  development  both  contributed. 

The  Mansur  famiU  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  spring  from  Rob- 
ert Monsieur,  a  French  Huguenot,  who  came  to  Charlestown,  Mas- 
sachusetts, at  an  early  day,  he  being  known  there  as  the  "Crazy 
Frenchman,"  his  vivacity  and  unusual  way  being  in  such  contrast 
to  the  Puritans.  The  name  soon  became  anglicized  as  Mansur,  and 
bis  descendants  are  found  all  over  the  United  States.  Robert  Mon- 
sieur married  Elizabeth  Brooks,  June  6,  1670,  according  to  Charles- 
town  records,  and  it  is  known  that  he  was  living  in  1678.  The  line 
of  descent  from  Robert  Mansur,  the  founder,  is  through  his  son,  John 
Mansur;  his  son,  John  (2)  Mansur,  who  settled  in  Temple,  New- 
Hampshire  ;  his  son  William  Mansur,  born  in  Temple ;  his  son, 
Stephen  Mansur,  born  December  18,  1773;  his  son,  Stephen  (2)  Man- 
sur; his  son  William  Gage  Mansur,  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

Stephen  (2)  Mansur,  of  the  sixth  generation,  was  born  in  Temple, 
New  Hampshire,  August  25,  1799,  and  died  in  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, April  I,  1863.  He  was  a  farmer  of  New  Hampshire  and  New 
York  State,  a  liveryman,  and  hotel  proprietor,  of  Boston,  and  later 
one  of  the  builders  of  the  Erie  canal  in  New  York  State.  He  settled 
in  Lowell  in  1822,  coming  to  this  city  to  superintend  the  widening  of 
the  old  canal  between  the  guide  locks  and  the  old  Lowell  Machine 
Company  shops.  In  1830,  he,  with  Alonzo  Child,  formed  a  partner- 
ship, and  as  Mansur  &  Child  established  a  hardware  and  crockery 
store  in  Lowell,  the  site  of  their  store  on  Central  street  now  occupied 
by  the  hardware  business  of  Bartlett  &  Dow.  Later  Mansur  &  Child 
established  a  branch  of  their  business  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In 
1836,  and  again  in  1837,  Stephen  (2)  Mansur  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives.  In  1836  he  sat  in 
Lowell's  first  Common  Council,  and  again  in  1839,  he  held  the  same 
honor,  representing  Ward  Four.  In  1840  he  served  as  alderman, 
and  in  1847  and  1853  he  was  again  elected  alderman  of  Lowell, 
declining  a  re-nomination  in  1854;  under  the  old  town  government 
he  was  tax  assessor,  and  was  mayor  of  Lowell  in  1857.  Stephen  (2) 
Mansur  was  also  a  deacon  of  the  First  Baptist  Church,  and  a  man 
of  upright  life.  He  married  Eliza  Kimball,  of  an  ancient  New  Hamp- 
shire family,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  eight  children :    Stephen 


214  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

(3),  Eliza,  Ellen,  Maria,  Charles  Henry,  Benjamin,  William  Gage,  of 
further  mention  ;  and  George. 

William  Gage  Mansur  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1833,  died  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  January  15,  1873.  He 
was  educated  in  Lowell  schools,  and  after  completing  his  studies  he 
entered  business  life  as  clerk  in  the  store  of  Mansur  &  Child,  of 
Lowell.  He  there  remained  until  1853,  when  he  was  sent  to  St.  Louis, 
Missouri,  where  Mansur  &  Child  had  established  a  branch  of  their 
Lowell  hardware  business.  Upon  his  return  from  St.  Louis,  he 
entered  the  employ  of  Nicols  &  Fletcher,  grocers,  and  was  continu- 
ously in  that  employ  until  his  early  death.  He  was  a  good  business 
man,  and  very  popular  among  his  many  friends  of  the  social  and 
business  world.  He  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of  High 
Street  Congregational  Church,  and  of  the  Masonic  order. 

Mr.  Mansur  married  JNIary  Jane  Sprague,  daughter  of  Levi 
Sprague,  who  survives  him.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  children, 
all  residing  in  Lowell  except  the  youngest,  as  follows:  Fanny 
Sprague,  of  Lowell ;  William  Levi,  associated  with  the  American 
Hide  &  Leather  Company  for  thirty  years,  who  married  Bertha 
Bishop,  of  Lowell :  George  Warren,  long  in  the  employ  of  the  Lowell 
Lock  &  Canal  Corporation,  who  married  Florence  \"alentine,  of 
Lowell,  who  died  leaving  sons,  Warren  and  Stephen  Gerry  Mansur; 
Lydia  Nesmith,  married  O.  A.  Barnard,  a  cotton  commission  broker 
of  New  York  City,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  a  son,  Mansur  Edwards 
Barnard. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  SPRAGUE. 

Levi  Sprague,  of  the  fourth  generation  of  the  family  founded  by 
Nicholas  Sprake,  of  England,  had  two  sons,  one  of  whom  was  Wil- 
liam Henry  Sprague,  who,  too,  has  been  gathered  to  his  fathers,  his 
death  hardly  yet  realized  in  the  city  in  which  his  useful  life  was  spent. 
He  was  the  eldest  son  and  third  child  of  Levi  and  Lydia  Parker 
(Wood)  Sprague. 

William  Henry  Sorague  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
the  family  home  then  being  on  Summer  street,  between  Gorham  and 
South  streets,  September  15,  1841,  and  died  in  the  city  of  his  birth, 
November  24,  1918.  He  began  school  attendance  at  the  age  of  four, 
the  family  then  having  moved  to  Lawrence,  where  they  resided  until 
1854,  when  they  returned  to  Lowell.  The  family  home  was  on  Gor- 
ham street,  nearly  opposite  the  court  house,  the  lad,  William  H., 
there  attending  the  Edson  School.  He  passed  from  this  school  to 
the  high  school,  and  in  all  grades  compiled  a  record  of  good  scholar- 
ship.    At  the  age  of  eighteen,   in   September,    1859,   he   entered   the 


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employ  of  Hocum  Hosford,  a  drygoods  merchant  on  Merrimack 
street,  hut  he  soon  found  that  the  position  was  not  a  pleasant  one 
and  he  left  the  place  vacant.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he 
obtained  a  position  with  the  Government,  his  assignment  taking  him 
to  Fortress  Monroe,  Virginia,  where  he  was  stationed  during  the 
historical  fight  between  the  Monitor  and  the  Merrimac.  The  office 
in  which  he  worked  was  in  the  Old  Fort,  which  was  very  much 
crowded,  damp,  and  disagreeable,  the  work  very  hard,  and  uncertain 
hours  prevailed,  but  it  was  a  touch  of  war,  and  Mr.  Sprague  never 
regretted  his  experiences.  He  was  in  charge  of  the  contrabands 
(runaway  slaves)  who  came  into  the  Union  lines  at  Old  Point  Com- 
fort in  droves. 

In  February,  1864,  he  was  appointed  clerk  in  the  office  of  the 
Paymaster  General  at  Washington,  D.  C.  The  work  was  not  satis- 
factory to  him  on  account  of  its  being  a  sinecure,  and  he  resigned, 
but  soon  was  appointed  to  a  clerkship  in  the  treasury  department  at 
a  salary  of  twelve  hundred  dollars,  which  was  later  increased  to 
fourteen  hundred  dollars.  He  remained  in  Washington  until  after 
the  war  closed,  then  returned  home  and  entered  a  branch  of  business 
with  which  his  father  was  connected  in  Lawrence.  Some  of  the 
mechanical  improvements  he  suggested  in  the  factory  are  now  in 
general  use,  but  at  the  time  they  were  first  suggested  brought  their 
inventor  nothing  but  derision.  But  he  bided  his  time,  and  when  they 
were  finally  introduced  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  knowing  that  he 
had  given  to  the  American  manufacturer  a  labor-saving  device  which 
speeded  production  and  decreased  cost.  He  was  then  but  twenty- 
four  years  of  age,  without  previous  mechanical  training,  but  his  mind 
was  an  active,  inventive  one,  and  he  saw  clearly  a  solution  to  many 
problems  of  maniifacturing,  which  were  puzzling  older  heads.  He 
continued  a  successful  manufacturer  of  Lawrence  until  November, 
1870,  when  his  plant  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire,  causing  him 
severe  loss.  He  emerged  from  the  disaster  with  but  eight  thousand 
dollars  of  his  capital  left,  but  with  undaunted  courage  he  faced  the 
future,  having  such  a  spirit  of  confidence  and  self-reliance  that  he 
took  unto  himself  a  wife  the  month  following  the  loss  of  plant  and 
business.  At  this  time,  a  critical  one  in  his  fortunes,  Cyrus  Wake- 
field, the  millionaire  rattan  manufacturer  of  Wakefield,  Massachusetts, 
thus  advised  the  young  man  :  "Rel)uild,  it  is  the  opportunity  of  your 
life,  but  if  you  do  not  I  will  make  you  superintendent  of  my  works 
at  Wakefield  ;  look  it  over,  but  my  advice  to  you  is  to  rebuild,  you 
will  be  better  off  for  it  in  the  end."  He  took  the  advice  so  kindly 
offered  and  the  prediction  of  his  good  old  friend  was  amply  verified. 
From  manufacturing  he  followed  his  father's  example  and  became 
interested  in  banking,  and  for  a  long  time  was  officially  connected 


2i6  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

with  the  Essex  Savings  Bank  of  Lawrence.  Mr.  Sprague  first  settled 
in  Lawrence,  in  1864,  and  for  thirty-eight  years  he  continued  his  resi- 
dence there,  returning  to  his  native  Lowell  in  1902.  He  built  that 
same  year  a  very  handsome  residence  at  No.  221  Xesmith  street,  and 
there  passed  the  last  sixteen  years  of  his  life  in  contented  retirement. 
Political  office  never  appealed  to  him,  although  he  was  ever  mindful 
of  his  duties  and  responsibility  as  a  citizen,  but  his  service  to  his  city 
and  State  was  strictly  in  a  private  capacity.  Neither  had  he  any 
liking  for  club  life,  nor  did  he  belong  to  any  of  the  orders  and  societies 
which  attract  so  many.  P)Ut  his  tastes  were  quiet  and  domestic,  his 
home  and  his  family  and  his  books  filling  the  measure  of  his  happi- 
ness to  the  brim.  His  library  was  a  great  source  of  joy  to  him,  par- 
ticularly in  the  years  when  time  could  better  be  spared  for  literary 
pursuits,  and  he  read  voluminously,  preferring  scientific  works  and 
those  dealing  with  modern  English  customs  and  history.  Kindly- 
hearted,  genial,  and  hospitable,  he  made  friends  easily,  and  these  he 
retained  through  his  excellence  of  character  and  pleasing  personality. 
Honor  and  usefulness  attended  his  life,  and  his  years,  seventy-seven, 
were  well  spent. 

William  H.  Sprague  married,  at  Lawrence,  ^Massachusetts, 
December  28,  1S70,  Mary  Elizabeth  Osgood,  born  in  Amesbury, 
Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Timothy  and  Lydia  Jane  (Gile)  Os- 
good, her  father  born  in  Amesbury,  settling  in  Lawrence,  in  1845, 
among  the  first  permanent  residents  there.  Her  mother  was  born  in 
Grantham.  New  Hampshire.  Mrs.  Sprague  sur\i\es  her  husband, 
as  does  their  only  child,  Paschal  Sprague,  born  in  Lawrence,  Massa- 
chusetts, .August  10,  1876,  now  a  resident  of  Lowell. 


LEVI  KIRK  SPRAGUE. 


Yoimger  of  the  sons  of  Levi  and  Lydia  Parker  ( ^\'ood  )  .Sprague, 
and  the  only  child  born  to  them  during  their  residence  in  Lawrence. 
Massachusetts,  Levi  Kirk  Sprague  came  to  Lowell  upon  the  return 
of  his  father's  family  in  1854,  and  here  his  life  was  spent.  He  did 
not  enter  actively  into  business  life,  but  purchased  an  estate  nearby 
and  there  spent  his  life  managing  his  farm  and  enjoying  the  pleasures 
of  a  man  of  means  and  ])osition.  Sprague  avenue,  which  runs  through 
the  Sprague  farm,  is  a  tribute  to  his  memory,  although  bestowed 
during  his  lifetime,  and  the  Sprague  home  was  the  abode  of  generous 
hospitality  and  the  scene  of  many  social  gatherings.  He  was  a  man 
of  fine  physique,  genial  and  generous  nature,  both  he  and  his  wife 
well  known  and  very  popular  in  social  life. 

Levi  Kirk  Sprague  was  born  in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  Ajiril 
6,  1850,  and  died  in   Lowell.  Massachusetts.  November  8,   191 7.     He 


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completed  public  school  courses  in  Lowell,  and  was  also  a  student  at 
the  Howe  Boarding  School,  in  Billerica,  Boscawen  Academy,  Bos- 
cawen,  New  Hampshire,  completing  his  studies  at  the  last  named 
institution.  Levi  Sprague,  his  father,  a  leading  contractor  of  brick 
and  mason  work,  gave  his  son  an  opportunity  to  learn  the  mason's 
trade,  and  until  1877  he  was  so  engaged  under  his  father's  instruction 
and  later  in  his  employ.  In  1877  he  retired  from  the  building  trade 
and  purchased  a  farm  in  what  was  then  the  town  of  Tewksbury, 
Middlesex  county,  and  there  resided  until  his  death.  When  that  part 
of  the  town  known  as  West  Tewksbury  was  annexed  to  the  city  of 
Lowell  it  brought  the  Sprague  farm  within  the  city  limits,  and  later 
Sprague  avenue  was  opened  through  the  farm  and  named  in  the 
owner's  honor.  IMr.  Sprague  never  became  a  practical  farmer,  but 
from  time  to  time  diminished  his  holdings  as  the  land  became  valu- 
able. He  was  possessed  of  a  keen  mind,  and  appreciated  the  finer 
things  of  life,  his  home  his  greatest  source  of  happiness.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  an  attendant  upon  the  services  of  St. 
Ann's  Episcopal  Church,  Lowell.  His  life  was  a  contented,  happy 
one,  and  the  Sprague  farm  home  attracted  many  who  enjoyed  the 
charming  hospitality  there  extended  by  the  host  and  hostess. 

Levi  K.  Sprague  married,  at  Lowell.  November  26,  1877,  Susan 
Francis  Thompson,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Adaline  Thompson,  and 
sister  of  Samuel  H.  Thompson,  president  of  the  Thompson  Hardware 
Company,  of  Lowell.  Samuel  Thompson,  an  engineer,  died  in  1890. 
his  wife  also  now  deceased.  The  young  couple  began  their  married 
life  at  the  Sprague  farm  in  Tewksbury,  now  in  Lowell,  and  there 
spent  forty,  happy,  contented  years.  Mrs.  Sprague  continues  her 
residence  at  the  old  home,  to  which  she  came  a  bride  in  1877,  and 
there  her  only  child,  R.achael  Sprague,  was  born.  She  is  a  graduate 
of  Rogers  Hall  School,  and  the  wife  of  Elbert  H.  Dexter,  who  is 
connected  with  the  credit  department  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Boston. 


HENRY  HALE  HARRIS. 


One  of  Lowell's  leading  educators,  Mr.  Harris  is  best  known  in 
the  city  as  the  long  time  principal  of  the  Varnum  public  school,  but 
he  has  a  State  and  almost  nation  wide  reputation  as  a  conductor  of 
travel  tours.  For  twenty-five  years  he  has  served  the  Varnum  school 
as  its  principal,  while  during  vacation  periods  he  has  conducted  six 
tours  to  many  parts  of  this  continent.  A  former  principal  of  the 
Varnum  school,  Daniel  P.  Galloupe,  held  the  position  twenty-five 
years  before  retiring,  and  within  a  short  time  Mr.  Harris  will  exceed 
that  period  of  service.     He  is  most  favorably  known  as  an  educator. 


2i8  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

and  through  his  membership  in  various  professional  associations  has 
won  the  personal  acquaintance  and  friendly  regard  of  a  large  number 
of  the  teachers  and  leading  educators  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts. 
He  is  a  man  of  enterprise  and  initiative,  proud  of  his  profession  and  of 
his  privilege  to  aid  in  the  promulgation  of  useful,  helpful  thought 
through  the  medium  of  the  school  room.  His  deepest  interest  is  in 
the  cause  of  education,  and  his  contributions  to  its  advancement  have 
been  important  through  his  written  and  spoken  words  as  well  as 
his  work  as  school  principal.  He  is  devoted  to  his  home  and  family, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  genial  and  hospitable  of  men. 

Henry  H.  Harris  is  a  son  of  Henry  H.  Harris,  who  was  born  in 
Lowell,  a  machinist  in  the  employ  of  the  Massachusetts  mills  until 
the  Civil  War  broke  out.  He  then  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Sixth 
Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry,  commanded  by  Captain  Taylor. 
He  returned  to  Lowell  broken  in  health,  and  died  in  1868,  .shortly 
before  the  birth  of  his  son,  Henry  H.  He  married  Thena  Beach 
Martin,  who  was  born  ;n  Xorth  Stratford.  New  Hampshire,  and  died 
in  Lowell 

Henry  Hale  Harris  was  born  in  Lowell.  March  10,  1868.  He 
began  his  education  in  the  Varnum  school.  He  continued  through 
the  grades,  and  the  high  school,  completing  a  full  course  with  grad- 
uation in  1888.  He  then  entered  Harvard  University,  completed  a 
four  years'  course  in  three  years,  and  was  graduated  A.  B.,  1891, 
A.  M.,  1892.  In  October,  1893,  he  began  his  professional  career, 
being  then  elected  an  instructor  in  English,  French  and  Mathematics 
at  Lowell  High  School.  He  held  that  position  until  January  9,  1895, 
when  he  was  chosen  by  the  school  board  as  principal  of  the  Varnum 
school,  a  position  he  has  now  held  with  unqualified  success  for 
twenty-four  years.  He  is  secretary  of  that  peculiarly  named  Lowell 
institution.  The  Ministry-at-Large,  which  is  a  wonderful  instrument 
for  good :  president  of  the  Massachusetts  Teachers'  Association ; 
president  of  the  Teachers'  Annuity  Guild  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts ;  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Schoolmasters'  Club ; 
Massachusetts  Teachers'  Association ;  and  of  the  National  Educa- 
tional Association.  He  is  in  close  touch  with  the  work  of  these 
organizations,  all  professional,  save  The  Ministry-at-Large,  which  is 
a  philanthropic  body.  He  is  also  a  trustee  of  Lowell  Public  Library, 
and  a  man  whose  public  spirit  and  enterprise  can  always  be  relied 
upon  to  support  any  worthy  movement  for  intellectual  or  moral 
progress. 

As  stated,  Mr.  Harris  has  personally  conducted  six  European 
travel  tours,  having  an  audience  with  King  George  of  Greece  upon 
one  occasion.  His  American  tours  have  covered  all  points  of  scenic 
and  historical   interest,  his  tours  having  become  very   popular.     He 


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has  taken  all  degrees  of  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites  up  to  and  includ- 
ing the  Thirty-second,  being  affiliated  with  William  North  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  Pilgrim  Command- 
ery.  Knights  Templar ;  Lowell  Lodge  of  Perfection,  now  thrice  potent 
master;  Lowell  Council,  Princes  of  Jerusalem,  of  which  he  is  past 
sovereign  prince;  Mt.  Calvary  Chapter,  Rose  Croix;  Massachusetts 
Consistory,  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite ;  Alleppo  Temple,  Ancient 
Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine;  and  in  Odd  Fellowship 
he  is  a  member  of  Centralville  Lodge.  His  political  faith  is  Repub- 
lican, his  religious  connection  being  with  Grace  Universalist  Church, 
which  he  has  served  as  chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

Mr.  Harris  married,  at  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  April  8,  1903, 
Edith  E.  Potter,  born  there,  daughter  of  Daniel  E.  and  Imogene 
Stratton  (Foster)  Potter,  her  father  of  Vermont  birth,  her  mother 
of  New  Hampshire.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harris  are  the  parents  of  a  daugh- 
ter, Shirley,  born  in  Lowell,  April  21,  1905,  now  a  high  school  student. 


FREEMAN  MANTER  BILL. 


The  life  of  Freeman  M.  Bill,  Lowell's  prosperous  wholesale 
grocer,  is  one  of  deep  interest,  and  to  the  young  man  with  his  own 
way  to  make  in  the  world  it  should  prove  an  inspiration  and  an 
incentive.  There  is  one  fact  which  stands  out  clearly  in  the  life  story 
of  this  self-made  man,  and  that  is  there  is  no  blank  page  from  the 
time  he  was  a  boy  on  the  Woodbury  farm  until  the  present,  every 
day  having  had  its  appointed  work,  and  he  has  never  shirked  a  known 
duty.  Now  at  the  age  of  sixty,  and  sole  owner  of  the  wholesale 
grocery  business  of  F.  M.  Bill  &  Company,  he  might  very  properly 
claim  exemption  from  daily  toil  and  responsibility,  but  not  so,  the 
business  which  he  founded,  developed,  and  owns  is  still  his  first 
interest,  and  is  under  his  personal  direction  and  management.  There 
is  not  a  retail  grocery  store  in  Lowell  which  he  has  not  visited.  He 
has  woven  into  the  business  the  warp  and  woof  of  his  own  person- 
ality, and  while  there  is  an  &  Company  on  the  sign,  F.  M.  Bill  is 
written  large  over  its  ever)-  department.  It  is  a  wonderful  thing  for  a 
man  to  have  built  up  from  nothing  a  business  of  such  proportions  in 
Lowell,  in  competition  with  Boston's  great  wholesale  house,  and  the 
only  explanation  which  can  be  given  is  F.  M.  Bill. 

Freeman  M.  Bill  is  a  son  of  Gilman  Bill,  a  farmer  all  his  life,  of 
Woodbury,  Vermont.  He  married  Rosanna  Ainsworth,  and  they 
were  the  parents  of  six  children,  all  born  in  Woodbury,  four  of  whom 
are  living:  Lura,  married  George  W.  Sawyer,  a  lumber  dealer  of 
Hardwick,   Vermont;   Freeman   Manter,   of   further   mention;    Lina, 


220  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

married  Eba  Bashaw,  a  farmer,  they  now  living  on  the  old  Bill  farm 
in  Woodbury ;  Elgin,  a  resident  of  Lowell. 

Freeman  Manter  Bill  was  born  in  Woodbury,  Vermont,  October 
27,  1859.  He  there  began  his  education  in  the  district  schools, 
and  later  attended  the  graded  school  at  Hardwick,  Vermont.  He 
then  returned  to  the  home  farm,  where  he  remained  his  father's 
assistant  until  1879.  I"  that  year  he  joined  two  of  his  cousins  in 
Lowell,  here  securing  employment  in  the  dye  house  at  the  carpet 
mills.  His  job  was  such  an  easy  one  that  he  became  disgusted  with 
it,  and  after  three  weeks  left  and  went  with  Daniel  Gage  and  his 
ice  cutting  gang.  He  stayed  with  Mr.  Gage  all  through  the  ice 
harvest,  then  obtained  work  with  a  Belchertown  farmer  with  whom 
he  remained  until  the  spring  of  1880.  He  then  returned  to  Lowell 
and  reentered  the  employ  of  Daniel  Gage,  but  this  time  he  drove  an 
ice  wagon  in  the  city,  distributing  the  ice  he  had  helped  to  harvest  the 
preceding  winter.  When  the  summer  ice  season  was  over  he  returned 
to  the  home  farm  at  Woodbury,  where  he  spent  the  winter,  coming 
again  to  Lowell  in  the  spring  of  1881,  and  again  drove  one  of  the 
Gage  ice  wagons.  At  the  end  of  that  season  he  married,  and  during 
the  winter  of  18S1  joined  a  part}-  from  \Wjodbury  who  had  contracted 
a  bad  case  of  "Western  fever."  In  the  spring  of  1S82  the  party- 
journeyed  to  Redfield,  South  Dakota,  where  each  man  took  up  a 
homestead.  INIr.  Bill  doubled  up  with  one  of  the  party,  Tyler  McCloud, 
and  purchasing  an  outfit,  located  on  a  homestead  claim  in  Potter 
county.  South  Dakota,  and  put  in  a  crop.  When  nearly  ready  to 
harvest  a  heavy  storm  destro_\ed  everything,  a  disappointment  Mr. 
Bill  would  not  remain  to  perhaps  again  experience.  He  sold  his 
interest  in  the  claim,  horses,  tents,  and  implements,  to  his  partner, 
and  returned  to  Vermont,  where  he  had  left  his  wife. 

In  1883  he  came  to  Lowell  with  his  wife,  and  from  that  year  this 
city  has  been  his  home  and  the  seat  of  his  business  activity.  When 
spring  came  he  secured  his  old  job  with  Daniel  Gage  on  an  ice 
wagon.  During  the  summer  he  exerted  himself  to  secure  customers 
for  country  produce  among  the  people  he  served  with  ice  and  was 
quite  successful.  He  obtained  fresh  butter,  eggs,  and  produce  from 
Woodbury,  and  so  well  pleased  was  he  with  the  success  of  his  ven- 
ture that  when  the  summer  ice  season  was  over  he  continued  his 
produce  business,  working  up  a  large  route  which  he  served  for  three 
years.  That  was  his  first  mercantile  venture,  and  the  basis  upon 
which  was  built  the  business  of  F.  M.  Bill  &  Company.  After  three 
years  as  a  traveling  produce  dealer,  Mr.  Bill  bought  a  half  interest 
in  the  Wood  &  Lock  retail  grocery  on  Middle  street,  purchasing  Mr. 
Wood's  interest,  the  firm  continuing  as  Lock  &  Bill  for  three  years, 
when  Mr.  Bill  sold  out  to  Horace  Ely,  and  established  a  small  pro- 


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cluce  and  grocery  business  in  a  small  one  window  storeroom  in  the 
Fellows  block  on  Middle  street,  dealing  strictly  in  wholesale  quan- 
tities. He  was  successful,  and  soon  moved  to  larger  quarters  in  the 
Burke  block  on  Middle  street,  thence  to  the  Brabrook  block  on  Market 
street,  where  he  remained  ten  years,  removing  in  1914  to  his  present 
location  in  the  modern  Bay  State  storage  building  on  Jackson  street. 
From  1898  until  1913  Mr.  Bill  operated  as  a  partnership,  E.  L. 
Fletcher  being  admitted  The  firm  then  became  F.  M.  Bill  &  Com- 
pany, a  name  that  is  still  retained.  Later,  Bill  &  Company  bought  the 
wholesale  grocery  business  of  Tuft  &  Company,  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, Mr.  Fletcher  managing  the  Boston  business,  Mr.  Bill  the 
Lowell  house.  When  in  1913  they  decided  to  dissolve,  Mr.  Fletcher 
retained  the  Boston  house,  leaving  Mr.  Bill  the  Lowell  half  of  tht 
business,  an  arrangement  very  satisfactory  to  both.  In  1918  Mr.  Bill 
purchased  and  re-organized  the  Lawrence  Market,  a  large  retail 
business  in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  which  he  still  owns  and  oper. 
ates.  Country  produce  is  no  longer  handled,  the  regulation  wholesale 
grocery  lines  being  dealt  in  by  F.  M.  Bill  &  Company,  its  trading 
extending  all  over  New  England,  employing  a  large  force  of  city  and 
traveling  salesmen.  Mr.  Bill  is  a  director  of  the  Old  Lowell  National 
Bank,  and  is  an  active  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade. 

He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is  a  member  of  All  Souls 
Church ;  the  Yorick  Clnb  ;  Vesper  Country  Club  ;  Pentucket  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ; 
Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  Mt.  Calvary  Com- 
mandery,  Knights  Templar.  While  a  business  man  of  untiring 
industry,  Mr.  Bill  for  twenty-five  years  has  not  missed  his  fall  vaca- 
tion, hunting  and  fishing  trips  in  the  Maine  woods,  except  during  the 
period  of  war  with  Germany,  when  he  remained  at  home.  Hunting 
and  fishing  are  his  favorite  recreations,  and  he  thoroughly  enjoys 
these  days  "off  duty." 

Mr.  Bill  married,  at  Montpelier,  Vermont,  January  i,  1883,  Mary 
Frances  Morse,  born  in  Calais,  Vermont,  who  before  her  marriage 
was  a  teacher  in  the  Woodbury  school.  Mrs.  Bill  is  the  daughter  of 
Julius  Augustus  and  Maria  (Kamera)  Morse,  her  father  born  in 
Woodbury,  and  a  carpenter  by  trade.  Mrs.  Maria  Morse  was  born 
in  Easton.  Pennsylvania,  and  died  in  Worcester,  Vermont,  surviving 
her  husband  several  years,  he  dying  in  East  Montpelier,  Vermont.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Bill  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters:  Marion  Morse  and 
Mary  Ruth  Bill.  The  eldest  daughter,  Marion  M..  is  a  graduate  ot 
Lowell  High  School,  and  later  was  a  student  at  the  Capen  School, 
Northampton.  Massachusetts:  she  married,  September  5.  1917,  at 
Lowell,  Dr.  Robert  L.  Jones,  a  physician  of  Lowell,  who  served  with 
the  Medical  Corps,  Evacuation  Hospital  No.  4,  American  Expedition- 


222  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ary  Forces,  Army  of  Occupation  in  Germany,  after  seeing  hard 
service  on  French  battle  fields.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jones  are  the  parents 
of  Robert  Bill  Jones,  born  December  29,  1918.  The  youngest  daugh- 
ter, Mary  Ruth,  attended  Bradford  Academy,  Bradford,  Massachu- 
setts, Dana  Hall,  Wellesley,  Massachusetts,  and  graduated  from 
Rogers  Hall  School,  Lowell,  1914.  In  June,  1919,  she  completed  a 
kindergarten  course  and  graduated  from  Miss  Neil's  Training  School. 
Boston,  Massachusetts. 


ALBERT  DARLING  MILLIKEN. 

To  fill  successfully  any  official  position  in  a  textile  mill  a  knowl- 
edge of  every  detail  of  the  work  performed  in  that  mill  becomes 
a  necessity  if  the  official  hopes  to  retain  the  respect  of  the  employees 
whose  welfare  depends  upon  his  fairness  and  justice.  It  is  a  fact  that 
Mr.  Milliken  has  come  up  from  the  bottom  of  the  textile  worker's 
ladder,  and  knows  exa:^tly  the  problems  of  e\ery  mill  worker,  and 
this  has  won  for  him  the  high  position  he  holds  and  the  deep  regard 
of  the  thousands  of  men  who  have  been  under  his  care  in  the  various 
New  England  mills  of  which  he  has  held  the  positions  of  overseer, 
superintendent  and  agent.  He  is  one  of  the  most  modest  and  unas- 
suming of  men,  very  democratic,  but  there  is  no  man  more  thorough 
and  capable  nor  more  successful  in  mill  management  than  Albert  D. 
Milliken,  now  and  since  1910  agent  of  the  Hamilton  Mills  of  the 
Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company,  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  This 
is  one  of  the  important  textile  companies  of  Lowell,  a  brief  history 
of  the  company  following. 

Albert  Darling  Milliken  was  born  in  New  Bedford.  Massachu- 
setts. July  30,  1870,  son  of  Eben  C.  and  Ellen  M.  (Darling)  Milliken, 
of  New  Bedford.  Eben  C.  Milliken  was  born  in  Winthrop,  Maine, 
but  when  a  boy  came  to  New  Bedford,  where  he  was  educated,  and 
has  since  lived.  He  learned  the  baker's  trade,  and  in  the  course  of 
time  started  in  business  for  himself.  He  has  been  very  successful, 
and  now  operates  and  owns  a  large  bakery.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  prominent  figure  in  the  public  life  of  the  town,  now  the  city  of  New 
Bedford,  and  as  councilman  and  alderman  aided  in  the  enactment  of 
wise,  just  laws  under  which  great  prosperity  has  been  possible.  Mr. 
Milliken  represented  New  Bedford  in  the  State  Legislature,  was 
returned  as  State  Senator,  and  as  faithfully  and  capably  served  his 
State  as  he  had  previously  served  his  city.  Eben  C.  Milliken  married 
Ellen  M.  Darling,  born  at  Chepachet,  Rhode  Island,  died  in  New 
Bedford,  the  mother  of  two  sons.  Albert  D.,  of  further  mention,  and 
William  B..  deceased. 

Albert  D.  Milliken  spent  his  early  years  in  acquiring  an  education, 


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continuing  until  graduation  from  high  school.  While  attending  school 
he  spent  much  of  his  out  of  school  time  at  his  father's  bakery,  and 
for  a  few  years  after  leaving  school  he  was  a  regular  employee  of 
the  bakery.  He  then  spent  one  year  as  reporter  in  the  New  Bedford 
"Journal,"  but  in  1891  he  decided  to  enter  the  business  for  which 
New  Bedford  was  then  becoming  famous,  the  manufacture  of  fine 
cotton  goods.  He  began  as  a  laborer  at  the  mills  of  the  Pierce  Manu- 
facturing Company  at  New  Bedford,  not  of  necessity  but  because  he 
wanted  to  learn  the  business  from  every  angle.  He  next  became  a 
mill  operative  at  that  mill,  then  in  pursuance  of  his  well  formed  plan 
he  went  to  another  mill,  choosing  the  ^^'amsutta,  New  Bedford,  the 
oldest  and  most  prominent  mill.  He  went  to  this  mill  in  1894,  and 
became  third  hand  in  the  carding  room.  In  1895  he  made  another 
change,  going  to  Lyman  Mill  No.  2,  in  Holyoke,  Massachusetts,  there 
becoming  carding  room  second  hand  and  remaining  until  1897.  In 
the  latter  year  he  was  made  overseer  of  the  carding  department  of 
the  Canoe  River  Mills  at  Taunton,  Massachusetts,  and  in  1899 
resigned  to  accept  the  same  position  at  the  Aldrich  Manufacturing 
Company  Mill  at  Moosup,  Connecticut.  In  1901  he  again  changed, 
going  as  overseer  of  the  carding  department  of  the  W.  A.  Slater  Mills 
at  Jewett  City,  Connecticut.  The  year  1902  brought  him  back  to  his 
native  New  Bedford,  after  a  wide  swing  around  the  circle,  all  the 
changes  he  had  made,  however,  having  been  in  pursuance  of  his  plan 
to  learn  the  business  "from  every  angle."  Each  mill  made  different 
goods  both  in  kind  and  quality,  and  he  returned  with  a  finished  textile 
worker's  education  attained  in  the  most  practical  way. 

In  New  Bedford,  from  1902  until  1906,  he  was  overseer  of  the 
Bennett  Mill,  that  mill  being  No.  2  among  the  mills  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Cotton  Yarn  Company.  From  1906  until  1908  he  was  assistant 
superintendent  of  departments  No.  i  and  No.  2  of  the  New  England 
Cotton  Yarn  Company,  and  from  1908  until  1910  he  was  superintend- 
ent of  the  departments  Nos.  15  and  16  of  the  Globe  Cotton  Yarn  Mill 
at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  that  mill  being  also  owned  by  the  New 
England  Cotton  Yarn  Company.  In  1910  he  was  appointed  to  his 
present  position,  agent  of  the  Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company, 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  having  about  two  thousand  five  hundred 
operatives  under  him  and  the  product  of  three  thousand  looms  to 
place  upon  the  textile  market.  This  position  is  the  culminating  honor 
of  a  life  of  twenty-seven  years  spent  in  fitting  himself  for  it.  That  he 
is  successful  as  an  agent  is  a  recognized  fact,  and  there  are  no  honors 
of  textile  manufacture  to  which  he  is  not  eligible.  He  is  master  of 
his  business  and  has  impressed  that  fact  upon  the  trade,  hence  his 
assumed  position. 

Mr.  Milliken  is  a  member  of  the  New  England  Cotton  Manufac- 


224  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

turers'  Association,  National  Association  of  Cotton  Manufacturers, 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  United  States  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  director  of  the  Old  Lowell  National  Bank,  director  of 
the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  trustee  of  the  Mechanics  Savings  Bank, 
director  of  Lowell  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  chairman  of 
the  fuel  committee  of  the  city  of  Lowell  during  the  war,  member  of 
Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons;  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter, 
Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal,  and  Select  Masters ; 
Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Templar ;  and  in  the  Ancient  Accepted 
Scottish  Rite  holds  the  thirty-two  degrees  of  Lowell  Lodge  of  Per- 
fection;  Mount  Calvary  Chapter,  Rose  Croix;  Lowell  Council, 
Princes  of  Jerusalem;  and  Massachusetts  Consistory.  His  clubs  are 
the  Yorick  and  Vesper  Country,  which  he  serves  on  the  executive 
committee,  and  he  is  chairman  of  the  house  committee.  He  is  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  Eliot  Union  Church. 

Mr.  Milliken  married,  at  Westport,  Massachusetts.  November  3, 
1897,  Elizabeth  Brownell  White,  born  in  New  Bedford,  daughter  of 
George  M.  and  Louise  VonBonbon  (Smith)  White,  her  father  born 
in  Westport,  her  mother  in  New  Bedford.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Milliken 
are  the  parents  of  a  son,  Arnold  White,  born  in  Moosup,  Connecticut, 
August  30,  1899,  now  a  student  at  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology. 


THE  HAMILTON  MANUFACTURING  COMPANY. 

The  first  sale  of  water  power  made  by  the  Locks  and  Canals 
Company  after  the  completion  of  their  canals  in  Lowell,  was  to  the 
Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company,  whose  charter  or  act  of  incor- 
poration is  dated  January  26,  T825.  The  incorporators  of  the  company 
were:  Samuel  Batchclder,  I'.enjamin  Gorham.  \\'illiam  Appleton. 
William  Sturgis,  and  Jr)hn  Lowell,  Jr..  their  purpose  declared  to  be 
"the  manufacturing  of  cotton  and  woolen  goods''  in  Chelmsford,  in 
the  county  of  Middlesex.  The  capital  stock  was  placed  at  $500,000, 
but  various  increases  have  been  authorized  by  the  Legislature,  and  it 
is  now  $T, 800,000.  The  first  mills  were  built  under  the  direction  of 
one  of  the  incorporators,  Samuel  Batchelder,  who  also  became  the 
first  agent  of  the  company,  in  1825,  served  until  1831,  and  under  his 
management  the  power  loom  was  applied  with  great  success  to  the 
weaving  of  twilled  and  fancy  goods,  such  as  heretofore  had  been 
made  on  hand  looms.  In  1828  the  Hamilton  Company  began  calico 
printing  under  the  management  of  William  Spencer,  who  came  from 
England  for  that  purpose,  and  for  thirty-four  years,  1828-62,  was 
superintendent  of  the  company.  Ferdinand  Rodliff  came  to  the 
employ  of  the  mill  as  a  boy,  became  superintendent,  passing  through 


BIOGRAPHICAL  225 

all  the  departments,  etc.,  and  served  in  all  a  period  of  seventy  years 
as  an  employee  of  the  Hamilton  Mills.  He  began  as  boy  in  the  mill 
in  1827  and  for  thirty-two  years  served  as  second  hand,  overseer,  and 
assistant  superintendent,  and  then  became  superintendent  of  the  mills 
and  continued  as  superintendent  for  forty  years.  This  is  the  longest 
period  of  continuous  service  ever  rendered  by  a  man  in  any  mill  in 
Lowell,  probably  in  New  England.  He  died  in  Lowell,  May  31,  1899, 
aged  ninety-three  years.  He  was  active  in  the  cotton  industry  for 
eighty-two  years,  although  the  last  two  years  of  his  life  his  connection 
with  the  Hamilton  Mills  was  an  honorary  one. 

This  Samuel  Batchelder,  so  closely  identified  with  the  interests 
of  the  Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company  for  many  years,  was  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  the  manufacturing  business  in  New  England,  and 
[jrominently  connected  with  it  with  little  interruption  from  1808, 
when  he  was  aged  twenty-four,  until  1870,  a  period  of  sixty-two  years. 
He  was  the  inventor  of  several  machines  which  are  still  in  use,  was 
a  wise  manager,  a  successful  manufacturer,  a  keen  and  able  business 
man,  and  well  known  writer  on  the  subject  of  a  tariff  for  the  protection 
of  American  industries.  He  resigned  as  agent  of  the  Hamilton  Com- 
pany in  1831,  but  during  his  after  life  was  connected  with  numerous 
corporations  in  responsible  positions.  A  peculiar  talent,  faculty  or 
ability  he  possessed  was  proven  more  than  once,  one  case  being  the 
taking  of  a  bankrupt  company  and  restoring  it  to  a  sound  financial 
condition.  He  died  February  5,  1879,  at  the  wonderful  age  of  ninety- 
five,  having  retired  from  business  at  the  age  of  eighty-six. 

The  mills  of  the  company  are  on  the  Hamilton  and  Pawtucket 
canals,  between  Central  street  and  the  Appleton  Company  plant.  The 
first  treasurer  of  the  company  was  William  Appleton,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Ebenezer  Appleton  in  1830,  and  in  succession  came  George 
M.  Lyman  in  1833;  Thomas  G.  Gary  in  1839;  William  R.  Bacon  in 
1859;  Arthur  T.  Lyman  in  i860;  Arthur  L.  Devens  in  1863;  Eben 
Bacon  in  1867;  Samuel  Batchelder  in  1869;  George  R.  Chapman  in 
1870;  James  A.  Dupee  in  1870;  James  Longley  in  1886;  Charles  B. 
Amory  from  1886  to  1909;  Arthur  R.  Sharpe  from  1909  to  present 
time. 

John  Avery,  who  succeeded  Samuel  Batchelder  as  agent  in  1831, 
was  an  experienced  mill  official  before  coming  to  the  Hamilton  Com- 
pany, having  been  paymaster  of  a  Waltham  mill,  and  agent  of  the 
Appleton  Company  at  Lowell.  He  continued  as  agent  of  the  cor- 
poration until  1864,  a  period  of  thirty-three  years,  and  most  ably 
guided  the  company  in  all  that  the  scope  of  his  position  would  allow. 
After  him  came  Oliver  H.  Moulton,  who  held  the  agency  from  1864 
until    1904.     Mr.   Moulton   was  a   man  of   unusual   force  and   power. 


226  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

working  his  way  upward  fn)m  the  lowest  rung  of  the  ladder  of 
success  to  high  and  honorable  position  in  many  Lowell  corporations. 
He  was  a  man  of  fine  presence,  pleasing  personality  and  dignified 
manner,  broad  and  liberal  in  mind,  upright  and  honorable  in  character. 
After  Mr  Moulton's  long  term  as  agent  came  Clarence  N.  Childs  in 
1904.  and  he  was  succeeded  by  the  present  agent,  Albert  D.  Milliken 
in  19 10. 

The  Hamilton  Man.ufacturing  Company  now  own  and  operate 
seven  mills,  employs  two  thousand  five  hundred  hands  in  the  opera- 
tion of  three  thousand  looms  and  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
spindles ;  their  product  being  combed  cotton  yarns,  cotton  flannels, 
chambrays,  tickings,  shirtings,  cotton  dress  goods  and  ginghams. 
The  president  of  the  company  is  Felix  Rockemann,  of  Boston;  treas- 
urer, Arthur  R.  Sharpe ;  agent,  .\lbert  D.  Milliken ;  Thomas  S.  Pren- 
dergast,  clerk  of  the  corporation  and  assistant  treasurer;  directors, 
Felix  Rockemann,  Charles  B.  Amory,  James  M.  Prendergast,  Thomas 
P.  Beal,  Jr.,  Arthur  Adams,  George  H.  Whiting,  .Arthur  R.  Sharpe. 


HARRY  PUTNAM  KNAPP. 


The  business  of  which  Harry  Putnam  Knapp  is  president  and 
principal  owner  is  the  only  one  with  which  he  was  ever  connected. 
The  Talbot  Chemical,  incorpoiated  in  1884  as  The  Talbot  Dyewood 
and  Chemical  Company.  This  is  one  of  Lowell's  old  business  houses, 
having  been  originally  established  by  C.  P.  Talbot  as  C.  P.  Talbot  & 
Company,  he  occupying  a  store  in  the  city  market  in  1S67.  Harry  P. 
Knapp  is  a  son  of  Joel  and  Elizabeth  (Putnam)  Knapp. 

Joel  Knapp  was  a  descendant  of  the  Knapp  family  of  early 
Colonial  days  in  Rhode  Island,  son  of  Elijah  Knapp,  and  grandson 
of  Joseph  and  Eunice  (Carver)  Knapp,  his  grandmother,  Eunice 
(Carver)  Knapp,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Governor  Carver,  of  Massa- 
chusetts. Elijah  Knapp  married  Celia  Pullen,  who  resided  in  Free- 
man, Maine,  at  the  time  of  the  birth  of  their  son,  Joel  Knapp,  who  was 
born  June  16,  1835,  died  in  Lowell,  March  21,  1902.  In  1853  he  came 
to  Lowell,  working  for  the  Merrimack  Cotton  Mills  for  six  months 
before  deciding  to  learn  the  machinist's  trade.  He  served  an  appren- 
ticeship in  the  Lowell  Machine  Shop,  then  worked  for  one  year  in  the 
Merrimack  Repair  Shop,  spending  the  next  year  in  California.  Later 
he  returned  to  Lowell  and  was  in  the  employ  of  the  Merrimack  Com- 
]iany  until  his  enlistment  in  the  .Sixth  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War.  After  a  short 
term  of  service  with  the  infantry,  because  of  his  knowledge  of  mechan- 
ics, he  was  transferred  to  the  Engineer  Corps,  United  States  Army, 
and  served  with  the  corps  until  honorably  discharged  at  the  end  of 


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the  war.  After  the  war  he  spent  twentj--two  consecutive  years  with 
the  Lowell  Machine  Shop,  and  for  twenty  of  those  years  he  was  a 
5hop  contractor.  He  withdrew  in  1885  to  engage  in  business  for 
himself,  first  as  Joel  Knapp  and  later  as  Joel  Knapp  &  Sons,  archi- 
tectural iron  work  and  manufacturing  machinists,  located  at  Nos. 
585-587  Middlesex  street.  Joel  Knapp  continued  active  in  the  busi- 
ness until  his  death,  bearing  an  excellent  reputation  as  a  business  man 
j;nd  citizen.  A  Republican  in  politics  from  the  candidacy  of  John  C. 
Fremont  for  the  presidency  in  1856,  Mr.  Knapp  served  his  party  in 
the  Lowell  City  Council  in  1869,  and  in  1875  and  1876  represented  his 
district  in  the  Massachusetts  State  Legislature,  serving  on  the  com- 
mittee on  railroads.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Shattuck  Street,  now 
Grace  Unitarian  Church,  for  more  than  thirty  years  and  its  treasurer 
for  nine  years.  He  was  affiliated  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  the  Ladd  and  AMiitney  Post,  No.  185,  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  and  was  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Builders'  Exchange.  He 
married  Eliza  Putnam. 

Harry  P.  Knapp  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  March  19, 
1872.  He  obtained  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  the  city,  and 
after  finishing  his  high  school  course  with  graduation,  he  entered 
the  employ  of  the  Talbot  Chemical  Company  as  a  regular  employee, 
having  during  his  high  school  life  worked  for  the  same  company.  He 
was  clerk  in  both  store  and  office,  later  acting  as  salesman,  and  after 
a  few  years  going  on  the  road  as  traveling  salesman.  He  became 
thoroughly  familiar  with  every  detail  of  the  business,  manufacturing, 
wholesale  and  retail.  In  1884  the  business  was  incorporated  as  the 
Talbot  Dyewood  and  Chemical  Company,  Joseph  D.  Gould,  president ; 
James  F.  Preston,  treasurer;  Charles  H.  Kohlrausch,  superintendent 
of  the  North  Billerica  plant  of  the  company  and  clerk  of  the  corpora- 
tion. In  191 1  Mr.  Knapp  became  president  and  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany. Up  to  the  year  1910  the  company  were  manufacturers  of 
heavy  chemicals,  their  manufacturing  plant  being  located  at  North 
Billerica,  but  since  1910  manufacturing  has  been  abandoned  and  the 
business  has  been  confined  to  dealers,  importers  and  the  sale  of  dye- 
woods  and  chemicals,  the  North  Billerica  plant  now  being  used  for 
experimental  purposes  only.  The  retail  business  conducted  at  No. 
40  Middle  street  has  become  an  important  part  of  the  business.  The 
company  supply  large  bleacheries,  textile  mills  and  tanneries  with 
heavy  chemicals  and  conduct  a  very  prosperous  business. 

Mr.  Knapp  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  attends  the  Unitarian 
church.  He  is  a  member  of  Ancient  York  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  Admiral  Farragut  Camp,  Sons  of  Veterans ;  and  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Yorick  Club,  Ves- 
per Country  Club,  of  Lowell,  the  Nashua  Country  Club,  Engineers' 


228  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Club.  Drvsalters'  Club,  of  Boston,  the  Boston  Athletic  Association, 
and  is  an  honorary  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Chemical  Industry 
in  London,  England.  He  is  a  keen  student  of  chemistry,  and  is  par- 
ticularly fond  of  matters  pertaining  to  chemical  research  work.  He 
delights  in  golf,  is  a  man  of  charitable  impulse,  but  most  unostenta- 
tious in  his  giving. 

On  November  19,  1901,  Mr.  Knapp  married  Helen  Maude  Court- 
ney, at  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Mrs.  Knapp  was  born  in  London, 
England,  the  daughter  of  Jesse  and  Helen  C.  (Dyer)  Courtney,  her 
father  a  graduate  of  Oxford  University  and  was  a  resident  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  where  he  was  the  attorney  in  New  York  City  (for 
America)  of  an  English  insurance  company;  not  attorney-at-law,  but 
he  was  their  American  representative  and  had  power  of  attorney  to 
bind  the  company  in  contracts,  etc.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Knapp  are  the 
parents  of  three  children :  Donald  Courtney,  Edith  Frances,  and 
Harry  Putnam.  Jr.  The  family  home  is  at  No.  324  .-Vndover  street, 
Lowell. 


TIMOTHY  JOSEPH  HALLORAN,  M.  D. 

Nearly  twenty  years  as^i  1  1  )r.  Halloran  was  awarded  his  M.  D. 
by  Harvard  Medical  School,  and  but  a  short  time  elapsed  ere  he  was 
located  in  Room  8,  in  the  Runels  building,  Lowell,  awaiting  the  call 
of  his  first  patient.  The  years  that  have  elapsed  since  that  day  in 
1898,  have  brought  him  the  honors  of  his  profession,  and  he  is  now 
a  skilled  and  trusted  practitioner,  but  no  change  of  location  has  been 
made.  The  original  office  in  the  Runels  building  is  still  retained,  and 
there  his  many  office  patients  now  await  their  opportunity  to  consult 
the  successful  physician  and  surgeon.  Dr.  Halloran  is  a  son  of  Dan- 
iel Charles  Halloran,  and  grandson  of  Timothy  Halloran,  the  latter  for 
several  years  prior  to  his  death  living  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts. 
His  son,  Daniel  Charles  Halloran,  was  for  fifty-four  years  gardener 
for  John  A.  Nesmith  of  Lowell,  continuing  active  until  his  death, 
February  I,  191 5,  aged  seventy  years.  He  was  an  active  Democrat, 
and  for  several  years  served  as  a  member  of  the  Central  City  Com- 
mittee. He  married  Rose  Reilly,  who  died  October  23,  1900,  aged 
iifty-seven,  they  the  parents  of:  Timothy  Joseph,  of  further  men- 
tion; Julia  G.,  married  David  P.  Martin,  of  Lowell;  John  B.,  of 
Lowell ;  James  L.,  a  druggist,  of  Boston  ;  Mary,  and  Helen  R.,  teachers 
in  Lowell  schools. 

Timothy  J.  Halloran  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
lier  17,  1873.  and  here  his  years  have  been  passed.  His  primary  and 
preparatory  education  were  obtained  in  the  public  school,  the  parish 
school    of   the    Immaculate    Conception    Church,    and    Lowell    High 


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School ;  his  collegiate  education  at  Holy  Cross  College,  Worcester, 
A.  B.,  class  of  1894 ;  his  professional  education  at  Harvard  Medical 
School,  where  he  received  his  M.  D.,  class  of  1898.  The  accomplish- 
ment to  his  preparatory,  collegiate  and  professional  training  for  the 
practice  of  medicine  occupied  the  first  twenty-five  years  of  his  life, 
and  was  thorough  in  its  detail,  and  ample,  but  when  his  services  were 
offered  to  the  public  he  was  thoroughly  prepared  to  meet  all  demands 
upon  his  skill  or  learning.  In  1898  he  opened  offices  in  the  Runels 
building,  Lowell,  and  from  that  time  has  been  in  continuous  practice, 
his  clientele  long  having  been  a  large  one.  In  addition  to  his  private 
practice,  Dr.  Halloran  is  surgeon  to  the  Out-Patient  Department  of 
St.  John's  Hospital,  physician  to  the  Lowell  City  Dispensary,  and 
while  an  Out-Patient  Department  was  maintained  at  the  Lowell  Gen- 
eral Hospital,  he  was  a  member  of  the  medical  staff.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  American  Medical  Association ;  Massachusetts  State  Medical 
Society  ;  Middlesex  North  District  Medical  Society  ;  Medical  Advisory 
Board,  Lowell  District ;  and  the  Alumni  Association  of  Harvard  Med- 
ical School.  He  is  one  of  the  strong  men  of  his  profession,  and  is 
highly  esteemed  by  his  medical  and  surgical  brethren.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church ;  the  Knights  of  Colum- 
bus ;  Foresters  of  America ;  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  also 
ihe  Washington  Club.  The  recreation  he  most  enjoys  is  motoring, 
and  music  is  his  greatest  delight.  He  reads,  studies,  works,  and  in  a 
rational  way  meets  life's  responsibilities  and  enjoys  its  pleasures. 

Dr.  Halloran  married,  in  Lowell,  Alice  M.  Brogan,  daughter  of 
Martin  and  Mary  E.  (Christie)  Brogan,  both  deceased.  Martin 
Brogan  had  retired  from  all  business  many  years  before  dying  in 
Lowell,  in  September,  1904,  aged  sixty-five  years.  His  wife,  Mary  E., 
died  in  Lowell,  June  28,  1900,  aged  fifty-seven.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Halloran 
are  the  parents  of:  Alice  Rose,  born  December  5,  1905,  died  shortly 
afterwards;  Geraldine  Claire,  born  June  26,  1908,  died  March  4.  1914; 
Helen  Louise,  born  January  7,  1910. 


PATRICK  GILBRIDE. 


As  the  world  grows  older  and  wiser  its  standards  of  greatness  and 
its  measures  of  worth  are  changing;  and  there  have  grown  into  the 
minds  and  hearts  of  men  saner  ideals  of  conduct  and  truer  conceptions 
of  values — nobler  estimates  of  the  jjarts  men  play  in  the  world.  In 
reaching  an  estimate  of  a  man  to-day  the  service  he  renders  to  the 
community  he  lives  in,  and  the  men  he  lives  with,  must  be  reckoned 
with,  and  in  considering  that  service,  those  who  are  weighing  him  on 
the  scales  of  public  opinion  will  ask  if  his  work  and  word  have  added 


230  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

to  the  sum  total  of  human  peace  and  happiness,  and  if  his  character 
and  reputation  have  been  an  inspiration,  however  slight,  to  other  men. 

It  is  not  always  the  man  whose  name  is  loudest  on  the  lips  of 
fame,  whose  reputation  is  linked  with  some  piece  of  great  legislation, 
some  great  victory  in  the  field  of  strife,  some  great  work  of  art  or 
literature,  who  has  earned  the  affection  and  gratitude  of  his  fellows. 
The  man  who  has  not  thrust  himself  into  the  public  eye,  whose  kind- 
ness and  courtesy,  work  and  worth  are  constantly  touching  his 
neighbors,  helping  them  in  evil  days  and  putting  heart  and  courage 
into  them  in  the  days  of  despondency  and  ill  fortune,  is  of  more 
value  in  the  life  and  living  of  the  age  than  those  we  call  great.  The 
man  who  brings  peace  and  contentment  to  his  community,  who  makes 
two  blades  of  grass  grow  where  only  one  grew  before,  who  invents 
some  appliance  for  lessening  the  burdens  of  the  world,  who  adds  a 
new  industry  to  a  town  and  increases  the  opportunities  for  honest 
labor  and  bread  winning,  he  is  more  deserving  of  honor  among  men 
than  he  who  destroys  in  war.  The  Republic  has  many  such  men  who 
go  from  manhood  to  the  grave  engaged  in  good  work  and  escaping 
the  trump  of  fame,  and  such  a  one  was  Patrick  Gilbride. 

Mr.  Gilbride  was  born  December  13,  1854,  in  the  parish  of  Kin- 
awley,  a  few  miles  from  the  town  of  Enniskillen,  County  of  Fer- 
managh, Province  of  Ulster,  Ireland.  He  was  a  son  of  Patrick  and 
Alice  (McManus)  Gilbride,  and  was  born  on  the  land  which  had 
been  cultivated  by  his  ancestors  for  centuries.  The  incidents  of  war 
and  conquest  had  deprived  them  of  this  land  and  transformed  the  pro- 
prietors into  tenant  farmers.  While  he  received  the  rudiments  of  his 
education  in  Kinawley  Catholic  parish  school,  the  sound  moral  and 
religious  character  that  marked  all  his  days  was  founded  in  the  simple, 
wholesome  training  of  a  God  fearing  household. 

While  still  a  boy  he  was  apprenticed  to  an  Enniskillen  linen 
draper,  and  in  that  provincial  little  shop  he  acquired  a  business  train- 
ing that  gave  him  success  in  wider  fields  and  under  more  trying 
circumstances.  It  is  a  curious  and  significant  fact  that  many  of  the 
.shrewdest,  most  successful  and  respected  dry  goods  merchants  of 
America  were  born  and  trained  in  Ulster,  and  the  success  they 
achieved  must  be  accounted  for  by  the  early  business  training  they 
received,  the  lessons  of  thrift,  attention  to  business,  and  square  deal- 
ing taught  them,  supplemented  and  stimulated  by  the  ])atience,  per- 
sistence and  pluck  of  the  Ulster  character,  when  transplanted  to  a 
new  soil  and  new  conditions.  Like  most  of  his  race  the  wanderlust 
was  in  his  blood,  and  when  Enniskillen  and  its  opportunities  grew 
tod  small  and  limited  for  his  ambitions  and  hopes,  he  came  to  Amer- 
ica, and  in  1874  was  soon  employed  by  the  dry  goods  firm  of  J.  V. 
Keyes  &  Company  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.     He  worked  hard  and 


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laithfully,  saved  his  money  and  made  a  lifelong  friend  of  his  employer, 
and  in  time  he  was  rjady  to  launch  his  own  argosy  on  the  sea  of 
commerce.  In  a  neighboring  Lowell  dry  goods  store  worked  another 
Ulster  man,  Constantine  O'Donnell,  and  he  and  Patrick  Gilbride 
united  their  savings,  their  hopes  and  courage,  and  began  an  independ- 
ent business  under  the  corporate  name  of  O'Donnell  &  Gilbride.  in 
March,  1880.  They  were  keen,  watchful,  enterprising,  courteous  and 
tireless;  and  the  old-fashioned  business  virtues  they  had  brought  to 
America,  added  to  the  up-to-date  methods  of  the  age,  soon  brought 
them  the  confidence  and  patronage  of  the  Lowell  public,  and  the 
business  grew  by  leaps  and  bounds  until  it  expanded  into  a  concern 
second  to  none  in  Lowell.  In  March,  1904,  a  great  fire  practically 
destroyed  their  business,  and  when  the  aft'airs  of  the  concern  were 
settled,  the  two  builders  of  the  corporation  concluded  to  separate 
amicably,  each  going  into  business  for  himself.  The  Gilbride  Com- 
pany rose  from  the  ashes  of  the  old  concern,  and  is  still  doing  busi- 
ness on  the  spot  where  it  began  its  life  in  1880. 

In  1887  Mr.  Gilbride  married  Rose  A.  Delaney,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Catherine  (Fox)  Delaney,  of  Lowell,  and  a  sister  of  the 
late  distinguished  Catholic  Bishop  Delaney  of  ]\Ianchester,  New 
Hampshire.  The  marriage  was  a  happy  one  and  was  blessed  by  two 
daughters,  Florence  and  Helen  R.  Gilbride. 

Quiet  and  unassuming,  and  devoted  to  business,  Mr.  Gilbride 
found  time  in  an  unostentatious  way  to  interest  himself  in  other 
matters  He  was  a  member  of  the  Vesper,  Country  and  Washing- 
ton clubs,  the  American-Irish  Historical  Society,  and  the  Knights  of 
Columbus ;  and  his  interest  in  the  business  progress  of  his  city  made 
him  a  director  in  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Washington  Savings  Institute.  In  March,  1914,  he  was  taken  seri- 
ously ill,  and  after  a  brief  sickness  he  died  on  March  29,  sincerely 
mourned  by  the  city  he  had  loved  and  labored  in. 

Perhaps  the  best  estimate  of  Patrick  Gilbride  as  a  man  and  citi- 
7en  and  the  most  sincere,  was  written  a  few  days  after  his  decease  by 
his  neighbor  and  friend,  Mr.  Joseph  Smith  : 

An  honest  man,  an  honoral)le  merchant,  a  good  citizen  passed  out 
of  life  and  the  activities  of  this  community  when  Patrick  Gilbride 
died.  I  knew  him  long  and  well ;  he  was  my  friend  and  no  man's 
enemy.  Clean  thinking,  clean  speaking,  clean  living,  religious,  with- 
out ostentation,  generous  to  all  good  causes,  loyal  to  his  friendships, 
kindly  in  his  outlook  on  life  and  living,  charitable  in  the  presence  of 
weakness  and  frailty,  sympathetic  and  responsive  in  trouble  and  mis- 
fortune, he  was  a  man  who  inspired  affection  and  commanded 
respect.  Always  modest  and  unassuming  he  loved  the  fellowship  of 
his  kind,  without  thrusting  himself  upon  them;  optimistic  and  sunny- 
natured,  no  man  ever  heard  him  speak  evil  of  his  fellows ;  and  the 


232  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

jo}-  of  living  and  loving  ran  like  a  generous  current  in  his  veins. 
Born  and  raised  in  the  province  of  Ulster,  in  a  region  where  religious 
asperities  were  constant  and  rife,  and  where  men  seemed  to  prize 
the  cover  more  than  the  contents  of  the  books  of  religion,  he  grew 
to  manhood  with  a  fine  tolerance  of  all  religious  beliefs  and  preserved 
through  all  his  days  a  pity  and  contempt  for  bigotries  that  brought 
Christianity  into  disrepute.  Passionately  devoted  to  the  hopes  and 
aspirations  of  his  country,  he  was  keenly  interested  in  every  move- 
ment that  meant  the  peace  and  betterment  of  his  native  land,  and  to 
him  the  impending  measure  of  home  rule  meant  the  dawning  of  a  new 
day  when  his  countrymen  would  unite  for  the  common  good  and 
forget  the  asperities  and  vexations  of  the  past.  Patrick  Gilbride  will 
be  missed  in  many  places  in  the  days  to  come ;  his  shy  and  restful 
presence  will  come  back  to  those  who  knew  him  best  like  the  music 
of  a  half  forgotten  song;  and  his  kindly  words  and  gentle  person- 
ality will  be  recalled  with  tender  regret.  He  made  no  great  mark  in 
the  world,  no  great  noise  in  the  community  in  which  he  lived,  but  he 
has  left  a  memory  fragrant  of  modesty,  gentleness,  good  fellowship 
and  quiet  good  deeds.  Surely  a  man  who  loves  his  fellowman,  and 
by  his  living  and  his  doing  makes  the  life  of  the  community  in  which 
he  lives  a  little  better  and  a  little  sweeter,  is  as  worthy  of  as  much 
honor  and  as  tender  a  remembrance  as  he  who  fills  the  eye  and  ear 
of  a  Commonwealth. 

The  Lowell  "Sun"  said  ; 

The  career  of  Patrick  (lilliride  was  one  of  remarkable  achieve- 
ment, typical  of  the  s;.)irit  of  an  older  generation.  Coming  to  this 
country  with  no  other  capital  than  sturdy  character,  sterling  integrity, 
sanguine  temperament  and  untiring  perseverance,  he  entered  the 
field  of  business  and  became  not  only  one  of  the  most  respected  but 
one  of  the  most  successful  men  in  this  section  of  the  country.  Quiet 
and  unostentatious  in  manner,  he  was  not  given  to  personal  exploita- 
tion, but  his  life's  work  is  crystallized  in  results  that  speak  more  elo- 
quently of  the  man  than  any  personal  laudations.  He  was  univer- 
sally esteemed,  universally  respected,  and  will  be  universally  mourned. 
It  is  a  rare  character  that  can  distinguish  between  unyielding  zeal 
and  unreasoning  fanaticism,  but  Mr.  Gilbride  had  that  character,  and 
was  in  the  truest  sense  of  the  word  always  a  gentleman.  The  city 
of  Lowell  is  poorer  for  his  departure — poorer  in  what  every  city 
needs  most  of  all,  to  wit:  Enlightened  citizenship  of  the  broad  gauge, 
public  spirit  kind.  The  story  of  the  life  and  business  success  of  Pat- 
rick Gilbride  should  be  an  inspiration  to  every  young  man  who  is 
making  his  start  in  life,  or  who,  having  begun,  has  met  with  discour- 
agements which  ha\c  hindered  his  progress. 


COMMANDER  EDWARD  HERSCHEL  SCRIBNER. 

In  Commander  l':<lward  llerschel  Scribner,  United  States  Navy, 
retired,  Lowell  has  a  son  in  whom  she  may  well  feel  a  justifiable  pride. 
He  served  his  country  as  an  able  and  gallant  ofificer,  and  retired  to 


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the  less  arduous  calls  of  life  in  the  town  of  his  birth.  But  upon  the 
entrance  of  the  country  into  the  World  War  he  was  too  valuable 
not  to  be  put  to  use.  and  he  has  given  uj)  his  well  earned  leisure  to 
serve  his  country  again  in  a  crucial  time.  Such  is  the  brief  story  of 
Commander  Scribner,  a  picked  man.  trained  and  fitted  for  his 
country's  service,  and  serving  her  well  and  faithfully.  Such  men  are 
the  boast  of  our  institutions  and  the  true  torch  bearers  of  democracy. 

Commander  Scribner  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  Octo- 
t)er  10,  1854,  the  son  of  Charles  and  Emma  (Home)  Scribner.  His 
father  was  born  at  Chelsea,  Vermont,  but  as  a  young  man  had  come 
to  Lowell,  where  with  his  brother  Frank  he  worked  as  a  contractor 
in  the  Lowell  Machine  Company's  shops.  He  continued  to  live  in 
Lowell  until  his  death  in  1905.  Mrs.  Charles  Scribner  was  liorn  in 
Wakefield.  New  Hampshire,  and  died  in  1914,  in  Lowell.  Commander 
Scribner  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell,  and  after 
graduating  from  the  high  school  he  took  the  exainination  for  the 
United  States  Naval  Academy  at  Annapolis,  and  was  graduated  in 
1879.  From  that  time  until  1907  he  was  in  acti\e  service.  His  first 
cruise  in  '.he  years  1880-81-82,  on  the  United  States  Steamship  "Swa- 
tara,"  was  under  the  late  Rear  Admiral  Sarnpson  as  commanding 
ofificer.  These  three  years  were  spent  on  the  China  Station.  His 
second  three  years  of  sea  duty  were  in  Brazilian  and  Argentine  waters 
on  the  gunboat  "Nipsic,"  which  was  later  lost  in  the  storm  at  Apia, 
in  Samoa,  in  1889.  For  three  years,  from  1886  to  1889,  he  was  instruc- 
tor of  Marine  Engineering  at  the  United  States  Naval  Academy. 
From  1889  to  1891  he  served  in  the  United  States  Geodetic  and  Coast 
Survey.  This  survey  was  in  New  England  waters  in  summer,  and 
in  Florida  and  at  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi  in  winter.  From  1892 
to  1894  he  was  on  duty  at  the  United  States  Navy  Yard  at  Boston. 
From  1894  to  1897  he  was  in  China  and  Philippine  waters,  serving  on 
■--everal  ships,  among  them,  the  "Boston,"  "Monocacy."  "Yorktown," 
"Monadnock"  and  "New  Orleans."  In  1897  he  returned  to  the  United 
States,  and  was  assigned  to  inspection  duty,  his  post  being  to  visit 
and  inspect  the  steel  products  where  machinery  was  being  made 
under  contract  for  the  Navy,  and  at  this  post  he  remained  for  a  year 
and  a  half,  being  then  assigned  to  the  battleship  "Brooklyn,"  in  the 
Philippines,  and  later  transferred  to  the  "Concord"  at  Manila,  which 
took  part  in  the  bombardment  of  Panay  Island  while  cooperating 
with  the  forces  of  General  Hughes  during  the  Philippino  insurrection. 

In  1905  he  voluntarily  retired  from  active  service  with  the  rank 
of  commander.  Retiring  to  live  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  he  became 
the  general  manager  of  the  Davis  &  Sargent  Lumber  Company,  and 
was  with  it  until  March,  1917,  when  the  Government,  anticipating 
war,  requested  him  to  enter  active  service  again,  and  placed  him  in 


234  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

charge  of  the  navy  recruiting  service  in  the  State  of  Connecticut  with 
headquarters  at  New  Haven,  where  he  has  been  to  date,  1918.  In 
politics  Commander  Scribner  is  an  Independent,  and  attends  the 
Unitarian  church.  He  serves  on  the  board  of  investment  of  the 
Lowell  Institution  for  Savings.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Naval  Architects  and  Marine  Engineers,  and  of  the 
Vesper  Country  and  Yorick  clubs.  His  beautiful  residence  is  No.  70 
Tyler  Park. 

Commander  Scribner,  married  in  January,  18S3,  at  Lowell,  Carrie 
A.  Davis,  daughter  of  Stephen  C.  Davis,  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Davis  &  Sargent  Lumber  Company.  Commander  Scribner,  his  wife, 
and  their  three  children  were  born  in  Lowell.  Their  children  are: 
Ernest  Davis,  born  October,  1885,  at  present  treasurer  of  the  Davis  & 
.Sargent  Lumber  Company  ;  Warren  Francis,  born  August,  1887,  an 
;ittorney-at-law  in  Boston,  a  lieutenant  in  the  aviation  division  of  the 
United  States  Signal  Corps;  Stephen  Herschel,  born  June,  1889, 
studied  at  an  r)fficer's  Training  School  for  the  United  States  Navy. 


STEPHEN  W. ABBOTT. 


Stephen  \\'.  Abliott  is  nf  a  Maine  family,  son  of  David  Stackpole 
and  Jemima  W.  (Tinkham)  Abbott.  His  grandfather,  Benjamin 
Abbott,  was  a  son  of  the  first  generation  of  Abbotts  in  America.  His 
father,  Dr.vid  S.  Abbott,  was  reared  on  a  farm,  and  later  was  engaged 
as  outside  superintendent  for  the  Great  Falls  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, of  Somersworth,  New  Hampshire.  Still  later  he  returned  to 
farming  in  Albion,  Kennebec  county,  Maine. 

Stephen  W.  Alibott  was  born  at  Somersworth,  New  Hampshire, 
February  27,  1858,  but  in  i860  his  parents  moved  to  a  farm  in,  Albion, 
Kennebec  county,  Maine,  where  the  next  eighteen  years  of  his  life 
was  spent.  He  attended  the  public  .schools,  aided  in  the  farm  work, 
and  after  leaving  school  became  his  father's  full  hel]5er.  He  continued 
on  the  farm  until  he  was  twenty  years  old  ;  then  he  secured  a  position 
in  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  with  Converse  &  Hobbs,  dealers  in  lum- 
l;er.  He  took  such  a  deep  interest  in  all  departments  of  the  business, 
and  developed  such  aptitude,  that  within  a  year  he  was  in  charge  of 
the  yards.  In  1882  the  firm  dissolved  partnership.  Hoblis  selling 
out  to  Converse,  who  continued  the  business.  Mr.  Abbott  and  Mr. 
Hobbs  then  went  south,  and  after  investigating  timber  land?  in  North 
Carolina,  organized  a  corporation  known  as  the  New  Market  Lumber 
Comjiany,  Mr.  Hobbs  being  president  and  Mr.  Abbott  treasurer.  In 
the  virgin  forests,  twelve  miles  from  Highpoint,  they  set  up  one  of 
•he  first  lumber  mills  in  this  si-ction.  He  established  his  home  in  an 
old   plantatit.m   house,  and   started   operation   by   building  a   mill   and 


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ijreparing  the  necessary  equipment.  The  timber  cut  was  hard  wood 
and  hard  pine.  With  the  help  of  the  available  nejjroes.  he  cut  down 
the  trees,  dragged  them  to  the  mill,  and  sawed  them  into  marketable 
lumber,  and  hauled  them  with  ox  and  mule  teams  to  the  railroad 
station,  where  they  were  shipped  to  various  markets  in  the  North. 
Hauling  logs  by  ox  and  mule  teams  was  one  of  the  many  hardships 
which  the  pioneer  lumberman  had  to  endure,  but  Mr.  Abbott  was  a 
worker  and  a  successful  one  in  the  production  of  lumber  from  the 
virgin  forests.  This  experience  was  a  valuable  asset,  for  very  few 
men  have  passed  through  all  the  stages  of  the  lumber  business  as 
Mr.  Abbott  succeeded  in  doing. 

After  three  years  spent  in  North  Carolina,  Mr.  Abbott's  health 
became  affected,  and  it  was  no  longer  possible  for  him  to  continue  to 
live  in  that  climate.  Accordingly  he  severed  his  connection  with  Mr. 
Hobbs  and  returned  to  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  and  engaged  in  native 
lumber  business  for  himself,  buying  wood  lots,  cutting  the  timber 
and  selling  it  in  the  market.  He  operated  in  Barrington,  StraiTord 
and  Gofifstown,  New  Hampshire,  for  about  three  years,  and  then  went 
with  the  J.  F.  Paul  Company,  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  as  foreman 
of  their  lumber  business.  It  was  while  with  this  company  that  Mr. 
Forest,  of  the  then  important  firm  of  Burnham,  Forest  &  Davis,  of 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  approached  him  with  the  ofifer  to  come  to 
Lowell,  as  foreman,  an  ofTer  which  attracted  Mr.  Abbott's  interest 
to  such  a  degree  that  he  came  to  Lowell  to  investigate.  He  found 
everything  so  much  to  his  liking  that  he  resigned  his  position  with  the 
Paul  Company,  and  in  March,  1890,  assumed  the  position  of  foreman 
with  his  new  employers.  In  1891  his  friend,  Mr.  Forest,  died.  The 
widow's  interest  was  purchased  by  the  remaining  partners,  who 
re-organized  as  Burnham  &  Davis.  They  operated  as  a  firm  until 
1903,  then  incorporated  as  Burnham  &  Davis  Lumber  Company, 
with  Charles  O.  Davis  as  president,  and  Crawford  Burnham  as 
treasurer.  In  1905  Mr.  Burnham  died,  and  Mr.  Abbott,  who  had  been 
intimately  connected  with  the  business  all  these  years  as  foreman  and 
manager,  became  the  owner  of  half  the  business  through  the  purchase 
of  the  Burnham  stock.  Mr.  Abbott  bought  the  Burnham  interests 
from  his  savings  and  from  the  profits  of  several  building  transactions, 
for  thrift  with  him  went  hand  in  hand  with  industry.  When  the 
company  re-organized,  Stephen  W.  Abbott  was  made  president  of 
the  corporation,  Burnham  &  Davis  Lumber  Company,  and  Charles 
O.  Davis,  treasurer.  In  May,  1916,  Mr.  Davis  died.  Mr.  Abbott  then 
purchased  his  interest  and  became  sole  owner,  officially  designated 
as  president  and  treasurer.  Since  1878  he  has  been  in  the  lumber 
business  mi  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  New  Market,  North  Carolina,  and 
in  Boston  and  Lowell,  Massachusetts.    Since  1890  he  has  been  man- 


236  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ager  of  yards  as  foreman,  and  manager  of  the  business  as  partner  and 
owner.  He  is  a  thoroughly  capable  business  man,  and  in  his  own 
special  line  is  without  a  superior.  Now  in  the  prime  of  life  he  can 
review  his  career  with  satisfaction,  and  with  the  past  as  a  guide  can 
look  confidently  into  the  future. 

He  has  conhned  himself  exclusively  to  his  business,  with  the 
exception  of  a  directorship  in  the  Lowell  Cooperative  Bank.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  but  has  no  club  or  fraternal 
affiliations ;  business,  home,  and  the  family  filling  to  the  brim  his 
measure  of  life.  In  jjolitics  he  is  a  Republican.  There  is  an  instructive 
lesson  to  be  learned  from  the  career  of  Mr.  Abbott,  and  the  young 
man  who  would  win  success  may  gain  the  secret,  for  the  reason  is 
so  plain  that  it  cannot  be  misunderstood — hard  work,  absolute  hon- 
esty in  all  his  dealings,  unfailing  courtesy,  and  the  unfaltering  ambi- 
tion to  make  the  most  of  himself  and  his  oppi;)rtunities.  He  has  no 
finely  drawn  theories  nor  nicely  drawn  distinctions,  but  thinks,  talks, 
and  acts  the  value  of  labor  in  developing  a  man's  powers  and  insuring 
his  success,  no  matter  in  what  field  of  activity  he  enters. 

Mr.  Abbott  has  married  twice,  his  first  wife  being  Nellie  M.  Went- 
worth,  daughter  of  George  and  Helen  A\'entworth,  of  China.  Maine. 
This  marriage  was  solemnized  May  i,  1879.  Mrs.  Abbott  died  Au- 
gust 27,  1880.  In  Dover,  New  Hampshire,  September  30,  1882,  Mr. 
Abbott  married  Adelaide  O.  Shepherd,  daughter  of  Freeman  and 
Susan  Shepherd,  of  Strafford,  New  Hampshire.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abbott 
are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Nellie,  a  graduate  of  Lowell  High 
School,  and  Rogers  Hall  School  for  Girls.  On  September  30,  iqii, 
she  married  Edgar  H.  Douglas,  of  W'aterville,  Maine,  who  is  now 
associated  with  Mr.  Abbott  in  the  business.  They  have  three  chil- 
dren: Elinor,  born  Ajiril  10,  1914:  Phyllis,  born  June  7,  1915;  and 
Stephen  .-Vlihott,  born  June  16,  191S. 


JOHN  THOMAS  DONEHUE,  D.  D.  S. 

The  wonderful  advance  made  in  the  dental  profession  in  the  past 
half  century  has  not  Ijeen  equalled  in  any  of  the  professions.  The 
graduate  in  dentistry  now  takes  in  anatomy  practically  the  same 
course  as  the  physician  and  surgeon,  and  excluding  materia  medica  the 
courses  are  not  widely  separated.  Dental  surgery  has  and  is  accom- 
plishing wonders  in  adding  to  personal  attractiveness,  health  and 
comfort,  and  as  an  exponent  of  that  profession  Dr.  Donehue  holds  a 
high  place  in  public  esteem.  He  is  one  of  Lowell's  native  sons  who 
have  retained  residence  all  their  lives  and  dedicated  themselves  and 
their  talents  to  the  welfare  of  their  native  city  through  service  to  their 
felhiwmcn      He  is  a  son  of  fohn  'ilmmas  Donehue.  who  was  born  in 


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Ireland,  and  was  brought  to  the  United  States  by  his  parents  when  a 
babe  of  four  months.  He  grew  to  manhood  in  Lowell,  served  as 
representative  in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  of  1884,  was  a  mem- 
lier  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Democratic  city  committee  in 
1883-84-85-86,  and  is  yet  influential  in  the  party.  In  business  he  is 
head  of  John  T.  Donehue  &  Company,  No.  276  Middlesex  street, 
Lowell.  He  married  Anne  J.  Shaughnessey,  born  in  Lowell  in  1843, 
the  family  home  now  being  at  No.  22  Twelfth  street.  John  T.  and 
Anne  J.  Donehue  are  the  parents  of  ten  children:  William,  of  Los 
Angeles,  California ;  John  Thomas,  of  further  mention ;  Harry ;  Jos- 
ephine, married  John  Crotty,  of  Bayonne,  New  Jersey ;  George ;  Her- 
bert ;  Gertrude,  married  John  Dwyer,  of  Jersey  City ;  Frank ;  Alice ; 
and  Clarence 

John  Thomas  Donehue.  Jr.,  second  son  of  John  Thomas  and  Anne 
J.  (Shaughnessey)  Donehue,  was  born  in  Lowell,  September  29,  1874. 
and  for  the  past  twenty-two  years  has  been  practicing  dentistry  in 
his  native  city.  He  wa.s  educated  in  Lowell  public  schools,  finishing 
with  high  school,  going  thence  to  Boston  Dental  College,  whence  he 
was  graduated  D.  D.  S.,  class  of  1898.  He  at  once  opened  offices  in 
Lowell,  and  is  one  of  the  leading  dental  practitioners  of  the  city,  his 
offices  in  the  Runels  building,  Room  3.  Eminent  in  his  profession. 
Dr.  Donehue,  while  devoted  to  the  interests  of  his  clientele,  has  long 
taken  an  interest  in  certain  phases  of  civic  life,  and  is  now  a  trustee  of 
Lowell  Public  Library  and  of  Lowell  Textile  School.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  and  the  Knights  of 
Columbus,  and  is  a  Democrat  in  politics. 

Dr.  Donehue  married,  in  Lowell,  Nellie  T.  Gilday,  daughter  of 
Michael  T.  Gilday,  born  in  Ireland  in  1836,  came  to  Lowell  in  1848, 
died  in  1898.  Michael  T.  Gilday  married  Ellen  Boland,  born  in  1839, 
died  in  1913.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Donehue  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter  and 
three  sons:  Grace,  born  March  2,  1901,  a  student  at  New  England 
Conservatory  of  Music,  a  harpist;  John,  born  March  2,  1903,  student 
at  Boston  College  High  School,  a  violinist ;  Paul,  born  July  13,  1905, 
a  high  school  boy,  his  instrument  the  'cello ;  Charles,  born  February 
2,  1907.  These  children  are  all  gifted  musically,  each  having  a  favor- 
ite instrument,  and  they  are  a  source  of  great  pleasure  to  their  parents 
and  friends,  but  their  youth  restricts  them  to  private  entertainment 
only.     The  family  home  is  No.  525  Andover  street,  Lowell. 


PHILIP  PATRICK  HAGGERTY. 

Every  citizen  of  Lowell  knows  this  name  and  respects  the  bearer 
of  it.  For  more  than  fourscore  years  Mr.  Haggerty  has  been  a  resi- 
dent of  his  present  home  town  and  for  upward  of  half  a  century  has 


238  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

been  the  most  prominent  figure  in  its  musical  circles.  As  choir  direc- 
tor and  soloist  in  different  churches  and  also  as  an  instructor  in  vocal 
music  he  has  built  up  a  widespread  reputation,  and  as  a  citizen  has 
always  stood  in  the  front  rank. 

Patrick  Haggerty,  grandfather  of  Philip  Patrick  Haggerty,  was 
a  native  of  Galway,  Ireland,  where  he  passed  his  entire  life.  He  was 
a  cordwainer,  also  dealing  in  harnesses,  horse  trappings  and  similar 
articles. 

James  Haggerty,  son  of  Patrick  Haggerty.  was  l)orn  in  1797.  near 
the  city  of  Galway,  County  Galway.  Ireland,  and  as  a  child  was 
deprived  by  death  of  both  his  parents.  He  was  reared  by  an  uncle 
in  Dublin,  where  he  was  apprenticed  to  learn  the  trade  of  cordwainer, 
or  leatherworker.  After  serving  his  time  he  went  to  Athlone,  Ire- 
land, where  he  followed  the  trade  of  shoemaker  and  leatherworker. 
In  1835  he  emigrated  with  his  family  to  the  United  States,  settling  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  whither  some  relatives  had  preceded  them. 
Mr.  Haggerty  married,  in  Athlone,  Ireland,  Margaret  Judge,  and  their 
children  were:  i.  Philip  Patrick,  mentioned  below.  2.  Peter,  born  in 
1829.  in  Athlone,  Ireland,  and  attended  the  public  schools  of  Lowell, 
afterward  studying  law  and  acquiring  a  large  practice.  At  the  begin- 
ning of  the  Civil  War  he  became  captain  on  the  staff  of  General  Ben- 
jamin F.  Butler,  later  becoming  major,  and  sometimes  serving  as  judge 
advocate  of  the  Army  of  Occupation  in  New  Orleans.  In  that  city  he 
was  prosecuting  attorney  for  the  Union  forces  and  represented  the  Fed- 
eral Government  at  all  the  famous  trials.  His  duty  as  judge  advocate 
of  the  army  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  remain  in  the  service  long 
after  peace  had  been  declared,  and  while  in  New  Orleans  he  contracted 
a  fever  from  which  he  died  in  the  military  hospital  in  that  city.  His 
body  was  brought  to  Lowell,  where  it  was  interred  in  St.  Patrick's 
Cemetery  and  the  city  did  much  to  honor  the  memory  of  this  man 
who  rendered  such  good  service  and  laid  down  his  life  for  his  adopted 
country.  His  name  is  preserved  in  the  records  of  Memorial  Hall  and 
his  portrait  adorns  the  walls  of  the  Lowell  Historical  Society.  3.  Win- 
ifred, married  (first)  James  W'alsh,  of  Boston.  Massachusetts,  and 
(second)  Edward  Potter,  of  New  York  City.  4.  Michael.  James 
Haggerty,  the  father,  who  followed  his  trade  in  Lowell  to  the  close  of 
his  life,  died  in  i860,  and  so  did  not  witness  the  distinction  to  which 
his  second  son  attained.  The  mother  of  the  family  passed  away 
several  years  earlier. 

Philip  Patrick  Haggerty.  son  of  James  and  Margaret  (Judge) 
Haggerty,  was  born  August  18,  1827,  near  Athlone.  County  Roscom- 
mon. Ireland,  and  was  eight  years  of  age  when  brought  by  his  parents 
from  his  native  land.  He  was  educated  in  the  Lowell  public  schools, 
and  as  a  young  man  obtained  a  clerkship  in  the  Lowell  post  ofifice,  a 


BIOGRAPHICAL  239 

position  which  he  retained  for  fifteen  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time 
Mr.  Haggerty  resigned  in  order  that  he  might  be  free  to  devote  him- 
self to  a  profession  for  which  nature  had  specially  designed  him. 
From  childhood  he  had  studied  music,  attending  the  best  schools 
which  Lowell  and  Boston  oflfered  at  that  time  and  also  receiving 
private  instruction.  In  1870  he  opened  a  studio  in  Lowell  for  the 
teaching  of  vocal  music  and  thenceforth,  for  the  long  period  of  forty- 
eight  years,  he  devoted  himself  continuously  to  the  work  of  his  much 
loved  profession.  During  this  time  Mr.  Haggerty  was  for  a  few 
years  choir  director  of  St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  for 
five  years  held  the  position  of  soloist  in  the  First  Unitarian  Church  of 
Lowell.  He  was,  also,  for  a  few  years,  soloist  in  the  Church  of  the 
Unity  (Unitarian),  Boston,  then  becoming  choir  director  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  Lowell.  This 
position  he  retained  for  more  than  thirty  years,  and  during  this  time 
the  church  was  famous  for  its  music. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Haggerty  is  a  lifelong  Democrat  and  has  always 
manifested  a  loyal  and  helpful  interest  in  the  welfare  and  progress  of 
the  city  which  has  been  his  home  from  childhood.  Years  ago  he 
organized  the  Otto  Musical  Club,  of  Lowell,  an  organization  com- 
posed of  the  business  and  professional  men  of  the  city.  Mr.  Haggerty 
was  director  of  the  club,  and  under  his  leadership  it  gave  concerts  at 
which  the  music  and  the  manner  in  which  it  was  rendered  were  such 
as  would  please  the  most  fastidious  taste.  In  conjunction  with  his 
musical  genius  Mr.  Haggerty  possesses  a  strong  and  distinctive  per- 
sonality, forceful  and  at  the  same  time  genial.  This  explains  why  his 
admirers,  who  are  numberless,  are  hardly  more  numerous  than  his 
friends,  all  of  whom  esteem  it  a  privilege  to  be  included  in  that  circle. 
Mr.  Haggerty  is  now  in  his  ninety-second  year  and  has  suflfered  no 
impairment  of  his  fine  voice  which  has  delighted,  on  so  many  occa- 
sions, a  majority  of  the  citizens  of  Lowell.  In  1918  he  relinquished 
his  work  as  an  instructor  and  withdrew  from  active  participation  in 
musical  events  of  the  city,  but  continued  one  thing  which  he  felt  to  be 
a  bounden  duty.  This  was  to  sing  the  solo  at  the  requiem  mass  of  each 
of  his  old  friends,  as,  one  by  one,  they  departed.  This  he  still  con- 
tinues to  do,  being  frequently  requested  by  the  sons  and  daughters  of 
his  contemporaries  to  sing  at  the  requiem  masses  of  their  parents. 

Mr.  Haggerty  married,  August  18,  1857,  at  Lowell,  Ann  Eliza- 
beth McEvoy,  born  April  3,  1836,  at  Uxbridge,  Massachusetts,  daugh- 
ter of  Hugh  and  Elizabeth  (Daley)  McEvoy,  both  natives  of  Belfast, 
Ireland.  Mr.  McEvoy  was  a  tailor,  and  after  working  for  short 
periods  at  Boston  and  Uxbridge,  Massachusetts,  and  Nashua,  New 
Hampshire,  settled  in  Lowell,  where  he  prospered  in  business  and 
became  one  of  the  well  known  characters  of  the  city.    It  was  there  that 


240  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

he  died  in  1S89.  after  a  residence  of  thirty-eight  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Haggerty  were  tlie  parents  of  the  following  children:  i.  Charles 
Peter,  deceased  ;  a  chemist  in  the  Merrimack  Mills ;  married  Annie  S. 
Morse,  of  Lowell,  and  their  children  were :  i.  Ann  Elizabeth ;  ii.  John, 
corporal  in  Signal  Corps,  United  States  army,  during  the  war ;  iii.  Jo- 
seph. 2.  Winifred  Catherine,  at  home.  3.  Louise  Adelaide,  deceased  ; 
married  Peter  A.  Fay,  of  Lowell,  also  deceased ;  children :  Philip, 
Andrew,  Catherine,  Louise  and  Gertrude.  4.  Susan  Maria,  wife  of 
John  R.  Martin,  business  manager  of  Father  John's  Medicine  Com- 
pany, Lowell ;  their  children  are :  i.  Robert ;  ii.  Edward  M.,  first  lieu- 
tenant of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  United  States  Field  Artillery,  Reg- 
ular army ;  was  in  France  for  over  a  year  and  a  half,  his  regiment 
forming  part  of  the  First  Regular  Division ;  he  is  now  in  Germany ; 
iii.  Barbara.  Mrs.  Haggerty  was  an  accomplished  musician,  serving 
as  organist  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church  of  the  Immaculate  Con- 
ception, while  her  husband  filled  the  position  of  choir  director.  Her 
death  occurred  in  Lowell,  September  28,  1907. 

Well  and  faithfully  has  Philip  Patrick  Haggerty  served  his  day 
and  generation,  consecrating  more  than  half  his  long  life  to  an  art 
which,  perhaps  more  than  any  other,  comforts,  inspires  and  ennobles 
"all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men." 


WOLFRED  P.  CAISSE,  JR. 

Although  born  in  Middlebury,  Vermont,  Mr.  Caisse  was  brought 
to  Lowell  by  his  parents  when  but  a  year  old,  consequently  remembers 
no  other  home  and  has  for  the  city  the  feeling  of  a  native  son.  After 
completing  his  classical  education  he  prepared  for  the  drug  business 
by  a  course  in  pharmacy,  and  since  1905  has  been  engaged  in  the 
retail  drug  business  and  since  1914  has  been  sole  proprietor  of  the 
business  located  at  No.  461  ]\Ioody  street.  There  are  few  young  men 
who  at  his  age  have  chosen  and  prepared  for  a  profession,  established 
their  business  and  have  life's  battle  fairly  won.  This  record  has  not 
been  completed  without  hard  work,  and  to  his  task  Mr.  Caisse  has 
devoted  his  entire  time,  talent  and  energy.  He  has  allowed  himself 
one  specialty,  perhaps  holiby,  but  it  might  well  be  called  another  busi- 
ness, for  he  is  an  expert  amateur  taxidermist,  and  that  is  his  recrea- 
tion. He  is  a  son  of  Wolfred  P.  and  Rose  (Poerrir)  Caisse,  the  latter 
deceased.  His  father,  an  expert  pattern  maker,  long  employed  in 
Lowell  cotton  mills,  is  now  living  in  Lowell,  retired. 

Wolfred  P.  Caisse,  Jr.  was  born  in  Middlebury,  Vermont,  Sep- 
tember 27,  1878,  and  in  1879  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Lowell. 
He  attended  St.  Joseph's  Parochial  School  until  prepared  to  enter 
a  higher  institution,  then  pursued  commercial  and  classical  courses  at 


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Three  Rivers  College,  Canada.  There  he  completed  classical  study, 
and  having  decided  upon  his  life  work  he  entered  Massachusetts  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy  and  completed  a  two  years'  course.  He  then 
returned  to  Lowell  and  for  four  years  was  clerk  in  the  Lowell  Phar- 
macy. He  then  passed  the  State  Board  of  Examiners  and  was  duly 
entered  a  registered  pharmacist.  In  1905  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  James  O'Flahaven  and  opened  a  drug  store,  his  partner  soon 
retiring  from  the  firm.  Mr.  Caisse  then  admitted  Dr.  A.  G.  Payette 
as  a  partner,  they  continuing  as  such  until  1914,  when  Dr.  Payette  sold 
his  interest  to  Mr.  Caisse  who  has  since  conducted  the  business  alone. 
The  store  on  Moody  street  is  well-located  and  well-managed,  and  Mr. 
Caisse  has  made  many  friends  in  that  section  who  testify  to  his  admir- 
able business  qualities  as  well  as  to  his  worth  as  a  citizen.  A  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  he  has  served  his  ward  as  member  of  the  school  board, 
first  elected  in  1913,  reelected  in  1915,  his  second  term  expiring  with 
the  year  191 7.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
the  Royal  Arcanum,  Corporation  of  Members  of  Association  Cath- 
olique,  L'Union  St.  Jean  Baptiste  D'Amerique,  and  his  clubs  the 
Lafayette  and  Citoyens  Americains.  He  is  fond  of  amateur  theatricals 
and  director  of  the  entertainments  of  that  nature  of  the  Rosland  Club. 
Mr.  Caisse  married,  in  Lowell,  June,  1905,  Cecile  Lassoude,  of 
Three  Rivers,  Canada.  They  are  the  parents  of  George,  Cecile,  Rose 
and  Helen  Caisse.  The  family  home  is  at  No.  yj},  Merrimack  street 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Caisse  are  members  of  the  Church  of  St.  Jean  Baptiste, 
Roman  Catholic. 


JOSEPH  MARIN. 

The  first  twenty-five  years  of  the  life  of  Joseph  Marin  were  spent 
in  his  native  Canadian  home,  agriculture  being  his  business.  But  with 
his  coming  to  the  United  States,  he  began  his  successful  commercial 
career  and  became  known  as  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  the 
French  Colony.  He  is  now  practically  retired  from  all  activities,  his 
(inly  business  cares  those  of  his  private  estate.  He  is  a  son  of  Joseph 
and  Adelaide  Marin,  both  deceased,  his  father  a  farmer  of  St.  Hya- 
cinthe,  Canada. 

Joseph  ]\Iarin  was  born  at  St.  Hyacinthc,  E'roxince  of  Quebec, 
Canada,  November  i,  i860,  and  there  attended  school  until  his  services 
were  needed  in  the  work  of  conducting  the  home  farm.  As  he 
developed  in  strength  and  stature  his  responsibilities  increased,  until 
finally  he  was  admitted  to  a  partnership,  father  and  son  conducting 
a  successful  hay  business  in  addition  to  the  operation  of  the  liome 
farm.  Af'er  arriving  at  legal  age,  he  still  continued  his  father's  asso- 
ciate, and  it  was  not  until   1885  that  he  finally  turned  his  back  upon 

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242  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

his  native  town  and  sou<jht  a  new  home  in  the  United  States.  He 
located  in  Lowell  in  1885,  and  as  all  his  training  had  been  along  agri- 
cultural lines  he  naturally  chose  a  business  with  which  he  was 
familiar,  the  buying  and  selling  of  hay  and  other  farm  produce.  He 
conducted  business  in  partnership  with  Edward  O'Heir,  under  the 
firm  name,  O'Heir  &  Marin,  hay  and  potatoes  being  principally  dealt 
in.  Later  this  firm  established  a  store  on  Merrimack  street  for  the 
sale  of  second-hand  furniture,  both  stores  being  conducted  by  the 
company  until  1891,  when  Mr.  Marin  bought  his  partner's  interest 
and  continued  the  business  under  his  own  name.  He  carried  on  both 
branches  of  his  business  very  successfully,  and  in  1896  bought  land 
on  Merrimack  street,  upon  which,  in  1897,  he  erected  the  Joseph 
Marin  block.  In  1900  he  retired  from  the  hay  business,  continuing 
his  furniture  business  until  1910,  which  he  sold  to  Emory  Cognac. 

After  the  sale  of  his  furnniture  store,  Mr.  Marin  entered  the 
automobile  business,  as  proprietor  of  the  Moody  Bridge  Garage,  a 
business  he  personally  conducted  for  several  years,  but  now  leases 
to  another.  He  devotes  his  time  to  the  management  of  his  lands  and 
buildings,  his  property  being  largely  real  estate  and  tenements.  A 
successful  business  man,  he  also  has  a  warm,  social  nature,  and 
delights  in  the  society  of  his  friends,  who  are  many.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  church.  St.  Jean  Baptiste,  and  of  the  Catholic  Foresters  of 
.A.merica. 

Mr.  Marin  married,  in  18S6.  Josephine  Dansereau,  they  the  parents 
of:  George  E.,  a  Jesuit  Noviate  in  Montreal:  Balda,  a  Sister  in  Notre 
Dame  Convent,  Montreal. 


JOHN   H.  BEAULIEU. 

Although  for  many  years  of  his  life  a  worker  in  the  textile  mills. 
Mr.  Beaulieu  is  a  well  knciun  merchant  of  Lowell,  prcjijrietor  of  his 
own  grocery  and  principal  owner  of  Joseph  A.  Desrosiers  &  Company, 
clothiers,  and  a  dealer  in  real  estate.  He  was  the  owner  of  consider- 
able land  in  the  locality  where  the  St.  Louis  Roman  Catholic  Church 
now  stands,  corner  of  West  Sixth  and  Boisvert  streets,  and  when 
the  newl}--created  parish  was  in  need  of  aid  he  donated  with  Jaccpies 
Boisvert  the  land  upon  which  the  church  is  built,  although  not  a 
member  of  that  parish.  He  was  a  skilled  mill  worker,  is  a  successful 
business  man,  and  while  serving  as  councilman  and  later  as  alderman 
he  ])ursued  a  straight  and  hdndrable  ccmrse,  his  record  being  free 
from  all  criticism. 

John  H.  Beaulieu,  youngest  and  eleventh  child  of  Benjamin  and 
^glae  (Legeault)  Beaulieu,  was  born  in  the  village  of  Ste.  Martine, 
Province  of  Quebec.  Canada,   October   12,    1858,  and  there  attended 


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the  parish  school  until  eleven  years  of  age.  In  1869  his  parents 
moved  to  Fitchburg,  Massachusetts,  where  the  lad  continued  his 
studies  in  the  public  schools.  He  began  his  wage-earning  life  with 
the  Wakefield  Rattan  Company,  and  continued  with  that  concern 
until  he  was  seventeen.  He  then  came  to  Lowell,  alone  and  unac- 
quainted, but  soon  found  employment  in  the  Merrimack  Mills,  there 
remaining  sixteen  years  as  weaver  and  loom  fixer,  becoming  a  "second 
hand."  That  brought  him  to  the  age  of  thirty-three,  and  not  being 
satisfied  with  his  financial  progress  he  left  the  mills  and  entered 
mercantile  life.  His  first  business  venture  was  as  a  grocer  at  No.  92 
Tilden  street.  Lowell,  and  there  he  just  about  held  his  own  for  a 
few  years.  Soon  better  things  came  and  he  bought  the  building  in 
which  he  yet  conducts  the  grocery  at  No.  92  Tilden  street,  and  built 
his  present  home,  No.  202  Hildreth  street.  He  later  became  consid- 
erably interested  in  suburban  real  estate  and  is  still  a  dealer,  oper- 
ating quite  largely  at  times.  With  his  grocery  and  real  estate  dealing 
moving  prosperously,  he  took  on  another  interest  by  purchasing  the 
clothing  business  of  Partha  Brothers,  at  No.  526  Merrimack  street, 
in  1909,  taking  in  his  son-in-law,  Joseph  A.  Desrosiers,  and  re-organ- 
izing as  Joseph  A.  Desrosiers  &  Company.  This  business  is  also  a 
prosperous  one  and  its  success  adds  to  the  business  reputation  of  Mr. 
Beaulieu. 

He  is  a  director  of  the  Middlesex  Trust  Company,  member  of 
the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  the  Lafayette  Club,  St.  Louis  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  the  Centralville  Social  Club,  and  St.  Joseph's  Society. 
In  political  faith  he  is  a  Republican,  and  for  two  years  represented 
^^"ard  Six  in  Common  Council,  and  one  year  as  alderman.  He  is  fond 
of  travel,  and  whenever  possible  indulges  himself  in  that  way.  He  is 
a  man  of  kindly  heart  and  friendly  nature,  greatly  liked  by  all  who 
know  him.  He  has  been  honored  by  being  appointed  a  member  of 
Local  Draft  Board,  Division  No.  4.  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

Mr.  Beaulieu  married,  in  Lowell,  in  January,  1877,  Marie  Le  Clair, 
their  married  life  covering  a  period  of  forty  years.  They  are  the 
parents  of  a  daughter  and  two  sons:  Laura  M.,  married  Joseph  A. 
Desrosiers;  Henri  A.,  an  employee  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad, 
married  Juanita  Godu  ;  Leo,  a  merchant,  associated  with  Joseph  A. 
Desrosiers  &  Company,  of  No.  526  Merrimack  street,  married  Robea 
E.  Ducharme. 


DANIEL  GAGE. 


Daniel  Gage,  for  nearly  half  a  century  one  of  the  most  successful 
and  preeminent  business  men  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  with  a  repu- 
'^ation   for   integrity   and   ability,   belonged  to   an   old    New    England 


244  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

family  connected  from  early  Colonial  times  with  the  affairs  of  many 
communities.  The  Gage  family  claims  honorable  descent  from  one 
who  came  to  England  with  William  the  Conqueror  at  the  time  of 
the  Norman  Conquest.  1066  A.  D.,  and  settled  in  Chichester.  A 
lineal  descendant  of  that  ancestor  was  Sir  John  Gage,  who  died  in 
the  year  1633. 

(II)  John  Gage,  of  Stoneham,  Suffolk  county,  England,  second 
son  of  Sir  John  Gage,  migrated  to  America,  landing  at  Salem.  Massa- 
chusetts, in  the  summer  of  1630.  He  was  one  of  the  first  proprietors 
of  Ipswich,  Massachusetts ;  he  removed  later  to  Rowley,  and  died 
there  in  the  year  1673. 

(III)  Daniel  Gage,  son  of  John  (2)  Gage,  was  born  near  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  in  the  year  1639,  and  died  November  8,  1705. 

(IV)  Daniel  (2)  Gage,  son  of  Daniel  (i)  Gage,  was  born  at 
Bradford  Massachusetts,  March  12,  1676,  and  lived  there  until  his 
death,  March  14.  1747.  He  married  Martha  Burbank,  who  was  born 
March  9,  1679,  and  died  September  8,  1741.  On  the  lianks  of  the 
Merrimack  river,  he  established  the  Gage's  or  Upper  Ferry. 

(V)  Daniel  (3)  Gage,  son  of  Daniel  (2)  Gage,  was  born  at  Brad- 
ford, Massachusetts,  April  22.  1708.  He  was  a  captain  in  the  battle 
of  Lexington,  and  had  two  sons  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He  died 
.September  24,  1775,  in  that  part  of  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  now 
known  as  Gage  Hill.     He  married  Ruth  . 

(VI)  David  Gage,  son  of  Daniel  (3)  Gage,  was  born  at  Pelham, 
New  Hampshire,  August  15,  1750,  and  died  there  April  26,  1827.  He 
married  Elizabeth  .Vtwdixl,  also  of  Pelham,  who  was  born  in  the 
year  1755,  and  died  in  the  year  1845,  at  the  age  of  ninety  years. 

(VII)  Nathan  Gage,  son  of  David  and  Elizabeth  (Atwood)  Gage, 
the  ninth  of  a  family  of  twelve  children,  was  born  at  Pelham,  New 
Hampshire,  May  i"].  i7(ji,  and  died  there,  February  20,  i860.  He  was 
a  farmer  of  the  old  sturdy  New  England  type.  He  was  a  soldier  in 
the  War  of  1812.  He  married  Mehitable  Woodbury,  who  was  born 
at  New  Salem,  New  Hampshire,  February  17,  1795,  and  died  at  Pel- 
ham. September  27,  1879.  They  had  ten  children,  the  fifth  of  whom 
was  Daniel. 

(VIII)  Daniel  (4)  Gage,  son  of  Nathan  and  Mehitable  (Wood- 
bury) Gage,  was  born  at  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  June  4,  1828,  and 
died  February  9,  1901,  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  He  attended  the 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  spent  the  first  twenty-five  vears  of  his 
life  on  his  father's  f.nrni  In  1854  he  came  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
and  engaged  in  the  wiiolesale  lieef  business.  During  his  successful 
career  of  fifteen  years  in  this  work,  he  was  located  much  of  the  time 
on  Hildre'h  street,  Dracut,  now  a  part  of  the  city  of  Lowell.  In  1869 
he  sold  this  business  and  his  home,  and  moved  to  the  estate  at  the 


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corner  of  Bridge  and  West  Sixth  streets,  Lowell,  where  his  daughter 
now  lives.  In  the  spring  of  1870,  Mr.  Gage  took  up  the  business  with 
which,  through  the  remainder  of  his  life,  he  was  prominently  iden- 
tified and  through  the  successful  conduct  of  which  he  became  known 
as  the  ice  king  of  Lowell.  From  the  McFarlin  Brothers,  he  bought 
their  few  ice  houses  and  adjoining  property  near  the  Merrimack  river. 
This  has  reinained  the  center  of  the  great  ice,  wood,  and  lumber  busi- 
ness which  he  developed  and  personally  managed  to  the  end  of  his 
life.  He  was  for  many  years  director  of  the  Prescott  National  Bank, 
and  at  his  death  was  its  president.  Intimately  identified  with  the 
many  aspects  of  the  city's  life,  Mr.  Gage  was  a  unique  figure  in  the 
development  of  this  prosperous  community.  He  was  interested  in  all 
movements  for  the  common  weal  and  ready  ■  to  help  every  good 
cause.  He  established  the  practice  of  supplying  free  ice  to  many 
charitable  institutions  of  the  city,  a  service  still  rendered  under  his 
name. 

On  April  22,  1855,  Daniel  Gage  married  Abiah  Smith  Hobbs,  of 
Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  a  daughter  of  James  and  Pamela  (Hasel- 
ton)  Hobbs,  highly  respected  residents  of  that  town.  James  Hobbs, 
Esquire,  well  versed  in  the  law,  held  the  highest  offices  of  his  town 
and  transacted  its  business  for  many  years.  His  grandfather  was  the 
Rev.  James  Hobbs,  who  about  the  year  1750  came  from  Kingston, 
Massachusetts,  and  settled  in  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  as  the  first 
minister  of  that  town.  Of  the  tw^o  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel 
Gage,  one  died  in  her  sixteenth  year,  and  one  became  the  owner  of 
the  business  established  bv  her  father. 


EDWIN  ALONZO  SIMPSON. 

Edwin  Alonzo  Simpson,  a  successful  and  prominent  contractor 
and  real  estate  agent  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  an  important 
public  official  of  this  city,  is  a  native  of  the  State  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  the  son  of  Olinthus  A.  and  Emily  J.  (Stickney)  Simpson,  old  and 
highly  respected  residents  of  the  town  of  Windham.  In  1870,  Olin- 
thus A.  Simpson  moved  to  Lowell,  and  there  continued  in  the  con- 
tracting business.  He  was  a  prosperous  and  energetic  man,  and  for 
many  years  was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Windham,  New  Hampshire. 
where  he  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  contractor. 

Born  August  22,  1867,  at  Windham,  New  Hampshire,  lulwin 
Alonzo  Simpson  spent  the  major  part  of  his  childhood  and  early  youth 
in  Lowell,  and  attended  the  Varnum  School,  Lowell,  and  Bryant  & 
Stratton's  Commercial  College  at  Boston,  Massachusetts.  Having 
completed  his  course  here,  where  he  gained  much  knowledge  which 
has  proved  of  value  to  him  in  his  work,  he  remained  in  the  city  of 


246  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Lowell,  and  since  that  time  has  made  it  his  permanent  home.  In 
Lowell  he  engaged  in  the  contracting  business,  of  which  he  had  some 
knowledge  from  aiding  his  father  in  early  youth,  and  prospered 
greatly.  He  soon  had  developed  a  business  which  was  one  of  the 
largest  of  its  kind  in  the  city,  and  had  earned  a  reputation  for  hon- 
estv  and  square  dealing,  as  well  as  for  ability  and  familiarity  with 
his  line,  second  to  none.  Having  made  a  successful  beginning  in  the 
contracting  business,  Mr.  Simpson  engaged  in  the  real  estate  line  as 
well,  nor  has  he  met  with  less  success  in  this  than  in  the  former. 

Mr.  Simpson  has  not  confined  his  activities  to  the  business  world. 
He  has  interested  himself  keenly  in  public  affairs,  and  has  proved 
himself  a  capable  officer  in  several  different  capacities  in  connection 
with  the  citv  government.  In  1897  he  held  the  position  of  assistant 
superintendent  of  streets  in  Lowell,  and  has  rendered  much  valuable 
service  to  his  fellow  citizens  in  the  excellent  work  that  he  has  done 
in  that  department.  Mr.  Simpson  is  also  an  active  figure  in  the  social 
and  club  worlds,  and  is  a  member  of  Lowell  Pentucket  Lodge.  Ancient 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Vesper 
Country  Club. 

Edwin  Alonzo  Sinijison  was  united  in  marriage,  February  23, 
1898,  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  with  Laura  E.  Sayward,  a  daughter 
of  James  and  Berthia  (Morton)  Sayward.  her  parents  for  many  years 
residents  of  Burnham,  Maine. 


JOSEPH  FRANCIS  McMAHON. 

It  was  not  until  1907  that  Mr.  McMahon  established  the  plumbing 
and  heating  apparatus  business  which  bears  his  name,  although  1 
native  son  of  Lowell,  and  long  connected  with  her  business  interests. 
But  it  was  as  a  mill  worker,  apprentice  and  journeyman,  that  he  con- 
tinued for  many  years.  He  is  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Catherine 
McMahon,  his  father  a  shipper  at  the  carpet  mills. 

Joseph  Francis  McMahon  was  born  at  the  Market  street  home 
of  his  parents,  in  Lowell,  November  12,  1861,  and  obtained  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  the  city.  He  began  his  wage  earning 
career  with  the  Hamilton  Paint  Works,  continuing  with  that  com- 
I)any  fur  seven  years.  He  next  spent  two  years  under  Jerry  Ryan, 
learning  the  tinsmith  trade,  which  he  followed  as  a  journeyman  for 
al)out  twenty  years.  The  next  ten  years  he  was  with  the  New  Eng- 
land Telephone  &  Telegraph  Company,  that  period  expiring  in  1907, 
He  then  organized  the  firm,  J.  F.  McMahon  &  Company,  and  at  Nos. 
453-455  Ciorham  street  has  since  conducted  a  successful  business  in 
plumbing  and  steam  heating,  gas  and  water  fitting.  The  firm  is 
nnw  constructing  a  brick  building,  sixty-one  by  one  hundred  feet,  at 


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the  corner  of  Union  and  Gorham  streets,  to  which  they  will  remove 
upon  its  completion.  Mr.  McAIahon  is  a  member  of  the  National 
Master  Plumbers'  Association,  and  the  Heating  and  Piping  Contrac- 
tors' National  Association,  and  stands  well  in  the  business  com- 
munity. He  has  won  his  way  to  honorable  position,  beginning  when 
very  young,  and  has  come  every  step  of  the  way  through  his  own 
efforts.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  Fraternal  Order 
of  Eagles,  the  Kiwanis  Club,  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  and  St.  Peter's 
Church. 

Mr.  McMahon  married,  August  12,  1883,  Katherine  Fitzgerald, 
daughter  of  Morris  and  Katherine  Fitzgerald.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mc- 
Mahon are  the  parents  of  six  children:  i.  William,  steamfitter,  mar- 
ried Mary  Dean,  and  resides  at  No.  90  White  street.  2.  John  J., 
plumber,  member  of  the  firm  J.  F.  McMahon  &  Company ;  unmarried ; 
resides  with  his  parents.  3.  Edward  L.,  traveling  salesman ;  served 
with  the  United  States  Navy  in  World  War.  4.  Arthur  P.,  plumber, 
associated  with  father ;  served  with  L^nited  States  Navy  in  World 
War.  5.  Francis,  a  student.  6.  Mary  Katherine,  attending  St.  Peter's 
Parochial  School. 


CHARLES  M.  DICKEY. 


Charles  M.  Dickey,  the  well  known  and  public-spirited  citizen  of 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where,  as  proprietor  of  a  number  of  the  most 
popular  hotels  in  the  city,  he  has  established  an  enviable  reputation 
for  himself,  comes  of  good  old  New  England  stock.  He  is  a  son  of 
Joseph  Dickey,  a  native  of  Topsham,  Vermont,  born  in  the  year  1822. 
Mr.  Dickey,  Sr.,  was  an  active  and  energetic  man,  who  met  with  a 
very  well-earned  success  in  the  manufacturing  world.  He  lived  for  a 
time  in  New  York  State,  but  eventually  returned  to  Vermont,  and  had 
his  home  in  the  town  of  Corinth,  in  that  State,  at  the  time  of  his  death 
in  1883.  ]\Ir.  Dickey  was  a  manufacturer  of  shoes  and  enjoyed  a  large 
market  in  Vermont  and  Northern  New  York,  also  engaged  in  agricul- 
tural pursuits. 

Born  at  Brasher,  New  York.  June  26.  1857,  Charles  M.  Dickey 
spent  the  first  few  years  of  his  life  in  his  native  town,  and  there  began 
his  education,  attending  the  local  public  schools  for  this  purpose. 
While  still  a  lad  his  parents  removed  to  Corinth,  Vermont,  and  he 
continued  his  studies  there  until  he  had  reached  the  age  of  seventeen 
years.  Having  at  that  age  completed  his  schooling,  he  secured  em- 
ployment with  his  father  and  worked  on  the  latter's  farm  until  he 
attained  his  majority.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one,  however,  he  aban- 
doned the  parental  roof  and  came  directly  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  has  made  his  home  and  his  business  headquarters  ever  since. 


248  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

His  move  to  this  city  was  impelled  by  a  feeling  shared  liy  many  enter- 
prising country  boys  of  that  time  that  greater  opportunities  awaited 
them  in  the  cities  than  in  their  own  rural  home,  and  certainly  in  Mr. 
Dickey's  case  the  event  has  justified  his  belief.  Upon  first  reaching 
Lowell,  he  secured  a  position  as  office  clerk  in  the  old  Washington 
Hotel  of  this  city,  and  was  thus  introduced  to  a  line  of  business  in 
which  his  entire  career  up  to  the  present  has  been  spent  and  in  which 
he  has  come  to  be  known  widely,  not  only  in  the  immediate  vicinity, 
but  by  the  public  which  traveled  in  New  England  generally.  He  ren- 
dered himself  of  so  great  value  to  his  employers  at  the  Washington 
Hotel,  and  showed  so  great  an  ability  to  grasp  the  details  of  his  work, 
that  by  the  end  of  four  years  he  had  been  appointed  manager  of  the 
American  Hotel,  and  remained  there  for  five  years  longer.  He  had  in 
the  meantime  been  setting  aside  a  large  proportion  of  his  earnings, 
which  during  the  latter  ]iart  of  his  nine  years'  service  were  by  no 
means  small,  and  it  thus  came  about  that  he  found  himself  in  a  posi- 
tion to  become  independent  in  business  at  the  close  of  that  period. 
Accordingly,  he  purchased  the  St.  Charles  Hotel  on  Middlesex  street, 
Lowell,  where  he  met  with  such  phenomenal  success  that  he  was 
enabled  shortly  afterw.irds  to  ]nirchase  the  Franklin  House  in  Law- 
rence, Massachusetts.  Still  later  he  sold  the  St.  Charles,  and  purchas- 
ing the  American  Hotel,  of  which  he  had  formerly  been  manager,  he 
remodeled  the  entire  building  and  opened  the  New  American  Hotel, 
which  is  known  as  one  of  the  finest  hostelries  in  that  part  of  the  State. 
From  that  time  to  the  |iresent,  Mr.  Dickey  has  operated  the  New 
.Vmerican  Hotel  in  Lowell,  and  the  Franklin  House  in  Lawrence,  and 
by  his  admirable  knowledge  of  the  requirements  of  hotel  management 
has  made  them  two  of  the  most  popular  houses  in  Eastern  Massachu- 
setts, and  has  enjoyed  a  success  which  is  most  entirely  deserved.  He 
is  at  the  present  time,  withdut  doubt,  one  of  the  most  successful  busi- 
ness men  of  Lowell,  and  is  kmiwn  far  and  wide  as  having  been  success- 
ful in  accomplishing  that  desideratum  in  hotels,  the  house  where  there 
is  at  once  an  air  of  informal  hospitality  and  yet  the  most  complete 
efficiency  of  service. 

Charles  M.  Dickey  was  united  in  marriage  in  the  year  1S77  with 
Julia  A.  Abbott,  a  daughter  of  James  .\bbott,  of  Fairlee,  \'ermont. 
Mr.  Dickey,  in  spite  of  the  great  demands  made  upon  his  time  and 
energies  by  the  management  of  his  two  hotels,  has  always  retained  a 
keen  interest  in  local  affairs.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  but  is  in 
no  sense  of  the  word  a  politician,  though  he  has  served  for  some  time 
on  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  and  the  Lawrence  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. He  is  also  affiliated  with  the  Massachusetts  Hotel  .•\ssociation, 
and  with  a  number  of  important  fraternal  and  social  organizations, 
among  which  should  be  mentioned  the  local  lodges  of  the  Benevolent 


BIOGRAPHICAL  249 

and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the  United  Order  of  American 
Workmen,  and  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  Highland  Club.  In  his 
religious  lielief  Mr.  Dickey  is  a  Universalist  and  attends  the  churcli  of 
that  denomination  in  Lowell. 

The  qualities  that  are  required  for  success  in  the  hotel  business 
are  of  a  perfectly  definite  order  and  quite  as  capable  of  being  formu- 
lated as  those  needed  in  any  other  calling.  Many,  too,  are  of  a  high 
order  and  closely  connected  with  some  of  the  most  fundamental  of  the 
virtues.  Next  to  integrity,  the  most  essential  trait  for  the  successful 
hotel  man  is  that  larger  democratic  sympathy  that  comes  near  to  the 
virtue  of  Christian  charity,  which  leads  to  a  complete  sympath}'  with 
and  understanding  of  all  men  without  regard  for  class  or  race  and 
which  finds  its  expression  in  that  fine  relationship  between  comrades 
that  is  one  of  the  purest  and  most  disinterested  to  be  found.  Such  is 
the  character  of  Charles  I\I.  Dickey,  who  has  won  a  reputation  as  a 
hotel  man  second  to  none  in  that  region  of  the  State  about  Lowell, 
Massachusetts. 


RT.  REV.  JOHN  BERNARD  DELANY. 

The  genealogy  of  the  Delaiiy  family  is  like  a  page  from  Irish 
history,  containing  some  lines  of  interest  in  a  review  of  the  life  of 
Bishop  Delany,  who  was  always  proud  of  his  ancestry.  His  father, 
Thomas  Delany,  and  grandfather,  Bryan  Delany,  were  born  in  County 
Galway,  Ireland,  but  their  ancestors  for  centuries  before  had  settled 
in  County  Kilkenny,  where  they  "bent  the  knee  to  no  human  lord," 
and  "were  possessed  of  considerable  substance  and  pronouncedly 
different  in  character  from  the  prevailing  type  of  the  neighborhood." 
About  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century  the  principal  branches  of 
the  family  moved  to  County  Galway,  and  there  became  prominent. 
There  Bryan  Delany  was  born  and  lived,  and  there  his  ten  children 
were  born.  The  eldest  of  these  children,  Thomas  Delany,  resided 
in  Galway  until  1857,  when  he  came  to  the  United  States  and  settled 
in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  There  he  established  a  tailoring  estab- 
lishment, which  he  successfully  conducted  until  his  death,  then  ranking 
as  Lowell's  oldest  tailor.  He  was  a  strong  temperance  man,  and  for 
a  quarter  of  a  century  was  president  of  St.  Patrick's  Temperance 
Society.  He  was  a  man  of  high  character,  justly  esteemed  as  a  citi- 
zen, and  in  religion  was  a  fervent  Catholic,  identified  all  his  Lowell 
life  with  St.  Patrick's  Church.  He  married,  shortly  after  coming  to 
the  United  States,  Catherine  Fox,  born  in  Ballatrain,  County  Mona- 
ghan,  Ireland,  a  descendant  of  an  ancient  sturdy  Irish  family  remark- 
able for  their  longevity.  Her  beautiful  womanly  Christian  character 
shone  brightest  in  her  home,  and  upon  her  children  she  lavished  a 


250  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

mother's  devoted  tenderness.  She  never  harbored  an  unkind  thoug-ht, 
and  the  Delany  home  in  Lowell  was  a  haven  to  young  people.  When 
her  son,  Bishop  Delany,  was  consecrated  to  his  high  office,  he  paid  her 
the  finest  tribute  that  a  mother  could  be  paid,  the  acknowledgement 
that  he  was  her  moral  handiwork.  "All  that  I  am,''  he  said  from  the 
steps  of  the  sanctuary  where  he  had  just  been  crowned  with  the  mitre, 
"I  owe  to  the  home  influence  which  surrounded  my  youth."  And 
descending  the  steps  he  came  to  his  mother,  kissed  her,  thanked  her, 
and  gave  her  his  first  Episcopal  blessing.  And  when  his  dying  eyes 
looked  upon  her  he  said,  "Don't  cry,  mother  dear,  I  shall  tell  God 
about  you."  The  nine  children  of  Thomas  and  Catherine  (Fox) 
Delany  were:  i.  John  Bernard,  to  whose  memory  this  review  is 
dedicated.  2.  Rose,  afterwards  Mrs.  Patrick  Gilbride,  of  Lowell.  3. 
James,  who  died  in  infancy.  4.  Mary,  afterwards  Mrs.  John  Hearn, 
of  Boston.  5.  Catherine,  afterwards  Sister  Florence  Louise,  of  the 
Order  of  Notre  Dame  of  Namur.  6.  Thomas,  Jr.,  who  died  in  1903. 
7.  Frederick,  afterwards  a  devout  priest  of  the  Boston  Diocese.  8  and 
9.  Grace  and  Clotilda,  both  well  known  and  highly  esteemed  teachers 
in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell. 

John  Bernard  Delany  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  August 
9,  1864,  and  died  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  June  11,  1906. 
From  the  high  school  of  Lowell  he  passed  to  further  study  at  Holy 
Cross  College,  Worcester,  Massachusetts,  where  he  remained  two 
years.  He  then  entered  Boston  College,  from  which  institution  he 
was  graduated  in  1887. 

From  his  earliest  years  he  had  been  bent  upon  being  a  priest,  and 
a  few  weeks  after  graduation,  accompanied  by  Edward  Quirk,  his 
classmate  and  lifelong  friend,  he  called  on  Bishop  Bradley,  of  ^lan- 
chester,  and  asked  for  adoption  to  his  diocese.  With  all  the  warmth 
of  a  father's  love.  Bishop  Bradley  welcomed  the  candidate  and  took 
him  to  his  heart  as  his  favored  child.  He  urged  him  to  go  to  Paris 
to  make  his  ecclesiastical  studies,  and  accordingly,  in  1887,  he  left  the 
United  States  on  the  steamship  "La  Bourgoyne,"'  for  the  famous 
seminary  of  St.  Sulpice,  at  Paris.  There,  after  four  years  of  study  and 
training,  he  was  ordained  a  priest,  May  23,  1891,  by  the  venerable 
bishop  of  Paris,  Cardinal  Richard.  He  was  a  faithful  and  loyal  alumnus 
of  that  institution  wherein  were  handed  down  for  centuries  the  best 
traditions  of  Catholic  France,  and  he  was  ever  ready  to  attribute  to 
its  influence  and  training  much  of  the  good  of  his  after  life. 

Father  Delany  said  his  first  Mass  at  St.  Sulpice.  He  then  ofi'ered 
the  Holy  Sacrifice  at  some  of  the  famous  shrines  in  and  about  Paris 
and  Lourdes.  where  he  journeyed  especially  to  ask  the  blessing  of  the 
Mother  of  God  on  his  new  life  and  work.     He  visited  England  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  251 

Ireland,  then  returned  to  the  United  States.  After  a  few  days  at  his 
home  in  Lowell,  he  reported  for  duty  to  his  superior,  Bishop  Bradley, 
at  Manchester.  He  began  his  priestly  life  as  second  assistant  in  St. 
Anne's  Church,  Manchester,  there  remaining  two  and  a  half  years, 
when  he  was  transferred  to  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  as  curate 
to  the  Vicar  General  of  the  Manchester  diocese.  After  substituting 
for  a  short  time  for  the  pastor  at  Hinsdale,  Father  Delany  was 
assigned  to  duty  at  St.  Joseph's  Cathedral,  Manchester,  to  begin  as 
secretary  to  Bishop  Bradley,  and  as  chancellor  of  the  diocese,  his 
more  immediate  preparation  for  the  great  work  that  was  to  follow. 
He  was  appointed  chaplain  to  the  Sisters  of  the  Precious  Blood,  and 
at  their  Monastery  on  Union  street  said  his  first  morning  Mass  and 
preached  his  Sunday  sermon  until  his  consecration.  He  was  their 
spiritual  father  and  friend,  and  in  his  various  other  duties  became 
widely  known  throughout  the  State.  He  was  diocesan  director  of 
the  League  of  the  Sacred  Heart ;  director  of  the  Society  of  Holy 
Childhood ;  State  Chaplain  of  the  Knights  of  Columbus ;  member  of 
the  State  Conference  of  Charities  and  Corrections ;  and  had  charge  of 
the  State  missions  to  non-Catholics.  The  last  office  which  Bishop 
Bradley  assigned  Father  Delany  was  that  of  diocesan  director  of  the 
Priests'  Temperance  League.  During  those  years  he  became  better 
known  as  an  interesting  public  speaker,  and  was  in  demand  for  lec- 
tures and  addresses. 

In  1898,  with  the  encouragement  of  Bishop  Bradley,  Father 
Delany  instituted  "The  Guidon,"  a  monthly  magazine  of  which  he 
was  editor-in-chief  until  his  elevation  to  the  Episcopate.  Other  liter- 
ary work  of  that  and  a  later  period  was  an  Introduction  to  a  Life  of 
Bishop  Bradley,  a  Pastoral  in  English  and  French  on  Christian  educa- 
tion. In  1902  he  visited  Cuba  with  a  company  of  Sisters,  and  in 
Havana  instituted  the  first  ^Monastery  of  the  Precious  Blood  in  Cuba. 
He  wrote  a  full  account  of  this  journey  for  the  "Guidon,"  and  also 
wrote  voluminously  for  its  editorial  pages.  He  often  accompanied 
Bishop  Bradley  on  his  travels,  and  frequently  represented  him  on 
public  occasions.  His  duties  as  chancellor  brought  him  into  intimate 
relations  with  the  pastors  throughout  the  State,  and  he  won  their 
unvarying  respect.  Bishop  Bradley  died  in  December,  1903,  and 
Father  Delany  was  prominently  mentioned  as  his  successor.  At  the 
turna  of  the  New  England  bishops,  held  some  weeks  later,  there  was 
read  to  them  a  letter,  written  by  Bishop  Bradley  months  before  his 
death,  naming  Father  Delany  as  one  of  the  three  priests  whom  he 
would  recommend  as  his  successor. 

On  August  9,  1909,  his  birthday.  Father  Delany  was  notified  from 
Rome  that  he  had  been  chosen  Bishop  of  Manchester,  and  on  Thurs- 


252  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

da}',  September  8,  following,  in  his  own  Cathedral  Church  of  St. 
Joseph,  Rt.  Rev.  John  Bernard  Delany  was  consecrated  Second  Ijishop 
of  Manchester  by  the  Apostolic  Delegate,  the  Most  Rev.  Diomede 
Falconio,  D.  D..  Archbishop  of  Larissa.  The  ceremony  was  most 
beautiful  and  impressive,  no  detail  being  omitted  to  give  it  dignity 
and  grandeur.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  William  F.  Gan- 
non, S.  J.,  president  of  Boston  College.  Many  high  dignitaries  of  the 
church  were  present,  and  the  number  in  attendance  from  outside  was 
very  large.  One  month  after  his  consecration,  in  response  to  the  invi- 
tation of  Pope  Pious  X  to  the  Bishops  of  the  World  to  assist  in  Rome 
at  the  definition  of  the  Dogma  of  the  Immaculate  Conception,  the  new 
bishop,  accompanied  by  two  of  his  sisters  and  Rev.  Joseph  G.  Ander- 
son, now  Auxiliary  Bishop  of  Boston,  sailed  for  Europe.  He  was 
presented  to  the  Pope,  as  were  his  two  sisters,  and  after  a  delightful 
visit  they  returned  home  in  safety,  weathering  a  most  stormv  and 
dangerous  voyage.  With  the  coming  of  the  new  year  the  young 
Bishop  (the  youngest  in  the  United  States)  really  took  up  his  real 
burden.  He  at  once  began  to  enlarge  and  extend  the  work  of  the 
diocese.  He  plunged  into  an  era  of  improvement,  both  material  and 
spiritual,  that  was  bringing  splendid  results,  when,  full  of  the  joy  of 
life,  happy  under  the  strain  of  labor,  the  lover  of  little  children,  with 
a  nature  of  simplicity  and  openness  like  unto  theirs.  Bishop  Delany's 
life  was  cut  of?  while  it  was  but  beginning.  Not  two  years  a  bishop, 
and  only  in  his  forty-second  year,  in  the  very  flower  of  his  manhood, 
he  was  suddenly  stricken,  and  after  a  few  days  passed  to  his  reward. 
He  was  a  young  man  to  have  upon  his  shoulders  the  burden  of  a  bish- 
opric, and  this  fact  made  him  a  conspicuous  figure  among  the  Amer- 
ican i)relates.  and  had  centered  upon  him  widespread  interest  and 
universal  affection.  The  news  of  his  sudden  and  serious  illness,  so 
soon  to  be  followed  by  the  announcement  of  his  death,  came  as  a 
great  shock  to  his  people,  who  were  happy  to  claim  him  as  their 
S])iritual  leader  and  to  point  him  out  with  pride  as  the  youngest  bishop 
in  the  United  States,  or  as  Y\>pi:  Pius  X  suggested  in  conversation 
with  him  at  Rome,  "Foristaii  i>i  tola  ccclcsia"  (Perhaps  in  the  entire 
church).  He  was  stricken  with  appendicitis  on  June  6,  was  operated 
ui)i)n  the  following  day,  but  even  with  the  best  medical  skill  and 
attention,  survixed  the  shock  only  three  days.  The  end  came  Monday 
nii.irning.  June  ii,  at  3.40  o'clock.  His  mother  and  sisters  were  with 
him,  as  were  also  many  of  his  priests,  and  his  death  was  most  trium- 
phant. Six  months  later  his  mother  died,  and  there  was  a  joyous 
reunion  of  the  souls  who  loved  each  other  so  well. 

The  funeral  services  were  most  impressive  from  the  time  the  body, 
invested  in  full  Episcopal  robes,  was  placed  in  the  beautiful  parlor  of 


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the  Cathedral  residence,  July  11,  until  the  final  placing  of  the  body 
in  the  vault  and  the  closing  and  sealing  of  the  great  iron  doors.  The 
scene  at  St.  Joseph's  Cathedral  will  long  be  in  the  memory  of  each  one 
present.  The  governor  of  New  Hampshire,  with  his  staff,  were  pres- 
ent, as  were  the  mayors  of  Manchester  and  of  Lowell,  the  chief  justice 
of  the  Supreme  and  Superior  courts,  representatives  of  great  manu- 
facturing interests,  representatives  from  Boston  College,  Holy  Cross 
College,  Protestant  clerg}'men  from  a  dozen  churches  in  the  city, 
these  all  gathering  to  pay  their  last  tribute  to  their  Bishop  and  Friend. 
All  the  members  of  the  Catholic  hierarchy  in  New  England  were  pres- 
ent and  participated  in  the  solemn  ceremonies.  Clergymen  from 
neighboring  dioceses  in  large  numbers  were  in  attendance  to  pay 
their  last  respects  to  the  Manchester  prelate,  and  all  the  priests  of  the 
See  of  Manchester  were  at  the  Cathedral,  with  distinguished  laymen 
representing  church  organizations.  The  celebrant  of  the  Mass  was 
His  Eminence,  William  Cardinal  O'Connell,  D.  D.,  now  Archbishop 
of  Boston.  The  eulogy  was  delivered  by  Rev.  John  T.  Mullen,  D.  D., 
a  college  classmate  and  lifelong  friend  of  the  dead  bishop. 

The  following  "Appreciation"  by  His  Eminence,  Cardinal  O'Con- 
nell, forms  the  opening  pages  of  the  "Life  and  Writings  of  Bishop 
Delany,"  published  in  191 1  : 

A  man  often  unconsciously  reveals  his  soul  when  he  sets  a  value, 
whether  it  be  upon  a  painting,  an  accomplishment,  a  house,  or  even 
length  of  days.  None  of  these  things  has  an  absolute  fixed  valuation. 
It  depends  upon  how  he  likes  them. 

Old  age  sheltered  by  the  fireside,  the  silvery  locks,  the  calm 
dimmed  eye,  the  resigned  features,  all  these  have  for  some  a  great 
fascination.  They  look  upon  a  long  life  and  a  serene  old  age  as  a 
beautiful  possession  which  they  hope  one  day  to  be  theirs.  To  them 
it  is  a  treasure  which  must  be  obtained  by  dint  of  saving.  So  they 
must  have  their  energy,  their  emotion,  their  effort,  their  enthusiasm, 
for  all  of  these  wear  out  the  slender  thread  of  vitality.  They  become 
parsimonious  of  their  forces  so  that  they  may  last  longer.  And  some 
have  become  atrophied  of  mind  and  heart  long  before  nature's  hour, 
simply  that  they  may  live  long.  They  cease  to  do  everything  but  live. 
To  them  that  is  enough.  Their  ambition  is  satisfied.  They  are  proud 
not  of  what  they  might  have  accomplished  but  of  being  alive.  That 
is  one  point  of  view,  and  in  a  certain  sense  to  cheat  nature  of  twenty 
years  is  something  of  an  achievement  not  to  be  disdained.  But  there 
is  another  standard,  as  there  always  is  for  most  things. 

To  many  the  picture  of  life  at  eighty  or  ninety  is  far  from  fasci- 
nating; indeed  it  is  looked  upon  with  something  akin  to  horror.  To 
such,  old  age  is  not  all  silvery  locks  and  calm  eyes.  It  is  sadly  help- 
less, pathetically  dependent,  tirefully  reminiscent  and  dreadfully 
lonely. 


254  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

"Give  me  calm  and  longevity,"  cries  one.  "Give  me  an  active  and 
full  life,"  says  the  other,  "and  when  my  working  day  is  done  let  me 
go  where  I  can  begin  Eternal  youth."  Which  is  right?  Whatever  the 
academic  answer  may  be,  happily  we  cannot  practically  settle  it.  We 
shall  all  of  us  work  or  wait  on  God's  will.  But  certainly  there  is 
something  splendid  and  heroic  in  the  sudden  taking  off  of  a  valiant 
soldier  with  his  armor  on,  in  the  midst  of  the  fight ;  and  when  the 
fight  is  for  God  and  when  the  soldier  dies  on  the  field,  what  laurel 
wreath  is  green  and  beautiful  enough  to  lay  upon  his  bier? 

What  my  beloved  friend,  the  sweet  record  of  whose  noble  life  is 
written  here,  thought  upon  the  subject  of  old  age  I  know  not.  But  I 
do  know  that  when  he  fell  in  the  thick  of  the  fight  for  Holy  Church 
he  smiled.  He  was  too  young  not  to  feel  the  human  pathos  of  a  death 
so  early,  so  unlocked  for.  But  he  loved  and  trusted  his  King  too 
completely  to  even  ask  Him  why. 

He  worked  all  his  life  as  he  had  seen  men  work  in  the  busy  city 
when  his  youth  sped  by.  There  in  the  early  morn  the  bell  sounded, 
and  again  at  night  to  rest.  His  brain  was  too  active,  his  mind  too 
vigorous,  his  heart  too  happy,  to  ever  know  what  idleness  meant. 

As  a  student  he  still  studied  when  his  task  was  finished.  As  a 
priest  he  still  found  or  invented  other  duties  when  those  allotted  him 
were  completed.  As  a  bishop  he  planned  new  labors  when  the  end 
came. 

Would  the  calm,  the  inactivity,  the  inertia  of  age,  have  attracted 
him?  God  knew  best  and  has  forever  sentenced  all  questioning.  He 
was  a  laborer  in  the  Vineyard,  and  he  died  laboring.  Others  will  reap 
what  he  has  sown.  But  the  best  seed  he  ever  sowed  was  love  of  joy- 
ful work  in  the  cause  of  God  and  the  Church. 

And  in  the  ])rcface  of  the  work  from  which  the  above  is  quoted, 
Right  Reverend  Joseph  G.  Anderson.  Auxiliary  Bishop  of  Boston,  has 
written: 

In  the  life  of  any  personage  of  note  written  for  publication,  the 
reader  naturally  looks  for  the  narration  of  the  extraordinary  incidents 
and  events  that  made  such  a  life  so  important  as  to  be  considered 
worthy  of  presentation  before  the  public. 

Measured  by  this  standard  there  is  little  in  the  life  of  Bishop 
Delany  that  could  merit  the  mark  of  greatness.  .Xnd  oftentimes  want- 
ing in  those  sweet  simple  traits  of  character  that  appeal  to  the  human 
heart  or  are  gifted  with  such  superior  talents  as  to  place  them  far 
removed  from  the  everyday  life  about  them ;  when,  however,  they 
are  found  to  be  in  sympathetic  touch  with  and  living  our  own  simple 
existence,  their  lives  then  appeal  to  us  more  forcibly  than  all  their 
greatness  of  intellect  or  heroic  deeds.  Such  a  life  is  that  of  Bishop 
Delany — beautiful  for  its  simplicity,  loving  for  its  gentleness  of  char- 
acter, and  inspiring  for  its  nobleness  of  mind,  generosity  of  heart  and 
earnestness  of  faith  and  zeal. 

Though  all  too  brief  was  his  career  as  Bishop,  there  were  evidences 
of  saintly  zeal  and  s])lendid  talents  which  had  he  been  sjiared  would 


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have  added  lustre  and  gflor}-  to  the  Diocese  of  Manchester  which  he 
ruled,  and  God's  church  in  New  England,  as  judged  by  his  few  years 
labor,  and  by  the  apostolic  zeal  and  noble  character  of  his  whole 
priestly  life.  As  an  old  classmate  and  lifelong  friend,  I  pay  this  tribute 
of  love  for  his  many  noble  traits  of  character,  and  for  his  genuine, 
sincere  and  zealous  devotion  to  God  and  the  Church.  May  his  life 
prove  an  inspiration  to  all  who  read  it,  as  his  memory  will  always  be 
to  those  who  knew  and  loved  him. 


JOHN  ARTHUR  McEVOY. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  Mr.  McEvoy,  a  graduate  of  a  pro- 
fessional college,  started  business  life  as  an  optician  in  Providence, 
Rhode  Island,  in  fact  he  was  conducting  business  there  while  yet  a 
student.  He  came  to  Lowell  soon  after  graduation,  and  in  the  nearly 
twenty  years  of  his  residence  in  this  city  has  built  up  a  large  business 
conducted  at  one  location.  He  is  a  skilled  optician  and  thoroughly 
reliable,  two  facts  which  have  attracted  to  his  store  a  large  clientele 
of  the  best  class.  He  is  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Winifred  McEvoy,  his 
father  a  farmer,  now  deceased. 

John  Arthur  McEvoy  was  born  at  Petersham,  Massachusetts, 
March  15,  1875,  ^"d  there  attended  the  country  public  school,  also 
assisting  in  such  work  on  the  farm  as  falls  to  a  boy's  lot.  But  he  had 
no  love  for  farm  life,  and  soon  had  definitely  decided  upon  the  business 
he  would  follow.  As  soon  as  practical,  he  entered  Klein  Optical  Col- 
lege of  Boston,  there  pursued  a  regular  course  and  was  graduated  in 
i8y8. 

His  first  start  in  business  was  at  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and 
he  was  also  associated  with  the  Globe  Optical  Company  of  Boston 
prior  to  his  coming  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  1900.  In  Lowell  he 
purchased  the  business  established  by  the  New  England  Optical  Com- 
pany at  No.  232  Merrimack  street,  and  with  that  as  a  nucleus  he  has 
gone  forward  to  an  unusual  commercial  success.  In  addition  to  reg- 
ular optometrist  and  optical  goods,  he  has  a  lens  grinding  depart- 
ment, eye  fitting  is  developed  to  a  fine  art,  and  kodaks  and  camera 
supplies,  microscopes  and  full  lines  of  optical  accessories,  are  carried. 
The  business  is  the  largest  of  its  class  in  the  city,  and  its  proprietor 
ranks  with  the  progressive,  public-spirited  men  of  the  city.  The 
business  is  conducted  under  the  name,  John  A.  McEvoy.  He  is  a 
member  of  Ancient  York  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Lowell 
Board  of  Trade;  Highland  Congregational  Church;  and  the  Masonic 
Club. 

Mr.  McEvoy  married,  February  7  1898,  Mary  C.  Copland,  the 
family  home  being  at  No.  21  Bertram  street. 


256  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

WILLIAM  THORNDIKE  PATTEN. 

Patten's  Market,  owned  and  operated  by  William  T.  Patten, 
occupies  a  site  long  devoted  to  the  sale  of  meats,  game,  poultry  and 
provisions.  The  former  owner,  L.  W.  Hall,  was  also  a  long  time 
employer  of  the  present  owner,  although  from  boyhood  he  was  fami- 
liar with  the  environment  of  a  meat  market,  that  being  his  father's 
business.  In  the  early  days  of  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  his  father, 
William  Henry  Patten,  killed  and  dressed  the  cattle  whose  meat  he 
sold,  William  T.  also  becoming  an  adept  butcher.  Then  too  he  drove 
a  wagon  route,  serving  his  customers  from  the  rear  of  the  wagon, 
which  was  in  fact  a  meat  shop  on  wheels.  This  was  his  early  training 
for  the  business  he  conducts,  and  in  addition  he  acquired  expert  knowl- 
edge of  judging  and  buying  cattle  on  the  hoof,  estimating  their  cor- 
rect value  before  and  after  dressing.  The  courtesy,  which  is  a  marked 
characteristic  of  Patten's  market,  is  not  forced,  but  springs  from  the 
kindlv  nature  of  the  proprietor,  who  always  has  a  good  word  for  every- 
body and  speaks  ill  of  none.  His  customers  are  his  friends,  and  every- 
one who  meets  him  carries  away  the  impression  that  he  has  l:>een  in 
contact  with  a  true  man. 

William  T.  Patten  is  a  grandson  of  Deacon  Aaron  r\-itten,  who 
was  born  in  England,  and  there  learned  the  cabinet  maker's  trade  in 
a  shop  specializing  in  high  grade  hand  made  furniture.  There,  under 
the  best  of  workmen,  he  mastered  every  detail  of  his  trade,  and  after 
becoming  an  expert  he  decided  to  come  to  the  United  States.  He 
located  at  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  and  there  in  a  small  shop  of  his 
own  began  making  hand  made  furniture.  The  quality  of  workman- 
ship and  beauty  of  design  brought  him  trade  in  increasing  volume,  his 
period  furniture  being  exceedingly  popular.  Finally  he  was  compelled 
to  build  a  factory  at  Billerica  for  his  large  business,  where  later  at 
times  one  hundred  men  were  employed.  He  finally  outgrew  Billerica, 
and  opened  sales  and  display  rooms  on  Haymarket  Square,  Boston, 
where  discriminating  buyers  gathered  and  bought  the  furniture  which 
is  yet  to  be  found  in  those  old  New  England  homes,  highl)-  prized  as 
heirlooms.  In  his  own  family  there  are  pieces  made  by  this  fine  old 
mechanic  and  manufacturer,  who  never  lowered  'his  ideals  for  gain. 
The  Billerica  factory  stands  in  that  part  of  the  town  long  known  as 
Pattenville,  his  home  in  which  he  died  also  being  in  that  neighbor- 
hood. He  married  Mary  Andrews,  a  native  of  Scotland,  where  they 
were  married,  she  coming  with  him  to  Billerica,  where  she  also  died. 
To  them  the  following  children  were  born:  William  H..  of  whom 
furtlier:  .\zel.  .^aron,  Thomas,  Lyman;  Asa  J.,  and  Mary. 

William  Henr}-  Patten,  son  of  Deacon  Aaron  and  Mary  (An- 
drews)   Patten,  was  born  in   East  Billerica   (Pattenville),  Massachu- 


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setts,  and  there  spent  his  youth,  and  obtained  his  education.  He  early 
became  interested  in  the  butcher  business,  and  while  yet  a  young  man 
bought  live  cattle,  dressed  it.  and  sold  the  different  cuts  at  retail. 
After  mastering  that  business  he  left  it  for  a  time  to  assist  his 
father  in  his  important  furniture  business,  becoming  a  good  cab- 
inet maker  himself.  He  worked  in  the  Billerica  shop  for  a  few  years, 
finally  leaving  his  father  and  going  to  South  Maiden,  now  Everett, 
^Massachusetts,  where  he  reentered  the  butcher  business,  buying, 
dressing  and  selling  cattle,  his  shop  a  wagon,  as  was  then  the  usual 
custom.  One  of  the  routes  he  served  took  him  to  South  Market, 
Boston,  where  he  had  established  a  good  trade  and  high  reputation  as 
an  expert  butcher  and  man  of  integrity.  The  practicability  of  estab- 
lishing a  wholesale  market  in  Boston  was  finally  settled  in  Mr. 
Patten's  mind,  and  so  well  and  so  favorably  was  he  known  that  he  had 
no  difficulty  in  forming  a  syndicate  to  advance  the  necessary  money. 
The  Clinton  Market  was  built  by  this  syndicate  of  well  known  men, 
and  there  he  long  conducted  a  prosperous  business.  Clinton  Market 
was  on  Clinton  street,  Boston,  the  slaughter  houses  at  South  Maiden, 
Boston,  now  Everett,  the  site  of  the  old  building  now  covered  by  the 
Cochran  Chemical  Company  building.  Mr.  Patten  was  the  leading 
spirit  in  the  business,  and  really  the  success  of  the  entire  enterprise 
rested  on  him  and  his  expert  knowledge  of  the  butcher  business.  He 
bought  on  the  hoof  all  meats  which  he  sold  in  Clinton  Market,  and 
that  business  was  so  successful  in  its  operations  that  for  years  Mr. 
Patten  was  rated  as  one  of  the  largest  buyers  of  native  cattle  in 
Massachusetts.  In  time  Clinton  Market  became  the  largest  wholesale 
meat  market  in  Xew  England,  and  for  fifteen  years  was  successfully 
conducted  by  Mr.  Patten  and  his  associates.  Then  the  era  of  Chicago 
dressed  beef  arrived,  and  the  home  dressing  of  cattle  practicallv  came 
to  an  end.  The  syndicate  owning  Clinton  Market  sold  it  to  a  large 
packing  house  corporation,  which  is  still  in  existence. 

While  William  H.  Patten  was  engaged  in  his  Clinton  Market 
enterprise  his  father  died,  and  the  son,  after  selling  out,  returned  to 
Billerica  Center,  where  he  bought  a  large  farm  and  many  parcels  of 
timber  land,  and  henceforth  devoted  himself  to  converting  these  tracts 
of  valuable  timber,  and  placing  it  on  the  market.  A  great  deal  of  this 
timber  was  converted  into  brick  yard  quality,  the  brick  manufacturers 
of  Massachusetts  becoming  very  heavy  customers.  The  more  valuable 
timber  was  made  into  lumber  suitable  for  manufacturers  of  wooden 
articles.  A  great  deal  of  this  was  of  such  quality  that  the  Teal  Wagon 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Medford,  Massachusetts,  took  it  in  large 
quantities,  and  other  manufacturers  were  his  customers.  Finally  he 
laid  aside  all  business  burdens  and  retired  to  his  farm  at  Billerica, 

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258  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

and  there  lived  in  ccnitentment  and  peace  until  his  death,  FJecemher 
6.  1893. 

Mr.  Patten  also  tiore  his  share  of  civic  resjjonsibility.  serving 
Billerica  as  selectman  for  many  terms,  also  as  assessor  and  school 
committeeman.  No  man  stood  higher  in  the  esteem  of  his  community 
than  he.  and  the  interests  of  his  native  Billerica  were  very  dear  to 
him.  He  was  an  active  member  and  generous  supporter  of  the  church, 
and  the  musical  talent  he  richly  possessed  was  used  to  add  value  to 
the  church  services,  and  for  years  he  was  the  leader  of  the  choir.  He 
was  very  fond  of  music,  and  played  well  upon  the  organ  and  violin. 

These  two  men.  Deacon  Aaron  and  William  Henry  Patten,  father 
and  son,  did  a  great  deal  for  both  the  business  and  moral  welfare  of 
Billerica,  both  being  men  of  sound  business  quality  and  of  honorable, 
upright  lives,  their  example  and  influence  always  being  exerted  for 
good.  Both  were  held  in  the  highest  esteem  and  wdien  finally  their 
work  ended,  they  were  laid  at  rest,  and  the  community  mourned  the 
passing  of  two  such  valued  citizens. 

William  Henry  Patten  married  Abbie  Ann  Jacques,  born  at  the 
Jacques  farm  in  Tewkesbury,  Massachusetts,  near  Chandlers'  Turn- 
out on  the  Lowell-Boston  State  road.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Nathan 
P.  and  Thankfvd  (Thorndike)  Jacques,  her  father  born  in  Canada  of 
French  parentage,  her  mother  born  in  Massachusetts.  Mrs.  Patten 
died  in  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  April  13,  1896.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
William  Henry  Patten  were  born  the  following  children:  William 
T.,  of  whom  further ;  and  Abbie  A. 

William  Thorndike  Patten,  son  of  William  Henry  and  Abbie 
Ann  (Jacques)  Patten,  was  born  in  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  January 
13,  1858,  and  for  years  has  been  one  of  the  substantial,  progressive 
merchants  of  Lowell.  He  was  educated  in  East  Billerica  (Patten- 
ville)  graded  schools,  Howe  Academy  in  Billerica  Center,  Bryant  & 
Stratton's  Business  College,  Boston,  completing  a  two  years'  course  at 
the  last  named  institution.  He  was  associated  with  his  father  in  his 
cattle  buying  and  marketing  enterprise,  and  became  familiar  with  the 
business  methods  emjiloyed  as  well  as  an  expert  butcher.  Later  he 
became  connected  with  L.  W.  &  C.  O.  Hall,  prominent  meat  market 
men  of  Lowell.  As  an  employee  of  the  Lowell  store  Mr.  Patten,  in 
addition  to  his  work  there,  drove  a  butcher's  wagon,  serving  custo- 
mers over  a  route  embracing  Lowell,  Collinsville,  Tyngsboro,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  Pelham,  New  Hampshire.  This  style  of  traveling 
butcher  shop,  which  was  very  much  in  vogue  in  those  days,  has  now 
practically  passed  away  save  in  a  few  rural  districts,  but  once  the 
housewife  made  her  choice  of  meats  entirely  from  well  stocked  wagons 
fitted  up  much  as  one  sees  the  small  shop  of  to-day. 


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In  189S  Mr.  Patten  bought  out  the  Hall  business  in  Lowell, 
and  for  eight  years  conducted  it  under  his  own  name.  In  1906 
he  sold  out  to  J.  M.  Wilson  and  reentered  the  employ  of  L.  W.  Hall 
&  Company,  his  former  employer,  C.  O.  Hall,  being  the  company. 
He  continued  manager  of  the  Hall  Market  at  No.  15  Gorham  street, 
Lowell,  until  the  death  of  L.  W.  Hall  in  1908,  then  bought  the  business, 
which  he  still  conducts  as  Patten's  Market.  The  market  specializes 
in  tine  poultry  and  meats,  has  a  generous  patronage  among  the  leading 
families,  and  has  won  for  its  owner  and  manager  high  reputation  as  a 
merchant  of  ability,  integrity,  and  upright  dealing.  Each  of  these 
three  generations  of  Pattens  has  won  business  success  in  their  chosen 
fields  of  activity,  and  all  have  possessed  manly  attributes  of  character 
which  have  won  for  them  the  high  esteem  of  their  fellowmen. 

William  T.  Patten  is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade; 
belongs  to  Kilwining  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  the  Vesper 
Country  Club  ;  and  is  a  member  of  the  Pawtucketville  Congregational 
Church,  and  a  leader  in  the  church  choir,  having,  like  his  father,  a 
fine  voice. 

Mr.  Patten  married  in  Lowell,  November  14,  1882,  Nellie  Florence 
Newhall,  daughter  of  Henry  L.  Newhall,  a  sketch  of  whom  follows 
in  this  work.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Patten  are  the  parents  of  a  son,  Henry 
Newhall  Patten,  born  in  Lowell,  April  14,  1885,  now  connected  with 
the  Adams  Furniture  Company,  of  Lowell.  He  married,  September 
5,  1917,  Adelaide  Jeanette  Cochrane,  of  Lowell,  and  they  have  one 
son,  Henry  Newhall  Patten.  Mr.  Patten  has  the  musical  talent  of  the 
Pattens,  highly  cultivated,  and  is  prominent  in  Lowell's  musical  circle. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  holding  the  thirt\-second 
degree.  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite 

The  Patten  family  home  is  at  No.  235  Monmouth  road,  Pawtuck- 
etville, and  there  a  most  generous  hospitality  is  dispensed.  The  home 
is  a  resort  of  music  lovers,  and  impromptu  vocal  concerts  are  daily 
occurrences.  That  home  is  the  real  center  of  Mr.  Patten's  life, 
although  he  is  a  business  man  who  always  has  led  men,  and  for  forty 
years  has  a  record  for  arising  each  business  day  at  4  a.  m.  His  busi- 
ness quality  is  of  the  highest  order,  and  his  many  friends  are  evidence 
of  the  charm  of  his  personality  and  character. 


HENRY  LYMAN  NEWHALL. 

An  octogenarian  in  years  and  a  veteran  of  Lowell's  manufactur- 
ing world,  Henry  L.  Newhall,  who  through  five  different  administra- 
tions retained  his  post  as  paymaster  of  the  Merrimack  Woolen  Mills 
for  forty-three  years,  1860-1903,  still  remains  a  resident  of  the  city  of 


26o  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Lowell,  where  fifty-eight  years  of  his  useful,  honorable  life  have  been 
spent.  This  service  to  one  of  Lovvell's  great  textile  corporations 
means  much  more  than  the  responsible  task  of  handling  the  millions 
of  dollars  necessary  to  meet  the  stated  payrolls,  for  as  the  business 
increased  and  employees  numbered  first  hundreds,  then  thousands, 
new  systems  of  handling  these  large  payrolls  quickly  and  without 
error  had  to  be  introduced.  This  was  accomplished  by  Mr.  Newhall 
and  under  him  the  business  of  the  paymaster's  office  flowed  smoothly 
and  most  satisfactorily.  Now  remarkably  well-preserved  and  active, 
Mr.  Newhall  reviews  his  long  career  with  the  satisfaction  which  comes 
from  duty  well-performed,  and  it  is  the  pleasure  of  his  many  friends 
to  render  him  the  deference  to  which  his  years  and  service  entitle  him. 
The  Newhall  family  of  England  had  estates  in  Wiltshire  as  early 
as  the  eleventh  century.  At  one  time  in  his  career  Oliver  Cromwell, 
the  great  Protector,  owned  the  Manor  of  Newhall,  but  later  sold  it. 
The  family  liore  arms,  those  to  which  Thoinas  Newhall,  of  Lynn,  was 
entitled,  Ijeiiig  thus  described: 

Arms — .\zure  three  plates  or,  on  cncli  an  ermine  spot  salile. 
Crest — A  cross  crosslet  fitchee  azure. 
Motto — Diligeiitia  ditat. 

This  branch  of  the  Newhall  family  of  New  England  descends 
from  Thomas  Newhall,  wht^  came  to  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  about  1630, 
his  name  and  that  of  his  brother  Anthony  appearing  on  the  records  of 
Essex  county  in  that  year.  The  line  of  descent  is  through  the  found- 
er's son,  Thomas  (2)  Newhall,  who  is  recorded  as  being  the  first 
white  child  born  in  Lynn. 

Thomas  (2)  Newhall  was  born  in  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  about 
1631,  and  there  died  April  i,  1687.  He  married,  December  20.  1652, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Potter.  The  line  continues  through 
their  son,  Thomas  (3). 

Thomas  (3)  Newhall  was  born  in  Lyini,  Massachusetts.  Novem- 
ber 18,  1653,  died  in  Maiden,  Massachusetts,  July  3,  172S.  He  was  a 
farmer  and  weaver,  owning  a  farm  in  IVLalden,  which  he  bought  in 
1681.  He  was  a  lieutenant  of  the  Maiden  military  company,  served  as 
selectman,  and  was  quite  prominent  in  his  community.  He  married, 
in  November,  1674,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Thomas  Green,  of  IMalden, 
where  she  died  May  25,  1726.  They  were  the  parents  of  Thomas  (4), 
who  is  next  in  line  of  descent. 

Thomas  (4)  Newhall  was  born  in  Maiden,  about  1680,  but  early  in 
life  moved  to  Leicester,  Massachusetts.  He  became  a  large  land 
owner,  engaged  also  in  the  lumber  business,  and  in  1724  was  chosen 
to  represent  Leicester  in  the  General  Court.    He  married  Marv  • — , 


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and  they  were  the  parents  of  a  son,  Jonathan,  through  whom  descent 
in  this  branch  is  traced. 

Jonathan  Newhall  was  born  in  Maiden,  March  4,  171 1,  died  June 
8,  1787.  lie  was  known  as  "Captain  Jonathan,"  and  in  1783  is  of 
record  as  a  trustee  of  the  Baptist  church  of  Leicester.  He  married 
Hannah,  daughter  of  Josiah  Converse,  of  Brookfield,  Massachusetts. 
They  were  the  parents  of  Hiram  Newhall,  their  fourth  child,  and  the 
head  of  this  branch  of  the  sixth  generation. 

Hiram  Newhall  was  born  in  Leicester,  Massachusetts,  Feliruary 
^i-  1738-  He  married  (first)  January  2,  1762,  Mary  Seaver,  who  died 
February  5,  1769,  leaving  two  children.  He  married  (second)  Octo- 
ber 19,  1769,  Sarah  Hasey,  who  died  June  21,  1778,  the  mother  of  four 
children.  He  married  (third)  December  17,  1779,  Jerusha  Hayes,  who 
bore  him  nine  children. 

Joshua  Newhall  was  born  in  Athol,  Massachusetts,  July  3,  1770, 
and  there  died  July  14,  1825,  a  farmer.  He  married,  April  24.  1791, 
Polly  Cutting,  born  in  Athol,  May  24,  1773,  died  at  Waltham,  Massa- 
chusetts, April  15,  1858.  They  were  the  parents  of  Hiram  Newhall, 
and  grandparents  of  Henry  Lyman  Newhall,  whose  remarkable  career 
is  the  inspiration  of  this  review. 

Hiram  Newhall  was  born  in  Athol,  Massachusetts,  January  20, 
1800,  died  at  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  March  20,  1862.  After  leav- 
ing the  home  farm  he  went  to  Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  where  he 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Jackson  Cotton  Mills,  later  became  over- 
seer of  the  cloth  room,  and  for  twenty-five  years  held  that  position. 
His  desire,  however,  was  for  the  Christian  ministry,  but  ill  health 
compelled  him  to  abandon  theological  study,  and  he  continued  a 
cotton  mill  overseer  until  his  retirement.  For  more  than  thirty  years 
he  was  an  active  member  and  a  deacon  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church  of  Nashua.  He  married,  September  27,  1827,  Loui.sa  Prescott, 
born  in  Concord,  Alassachusetts,  October  20,  1799,  died  at  Nashua, 
New  Hampshire,  September  3,  1852.  Both  Deacon  and  Mrs.  Newhall 
were  highly  esteemed  for  their  devoted  Christian  lives,  and  were  pop- 
ular  within  a  very  large  circle  of  friends. 

Henry  Lyman  Newhall,  of  the  ninth  .American  generation,  scm  of 
Hiram  and  Louisa  (Prescott)  Newhall,  was  born  in  Nashua,  New 
Hampshire,  June  12,  1835.  He  attended  Nashua  public  and  private 
schools  until  thirteen  years  of  age,  then  began  his  long  and  honorable 
business  career  as  office  boy  at  the  Jackson  Cotton  Mills  in  Nashua. 
He  continued  in  this  office  employ  until  eighteen  years  of  age,  and  in 
the  meantime  continued  his  studies  privately  out  of  office  hours. 
About  1853  he  was  appointed  assistant  to  his  fatlicr,  who  was  then 
overseer  of  the  cloth  room,  and  there  too  he  continued   his  studies. 


262  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

From  Nashua  he  went  to  the  Atlantic  Cotton  Mills  in  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  as  office  clerk,  but  a  short  time  afterward  the  illness 
of  his  father  recalled  him  to  Nashua,  and  for  two  years  he  performed 
the  duties  of  cloth  room  overseer  at  the  Jackson  Cotton  Mills.  He 
then  returned  to  Lawrence  as  clerk  to  the  paymaster  of  the  Pember- 
ton  Mills,  there  remaining:  until  that  fateful  day,  January  lo,  iS6o, 
when  the  mill  went  down  in  ruins,  ninety  lives  l)eing  lost  in  the  col- 
lapse of  the  mill,  .\hout  three  months  after  the  Pemberton  Mills 
disaster,  or  to  be  exact,  on  April  20,  i860,  Mr.  Newhall  came  to  Lowell 
to  assume  the  duties  of  paymaster  of  the  Merrimack  Woolen  Com- 
]3any,  a  post  previously  ofTered  him  and  accepted.  From  April  20, 
i860,  until  December  31,  1903,  Mr.  Newhall  held  the  office  of  pay- 
master, and  although  the  Merrimack  Mills  Corporation  and  the  Pier- 
son  Mills  Corporation  changed  owners  five  times  during  that  period 
he  was  never  disturbed,  but  continued  in  office  under  each  adminis- 
tration. No  greater  tribute  could  be  paid  him  than  to  announce  the 
simple  fact  that  he  held  his  office  as  long  as  he  wanted  to,  no  matter 
who  owned  and  ruled  the  corporation.  A  Republican  in  politics,  he 
took  an  active  jiart  in  public  afifairs  during  his  first  half  century  of 
life.  He  was  town  clerk  in  Dracut,  1870-74  inclusive,  and  during  the 
year  1874  was  also  town  treasurer.  In  1885-86  he  was  a  member  of 
Lowell's  Common  Cnuncil.  his  interest  since  that  time  being  that  of  a 
private  citizen  deejjly  cuiicerned  for  the  welfare  of  his  city  and  country. 
He  is  a  member  of  Pawtucket  Congregational  Church,  and  long  served 
as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school,  clerk  of  the  Society,  and  was 
often  urged  to  accept  the  office  of  deacon,  but  as  often  declined. 

Mr.  Newhall  married,  June  30,  1856,  Susan  M.  French,  of  Mont 
\'ernon,  New  Hampshire,  born  May  15,  1838,  daughter  of  .Albert 
Clinton  and  Lucinda  (Eaton)  French.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newhall  are  the 
parents  of  two  daughters  and  a  son:  Minnie  Louise,  born  March  15. 
i860,  died  iVugust  29,  i860;  Nellie  Florence,  born  April  12,  1864,  who 
married,  November  14,  1882,  William  Thorndike  Patten  (See  Patten)  ; 
and  Walter  Henry,  liorn  September  19,  1876,  died' December  30,  1878. 

This  story  of  a  valuable  life  w.nild  be  incomplete  did  it  fail  to 
speak  of  the  beautiful  honu-  life  of  the  Ncwhalls.  and  the  loval.le  traits 
of  character  possessed  by  both  that  has  drawn  to  them  the  lo\-e  and 
friendship  of  so  many.  Sixty  years  of  married  life  lies  behind  them, 
and  confident!)-  they  approach  the  future,  hand  in  hand. 


JOHN   FRANCIS  KRASNYE,  M.  D. 

cis  Krasnye,  M.  D.,  a  specialist  in  nervous  ;md  mental 
offices  in  the  Keith's  Theatre  building,  Lowell,  Massa- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  zGt^ 

chusetts,  was  born  in  Yonkers,  New  York,  June  12,  1888.  He  there 
attended  St.  Joseph's  School  and  the  Yonkers  High  School,  and  then 
continued  his  studies  at  Cathedral  College,  New  York  City,  and  at 
St.  Bonaventure's  College,  Allegany,  New  York,  there  finishing  his 
classical  courses  of  study.  He  prepared  for  the  profession  of  medicine 
at  the  medical  department  of  Yale  University  and  at  the  Chicago 
College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery.  After  receiving  his  M.  D.,  he  was 
appointed  resident  surgeon  to  the  Workhouse  Hospital,  Blackwell's 
Island,  New  York,  that  institution  being  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Department  of  Correction,  New  York  City.  His  services  there  were 
followed  by  a  term  as  physician  and  surgeon  to  the  City  Home  Hos- 
pital, Department  of  Charities,  New^  York  City.  He  resigned  his 
position  in  New  York  to  become  surgeon  to  the  Emergency  Hospital, 
Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  that  being  a  city  institution  under  control  of 
the  Department  of  Charity.  Definitely  determining  to  specialize  in 
nervous  diseases,  he  became  a  member  of  the  stafT  of  the  Boston 
Psychopathic  Hospital,  Boston,  Massachusetts,  as  resident  physician. 
From  Boston  he  went  to  Arlington  Heights,  Massachusetts,  as  asso- 
ciate physician  at  the  Arlington  Health  Resort  and  Ring  Sanatorium, 
an  institution  for  nervous  and  mental  diseases.  He  later  established 
the  Pinewood  Sanatorium  for  nervous  and  mental  diseases  at  Arling- 
ton Heights,  of  which  he  was  the  superintendent. 

Dr.  Krasnye  enlisted  in  the  United  States  .\rniy  during  the  World 
War,  receiving  a  commission  in  the  Army  Medical  Department,  and 
was  stationed  at  Camp  Devens,  Ayer,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was 
camp  psychiatrist  and  chief  of  the  neuro-psychiatric  service  at  the 
Base  Hospital.  He  is  well  known  in  his  special  field,  and  has  a  large 
Lowell  clientele. 


JOHN  LENNON. 

In  the  business  world  John  Lennun  won  success  through  the  exer- 
cise of  able  talents  and  by.  tireless  devotion  to  the  details  of  even  his 
smallest  interests.  His  death,  in  1910,  removed  from  the  Lowell  com- 
munity a  man  of  large  affairs,  a  pioneer  in  street  railway  lines,  whose 
reputation  for  the  strictest  integrity  and  uprightness  in  his  dealings 
extended  wherever  he  was  known.  In  his  leisure  hours  he  indulged 
his  love  of  music  and  his  fondness  for  horses,  finding  in  these  and  in 
his  home  circle  the  greatest  enjoyment  of  his  life.  Ten  years  ago  his 
was  a  familiar  figure  on  the  Merrimack  Boulevard  as  he  exercised 
one  of  his  fast  trotters.  He  and  his  wife  were  both  accomplished  and 
talented  musicians,  members  of  St.  Patrick's  choir,  and  he  also  played 
the  bass  viol.  He  was  the  center  of  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  by  whom 
he  was  held  in  high  esteem   for  a  gentle,  generous  nature,  for  con- 


264  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

stancy  in  genial  friendliness,  and  for  dependability  in  the  time  of 
need.    The  outline  of  his  busy,  prosperous  career  follows. 

John  Lennon  was  a  son  of  Michael  and  Anne  (Kelley )  Lennon, 
his  i>arents  both  natives  of  County  Queens,  Ireland,  where  his  father 
followed  the  farmer's  calling  and  reared  a  large  family.  John  Lennon 
was  horn  at  Hermitage,  Parish  of  Closeland,  County  Queens,  June 
10,  i82('),  and  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  February  26,  lyio  He 
was  a  young  man  of  twenty-three  years  when  he  left  the  home  farm 
and,  in  1849,  came  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  whither  his  brother, 
Thomas,  had  preceded  him  by  several  years.  Thomas  Lennon  was 
established  in  the  grocery  business  in  Lowell,  and  John  Lennon  was 
for  a  time  employed  in  this  store,  then  establishing  independently  in 
liqu(ir  dealing.  His  l)usiness  ex]ianded  to  profitable  dimensions  and 
he  continued  its  active  head  until  1908,  when  he  retired,  his  son, 
Thomas  E.,  then  becoming  head  of  the  business,  a  posititjn  he  held 
until  his  death. 

Mr.  Lennon  was  one  of  the  promoters  and  builders  of  the  Lowell 
it  Dracut  Street  Raihva}'  Company,  a  horse  car  line  that  was  absorbed 
by  the  Lowell  Street  Railway  Company,  becoming  part  of  the  Lowell 
and  Suburban  Street  Railway  System,  which  in  turn  was  absorbed  by 
the  Bay  State  Street  Railway  Company.  He  was  a  man  of  energetic, 
progressive  tendencies,  and  w,-is  influential  in  numerous  enterprises  of 
consequence.  He  was  financially  interested  in  Lowell's  first  telephone 
line,  withdrawing  after  a  short  time,  and  was  a  director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Lowell.  When  that  institution  was  merged  with 
others  and  became  the  LTnion  National  Bank  of  Lowell  he  became  a 
director  of  the  new  institution,  so  continuing  until  his  death.  His 
judgiuent  and  opinions  were  regarded  with  respect  and  attention  by 
his  associates,  for  results  had  vindicated  his  views  on  many  occasions. 
His  insight  into  the  merits  and  drawbacks  of  a  business  proposition 
at  first  glance  was  remarkable,  and  rarely  did  his  first  decision  lead 
him  astray.  To  the  end  of  his  acti\e  career  he  was  a  leading  figure 
in  business  life  in  his  city,  a  man  of  honor  and  standing  in  Lowell. 
He  was  a  Democrat  in  political  faith,  and  a  communicant  of  St.  Pat- 
rick's Roman  Catholic  Church.  I  h-  was  deeply  interested  in  jniblic 
aiifairs  and  a  loyal  supporter  oi  all  civic  movements  of  improvement 
and  progress.  His  stable  always  held  some  fine  horses,  for  he  was  a 
lover  of  good  horseflesh  and  always  found  time  for  a  drive  behind  one 
of  his  fast  trotters.  Mr.  Lennrm  was  a  man  who  found  much  in  life 
that  was  good  becau-c  he  put  much  of  gciod  into  his  daily  contact  with 
his  fellows.  His  memory  is  held  as  a  precious  possession  by  his 
friends  .ind  the  famil\  upon  w  horn  he  lavished  the  purest  devotion. 

|ohn  Lennon  married,  at  Lowell,  in  November,  i8;6.  Marv  Com- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  265 

merford,  who  was  born  and  spent  her  entire  life  in  Lowell,  her  death 
occurring  September  13,  1904.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven  chil- 
dren, all  born  in  Lowell:  I.  Annie,  married  John  H.  Harrinsjton 
(q.v.).  owner  and  editor  of  the  Lowell  "Sun."  2.  John  F.,  a  dental 
surgeon,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  married  Elizabeth  Dempsey, 
of  Lowell,  daughter  of  Patrick  and  Margaret  (Deehan)  Dempsey,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  Edith,  who  married  William  J.  Heffernan,  of 
Long  Island  City,  New  York,  and  Marghretta,  who  married  Francis 
Gilbane,  of  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island.  3.  Thomas  E.,  his  father's 
successor  in  business,  died  April  18,  1919,  married  Ella  E.  Butler,  of 
Boston,  who  survives  him.  4.  William,  deceased.  5.  Katherine  L., 
married  Dr.  Edward  J.  Welch,  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  6.  Mary  E., 
a  resident  of  Lowell.     7.  Grace,  who  died  in  infancw 


GEORGE  C.  FAIRBURN. 


The  business  now  incorporated  as  Fairburn's  Market,  of  which 
George  C.  Fairburn  is  treasurer  and  manager,  was  founded  by  his 
father,  George  Fairburn,  who  at  one  time  operated  the  stores  on  the 
same  lines,  groceries  and  produce.  These  were  consolidated  in  191 2, 
and  from  that  time  the  business  has  been  centered  in  the  store  on 
Merrimack  square.  The  first  store  opened  by  George  Fairburn  was 
on  East  Merrimack  street,  and  dated  its  existence  from  1891.  He  was 
a  good  business  man,  and  during  his  lifetime  was  rated  one  of  the 
substantial  provision  merchants  of  the  city.  The  store  on  Merrimack 
square  was  always  known  as  Fairburn's  Market,  and  when,  after  the 
death  of  George  Fairburn,  the  business  was  incorporated,  the  Fair- 
burn  Market  became  the  corporate  name.  A  large  business  is  trans- 
acted, and  as  its  managing  head  George  C.  Fairburn  employs  the 
experience  of  a  lifetime,  for  he  entered  the  store  when  a  boy  and  has 
never  known  any  major  business  connection. 

George  Fairburn,  father  of  George  C.  Fairburn,  was  born  in 
Lancashire.  England,  and  was  in  business  as  a  butcher  at  Littlebor- 
ough  until  he  came  to  the  United  States,  in  August,  1890,  making 
Lowell  his  home.  Mr.  Fairburn  was  a  member  of  Kilwining  Lodge, 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Templar;  Aleppo  Temple, 
Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  ;  a  thirty-second  degree  ]Mason,  also  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  of  Boston.  He  mar- 
ried Annie  Crossley,  daughter  of  William  and  Elizabeth  (Parker) 
Crossley,  of  Lancashire,  England.  They  were  the  parents  of  two 
children:  I.  Florence,  born  in  Littleborough,  England,  now  the  wife 
of  Joseph  W.  Jordan,  of  Lowell,  now   (1918)  with  the  United  States 


266  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

army  in  France  :  they  are  the  parents  ui  tw(_)  children  :  Ruth  Annie 
and  Joseph  Whitehouse  Jordan.  2.  (ieorge  C,  of  whom  further.  Mr. 
Fairburn  died  Augtist  28,  1914,  leaving  a  widow,  who  is  now  the  wife 
of  Cornelius  E.  Collins,  of  Lowell. 

George  C.  Fairhurn  was  born  in  Ltiwell,  February  28,  i8yi.  After 
com])leting  jirimary  and  -grammar  school  courses,  he  advanced  to  the 
high  school,  whence  he  was  graduated,  going  thence  to  Pennsylvania 
Military  College,  at  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  an  institution  known  as 
"The  West  Point  of  the  Keystone  State,"  which  prepares  students 
for  the  professions  or  for  business.  He  chose  the  engineering  course 
and  was  graduated  civil  engineer,  class  of  1910.  After  graduation  he 
returned  to  Lowell,  not  to  follow  his  profession,  but  to  become  his 
father's  assistant,  duty  plainly  pointing  the  way.  It  was  in  1910  that 
he  entered  business  life,  going  into  the  stores  at  the  corner  of  Tremont 
and  Merrimack  streets,  one  of  them  being  operated  by  George  Fair- 
l)urn.  who  founded  the  business  about  twenty  years  prior  to  the 
entrance  of  his  son.  Father  and  son  continued  store  business  asso- 
ciates until  the  death  of  George  Fairburn  in  1914.  The  business  has 
been  consolidated  in  the  large  market  store  at  No.  12  Merrimack 
sciuare,  and  No.  14  Bridge  street,  and  upon  the  death  of  the  father, 
George  C,  the  son,  began  as  head  of  the  business.  In  191 5_,  I'air- 
burn's  Market  was  incorporated,  Mrs.  .\nnie  (Crossley)  Fairburn, 
now  Mrs.  Collins,  ])resident,  George  C.  I'airburn,  treasurer  and  general 
manager.  A  regular  grocery  and  market  business  is  conducted  at 
this  most  popular  trading  point,  Mr.  Fairburn  giving  his  undivided 
attention  to  the  afifairs  of  Fairburn's  Market,  Incorporated.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Lowell  Hoard  of  Trade:  William  North  Lodge,  Free 
and  .Accepted  Masons:  the  Council  and  Chapter:  also  Pilgrim  Com- 
mandery ;  and  his  clubs  are  the  Vesper  Country,  and  Yorick. 

Air.  Fairburn  married,  in  Lowell,  June  7,  1915.  Beulah  A.  Sturte- 
vant :  they  the  ])arcnts  of  a  son,  George  C,  Jr.,  born  March  29.  1916, 
at  Lowell,  and  a  daughter.  Shirley  Mavis,  born  December  12,  1918. 
Mrs.  b~airburn  is  the  daus/hter  of  Charles  S.  and  Nellie  Sturtevant. 


ALEXANDER  CRUICKSHANK. 

n  .Mr.  Cruickshank  left  the  farm  and  went  to  the  city  of 
,  he  there  learned  the  trade  which  has  nia<le  him  one  of  the 
\n  men  of  the  cit\'  of  Lowell,  the  making  of  ice  cream  anfl 
■lu-acies.  and  when  in  later  years  he  located  in  Lowell,  he 
irsl  ice  cream  manufacturer  to  settle  in  the  city  and  he  has 
•pt  in  the  van,  his  wonderful  equipment,  where  ice  cream  is 
ler  perfect  sanitary  conditions,  enabling  him  to  meet  and  dis- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  267 

tance  all  competitions.  His  business  is  entirely  wholesale,  and  he 
enjoys  a  most  liberal  patronage.  He  is  a  son  of  John  and  Jeanette 
(Tannehill)  Cruickshank,  his  father  born  in  the  Highlands  of  Scot- 
land, his  mother  in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada.  John  Cruick- 
shank came  from  Scotland  to  Canada  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years, 
there  settling  on  a  farm  near  Dundee,  just  across  the  New  York  State 
line,  where  he  died  in  1895.  His  wife,  Jeanette  Cruickshank,  died  in 
Dundee,  Canada,  in  1901.  They  were  the  ])arents  of  three  children, 
all  born  at  the  Cruickshank  h(.>mestead  in  Dundee;  William,  now  a 
ranchman  of  Calgary.  Canada:  Alexander,  of  further  mention;  John, 
who  resides  at  the  old  homestead  in  Dundee. 

Alexander  Cruickshank  was  born  at  the  home  farm  in  Dundee, 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  March  5,  1872.  He  attended  the  district 
school,  and  remained  on  the  home  farm  until  sixteen  years  of  age, 
then  went  to  Montreal,  where  he  entered  the  employ  of  Joyce  &  Com- 
]iany.  I'hilli]is  square,  as  an  apprentice  to  the  trade  of  candy  makers. 
While  learning  the  trade  of  confectioner,  he  also  learned  ice  cream 
manufacturing,  a  branch  of  the  Inisiness  in  which  he  took  a  greater 
interest  than  in  candy  making.  He  became  an  expert  manufacturer  of 
creams  and  ices  of  all  kinds,  and  from  Montreal  came  to  Huntington, 
Province  of  Quebec,  where  he  for  one  year  engaged  in  the  confec- 
tionery business  on  his  own  account.  He  then  located  in  Boston, 
securing  employment  as  a  candy  maker  with  John  Mundock,  who  was 
proprietor  of  four  confectionery  stores  in  the  city.  Mr.  Mundock  soon 
realized  that  he  had  a  most  capable  young  man  in  his  employ,  and  at 
the  end  of  three  weeks  made  him  manager  of  two  of  his  stores,  one  at 
No.  12  Green  street,  the  other  at  No.  2259  Washington  street.  For 
two  years  Mr.  Cruickshank  remained  in  Boston,  then  returned  to  his 
Canadian  home.  In  1893  he  came  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  securing 
a  jjosition  with  Albert  S.  Fox,  who  conducted  a  confectionery  at  No. 
67  Central  street.  In  1894  O.  P.  Saunders,  a  traveling  salesman,  pur- 
chased the  business,  retaining  Mr.  Cruickshank  as  manager  until  the 
business  was  sold  to  a  Mr.  Preston,  he  in  turn  selling  out  in  1898  to 
Mr.  Cruickshank,  who,  upon  coming  into  the  ownership  of  the  business 
at  No.  67  Central  street,  began  specializing  in  ice  cream,  and  soon 
became  well  known  for  the  excellence  of  his  frozen  dainties.  In  1913 
he  moved  to  No.  19  Arch  street,  which  place  he  has  rebuilt  to  suit  the 
demands  of  his  business.  He  has  built  up  a  large  trade  in  an  exten- 
sive territory,  and  has  made  a  great  success  of  his  business  venture. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  Ancient  York  Lodge, 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 

Mr.  Cruickshank  married,  ;it  Von  Covington.  New  York,  June  15, 
1892,  Elizabeth  Robb,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  two  children,  both 


268  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

born  in  Lowell :  Eva  Jeanette.  married  George  A.  Wood,  manager  of 
the  Marion  Stndio,  Lowell  and  has  a  daughter,  June  Elizabeth  ;  Alex- 
ander M.,  now  with  the  American  Expeditionary  Forces  in  France, 
serving  with  the  Three  Hundred  and  Seventeenth  Field  Signal  Bat- 
talion, United  States  Signal  Cor])s.  The  following  citation  refers  to 
the  glorious  part  taken  by  the  Three  Hundred  and  Seventeenth  Field 
Signal  Battalion  with  which  Alexander  M.  Cruickshank  is  serving: 

HEADQUARTERS   FIFTH    CORFS. 
First  Army, 
American  E.  F. 
General  Order  No.  26.  hTance.  Novemlier  29,  iijiS. 

The  following  citations  are  .-mndunced  : 

The  .^[/th  l-'icld  Signal  Battali.  in,  wiici.  without  rest  or  relief, 
maintained  liaison  and  communications  with  twelve  combat  divisions 
on  duty  at  various  times  with  this  corps,  who  carried  in  anticipation 
their  lines  of  communications  to  the  front  line,  under  artillery  and 
small  arms  fire  and  through  gassed  areas,  during  the  period  from  Sep- 
tember 20th  to  November  nth,  at  which  date  an  armistice  was  de- 
clared. 

Official:  (Signed)      C.  P.  SUAIMERALL, 

HARRY  G.  KAEFRIXG,  Major-General, 

Adjutant-General.  Commanding. 


RICHARD   SHERIDAN   DONOGHUE. 

A  man  of  quiet  manner  and  most  excellent  business  quality, 
Richard  S.  Donoghue  had  but  two  great  interests  in  life,  his  home  and 
his  business.  His  home  was  made  beautiful  and  attractive  by  the  love 
and  devotion  of  his  family,  and  his  business  brought  him  a  fortune. 
He  had  a  great  love  for  nature,  ami  twd  of  his  pet  hobbies  were  the 
pressing  of  leaves  and  flowers,  ami  the  cnllcction  of  foreign  postage 
stamps.  By  the  means  of  his  flower  pressing  be  kept  a  calendar  of  the 
important  events  of  his  life,  and  his  cdllcctinn  of  mementoes,  manj^  of 
them  of  a  sentimental  nature,  was  \ery  large.  As  a  pharmacist  he 
ranked  very  high,  holding  the  absdliiti-  ccmlidence  of  the  medical  pro- 
fession.   He  was  a  son  of  Patrick  and  Margaret  (Sheridan)  Donoghue. 

Patrick  Donoghue  was  born  in  Cork,  Ireland,  and  there  spent  his 
life,  corning  to  the  United  States  when  a  young  man,  and  locating 
in  Lowell.  Shortly  after  arriving  in  Lowell  he  entered  the  employ 
of  the  Lowell  (ias  Company,  becoiuing  one  of  the  company's  engi- 
neers, wcirkiug  his  way  up  from  the  b.itti'm,  lie  omlirriceil  every 
opportunity  to  improve  his  positi<jn,  :in(l  linally  secured  an  engineer's 
certificate,  continuing  in  the  gas  company's  employ  ioTty  years.  He 
married  Margaret  Sheridan,  also  born  in  Ireland,  but  a  resident  of 
Lowell    from    childhood.      She    died    in    Dorchester,    Massachusetts. 


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November  11,  1916.  Patrick  Donoghue  died  in  Lowell,  Sei)tember 
15-  1^97-  They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children,  all  born  in  Lowell, 
two  now  living:  Josephine,  wife  of  Frank  J.  Hurley,  a  post  office 
employee  of  Boston  ;  Theresa,  wife  of  James  J.  Donigan.  a  contractor 
of  Boston. 

Richard  S.  Donoghue  was  born  in  Lowell.  Massachusetts,  Novem- 
ber 7,  1865,  died  in  the  city  of  his  birth  February  i,  19 19.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell,  finishing  in  high  school. 
While  a  schoolboy  he  sold  newspapers  on  the  street,  but  later  he 
became  a  clerk  at  a  drug  store  soda  fountain,  where  his  ambition  was 
stirred  to  become  a  druggist.  He  fitted  himself  for  the  study  of 
pharmacy  and  later  entered  Massachusetts  College  of  Pharmacy, 
whence  he  was  graduated  Ph.  G.,  class  of  1889.  His  first  position  as 
a  prescription  clerk  was  with  J.  T.  Brown,  a  pharmacist  of  Boston, 
his  next  with  J.  C.  Bennett,  a  proprietor  of  a  large  drug  store  on 
Biddeford  street,  Boston.  From  the  Bennett  store  he  went  on  the 
road  for  an  ink  manufacturing  company,  then  returned  to  his  pro- 
fession as  chief  clerk  in  a  large  drug  store,  corner  of  Charles  and 
Chestnut  streets,  Boston.  He  remained  there  five  years,  then  for  a 
time  was  employed  in  Wakefield,  Massachusetts,  thence  to  the  drug 
store  of  Frank  O.  Guild,  Boylston  and  Exeter  streets,  Boston.  He 
was  next  in  the  employ  of  Andrew  P.  Preston,  a  druggist  of  Ports- 
mouth, New  Hampshire.  In  1901  Mr.  Donoghue  returned  to  his 
native  Lowell,  obtaining  a  position  in  the  Ellingwood  drug  store, 
corner  of  Merrimack  and  John  streets.  He  continued  an  employee 
until  April  I,  1908,  when  he  purchased  the  business  of  Bailey  &  Com- 
pany, apothecaries,  No.  79  Merrimack  street,  a  business  he  very  suc- 
cessfully conducted  until  his  death,  eleven  years  later. 

The  business  which  Mr.  Donoghue  bought  was  the  oldest  drug 
business  in  Lowell,  and  has  always  been  conducted  as  a  drug  store  of 
the  old  school,  drugs  and  allied  lines  alone  being  handled,  while  the 
principal  business  of  the  store  has  always  been  done  over  the  pre- 
scription cotinter.  that  branch  doing  the  largest  business  of  any  drug 
store  in  the  city.  The  business  was  established  in  1854,  and  is  con- 
tinued by  Mrs.  Donoghue  since  her  husband's  death.  In  politics  Mr. 
Donoghue  was  a  Democrat,  but  he  took  little  part  in  public  life.  He 
was  a  member  of  St.  Margaret's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  the  Knights 
of  Columbus,  the  Washington  and  Mt.  Pleasant  Golf  clubs,  but  his 
business  and  his  home  claimed  his  time  almost  exclusively. 

Mr.  Donoghue  married,  at  Lowell,  September  15,  1896,  Caroline 
Elizabeth  Tufts,  born  in  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire,  but  spent  her 
youth  in  Boston,  coming  to  Lowell  a  young  lady.  She  is  a  daughter 
of  John  and  Abigail  Jane  (Doe)  Tufts.    She  continues  her  residence 


270  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

at  the  old  home.  No.  245  Gibson  street,  with  her  two  children:  Agnes 
Abigail,  a  graduate  of  Lowell  High  School,  now  a  student  at  Burdette 
College,  Boston  ;  and  Richard  Tufts,  a  student  in  the  Lowell  High 
School. 


EDWARD  H.  FOYE. 


In  1910,  under  the  old  city  charter.  Mr.  Foye  was  elected  by  the 
people  as  purchasing  agent  for  the  city  of  Lowell.  This  was  the  last 
time  that  office  was  filled  by  popular  vote,  the  office  being  made  an 
appointive  one  before  his  term  expired.  As  training  for  his  important 
post,  which  involves  the  purchase  annually  of  goods  to  the  value  of 
S350.000,  he  had  been  associated  with  his  father,  and  had  conducted  a 
wholesale  business  under  his  own  name,  selling  that  business  to 
accept  the  position  of  city  purchasing  agent.  He  has  held  the  position 
continuously  since  1916,  although  during  the  past  year  there  have 
been  strenuous  efforts  to  oust  him,  but  his  right  to  perform  the  duties 
of  the  office  has  been  twice  upheld  by  the  Massachusetts  courts,  to 
the  confusion  of  those  opposed  to  him.  Edward  H.  is  a  son  of  Wil- 
liam P.  Fo}e,  born  in  New  York  State,  but  from  childhood  lived  in 
Lowell,  where  he  is  now  leading  a  retired  life,  after  thirty  strenuous 
years  of  business  life  as  a  grain  dealer,  located  on  Market  street.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Hill,  of  Lowell,  they  the  parents  of:  Edward  H., 
of  further  mention  ;  Margaretta,  married  James  P.  Gallagan  :  John  W. ; 
William  P.  (2),  Paul  L..  Arthur  IL.  and  Raymond. 

Edward  H.  Foye.  son  of  William  P.  and  Elizal:>eth  (HilL  Foye, 
was  born  in  Lowell,  October  15,  1880,  and  educated  rn  St.  Michael's 
Parochial  School  and  Lowell  Commercial  College.  For  two  years  after 
leaving  school  he  was  associated  with  his  father  in  the  grain  business, 
there  gaining  an  intimate  knowledge  of  business  methods,  customs, 
and  principles.  I-'mni  his  f;ither's  business  the  young  man  went  to 
his  own  business,  and  until  1910  was  a  successful  dealer  in  paper 
bags,  wrapping  papers  and  kindred  lines,  his  store  located  at  Xo.  14 
Market  street.  Lowell.  This  business  he  sold  in  1910  to  accejit  his 
present  jiositiun.  i)urchasing-  agent  for  the  city  of  Lowell.  He  held  the 
office  until  January  4,  1917,  wdien  he  was  removed  from  office  by  the 
appointing  power,  the  reason  given  being  that  it  was  for  the  "good 
of  the  service."  Mr.  Foye  at  once  counterattacked  through  the  courts, 
and  on  May  28.  1917,  was  reinstated  in  the  office  by  order  of  the 
Massachusetts  Superior  Court.  On  an  appeal  taken  to  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  State,  a  full  bench  sustained  the  findings  of  the  Superior 
Court  ;ind  rcaffinnei!  Mr.  I-oye's  right  to  the  ]iosition.  Under  that 
decision  he  \\as  ag.iin  reinstated,  and  since  January  7,  1918.  has  filled 


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the  office.'  He  was  overseer  of  the  poor  in  iyo6  and  1907,  filling  his 
post  most  acceptably.  Mr.  Foye  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  a  tnembei 
of  St.  Michael's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  of  the  Washington  Club. 
Mr.  Foye  married,  in  Lowell,  June  14,  1904,  Madeline  E.  Keavey  : 
they  the  parents  of :  Elizabeth  Hill,  born  in  September.  1905  ;  Mar- 
garet, born  in  September,  1908;  Eleanor,  born  in  August,  1913:  Rita, 
born  in  April,  1916,  and  Raymond,  born  October  7,  1919. 


FREDERICK  ARTHUR  CHASE. 

Since  1S91  Mr.  Chase  has  been  librarian  of  the  Lowell  Public 
Librar)  .  and  as  such  has  come  into  close  and  intimate  relation  with 
the  jniblic,  particularly  the  reading  and  book-loving  public  He  is  a 
native  son  and  from  }outh  has  resided  in  Lowell ;  is  a  product  of  her 
public  schools  and  her  business  institutions.  His  long  term  of  office 
as  city  librarian,  1891-1919.  is  conclusive  evidence  of  his  ability  and 
fitness  for  the  position  he  holds,  and  under  his  management  the  public 
receives  the  maximum  of  benefit  the  resources  of  the  library  will  per- 
mit. He  is  a  son  of  Charles  Chauncey  and  Martha  Smith  (Cowles) 
Chase,  his  father  for  thirty-eight  years,  until  his  \-oluntary  retirement, 
principal  of  Lowell  High  School. 

Frederick  .Arthur  Chase  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
April  21,  1858,  and  there  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  finishing 
with  graduation  from  high  school.  He  began  his  business  career  as 
clerk  in  the  Central  Savings  Bank,  remaining  in  that  position  until 
1879.  when  he  entered  the  service  of  the  old  Lowell  National  Bank, 
continuing  with  that  institution  ten  years.  He  then  spent  two  years, 
1889-1891,  with  White  Brothers  &  Company,  of  Boston,  after  which 
he  was  inducted  into  his  present  office,  librarian  of  Lowell  Public 
Library.  Mr.  Chase  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of  All 
Souls'  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  the  \"esper  Country  and  the 
Literary  clubs. 

Mr.  Chase  married,  in  Lowell.  June  26.  1899.  Helen  Louise 
Conant.  daughter  of  Charles  Henry  and  Alice  (Wheeler)  Conant.  Mr. 
and  ^Irs.  Chase  are  the  parents  of  a  son.  Richard  Frederick  Chase, 
born  April  25.  1902.  and  a  daughter.  Alice  Louise  Chase,  born  June 
21,  1905. 

This  record  of  father  and  son  in  the  service  of  the  same  city, 
thirt3--eight  years  as  educator  by  the  father  and  twenty-eight  years 
for  the  son  as  city  librarian,  has  perhaps  no  equal  in  civic  annals. 
Moreover,  the  service  of  the  son  still  continues,  and  as  he  is  but  in  the 
full  prime  of  his  intellectual  strength,  many  years  will  yet  be  given  to 
the  service  of  his  native  city. 


2J2  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

THE  LOVEJOY   FAMILY. 

A  twentieth  century  representati\e  of  an  honored  New  England 
family  is  Roy  F.  Lovejoy,  head  of  the  firm,  D.  Lovejoy  &  Son,  manu- 
facturers of  machine  knives  for  machinery  used  in  the  manufacture 
of  leather,  paper,  wood,  and  all  other  machines  which  require  machine 
knives.  This  plant  was  established  by  Daniel  Lovejoy,  in  1848,  in  a 
small  shop,  the  site  (if  which  is  lost  in  the  large  plant  which  covers 
the  original  location  and  the  surrounding  section.  Daniel  Lovejoy 
started  very  humbly,  and  in  the  beginning  welded,  hammered,  and 
tempered,  he  alone  being  the  factory  and  office  force,  skilled  mechan- 
ical department,  executive  head  and  capital  stock.  He  was  the  second 
man  in  the  United  States  to  own  and  operate  a  machine  knife  plant, 
and  when  his  one  rival  sold  out,  a  change  of  the  firm  name  left  Daniel 
Lovejoy  the  first  and  oldest  under  one  name.  He  went  from  Hollis, 
New  Hamjishire.  tn  W'c.ircester,  Massachusetts,  after  learning  all  he 
thought  he  cuuld  in  a  small  country  blacksmith  shop,  making  horse 
shoe  nails  on  the  anvil,  shoeing  horses  and  oxen,  his  ambition  being 
to  become  expert  in  forging  machine  parts.  Probably  no  greater 
expert  existed  than  he  in  his  line,  and  after  working  in  Worcester  for 
perhaps  a  period  of  two  years,  he  came  to  Lowell.  In  Lowell  he  first 
worked  for  his  Ijrother,  Limd  Lovejoy,  a  blacksmith  on  Market  street, 
near  the  present  police  station,  and  soon  after  became  a  partner  in 
the  Inisiness  which  operated  as  L.  &  D.  Lovejoy.  Soon  after,  the  firm 
L.  &  D.  Lovejoy  dissolved  and  he  came  to  the  present  site,  where  he 
started  his  first  small  shop  which  in  1848  he  began  operating  as  a 
machine  knife  plant.  Until  he  was  fifty-four  years  of  age,  he  continued 
the  active  head  uf  the  prosperous  business  he  founded.  He  then 
surrendered  the  burdens  of  the  management  to  his  son,  Elw)-n  \\'. 
Lovejoy,  and  for  thirty-four  years  thereafter,  lived  a  practically  retired 
life  although  in  excellent  health.  Even  when  an  octogenarian,  he 
frequently  visited  the  plant,  retaining  a  keen  interest  in  all  the 
branches  of  the  business. 

(I)  Daniel  Lovejoy  was  a  descendant  of  John  Lovejoy.  the 
fomider  of  the  family  in  New  England,  who  was  born  in  Englanil  in 
1621,  and  died  at  Andover,  Massachusetts,  November  7,  1690.  John 
with  Nicholas  Holt  and  others,  founded  the  first  church  in  Andover 
in  1645.  It  's  thought  that  his  first  landing  was  at  Newbury,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  his  first  place  of  settlement  known  as  Cochichewick. 
He  married  (first)  January  i,  1651,  at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  Mary 
Osgood,  daughter  of  Christopher  and  Mary  (Everett)  Osgood.  Mary 
(Osgood)  Lovejoy  was  born  in  England,  in  April,  1633,  and  died  at 
Andover,  Massachusetts,  July  15,  1675.  He  married  (second)  Novem- 
ber   12,    1676,    Hannah    Pritchard,   who  died   in   Andover,   August    i, 


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1705.  By  his  first  marriage  he  had  twelve  children,  the  eii^hth  o{ 
whum,  Benjamin,  was  killed  during  King  Philip's  War.  His  sixth 
child.  Christopher,  is  the  head  of  the  second  generation. 

(II  j  Christopher  Lovejoy.  son  of  John  Lovejoy  and  his  first  wife, 
Mary  (Osgood)  Lovejoy,  was  born  at  Andover,  Massachusetts, 
March  i,  1661,  and  died  in  1737.  He  married.  May  26,  1685,  at  An- 
dover, Sarah  Russ,  born  February  3.  1668,  daughter  of  John  and 
Deborah  (Osgood)  Russ.  They  were  the  parents  of  eight  children, 
of  whom  Jonathan  was  the  fourth. 

(III)  Jonathan  Lovejoy,  son  of  Christopher  and  Sarah  (Russ) 
Lovejoy,  was  born  at  Andover,  in  1697.  He  married,  December  23, 
1 7 17,  Elizabeth  Phelps,  born  September  6,  1698,  daughter  of  Samuel 
and  Sarah  (Chandler)  Phelps.  They  resided  in  the  west  parish  of 
Dunstable,  afterwards  Hollis,  New  Hampshire.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  a  large  family,  of  which  their  son,  Jonathan  (2),  became  the 
head  of  the  next  generation. 

(IV)  Jonathan  (2)  Lovejoy,  son  of  Jonathan  (i )  and  Elizabeth 
(Phelps)  Lovejoy,  was  born  in  July,  1719.  and  died  in  Hollis,  New 
Hampshire.  He  married  ]Mary  Austin,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and 
Mar}-  (Stevens)  Austin.  They  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children, 
and  three  of  their  sons:  Daniel,  Jonathan  and  .Asa,  served  with  the 
Colonial  forces  during  the  Revolution.  The  line  of  descent  is  through 
the  third  son,  Daniel. 

(V)  Daniel  Lovejoy,  son  of  Jonathan  (2)  and  Alary  (.Austin) 
Lovejoy.  was  born  at  Hollis,  New  Hampshire,  February  25.  1746,  and 
there  died  January  29,  1829.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  serv- 
ing in  1776  in  Captain  Goss's  company  at  Ticonderoga  and  Crown 
Point.  He  married,  at  Hollis,  November  19,  1767,  Sarah  Wyman, 
born  in  1748.  died  in  May,  1831.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children,  all  born  in  Hollis.  This  line  continues  through  the  seventh 
child,  Ralph. 

(VI)  Ralph  Lovejoy,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Wyman  1  Love- 
joy, was  born  January  3,  1788,  and  died  in  his  native  Hollis,  New 
Hampshire.  August  3,  1879.  He  married.  November  21,  181 1,  at 
Mollis,  Abigail  Nabby  Phelps,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary  (Larkin) 
1 'helps,  of  Groton.  She  was  born  in  Hollis,  November  24,  1791,  died 
there  March  30,  1883.  They  were  the  jiarents  of  eleven  children,  of 
whom  Daniel,  the  founder  of  the  business,  D.  Lovejoy  &  Son,  of 
Lowell,  was  the  sixth. 

(VII)  Daniel  (2)  Lovejoy,  son  of  Rali)h  and  Abigail  Nabby 
(Phelps)  Lovejoy,  was  born  at  Hollis,  New  Hampshire,  November 
6,  1823,  and  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  October  31,  19!  i-  He 
married,  November  21,  1847,  at  Westford,  Massachusetts,  Maria  Liv- 


274  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ingston  Richardson,  horn  November  lo,  1826.  at  W'estford,  died  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts.  November  8,  1900.  He  resided  in  Hollis  until 
Alay,  1843,  then  walked  to  Worcester,  and  from  there  moved  to 
Lowell.  Massachusetts,  arriving  in  October,  1845.  1"  Lowell,  he 
fnunilfd  in  an  humble  way  the  business  previously  referred  to.  of 
which  his  grandson.  Roy  P^isk  Lovejoy,  is  the  present  manager. 
Daniel  and  Maria  Livingston  (Richardson)  Lovejoy  were  the  parents 
of  two  children  :  Clarence  Edson,  born  in  Lowell,  January  18,  1849, 
died  in  the  city  of  his  birth,  September  25,  1863  ;  and  Elwyn  Winslow 
Lovejoy,  head  of  the  eighth  American  generation  of  the  family  in  New 
England,  and  his  father's  successor  in  business. 

(N'lII)  l^hvyn  Winslow  Lovejoy,  son  of  and  long  time  partner 
of  Daniel  (2)  Loxx-joy,  and  yet  head  of  the  firm,  D.  Lovejoy  &  Son, 
was  born  in  Lowell,  November  12,  1850,  and  was  educated  in  the 
primary  and  grammar  public  schools.  After  completing  his  studies, 
he  was  at  once  taken  into  his  father's  business,  D.  Lovejoy's  Knife 
Manufactory,  learning  the  business  from  every  angle.  P''or  eleven 
years  prior  to  1879,  he  was  traveling  salesman,  but  the  business 
increased  so  much  that  Daniel  Lovejoy  called  in  his  son  and  placed 
him  in  charge  of  the  plant.  This  was  in  1879,  and  until  1916  Elwyn 
Winslow  Lovejoy  was  the  managing  head.  He  then  gave  over  the 
management  to  his  son,  Roy  F.,  and  as  he  is  still  vigorous  and  active 
gets  much  pleasure  out  of  life  ;  hunting  and  trap  shooting  still  have 
a  great  attraction  for  him.  He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  Highland 
Club,  and  of  the  club  now  known  as  the  Vesper  Country  Club.  He 
has  served  as  overseer  of  the  poor,  councilman  for  two  years,  alderman 
two  years,  and  as  chairman  of  the  board  the  last  year.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican in  politics,  a  member  of  Masonic  bodies,  interested  in  public 
affairs,  a  good  citizen,  and  an  able  business  man.  He  married,  in 
Lowell.  September  13,  1876,  Cora  Zeanette  Silver,  daughter  of  Orrin 
Buckley  and  Matilda  (Filmcire)  Silver;  her  father  was  a  contractor  at 
the  Lowell  Machine  Shop.  Air.  .md  Mrs.  F.lwyn  W.  Lovejoy  are  the 
parents  of  a  son,  Roy  ¥.,  of  further  mention  :  their  first  born,  Guy, 
born  in  Lowell,  November  18,  1880,  died  Alarch  29,  1881. 

There  are  some  interesting  facts  concerning  the  Lovejoy  plant, 
one  of  Lowell's  olden  time  industries,  and  one  of  its  twentieth  century 
successes.  Since  the  plant  was  started  in  1848,  it  has  seldom  known  a 
man  to  be  discharged  for  lack  of  work,  although  in  1873  it  was  run  on 
three-quarter  time  f<  >r  four  weeks,  but  with  that  exception,  nearl_\-  full 
time  has  been  the  rule  mi  every  working  day  of  the  year.  The  long 
term  of  service  |jre\  ailing  in  the  plant  is  another  feature,  of  which 
good  pay.  comfortable  working  conditions,  and  steady  employment 
coniriijute  to  the  result,      lilwyn  W.   Lovejoy  came  into  the  business 


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as  a  bo}'.  He  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  every  process  of  manu- 
facture employed  in  the  plant,  and  can,  at  any  time  he  chooses,  fill 
the  place  of  any  skilled  workman.  At  one  time  it  was  no  unusual 
sight  to  see  the  three  generations  of  Lovejoys  at  the  plant,  Daniel, 
the  founder,  Elwyn  \V.,  the  active,  efficient  head,  and  Roy  F.,  the 
grandson,  just  coming  into  manhood  and  into  an  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness. The  product  of  this  plant  is  well  known  in  the  market,  and 
upon  every  knife  that  is  sent  out  the  firm  name  is  cut.  This  is  a  matter 
of  pride,  for  "Lovejoy"  means  quality.  Some  operations  are  secret, 
but  the  great  secret  of  the  plant  is  no  secret  at  all,  but  the  well  known 
fact  that  perfect  raw  material  is  supplied  to  skilled  workmen  and  a 
perfect  product  results.  The  Lovejoy  management  and  ownership 
have  prevailed  seventy-four  years,  and  is  divided  into  three  periods : 
Daniel  Lovejoy,  founder  and  head,  1848-1879;  Elwyn  W.  Lovejo)-, 
assistant  until  1879,  active  head  until  1916,  and  yet  an  interested  mem- 
ber:  Roy  F.  Lovejoy,  assistant,  1908  until  1916,  and  active  manager 
since  that  date.  It  is  a  Lovejoy  characteristic  to  retire  from  business 
while  able  to  enjoy  the  leisure  the  industry  has  won  them.  Elwyn  W. 
Lovejoy,  in  imitation  of  his  father,  is  now  enjoying  the  sports  and 
pleasures  that  appeal  to  him,  and  trusts  to  those  whom  he  has  trained 
in  the  Lovejoy  methods  to  administer  rightfully  their  trust.  In  191 7 
he  bought  a  fine  farm  of  two  hundred  acres  at  Loudon,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  there  he  now  resides.  He  conducts  a  high  grade  stock 
farm,  and  every  department  of  the  farm  is  operated  in  accordance  with 
the  preference  of  its  owner  for  the  best  of  everything. 

(IX)  Roy  F.  Lovejoy,  grandson  of  Daniel  (2)  Lovejoy,  and  son 
of  Elwyn  W.  and  Cora  Z.  (Silver)  Lovejoy,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Mas- 
sachusetts, September  11,  1882.  He  passed  through  the  grade  and 
public  schools  of  the  city,  then  entered  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  whence  he  was  graduated  Bachelor  of  Science,  class  of  1905. 
After  post-graduate  courses  in  finance  and  accounting  at  Burdette's 
Business  College,  Boston,  he  entered  the  Lovejoy  plant  at  Lowell,  and 
in  the  various  departments  gained  that  complete  mastery  of  manu- 
facturing detail  which  qualifies  him  for  the  managerial  position  he  so 
ably  fills,  the  third  in  direct  line  to  manage  the  business. 

Roy  F.  Lovejoy  married  Andrea  Natalie  Friedrichs,  of  New 
Orleans,  Louisiana,  July  18,  1913-  He  is  a  member  of  Delta  Chapter, 
Theta  Xi  Fraternity;  the  Vesper  and  Highland  clubs;  and  although 
his  business  cares  are  weighty,  he  enjoys  motoring  and  golf  in  his 
leisure  hours.  He  is  earning  the  right  to  retire  and,  like  his  father,  is 
a  good  sportsman  and  will  enjoy  his  turn  when  it  comes.  The  Lovejo\' 
plant  at  Lowell  is  a  large  and  modern  one,  and  its  specialty  is  machine 


276  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

knives.  The  firm  also  operates  a  similar  but  much  larger  plant  at 
Anderson.  Indiana.  The  Lovejoy  claim  is  "superior  temper,  uniform 
quality,  excellent  finish,  and  every  knife  guaranteed." 


EDWARD   GASTON  CAMPBELL. 

A  Canadian  by  birth.  Air.  Campbell,  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Lowell  and  a  technical  institution  of  this  city,  is  associated  with 
the  life  of  Lowell  through  many  ties,  business,  financial,  and  social. 
He  is  a  son  of  Charles  and  Emma  Campbell,  his  father  engaged  in 
real  estate  operations  throughout  his  active  years. 

E.  Gaston  Campbell  was  Ixirn  in  iMontieal,  Canada,  in  1891,  and 
obtained  his  education  in  the  \'arnum  School  and  the  Lowell  High 
School,  completing  his  studies  in  the  Lowell  Textile  School.  He  was 
employed  for  a  time  as  draughtsman,  then  entered  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  field,  and  conducted  an  auctioneering  business  of  consid- 
erable size.  He  has  acquired  numerous  and  important  business  in- 
terests, and  is  now  (1919)  pre^ident  of  the  United  Lumber  Company, 
president  of  the  Economy  Rug  Works,  president  of  the  Old  Dominion 
Title  and  Conveyancing  Company,  and  president  of  the  "Campbell 
Inks"  Company.  Mr.  Campbell  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
Merrimack  Valley  National  Farm  Loan  Association,  formed  under 
the  provisions  of  the  Federal  Farm  Loan  Act,  and  is  the  present  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  that  institution.  Mr.  Campbell  is  a  director  of 
the  Lafayette  Club,  which  he  also  serves  as  treasurer,  and  belongs  to 
the  Genoa  Club  and  the  Yotmg  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Lowell. 
He  is  widely  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  district,  has  been 
mentioned  for  senatorial  nomination,  a  distinction  he  declined.  He  is 
fine  of  the  progressive  business  men  of  the  city,  his  own  interests 
instruments  in  the  develo]jnient  of  the  resources  of  the  region,  and  is 
a  de])endable  factor  in  lucal  movements  of  civic  Ijetterment. 

Afr.  Cam])bell  married,  in  Lowell,  in  1919,  Idola  Du  Ray. 


WALTER  HENRY  HOWE. 

Of  New  England  birth,  and  a  graduate  of  her  scliools,  Mr.  Howe 
has  spent  his  active  life  in  New  England,  a  resident  from  boyhood  of 
the  city  of  Lowell,  where  he  is  associated  with  several  business  enter- 
prises. He  is  a  son  of  ]lenr\-  Chadwick  and  Sarah  Fanny  ( 1  ludson) 
Howe,  and  grandsnn  of  John  Swain  Howe.  John  Swain  Howe  was 
horn  in  Harrington,  New  Hampshire,  March  7,  1802,  and  died  in 
I'.oston,  August  I,  1879.  He  was  a  farmer  throughout  the  greater  part 
of  his  life,  and  was  the  father  of:   Henrv  Chadwick.  of  whom  further; 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  277 

John  F.,  Charles  Emerson,  Albert,  \\'illiam,  Elmira,  Xancy,  Lydia, 
and  Mary. 

Henr)'  Chadwick  Howe,  son  of  John  Swain  Howe,  was  born  in 
Harrington,  New  Hampshire,  December  16,  1822,  died  in  Lowell,  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1898.  He  became  a  lumber  dealer  and  contractor  of  Lowell, 
as  was  also  his  brother  John  F.  Howe,  and  was  a  successful  and  pros- 
I)erous  business  man,  and,  as  a  Republican,  was  elected  to  public  offices, 
including  those  of  common  councilman  and  alderman.  He  was  an 
attendant  of  the  Kirk  Street  Congregational  Church  and  a  citizen  of 
high  standing  in  his  community.  He  married,  in  Lowell,  December 
15,  1853,  Sarah  Fanny  Hudson,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sarah  (Darl- 
ing) Hudson,  who  was  born  in  Richmond,  New  Hampshire,  February 
19,  1831,  died  April  8,  1901.  They  were  the  parents  of:  Nellie  Frances, 
born  November  26,  1855,  died  July  31,  1901  ;  Annie  Hudson,  born  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1862,  died  April  23,  1889 ;  Walter  Henry,  of  whom  further ; 
Bertha  Leslie,  born  December  24,  1873. 

Walter  Henry  Howe  was  born  in  Lowell,  June  6,  1864,  and  after 
attending  the  Edson  Grammar  School  and  the  Lowell  High  School,  of 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  entered  Harvard  University,  whence  he  was 
graduated  A.  B.,  in  the  class  of  1886.  From  1889  to  1893  he  was 
associated  with  the  firm  of  Howe  Brothers  &  Company  in  lumber 
dealing,  and  since  the  death  of  his  father  he  has  been  principally 
engaged  in  the  management  of  the  property  of  the  elder  Howe  and 
other  estates  held  in  the  family  name.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Lowell 
Hosiery  Company,  a  director  of  the  Traders'  and  Mechanics'  Insur- 
ance Company,  and  a  trustee  of  the  Merrimack  River  Savings  Bank. 
He  was  formerly  a  director  of  the  Wamesit  National  Bank. 

From  1891  to  1894  Mr.  Howe  was  a  private  in  the  First  Corps  of 
Cadets  of  Boston,  and  from  June  14,  1917,  to  June  14,  1919,  was  a 
private  in  Company  G,  of  the  Sixteenth  Regiment,  ^Massachusetts 
National  Guard.  He  is  a  member  of  the  "V^esper  Club,  the  Long- 
meadow  Golf  Club,  and  the  Yorick  Club,  of  Lowell,  and  the  Harvard 
Club  and  the  St.  Botolph  Club,  of  Boston.  He  is  an  attendant  of  the 
Kirk  Street  Congregational  Church.  Mr.  Howe  has  wide  acquaint- 
ance in  Lowell,  business  and  social,  and  is  an  interested  participant 
in  all  movements  of  civic  progress  and  betterment. 


WILLIAM   KENDALL  FAIRBANKS. 

At  the  early  age  of  thirty-six  years,  Mr.  Fairbanks  ended  a  most 
promising  career  as  mill  official  and  business  man.  He  literally 
"died  in  the  harness,''  and  it  is  to  his  energy  and  indomitable  spirit 
that   the   early   breakdown   of  his  physical   powers   may  be   ascribed. 


278  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

He  gave  himself  unreservedly  to  the  uiibuildiiig  of  the  Lowell  plant  of 
the  Bigelow  Carpet  Company,  of  which  he  was  agent,  and  to  his 
genius  is  due  the  great  power  plant  which  he  built  and  harnessed  to 
the  looms  of  the  company-  He  came  by  his  unusual  business  ability 
through  inheritance,  his  father,  Charles  Francis  Fairbanks,  a  man  of 
keen,  well-balanced  mind,  clear  judgment  and  exceptional  qualities  as 
a  financier.  Back  of  these  two  men  was  Henry  Parker  Fairbanks, 
father  of  Charles  Francis  Fairbanks,  he  a  saddlery  hardware  merchant 
of  Boston,  president  of  the  Charlestown  Common  Council,  and  a  man 
of  great  prominence  in  his  day.  .\nd  he  was  a  son  of  Stej)hen  Fair- 
l)anks,  even  more  prominent  in  his  day  than  his  son  was  in  his  life- 
time. The  Fairbanks  family  was  founded  in  New  England  by  Jona- 
than Fairebanke,  who  came  from  England  to  Boston  in  1633.  From 
Jonathan  Fairebanke  spring  nearly  all  of  the  name  Fairbank  or  Fair- 
l)anks  in  the  Lhiited  States.  His  name  in  the  recijrds  is  written  in 
about  every  way  that  the  letters  can  be  emi)ki_\ed,  but  the  common 
spelling  is  Fairbanks  and  that  form  will  be  used. 

(I)  Jonathan  Fairbanks  came  from  Sowerby,  in  the  West  Riding 
of  Yorkshire,  England,  to  Boston  in  the  year  1633,  and  in  1636  settled 
in  Dedham,  wdiere  he  built  the  noted  "Old  Fairbanks  House."  wdiich  is 
still  standing,  the  oldest  in  New  England,  which  for  the  same  period 
of  time  has  been  continuously  owned  and  occupied  by  the  builder  and 
his  lineal  descendants.  He  acquired  considerable  property  in  Ded- 
ham, was  admitted  a  townsman  and  signed  the  Covenant  in  1654,  and 
there  died  December  5,  1668.  He  married  Grace  Lee,  their  children 
all  Iiorn  in   England.     Tlie  line  of  descent  is  through  their  oldest  son, 

(II)  John  Fairbanks  was  born  in  England  and  lirought  to  New 
England  l)y  his  jiarents  in  1633.  He  lived  in  Dedham  from  the  year 
1636  until  his  death,  November  13,  1684,  his  father  bequeathing  him 
the  Dedham  homestead.  He  married,  "the  sixteenth  of  the  first  month, 
1641,"  Sarah  Fiske,  who  died  September  26,  1683.  He  was  succeeded 
by  his  son,  Deacon  Joseph. 

(HI)  Deacon  Joseph  Fairbanks  was  born  in  Dedham,  "tenth  of 
the  third  month,  1656,"  died  June  14,  1734.  He  was  made  a  freeman 
in  May,  1678,  was  a  deacon  of  the  church  for  many  years,  and  a  man  of 
influence.     He  luarried  Dorcas ,  who  died  January  (),  1738. 

(I\')  Joseph  (J)  l''airbanks.  son  of  Deacon  Joseph  and  Dorcas 
I'"airhanks,  was  born  in  Dedham,  April  26,  1687,  died  about  1754.  He 
niarrii-d,  May  3.  1716.  Abigail  Deane,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah 
Deane. 

(\')  Isr.iel  Fairbanks,  son  of  Joseph  (2)  and  Abigail  (Deane) 
F'airbanks,  was  l)orn  in  the  "Old  Fairbanks  Home"  March  28,  1723, 


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died  in  Dedham,  February  25,  1804.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, serving  as  corporal  in  Captain  George  Gould's  company  of  "min- 
ute men,"  fought  at  Lexington,  April  19,  1775,  and  saw  service  at  other 
times  during  the  fight  for  liberty.  He  married.  May  30,  1751,  Eliza- 
beth Whiting,  who  died  December  13,  1788. 

(\'I)  Israel  (2)  Fairbanks,  son  of  Israel  and  Elizabeth  (Whiting) 
Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Dedham,  January  10,  1755,  died  September  16, 
1818.  He  was  a  "minute  man,"  marching  on  the  Lexington  Alarm, 
and  saw  other  service  during  the  war.  About  the  year  1800  he  moved 
with  his  younger  children  to  Francistown,  New  Hampshire.  He  mar- 
ried (first)  November  4,  1779,  Anna  Buckman.  Their  first  child, 
Stephen,  died  in  infancy,  their  second  son  also  being  named  Stephen, 
the  line  of  descent  being  through  him. 

(\'II)  Stephen  Fairbanks,  son  of  Israel  (2)  and  Anna  (Buckman) 
Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Dedham,  Massachusetts,  February  5,  1784, 
died  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  September  10,  1866.  W'hen  about  fif- 
teen years  of  age,  his  father  moved  to  Francestown,  New  Hampshire, 
Stephen  remaining  in  Boston,  where  he  learned  the  trade  of  harness- 
maker  and  saddler.  On  arriving  at  legal  age  he  engaged  in  business 
for  himself,  but  soon  relinquished  his  trade  to  engage  in  the  hardware 
business,  continuing  very  successfully  until  1846.  In  that  year  he  was 
chosen  a  director  of  the  Western  Railway  Corporation  (now  Boston 
and  Albany),  was  elected  treasurer  in  1846,  an  office  he  held  until  his 
death,  in  1866.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Boston  School  Committee; 
member  of  both  houses  of  the'  Massachusetts  Legislature ;  president 
of  the  Massachusetts  Temperance  Society ;  trustee  of  the  Asylum  for 
the  Blind ;  treasurer  for  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel 
among  the  Indians  and  others  in  North  America ;  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  Charitable  Mechanics'  Association  and  for  several 
years  its  president,  and  was  an  active  member  of  many  of  the  phil- 
anthropic and  charitable  institutions  of  Boston,  giving  freely  of  his 
wealth  and  time  to  their  support.  He  married,  November  27,  1807, 
Abby  Parker,  daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  Parker,  of  the  United 
States  navy. 

(Vni)  Henry  P.  Fairbanks,  son  of  Stephen  and  Abby  (Parker) 
Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Boston,  September  7,  1808,  died  February  14, 
1854.  He  was  a  hardware  merchant  of  the  city  of  Boston,  inheriting 
his  father's  business  and  emulating  him  in  his  good  works.  He  was  a 
member  and  president  of  the  Charlestown  Common  Council,  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Charitable  Mechanics'  A.ssociation  ;  member  of 
Harvard  Church  and  chairman  of  the  standing  committee  from  1841 
until  his  death.  He  was  prominent  in  many  societies  and  organiza- 
tions of  city  and  State,  abounding  in  good  works  and  greatly  esteemed. 
He  married,  August  7,  1832,  Mary  Hurd  Skinner, 


28o  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

(JX)  Charles  Francis  Fairbanks,  son  of  Henry  Parker  and  Mary 
Hurd  (Skinner)  Fairbanks,  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Massachusetts, 
September  25,  1843,  '^''t'd  in  Alilton,  Massachusetts,  in  March,  1914. 
He  possessed  the  rare  business  quahty  which  distinguished  his  grand- 
father and  father,  and  during  his  hfetime  was  connected  with  many  of 
the  large  manufacturing  corporations.  He  was  particularly  gifted  as 
a  financier  and  served  many  corporations  as  treasurer.  To  his  wise 
guidance  of  their  financial  afifairs  many  of  these  owe  their  very  exist- 
ance  and  to  others  he  was  a  pillar  of  strength.  Among  the  corpora- 
tions whose  finances  he  guarded  as  treasurer  was  the  Bigelow  Carpet 
Company,  and  the  Clinton  Wire  Cloth  Company.  He  was  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Boston,  and  so  highly  was  his 
ability  recognized  that  he  was  called  in  consultation  by  financiers  of 
national  reputation.  He  married,  December  2,  1869,  Julia  Emily 
Missroon,  daughter  of  Cnmniandcr  John  S.  ]Missroon,  of  the  L'nited 
States  navy,  and  his  wife,  Julia  M.  Downs.  They  were  the  parents  of 
si.x  children:  Henry  Barker,  bi.irn  (  )ctober  25,  1870:  Charles  Francis, 
born  February  26,  1872;  William  Kendall,  of  further  mention;  Julia 
Missroon,  l)orn  July  12.  1S77;  ( iertrude,  born  July  2,  1882,  died  in 
infanc}- ;  Ste]:)hen,  born  July  28,  1889. 

(X)  Such  were  the  antcceilents  of  A\'illiam  Kendall  I'airbanks, 
to  wdiose  memory  this  review  of  an  ancient  and  honorable  New  I'-ng- 
land  family  is  dedicated.  Fie  was  born  in  Charlestown,  Massachu- 
setts, October  5,  1875,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  January  29, 
i()ii.  third  son  of  Charles  iM-ancis  and  Julia  M.  (Downs)  Fairbanks. 
William  K.  attended  public  schnnl  in  Bost.Mi.  Hopkins  Academy  and 
Massachusetts  Institute  nf  Technology,  but  did  not  graduate  from  the 
last  named  institutinn.  lie  left  Technology  and  came  to  Lowell, 
where  he  entered  the  emjiluy  of  the  Bigelow  Carpet  Company,  at  the 
bcjttdin  of  the  ladder,  although  his  father  was  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany. I'.ut  he  had  resolved  to  learn  the  business  thoroughly,  and  in 
that  spirit  accejited  a  lowly  position.  He  made  rapid  progress  and 
soon  was  the  able,  valued  assistant  to  Alvin  S.  Lyon,  agent  of  the 
company.  When  Mr.  Lyon  resigned,  Mr.  Frairbanks  was  his  logical 
successor,  and  after  receiving  his  appointment  he  threw  himself  into 
the  duties  of  the  agent's  position  with  all  the  energy  of  his  nature. 
He  began  a  system  of  inipni\enicnt  and  cxj)ansi(>n  at  the  Lowell 
mills,  adding  buildings,  nKU'liiiu-r\  ;uk1  modern  e(|uipinciit.  the  most 
important  being  the  new  and  mcvdernly  equipped  power  house.  His 
health  broke  under  the  burden  of  work  he  imposed  upon  himself,  and 
he  was  in  such  poor  health  for  a  year  that  he  should  have  given  up, 
but  he  continued  at  his  \)os\.  until  a  complete  breakdown  resulted. 

Mr.    l''airb;inks    was   a   menilu'r   of   Kilwinning   Lodge,   I'Tee   and 


BIOGRAPHICAL.  281 

Accepted  Masons:  Mt.  Hureb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  iVIasons;  Ahasu- 
erus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  Pilgrim  Comniandery, 
Knights  Templar ;  Lowell  Lodge  of  Perfection ;  Lowell  Lodge  of  Per- 
fection, Princes  of  Jerusalem;  Mt.  Calvary  Chapter  of  Rose  Croix; 
Massachusetts  Consistory,  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,  holding 
thirty-two  degrees  of  that  rite.  He  was  also  a  member  of  .Aleppo 
Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine ;  his 
clubs,  the  Yorick  and  Vesper  Country.  He  was  a  memlier  of  the 
Lowell  Hoard  of  Trade,  and  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  various  move- 
ments for  Lowell's  advancement.  He  was  a  Republican  in  prilitics, 
and  a  member  of  St.  Ann's  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

^\'illiam  Kendall  Fairbanks  married,  at  Boston,  Xoveml)er  10, 
1902,  Ethel  May  Potter,  born  in  Boston,  daughter  of  John  C.  and 
Christina  (Xeill)  Potter.  John  C.  Potter  born  in  Blackstone,  Massa- 
chusetts, Captain  of  Battery  A,  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Militia  of 
Boston.  He  died  in  that  city  in  March,  1912.  His  wife,  Christina 
(Neill)  Potter,  born  in  Boston,  died  there,  October  2,  1913.  Cajjtain 
John  C.  Potter  was  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Cecilia  (Gifford)  Potter,  of 
Blackstone,  ^Massachusetts.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fairbanks  were  the  par- 
ents of  three  sons,  all  born  in  Lowell:  Charles  Francis  (2),  born  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1905;  William  Kendall  (2),  born  April  13,  1908;  John  Miss- 
roon,  born  January  i,  191 1.  Mrs.  Ethel  May  (Potter)  Fairbanks 
married  (second)  April  25,  1915,  H.  Hutchins  Parker,  of  Lowell. 


GREEN  BROTHERS. 


The  Five  and  Ten  Cent  Store  idea  in  merchandising  has  taken 
firm  hold  on  the  buying  public,  and  all  who  have  entered  that  field 
have  prospered,  providing  they  were  qualified  to  understand  its 
peculiarities,  and  able  to  meet  its  peculiar  demands.  Among  the  men 
who,  thirteen  years  ago,  saw  its  possibilities,  and  qualified  for  admis- 
sion to  the  ranks  of  successful  Five  and  Ten  Cent  merchants,  were  the 
Green  brothers,  Benjamin,  Frank  and  Isadore,  president,  vice-presi- 
dent, and  treasurer  of  the  Green  Brothers  Company.  The  result  of 
their  thirteen  years'  connection  with  the  de])artment  store  business 
conducted  on  the  Five  and  Ten  Cent  Store  plan  is  nine  stores  in  New 
England,  the  first  store  being  started  at  Waterville,  Maine,  followed 
in  succession  by  similar  stores  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts ;  Skowhegan, 
Rockland  and  Portland,  Maine  ;  Manchester,  New  Hampshire  ;  Belfast, 
Maine ;  Burlington,  Vermont ;  and  Boston,  Massachusetts,  the  Hub 
being  the  last  city  invaded.  The  main  offices  of  the  company  are  in 
Lowell,  where  all  correspondence  is  addressed,  although  the  Lowell 
store  has  been  discontinued. 


282  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Isadore  Green,  now  a  successful  merchant  of  New  England,  was 
horn  in  Russian  Poland,  Decemher  20,  18S0,  son  of  Moses  and  Frances 
(Freidman)  Green.  His  mother's  death  occurred  in  Poland,  after 
which  his  father  came  to  the  United  States,  residing  in  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  until  his  death.  Isadore  Green  attended  a  private 
school  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  and  in  1895,  with  his  brother  Benja- 
min, he  came  to  the  United  States,  landing  upon  American  soil  in  New 
York  City.  He  had  two  brothers,  Wolf  and  Frank,  in  Bangor,  Maine, 
engaged  in  the  confectionery  business,  whom  he  soon  joined.  For  two 
years  he  attended  private  school  in  Bangor,  also  mastering  the  English 
language,  acquiring  American  customs  and  assisting  his  brothers  in 
their  store.  In  1898  he  left  Bangor,  and  to  gain  further  experience 
spent  six  months  in  Boston,  employed  in  a  cigar  store.  He  then 
returned  to  Maine,  locating  at  Bar  Harbor,  and  assisted  his  brothers 
in  their  business  for  another  year. 

This  brings  his  career  up  to  the  year  I<X34,  and  the  lieginning  of 
the  business  inaugurated  by  the  Green  Brothers,  Benjamin,  Frank 
and  Isadore,  in  Waterville,  Maine,  the  fourth  brother,  W'olf  Green, 
having  died.  This  store  and  business  was  financed  with  the  brothers' 
own  money,  which  they  had  accumulated  through  economy,  and  repre- 
sented their  years  of  self  denying  industry.  But  the  sacrifice  has 
brought  the  fruitii.m  of  their  hopes,  and  the  sign.  "Green  Brothers." 
was  to  them  a  sign  of  victory.  The  business  was  founded  on  the 
principle  "Nothing  Under  Five.  Nothing  Over  Ten  Cents"  in  price, 
and  was  strictly  adhered  to.  As  prosperity  came  the  Waterville  store 
was  enlarged  and  improved,  the  success  met  with  there  determining 
the  brothers  to  extend  their  stores  to  other  cities.  The  second  store 
was  opened  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  the  third  at  Skowhegan,  Maine. 
The  sign  "Green  Brothers"  has  since  been  erected  in  six  other  New 
England  cities  previously  named,  and  each  store  the  sign  graces  is 
conducted  on  the  same  plan.  Five  and  Ten  Cents,  each  contributing  its 
share  to  the  general  prosperity  of  the  company.  The  Lowell  store 
was  located  at  No.  173  jMerrimack  street  and  is  also  the  main  office. 
As  treasurer,  Isadore  Green  has  the  financial  management  nf  the 
affairs  of  the  company,  and  it  is  a  tribute  to  his  management  that  tlie 
company's  credit  is  high  and  their  commercial  standing  good.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  and  operates  in  real  estate  in 
different  New  England  cities.  He  is  devoted  to  his  business  and  gives 
to  it  his  very  best  endeavor,  but  he  enjoys  life's  social  .side:  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  highly 
esteemed  by  his  many  friends.  He  has  long  been  active  in  the  Young 
Men's  Hebrew  Association,  filling  the  office  of  president  of  the  Lowell 
Association,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  B'nai  Brith. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  283 

;\Ir.  Green  married,  in  Boston,  September,  1912,  Marian  M.  W'ol- 
per,  of  that  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Green  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter. 
Phyllis,  and  a  son,  Milton  Green. 

Benjamin  Green,  whose  career,  as  shown  in  the  foregoing  para- 
graphs, so  closely  parallels  that  of  his  brother,  Isadora,  is  president 
of  the  firm  of  Green  Brothers,  the  capable  director  of  its  extensive 
operations.  He  has  remained  in  close  touch  with  every  branch  and 
department  of  their  business  and  has  labored  diligently  in  promoting 
the  success  of  their  various  enterprises.  Accurate  knowledge  of  the 
principles  of  the  five  and  ten  cent  store,  and  business  acumen  of 
unusual  keenness,  have  played  an  important  part  in  the  success  of  this 
firm,  but  the  real  keynote  is  found  in  their  unflagging  industry  and 
devotion  to  business,  in  which  Benjamin  Green  has  set  a  worthy 
example.  Benjamin  Green  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks,  of  Waterville,  Maine,  and  the  Knights  of 
Pythias  of  Bar  Harbor.  Maine.  He  married  Rena  Schreibman,  of 
Salem.  Massachusetts. 


DANIEL  THOMAS  SULLIVAN. 

A  native  son  of  Lowell,  Daniel  T.  Sullivan  has  all  his  mature 
years  been  identified  with  the  business  interests  of  the  city,  and  is  now 
a  well  known  and  prosperous  dealer  in  coal  and  mason's  supplies.  He 
is  a  son  of  Dennis  A.  and  Margaret  R.  (Martin)  Sullivan,  his  father 
an  old  resident  of  the  city  of  Lowell,  having  settled  there  in  1846,  and 
for  over  fifty  years  was  active  in  the  management  of  the  Belvidere 
Woolen  Company. 

Daniel  T.  Sullivan  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 2,  1866,  and  there  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  com- 
mercial college.  He  early  became  interested  in  mercantile  life,  and 
from  a  clerkship  branched  out  as  a  member  of  the  firm,  Rourke  & 
Sullivan,  of  Lowell,  he  continuing  the  business  of  that  firm  for  him- 
self in  Lowell,  and  since  1899  has  been  head  of  the  firm,  D.  T.  Sullivan, 
dealers  in  coal  and  mason's  supplies,  his  successful  management  of 
that  business  still  continuing.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Lowell  Trust 
Company,  and  a  man  highly  regarded  in  business  circles.  He  was  at 
one  time  a  member  of  Dolben  &  Sullivan,  manufacturing  agents  of 
Boston.  In  social  and  fraternal  circles  he  is  equally  well  known  and 
esteemed,  being  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks,  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Royal  Arcanum,  Washington  Club, 
.\lpine  Club,  and  in  religious  faith  is  connected  with  the  Church  of  the 
Immaculate  Conception  of  the  Roman  Catholic  faith. 

Mr.   Sullivan   married,   in    Lowell,   June    18.    191 1.    Etta    Frances 


284  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Dempsey,  daughter  of  Timothy  J.  and  Mary  C.  Dempsey.  ^Ir.  and 
Mrs.  Sullivan  are  the  parents  of  four  children:  Daniel  Thomas,  Jr., 
Marv  D.,  Marsraret  M.,  and  Etta  F. 


ALBERT  GARDNER  THOMPSON. 

While  probably  ^Massachusetts  had  no  stronger  nor  more  influ- 
ential politician  than  Albert  G.  Thompson,  postmaster  of  the  city  of 
Lowell  at  the  time  of  his  death,  it  was  his  many  manly  traits  of  char- 
acter, his  generous,  sympathetic  heart  that  endeared  him  to  his  fellow 
townsmen  to  an  extent  hard  to  realize  unless  one  came  himself  within 
the  circle  of  his  influence. 

The  public  display  of  grief  at  his  funeral  was  most  impressive, 
the  very  large  attendance,  the  many  delegatii  jus  fr(jm  lodges  and 
organizations,  the  large  body  of  post  office  cnipl'i\  n^.  all  sjjoke  elo- 
quently of  the  sorrow  felt  over  the  loss  of  their  rliici",  their  neighbor, 
and  their  friend.  Albert  G.  Thompson  was  a  sun  of  Nathaniel  and 
Rebecca  ( Chadbourne)  Thompson,  his  father  for  many  years  a 
.armer  of  South  Berwick,  Maine. 

.\lbert  Gardner  Thompson  was  born  at  South  Berwick.  Maine, 
Octolier  2.  1S52,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  I^ebruary  5,  191 1.  He 
spent  his  early  life  at  the  home  farm  at  South  Berwick,  obtaining  a 
good  education  in  the  district  school  and  in  South  Berwick  Academy. 
He  remained  at  the  home  farm  as  his  father's  assistant,  also  working 
in  the  nearby  lumber  camps  during  the  winter  months.  In  1872  he 
same  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  secured  a  clerk's  position  with 
A.  A.  Laughton,  who  was  proprietor  of  a  provision  store  at  the  corner 
of  High  and  I'^ast  Merrimack  streets.  He  became  a  valuable  man  to 
the  business  and  in  a  few  years  procured  a  half  interest  in  the  busi- 
ness, which  was  successfully  continued  for  many  years  under  the 
firm  name  of  Laughton  &  Thompson.  Finally,  Mr.  Thompson  became 
sole  owner  of  the  business,  which  he  continued  under  the  name  of 
A.  G.  Thompson,  continuing  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century  before 
retiring  in  1897.  He  was  a  good  business  man,  just  and  fair  in  his 
treatment  of^all,  and  most  scrupulous  in  his  business  dealings. 

Mr.  Thompson  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Lowell  was  con- 
spicuously in  the  public  eye,  and  developed  the  highest  qualities  of 
political  leadership  without  anything  savoring  of  the  "boss"  or  "dic- 
tator." His  success  as  a  business  man  and  his  interests  as  well  as  his 
thorough  comprehension  of  civic  affairs  early  marked  him  for  political 
])referment.  I'.eginning  in  1881  with  his  election  to  the  Common 
Council,  f(ill(.\ve(l  by  reelection  in  1882,  he  was  continuously  in  the 
service  ni  the  public,  serving  on  the  State  Legislature  in   1887  and 


7i,  (15.  Cliompson 


BIOGRAPHICAL  285 

1888;  for  ten  years  a  member  of  the  school  committee  between  1S89- 
1903  :  two  years  chairman  of  the  Republican  City  Committee,  devot- 
ing- much  of  his  time  to  this  last  position,  and  through  the  organization 
giving  to  the  cause  of  good  government  the  best  that  his  years  of 
experience  and  wisdom  afforded.  According  to  the  prevailing  custom 
he  was  elected  Lowell's  representative  on  the  Republican  State  Cen- 
tral Committee,  and  in  that  body  he  was  an  important  figure  for 
several  years.  In  1897  he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  Lowell  by 
President  McKinley,  and  at  once  he  retired  from  business,  and  there- 
after devoted  his  time  exclusively  to  his  duties  as  postmaster.  He  was 
continued  in  office  by  Presidents  Roosevelt  and  Taft.  and  was  serving 
his  fourth  term  when  his  final  summons  came.  His  record  as  post- 
master was  one  of  efficiency,  and  he  endeared  himself  to  every  member 
of  the  large  force  under  him. 

He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  in  1886;  and  as  fast  as  eligible  became  a  member  of  all  bodies 
of  both  the  York  and  Scottish  Rites,  holding  the  thirty-second  degree 
of  the  last  named  rite.  He  was  a  member  of  other  organizations : 
\"erilas  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows ;  Lowell  Lodge, 
No.  24,  Knights  of  Pythias;  Lowell  Lodge,  No.  87,  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks;  Lowell  Lodge,  No.  22,  Ancient  Order 
United  Workmen ;'  the  Massachusetts  Postmasters'  Association  ;  the 
Yorick,  Home  and  Martin  Luther  clubs,  being  a  charter  member  of 
the  Home  Club,  and  especially  active  in  the  Martin  Luther  Club.  He 
was  a  man  of  charming  personality,  making  friends  easily  and  ever 
retaining  them.  Genial  and  most  companionable,  the  name  of  his 
friends  was  legion,  perhaps  no  man  in  Massachusetts  having  a  wider 
acquaintance,  certainly  none  being  better  liked. 

Mr.  Thompson  married,  at  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  March  6, 
1 871,  Susan  Elizabeth  Tarbox,  born  at  Salmon  Falls,  New  Hamp- 
shire, just  across  the  river  from  South  Berwick,  Maine,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Cynthia  (Patch)  Tarbox.  Daniel  Tarbox  was  born  in 
Biddeford,  Maine,  a  textile  mill  man  employed  in  a  special  capacity 
in  the  mills  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  Shapleigh,  Maine,  Salmon 
Falls,  New  Hampshire,  and  other  mill  towns.  He  died  in  Biddeford, 
Maine.  His  wife  was  born  in  Maine  and  died  in  Lowell.  Mrs. 
Thompson  spent  her  girlhood  in  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  coming  to 
Lowell  a  bride  in  1871.  She  survives  her  husband  and  continues  her 
residence  in  Lowell,  having  two  children,  both  born  in  Lowell :  Fan- 
nie A.,  for  many  years  and  still  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Lowell  City 
Superintendent  of  Public  Schools ;  Perry  D.,  who  is  of  special  mention 
in  following  sketch. 

So  a  useful  life  was  passed,  the  best  of  his  years  being  given  to 
Lowell   and   its  institutions.     He  accomplished  a  great  deal   for  the 


286  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

pul>lic  good  and  he  lives  in  the  hearts  of  his  vast  number  of  true 
friends.  He  sought  his  own  goods  and  whatever  came  to  him  was 
unsolicited.  While  he  never  sought  office,  neither  did  he  shirk  a  plain 
dutv,  l>ut  always  gave  his  best. 


PERRY.  D.  THOMPSON. 


As  mayor  of  L<_)well  during  the  pcrind  of  open  warfare  with 
Germany,  Mayor  Thompson  came  ujion  an  exceptionally  trying  and 
exacting  period,  the  extra  burden  of  the  many  drives  in  furthering  the 
prosecution  of  the  war,  the  great  demand  made  upon  the  hospitality 
of  the  cit}-  through  the  proximity  of  Camp  Devens,  and  the  many 
extra  demands  made  ujjon  the  chief  executive,  that  he  be  a  "strong" 
man,  physically,  mentally,  and  in  every  other  way,  placed  Mr.  Thomp- 
son upon  the  threshold  of  the  successful  administrator  of  the  city's 
aft'airs.  which  he  has  accomplished.  That  the  mayor  was  able  to  meet 
all  demands  made  upon  him  bespeaks  loudly  for  his  ability,  his  patriot- 
ism, and  his  zeal  in  the  performance  of  his  public  duties.  While  many 
days  saw  him  at  his  desk  fifteen  hours  out  of  the  twenty-four,  per- 
sonal business  was  sacrificed  for  the  public  weal ;  he  had  been  elected 
to  serve,  and  regarded  his  service  to  be  "his  bit,"  and  every  demand 
made  upon  him  was  fully  met.  Like  his  honored  father,  he  is  modest 
and  unassuming,  being  strong  in  the  performance  of  duty  and  devoted 
to  the  ])ufilic  good.  He  is  a  son  of  Alljert  (1.  and  Susan  Elizabeth 
(Tarhox)  Thom[)son.  his  father's  life  stor}-  being  recorded  in  this 
work. 

Perry  1),  Thcimpson  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  July  4, 
1874.  He  completed  public  schoril  courses,  finishing  in  high  school, 
Phillips  Andover  Academy,  and  then  was  a  student  at  Boston  Univer- 
sity Law  School,  Ijeing  in  the  class  with  Senator  David  L  Walsh,  of 
Massachusetts.  Being  obliged  to  give  up  the  study  of  law  like  many 
of  the  young  men  of  frugal  means,  he  became  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  provision  business,  continuing  until  1897.  when  he 
became  sole  owner,  his  father  retiring  to  accept  appointment  as  post- 
master of  Lowell.  He  conducted  the  meat  and  provision  business 
until  1899.  He  then  took  up  the  business  which  he  has  ever  since 
conducted  very  successfully,  the  purchasing  of  timber  tracts,  and  con- 
verting the  timber  into  hmiber  for  various  purposes.  He  employs 
portable  saw  mills  and  operates  in  Massachusetts,  Vermont,  New 
Hampshire,  and  other  parts  of  New  England. 

Mayor  Thompson  i^  ,1  Republiran  in  politics,  has  always  held  the 
re.-^pect  and  .-idmiratinn  (if  his  oppmunts  by  his  manly  and  courteous 
mien   :ind  dispnsition.      lie   was  elected  a  member  of  the  school   com- 


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BIOGRAPHICAI.  287 

mittee  in  1913  and  1914.  and  at  the  annual  election  in  1917  was  elected 
niax'or  of  Lowell  to  serve  two  )ears.  While  his  term  has  been  most 
exacting,  he  has  given  the  city  a  strictly  business  administration,  and 
it  is  a  deserved  compliment  to  aver  that  even  his  political  opponents 
commend  it.  He  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  Grace  Uni- 
versalist  Church  ;  vice-president  of  the  Vesper  Country  Club ;  a  mem.- 
ber  of  the  executive  committee  of  the  Yorick  Club ;  member  of  the 
Alasonic  Club,  the  Engineers'  Club,  of  Boston ;  Lowell  Lodge,  Bene- 
volent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  Court  General.  Dimon,  Foresters 
of  America  :  and  in  the  Alasonic  order  he  is  affiliated  with  Kilwinning 
Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason. 

Mayor  Thompson  married,  in  Lowell,  January  6,  1897,  Alice  M. 
Jacques,  daughter  of  Aaron  T.  and  Emma  C.  (Davis)  Jacques;  her 
father  was  a  drygoods  merchant  of  Lowell.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson 
are  the  parents  of  two  children:  i.  Perry  Gardner,  born  in  Lowell, 
July  3,  1898,  educated  in  the  Lowell  public  schools,  Mitchell  Military 
.School,  of  Billerica,  Massachusetts  (three  years),  and  Culver  Military 
Academy,  Culver,  Indiana,  a  school  designated  by  the  United  States 
Government  for  military  training,  whence  he  was  graduated.  After 
courses  at  an  Officer's  Training  School,  he  was  commissioned  lieu- 
tenant and  served  as  supply  officer  at  the  cantonment  of  Camp  Grant, 
Illinois,  during  the  latter  days  of  the  World  War.  2.  Cynthia  Chad- 
bourne  Thompson,  born  October  28,  191 4. 


ANDREW  G.  SWAPP. 


Andrew  G.  Swapp.  who  for  nearly  four  decades  has  been  asso- 
ciated with  the  Lawrence  Manufacturing  Company  of  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  who  is  valued  equally  by  the  community  as  a  successful 
business  man  and  a  public  spirited  citizen,  is  a  native  of  this  place, 
and  a  son  of  Andrew  F.  and  Jane  Swapp,  old  and  greatly  respected 
residents  here.  His  father,  Andrew  F.  Swapp,  was  for  many  years 
engaged  successfully  in  the  manufacture  of  carpets  at  Lowell,  and  was 
regarded  as  one  of  the  substantial  men  of  the  city. 

Andrew  G.  Swapp  was  born  in  Lowell,  December  4,  1859.  and  as 
a  small  boy  began  to  attend  the  local  public  schools.  He  continued  his 
studies  at  these  institutions  until  he  had  passed  through  the  grammar 
grades  and  the  high  school,  and  was  graduated  from  the  latter.  He 
then  sought  employment  and  secured  it  in  a  humble  capacity  with 
H.  Hosford  &  Company  of  this  city,  remaining  with  that  concern  for 
two  years.  He  then  left  the  Hosford  Company  to  enter  the  employ 
of  the  Lawrence  Manufacturing  Company  of  Lowell,  with  which  he 


288  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

has  been  associated  ever  since.  It  was  thirty-eight  years  ago  that  Mr. 
Swapp  first  became  connected  with  this  concern  and  during  the 
period  that  has  since  elapsed  he  has  risen  in  position  until  to-day  he 
holds  the  responsible  post  of  paymaster.  He  is  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  valued  members  of  the  staff  of  this  great  company,  with  the 
business  of  which  he  is  completely  familiar.  In  addition  to  his  busi- 
ness, Mr.  Swapp  has  been  active  in  the  conduct  of  public  aflfairs  and 
especially  in  connection  with  the  matter  of  the  educational  develop- 
ment of  the  city.  He  is  a  staunch  Republican,  and  for  twenty-five 
years  continuously  served  as  a  member  of  the  Lowell  School  Com- 
mittee. He  is  prominent  in  fraternal  and  club  circles  here,  and  is  a 
memljer  of  Kilwinning  Lodge.  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
and  of  the  Vesper,  Country,  and  York  clubs,  all  of  this  city.  In  his 
religious  belief  Air.  Swapp  is  an  Episcopalian  and  attends  St.  Ann's 
Church  of  that  denomination  at  Lowell. 

On  September  15,  1886,  Andrew  G.  Swapp  was  united  in  marriage 
at  Lowell  with  Suphia  L.  Raymond,  a  tlaughter  of  S.  E.  and  Lucretia 
(P.rvanti   Ravni..nd,  nf  Lowell. 


AMEDEE  ARCHAMBAULT. 


.■\s  the  leading  undertaker  of  the  bVench  Cnjuny  in  Lowell.  Mr. 
Archambault  is  reajiing  the  reward  of  a  life  of  intelligent,  well  directed 
energy  which  began  in  Lowell  in  1888.  he  then  a  young  man  of  nine- 
teen with  a  clerk's  experience  only.  It  was  not  until  1806  that  he 
established  the  undertaking  business  to  which  he  admitted  his  sons 
in  1017,  the  firm  now  being  Amedee  Archambault  &  Sons.  Amedee 
Archambault  is  a  son  of  Pierre  and  Louise  (Lapierre)  Archambault  of 
St.  Charles.  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada.  Pierre  Archambault  was 
burn  at  St.  Marc  in  the  same  province,  and  after  completing  his  studies 
learned  the  blacksmith.'s  trade.  This,  however,  he  did  not  long  follow, 
but  abandoned  it  in  faxor  of  farming,  mo\ing  to  St.  Charles,  just 
across  the  river  Richelieu  from  St.  Alarc.  He  became  a  very  prosper- 
ous farmer  of  St.  Charles,  was  mayor  nf  the  town  four  years,  and 
when,  after  a  long  life  of  prosperity  and  honnr.  he  sold  his  farm,  it  was 
to  retire  to  a  contented  oW  age  at  his  birthplace,  St.  Marc,  where  he 
died  in  1896.  He  married  Louise  Lapierre,  born  at  St,  Charles,  where 
she  died.  Three  of  the  four  children  of  Pierre  and  Louise  Archam- 
b.-mlt  arc  li\ing:  \irtaline.  married  Ludger  \'ary,  of  St.  Marc,  still 
living  there;  Lea,  married  .\ll.ert  Caudette.  of  Luwell,  and  they  are 
both  now  deceased;  .Amedee.  of  further  mention;  ami  iuicliile,  a  ranch- 
man of  Alberta,  Canada. 

Amedee  Archambault  was  born  at  St.  Charles,  Province  of  One- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  289 

bee.  Canada,  Alarch  15.  1869,  and  there  began  his  education.  He  next 
pursued  a  three  years'  course  at  Jaccjues  Cartier  Normal  School,  Mon- 
treal, Canada,  following  that  with  a  course  at  Plateau  College,  Mon- 
treal, Canada.  He  did  not  return  to  St.  Charles  after  the  completion 
of  his  commercial  course,  but  secured  a  position  with  Dufresne  & 
Alongenais,  a  wholesale,  retail,  and  importing  grocery  house  of  Mon- 
treal. He  was  employed  first  as  a  clerk,  according  to  the  rules  of  the 
house,  but  his  educational  equipment  was  such  that  it  was  soon  found 
desirable  to  advance  him  to  a  bookkeeper's  desk.  He  remained  with 
this  high  grade  Montreal  house  until  the  earh'  part  of  1888,  then  came 
to  the  United  States,  arriving  June  25,  the  same  year,  after  duly 
resigning  his  position  and  giving  due  notice. 

In  Lowell  the  young  man  found  his  first  position  with  an  under- 
taking firm,  but  that  proved  to  be  a  line  which  suited  him,  and  from 
that  June  day,  over  thirty  years  ago,  he  has  known  no  other  business. 
He  continued  an  employee  for  eight  years,  and  every  possible  dollar 
was  saved  from  his  salary  to  create  a  fund  with  which  to  finance  a 
business  of  his  own.  Finally,  in  1896,  he  decided  "the  fund"  was 
ample,  and  he  began  business  as  an  undertaker  under  his  own  name. 
He  found  a  response  to  his  eftorts,  and  ere  long  he  moved  from  the 
first  small  quarters  to  Nos.  738-740  Merrimack  street,  corner  of 
Decatur,  and  there  filled  up  undertaking  parlors  with  every  modern 
aid  to  the  business  of  caring  for  the  deceased.  In  1917  he  admitted  his 
sons.  Henry  Amedee  and  Dewey  George  Archambault,  to  the  business, 
and  as  Amedee  Archambault  &  Sons  they  are  the  largest  firm  of 
French  undertakers  in  Lowell,  and  rank  with  the  leaders  of  the  busi- 
ness in  the  city.  They  own  the  building  which  they  occupy,  and  the 
founder  can  justly  claim  a  great  deal  of  credit  for  himself  in  the  fact 
that  by  enterprise  and  progressive  methods  he  has  kept  pace  with 
every  advance  in  mortuary  learning,  and  has  compelled  recognition. 
His  equipment  is  of  the  finest,  and  there  is  nothing  that  can  reflect  on 
the  enterprise  or  public  spirit  of  the  present  owners.  Amedee  Arch- 
ambault is  a  Republican  in  politics,  a  member  of  St.  Jean  Baptiste 
(Roman  Catholic)  Church,  Rochambeau  Council,  Royal  Arcanum; 
Loyal  Order  of  Moose;  Court  St.  Antoine,  Catholic  Order  of  Forest- 
ers ;  Court  Samuel  de  Champlain,  Independent  Foresters  of  America ; 
and  St.  Andrew  Canadiens-F'rancais.  He  continues  at  the  head  of  his 
very  large  business,  in  which  he  is  ably  assisted  by  his  sons. 

Mr.  Archambault  married,  in  Lowell,  July  7,  1893,  Rose  Flora 
Mineau,  born  in  Louisville,  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  but  since 
1886  a  resident  of  Lowell,  daughter  of  Delphine  and  Rose  Delima 
(Caron)  Mineau,  of  Canada,  later  of  Lowell,  where  both  died.  ]\lr. 
and  Mrs.  Amadee  Archambault  are  the  parents  of  four  children,  all 

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290  HIS'I'ORY  OF  LOWELL 

born  in  Lowell,  three  of  whom  are  living:  Henry  Amedee,  of  Amedee 
Archambault  &  Son,  undertakers  and  funeral  directors  ;  Dewey  George, 
associated  with  his  father  and  brother  in  the  undertaking  business; 
Rose  Lea,  residing  with  her  parents. 


EARLE  R.  KIMBALL. 


The  common  ancestur  nf  a  great  majority  of  the  Kimballs  of  the 
United  States  was  Richard  Kimball,  who  came  from  England  in  the 
ship  "Elizabeth,"  sailing  from  Ipswich,  April  lo,  1634.  He  was  a 
wheelwright  by  trade,  and  settled  at  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  but 
later  was  induced  to  remove  to  Ipswich.  He  became  one  of  the  prom- 
inent men  of  the  town,  and  there  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He 
married  (first)  Ursala  Scott,  daughter  of  Henry  Scott,  of  Ratllesden, 
in  the  County  of  Suffolk,  England.  She  was  the  mother  of  eleven 
children,  and  from  her  sons  spring  the  eminent  Kimball  family  of 
New  Hampshire.  This  review  deals  with  the  lives  ,.f  two  of  these 
descendants:  Le  Dnit  l'.  Kimball,  and  his  s..n,  I'.arle  R.  Kimball, 
whose  names  since  1878  have  lieen  synonymous  with  the  Lowell  Com- 
mercial College. 

Le  Doit  Ezekiel  Kimball  was  born  in  Grafton,  Xew  llami^shire, 
June  J2.  1854.  and  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  October  15,  1915, 
son  of  Cromwell  and  Susan  (Jacobs)  Kimball.  Both  parents  were  born 
in  New  Hampshire,  and  were  lifelong  residents  of  Grafton.  He  spent 
his  }-outh  in  Grafton,  attending  the  public  schools,  completing  his 
education  in  Lowell,  where  he  graduated  in  1878  from  the  Lowell 
Commercial  College.  James  McCoy,  then  owner  and  principal  of  the 
college,  was  strongly  attracted  by  the  young  man,  and  after  gradua- 
tion offered  him  a  position  as  instructor  in  the  college,  an  offer  which 
the  young  man  accepted.  This  college,  one  of  the  oldest  and  largest 
established  commercial  schools  in  New  England,  dating  from  1859, 
took  on  a  new  lease  of  life  with  Mr.  Kimball's  admission  to  the  faculty, 
and  under  the  new  methods  he  introduced,  there  was  a  marked  im- 
jjrovement  in  bnth  attendance  and  scholar-hip.  .Scion  afterward  an 
arrangement  was  made  with  Mr.  McCoy  by  wdiich  Mr.  Kimball  be- 
came an  equal  partner  in  the  ownership  of  the  college,  an  arrange- 
ment which  continued  until  Mr.  McCoy's  death,  the  latter  then  reward- 
ing his  long  time  associate  by  leaving  him  sole  owner. 

In  the  earl)-  d;iys  c.f  the  cnllegc,  an<l  \vhen  Mr.  Kimball  came  to 
it  as  a  student,  the  location  was  in  modest  (piarters  in  the  Wells  block 
in  Merrimack  street.  This  was  outgrown  and  the  college  removed  to 
larger  quarters  in  the  Fiske  block  on  Central  street,  where  it  remained 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century.     Subsequently  the  school  became 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  291 

located  in  the  Grosvenor  building  in  Merrimack  scjuare.  From  1879 
to  191 5,  there  were  associated  with  Mr.  Kimball  at  various  times  Miss 
Bertha  Baron,  Albert  C.  Blaisdell,  and  F.  Arthur  Spence,  the  latter 
retiring  in  1915,  when  Earle  R.  Kimball  became  associated  with  the 
school.  Mr.  Kimball  continued  in  active  management  of  the  school 
until  his  death  in  1915.  His  connection  with  the  school  extended  over 
a  period  of  thirty-nine  years,  during  which  time  thousands  of  young 
]ieople  from  all  parts  of  New  England  sat  under  his  instruction,  and  in 
addition  to  securing  a  modern  business  education,  they  found  in  Mr. 
Kimball  a  true  friend,  ever  ready  with  a  word  of  kindly  advice  or 
friendly  council.  Mr.  Kimball  achieved  a  prominent  place  in  the  art 
of  handwriting,  and  was  considered  at  one  time  as  one  of  the  leading 
penmen  of  the  country.  Mr.  Kimball  was  also  one  of  the  earliest 
teachers  of  stenography,  and  at  one  time  taught  five  different  systems. 
.\  great  many  of  the  prominent  business  men  of  Lowell  and  elsewhere 
maintain  the  most  friendly  recollections  of  Mr.  Kimball,  and  do 
not  hesitate  to  give  him  credit  for  their  business  education  upon  which 
their  success  was  founded. 

In  addition  to  his  duties  in  connection  with  Lowell  Commercial 
College,  Mr.  Kimball  gave  much  of  his  time  to  the  affairs  of  Trini- 
tarian Congregational  Church,  which  for  many  years  he  served  as 
deacon  and  superintendent  of  the  Sunday  school.  He  was  also  presi- 
dent of  the  Lowell  District  Sunday  School  Association.  In  the  Ma- 
sonic order  he  was  a  past  master  of  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons ;  also  a  member  of  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons ;  Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  Pilgrim  Com- 
mandery.  Knights  Templar;  Aleppo  Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order 
Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine ;  and  Mr.  Kimball  was  also  interested  in 
the  Scottish  Rite  Masonry,  and  belonged  to  the  various  lodges  com- 
prising that  body. 

Mr.  Kimball  married,  at  Victor,  New  York,  December  25.  1886, 
Myrta  May  Thompson,  born  at  Hartwick,  Otsego  county.  New  York, 
daughter  of  James  and  Fanny  (Magee)  Thompson.  Her  father,  born 
in  Port  Neuf,  Ontario,  Canada,  was  a  contractor  of  Victor,  New  York, 
where  he  died  July  4,  1886.  Fanny  (Magee)  Thompson,  born  in  Deca- 
tur, New  York,  died  in  Victor,  New  York.  Mrs.  Kimball,  shortly 
after  her  birth,  was  taken  by  her  parents  to  their  home  at  Victor,  near 
Rochester,  New  York,  where  she  was  educated  and  became  a  teacher 
in  the  Ontario  county  public  schools.  While  on  a  visit  to  friends  in 
Lowell,  she  became  acquainted  with  Mr;  Kimball  and  later  they  were 
married  at  her  home  in  Victor.  She  has  been  his  able  assistant  in  the 
college,  both  in  teaching  and  management,  and  since  his  death  has 
continued  active  in  the  affairs  of  the  college. 


292  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Earle  Raines  Kimball,  only  child  of  Le  Doit  E.  and  IMyrta  May 
(Thompson)  Kimball,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  December 
24,  1888.  He  graduated  from  the  Varnum  Grammar  School  and  Low- 
ell High  School,  completing  his  education  at  Harvard  University, 
graduating  in  191 1  with  the  degree  of  A.  B.  His  first  business  engage- 
ment was  with  the  Packard  Motor  Car  Company,  in  Detroit,  Mich- 
igan, later  being  connected  with  the  accounting  and  sales  depart- 
ment of  their  branch  in  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  \Miile  in  Phil- 
adelphia, he  decided  to  return  to  Lowell  and  assist  his  father  in 
the  management  of  the  Lowell  Commercial  College,  and  in  order 
to  broaden  his  knowledge  of  commercial  college  work  and  methods 
he  entered  as  a  student  the  Banks  Business  College  in  Philadelphia. 
In  the  spring  of  1915  he  returned  to  Lowell,  and  was  associated 
with  his  father  until  the  latter's  death,  October  15,  of  the  same 
year.  He  at  once  succeeded  to  the  position  so  long  held  by  Le  Doit 
E.  Kimball,  and  is  the  efficient  treasurer  head  of  Lowell  Com- 
mercial College,  which  he  conducts  along  the  same  lines  which  have 
placed  it  at  the  head  of  New  England  commercial  schools.  He  holds 
all  the  degrees  of  York  and  Scottish  Rites  of  Masonry  up  to  and 
including  the  thirty-second  degree,  Massachusetts  Consistory,  Ancient 
Accepted  Scottish  Rite.  In  the  York  Rite  he  is  afSliated  with  Kilwin- 
ning Lodge,  Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Ahasuerus  Council,  and  Pilgrim 
Commandery.  He  is  a  memlier  of  the  Vesper  Country  Club  of 
Lowell, 

Mr.  Kimball  married,  at  Lynn,  Massachusetts,  December  7,  1912, 
Theodate  Purinton  Breed,  daughter  of  T.  Harlan  and  Mary  (Phillips) 
Breed,  of  an  ancient  Massachusetts  family,  former  owners  of  Breed's 
Hill,  Boston,  where  the  battle  of  Bunker  Plill  was  fought.  ]\Ir.  and 
Mrs.  Kimball  are  the  parents  of  three  children:  Harlan  Le  Doit,  born 
in  L}nn.  Massachusetts.  Deceml)er  5.  i')i3;  Theodate.  born  in  Lynn, 
June  II,  1915  ;  k'arle  Raines,  Jr.,  born  in  Lowell,  May  31,  1916. 


CHURCH  OF  THE  SACRED  HEART. 

This  church,  and  others  in  Lowell,  is  under  the  direction  of  the 
Oblates  of  Mary  Immaculate,  whose  primary  work  is  missions  among 
the  poor.  In  1884  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  establish  a  parish  for 
the  convenience  of  the  Catholics  of  the  south  end  of  the  city,  and  the 
task  was  entrusted  to  an  Oblate  father,  Rev.  William  D.  Joyce, 
O.  M.  I.  In  a  short  time  a  lot  was  purchased  on  Moore  street,  and 
on  Easter  Monday,  1884,  ground  was  broken  for  a  new  church  by 
Very  Rev.  Father  Soulier,  of  Paris,  France,  first  assistant  general  of 
the  Order  of  Oblates  of  Mary  Immaculate.  Thus  the  Sacred  Heart 
Church  had  its  beginning 


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On  August  10,  1884,  the  basement  was  blessed  by  Archbishop 
\\'ilHams  and  the  first  mass  celebrated  by  Fr.  Lefebvre,  at  that  time 
Provincial.  This  basement  was  used  until  the  church  proper  was 
completed  and  dedicated,  on  September  29,  1901.  Fr.  Joyce  was 
recalled  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  Church  in 
1886,  and  was  succeeded  by  Rev.  Joseph  T.  Lavoie,  O.  M.  I.,  who  was 
in  turn  succeeded  by  Rev.  J.  M.  Guillard,  who  began  the  upper 
church.  Rev.  J.  P.  Reynolds  followed  and  the  upper  church  was 
completed  under  his  direction. 

A  parochial  school  was  built  and  opened  in  1892,  and  was  placed 
in  the  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  St.  Mary  of  Namur.  In  1909  the  Very 
Rev.  T.  Wade  Smith,  successor  of  Fr.  Reynolds,  found  it  necessary 
to  erect  a  second  and  larger  building  for  the  accommodation  of  the 
increasing  number  of  children.  Upon  the  appointment  of  the  Very 
Rev.  T.  \V.  Smith  as  Provincial  of  the  Oblates,  the  Rev.  J.  P.  Flynn 
succeeded  to  the  pastorate  and  is  the  present  incumlient. 


GEORGE  HENRY  WOOD. 

For  more  than  half  a  century  Mr.  Wood  has  been  active  in  the 
jewelry  business  in  New  England,  principally  in  Lowell,  the  scene  of 
his  present  activities.  Mr.  Wood  is  a  member  of  an  old  Alassachu- 
setts  family,  grandson  of  Josiah  Wood,  a  farmer  and  merchant  of 
Dracut,  who  was  a  prominent  figure  in  the  early  life  of  the  town,  a 
wealthy  land  owner  there  and  in  Boston. 

George  Henry  Wood  is  a  son  of  Benjamin  F.  ^^"ood,  who  was 
born  on  the  old  Wood  homestead  in  Dracut,  where  he  passed  his  life 
in  farming  operations,  an  influential  citizen,  active  in  public  aflfairs. 
His  death  occurred  in  1899,  that  of  his  wife,  Elizabeth  (Durant) 
\Vood,  in  1902.  They  were  the  parents  of  five  children :  Elizabeth, 
a  resident  of  Dracut ;  Arthur,  died  aged  nineteen  years ;  Harry  Albert, 
who  enlisted  in  the  Thirtieth  Regiment  of  Massachusetts  Volunteer 
Infantry  in  the  Civil  War,  died  in  the  service  of  the  old  St.  Charles 
Hotel  in  Xew  Orleans,  Louisiana,  and  is  buried  in  Calumet  Cemetery 
in  that  city;  George  Henry,  of  whom  further;  and  Millard  F.,  a  jew- 
eler of  Lowell. 

George  Henry  Wood  was  bom  in  Dracut,  Massachusetts.  Decem- 
ber 28,  1847.  His  early  life  was  spent  on  the  home  farm,  and  he 
attended  the  public  schools  of  the  vicinity,  finishing  his  studies  in  the 
Lowell  High  School.  As  a  young  man  of  nineteen  years  he  was 
employed  by  Amos  Sanborn,  a  jeweler  of  Lowell,  whose  store  was 
located  at  the  corner  of  Middle  and  Central  streets,  and  he  remained 
with  Mr.  Sanborn  for  five  years,  subsequently  spending  one  year  in 


294  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

the  same  line  in  Salem,  Alassachusetts.  In  1872  Mr.  Wood  returned 
to  Lowell  and  purchased  the  Wilkins  jewelry  business  on  Central 
street,  an  enterprise  that  had  deteriorated  badly.  He  applied  himself 
with  characteristic  energy  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  business,  and  suc- 
ceeded in  a  marked  degree,  his  operations  there  flourishing  until 
1912,  when  he  moved  to  the  Harrington  block  on  Central  street,  and 
in  1915  to  his  present  location  at  No.  135  Central  street.  In  addition 
to  the  store  that  has  been  so  long  and  so  prosperously  conducted  as 
an  enterprise  distinctively  his  own,  Mr.  Wood  has  on  numerous 
occasions  operated  other  jewelry  stores  whose  owners,  through  finan- 
cial reverses  or  other  causes,  were  compelled  to  discontinue  their 
dealings.  But  these  have  been  only  temporary  arrangements,  while 
the  best  of  his  time  and  labor  has  been  devoted  to  the  business  above 
described,  a  popular  and  prosperous  Lowell  institution.  Mr.  Wood 
is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  the  Vesper  Country  Club, 
and  affiliates  with  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 
He  is  held  in  high  regard  in  Lowell  as  a  business  man  and  citizen, 
interested  and  active  in  everything  advancing  the  welfare  of  his  city. 

Mr.  Wood  married  (first)  at  Lowell,  June  25,  1872,  Flora  E. 
Coward,  daughter  of  Francis  and  Sarah  (Bickford)  Goward,  who  died 
in  Lowell  in  1902.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  were  the  parents  of  Lottie 
Maud,  who  died  aged  seven  years.  Mr.  Wood  married  (second) 
Helen  Josejjhine  Northrup,  daughter  of  Seth  B.  and  Cordelia 
((/loucher)  Northrup,  of  King's  county.  New  Brunswick.  To  this 
union  there  is  one  son,  George  Malcolm,  born  in  Lowell,  June,   1908. 


FREDERICK  W.  FARNHAM. 

Although  not  a  graduate.  Air.  Farnham,  now  city  engineer, 
through  his  own  private  study  and  practical  experience  in  field  work, 
accomplished  the  acquirement  of  the  equivalent  of  a  technical  school 
education.  A  native  son  of  Lowell,  educated  in  her  i)ublic  schools, 
he  has  spent  a  life  time  in  her  service,  thus  returning  in  loyal  service 
the  benefits  conferred  upon  him.  He  entered  city  ser\-ice  a  boy 
apprentice  in  the  engineering  department  and  from  that  time  has  been 
connected  with  that  branch  of  'city  government,  principally  in  con- 
nection with  the  sewerage  system.  The  only  break  in  his  professional 
service  was  during  the  years  1907-1908,  serving  during  these  years  as 
mayor  of  the  city.     He  is  the  son  of  William  L.  Farnham,  of  Lowell. 

Frederick  W.  Farnham  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
November  30,  i860,  and  is  yet  a  resident  of  his  native  city.  He  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools,  completing  the  high  school  course  and 
graduating  with  the  class  of  1878.    The  next  ten  years  of  his  life  were 


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spent  in  the  office  of  the  city  engineer,  beginning  as  an  apprentice 
under  the  then  city  engineer  and  continuing  as  a  civil  engineer.  The 
record  of  these  ten  years  is  one  of  honor,  for  it  involved  hard  work 
and  study  to  accomplish  what  he  did  with  special  technical  school 
training.  In  1888  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  sewerage  construction 
as  engineer,  and  under  his  planning  and  direction  practically  all  sub- 
sequent sewer  building  in  this  city  has  been  done.  He  is  skilled  in 
his  s])ecial  field  of  engineering  and  an  authority  often  consulted.  He 
has  given  his  life  to  his  work  and  to  the  service  of  the  city,  forty 
years  now  having  elapsed  since  he  first  entered  the  city  engineer's 
office  as  an  apprentice.  He  is  highly  regarded  by  his  associates  at  the 
City  Hall  and  by  his  many  friends  and  acquaintances  in  the  city  where- 
in his  life  has  been  passed. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  faithful  and  loyal  to  party  interests,  Mr. 
Farnham  has  held  his  profession  and  duty  higher  than  mere  political 
considerations,  yet  the  city's  highest  honor  was  conferred  upon  him 
by  election  to  the  mayoralty  in  1907  and  1908.  This  tribute  for  faith- 
ful, efficient  service  was  most  gratifying,  much  more  so  than  had  it 
been  conferred  for  political  service.  He  gave  the  city  a  good  admin- 
istration, then  returned  to  an  engineer's  duties.  He  is  a  member  of 
Grace  Universalist  Church,  the  Masonic  order,  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  the  Highland  Club. 

Mr.  Farnham  married,  in  Lowell,  October  13,  1886,  Eleanor  P. 
Butters,  daughter  of  George  S.  and  Susan  B.  (Felsh)  Butters,  of 
Lowell. 


HARRY  R.  RICE. 

Mr.  Rice's  active  career,  begun  in  journalism,  has  continued  unin- 
terruptedly in  that  field,  with  the  excejjtion  of  four  years  spent  as  a 
teacher  in  Vermont.  For  more  than  thirty  years  he  has  been  iden- 
tified with  the  city  of  Lowell,  first  as  city  editor  of  the  Lowell  "Citi- 
zen,"' now  as  manager  and  treasurer  of  the  "Courier-Citizen."  Mr. 
Rice  is  a  native  of  Quebec,  Canada,  son  of  Henry  and  Mary  Rice,  his 
father  a  prominent  contractor  and  well  known  citizen  of  that  place. 

Harry  R.  Rice  was  educated  in  Canadian  and  Vermont  schools, 
and  upon  the  completion  of  his  schooling  formed  an  association  with 
the  Sherbrooke  "Gazette,"  of  Sherbrooke,  Canada.  Subsequently  he 
was  for  a  few  years  a  member  of  the  staflf  of  the  famous  "Watchman," 
owned  by  the  noted  Walton,  at  Montpelier,  Vermont,  and  then,  after 
teaching  school  for  four  terms,  became  connected  with  Walton's 
"Gazette"  at  Claremont.  New  Hampshire,  published  in  conjunction 
with  the  "Watchman."     Making  Lowell  his  home,  Mr.  Rice  became 


296  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

city  editor  of  the  "Citizen,"  founded  in  1854  as  a  weekly,  the  "Amer- 
ican Citizen"  estalilished  as  a  daily  the  following  year  as  the  "Daily 
Citizen."  Ziba  -E.  Stone  was  the  original  owner  of  the  paper,  which 
was  later  controlled  in  turn  by  Leonard  Brown  and  George  F.  Morey, 
by  Knapp  &  Morey,  by  Chauncy  L.  Knapp  independently,  and,  from 
April  3,  1882,  to  the  consolidation  of  the  "Citizen"  with  the  "Courier" 
as  the  "Courier-Citizen"  in  1894,  by  the  Citizen  Newspaper  Company, 
in  whose  organization  Mr.  Rice  was  the  leading  factor.  The  personnel 
of  the  new  corporation  was  as  follows :  Dr.  Gustavus  G.  Gerry,  presi- 
dent;  Harry  R.  Rice,  business  manager;  Henry  J.  Moulton,  editor; 
Charles  F.  Coburn,  assistant  editor  and  treasurer,  and  James  Bayles, 
city  editor.  The  home  of  the  paper  was  on  Central  street,  and  under 
the  new  ownership  and  direction  the  "Citizen"  attained  a  wide  pop- 
ularity and  secure  standing  in  the  community.  "To  maintain  clean 
news,  honest  municipal  government ;  to  advocate  whatever  was  best 
for  the  community ;  to  counsel  unity  of  purpose  toward  public  benefit, 
was  the  aim  of  its  staff ;  and  the  paper  soon  outgrew  its  tumbledown 
quarters  and  was  of  necessity  moved  to  the  Talbot  Iniilding  in  Middle 
street,  with  a  business  office  in  the  Hildreth  Building." 

In  1894  the  union  of  the  "Citizen"  and  "Courier"  w-as  effected 
upon  the  basis  that  the  "Citizen"  should  become  a  morning  paper,  and 
that  the  "Courier"  should  retain  its  afternoon  publication.  The  con- 
duct of  the  pajiers  was  to  be  left  to  the  "Citizen"  staff,  and  the  jnib- 
lishing  and  printing  departments  to  remain  under  the  direction  of  Mr. 
Peter  \V.  Reilly.  The  first  issue  was  published  in  the  premises  now 
occupied  on  Merrimack  and  Paige  streets,  on  January  i,  1895,  and 
the  job  department  was  moved  to  the  Parker  lilock  in  Aliddle  street, 
where  it  has  since  been  lucalcd.  The  consolidation  of  the  papers 
ushered  in  a  new  period  of  prosperity  and  extended  influence,  and  the 
"Courier-Citizen"  ranks  with  the  leading  newspapers  of  New  Eng- 
land. Its  present  officers  (1919)  are;  President,  Philip  S.  Marden ; 
vice-president,  Peter  ^^'.  Reilly  ;  treasurer  and  business  manager,  Mr. 
Rice;  Clerk,  Robert  ¥.  Miirden;  auditor,  P.  S.  Marden.  The  evidence 
of  the  efficient  and  progressive  management  of  Mr.  Rice's  department, 
the  foundation  of  the  paper's  increasing  success,  is  that  during  1918 
there  were  jirinted  272.417  inches  of  local  advertising,  with  a  total  of 
317,596  inches. 

Mr.  Rice  is  a  directur  uf  the  W'amesit  National  Bank,  his  exacting 
duties  (in  the  "Courier-Citizen"  giving  him  small  opportunitv  for  out- 
side business  interests.  He  is  associated  with  tin-  jimiper  Point  Realty 
Trust  and  the  Juniper  Point  Improvement  .Association,  of  Salem, 
Massachusetts.  His  pi. lineal  iieliefs  are  Re])ublican,  and  among  the 
public  offices  he  has  held  is  that  of  police  board  member  for  ten  yeare 


BIOGRAPHICAL  297 

from    July  4,    1894.     He   is  a  coninumicant  of   St.   Anne's   Episcopal 
Church. 

Mr.  Rice  married,  in  Lowell,  October  5,  1892,  Mary  E.,  daughter 
of  Ur.  Robert  and  Martha  A.  Wood,  of  this  city. 


FRANK  ROBERT  BRADY. 

When  Dr.  Brady,  in  1903,  offered  his  services  to  his  friends  and 
acquaintances  of  a  lifetime  in  Lowell  as  a  specialist  in  diseases  of  the 
nose,  throat  and  ear,  he  was  thoroughly  prepared  in  both  theory  and 
practice,  having  studied  in  high  class  medical  institutions  of  both  the 
LTnited  States  and  Europe.  He  is  one  of  Lowell's  native  sons  who  has 
devoted  his  talents  to  the  people  among  whom  his  life  has  been  spent, 
and  they,  in  turn,  have  honored  him  with  generous  recognition  of  his 
professional  ability,  his  clientele  being  large  and  loyal.  He  is  a  close 
student  of  all  new  theory  or  suggestion  in  treatment  or  remedy,  his 
own  judgment  finally  deciding  upon  the  merit  of  the  new  thought,  but 
only  after  careful  investigation.  Dr.  Brady  is  a  son  of  Frank  (2) 
Brady,  born  in  Ireland  in  1842,  came  to  the  United  States  in  1850  with 
his  father,  Frank  (i)  Brady,  a  shoemaker,  the  family  settling  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where  Frank  (2)  Brady  became  a  wine  mer- 
chant, and  here  died.  May  30,  1914.  He  married  Alice  E.  LIniack,  born 
in  Randolph,  Massachusetts,  in  1855.  He  served  the  city  of  Lowell  at 
one  time  as  a  member  of  the  City  Council. 

Frank  Robert  Brady,  only  child  of  Frank  (2)  and  Alice  E. 
(Uniack)  Brady,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Decem1)er  3, 
1880.  He  passed  through  the  grade  and  high  schools  of  Lowell,  fin- 
ishing with  graduation,  and  after  deciding  upon  the  medical  profes- 
sion, entered  Tufts  Medical  College.  There  he  pursued  full  and 
exhaustive  courses  of  study,  and  was  graduated  M.  D.,  class  of  1904. 
The  following  year  was  spent  in  medical  study  and  research  at  the 
University  of  Vienna,  Austria,  Dr.  Brady  returning  to  Lowell  in  1905 
and  beginning  practice.  The  years  have  brought  him  a  generous 
share  of  the  honors  of  his  profession,  and  at  his  offices,  Nos.  301-302 
Sun  building,  he  ministers  to  a  large  clientele  as  a  specialist  in  diseases 
of  the  nose,  throat  and  ear.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts 
State  and  American  Medical  societies,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  his 
brethren  of  the  profession.  He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a 
devotee  of  open  air  sports,  particularly  those  of  forest  and  stream, 
hunting  and  fishing  being  his  favorite  recreations. 

Dr.  Brady  married,  in  Lowell,  July  10,  1907,  .\nna  A.  Coughlin, 
daughter  of  William  Coughlin,  a  real  estate  dealer  of  Lowell,  who 
died  in   1002.      Her  mother  was  Agnes   .\.    i'>yrne.  who  is  still  living 


298  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

at  the  age  of  sixty  years.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Brady  are  the  parents  of  two 
sons  and  a  daughter:  Francis  B.,  horn  ^L1y  21,  1908,  attends  the 
grammar  school ;  William,  born  June  24,  1910,  attends  primary  school ; 
Barbara,  born  March  10,  191 5. 


FRANK  P.  PUTNAM. 

Named  for  a  president  of  the  United  States.  Franklin  Pierce,  of 
New  Hampshire,  and  bearing  an  old  and  honored  New  England  name, 
one  borne  by  a  great  Revolutionary  hero,  Frank  P.  Putnam  eschewed 
the  political  traits  of  one  and  the  military  ardor  of  the  other,  and  found 
his  vocation  in  merchandising.  Li  the  not  always  peaceful  arts  of 
trade  he  has  won  eminence,  and  in  his  native  city  of  Lowell  is  well 
known  and  highly  esteemed  as  merchant  and  citizen.  There  are  few 
men  who,  if  fortune  had  been  kind  to  them  in  a  financial  way,  but 
would  develop  some  special  interest  which  often  amounts  to  a  passion, 
sometimes  a  hobby.  Mr.  Putnam  is  not  an  exception,  his  passion 
being  the  cultivation  of  flowers,  carnations  and  single  chrysanthe- 
mums being  his  specialties.  Many  are  the  prizes  and  first  premiums 
which  adorn  his  home,  where  four  large  greenhouses  are  stocked  with 
the  specimens  and  varieties  which  most  appeal  to  the  owner's  tastes. 
Thus  a  successful  business  man  finds  his  recreation,  keeps  his  mind 
and  body  fit,  and  brings  joy  to  every  lover  of  the  beautiful  in  nature, 
who  is  privileged  to  visit  his  greenhouses  or  gardens. 

In  business  life  he  is  the  honored  president  of  the  Putnam  &  Son 
Company,  dealers  in  clothing,  located  at  Nos.  166-168  Central  street. 
He  is  a  SLUi  of  Addistjn  Putnam,  who  established  the  business  in 
Lowell,  in  1846,  at  the  corner  of  Ilurd  and  Central  streets,  later 
locating  at  the  corner  of  Market  and  Central  streets,  the  present  loca- 
tion being  occupied  since  1878.  Addison  Putnam,  the  founder,  con- 
tinued head  of  the  business  which  was  incorporated  as  the  Putnam 
i!^  .Son  Company,  in  Hjoi.  until  his  death  in  1906,  having  been  con- 
nected with  the  business  as  founder  and  head  for  sixty  years.  Addison 
Putnam  married  Hannah  I'lanchard  Tarbell,  they  the  jiarents  of 
I-'rank    P.,    to    whom    this    review    of    an    honorable,    upright    life    is 

Frank  P.  Putnam  was  born  in  Luwell.  ^lassachusetts,  November 
15,  1848,  and  has  e\'er  resided  in  his  native  city  and  added  to  her 
mercantile  greatness.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  the  city,  but 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  years  left  high  school  to  go  into  his  father's  store, 
business  life  greatly  attracting  him  from  boyhood.  This  was  in  1863, 
or  1864,  the  clothing  store  of  Addison  Putnam  then  being  located  at 
the  corner  of  Market  and  Central  streets.     He  rapidly  absorbed  the 


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principles  upon  which  the  business  was  conducted  and  the  special 
details  of  the  clothing  business,  soon  becoming  his  father's  assistant, 
and  upon  arriving  at  legal  age  his  partner,  the  firm  trading  as  Putnam 
&  Son.  In  1878  the  store  was  moved  to  Nos.  166-168  Central  street, 
and  this  oldest  of  Lowell's  men's  clothing  and  furnishing  stores  took 
up  a  new  lease  of  life.  Boys'  clothing  was  added  to  the  lines  carried, 
and  a  large  business  developed,  which  continues  a  prosperous  one  at 
the  same  location  for  the  past  forty  years. 

Addison  Putnam  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  for  a 
time,  but  Frank  P.  has  accepted  no  political  office,  but  served  the  city 
for  twenty-one  years  as  a  trustee  of  the  Public  Library.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Appleton  National  Bank ;  trustee  and  vice-president  of 
the  Lowell  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank ;  director  of  the  Traders'  and 
Mechanics'  Insurance  Company  of  Lowell ;  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trade.  He  is  a  thoroughly  public-spirited  citizen,  one  who 
can  be  relied  upon  to  aid  in  any  movement  promising  better  things 
for  Lowell  or  the  county-at-large.    He  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 

Mr.  Putnam  married,  in  Lowell,  November  i,  1898,  Sarah  Barry. 
The  family  residence  is  at  North  Tewksbury,  where  the  greenhouses 
are  Mr.  Putnam's  especial  pleasure,  and  a  generous  hospitality  is 
extended. 


FREDERICK  STRAUSS. 

When  a  lad  of  nine  years,  Frederick  Strauss,  treasurer  of  Alex- 
ander Strauss,  Inc.,  was  brought  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  by  his 
parents,  and  from  that  year  Lowell  has  been  his  home.  The  activities 
of  -Alexander  Strauss  and  his  sons,  Ansel  L.  and  Frederick,  form  an 
important  chapter  in  Lowell's  mercantile  records,  and  although  the 
voice  of  the  father  is  forever  hushed,  the  sons  emulate  his  many 
virtues,  and  along  the  lines  he  led  them  for  many  years  are  still 
operating. 

Alexander  Strauss,  the  father,  was  l)orn  in  Cermany,  in  184-I,  and 
died  at  his  summer  home  at  Old  Orchard,  Maine,  Septemlier  9.  1917. 
He  came  from  the  city  of  Cologne,  Germany,  to  the  United  States,  at 
an  early  age,  finding  his  first  American  home  in  Hartford,  Connec- 
ticut. There  he  obtained  a  good  public  school  education,  and  resided 
there  until  going  to  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  had  a  brother 
in  the  clothing  business.  He  thoroughly  mastered  the  details  of  a 
retail  clothing  enterprise,  and  there  continued  until  1896,  when  he 
came  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  to  establish  a  store  which  should  be 
another  link  in  the  chain  of  the  Caesar  Misch  stores.  At  the  same 
time  he  established  a  similar  store  at  Manchester,  New  Hampshire. 
He  continued  head  of  the  Caesar  Misch  store  in  Lowell  for  twenty 


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years,  and  with  his  sons  entered  into  other  mercantile  ventures,  one 
of  these  being  the  Hanna  Company,  of  Haverhill,  Alassachusetts,  of 
which  he  was  treasurer.  For  a  year  before  his  death  he  was  not  in 
Lowell  much,  spending  his  time  with  his  married  daughter  in  Hart- 
ford, Coimecticut,  and  at  his  summer  home  at  Old  Orchard.  \\'hile  a 
resident  of  Pawtucket,  Alexander  Strauss  enlisted  in  the  Fir-t  I'.at- 
talion,  Rhode  Island  Cavalry,  and  for  twenty-seven  years  was  an 
active  member  of  that  battalion,  rising  from  the  ranks  to  major.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  B'nai  Brith  ;  a  man  of  most  lovable  character,  devoted 
to  his  family,  his  life  being  a  succession  of  unselfish  acts  of  kindness 
and  charity. 

Alexander  Strauss  married,  in  1871,  Hannah  Falk.  who  ilied  ]\Iay 
13,  1916,  they  the  parents  of  five  sons  and  three  daughters:  Ansel  L., 
a  merchant  of  New  Rochelle,  New  York,  and  president  of  the  Alex- 
ander Strauss,  Inc.,  Lowell,  and  Hanna  Company,  of  Haverhill;  Dr. 
Abraham  Strauss,  now  olifering  up  his  learning  and  his  talents  for  his 
country  with  a  hospital  "Somewhere  in  France ;"  Frederick,  of  further 
mention;  Moses,  of  Lowell;  Dr.  I.  Strauss,  of  New  York  City;  Helen, 
married  !Milton  Simon,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut ;  Rose,  married 
Francis  Leduc,  of  Holyoke,  Massachusetts ;  Minna,  married  Philip 
Hamerslough,  of  Hartford. 

Frederick  Strauss  was  liorn  in  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island,  ]\Iay  26, 
1885,  and  there  resided  until  October,  iSy/,  when  his  parents  moved 
to  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  There  he  completed  graded  and  high 
school  courses  of  instruction,  entering  Harvard  College  in  1902,  and 
receiving  his  degree,  A.  B.,  class  of  1906.  He  then  became  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  Caesar  Misch  store,  originally  at  No.  78  ]\Iiddle- 
sex  street,  later  at  No.  220  Central  street,  a  store  devoted  to  the  sale 
of  ladies'  and  men's  clothing.  The  business  was  incorporated  in  1905 
as  Alexander  Strauss,  Inc.,  but  was  continued  under  the  same  firm 
name  as  before,  with  Ansel  L.  Strauss,  as  president,  Alexander  Strauss, 
treasurer,  and  Frederick  Strauss,  secretary.  In  1909  the  Hanna  Com- 
pany, of  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  was  incorporated  with  Alexander 
Strauss,  president  and  treasurer ;  Ansel  L.  Strauss,  vice-president ; 
Frederick  Strauss,  clerk  of  the  corporation.  The  business  of  the 
Hanna  Comi)any  is  that  of  a  Ladies'  Specialty  store,  and  is  still  con- 
tinued, I^Vederick  Strauss  succeeding  his  father  in  1917  as  treasurer 
<il  that  cnnipany  and  of  Alexander  Strauss,  Inc.,  of  Lowell. 

In  ,ill  these  curpi  irations  Frederick  Strauss  has  taken  acti\e  man- 
agiri.-il  part,  and  his  success  as  a  business  man  proves  the  wilue  of 
the  cille-e  bred  man  li>  the  cdmniercial  world.  He  began  at  the  bdt- 
Inni  under  the  diret'tion  iif  his  honored  father,  and  has  risen  to  honored 


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position  among  the  merchants  of  his  city.  He  is  active,  earnest  and 
decisive,  not  afraid  to  trnst  his  own  judgment,  yet  willing  to  take 
counsel.  He  is  a  line  type  of  the  young  business  man  of  to-day,  and 
a  bright  future  awaits  him.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of 
Trade,  the  Harvard  Club  of  Lowell,  Vesper  Country  Club,  and  a 
Master  IMason  of  William  North  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 
Mr.  Strauss  is  unmarried. 


E.  B.  CONANT. 


Messrs.  J.  E.  Conant  &  Company  (Auctioneers)  have  been  estab- 
lished in  the  one  office  in  Central  street  since  April,  1861.  The  busi- 
ness is  almost  exclusively  the  management  of  the  sale  of  manufactur- 
ing properties — both  textile  and  industrial — pledged  to  the  highest 
bona  fide  bidders  at  imrestricted  and  unprotected  public  sale.  In  this 
century  alone,  or  since  January  i,  1901,  they  have  been  called  upon  to 
take  charge  of  such  sales  in  twenty-one  States  of  the  country.  The 
head  of  the  firm  from  1861  to  1878  was  Mr.  J.  E.  Conant,  who  died 
August  7,  1878.  The  present  head  of  the  house  is  Mr.  E.  B.  Conant, 
his  son,  who  succeeded  to  the  business  in  October,  1878,  or  forty-one 
years  ago. 


HAROLD  LEUFROI  CHALIFOUX. 

The  development  of  the  department  store  is  one  of  the  wonders 
of  American  merchandising,  and  no  less  wonderful  has  been  the 
development  of  the  American  business  man.  In  Lowell  the  great 
Chalifoux  store  on  Merrimack  square,  the  city's  most  modern  depart- 
ment store,  is  an  illustration  of  the  development  of  both  a  business 
and  a  man  to  manage  it.  Harold  L.  Chalifoux  is  of  the  third  genera- 
tion of  his  grandfather,  a  country  merchant  of  ability,  his  father  the 
founder  of  the  business  over  which  the  son  presides  as  sole  owner. 
Joseph  L.  Chalifoux  started  in  business  in  Lowell,  in  1875,  with  one 
employee ;  his  son,  in  1917,  does  business  in  a  six  story  building 
stocked  from  basement  to  the  top  with  merchandise,  the  payroll  of 
the  store  containing  over  three  hundred  names.  The  father  founded 
and  developed  the  business  to  the  limit  of  his  physical  ability,  and  died 
after  an  attack  of  appendicitis,  never  moving  to  the  great  block  he 
built,  which  now  houses  the  business.  The  son,  abandoning  a  college 
career,  became  his  father's  assistant,  and  succeeded  to  its  ownership, 
in  191 1,  with  his  brother,  Paul  E.,  and  is  now  sole  owner,  having 
purchased  his  brother's  interest  recently.  He  is  the  capable  head  of 
his  large  business,  is  wise  in  executive  management,  broad-minded  and 


302  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

liberal  in  his  policies,  in  short,  is  the  modern  merchant  at  the  head 
of  a  modern  business. 

The  Chalifouxs  came  from  France  to  Canada  during  the  eighteenth 
centurv,  and  many  of  the  name  have  held  high  rank  jn  official  position; 
a  postmaster  general  of  the  Dominion,  a  speaker  of  the  Canadian 
House  of  Parliament;  a  Prime  Minister,  and  a  mayor  of  Quebec, 
being  among  the  family  notables.  Charles  Daunais,  a  great-grand- 
father of  Harold  L.  Chalifoux,  was  the  leader  among  the  Revolution- 
ists of  1837  and  in  1838.  a  man  of  high  patriotism  and  courage. 
Josejih  Chalifoux  was  liorn  in  Wascouche,  Canada,  in  1818,  and 
became  a  country  merchant  of  high  standing  and  honor.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  local  judiciary,  served  on  the  school  board,  and  was 
a  man  of  prominence  in  his  community.  He  married  Odele  Daunais, 
born  in  JMascouche,  in  1827,  daughter  of  Charles  Daunais,  the  patriot 
previously  alluded  to. 

Joseph  L.  Chalifoux,  son  of  Joseph  and  Odele  (Daunais)  Chal- 
ifoux, was  born  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Henri  de  Mascouche,  Province  of 
Quebec,  Canada,  December  20,  1850,  died  while  a  resident  of  the  city 
of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  September  25,  191 1.  He  obtained  a  good 
education;  completing  his  studies  at  the  College  de  Terrebonne,  and 
began  business  life  as  drug  clerk.  Li  1868,  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years, 
he  came  to  the  L'nited  .States,  locating  in  Lowell,  where  he  obtained 
his  hrst  fxisition  as  clerk  in  a  clothing  store.  He  continued  as  clerk 
luitil  1873.  then  with  his  savings  opened  a  small  store  under  his  own 
name,  having  but  one  employee.  This  was  the  introduction  of  the 
name  in  Lowell,  and  during  the  forty-three  years  which  have  since 
elapsed,  it  has  never  disappeared  from  the  list  of  Lowell  merchants, 
nor  has  its  honor  been  impugned.  The  little  store  was  enlarged  and 
expansion  seemed  continuous.  The  business  developed  along  the 
modern  department  store  idea,  and  a  very  large  business  was  con- 
ducted in  the -Central  block.  Finally  the  Chalifoux  block,  on  Merri- 
mack square,- was  erected  for  the  use  of  the  Chalifoux  business,  but 
after  it  was  completed,  ill  health  had  so  enfeebled  him  that  he  refused 
to  move,  and  the  handsome  building  was  leased  to  the  Nelsons,  of 
five  and  ten  cent  store  fame,  Mr.  Chalifoux  continuing  his  business  in 
the  Cetitrai  block. 

The  upbuilding  of  a  great  business  was  but  one  of  the  results  of 
the  activity  of  this  virile,  energetic  man.  He  was  a  director  of  the 
Union  National  Bank;  trustee  of  the  Lowell  Textile  School;  trustee 
of  the  Central  Savings  I^)ank ;  member  of  the  r>oard  of  Trade,  and  in 
1892-93  served  as  its  president:  and  a  member  of  the  Financial  Com- 
mission created  in  1894.  He  had  large  business  interests  in  Birming- 
ham, Alabama,  starting  a  store  there  in  1889,  on  a  strictly  cash  plan, 


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the  first  in  the  city.  He  then  conducted  a  most  successful  business, 
and  erected  from  his  profits  a  large  and  well  equipped  office  building  in 
IJiriningham.  Finally  his  health  broke,  the  physical  man  succumbed 
to  an  attack  of  appendicitis,  he  who  had  commanded  and  ruled  as 
dictator  was  brought  low,  and  his  sons  succeeded  him.  He  married, 
in  Lowell,  August  21,  1876,  Nellie  M.  Gallagher,  who  had  for  the 
three  years  preceding  her  marriage  been  principal  of  the  Mann  Gram- 
mar .School.  Mrs.  Chalifoux  survives  her  husband,  the  mother  of: 
Paul  L.,  Alice  F.,  who  married  John  Chess  Ellsworth;  Helene  Ada, 
who  married  Charles  Abbott  Stevens,  who  was  a  lieutenant-colonel  in 
the  United  States  army  in  France;  Harold  L.,  of  further  mention; 
and  Elizabeth  R.,  who  married  Lowell  M.  Chapin. 

Harold  L.  Chalifoux,  youngest  son  of  Joseph  L.  and  Nellie  M. 
(Gallagherj  Chalifoux,  was  born  in  Lowell,  ^Massachusetts,  July  12, 
1886.  After  grammar  and  high  school  courses  in  Lowell,  he  entered 
Phillips  Andover  Academy,  then  entered  Harvard  University  for  a 
classical  course,  class  of  1909.  He  did  not  complete  the  course,  but 
after  his  sophomore  year  left  the  university,  his  father's  health  having 
failed  to  such  an  alarming  degree  that  his  presence  at  home  was  im- 
perative. He  at  once  took  charge  of  the  Central  Block  department 
store  in  connection  with  his  brother,  Paul  E.,  and  until  the  death  of 
their  father,  September  25,  igii,  no  change  was  made,  the  sons  con- 
tinuing along  the  same  lines.  In  1912,  Paul  E.  Chalifoux  withdrew, 
Harold  L.  purchasing  his  interest.  In  191 3,  having  gained  the  neces- 
sary grasp  upon  the  business,  Mr.  Chalifoux  correctly  appraised  his 
own  business  value  and  decided  that  he  would  move  the  business  to 
the  building  on  Merrimack  square,  which  had  been  planned  and  built 
to  receive  it.  On  Alarch  i,  1914,  the  move  was  effected,  and  three  floors 
of  the  building,  fully  stocked  and  equipped,  were  opened  to  the  public. 
The  business  outgrew  these  floors,  and  now  all  space  in  the  great  six- 
story  building  is  occupied,  and  the  demand  is  still  for  more  room. 
To  meet  this  demand.  Air.  Chalifoux  has  purchased  the  Phoenix  build- 
ing on  Prescott  street,  which  will  be  added  to  the  present  store  build- 
ing. He  has  also  added  the  entire  floor  space  of  the  former  Swan 
building,  and  has  other  plans.  When  he  moved  to  Merrimack  square, 
in  1914,  43,000  square  feet  was  the  floor  space  in  use.  After  the 
present  additions  were  completed,  in  1918,  125,000  square  feet  came 
into  use.  A  still  more  striking  comparison  is  with  the  former  "Red 
Ball"  store  owned  by  Joseph  L.  Chalifoux,  which  stood  on  the  site 
of  the  present  store ;  that  store,  by  no  means  an  insignificant  one, 
occupied  7,500  square  feet  of  floor  space,  the  new  store  125,000  square 
feet.  The  usual  department  store  stock  is  carried.  Over  all,  Mr. 
Chalifoux  maintains  sole  control,  and  although  a  young  man  he  has 
proved  his  ability  to  manage  and  direct  a  great  mercantile  business. 


304  FIISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Mr.  Chalifoux  is  a  man  of  broad  vision,  very  jirogressive  in  his 
methods,  and  intensely  pubhc-spirited.  He  is  one  of  the  strong  mer- 
chants of  his  city,  and  holds  the  respect  and  confidence  of  Lowell 
business  and  financial  circles.  He  is  an  ex-vice-president  of  the  Board 
of  Trade,  and  is  yet  a  director  and  interested  in  the  board's  activities ; 
is  a  director  of  the  Chili  Copper  Company,  the  largest  copper  com- 
pany in  the  world,  and  owners  of  the  world's  largest  copper  mine, 
which  is  in  Chili ;  and  is  also  a  director  of  the  Chili  Exploration  Com- 
pany. Mr.  Chalifoux  enjoys  life's  social  side,  and  is  a  member  of 
manv  clubs,  including  the  Vesper  and  Yorick,  of  Lowell ;  the  Harvard, 
of  Lowell,  Boston,  and  New  York;  the  Essex  County,  of  ^Manchester; 
the  Oakley  Country,  the  Exchange,  Automobile,  and  Algonquin,  of 
Boston :  the  Chevy  Chase  and  Metropolitan  clubs  of  Washington, 
D.  C.  He  served  as  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Air  Service,  Aircraft  Pro- 
duction, during  the  World  War. 

Mr.  Chalifoux  married,  November  lo,  1916,  Elizabeth  Alice  Bur- 
rage,  daughter  of  Albert  C.  and  Alice  (Haskell)   Burrage. 


FREDERIC  WILLIAM  COBURN. 

In  1837,  one  year  after  Lowell  became  incorporated  as  a  city,  the 
firm  of  Mixer  i^:  Whittemore,  dealers  in  manufacturers"  supplies,  was 
established  and  located  in  the  old  Mechanics  building  on  Dutton 
street,  and  the  present  C.  B.  Coburn  Company'  is  the  outgrowth  of  the 
business  instituted  by  those  two  men  in  that  year.  On  the  dissolution 
of  Mixer  &  Whittemore,  another  concern,  that  of  Mixer  &  Pitman, 
took  up  the  Inisiness  and  continued  it  until  the  advent  of  (Charles  B. 
Coburn  in  the  forties,  when  he  succeeded  Isaac  Pitman  in  the  ])artner- 
ship.  At  this  time  the  name  of  the  firm  was  changed  to  Mixer  & 
Coburn,  under  which  title  the  business  was  run  until  1850.  In  that 
year  Charles  B.  Coburn  became  sole  proprietor.  Ten  years  later  his 
son,  Charles  H.  Coljurn.  entered  the  firm,  and  in  1871  another  son, 
Edward  F.  Coburn,  was  admitted  to  partnership.  During  these 
various  changes  in  the  personnel  of  the  company  and  until  1876,  C.  B. 
Coburn  &  Company  continued  in  its  original  quarters  on  Dutton 
street.  In  the  latter  year,  however,  it  moved  to  the  Wier  building  on 
Market  street,  and  four  years  later  located  at  its  present  site  on  Market 
street. 

In  1887,  at  the  time  of  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  Lowell, 
the  founder  of  the  firm,  Charles  B.  Coburn,  retired  from  business  life, 
his  two  sons  succeeding  to  the  ownership  of  the  company.  Eight  years 
after  this  event  the  elder  Mr.  Coburn  died  at  the  venerable  age  of 
eighty-one  years,  after  having  been  engaged  in  an  active  business  Hfe 


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of  over  fifty  years.  His  sons  continued  in  partnei-shi]j  nniil  the  death 
of  E.  F.  Coburn.  in  1898,  when  Frederic  W.  Coburn.  the  son  of 
Charles  H.  Coburn,  and  Gordon  Tweed  entered  the  firm.  Under  the 
management  of  these  three  men  the  business  was  conducted  until 
1904.  when  it  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  C.  B.  Coburn  Com- 
pany. Shortly  after  the  death  of  Charles  H.  Coburn,  which  occurred 
in  June,  1909,  Gordon  Tweed  retired  from  the  corporation,  and  Fred- 
eric W.  Coburn,  grandson  of  the  founder  of  the  company,  assumed 
sole  management,  as  president,  treasurer,  and  general  manager  of  the 
corporation.  The  business  of  the  company  is  paints,  oils,  glass,  var- 
nishes, artist's  materials,  and  manufacturers'  and  painters'  supplies, 
the  store  being  located  at  Xos.  63-67  Market  street,  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, retail  and  wholesale. 

Shortly  after  five  o'clock  Wednesday  morning,  jNIarch  27,  1912, 
a  burst  of  flame  drove  through  the  rear  ground  floor  windows  of  the 
store  of  C.  B.  Coburn  Company.  Two  hours  later  three  floors  of  the 
four  stor\-  building  were  gutted  by  fire,  and  the  top  floor  of  the  build- 
ing, the  gla.^.ing  and  window  glass  department  was  drenched  with 
water,  and  littered  with  fragments  of  glass.  Before  the  fire  was 
really  under  control  C.  B.  Coburn  Company  had  rented  the  four  story 
building  near  the  corner  of  Palmer  street,  the  Wier  building,  which, 
strange  to  relate,  was  occupied  by  this  corporation  thirty-two  years 
previous  to  the  tire.  Two  lines  of  telephones  were  promptly  installed 
in  its  temporary  quarters,  and  before  noon  the  shipping  clerk  was 
taking  orders  and  delivering  goods  from  the  storehouse  on  Floward 
street.  In  the  rear  of  the  store  an  office  was  constructed  for  the  book- 
keeping department,  counters  were  installed,  and  the  next  morning 
goods  were  placed  on  shelves.  A  complete  line  of  Harrison  paint 
products,  which  had  been  shipped  from  the  factory  on  the  day  of  the 
fire,  were  on  sale  in  the  temporary  cjuarters  three  days  afterwards, 
and  within  a  week's  time  all  goods  in  the  wholesale  line  and  most  of 
the  retailed  goods  were  ready  for  customers,  and  twelve  days  after  the 
fire  a  settlement  of  the  store's  loss  was  made  by  the  insurance  adjust- 
ers, and  business  resumed. 

.\s  head  of  the  business.  Frederic  William  Coburn  continued 
until  March  17,  1917,  when  he  joined  the  great  majority.  He  put  new 
life  into  the  business  and  developed  it  to  a  very  high  condition  of 
I)rosperity.  He  was  a  man  of  energy  and  enterprise,  very  popular 
among  the  best  business  men  of  his  city,  his  loss  being  generally 
mourned. 

Frederic  William  Coburn  was  a  son  of  C'harles  Henry  Coi)urn, 
son  of  Charles  Butterfield  Coburn,  son  of  Henry  (2)  Coburn,  son  of 
Henry  (i)  Coburn,  son  of  Ephraim  Coburn.  son  of  Thomas  Coburn, 


3o6  HISTORY  OF  LOWl'ILL 

son  of  Corporal  Edward  Colborne,  Coburne,  Colbron.  Colebron  or 
Coulborne,  born  in  1618,  died  1700,  of  Dunstable  and  Chelmsford, 
Middlesex  county,  Massachusetts. 

(I)  Corporal  Edward  Coburn,  as  the  name  soon  became  generally 
spelled,  was  a  soldier  of  the  Chelmsford  military  company,  1675-77, 
and  the  first  settler  there  on  the  north  side  of  the  Merrimack.  He 
erected  a  garrison  house  on  his  land,  strengthened  it  after  the  Indian 
attack  upon  Chelmsford.  February  26,  1676,  and  continued  in  com- 
mand and  pay  until  November  17,  1692,  perhaps  longer.  He  was 
guarding  the  ferry,  March  18,  1675,  when  the  Wamesit  Indians  killed 
two  of  the  sons  of  Samuel  Varnum  and  burned  Corporal  Coburn's 
house.  He  was  in  command  of  the  garrison  house,  July  23,  1689, 
during  the  first  French  and  Indian  War.  With  the  aid  of  his  seven 
sons  he  could  always  protect  himself  until  help  could  be  summoned. 
The  garrison  house  was  willed  by  Corporal  Coburn  to  his  son  Joseph, 
and  there  seems  little  doubt  that  it  is  yet  standing.  There  is  a  two 
story  house  standing  on  Varnum  avenue,  nearly  opi)Osite  Totman 
road,  which  was  for  many  years  the  home  of  the  Coburns,  the  last  to 
occujjy  it  being  Nathaniel  B.,  of  the  seventh  generation.  Captain 
Coburn's  wife,  Hannah,  died  in  1712,  the  mother  of  seven  sons  and 
two  daughters,  the  sons  all  heads  of  families  except  Edward  (2),  who 
was  killed  at  Squakheage,  August  2,  1675.  Their  children  were  born 
in  Ipswich,  but  as  the  earlier  records  of  that  town  were  burned  month 
dates  cannot  be  given  of  the  first  six.  Children :  Edward,  born  in 
1642,  killed  .August  2,  1675;  John,  born  in  1644,  died  in  1687,  married 
Hannah  Read;  Rol)crt,  born  in  1646,  died  in  1701,  married  Mary 
llisliop:  Thomas,  of   funlur  mention;  Daniel,  born   in   1654,  died  in 

171J,   married    Sar.ih    I'.l 1;    Hannah,   born   in    1656,   married    (first) 

Thomas  Richardson,  (second)  John  Wright;  Ezra,  born  March  t6, 
if>58,  died  in    1731;,  married   Hannah  \'arnum  ;  Joseph,  born  June    16, 

1661,  died  in   1773,  married  Hannah  ;  and  Lydia,  born  August 

20,  if'i66. 

(II)  Thomas  Coburn,  son  of  Corporal  Edward  Coburn,  was  born 
at  Ipswich,  Massachusetts,  al)Out  1^)48,  and  died  before  1728.  He  was 
given  land  l.)y  his  father,  and  was  a  dutiful  son  in  his  parents'  old  age. 
He  married  (first),  August  6,  iC'7-.-  Hannah  Rouf  or  Rolfe,  and  they 
were  the  parents  pf  four  children:  Hannah,  Thomas,  Jonathan,  and 
Daniel.  He  married  (second)  November  17,  1681,  Remembrance 
(Underwood)  Richardson.  They  were  the  parents  of  nine  children: 
Josiah,  James,  Margaret,  Jonathan,  Zachariah,  Mary  or  Mercy,  Henry, 
Sarrdi,  and  Ephraim.  Descent  in  this  branch  is  traced  through  I'.jjh- 
raim.  the  youngest  and  thirteenth  cliild. 

(ill)  I-'phraim  Coburn,  son  of  Tlujmas  Coburn,  was  born  .\pri! 
24,   1706,  died  aliout   1758.     He  married    [ohanna  Coburn,  daughter  of 


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John  Coburn,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  five  sons  and  a  daughter : 
Ephraim  (2),  Amos,  Thomas,  John,  Johanna,  and  Henry,  head  of  the 
fourth  generation. 

(I\')  Henry  Coburn,  son  of  Ephraim  Coburn,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Dracut,  Massachusetts.  January  5,  174.4,  and  died  May  21, 
1829.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  serving  in  Captain  Wright's 
company.  Colonel  Blood's  regiment,  and  was  engaged  at  the  battle  of 
White  Plains,  New  York,  in  1776.  He  married  Sarah  Richardson, 
born  in  Dracut,  March  13,  1755,  died  September  2,  1826,  daughter  of 
Captain  William  and  Elizabeth  (Coburn)  Richardson,  of  Pelham, 
New  Hampshire,  her  mother  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Coburn,  of  Dracut. 
They  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters  :  Henry  (2),  of  further  mention  ; 
Sarah,  Thomas,  and  Anna. 

(V)  Henry  (2)  Coburn,  son  of  Henry  (i)  Coburn,  was  born  in 
Dracut,  ^lassachusetts,  December  i,  1780,  and  died  September  27, 
1835.  He  married.  May  5.  181 1,  Martha,  widow  of  Stephen  Adams, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sarah  (Chamberlain)  Butterfield.  Mrs. 
Coburn  was  born  March  22,  1784,  and  died  May  25,  1841.  They  resided 
in  Chelmsford  and  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  were  the  parents  of 
eight  children:  Henry  Albert,  Charles  Butterfield,  of  further  men- 
tion ;  Stephen  Adams,  Franklin,  all  of  whom  married  and  reared  fam- 
ilies;  Ralph,  died  young;  a  child,  who  died  unmarried;  Ralph  (2),  died 
young;  and  \\'iniam,  also  died  young. 

(\'r)  Charles  Butterfield  Coburn,  son  of  Henry  (2)  Coburn,  was 
born  in  Chelmsford,  June  16,  1813,  and  died  at  Lowell.  October  18, 
1894.  He  left  the  farm  for  mercantile  life,  and  after  holding  several 
positions  he  entered  the  employ  of  Mixer  &  Pitman,  the  forerunner 
of  the  present  C.  B.  Coburn  Company  of  Lowell.  He  became  a  mem- 
ber of  that  firm  in  the  forties,  and  in  1850  became  sole  owner.  He 
later  admitted  two  of  his  sons  to  a  partnership,  and  in  1880  he  retired 
from  business.  .\s  a  merchant  he  was  honored  and  respected,  and  at 
one  time  he  was  president  of  the  Traders'  and  ^Mechanics'  Insurance 
Company,  and  president  of  the  Prescott  Bank.  He  served  as  council- 
man several  years,  and  also  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  -Aldermen. 
Charles  B.  Coburn  married.  May  24,  1837,  Elizabeth  West,  who  died 
December  12,  1903,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Hannah  (Foster)  West, 
of  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coburn  were  the  parents 
of  eleven  children :  Elizabeth  West,  died  in  infancy ;  Charles  Henry, 
of  further  mention ;  Horace  Butterfield,  Edward  Foster,  Walter, 
.•\lfred,  Elizabeth,  Alice  Nichols,  Harriet,  Martha,  and  Agnes  Ward. 

(VII)  Charles  Henry  Coburn,  son  of  Charles  Butterfield  Coburn, 
was  born  in  Lowell,  March  12,  1839,  and  died  there,  January  3,  1909. 
He  early  became  associated  with  his  father  in  business,  and  in  i860 


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became  a  member  of  the  firm.  C.  B.  Coburn  &  Company.  He  served 
in  the  Civil  War  a.s  assistant-quartermaster  and  commis.sary-sergeant, 
in  the  Sixth  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  was 
first  lieutenant  in  the  First  Regiment,  L^nited  States  Colored  Cavalry. 
After  the  war  he  returned  to  business  life  in  Lowell,  and  in  1886,  upon 
the  retirement  of  their  father,  the  two  sons,  Charles  H.  and  Edward 
F.,  succeeded  to  the  ownership  of  the  business  which  they  conducted 
as  a  partnership  until  the  death  of  Edward  F.  Coburn,  December  15, 
1898,  when  others  were  admitted,  and  in  1904  the  C.  B.  Coburn  Com- 
pany was  incorporated.  Charles  H.  Coburn  served  one  term  as  alder- 
man in  Lowell.  He  married,  June  20,  1866,  Victoria  McLean,  born 
July  7,  1836,  daughter  of  Andrew  B.  McLean,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 
They  were  the  parents  of  two  daughters  and  a  son :  Victoria  McLean, 
born  May  7,  1869,  married,  May  7,  1890,  Frank  L.  Lane;  Frederic 
William,  to  whose  memory  this  review  is  inscribed;  Helen,  burn  June 
5,  1877.  married  Horace  N.  Stevens. 

(VHI)  Frederic  William  Coburn,  onl}-  son  of  Charles  Henry  and 
Victoria  (McLean)  Co1)urn,  was  burn  in  Lowell,  January  30,  1873, 
and  died  there.  March  17,  1918.  He  was  educated  in  the  Bartlett 
street  grammar  school,  Lowell  High  School,  class  of  1892,  and  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  which  he  attended  in  1892 
and  1893.  After  completing  his  studies  he  became  officially  connected 
with  the  business  founded  by  his  grandfather,  with  which  his  father 
had  been  connected  for  half  a  century.  His  progressive  spirit  was 
manifest  in  every  department  of  the  business,  and  when  his  plans  were 
fully  matured  the  C.  B.  Coburn  Company  was  a  splendid  monument 
tu  his  progressiveness,  energy,  and  ability.  He  was  master  of  every 
detail  of  the  business,  and  when  he  succeeded  to  the  office  of  president 
and  treasurer  he  entered  most  aggressively  upon  a  business  career 
which  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of  Lowell  business  men,  and  made 
him  one  of  the  best  known  men  in  commercial  circles.  The  influence 
and  service  of  C.  B.  Coburn  Company  expanded  steadily  as  the  years 
went  by,  and  prosperity  attended  the  corporation.  He  was  a  member 
of  Kilwinning  Lodge.  I'^ree  and  Accepted  Alasons;  the  X'esjier  Country 
and  Vorick  chilis  of  Lowell.  He  died  just  in  the  prime  of  life,  but  he 
had  compiled  a  wonderful  record  of  business  usefulness,  and  his  mon- 
ument is  the  modern  business  house,  C.  B.  Coburn  Company.  He  was 
a  Re[)ublican  in  politics,  and  interested  in  all  that  concerned  the  wel- 
fare of  his  city.  He  would  never  accept  office  fi.ir  himself,  his  time 
being  devoted  to  his  ])rivate  liusiness.  He  was  a  member  ni  the  lUiard 
of  'iVade,  and  very   helpful. 

Frederic  W.  Coburn  married.  (  )ctciber  iS,  \i)ihj,  llerth.i  Wilcox, 
who  survives  him  with  two  children:  Shirley  Woodbur}-,  born  March 
12,  191  I  ;  and  Charles  Butterfield,  bcjrn  .August  12,  1912. 


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WILLIAM  NEWTON  OSGOOD. 

William  Newton  Osgood  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
June  II,  1853.  He  attended  the  Lowell  public  schools,  and  graduated 
fnini  Amherst  College  in  the  class  of  1878.  He  studied  law  with 
D.  S.  and  G.  F.  Richardson.  He  also  attended  the  Boston  University 
Law  School,  and  in  1880  was  admitted  to  practice.  Since  that  time 
he  has  been  engaged  in  his  profession  in  Lowell  and  Boston.  In 
addition  to  the  general  practice  of  the  law,  Mr.  Osgood  has  given  con- 
siderable time  to  public  questions,  and  by  tongue  and  pen  has  striven 
to  advance  the  general  welfare. 

In  early  life  Mr.  Osgood  was  president  of  the  Common  Council  of 
Lowell.  He  was  also  connected  with  the  city  government  of  JMalden. 
Massachusetts,  during  his  residence  there,  and  presided  at  the  grand 
banquet  held  on  the  two  hundred  and  fiftieth  anniversary  of  that  city, 
at  which  many  notable  guests  responded  to  appropriate  toasts.  He  is 
a  student  of  economic  and  social  subjects,  and  is  credited  with  pre- 
paring the  first  draft  of  the  Workmen's  Compensation  Act  in  the 
United  States,  while  serving  as  a  member  of  a  commission  to  consider 
the  relations  between  employer  and  employee,  appointed  by  Gover- 
nor Bates  in  1904.  In  1896  he  published  a  book  which  presented  the 
principal  arguments  of  both  gold  and  silver  advocates.  At  different 
times  he  has  issued  pamphlets  and  addresses  upon  a  variety  of  sub- 
jects pertaining  to  industry,  direct  legislation,  law,  capital  and  labor, 
public  ownership  of  public  utilities,  equable  taxation,  scientific  man- 
agement, equal  suffrage,  etc.  Another  book  recently  published  by 
Mr.  Osgood  is:  "The  Vital  Question,  or  How  to  Get  Real  Democracy 
in  the  United  States,"  in  which  work  he  considers  the  issues  that  he 
deems  the  most  essential,  and  suggests  a  practical  plan  of  action.  This 
is  the  most  comprehensive  and  serious  work  yet  undertaken  by  him. 

Mr.  Osgood  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  advocating  direct  legis- 
lation, and  in  1890  organized  and  was  president  of  the  Massachusetts 
Direct  Legislation  League.  In  1908  he  was  the  candidate  of  the 
Independence  League  for  governor  of  Massachusetts.  In  1912  and 
1914  he  was  the  candidate  of  the  Progressive  Party  for  Congress  from 
the  fifth  district.  Many  of  the  opinions  held  by  Mr.  Osgood  in  his 
earlier  years,  then  deemed  somewhat  radical  by  practical  politicians, 
are  being  rapidly  incorporated  into  concrete  legislation.  Mr.  Osgood 
is  a  member  of  the  American,  the  Middlesex  County,  and  the  Boston 
Bar  associations.  He  is  a  member  of  Kilwinning  Masonic  Lodge,  and 
of  several  social  organizations. 

The  following  brief  extracts  from  Mr.  Osgood's  latest  work  fairly 
indicate  his  general  views  on  public  questions: 


3IC  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

The  great  problem  of  civilizaticjii,  cimijireheiisively  stated,  is  how 
to  increase  the  opportunity  for  all  men  and  women  to  improve  their 
religious,  economic,  social  and  even  artistic  well-being.  The  world 
has  become  too  commercial  and  materialistic.  It  should  become  more 
creative  and  productive  of  those  things  that  elevate  the  soul,  educate 
the  mind  and  heart,  and  improve  the  general  and  physical  condition  of 
the  citizen. 

A  monetary  cast  or  class  is  being  too  rapidly  formed  in  this  land 
of  ours.  What  a  man  possesses  of  this  world's  goods  too  commonly 
determines  his  standing  in  the  community.  "How  much  is  he  worth?" 
is  becoming  of  vastly  more  importance  than  "What  is  he?"  or  "What 
does  he  believe  and  know,  and  what  are  his  sentiments  and  capabilities 
in  relation  to  lightening  the  burdens  of  his  neighbors?" 

The  task  of  perfecting  popular  government  so  that  it  shall  equal 
the  efficiency  of  a  refined  and  perfect  autocracy  is,  strictly  speaking, 
theoretically  impossible.  The  concentration  of  power  in  a  single  per- 
son, who  happens  to  be  great  in  heart  and  great  in  intellectual  and 
administrative  al.iility,  may  result  in  accomplishing  things  of  magni- 
tude more  expeditiously  and  economically  than  can  be  accomplished 
by  a  government  with  powers  divided  among  many  individuals. 

But  there  are,  nevertheless,  advantages  which  are  inherent  in 
popular  governments  that  do  not  pertain  to  autocratic  governments. 
\\'hile  autocratic  governments  may  be  superior  in  efficiency  under  a 
wise  and  humane  autocrat,  under  a  cruel  barbarous  one,  it  may  be 
extremely  inefficient,  and  bring  ultimate  waste,  ruin  and  disaster  upon 
the  governed,  whose  only  refuge  is  revolution  and  the  establishment 
of  some  form  of  popular  government.  Liberty,  even  if  sometimes 
wasteful  and  inefficient,  is  in  the  end  worth  the  price.  Good  things 
cost  much  ;  the  best  costs  most. 

Mr.  Osgood  also  thinks  that  so-called  scientific  management,  too 
intensely  applied  in  industry,  would  finally  produce  inefficiency  and 
waste,  both  in  material  products  and  in  the  producers. 

Mr.  Osgood,  on  January  i,  1882,  married  Harriet  Leslie  Palmer, 
of  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts.  They  have  a  daughter,  Helen  Augusta 
Osgood,  who  was  born  in  Boston,  educated  in  Maiden  and  Lowell 
schools,  and  is  also  a  graduate  of  the  Leland  Powers  School  of  Ex- 
pression, Boston.  Miss  Osgood  is  well  known  as  a  writer  of  verse  and 
monologues,  and  for  her  dramatic  and  vocal  talents. 


ADELBERT  AMES. 

A  native  of  Maine,  and  now  resident  in  New  England  as  a  citizen 
of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  the  most  memorable  experiences  of  Gov- 
ernor Ames'  life  were  met  in  the  South,  as  an  officer  of  the  Union 
army  in  the  Civil  War,  and  as  the  twenty-fifth  and  twenty-eighth 
go\cTnor  of  the  State  of  Mississippi.  Graduating  from  West  Point 
at  the  outl)reak  of  war  between  the  states,  he  served  with  great  dis- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  311 

tinction  in  that  conflict,  and  during  the  decade  of  reconstruction  which 
followed  he  was  twice  governor  of  Mississippi  and  once  United  States 
Senator  from  that  State.  Returning  North  to  New  York  in  1874,  he 
afterward  came  to  Lowell,  his  present  home,  where  he  has  led  an 
active  career  of  wide  influence. 

.\delbert  Ames  was  born  in  Rockland,  Maine,  October  31,  1835, 
Min  of  Jesse  and  Martha  B.  (Tolman)  Ames.  After  preparatory 
training,  he  entered  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West 
I'oint  and  was  graduated  in  1861,  becoming  a  second  lieutenant  in 
the  Second  Regiment  of  United  States  Artillery  on  May  6,  of  that 
year.  On  the  following  May  14  he  was  promoted  to  first  lieutenant, 
and  was  assigned  to  the  Fifth  Regiment  of  Artillery,  being  ordered  to 
the  front  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War.  At  the  battle  of  Bull 
Run,  July  21,  1861,  he  received  a  severe  wound  in  the  thigh,  but 
remained  upon  the  field  in  command  of  a  section  of  Griffin's  battery, 
continuing  to  direct  its  fire  until  too  weak  to  sit  upon  the  caisson 
where  his  men  had  placed  him.  His  gallantry  in  this  action  won  him 
the  brevet  of  major,  United  States  army,  and  the  Congressional  Medal 
of  Honor.  He  took  part  in  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and  for  skill  dis- 
played at  Malvern  Hill  was  brevetted  lieutenant-colonel,  July  i,  1862. 
He  was  also  engaged  in  the  battles  of  Antietam,  September  17,  1862, 
and  Fredericksburg,  December  13,  1862,  as  colonel  commanding  the 
Twentieth  Maine  Volunteers.  On  May  20,  1863,  he  was  commissioned 
brigadier-general  of  volunteers.  On  the  first  day's  battle  at  Gettys- 
burg, July  I,  1863,  he  commanded  a  brigade,  but  upon  the  disable- 
ment of  the  commanding  officer  he  took  charge  of  the  division  on  the 
two  subsequent  days,  and  was  brevetted  colonel.  United  States  army, 
for  meritorious  service  on  that  memorable  field.  The  following 
August  he  assisted  in  the  siege  of  Charleston;  in  April,  1864,  he  was 
engaged  in  the  operations  before  Petersburg  and  Richmond,  and  was 
selected  to  command  a  division  against  Fort  Fisher,  receiving  the 
brevet  of  brigadier-general  for  distinguished  gallantry  on  the  last 
named  occasion,  January  15,  1865.  He  was  promoted  a  captain.  Fifth 
United  States  Artillery,  February  22,  1865,  and  for  gallantry  and  mer- 
itorious services  in  the  field  during  the  Civil  War  was  brevetted  major- 
general  of  volunteers,  March  13  of  the  same  year.  After  the  war  he 
occupied  territorial  districts  in  North  and  South  Carolina  until  April 
30,  1866,  when  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  volunteer  service.  On 
July  28,  following,  he  was  promoted  a  lieutenant-colonel.  Twenty- 
fourth  United  States  Infantry. 

In  the  work  of  "reconstruction"  necessitated  l)y  the  new  order  of 
things  at  the  close  of  the  war,  the  southern  part  of  the  Union  was 
<livided  into  five  districts  under  an  Act  of  Congress  providing  for  a 
temporary  government.    Each  of  the  districts  had  a  general  officer  in 


312  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

command  sustained  hy  a  militar)-  force.  Mississippi  was  among  the 
last  of  the  states  to  adopt  the  conditions  of  reconstruction,  and  on  July 
5,  1868,  General  Ames  was  appointed  provisional  governor  of  this 
State  by  President  Grant.  Eight  months  later,  on  March  17,  1869,  his 
command  was  extended  to  include  the  Fourth  Military  District.  He 
ordered  an  election  to  he  held  Novemljer  30,  1S69,  and  the  Legislature 
to  be  convened  January  11,  1870.  An  unexpired  term  for  United  States 
Senator  dating  March  4.  1869,  existed,  and  Governor  Ames  was  elected 
to  till  the  vacancy.  Me  served  on  the  committee  of  finance  and  mili- 
tary affairs,  and  resigned  his  seat  on  being  elected  by  a  popular  vote 
governor  of  ^vlississippi  in  1873.  His  administration  was  marked  by 
the  promotion  of  the  material  welfare  of  the  State  and  the  economical 
and  judicious  uses  of  the  revenues.  The  supremacy  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  composed  mainly  of  blacks,  southern  Unionists,  and 
northern  men  who  had  settled  in  the  State  subsequent  to  the  war, 
was  regarded  by  the  Demucrats  as  a  phase  of  the  war  for  the  suppres- 
sion of  the  rebellion.  A  riot  at  \'icksburg,  December  7,  1873,  between 
the  political  parties  resulted  in  disorganization  of  the  civil  govern- 
ment and  outrages  occurred  throughout  the  State.  Governor  Ames 
appealed  to  Washington  for  aid  to  enforce  the  laws,  the  authorities 
replying  that  he  "take  all  lawful  means  to  preserve  the  peace  by  the 
forces  in  his  own  state."  He  then  organized  the  militia  to  aid  the 
civil  officers,  as  the  affairs  of  the  State  were  at  a  standstill,  but  these 
efforts  were  resisted  and  rendered  ineffectual  by  his  political  oppo- 
nents. The  November  election  that  followed  resulted  in  the  defeat  of 
the  Republicans  and  both  branches  of  the  Legislature  became  Demo- 
cratic. The  latter  body  then  prepared  to  prepare  articles  of  impeach- 
ment against  the  governor,  charging  unconstitutional  exercise  of 
power.  Governor  Ames,  anticipating  trial  by  a  prejudiced  jury,  then 
decided  to  offer  his  resignation,  and  all  the  charges  were  withdrawn. 

Moving  from  the  South  to  New  York,  Governor  Ames  later  came 
to  Lowell,  his  present  (njiw)  hnme.  lie  was  appointed  brigadier- 
general  of  United  States  \(  iluntcers.  June  20,  1898,  and  after  serving 
through  the  Spanish  War  was  honorably  discharged,  January  3,  i89<). 

Governor  Ames  married,  July  21,  1870,  Blanche,  daughter  of 
General  B.  F.  Butler,  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  in  his  succeeding 
generation,  as  in  his  own,  the  name  of  Ames  has  been  jjroudly  and 
creditably  borne. 


ROGERS  HALL  SCHOOL. 


Conceived  by  one  of  two  sisters,  and  founded  by  the  other  after 
the  death  of  the  first,  Rogers  Hall  School  of  Lowell  has  come  to  fill  a 
distinctive  place  among  institutions  ol  learning  for  girls  in  New  luig- 


BIOGRAPHICAL  313 

land.  Miss  Elisabeth  Rogers  was  the  founder;  Miss  Emily  Rogers, 
the  sister,  whose  idea  it  was  that  a  school  for  girls  be  established  on 
the  Rogers  homestead  estate.  That  Miss  Elisabeth  Rogers  felt  able  to 
carry  out  the  plan  often  discussed  with  her  sister  is  due  largely  to  her 
having  as  adviser  the  Rev.  John  M.  Greene,  D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  Eliot 
Church.  Dr.  Greene  had  assisted  Miss  Sophia  Smith  in  making  plans 
for  the  founding  of  Smith  College  at  a  time  when  to  many  people 
the  higher  education  of  women  spelled  a  most  radical  heresy,  l)ut  Dr. 
Greene  foresaw  not  only  the  coming  need  of  trained  workers  among 
women,  but  the  increasing  desire  of  women  for  wider  intellectual 
interests.  In  advising  Miss  Rogers  to  found  a  school  like  Rogers  Hall, 
Dr.  Greene  desired  to  assist  in  promoting  secondary  education  by  es- 
tablishing a  school  for  girls,  which  should  prepare  for  college  both 
on  the  side  of  scholarship  and  of  character,  and  should  also  give  to 
girls  who  desired  training,  other  than  that  preparatory  for  college,  a 
sound  education  in  preparation  for  life  outside  school. 

]Miss  Rogers  did  not  plan  to  found  the  school  in  her  lifetime,  but 
owing  to  the  establishment  in  Lowell,  in  1891,  of  the  Belvidere  School 
for  Girls,  she  changed  her  purpose  and  with  great  self-sacrifice  and 
personal  discomfort  gave  up  for  the  use  of  a  school  the  old  home  in 
which  she  had  lived  for  many  years,  securing  the  cooperation  of  Mrs. 
L'nderhill,  the  principal  of  the  Belvidere  School,  in  the  carrying  out 
of  her  plan.  Prior  to  coming  to  Lowell,  Mrs.  Underbill  had  been  head 
teacher  in  Miss  Barr's  School  for  Girls  in  Boston.  She  possessed  a 
rare  combination  of  qualities  for  pioneer  work  of  this  kind.  She  had 
a  keen  and  brilliant  intellect,  initiative,  enthusiasm,  optimism,  good 
health,  and  will  power  which  saw  obstacles  only  as  something  to  be 
swept  out  of  one's  path.  With  this  equipment  on  the  side  of  con- 
structive leadership,  she  also  possessed  beauty  and  personal  charm, 
and  for  every  reason  was  admirably  fitted  to  lead  to  victory  the  new 
enterprise.  The  Belvidere  School  was  located  on  the  corner  of 
Andover  and  Nesmith  streets,  in  the  house  then  owned  by  Mrs.  Henry 
Williams.  It  opened  with  twenty-one  pupils  and  included  one  house 
pupil. 

The  people  of  Lowell  were  cordial  to  the  new  school,  and  the 
year  was  a  success  so  far  as  work  and  interest  were  concerned.  lUit 
owing  to  the  fact  that  Mrs.  Williams  was  unwilling  to  renew  the 
lease  of  her  house  a  second  year  for  school  purposes,  and  that  it  was 
practically  impossible  to  secure  a  suitable  building,  the  prospects  of 
continued  existence  for  the  Belvidere  School  seemed  dark.  At  this 
juncture  came  the  conference  between  Miss  Rogers  and  Mrs.  Under- 
hill  which  resulted  in  a  proposal  from  Miss  Rogers  that  the  Belvidere 
School  be   transferred  to  her  home  and  the  Rogers  Hall  School  be 


314  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

estal)lislu-(l  in  her  lifetime.  Tlie  previuus  year,  when  Mrs.  Underhill 
was  making  plans  for  the  Belvidere  School,  Dr.  Greene  and  Miss 
Rogers  had  called  upon  her  in  Boston  and  sviggested  even  then  that 
she  start  the  school  for  Miss  Rogers  instead  of  for  herself.  But  Mrs. 
Underhill  had  so  nearl}-  matured  her  plans  that  she  did  not  accept 
the  proposal.  After  the  school  had  been  opened  and  had  gained  in 
reputation  and  interest,  Miss  Rogers  again  considered  the  possibility 
of  making  during  her  life  the  gift  which  she  had  intended  to  make 
after  her  death.  There  were  many  conferences  before  arrangements 
were  concluded  with  Mrs.  L'nderhill,  the  corporation  of  trustees 
formed,  and  the  plans  for  remodeling  the  building  for  school  purposes 
made.  As  at  tirst  remodeled  the  Hall  had  the  present  arrangement  in 
the  main  house  with  this  exception  that  the  room  now  used  as  the 
office  was  divided  into  two  recitation  rooms,  long  known  as  A  and  B, 
and  sacred  to  the  teaching  of  mathematics  and  of  Latin.  The  ell  was 
torn  down  and  rebuilt.  The  first  floor  contained  school-room,  dining- 
room,  and  kitchens,  as  at  present,  although  of  smaller  size.  The 
second  floor  included  bed-rooms  antl  recitation-rooms,  the  third,  gym- 
nasium and  art  room. 

The  history  of  Rogers  Hall  from  its  founding  to  the  death  of  ]\Iiss 
Rogers  was  one  of  outward  success  and  of  inward  anxiety  and  diffi- 
culty. Rogers  Hall  \vas  founded  before  the  day  of  Textile  or  Normal 
schools,  and  at  a  time  when  to  people  outside,  the  word  Lowell  sig- 
nified only  mills  and  their  products.  Yet  even  at  this  time,  when  with 
a  contracted  campus  it  had  little  to  offer  in  the  way  of  outside  sports, 
it  attracted  pupils  from  cities  like  Chicago,  Buflalo,  Cleveland,  and 
Boston.  Their  coming  was  due  to  the  personality  "f  Airs.  L'nderhill 
and  to  her  ability  to  gather  about  her  a  group  of  women  who  made  the 
home  life  of  the  school  unusually  delightfid.  Ikit  the  years  were  hard 
and  difficult.  At  the  death  of  IMiss  Rogers,  in  1898,  the  whole  of  her 
property  came  under  the  control  of  the  trustees,  who  have  wisely 
assisted  in  the  school's  development  by  improving  the  plant  and  increas- 
ing the  equipment.  For  a  year  legal  difficidties  prevented  the  use  of 
Miss  Rogers'  bequest,  but  as  soon  as  these  difficulties  were  removed, 
the  house  was  equipped  as  a  dormitory,  the  old  barn  was  remodeled 
for  gymnasitmi  ])urposes,  the  fences  were  taken  down  and  suital^le 
athletic  courts  laid  out.  At  last  there  was  a  campus  wdiich  provided 
adequately  for  outdoor  sports.  The  school  immediately  responded  to 
the  advantages  of  improved  equipment  by  increased  registration.  The 
third  stor}-  of  the  house  was  next  finished  off  to  provide  additional 
si)ace  for  house  pupils.  Later  Mrs.  LTnderhill  rented  a  cottage  on 
Hanks  street,  which  met  their  needs  luitil  they  moved  into  the  larger 
cottage  on  Astor  street. 


BIOGRAPHICAI.  315 

In  1910,  Mrs.  Underhill  gave  up  her  connection  with  the  school 
after  eighteen  years  of  successful  management,  in  which  she  had  put 
the  new  school  on  its  feet,  established  its  reputation  for  good  scholar- 
ship, formulated  on  broad  lines  the  ideals  for  which  it  should  stand, 
and  planned  for  it  manj^  improvements,  some  of  which  are  yet  to  be 
realized.  Rogers  Hall  is  to  be  congratulated  that  it  had  for  its  first 
principal  in  the  years  which  must  form  the  character  of  the  school  a 
woman  who  united  with  intellectual  ability  and  executive  jjower  the 
best  traditions  of  New  England  culture.  In  the  last  nine  years  the 
school  has  continued  to  prosper.  The  gymnasium  has  been  built, 
many  permanent  improvements  have  been  made,  and  plans  for  a  new 
recitation  building  are  in  progress.  On  the  side  of  instruction  they 
have  extended  and  enlarged  the  advanced  courses  which  have  long 
been  an  attractive  feature  of  the  school.  Rogers  Hall  has  for  some 
years  offered  college  preparatory,  acadeinic  and  advanced  courses,  the 
latter  designed  for  graduates  of  high  schools  who  may  wish  two  years 
of  instruction  and  training  away  from  home.  For  the  benefit  of  such 
pupils  interesting  courses  in  English,  history,  languages,  history  of 
art.  and  psychology  were  first  planned.  Later  were  added  courses  in 
domestic  science,  and  many  brides  have  written  in  warm  praise  of  the 
Rogers  Hall  Cookbook,  which  saved  them  from  the  bride's  usual  cul- 
inary blunders.  In  1918,  preparation  for  secretarial  work  was  suc- 
cessfully given,  and  also  courses  which  had  for  their  definite  aim  the 
preparation  of  girls  for  intelligent  citizenship  in  their  home  commu- 
nities. The  members  of  these  classes  were  quickened  mentally  and 
morally  by  acc|uaintance,  however  superficial,  with  some  of  the  con- 
ditions of  life  in  our  cities  and  towns  and  they  have  gained  noticeably 
in  seriousness  of  purpose. 

In  the  twent^'-seven  years  of  life  as  a  school,  Rogers  Hall  has 
slowly  but  surely  been  developing  a  spirit  or  soul  that  is  distinctive, 
and  is  more  and  more  marking  its  girls  as  a  product  of  the  school. 
This  Rogers  Hall  spirit  has  found  expression  in  many  school  activ- 
ities, in  "Splinters,"  in  the  Rogers  Hall  Chapter  of  the  American  Red 
Cross,  in  the  system  of  student  government,  in  the  athletic  clubs,  in 
the  Summer  Athletic  Club  for  Employed  Girls,  in  the  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation with  its  splendid  record  of  patriotic  service  both  in  this  country 
and  overseas.  The  school  is  justly  proud  of  its  twenty-two  alumnae 
who  have  served  their  country  in  Europe,  but  it  is  equally  proud  of 
the  hundreds  who  gave  their  services  in  many  capacities  at  home. 

The  present  principal  of  Rogers  Hall  School  is  Miss  Olive  Sewall 
Parsons,  who  from  1892  to  1910  was  an  associate  of  Mrs.  Underhill. 
Miss  Parsons  succeeded  Mrs.  Underhill  as  principal,  and  since  that 
time  has  directed  the  work  of  the  school.     Her  service  to  the  school 


3i6  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

and  tlie  virion  tliat  inspires  her  work  is  best  expressed  in  her  own 
words  written  for  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  the  Birth  of  Elisalieth 
Rogers,  from  which  most  of  the  foregoing  has  been  quoted. 

What  of  the  future?  Will  Rogers  Hall  stand  as  a  permanent 
institution  throughout  the  years,  and  on  the  Bicentennial  of  the 
Founder's  birthday  show  a  worthy  record  of  development  and  accom- 
plishment? In  these  days  of  governmental  questionnaire  and  inves- 
tigation, all  industries  and  institutions  which  from  force  of  habit  have 
classified  themselves  as  of  the  essential  class  must  without  reserve 
search  out  the  reason  for  their  existence,  and  if  they  have  no  real  and 
vital  mission  to  perform,  merge  themselves  in  some  institution  or 
industry  which  can  prove  its  value.  How  is  it  with  the  private  school? 
Is  Rogers  Hall  a  school  for  the  (Uiiiylitcrs  of  the  well-to-do,  justifying 
its  existence  through  its  aims  and  iikals,  in  the  training  which  it  is 
giving  the  girls  who  come  to  it  fur  in^-tructii  )n,  and  in  the  service  ren- 
dered by  its  alumnae  to  community  anil  country?  In  my  opinion,  a 
school  like  Rogers  Hall  docs  have  a  definite  and  substantial  reason  for 
existence.  It  will  perform  a  work  of  undoubted  service  to  the  country 
as  well  as  to  the  girls  who  come  to  it,  if  it  recognizes  a  great  oppor- 
tunity in  training,  for  civic  responsibility  and  service,  the  pupils  who 
come  from  all  sections  of  the  country ;  for  here  they  live  in  a  minia- 
ture world  where  all  conditions  are  favorable  for  inspiring  impres- 
sionable minds  and  characters  with  patriotic  ideals.  A  school  of  this 
character  should  develop  leaders^  eager  and  ready  to  do  their  part 
worthily  in  the  larger  life  outside  school.  I  have  dreamed  many 
dreams  of  the  future  development  of  Rogers  Hall.  Through  the  wise 
and  eiificient  cooperation  of  trustees,  faculty,  alumnae  and  pupils  in 
the  3'ears  to  come,  I  look  for  the  fulfillment  of  many  of  my  dreams, 
and  the  continued  life  and  prosperity  of  this  memorial  "more  enduring 
than  brass"'  to  the  generosity  and  wisdom  of  Elisabeth  Rogers. 


GEORGE  M.  HARRIGAN. 


Frcim  youth  Mr.  Harrigan  has  been  engaged  in  accounting  and 
actuarial  Avork,  only  resigning  that  form  of  activity  to  become  presi- 
dent of  The  Lowell  Trust  Company,  one  of  Lowell's  worthy  banking 
institutions,  of  which  he  was  the  first  actuary.  For  over  a  quarter  of 
a  century  he  has  been  thus  intimately  connected  with  The  Lowell 
Trust  Ciimpany,  and  as  its  president  he  takes  an  honored  place  in  the 
world  of  finance.  As  a  boy  he  was  a  worker,  as  a  young  man  he  made 
inany  sacrifices  to  acquire  knuwledge,  and  as  a  man  of  matm-e  years 
he  is  still  a  worker. 

George  M.  Harrigan  is  a  son  of  John  Harrigan,  born  in  Coimty 
Cork,  Ireland,  in  1818,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  December  23, 
I '^93-  John  Harrigan  was  educated  and  became  familiar  with  business 
methods  in  his  native  country,  and  in  1845  came  to  the  United  States, 
locating  in   Lowell,  where   he   became   connected  with   E.    B.   Patch, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  317 

furniiurc  manufacturer,  and  I'utnani  &  Son,  ckHhit-rs.  lie  was  a 
good  liusiness  man.  upright  and  honorable,  highly  cstet-med  by  all. 
He  married  Elizabeth  J.  Coughlin,  of  Lowell. 

George  M.  Harrigan  was  born  in  Lowell,  August  26.  1862.  and 
has  ever  resided  in  his  native  city.  He  passed  all  grades  of  the  publie 
school  in  regular  course,  finishing  with  graduation  from  high  school  in 
1879.  He  received  the  degree  of  LL.  B.  from  Northeastern  College. 
Boston,  Massachusetts,  1917.  Immediately  after  graduation  from  high 
school  he  entered  business  life  with  L.  \V.  Hall,  whom  he  remained 
with  eighteen  months,  then  entered  the  employ  of  Donovan  <.^  Com- 
pany, wholesale  grocers.  For  three  years  he  served  that  company  as 
Ijookkeeper,  then  was  admitted  to  the  firm  as  junior  partner.  During 
the  years  which  intervened  until  1891,  he  continued  a  partner  in  that 
company,  also  was  interested  with  John  J.  Donovan  and  others  in  the 
Beaver  Brook  Paper  Company  as  partner,  and  in  the  Atlantic  Tele- 
graph Company,  of  which  he  was  auditor  and  clerk.  In  these  posi- 
tions he  demonstrated  sterling  business  qualities  which  marked  him 
for  leadership.  In  1890.  he  severed  his  connection  with  Donovan  iK- 
Company,  and  with  John  J.  Donovan  and  others  efifected  the  organ- 
ization of  The  Lowell  Trust  Company.  He  completed  this  work  suc- 
cessfully, obtained  a  charter  from  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  the 
organization  being  completed  and  business  begun  February  9,  1891. 
with  John  J.  Donovan,  jjresident,  George  T.  .Sheldon,  treasurer: 
George  AI.  Harrigan,  actuary.  Not  long  afterward  the  Washington 
Savings  Bank  was  incorporated  as  an  allied  institution,  John  J. 
Donovan,  president;  George  M.  Harrigan.  treasurer.  As  actuary  of 
the  Trust  Company  and  treasurer  of  the  Savings  Bank,  Mr.  Harrigan 
guided  the  department  over  which  he  presided  w^ith  skill  and  judg- 
ment, both  institutions  quickly  taking  their  proper  place  in  Lowell's 
financial  system,  and  adding  to  its  strength  and  to  the  city's  standing 
in  the  world  of  finance.  In  1902,  Mr.  Donovan  resigned  the  presi- 
dency of  The  Lowell  Trust  Company,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr. 
Harrigan,  who  at  the  same  time  resigned  as  treasurer  of  the  Wash- 
ington Savings  Bank,  the  Trust  Company  and  the  Savings  Bank  now 
being  divorced,  each  having  its  own  officers  and  directing  boards.  .As 
president  of  The  Lowell  Trust  Company,  he  has  fully  proven  his  ability 
to  administer  the  duties  of  his  office.  He  was  also  vice-president  of 
the  Lowell  Insulated  Wire  Company,  and  proprietor  of  T.  C.  Lee  Insur- 
ance Agency.  Mr.  Harrigan  has  been  actively  identified  with  the 
advancement  of  Lowell's  industrial  affairs,  and  many  commercial  and 
industrial  enterprises  of  importance  tnay  be  attributed  to  his  efTorts. 
He  was  connected  for  twenty-five  years  with  the  Board  of  Trade, 
many  years  on  the  board  of  directors,  three  years  first  vice-president, 
and  two  years  president.  During  his  official  tertns  in  office,  great 
strides  were  made  in  bringing  nianv  di\-ersified  new  industries  to  the 


?i8  HISTORY  OF  LOWKLL 


niein 


MHO-   ihcm    the    ^Ikh-    indiislr>  ,   ol    wlucli    n^lit    lu-w    rsiahlisli- 
t-rc  indiucil  to  Iccati-  here.     After  much  time  :iih1  funds  spent 

hv  liim  jjersimalh  .  he   was  instrinnental   in  hringintj  the  large    i^iston 

&  .Maine  car  shops  m   MiUerica.  five  miles  from   the  center  .if   I.nwell. 

for  which  he  received  puhlic  cc  mimendatii  in  from  the  city  government. 

Hoard  of  Trade,  and  other  oro-anizalions.     The   followino-  c<.ninienda- 

tion-  are  of  intere-t  : 

Kksohtions  Adoi'tf.i)  i'.\  rxwiMois  \'otf.  oi-   riiK  Dirf-ctoks  ok  the 
LovvEi.i.   lioAKii  OF  Tkadf;,  June   14,    191 1. 

W'liKKEAS,  The  Lowell  Hoard  of  Trade  has  been  complimented  liy 
officials  (jf  the  Hoslon  &  Maine  Railroad  for  the  good  work  of  the  I'.oard 
and  esijecially  the  individual  work  of  one  of  its  memhers.  Mr.  ( 7eory;e  M. 
Uarrigan,  in  securing  the  locations  for  the  locomotive,  car  and  repair 
shops  of  the  lioston  &  Maine  Railroad,  to  be  established  at  Hillerica,  and 

WiiERE.xs,  In  the  front  rank  of  the  loyal  workers  for  this  project 
stands  preeminent  Mr.  George  M.  Harrigan,  a  true,  public-spirited  citizen, 
who  has  given  freely  of  his  time  and  money,  and  made  many  sacrifices  in 
the  interests  of  the  city  and  this  organization,  that  terminated  successfulh' 
in  securing  the  shops,  be  it 

Rcsol-i'ed.  That  these  resolutions  be  jiresented  .Mr.  ( ieorge  M.  Harri- 
gan in  appreciation  of  his  imtiring  efforts  as  a  lasting  memorial  to  his 
tmsellish.  energetic  and  faithful  work. 

IIarve\-  r..  (Irfexf.  President, 
loii.x    11.   .Ml•R^Ml^.  Secretary. 

Where.xs.  The  memhets  of  the  (  ity  Council,  mindful  of  whatever 
may  conduce  to  promote  tl'.e  materi.al  progress  of  our  city,  and  realizing 
that  the  location  of  the  loconioti\'e,  car  and  repair  -ho|)s  .if  the  I'.oston  & 
Maine  Railroad  in  the  neighboring  village  of  Xorth  Hillerica  means  speedy 
and  substantial  growth  of  our  municipality,  and  wishing  to  express  pub- 
licly to  the  officials  of  the  Pioston  &  Alaine  Railroad  and  to  all  those  who 
so  generoush-  and  effectively  contributed  their  assistance,  mn-  sincere 
a]ipreciation  of  the  comjiliment  convexed  in  the  selection  of  a  site  so  near 
this  cit\,  and  deeming  it  our  bounden'  dut\  .  in  behalf  of  our  c^W  govern- 
ment and  of  this  entire  commnnit\',  lo  record  ni  suitalile  form  the  ]iro- 
foniid  sens,,  of  -ratitude  which  we  .and  ihev  feel  towar.l  -aid  r.ailroad 
oiticials  and   toward   all   tho-r   who  cooperated   m   obtaining  this   spl,-,ulid 

unaninionsK   an.l  eiitluisiasticalh 

K'rsoh'nl.  Th.at  the  heartfelt  thanks  of  the  Hoard  of  Aldermen  and 
of  the  (  ommon  t  oiincil  and  of  the  people  of  the  city  of  Lowell  ,ire  hereby 
exlen<led  l.i  the  Huston  cV  .Maine  Railroad,  and  its  ottichaU.  who  gave 
preference  to  the  claims  of  tin-,  vicinity  over  those  of  nian\  competitors 
.-md  to  wh.om  we  are  primarily  inilebted  for  all  the  advantages  which  m.ay 
acenie  to  our  city  for  the  siie  selected,  and  be  it  further 

h'csuk'cd.  That  the  citizens  of  the  town  of  Hillerica  and  the  members 
of  its  I'oard  of  Trade  deserve  and  should  receive  our  hearty  congratula- 
tions for  their  activities,  the  results  of  which  contributed  so  efl'cctively  to 
bring  about  the  choice  of  th.at  town   for  the  extensive  operations  which  the 


-  BIOGRAPHICAI."      .  310 

h'lsohcd,  That  liif  members  of  the  Lowell  ISoard  of  Trade  and  its 
efficient  sub-committee,  namely:  Harvey  B.  Greene,  Joseph  L.  Chalifoiix, 
Jesse  J  I.  Sheppard,  Herford  X.  Elliott,  John  ?T.  Murphy.  Carl  M.  Pihl,  in 
conjunction  with  our  honorable  mayor.  John  I'.  Mcehan.  are  entitled  to 
our  highest  commendation  for  the  zealous  and  energetic  efforts  they  dis- 
played and  without  which  this  great  boon  to  our  city  might  never  have 
l)een  realized,  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  of  all  the  powerful  influence  l>y  which  this  great 
achievement  was  accomplished,  and  of  all  the  public-spirited  citizens  who 
participated  therein,  the  skillful  and  self-sacrificing  labors  of  our  esteemed 
fellow-townsman.  Mr.  George  M.  Harrigan.  are  deserving  of  special  rec- 
ognition. 

Throughout  the  long  and  arduuus  struggle  to  locate  this  most  desir- 
able industry  in  close  proximity  to  our  city,  Mr.  Harrigan  toiled  unceas- 
ingly and  when  formidable  objections  to  the  land  titles  endangered  for  a 
time  the  entire  project,  the  ability,  tact  and  zeal  of  Mr.  Harrigan  over- 
came and  removed  all  obstacles  and  assured  its  success. 

To  Mr.  Harrigan.  therefore,  we  extend  our  felicitations  and  record 
our  gratitude  for  his  distinguished  and  ])atriotic  services.  In  this  con- 
nection, the  tribute  of  ^Ir.  Frank  llarr.  Vice-President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  might  fittingly  be  quoted:  "If  I 
lived  in  Lowell,  I  would  see  Mr.  Harrigan  the  very  first  thing,  because  he 
is  the  man  who  accomplishes  what  he  sets  out  to  do." 

And  be  it  further  and  finally 

Resolved.  That  these  resolutions  be  inscribed  upon  the  records  of  the 
City  Council  and  that  copies  thereof  be  transmitted  to  the  I'residents  of 
the  Boston  i^  Maine  Railroad,  the  Billerica  and  Lowell  Boards  of  Trarle 
and  to  Mr.  ( ieorge  M.  Harrigan.  al>o  members  of  the  city  government. 

Cduncilm.w  Joh.x  J.  CoLT.ni.t.v.  Chairman: 
CouNCiLM.AN  Herbert  L.  Chapm  \.\. 
Cf)UNciLM.\x  John  J.xcob  Rogers. 
Ai.DERM.vx  Hercule  .\.  Toupix, 
.\lderm.\x  Jeremi.mi  F.  Coxxors. 

Passed  in  Common  Council.  June  8,    igii. 
[.si'.al]  Passed  in   Board  of  .Kldcrmen,  June   1  .v    nj'i. 

.\pproved.  June  22.  191 1. 

Steimii-:\    l•■^.^^x.   Cit\    Clerk, 
loiix   F.  Mrkiiax,  Mavor. 


BOSTO.X  \-  .\L\L\F  RAILROAD. 

Office  of 

\'i(E-l'RESinEXT    \x»  Gexeral   .Maxai 

;eu. 

BosTox.  Ma.^s.,  Ai)ri 

1  28, 

TlIIKI 

Mr.  Hakvev  B.  Creexe, 

President.  Lowell  Board  of  Trade, 
Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

Dear  Sir: 

Thanks  to  the  good  offices  of  Mr.  (jeorge  M.  Harrigan,  representing 
your  board,  all  luatters  which  in  any  way  tended  to  cloud  the  title  to  land 
on  which  options  were  obtained  have  been  cleared  and  we  are  now  taking 


320  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

tip  till-  deeds.  It  liKiked,  ;il  the  lime  that  I  advised  you  of  the  discovery  of 
perpetual  options  covering  two  rights  of  way  through  the  land,  as  though 
we  would  have  to  throw  up  the  whole  deal  and  take  up  one  of  the  other 
tracts  which  had  been  offered  us.  Mr.  Harrigan,  however,  took  the  whole 
burden  on  his  shoulders  and  has  carried  it  through  with  great  ability  and 
complete  success. 

I  am  writing  this  letter  to  you  for  the  reason  that  1  feared  if  i  only 
expressed  my  appreciation  to  Mr.  Harrigan  personally,  no  one  else  would 
ever  know  it,  and  knowing  that  the  Board  of  Trade  and  citizens  generally 
were  extremely  interested,  thought  that  you  should  be  formally  advised 
that  you  may  be  sure  of  having  the  information,  which  I  know  you  and 
the  iniblic  will  fully  appreciate. 

Yours  truly,  h"R.\.N'K   1I.\ki'. 

\'ice-l 'resident  and  General   Manager. 

A  Democrat  in  his  political  faith,  he  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Lowell  School  I^oard  eight  years,  the  last  five  vears  being  vice-chair- 
man, t)oth  his  own  party  friends  and  the  opposition  supporting  him 
with  their  votes.  In  kjicj  he  was  the  candidate  of  the  Democratic 
party  for  State  Treasurer,  running  several  thousand  \(jtes  ahead  of 
his  ticket  in  Lowell.  He  has  refused  public  office  since  i.irganizing 
The  Lowell  Trust  Companv.  He  was  the  first  president  of  Division  8, 
.\ncient  (Order  of  Hibernians :  member  of  the  American  Order  of  For- 
esters ;  a  member,  president  and  director  of  the  Board  of  Trade. 

Mr.  Harrigan  married,  July  17,  1^03,  Maria  C.  Sulliwin,  of  Law- 
rence, Massachusetts.  Two  children  were  born  to  them:  I'dizabeth 
M.  and  Louise  C,  both  attending  Trinity  College.  Washington.   I).  (.  . 


THE    LOWELL   TRUST    COMPANY. 

The  functions  of  a  trust  cimiKiny  .is  now  construed  tlitier  little 
from  those  of  a  national  bank,  yet  those  few  differences  are  radical. 
The  original  idea  implied  in  the  name  Trust  has  been  greatly  enlarged, 
but  that  idea  has  ne\er  been  de])arted  from.  The  Lowell  Trust  Com- 
pany was  the  lirst  of  Lowell's  financial  institutions  to  organize  under 
the  Trust  Company  laws,  and  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  has  stood  as 
an  example  of  conservative,  thoroughly  reliable  management. 

The  Lowell  Trust  Company,  located  in  the  Donovan  building  at 
the  junction  of  Central,  Gorham  and  Middlesex  streets,  was  incor- 
porated and  started  business  February  9,  1891,  The  first  officials  of 
the  company  were:  President,  John  J.  Donovan;  treasurer,  George 
T.  Sheldon;  actuary,  George  M.  Harrigan;  teller,  C.  V    Hamblett. 

John  J.  Donovan,  the  first  presideiU.  retained  that  office  a  number 
of  years,  then  was  succeeded  by  ( ieorge  M.  Harrigan,  the  present 
executi\e  head.     '1  he  management  of  the  com])an\    is   further  \ested 


BIOGRAPHICAL  321 

in  a  board  of  directors  composed  of  twenty-four  members,  including 
the  president,  three  vice-presidents,  and  actuary.  The  capital  stock 
of  the  company  is  $250,000,  and  every  accommodation  consistent  with 
sound  banking  is  extended  to  patrons.  Its  present  officers  are :  Presi- 
dent. George  M.  Harrigan  ;  vice-presidents,  Charles  H.  Hanson,  George 
L.  Huntoon,  Peter  \V.  Reilh- ;  actuarv,  T.  F.  Connors. 


DEMOSTHENES  J.  GENERALES,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Generales,  since  1901  a  resident  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
widely  known  through  professional  connections  and  his  activity  in 
Greek-American  organizations,  is  a  descendant  of  an  ancient  and 
patrician  family  of  Candia  (Crete),  Greece.  The  name,  Generales, 
has  been  borne  by  military  and  political  officials  throughout  many 
years,  and  large  landed  possessions  are  held  in  the  family  name.  The 
traditions  of  his  line,  extending  far  Ijack  into  Grecian  history,  and 
embracing  a  record  of  devoted  and  unselfish  public  service,  are  held 
in  honored  regard  by  Dr.  Generales,  and  although  Greece  is  no  longer 
his  home  many  of  his  labors  are  directed  toward  the  welfare  of  his 
countrymen  at  home  and  in  the  United  States.  Dr.  Generales 
was  born  in  the  town  of  Xirokambion,  Greece,  December  20,  1869.  son 
of  John  A.  and  Katherine  P.  (Karadodes)  Generales,  his  father  a 
school  teacher  and  owner  of  large  olive  estates.  John  A.  Generales 
was  of  the  branch  of  the  family  resident  at  Rethymnon,  of  Candia 
(Crete),  and  died  at  Xirokambion,  Greece,  in  March,  1900,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-nine,  his  wife's  death  occurring  there  in  1895. 

Demosthenes  John  Generales  was  educated  in  the  grammar  and 
high  schools  in  the  ancient  city  of  Sparta,  graduating  with  honors 
from  each  department,  and  was  the  valedictorian  of  his  class  in  the 
high  school.  He  then  entered  the  medical  department  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Athens,  and  was  graduated  with  the  degree  of  M.  D.,  in  the 
class  of  1892.  Before  being  permitted  to  practice  medicine  in  Greece, 
it  is  necessary  that  a  physician  comply  with  the  laws  of  the  country 
which  makes  military  service  compulsary,  and,  accordingly,  he  en- 
tered the  Ambulance  Corps  of  the  Greek  army,  in  three  months  being 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  sub-lieutenant  physician,  one  year  later 
attaining  the  rank  of  lieutenant-physician.  After  three  years'  service 
in  the  army,  he  took  up  private  practice  of  medicine  in  his  native  town, 
Xirokambion,  in  1894,  remaining  here  until  1897,  when  he  again  be- 
came a  lieutenant-physician  in  the  Greek  army,  serving  throughout 
the  Greek-Turkish  War  of  1897,  in  the  surgical  division.  He  was  in 
the  front  line  of  the  battle  of  Revenion  in  Thessaley,  and  for  his  devo- 
tion to  duty  in  rendering  medical  and  surgical  service  to  the  wounded 
L-21 


322  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

soldiers  under  fire  he  received  honorable  mention  in  the  official  reports 
of  General  Reglis,  the  commander  of  the  Greek  forces.  Later  he  was 
summoned  to  Athens  as  city  physician,  a  position  he  held  for  about  a 
year,  and  when  the  army  was  demobilized  he  returned  to  private  prac- 
tice in  Xirokambion. 

In  1899,  Dr.  Generales  left  Greece  for  America,  landing  at  New 
York  City,  September  i,  1899,  where  he  resided  for  eighteen  months, 
during  which  time  he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  the  Presbyterian 
Hospital.  In  1901  he  moved  to  Lowell.  Prior  to  being  registered  and 
licensed  to  practice  he  served  as  an  external  physician  to  the  Boston 
Lying-in  Hospital,  for  several  months,  and  completed  a  post-grad- 
uate course  at  the  Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  Boston.  On 
September  10,  1903,  Dr.  Generales  was  licensed  to  practice  medicine 
by  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts,  he  being  the  first  Greek 
physician  to  pass  the  necessary  examinations  in  the  English  language. 
He  applied  for  examination  in  the  Greek  language,  but  that  privilege 
being  denied  him  he  had  to  perfect  his  knowledge  of  English  and  pass 
his  examinations  in  this  language,  which  accounts  for  the  delay,  a 
short  one  when  all  that  the  doctor  had  accomplished  is  considered. 
He  enjoys  a  large  practice,  and  his  ability  is  constantly  increasing 
because  of  his  broad  reading  and  his  wide  experience,  the  former  keep- 
ing him  in  touch  with  the  trend  of  modern  professional  thought  and 
investigation. 

In  May,  1909,  Dr.  Generales  was  the  only  physician  from  the 
United  States  who  attended  the  first  convention  ever  held  in  Greece 
to  combat  tuberculosis.  King  Constantine,  then  Crown  Prince,  pre- 
sided over  the  convention,  which  was  addressed  by  Dr.  Generales 
upon  conditions  of  the  Greeks  in  Lowell  and  in  other  parts  of  the 
United  States.  His  speech  was  published  in  all  the  leading  news- 
papers of  Greece,  and  has  also  been  published  in  the  special  book  of 
the  convention  college,  "Practikatou  A.  Hellinicou  synedreou  Kata 
tes  Phymatiosseos"  (official  records  of  the  Greek  physicians  of  the 
first  Anti-Tuberculosis  Congress).  He  was  also  honored  with  being 
elected  as  vice-president  of  the  convention.  He  has  been  very  helpful 
to  his  countrymen  in  Lowell,  aiding  and  encouraging  them  in  their 
efforts  to  obtain  education  and  a  business  foothold.  In  1916  he  was 
elected  president  of  the  Greek  Colony  of  Lowell ;  is  president  of  the 
Greek-American  Americanization  Club  of  Lowell;  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Pan-Hellenic  Union  of  America,  a  national  organization  which  he 
has  served  as  president  of  the  Lowell  branch,  and  as  a  member  of  the 
central  committee,  of  which  he  was  general  secretary  when  Michael 
/Xnagnos,  the  well  known  director  of  the  Perkins  Instittite  for  the 
Blind  in  Boston,  was  president. 


BIOGRAPHICAL 


323 


In  November,  1906,  to  insure  an  intelligent  presentation  of  Greek 
conditions  and  the  Greek  position  in  Balkan  affairs.  Dr.  Generales 
established  the  newspaper,  "Henosis"  (meaning  Union),  which  he 
edited.  This  journal,  remarkable  in  the  fact  of  its  founding  from 
purely  patriotic  motives,  grew  to  national  circulation,  and  was  addi- 
tionally notable  in  that  one  entire  page  was  printed  in  the  English 
language.  Its  volume  of  circulation  and  attendant  business  attained 
proportions  that  made  it  necessary  for  Dr.  Generales  to  arrange  for 
others  to  continue  its  publication,  his  private  and  professional  inter- 
ests prohibiting  the  devotion  of  the  required  time  to  the  paper.  In 
the  transfer  of  "Henosis"  to  Greek  scholars  capable  of  following  the 
lines  he  had  laid  down  he  received  no  remuneration  for  his  property, 
content  in  the  knowledge  that  his  plan  would  be  followed  and  that  his 
country  would  be  fairly  represented  in  the  paper  he  founded. 

Dr.  Generales  was  elected,  in  recognition  of  generous  voluntary 
contributions,  an  honorary  member  of  the  Agricultural  Society  of 
Greece.  This  society  has  as  its  honorary  president  the  King  of  Greece, 
while  the  by-laws  of  the  organization  provide  for  the  Premier  of 
Greece,  whoever  be  in  office,  to  hold  the  office  of  active  president.  Dr. 
Generales  is  a  member  of  the  ^Middlesex  North  District  Medical  Soci- 
ety, the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  and  the  American  Medical 
Association,  Lowell  Anti-Tuberculosis  Association,  the  Volunteer 
Medical  Service  Corps  of  the  United  States,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  and  of  the  Greek  Catholic  church.  In  December,  1910, 
the  citizens  of  Sparta,  Greece,  nominated  Dr.  Generales  as  a  candidate 
for  deputy  of  the  Parliament  of  Greece  to  represent  the  Province  of 
Laconia.  He  failed  of  election  by  only  a  few  votes,  and  this  was  due 
to  the  question  that  arose  as  to  the  legality  of  a  citizen  of  the  L'nited 
States  holding  office  as  a  member  of  the  Greek  Parliament. 

Dr.  Generales  married,  on  January  28,  1908  (Greek  calendar),  in 
the  city  of  Pirsus,  port  of  Athens,  Greece,  Urania  Constantine  Tsel- 
epis,  daughter  of  Constantine  and  Marie  Tselepis.  Mrs.  Generales  is 
highly  educated,  an  accomplished  musician,  a  graduate  of  the  exclu- 
sive "Odeon"  of  Athens  with  the  highest  honors.  The  Tselepis  family 
is  an  aristocratic  family  of  distinction,  very  wealthy,  owners  of  large 
tracts  of  real  estate,  having  their  own  property  on  the  water  front, 
officially  known  as  "Tselepis'  Quay."  Her  father,  Constantine  Tsel- 
epis, is  a  retired  exporter  and  importer  of  Piraeus,  whose  interests  were 
large  and  extensive.  He  is  also  a  man  of  wide  education.  Dr.  and 
Mrs.  Generales  are  the  parents  of  three  children :  Constantine  D., 
born  November  10,  1908;  Minos  D.,  born  April  10,  1910;  Helle  D., 
born  August  21,  19 1 7,  the  two  eldest  children  being  born  in  Pir.xus, 
Greece,  and  the  youngest  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 


324  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

FRANCIS  WAYLAND  QUA. 

Now  senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Qua,  Howard  &  Rogers, 
Mr.  Qua  returned  to  private  practice  in  Lowell  after  public  service  as 
a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature  and  as  city  solicitor  of 
Lowell.  His  professional  career  covers  a  period  of  more  than  forty 
years,  ami  the  Firm  of  which  he  is  the  head  is  of  wide  reputation  in 
the  locality. 

Mr.  Qua  is  a  son  of  Robert  and  Jane  (Moncrief )  Qua.  his  father 
a  prominent  contractor  and  builder,  and  was  born  in  LisI)on.  St.  I^aw- 
rence  county.  New  York.  September  2,  1S45.  His  educatiiin  was 
obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  his  birthplace,  Ogdensburg  .\cad- 
emy,  Ogdensburg,  New  York,  and  private  institutions.  For  four  years 
after  completing  his  studies  he  taught  school,  and  subsequently  fol- 
lowed journalism  for  a  time  as  a  reporter.  In  1872  he  became  em- 
ployed by  the  Central  Vermont  Railroad  Company,  continuing  with 
that  road  until  1875.  In  July,  1878.  having  passed  the  required  exam- 
inations, he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Lowell,  Alassachusetts,  and  at 
once  began  professional  work.  Becoming  interested  and  active  in 
public  affairs,  and  gaining  a  wide  acquaintance,  he  was  elected  to  the 
State  Legislature  in  1888,  served  for  one  term,  and  from  1895  to  1903 
filled  the  office  of  city  solicitor  of  Lowell.  Declining  to  accept  the 
candidacy  for  another  term  to  devote  himself  to  private  affairs,  he 
resumed  his  practice,  and  in  1906  associated  with  him  his  son,  Stanley 
E.  Qua,  in  the  general  practice  of  law.  Until  1912  this  arrangement 
continued,  when  the  firm  of  Qua,  Howard  &  Rogers  was  formed,  its 
members  Francis  W.  Qua,  Albert  S.  Howard,  Melvin  J.  Rogers,  and 
Stanley  E.  Qua.  Afterwards  another  son,  Francis  M.  Qua,  was 
admitted  to  the  firm,  which  has  acquired  an  important  and  influential 
clientele  and  has  high  professional  standing.  The  offices  of  the  firm 
are  in  the  Hildreth  building,  Merrimack  square.  ]\Ir.  Qua  is  a  com- 
municant of  the  Kirk  Street  Congregational  Church.  His  political 
sympathies  are  Republican. 

Mr.  Qua  married,  at  Ogdensburg,  New  York,  September  16,  1879, 
Alice  L.,  daughter  of  Michael  and  Mary  .-Xnn  Harder,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of:  Stanley  E.,  born  August  26,  1880,  and  Francis  M.,  born 
November  11,  1890,  both  previously  mentioned  as  members  of  the 
firm  of  Qua,  Howard  &  Rogers. 


BUTLER  AMES. 


Butler  Ames,  one  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  of  Lowell,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  major-general  commanding  the  Massachusetts  State 
(iuard,  is  a  native  son  of  this  city,  and  one  of  which  it  may  justly  be 
I  routl.     He  is  a  grandson  of  Major-General  Benjamin  F.  Butler,  and 


L/(i' 


BIOGRAPHICAL  325 

son  of  Major-General  Adelljert  and  Blanche  (  Butler)  Ames,  his  father 
having  been  very  prominent  in  Mississippi,  where  he  was  a  large 
manufacturer,  serving  the  State  as  governor  and  representing  it  in  the 
United  States  Senate.  He  was  a  major-general  during  the  Civil  War, 
and  served  as  brigadier-general  during  the  war  with  Spain. 

General  Butler  Ames  was  born  in  Lowell,  August  21,  1871.  Dur- 
ing his  boyhood  he  attended  the  Lowell  public  schools,  and  there 
gained  the  elementary  portion  of  his  education.  He  was  then  sent  by 
his  father  to  the  famous  Phillips-Exeter  Academy  at  Exeter,  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  completed  his  preparation  for  college.  He  was 
then  appointed  to  the  West  Point  Military  Academy  and  graduated 
from  that  splendid  school  with  the  class  of  1894.  He  then  entered 
the  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  and  took  a  post-graduate 
course,  and  in  1896  was  given  a  degree  both  as  a  mechanical  and  elec- 
trical engineer.  Upon  completing  his  education.  General  Ames  became 
agent  of  the  Wamesit  Power  Company,  and  began  to  take  an  active  in 
terest  in  the  management  of  the  many  industries  controlled  by  his  fam- 
ilv.  He  is  now  treasurer  of  the  United  States  Cartridge  Company,  treas- 
urer of  the  Wamesit  Power  Company,  treasurer  of  the  Heinze  Elec- 
tric Company,  treasurer  of  the  United  States  Magnet  Safety  Razor 
Company,  president  of  the  Wamesit  Garage,  and  an  officer  and  direc- 
tor in  many  other  large  enterprises.  General  Ames  has  been  very 
active  in  the  political  life  of  this  region  since  his  early  youth,  and  has 
taken  a  leading  part  therein.  He  first  started  his  political  career  as  a 
member  of  the  Lowell  City  Council.  He  served  three  years  in  the 
Massachusetts  State  Legislature,  and  in  1902  was  elected  a  member 
of  Congress  from  the  fifth  Congressional  District  and  served  in  that 
capacity  for  ten  years,  retiring  voluntarily  after  that  period  so  as  to 
enable  him  to  give  his  entire  time  to  business  At  the  outbreak  of  the 
Spanish-American  War,  General  Ames  volunteered  and  was  commi.s- 
sioned  a  second  lieutenant  in  one  of  the  companies  of  the  Sixth  Massa- 
chusetts Voluntary  Regiment.  He  was  promoted  at  the  front  and 
commissioned  a  lieutenant-colonel  of  the  Sixth  Massachusetts  Volun- 
tary Regiment  by  Governor  Wolcott.  He  organized  and  is  now  the 
major-general  commanding  the  Massachusetts  State  Guard.  General 
.\mes  is  a  member  of  the  Masons,  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  of  a  num- 
ber of  the  prominent  clubs  in  this  region,  including  the  Yorick  Club 
of  Lowell,  the  Union  Club  of  Boston,  the  Vesper  Country  Club  of 
Lowell,  the  Brookline  Country  Club  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  and 
the  New  York  Yacht  Club.  In  his  religious  belief  he  is  an  Episco- 
[lalian  and  attends  St.  Anne's  Church  of  that  denomination  at  Lowell. 

General  Ames  was  united  in  marriage,  June  25,  1914.  at  Columbia, 
Missouri,  with  Fifille  Willis,  daughter  of  William  11.  and  lunma 
(Price)  Willis,  of  that  place. 


326  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

LUCIUS  ALBERIC  DERBY. 

When  Lucius  A.  Derby  came  to  Lowell  the  telephone  was  just 
coming  in,  electric  lights  were  few,  and  electricity  as  a  motive  power 
then  but  a  dream.  Soon  after  his  coming,  Alexander  Graham  Bell 
lectured  in  Lowell  upon"  the  wonders  of  the  telephone,  and  soon 
afterward  The  Lowell  District  Telephone  Company  was  formed,  Mr. 
Derbv  being  induced  to  enter  the  employ  of  that  company.  There  he 
received  his  first  instruction  in  electrical  work  and  learned  of  its 
wonders.  When  the  local  company  decided  to  transfer  the  central 
office  to  Boston,  Mr.  Derby  was  asked  to  go  to  that  city,  but  he  did 
not  care  to  leave  Lowell,  and  on  .September  i,  1883,  he  started  in 
business  for  himself,  the  first  man  to  enter  the  electric  field,  the  first 
man  to  install  an  electric  arc  lamp  in  a  store  in  the  city,  the  first  to 
start  an  electric  lamp  on  the  streets,  and  the  first  to  put  in  an  electric 
motor.  Thirty-six  years  have  since  elapsed,  and  he  is  still  in  the 
electrical  business,  a  pioneer  of  18R3,  Init  a  present  up-tO-the-minute 
electrician  of  1919,  conducting  his  business  since  1912  without  a 
partner. 

The  Derb\s  came  to  Lowell  from  Orford,  New  Hampshire,  where 
Simeon  Derby  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle.  He  was  the  father 
of  Dr.  John  Derby,  a  physician  of  Orford,  Dr.  Derby  being  the  father 
of  Henry  Barnes  Derby,  and  grandfather  of  Lucius  A.  Derby.  Henry 
Barnes  Derby,  born  in  Orford,  spent  most  of  his  life  there,  a  painter 
by  trade,  but  also  a  very  well  informed  and  successful  veterinarian. 
For  sixteen  years  he  was  sexton  of  the  Congregational  Church  of 
Orford,  and  was  in  charge  of  the  cemetery.  He  was  a  sufferer  from 
asthma,  and  in  1S61,  when  he  presented  himself  for  enlistment  in  the 
Eleventh  Regiment,  New  Ham])shire  Volunteer  Infantry,  in  answer 
to  President  Lincoln's  call,  his  brdlher,  Francis  l-^verett,  was  accepted 
but  Henry  B.  was  rejected.  With  a  heavy  heart  he  saw  the  boys 
march  away,  and  during  the  years  that  followed  made  several  more 
attempts  to  enlist.  Finally,  in  1864,  he  was  accepted  in  Company  B, 
Eighteenth  Regiment,  New  Hampshire  \^olunteer  Infantry,  and 
marched  away  to  the  war,  never  to  return.  The  Eighteenth  was  a 
jiart  of  the  hard  fighting  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  with  his  regiment 
Mr.  Derby  saw  severe  service.  Finally  he  contracted  a  fever  and 
ilietl  in  the  military  hospital  at  City  Point,  Virginia.  He  was  a  good 
soldier,  and  during  his  short  service  compiled  an  honorable  record. 
Henry  Barnes  Derby  married  Julia  Ruggles  Church,  born  in  Stan- 
distead,  Vermont.  She  resided  in  Orford,  later  moved  to  Campton, 
New  Hampshire,  and  died  at  Greensboro,  \'ermont,  of  jineumonia, 
while  visiting  friends,  and  was  buried  at  Orford,  New  Hampshire, 
beside  her  husband  in  the  faniilv  U)t. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  327 

Lucius  A.  Derby,  son  of  Henry  Barnes  and  Julia  Ku.^-g-les 
(Church)  Derby,  was  born  at  the  home  farm  at  Orford,  New  Hamp- 
shire, January  25,  1852,  and  there  lived  until  thirteen  j'cars  of  age. 
attending  the  district  schools  and  doing  a  boy's  work  on  the  farm.  In 
1S65  news  of  his  father's  death  in  the  army  was  received  by  his  fam- 
ily, and  soon  afterward  they  moved  to  Campton,  New  Hampshire,  and 
there  Lucius  A.  worked  on  a  farm  for  two  or  three  years,  then  obtained 
work  in  die  woolen  mills.  He  remained  ten  years  in  Campton,  then 
came  to  Lowell.  He  came  to  Lowell  without  funds,  although  when  he 
settled  with  the  mill  he  was  paid  $106.  But  the  family  had  I)ought  a 
modest  house  from  a  relative,  and  finding  there  was  S93  due  on  that 
he  cleared  it  of  debt,  even  though  it  practically  used  up  all  his  capital. 
But  he  was  well  satisfied,  as  it  placed  his  mother  in  a  position  of 
safety,  and  in  those  days  "mother"  was  his  chief  concern. 

He  came  to  Lowell  in  1875,  and  at  once  hired  with  Augustus  J. 
Howe,  a  builder,  who  paid  him  seventy-five  cents  daily  wages,  and 
agreed  to  teach  the  young  man  the  carpenter's  trade.  He  put  his 
energy  into  his  work,  and  then  after  a  day  at  carpentry  would  attend 
night  school.  After  learning  his  trade  he  worked  fpr  Deacon  Warren 
Flo\'d,  continuing  at  the  carpenter's  trade  six  years,  serving  Air.  Floyd 
as  foreman  of  the  shop  which  was  in  a  little  two  story  building  back 
of  Shattuck  block,  that  block  occupying  the  site  of  the  present  Har- 
rington block.  From  Mr.  Floyd's  employ  Mr.  Derby  went  to  the 
Lowell  District  Telephone  Company,  and  on  September  i,  1883,  he 
began  busines  for  himself  with  his  brother,  Frank  H.  Being  the  first 
man  in  the  electrical  business  in  Lowell,  and  there  being  practically 
no  such  thing  as  "an  electrical  business"  then,  he  had  to  build  from 
the  ground  up.  He  installed  the  first  arc  lights  in  Lowell,  in  the  store 
of  Putnam  &  Sons,  an  engine  being  installed  in  the  basement,  and 
from  this  current  was  generated  for  eight  Brush  arc  lights.  Among 
his  early  achievements  was  the  running  of  a  private  telephone  wire 
from  the  pulpit  of  a  church  in  Groton  to  the  bedside  of  an  old  bed- 
ridden man  who  thereafter  enjoyed  his  minister's  sermons.  He  also 
built  a  telephone  line  from  Plymouth,  New  Hampshire,  to  the  Profile 
House,  in  Franconia,  White  Mountains. 

For  the  past  twenty  years  he  has  been  in  business  at  the  pres- 
ent site.  Nos.  60-64  Middle  street,  first  occupying  a  part  of  the  Kitt- 
ridge  block,  then  taking  over  the  entire  CliiYord  block  adjoining,  now 
occupying  the  entire  three-story  building.  A  large  stock  of  all  kinds 
of  electrical  supplies  are  carried,  and  a  general  electrical  contracting 
business  is  transacted.  His  brother,  Frank  H.  Derby,  is  now  asso- 
ciated with  him.  When  the  storage  battery  came  in,  the  Eastern  Elec- 
tric Light  and  Storage  Battery  Company  was  formed,  and  both  the 


328  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Deriiy  brothers  went  to  work  for  that  comijany,  as  did  Charles  F. 
Morse,  but  they  later  dropped  out,  Lucius  A.  and  Charles  F.  Morse 
forming  a  partnership  which  cnntinued  until  1912.  Since  then  Mr. 
Derby  has  conducted  business  alone.  When  he  began  business  in 
1883  he  was  in  debt  $4,000  to  a  Lowell  bank,  as  a  result  of  the  fluctua- 
tion in  telephone  stock  which  he  had  bought.  But  this  was  paid  ofif 
with  hard  work,  and  he  has  abundantly  prospered. 

Mr  Dcrb}-  is  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  the  Masonic  order,  and 
has  received  many  honors  at  the  hands  of  his  brethren  of  that  order. 
He  has  attained  the  highest  rank  in  that  order,  the  thirty-third  degree, 
this  being  conferred  upon  him  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  a 
member  of  Pawtucket  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  for  the 
past  thirt\--two  years  has  been  its  secretary  ;  is  a  past  high  priest  of 
Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  past  thrice  illustrious  mas- 
ter of  Aharsuerus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters ;  a  member  of 
Pilgrim  Commandery,  and  in  the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  be- 
longs to  all  bodies;  past  thrice  potential  master  of  Lowell  Lodge  of 
Perfection  ;  is  sovereign  master  of  Lowell  Council,  Princes  of  Jeru- 
salem ;  a  member  of  Mt.  Calvary  Chapter,  Rose  Croix,  and  a  member 
of  Massachusetts  Consistory.  He  is  also  a  noble  of  Aleppo  Temple, 
Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  Boston,  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Masonic  Relief  Association  of  Lowell.  His  collection  of 
Masonic  jiast  officer  jewels  is  very  valuable,  few  men  attaining  so 
many.  By  virtue  of  his  patriotic  father's  service  he  becaine  eligible 
to  membership  in  the  Sons  of  Veterans,  and  has  been  one  of  the 
staunch  and  unfailing  friends  of  Admiral  Farragut  Camp  of  that  order. 
He  has  taken  the  deepest  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans, 
and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  always  standing  ready  to  ma- 
terially aid  any  member  of  either  order,  and  has  done  a  great  deal  for 
the  upbuilding  of  both.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  for  six 
years  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  Lowell.  He  is  a 
memljcr  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  First  LIniversalist  Church,  and 
a  man  highly  esteemed  in  the  citv  of  which  he  has  so  long  been  a 
resident. 

Mr.  Derby  married,  Xovemher  11,  iS(,S,  Xellie  L.  P.ryant.  bnrii  in 
Woodstock,  New  Hampshire,  daughter  of  James  and  I\lary  K.  1  Dnu>e  ) 
Br_\-;int.  James  Bryant  was  a  farmer  and  carpenter  of  Wixjdstock, 
New  Hampshire,  which  was  his  home  from  birth  until  death.  His 
wife,  Mary  K.  (Douse)  (or  Dows)  Bryant,  was  born  at  Thedfi'rd.  W-r- 
mont.  The  old  Bryant  homestead  farm  at  Woodstock  is  now  nwncd 
by  Mr.  Derby.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Derby  are  the  parents  of  one  son,  Roland 
F.verett  Derby,  born  in  Lowell,  November  15,  1900:  he  attended 
Mitchell's  Military  Scln.,,]  ;it  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  and  graduated 
with  high  honors,  and  is  now  a  student  in  the  Lowell  Textile  School. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  329 

LOUIS  A.  OLNEY,  B.  S..  M.  S. 

Among  the  fuunders  of  the  city  of  Pro\  idence,  Rhode  Island,  was 
Thomas  Ohiey,  who  came  with  Roger  Williams  in  1636,  and  from 
both  of  these  men  Louis  A.  Olney,  of  Lowell,  traces  descent  along 
paternal  and  maternal  lines. 

Louis  A.  Olney,  son  of  Albert  H.  and  Frances  E.  (Olneyj  Olncy, 
was  born  in  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  April  21,  1874,  and  there  spent 
his  youth.  He  completed  public  school  courses  with  graduation  from 
Providence  High  School  in  1891.  He  was  graduated  B.  S..  Lehigh 
University,  class  of  1896.  and  later  received  the  degree,  M.  S.,  from 
the  same  institution.  During  the  year  1896-97,  he  was  an  instructor 
in  Brown  University,  and  from  1897  until  date  (1919)  has  been  pro- 
fessor of  chemistry  and  head  of  the  department  of  textile  chemistry 
and  dyeing  of  Lowell  Textile  School.  Professor  Olney  has  been 
associated  with  the  Lowell  Textile  School  since  its  inception,  and  is 
senior  member  of  the  faculty  as  to  term  of  service.  In  addition  to  his 
duties  in  connection  with  the  Lowell  Textile  School,  Tilr.  Olney  is 
president  and  assistant  treasurer  of  the  Stirling  Mills.  The  Stirling 
Mills,  now  devoted  to  the  manufacture  of  various  types  of  woolen 
cloth,  are  located  ori  the  Concord  river  at  Lowell.  Originally  built 
by  Charles  Stott,  the  mills  were  operated  by  him  as  a  private  enter- 
prise as  long  as  he  lived,  but  after  his  death,  in  1881.  his  son,  Charles 
A.  Stott,  sold  them  to  a  new  corporation,  the  Stirling  Mills.  In  1910 
Mr.  Olney  was  elected  president  of  the  corporation,  and  still  fills  that 
position. 

Mr.  Olney  is  president  of  the  Lowell  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association ;  chairman  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Religious  Education ; 
and  is  an  active  officer  in  the  Eliot  Union  Church  (Congregational). 
He  took  an  active  part  in  the  formation  of  that  church,  its  organiza- 
tion being  brought  about  through  a  combination  of  the  Eliot  and 
Kirk  Street  churches.  He  has  also  taken  an  active  interest  in  the 
Lowell  Congregational  Clul).  of  which  he  was  formerly  president. 
He  is  a  member  of  William  North  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons; 
and  of  all  York  and  Scottish  Rite  bodies  in  Lowell.  His  club  is  the 
Engineers  of  Boston.  He  either  is  or  has  been  an  officer  in  the  fol- 
lowing societies  or  organizations:  The  American  Society  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science ;  the  Society  of  Chemical  Industry ;  the  Ameri- 
can Institute  of  Chemical  Engineers;  American  Chemical  Society; 
Lowell  Board  of  Trade ;  and  the  Morris  Plan  Bank  of  Lowell. 

Mr.  Olney  married.  June  24,  1903,  Bertha  Haynes  Holden,  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  D.  Holden.  They  are  the  parents  of  two  daughters: 
Margaret  L.  and  Edna  E..  and  of  a  son,  Richard  H.  Olney.  The  family 
home  is  in  Lowell,  the  summer  home,  Lake  Penacook,  Concord,  New 
Hampshire. 


HISTORY  OF  I.OWELI, 


ALONZO  GUSTAVUS  WALSH. 


For  a  quarter  of  a  century  and  more  Mr.  Walsh  has  been  identi- 
fied with  brokerage  dealings  in  Boston,  confining  his  operations  jirin- 
cipally  to  the  securities  of  textile  manufacturing  enterprises.  His 
business  experience,  prior  to  his  entrance  into  the  financial  line,  had 
been  in  the  printing  of  cottons  and  woolens,  and  the  knowledge  and 
acquaintance  gained  in  those  years  have  been  a  valuable  asset  in  his 
present  extensive  activities.  Mr.  Walsh  was  born  at  Tottington  Mills, 
near  Bury,  Lancashire,  England,  October  21,  1852,  son  of  Richard  and 
Mary  A.  Walsh.  His  father  was  a  designer  and  engraver  in  calico 
printing,  nnd  when  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  less  than  two  years 
of  age  the  family  had  settled  in  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island.  In  or  about 
the  year  1863  his  parents  moved  to  Brooklyn.  New  York,  in  what  was 
called  the  eastern  district,  better  known  as  Williamsburgh. 

Mr.  Walsh  attended  the  public  schools  of  Brooklyn,  and  Cooper 
Institute  in  New  York  City.  With  this  schooling  he  became  appren- 
ticed to  the  trade  of  his  father,  in  engraving  for  calico  printing.  He 
came  tc_^  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  1874,  and  finished  his  apprentice- 
ship in  the  Hamilton  Print  W'orks  of  that  city  ;  his  uncle,  Thomas 
Walsh,  being  superintendent  of  the  Hamilton  Print  Works  at  that 
time.  Later  he  went  to  New  York  to  join  his  father,  who  had  formed 
a  partnership  for  the  printing  of  woolens  with  Messrs.  Burns  and 
Tattersall.  Returning  to  Lowell  again  in  1881,  he  took  up  his  old 
trade  of  engraving  in  the  Hamilton  Print  Works  until  1892,  when  he 
became  associated  with  the  firm  of  Chamberlain,  Burdette  &  Com- 
pany, stock  brokers,  of  Boston.  Later  he  formed  a  connection  with 
Webster  F.  Putnam  &  Company,  of  Boston,  in  the  same  line  of  busi- 
ness, and  with  these  representative  firms  became  thoroughly  familiar 
with  brokerage  affairs.  In  1895  Mr.  \\'alsh  established  an  independent 
business  as  a  broker  in  Boston,  with  offices  in  the  Atlantic  Bank  build- 
ing, No.  75  State  street.  The  business  that  he  founded  was  then 
unique,  in  that  he  made  a  specialty  of  the  securities  of  textile  manu- 
facturing concerns.  He  has  developed  a  large  clientele,  and  is  known 
as  an  autbiirit\"  on  industrials  of  this  class. 

The  Repul)lican  part}'  has  had  Mr.  Walsh's  lifelong  support.  For 
many  years  he  was  secretary  of  the  Republican  City  Committee,  its 
chairman  for  four  years,  and  in  1908  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  at  Chicago  for  the  Fifth  Massachusetts 
Congressional  District.  He  has  held  impnrt.-int  posiliims  in  partv 
councils,  and  in  the  city  of  Lowell.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Lowell 
City  Council,  and  its  president  in  1889,  and  also  a  member  of  the 
School  Board.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  State  Committee 
for  many  years,  and  president  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade  in  1906-07. 
He  has  been  acti\e  in  R(iy;il  .XrcuuTui  afifairs,  is  i)ast  grand  regent  of 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  331 

Massachusetts,  and  for  sixteen  years  was  representative  to  the  Su- 
preme Council  of  the  order,  and  trustee  of  the  Highland  Council,  of 
Lowell.  He  is  a  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  Church, 
also  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Historical  Societ}',  and  the  Vesper  Coun- 
try Club. 

Mr.  Walsh  married,  June  i,  1S81,  in  Lowell,  Adelaide  J.  Brahrook, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Joseph  A.  and  Elizabeth  M.  (Fiske)  Brabrook, 
of  Lowell  Their  four  children  are:  i.  Richard  Brabrook,  born  in 
Lowell,  educated  in  the  Lowell  public  schools,  Harvard  University 
and  Harvard  Law  School,  an  attorney  of  Lowell,  and  chairman  of  the 
Lowell  School  Committee  ;  married  Mildred  McKnight,  who  died  in 
1919;  they  had  one  daughter,  Martha  A.  2.  Elizabeth  Morse,  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell,  the  Quincy  Mansion  School,  and 
a  graduate  with  honors  of  the  Boston  Museum  of  Fine  Arts ;  Miss 
Walsh  won  the  Paige  Scholarship  at  the  Fine  Arts  School  in  1913-14, 
which  carried  with  it  a  prize  of  $2,400  and  a  course  of  two  years'  study 
in  the  European  art  centers.  3.  Francis  Parkinson,  educated  in  the 
Lowell  public  schools  and  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College ;  in  the 
World  War  he  enlisted  in  the  United  States  navy  and  was  appointed 
chief  petty  officer  at  Mare  Island,  San  Francisco,  California ;  in  a  com- 
petitive examination  he  was  chosen  for  the  Annapolis  Naval  Academy, 
where  he  was  trained  for  a  commission,  later  serving  with  the  rank  of 
ensign,  and  was  assigned  to  the  Philadelphia  Navy  Yard ;  is  now  man- 
ager of  the  sales  department  of  the  firm  of  Allen  &  Wheeler,  of  Troy, 
Ohio.  4.  Adelaide  F.,  educated  in  the  Lowell  public  schools  and 
Wellesley  College,  has  made  a  study  of  music,  and  at  present  writing  is 
engaged  in  her  profession  in  the  public  schools  of  Lynn,  Massachu- 
setts. 


PETER  WILLIAM  REILLY. 


Peter  W.  Reilly  was  born  in  Merrimack,  New  Hampshire,  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1850,  and  is  the  son  of  Michael  and  Ellen  (Moffat)  Reilly, 
his  parents  coming  to  the  United  States  from  Ireland  in  the  early 
"Forties,"  and  settled  in  Merrimack.  He  attended  the  public  schools 
of  Merrimack  and  Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  until  eighteen  years  of 
age,  when  his  active  connection  with  the  printing  business  began  in 
the  New  Hampshire  "Telegraph"  in  Nashua.  After  two  years  with 
the  "Telegraph"  he  came  to  Lowell,  and  here  took  charge  of  the  press 
work  for  The  Globe  Printing  Company,  owned  by  G.  Clarence  Scott. 
Later,  he  was  employed  in  offices  at  Boston,  Fall  River,  and  Wake- 
field, Massachusetts.  He  returned  to  Lowell  in  1880,  and  entered  the 
employ  of  C.  L.  Knapp  &  Son  in  charge  of  the  printing  department  of 
the   Lowell   "Citizen,"  continuing  in   that  capacity   with   the   Citizen 


332  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Newspaper  Company  upon  its  organization.  Since  the  "Citizen"  and 
"Courier"  consolidated  as  the  "Courier-Citizen,"  in  1894,  he  has  been 
officially  connected  with  that  corporation  as  director  and  vice-presi- 
dent. There  are  now  two  companies  of  similar  names  of  wdiich  Mr. 
Reilly  is  vice-president,  they  having  originated  from  the  same  source. 
The  Courier-Citizen  Newspaper  Company,  publishers  of  one  of  the 
leading  journals  of  the  State,  and  the  Courier-Citizen  Company,  gen- 
eral writers  and  publishers  of  commercial  printing.  In  addition  to  his 
forty  years  connection  with  the  Citizen  and  the  Courier-Citizen  com- 
panies, Mr.  Reilly  has  de\eloped  other  business  interests  and  holds 
official  relation  to  the  Lowell  Trust  Company  as  director,  and  the 
Washington  Savings  Institution  of  Lowell  as  trustee.  He  is  a  member 
of  Lowell  Council,  Knights  of  Columbus,  the  Yorick  Club,  and  the 
Vesper  Country  Club. 

Mr.  Reilly  married,  October  5,  1881,  Mary  E.,  daughter  of  Major 
Timothy  B.  and  Mary  F.  (Danahy)  Crowley.  Her  father.  Major 
Crowley,  recruited  a  company  of  men  for  service  in  the  Union  army 
during  the  Civil  War,  went  to  the  front  as  their  captain,  and  for  "gal- 
lant and  meritorious  conduct"  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major. 
He  was  wounded  in  battle  and  never  fully  recovered  from  its  effects, 
dying  some  years  later.  Major  Crowley  was  born  in  Lowell,  remov- 
ing to  Nashua  after  his  marriage,  and  there  became  a  well  known  influ- 
ential citizen.  At  one  time  he  was  register  of  probate,  and  he  held 
other  important  positions  in  Nashua  until  his  death,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Peter  W.  Reilly  are  the  parents  of  four  children:  Mary  V...  James  C, 
Walter  B.,  and  Peter  W.  (2)  Reilly. 


FRANK  P.  McGILLY. 


\\lu-n  on  jaiuiary  20.  191 5,  Frank  P.  McGilly  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Middlesex  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company,  he  brought 
to  the  position  years  of  service  in  banking  in  Lowell,  and  with  the 
Bank  Commissioners  Department  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts.  In  the 
years  which  have  since  passed  his  fitness  for  the  high  executive  posi- 
tion he  holds  has  been  fully  demonstrated,  and  he  has  maintained  the 
iiigh  standards  set  by  his  predecessors.  The  policy  of  choosing  a 
leader  frf)m  the  Bank  Commissioners  Department  had  become  pop- 
ular in  Alassachusetts.  President  McGillcy  being  the  sixteenth  to  be  so 

iM-ank  P.  McCilly,  son  of  Patrick  and  Catherine  ( Dusgan )  Mc- 
Cilly.  was  b(irn  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  February  23.  1S84.  He  was 
educated  in  Ininiaculate  Concepticni  Parochial  and  Lowell  High. 
sclif)ols,  finishing  at  the  age  of  sixteen.  In  ujoo  he  entered  the  em])loy 
of  the  Lowell  Trust  Comiianw  as  messenger  bov,  and   rose  through. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  333 

various  positions  to  that  of  assistant  actuary.  He  continued  with  the 
Lowell  Trust  Companv  until  December,  191 1,  when  he  resigned  to 
accept  appointment  to  a  place  in  the  State  Banking  Department  under 
Commissioner  Chapin,  serving  through  his  administration  and  con- 
tinuing under  Commissioner  Thorndike  until  chosen  president  of  the 
Middlesex  Safe  Deposit  and  Trust  Company,  of  Lowell,  on  January 
20,  1915.  The  high  position  to  which  he  was  then  elected  he  still  ably 
fills,  and  under  his  management  the  company  has  made  substantial 
gains  and  advancement  along  sound  financial  lines.  In  1913  he  was 
chosen  commissioner  of  the  Sinking  Fund  of  the  city  of  Lowell,  and 
still  holds  that  position.  Mr.  McGilly  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  the  Knights  of  Columbus 
and  the  Young  Glen's  Catholic  Institute  of  Lowell.  His  clubs  are  the 
Highland  and  Washington  of  Lowell,  the  Longmeadow  Golf  of  Low- 
ell, the  Nashua  Country  of  Nashua,  New  Hampshire.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Bank  Officers'  Association  of  Boston. 

Mr.  McGilly  married,  at  Lowell,  June  21,  1916,  Mary  Gertrude 
Seede,  daughter  of  John  T.  and  Cordelia  (Hanley)  Seede,  and  they  are 
the  parents  of  two  sons:  Francis,  born  March  19,  1917;  and  John 
Seede,  December  18,  1918. 


PATRICK  F.  SULLIVAN. 


In  the  course  of  a  hearing  on  transportation  matters  that  was 
being  held  in  Boston,  a  few  years  ago,  a  prominent  attorney,  while 
addressing  the  committee,  said :  "In  my  opinion  the  ablest  street  rail- 
way man  in  the  United  States  is  Patrick  F.  Sullivan,  president  of  the 
Bay  State  Street  Railway  Company."  The  remark  was  received  with 
a  murmur  of  approval  which,  coming  from  a  body  of  men  well  quali- 
fied to  judge,  showed  clearly  that  the  tribute  was  deserved.  Many 
years  ago  Mr.  Sullivan  took  for  his  motto  to  be  followed  out  to  the 
best  of  his  ability  this  quotation  from  "Endymion :"  "After  mature 
deliberation  I  brought  myself  to  the  conviction  that  a  human  being 
with  a  certain  purpose  must  accomplish  it,  and  that  nothing  can  resist 
a  will  which  will  stake  even  existence  on  its  fulfillment."  And  Mr. 
Sullivan  in  his  achievement  as  head  of  the  largest  street  railway  in 
the  world  from  a  mileage  comparison,  proves  that  this  quotation  has 
been  kept  constantly  in  mind.  It  is  not  an  easy  task  to  manage  a 
railway  serving  but  one  city,  how  much  greater  then  must  be  the  re- 
sponsibility on  managing  a  railway  system  that  covers  as  much  tcrri- 
torry  and  connects  as  many  cities  and  towns  as  the  Bay  State. 

A  man  who  has  worked  close  to  Mr.  Sullivan  states  that  never 
once  during  the  past  twenty-five  years  has  he  given  a  direct  order  to 
anyone  of  his  subordinates.    He  is  a  firm  believer  in  suggestion,  argu- 


334  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

nicnt,  and  discussion  with  them,  hut  never  the  direct  order  to  do  this 
or  that.  To  liis  tactful  handling  <>[  the  army  of  men  under  him  the 
Bay  State  Street  Railway  owes  its  freedom  from  serious  labor  troubles. 
A  practical  railroad  man  himself,  with  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
calling  gained  from  actual  experience,  he  is  always  ready  to  see  and 
listen  to  the  employee's  side  of  every  controversy,  and  willing  to  grant 
their  requests  if  he  can  do  so,  without  injury  to  the  road  or  inconven- 
ience to  the  public. 

Patrick  F.  Sullivan  was  born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland,  ^March  i6. 
1856,  and  there  spent  the  early  years  of  his  life.  He  attended  public 
schools  until  brought  by  his  parents  to  the  United  States,  and  in  this 
country  was  tutored  by  George  H.  Conley,  later  superintendent  of  the 
Boston  public  schools.  He  finished  his  education  in  Lowell  Commer- 
cial College.  He  began  his  railway  career  in  the  offices  of  the  old 
Lowell  Horse  Railway,  and  the  Lowell  &  Dracut  Street  Railway,  and 
with  the  exception  of  three  years,  1883-86,  during  which  time  he  served 
as  chief  clerk  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Assessors,  he  has  been  engaged 
in  the  railroad  business  ever  since.  From  June,  1888,  until  1891,  he 
acted  in  joint  capacity  as  paymaster,  secretary,  auditor,  and  office 
manager  of  the  two  railways  mentioned,  then  was  made  manager  of 
the  Lowell  &  Suburban  Railway.  In  1899  he  went  to  Boston,  as  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Massachusetts  Electric  Companies,  which  was  a 
holding  company  of  thirty-four  systems  in  Massachusetts.  In  1900 
he  was  elected  president  of  the  Boston  &  Northern  and  Old  Colony 
systems  combined,  and  in  191 1  became  president  of  the  Bay  State 
Street  Railway  Company,  which  took  over  the  Old  Colony,  Boston  & 
Northern,  and  a  number  of  other  lines.  This  proves  that  he  had  his 
purpose  before  him  when  he  began  and  he  accomplished  it.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Old  Colony  Trust  Company,  the  Liberty  Mutual  In- 
surance Company,  and  a  member  of  its  executive  committee,  the  Dor- 
chester Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Company,  all  of  Boston ;  the  Everett 
Mills,  of  Lawrence,  the  Union  National  Bank,  of  Lowell,  and  trustee 
of  the  Central  Savings  Bank. 

Mr.  Sullivan  is  a  member  of  the  Exchange  and  Algonquin  clubs 
of  Boston,  and  of  the  Vesper  Country  Club,  of  Lowell,  and  the  Nashua 
Country  Club.  Flis  permanent  residence  is  in  Lowell.  Mr.  Sullivan 
is  married,  has  two  daughters  and  three  sons. 


MOSES  GREELEY  PARKER,  M.  D. 

T'arkcr  is  an  ancient  luiglish  faniil}-  name  derived  from  the  occu- 
pation of  the  progenitors  who  first  used  it  as  a  surname,  as  park 
keeper,  and  the  forms  Parcus  and  De  Parco  are  found  in  the  Domes- 
day Book,  the  eleventh  century.    It  is  unlikely  that  the  numerous  Eng- 


uuMy^^^^^^ 


BIOGRAPHICAF,  335 

lish  families  have  the  same  original  ancestor.  Geoffrey  Parker,  for 
instance,  was  in  England  before  the  year  925,  probably  a  Saxon,  while 
Johannes  Le  Parker,  a  Norman,  came  with  William  the  Conqueror, 
and  was  a  keeper  of  the  royal  parks. 

Anns— Gnles,  on  a  chevron  between  three  keys  erect  argent,  as  many  fleurs- 
de-lis  of  the  field. 

CresI — An  elephant's  head  couped  argent,  collared  gules,  charged  with  three 
fleurs-de-lis  or. 

Mntlo—ScciDidis  dubiisque  rectus.     (Upright  both  in  prosperity  and  in  perils). 

There  were  no  less  than  twenty-five  immigrants  named  Parker  in 
the  State  of  Massachuse^^^ts  alone  before  1650.  It  is  not  likely  that  they 
were  all  closely  related,  but  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  the  Parkers 
of  Reading.  Woburn,  Chelmsford  and  Groton  were  brothers  or  very 
near  relatives.  Abraham  Parker  lived  in  Woburn,  and  in  Chelmsford, 
Massachusetts. 

Deacon  Thomas  Parker,  who  was  born  in  England,  embarked  for 
America  on  March  11,  1635,  in  the  ship  "Susan  and  Ellen,"  which  was 
fitted  out  by  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall,  with  whose  family  a  tradition 
connects  the  Parkers  by  marriage.  He  settled  in  Lynn  Village,  later 
called  Reading,  where  he  lived  in  the  eastern  part,  on  the  old  Parker 
homestead  where  Deacon  Parker,  the  immigrant  ancestor,  died,  and 
where  Deacon  Parker,  the  last  of  his  family  to  occupy  it,  passed  away 
in  1822  He  was  an  active  and  prominent  citizen,  a  man  of  ability  and 
property.  He  was  appointed  a  commissioner  to  try  small  causes  in 
1636,  and  admitted  a  freeman  in  1637.  The  Parker  genealogy  locates 
his  residence  within  thirty  rods  of  the  present  town  hall  of  Wakefield, 
Massachusetts,  formerly  the  south  parish  of  Reading.  Deacon 
Thomas  Parker  became  a  deacon  of  the  Reading  church,  selectman  in 
1661,  and  continued  in  that  capacity  for  five  years.  He  was  thirty 
years  of  age  when  he  left  his  native  country,  England,  and  was  sev- 
enty-eight years  old  when  he  died.  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker  was  a 
direct  descendant  of  this  immigrant  ancestor,  inheriting  many  of  his 
sterling  qualities  of  character. 

Kendall  Parker,  great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Moses  Greele}'  Parker, 
and  the  fourth  in  descent  from  Deacon  Thomas  Parker,  the  emigrant, 
was  a  son  of  Jonathan  Parker.  Jr.,  and  was  born  in  Reading,  in  1723. 
He  settled  when  a  young  man  in  the  adjacent  town  of  Dracut,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  his  descendants  have  lived  to  the  present  time.  He 
died  there  in  1776.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  was 
among  those  who  rallied  to  Lexington,  Massachusetts,  April  19,  1775, 
to  sound  the  alarm.  He  was  in  Captain  Joshua  Reed's  company, 
serving  in  Colonel  Green's  regiment,  and  later  in  Colonel  Varnum's 
regiment.  He  paid  ten  pounds  to  hire  men  for  the  Continental  armv 
later  in  the  war. 


336  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Peter  Parker,  son  cif  Kendall  Parker,  the  patriot,  was  born  in 
Dracut,  Massachusetts,  May  17.  1754-  He  was  all  his  life  a  farmer  in 
his  native  town  of  Dracut.  He  was  united  in  marriage  with  Bridget 
Coburn,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  as  follows: 
Samuel  Parker;  Elsy  Parker;  Hannah  Parker:  Peter  Parker.  Jr.; 
Amos  Parker;  Theodore  Parker:  Rhoda  Parker. 

Theodore  Parker,  sixth  in  descent  from  Deacon  Thomas  Parker, 
the  emigrant  ancestor,  and  father  of  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker,  was 
born  in  Dracut,  Massachusetts,  September  29,  1799.  He  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  followed  farming  there. 
He  married  (first)  Lydia  Carter,  of  Wilmington,  Massachusetts,  who 
died  June  26,  1832.  He  was  united  in  marriage  (second)  with  Hannah 
Greeley,  of  Hudson,  New  Hampshire,  a  relation  of  Horace  Greeley, 
the  well  known  editor  and  statesman.  He  died  in  Dracut,  Massachu- 
setts, December  20,  1865,  and  she  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  Sep- 
tember I,  1890.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Theodore  Parker  were  the  parents  of 
four  children:  i.  Theodore  E.,  who  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Frances  Brackett,  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  they  became  the  par- 
ents of  one  son,  Theodore  E.,  Jr.,  who  married  Henrietta  Talbot,  a 
granddaughter  of  C.  P.  Talbot.  2.  Mary  Greeley,  born  in  Dracut,  Mas- 
sachusetts, January  5,  1836;  she  obtained  her  education  in  the  semi- 
nary at  West  Townsend,  Massachusetts,  and  at  the  Female  College 
at  Worcester,  Massachusetts.  She  taught  school  in  Cambridge,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  on  January  8,  1868,  became  the  wife  of  Leonard  Har- 
vey Morrison,  of  New  York.  Mr.  Morrison  passed  away  November 
12,  1907,  and  after  that  time  Mrs.  Morrison  made  her  home  with  her 
brother.  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker.  3.  Dr.  Moses  Greeley,  in  whose 
memory  we  are  writing.  4.  Adelaide  C.  born  in  Dracut.  ^Lissachu- 
setts,  October  29,  1843,  ^"'^  clied  there  February  12,  1844. 

Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker  was  born  in  Dracut,  Massachusetts, 
October  12,  1842,  the  son  of  Theodore  and  Hannah  (Greeley)  Parker, 
and  united  in  his  person  the  blood  of  two  of  the  oldest  and  most 
renowned  of  New  England  families.  On  his  father's  side  he  was 
descended  from  Deacon  Thomas  Parker,  and  was  related  to  the  great 
abolitionist,  Theodore  Parker.  On  his  mother's  side  he  was  descended 
from  Andrew  Greeley,  who  settled  in  this  country  in  1640.  On  his 
maternal  side  he  was  also  related  to  the  celebrated  statesman  and  edi- 
tor, Horace  Greeley.  Dr.  Parker's  great-grandfathers,  Kendall  Parker 
and  Joseph  Greeley,  were  among  the  minute-men  who  rallied  to  Lex- 
ington, on  April  19,  1775,  and  his  grandfather,  Peter  Parker,  served 
valiantly  in  the  Continental  army  during  the  Revolutionary  ^^'ar. 

Dr.  Parker  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native  town 
of  Dracut,  Massachusetts,  then  later  in  the  Howe  School  at  Billerica. 
Massachusetts,  and  prepared   for   college  at   Phillips   Academy,   An- 


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337 


Jover.  After  teaching  in  the  district  schools  of  New  Hampshire  for 
three  years,  Dr.  Parker  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  Long  Island 
College  Hospital  Medical  School  in  Brooklyn,  New  York.  He  later 
studied  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  from  which  he  received  his 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1864,  and  this  honor  was  followed  by 
others  from  Europe,  where  he  studied  at  the  University  of  Vienna 
during  1873  and  1874  and  in  Paris,  France,  the  following  year.  One 
week  after  his  graduation  from  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  Dr. 
Parker  enlisted  for  the  remainder  of  the  Civil  War,  being  commis- 
sioned assistant  surgeon  in  the  Fifty-Seventh  Massachusetts  Infantry 
Regiment.  Shortly  after,  at  the  request  of  General  Benjamin  F.  But- 
ler, he  was  transferred  to  the  Second  United  States  Cavalry  Regiment, 
then  at  Fortress  Monroe,  and  with  this  unit  served  at  Suffolk,  Wil- 
'iamsburg,  Drury's  Bluff,  Point  of  Rocks,  and  the  siege  of  Petersburg, 
at  which  latter  place  he  was  in  the  trenches  at  the  time  of  the  explosion 
of  the  great  mine,  on  July  30.  1864.  From  this  service,  Dr.  Parker 
was  transferred  to  the  base  hospital  of  the  Eighteenth  Army  Corps, 
where  he  had  charge  of  the  First  Division,  and  received  the  wounded 
from  Petersburg,  Deep  Bottom,  Cold  Harbor,  Dutch  Gap,  and  Fort 
Harrison.  He  later  superintended  the  building  of  an  additional  winter 
hospital  with  four  thousand  beds.  He  was  serving  as  officer  of  the  day 
just  before  the  fall  of  Richmond,  and  as  such  had  the  honor  of  receiv- 
ing personally  President  Lincoln,  General  Grant,  and  the  latter's 
staff.  He  also  was  a  member  of  the  council  of  administration  on  the 
effects  of  the  twenty-one  hundred  soldiers  who  died  in  the  hospitals. 
Upon  the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  Dr.  Parker  returned  to  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  and  took  up  the  practice  of  his  profession,  in  which  he 
developed  a  remarkable  skill,  and  revealed  a  talent  for  special  research 
and  for  progressive  methods  in  medicine.  In  1866  he  became  a  special- 
ist in  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear.  Nothing  has  contributed  so  much  to 
the  advance  of  medical  and  surgical  science  as  the  creation  of  special- 
ists devoted  to  the  study  and  treatment  of  diseases  of  the  various 
organs  of  the  human  body.  It  must  be  evident  to  every  one  that  it  is 
utterly  impossible  for  any  one  mind  to  cultixate  the  whole  field  of 
medicine  thoroughly,  and  that  the  tendency  to  special  work  has  in- 
creased. In  1873,  desiring  to  specialize  in  certain  branches  of  the  pro- 
fession. Dr.  Parker  closed  his  office,  and  spent  two  years  in  study 
abroad.  Returning  to  Lowell  he  opened  a  free  dispensary,  and  gave 
freely  of  his  expert  services  to  the  poor  of  that  city,  his  private  prac- 
tice meantime  assuming  \-ery  large  proportions.  In  1876  Dr.  Parker 
became  president  of  the  Lowell  Medical  Journal  Society,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  International  Congress  of  Opthalmology  at  New  York. 
For  thirty  years  he  was  physician  at  St.  John's  Hospital  in  Lowell,  his 


338  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

hiinie  city,  ami  was  a  trustee  nf  the  Lmvell  Cieneral  Hospital  from 
1898  to  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Howe  School  at 
Billerica,  Massachusetts.  He  had  been  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Arbitration  and  Peace  Congress  in  New  York  in  1907. 

Dr.  Parker  had  been  greatly  interested  in  the  telephone  industry 
from  the  days  of  the  parent  company,  the  American  Telephone  Com- 
pany, and  was  a  personal  friend  of  Alexander  Graham  Bell,  the  inven- 
tor. When  Professor  Bell  first  exhibited  his  crude  telephonic  appara- 
tus in  1878,  Dr.  Parker  was  an  interested  observer,  and  was  quick  to 
see  the  marvelous  commercial  utility  of  the  invention.  As  a  result 
of  one  of  the  lectures  given  by  Professor  Bell,  Dr.  Parker  built  a  tele- 
phone line  from  his  house  to  his  office,  a  distance  of  about  half  a  mile, 
and  was  delighted  at  the  advantage  it  gave  him.  In  1879  the  Lowell 
District  Telephone  Exchange  was  established,  and  Dr.  Parker  was 
quick  to  see  its  vast  possibilities,  and  so  great  was  his  confidence  in 
the  future  of  the  telephone,  that  he  was  the  first  man  to  walk  into  the 
exchange  and  ask  to  be  permitted  to  buy  a  block  of  stock.  He  asso- 
ciated himself  with  various  small  licensed  telephone  concerns,  wliich, 
largely  through  his  instrumentality,  were  later  merged  into  the  New- 
England  Telephone  Company.  From  that  day  to  his  death,  Dr.  Parker 
served  constantly  as  a  director  in  the  company,  and  as  a  member  of 
its  executive  board.  His  activities  in  this  great  and  growing  business 
led  to  his  retirement  from  the  practice  of  medicine,  in  which,  however, 
he  retained  a  vivid  scientific  interest.  He  became  one  of  the  largest 
individual  shareholders  in  the  enterprises  of  both  the  American  Tele- 
]ihone  Company  and  the  New  England  Telephone  Company,  and  was 
regarded  as  one  of  the  most  far-seeing  men  connected  with  those  mam- 
moth concerns.  Dr.  Parker  had  been  a  director  and  member  of  the 
executive  committee  of  the  New  England  Company  since  its  organiza- 
tion in  1883.  He  also  was  interested  in  the  Bell  Telephone  Company, 
and  was  a  director  in  the  Aroostook  Telephone  Company  and  Knox 
Telephone  Company.  Another  evidence  of  Dr.  Parker's  foresight  as 
applied  to  telephoning  is  the  method  of  calling  by  number  that  pre- 
vails to-day.  In  the  early  days  subscribers  w-ere  called  for  by  name. 
and,  as  the  size  of  the  exchanges  increased,  it  became  a  matter  of  some 
difficult}-  to  train  operators  to  remember  the  switchboard  locations  of 
the  dift'erent  persons  called  for.  Dr.  Parker  saw  that,  in  the  event  of 
an  epidemic,  the  telephone  system  might  be  rendered  useless.  He 
suggested,  therefore,  that  subscriljers,  instead  of  being  called  for  by 
name,  be  called  for  by  number,  which  practice  was  adopted  and  still 
prevails.  In  many  otlu-r  ways  Dr.  Parker  continued  to  contribute  to 
the  development  of  the  telc])hone. 

During  his  busy  life,  Dr.  Parker  found  time  to  devote  to  the  study 
of  electricity,  and  was  the  first  to  photograph  the  electric  current  and 


BIOGRAPHICAL  339 

show  that  it  takes  tlie  form  of  spirals.  His  scientific  lient  led  him  to 
experiment  in  photography,  as  well  as  in  electricity,  and  he  was  the 
first  to  photograph  the  tubercular  bacillus  from  Cushing's  micro- 
scopical specimens.  He  also  invented  a  thermo-cauterj-,  and  not 
long  after  devised  and  patented  an  improvement  in  the  process  of 
producing  and  maintaining  a  very  high  degree  of  heat  by  hydro-car- 
bonization. He  received  a  diploma  from  the  Massachusetts  Charitable 
Mechanics'  Association  for  an  incandescent  cautery.  He  was  made 
president  of  the  Middlesex  Xorth  District  Medical  Society  in  iSyS  and 
1899.  He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and 
the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society  :  and  was  a  contributor  to  medical 
and  scientific  journals. 

In  politics,  Dr.  Parker  was  a  stalwart  Republican,  I)ut  never 
sought  political  preferment.  He  was  named  a  special  member  of  the 
commission  on  tuberculosis  by  Governor  Douglas,  and  had  acted  with 
similar  boards  in  the  State  of  New  Hampshire  and  elsewhere  at  vari- 
ous times.  In  his  later  j-ears  of  life,  Dr.  Parker  turned  his  attention  to 
various  patriotic,  philanthropic  and  charitable  enterprises.  He  was 
long  an  active  worker  in  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  serving 
first  as  president  of  the  State  society,  and  later,  in  191 1  and  1912,  as 
national  president-general,  a  distinction  which  he  regarded  as  by  far 
the  most  notable  in  his  career.  He  was  chosen  by  his  intimate  friends, 
Frederick  Fanning  Ayer,  to  work  out  the  details  of  the  Ayer  Home  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  had  always  served  that  institution  as  the 
head  of  its  governing  board  as  president.  He  was  also  the  leading 
spirit  of  the  Lowell  Day  Nursery  Association,  and  was  deeply  en- 
grossed at  the  time  of  his  death  in  plans  for  a  new  building  greatly 
extending  the  work. 

Dr.  Parker  was  also  a  member  of  the  Loyal  Legion,  the  Bostonian 
Society.  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association,  the  Massachusetts  Soci- 
ety of  Colonial  Wars,  of  which  he  had  been  one  of  the  board  of  man- 
agers :  Order  of  Colonial  Governors,  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic.  He  was  president  of  the  Parker  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Association,  and  was  affiliated  with  the  Masonic  order.  Dr.  Parker 
was  sent  by  the  United  States  government  as  a  delegate  to  the  Inter- 
national Medical  Congress  held  at  London,  England,  in  1913. 

The  city  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts  was  profoundly  shocked  and 
grieved  by  the  announcement  of  Dr.  Parker's  death,  which  occurred 
October  i.  1917,  in  his  seventy-sixth  year.  He  was  a  man  whose  death 
at  any  time,  under  any  circumstances,  would  have  cast  a  gloom  over 
the  community,  and  the  sorrow  of  the  many  who  knew  and  loved  him 
was  greatly  intensified  by  the  suddenness  with  which  the  blow  fell 
upon  them.  His  judgment  was  excellent,  his  opinions  were  honest, 
and  he  was  always  loyal,  faithful  and  patient.    He  was  friendly,  amia- 


340  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ble  and  helpful,  and  his  g-ood  nature  was  never  known  to  fail.  He 
was  the  possessor  of  fine  natural  abilities,  and  such  a  man  is  always 
stronger  than  he  appears  to  be  in  any  live,  growing  community. 
Being  a  descendant  from  two  of  the  oldest  New  England  families,  Dr. 
Moses  Greeley  Parker  lived  uj)  to  the  standard  set  by  his  illustrious 
ancestors,  and  during  his  career  proved  himself  to  lie  a  man  among 
men. 

Dr.  Parker  never  married,  and  is  sur\-ived  by  his  sister,  Mrs.  Mary 
Cireeley  Morrison,  and  one  nephew,  Theodore  E.  Parker,  who  is 
division  commercial  superintendent  of  the  Eastern  Massachusetts 
Division  of  the  New  England  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company. 

In  an  extended  search  it  would  be  very  dif^cult  indeed  to  find  one 
who,  better  than  the  late  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker,  gave  substantial 
proof  of  the  wisdom  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  when  he  said,  "There  is 
something  better  than  making  a  living,  and  that  is  making  a  life." 
With  a  realization  of  this  truth,  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker  persistently 
and  energetically  labored,  not  only  to  win  success,  but  to  make  his 
life  a  continual  source  of  benefit  to  his  fellow-men.  While  many  men 
owe  their  success  to  intense  concentration  upon  one  line  of  eflfort,  and 
while  this  quality  is  of  decided  value,  there  are  a  few  exceptions  in 
American  enterprise,  where  leaders  of  business  matters  have  been  so 
variously  endowed  by  nature  that  they  have  been  able  to  organize  and 
manage  successfully  a  number  and  variety  of  exceedingly  important 
undertakings.  Of  these  exceptional  men.  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker  is 
an  example  par  excellence.  A  man  of  great  sagacity,  quick  perceptions, 
sound  judgment,  noble  impulses,  and  remarkable  force  and  determina- 
tion of  character,  he  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  who 
knew  him.  It  is  unnecessary  to  add  that  as  a  physician  he  was  held 
in  the  highest  estimation,  the  record  of  his  daily  life  being  filled  with 
evidences  of  this  fact.  In  all  professions,  but  more  especially  the 
medical,  there  are  e.xalted  heights  to  which  genius  itself  dares  scarcely 
soar,  and  which  can  only  be  gained  after  long  years  of  patient,  arduous, 
and  unremitting  toil,  and  inflexible  and  unfaltering  courage.  To  this 
proud  eminence  we  may  safely  state  that  Dr.  Parker  rose.  The  influ- 
ence of  a  human  life  can  ne\-er  bo  properl}-  and  fully  estimated,  but 
such  men  as  Dr.  Parker  create  and  maintain  the  honor  of  the  medical 
profession. 


THE  GREELEY  FAMILY. 

The  Greeley  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  anil  niu^t  illustrious  in  the 
New  England  States,  having  maintained  a  high  ])lace  in  the  regard 
of  the  community  from  the  very  earliest  Colonial  ])eriod  to  the  i>rcsent 
time. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  341 

Arms — Argent,  on  a  cross  sable  five  escallops  or. 

Andrew  Greeley,  the  emigrant  ancestor,  was  born  about  the  year 
1617,  and  died  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts,  June  30,  1697.  His  wife, 
Mary  (Moyse)  Greeley,  died  there  December  24,  1703.  Andrew  Gree- 
ley was  an  early  settler  in  Salisbury,  Massachusetts.  The  exact  date 
of  his  arrival  there,  or  in  what  vessel,  is  unknown.  He  settled  on  a 
part  which  is  now  included  in  Seabrook,  New  Hampshire,  and  there- 
upon built  a  tide  mill  for  the  grinding  of  corn,  on  Kane's  river.  In 
1650,  in  addition  to  this  mill,  he  built  a  large  saw  mill.  .All  of  the 
children  of  the  three  successive  generations  of  Andrew  Greeley  were 
born  (in  the  old  Greeley  Homestead 

Families  bearing  the  name  of  Greeley  have  been  so  numerous  in 
this  country  that  their  mere  numbers  preclude  the  possibility  of  trac- 
ing to  a  common  ancestor.  Andrew  Greeley  was  the  emigrant  ances- 
tor of  this  branch  of  the  family,  and  his  descendants  inherited  a  rare 
combination  of  qualities  that  formed  a  noble  manhood  and  woman- 
hood. 

Joseph  Greeley,  great-grandfather  of  Dr.  Moses  Greelev  Parker, 
and  a  lineal  descendant  of  Andrew  Greeley,  was  born  in  Haverhill, 
Massachusetts,  February  18.  1731.  He  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Prudence  Clement,  in  Haverhill,  August  6,  1752.  Prudence  (Clement) 
Greeley  was  born  at  -Vmesbury,  Massachusetts,  in  1730,  a  daughter 
of  Jonathan  and  Mary  (Greenleaf)  Clement.  Joseph  Greeley  passed 
away  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  November  26,  1814;  his  wife  died 
there  January  22,  1806.  Joseph  Greeley  received  from  his  father  a 
lot  of  land  in  Nottingham  West,  New  Hampshire,  but  did  not  go 
there  to  live.  He  was  sergeant  in  the  Third  Fort  Company  of  Haver- 
hill, Massachusetts,  under  Captain  Colby,  which  marched  on  the 
alarm  of  April  19,  1775,  from  the  town  of  Haverhill  to  Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.  He  traveled  seventy  miles,  and  was  six  days  in  the 
service.    At  one  time  he  was  a  teacher. 

Hannah  Greeley,  mother  of  Dr.  Moses  Greeley  Parker,  and  a 
lineal  descendant  of  Andrew  Greeley,  the  emigrant,  was  born  in  Hud- 
son, New  Hampshire,  July  19,  1806.  She  became  the  wife  of  Theodore 
Parker.  January  30,  1834,  the  wedding  ceremony  taking  place  in  Hud- 
son, New  Hampshire  (see  Parker). 


MAJOR  JONATHAN  LADD. 

For  many  years  Major  Jonathan  Ladd,  an  eminent  member  of  the 
Middlesex  county  bar,  was  a  familiar  figure  upon  the  streets  of  Lowell, 
he  and  his  friend,  Jefferson  Bancroft,  the  last  to  survive  those  lawyers 
of  the  olden  times  whom  we  love  to  style  as  "of  the  old  school."    They 


342  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

both  clung  to  the  old  style  of  dress,  and  right  handsome  they  were  in 
the  blue  cutaway  coat  cf  uniform  cloth  and  brass  button,  with  broad 
brimmed  hat,  silver  buckled  shoes,  their  courtly  manner  and  dignified 
demeanor  fitting  in  well  with  their  style  of  dress.  In  his  law  practice 
Major  Ladd  held  to  the  strictest  code  of  professional  houdr,  and  in 
his  citizenship  was  intense!}-  patriotic  and  public-spirited,  ilis  mili- 
tary record  was  an  honorable  one,  and  in  all  things  he  mcaMui-d  up  to 
the  full  stature  of  a  man.  A  family  tradition,  well  fuuiidcil,  asserts 
that  the  name  Ladd  is  of  French  origin,  and  that  it  has  existed  in  luig- 
land  from  the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest,  1066.  From  LeLade, 
the  original  French  spelling,  its  orthography  has  been  subjected  to 
numerous  changes.  Lad,  I^ade,  and  Ladde,  until  reaching  its  present 
form,  Ladd. 

The  first  of  this  name  in  America  was  Daniel  Ladd,  of  Wiltshire, 
luigland,  who  took  the  re(|uired  oath  of  allegiance  in  order  to  sail  on 
the  ship,  "AIar\-  and  John,"  Robert  Sa}Tes,  master,  from  London, 
March  24,  1633,  for  New  England.  He  landed  at  Nantasket  in  Boston 
harbor,  but,  unlike  most  of  his  fellow  passengers,  did  not  settle  in 
Dorchester,  but  went  to  l]jswich.  where  in  1637  he  was  granted  six 
acres  of  land  upon  wbiLh  he  built  a  house  wdiich  he  owned  mitil  if>44, 
when  he  ^old  it,  ha\ing  pre\  iously,  in  1639,  moved  to  Salisbury.  Mas- 
sachusetts. Later  he  moved  to  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  one  of  the  first  settlers,  and  there  he  resided  until  his  death,  July 
27,  1693.  His  wife,  Ann,  who  came  with  him  from  England,  died  Feb- 
ruary 9,  1694.  Chase,  in  his  "History  of  Haverhill,"  says  that  Daniel 
Ladd  owned  and  cultivated  several  farms,  and  was  very  prominent 
among  the  early  settlers.  Li  1668,  he  was  a  selectman,  and  at  the  out- 
break of  King  Phillip's  War,  he  was  on  the  committee  to  establish 
garrison  houses.  His  son,  Nathaniel  Ladd,  settled  in  Exeter.  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  married  Elizabeth  Gilman.  daugliter  of  John 
Gilnian,  a  member  of  the  Provincial  Council.  I'Toni  this  branch  came 
Isaac  Ladd,  a  farmer  cf  Grafton  county.  New  Hampshire,  and  one 
time  sheriff  of  the  county.  He  married  Huldah  Heath,  and  later  re- 
tired from  farm  life  and  moved  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where  both 
ended  their  days.  They  were  the  jjarents  of  Major  Jonathan  Ladd, 
to  wdiose  memory  this  re\'icw  is  dedicated. 

Major  Jonathan  Ladd  was  born  in  Alexandria,  New  Hampshire, 
September  26,  1820,  and  died  in  Li>well,  Massachusetts,  April  <),  iSS<). 
His  youth  was  spent  at  the  homestead  in  Grafton  county,  and  until 
coming  to  Lowell  in  1834  he  was  his  father's  farm  assistant.  The 
love  of  the  soil  was  bred  in  him  through  a  line  of  farmer  ancestors, 
and  as  long  as  he  li\ed  he  retained  a  dee|)  interest  in  agriculture,  while 
his  lo\  e  for  liorses  was  almost  a  passion.     He  accpiired  a  good  district 


BIOGRAPHICAL.  343 

school  education,  upon  which  later  he  Iniilt  his  structure  of  profes- 
sional learning,  nor  at  any  time  during  his  career  did  he  need  to  feel 
that  his  educational  equijMnent  was  insufficient.  After  coming  to 
Lowell  he  was  employed  in  the  Lowell  Machine  Shop,  hut  deciding 
upon  a  profession  he  entered  a  Lowell  lawyer's  office  and  studied  law, 
until  finally  admitted  to  the  Middlesex  bar  in  1844.  He  began  practice 
in  Lowell  and,  save  for  the  years  of  his  absence  during  the  Civil  War, 
he  was  continuously  engaged  in  professional  work  in  Lowell,  his 
career  at  the  bar  covering  a  period  of  forty-five  years,  1844-89.  His 
practice  was  very  large  and  most  scrupulously  conducted,  he  holding 
his  professional  honor  as  sacred  as  he  did  his  personal  integrity.  He 
was  a  leading  memljer  of  the  Middlesex  County  Bar  Association,  and 
held  in  the  very  highest  esteem  by  his  contemporaries.  Honorable, 
upright,  courteous,  and  most  deferential  to  the  court,  he  was  a  man 
to  be  loved,  yet  as  an  opponent  greatly  to  be  feared. 

Mr.  Ladd  was  always  interested  in  military  affairs,  and  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War  was  captain  of  Company  H.  Sixty-fifth  Regi- 
ment, Massachusetts  Militia,  then  known  as  the  Wilson  Light  Guards, 
and  after  war  was  declared  he  was  acting  as  chief  of  staff  under  Gen- 
eral Sutton.  He  was  at  once  detailed  by  Governor  Andrews  as  master 
of  transportation,  and  in  that  capacity  accompanied  the  Sixth  Massa- 
chusetts on  their  memorable  march  through  the  city  of  Baltimore  on 
their  way  to  the  National  Capital.  In  1861  Captain  Ladd  was  ap- 
pointed paymaster  with  the  rank  of  major,  and  until  the  war  closed  in 
1S65  he  continued  in  the  service  of  his  country  in  that  capacity.  He 
then  returned  to  Lowell  and  resumed  his  law  jiractice,  which  was  not 
again  interrupted  save  by  death. 

He  ever  retained  a  warm  feeling  for  his  army  comrades,  was  a 
loyal  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  took  a  deep 
interest  in  that  order  and  the  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States.  That  he  was  deeply  interested  in  agriculture  is 
shown  in  the  active  part  he  bore  in  founding  the  Middlesex  North 
District  Agricultural  Society,  an  organization  of  which  he  was  presi- 
dent for  several  years.  He  was  superintendent  of  the  first  New  Eng- 
land fair  ever  held  in  Lowell,  and  was  the  owner  of  some  of  the  best 
horses  in  the  county. 

Major  Ladd  married  Eunice  Adaline  Stickney,  of  Beverly,  Mas- 
sachusetts, who  died  in  Lowell,  August  4,  1895,  surviving  her  hus- 
band about  six  years.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Captain  Benjamin 
Stickney,  a  master  mariner,  whose  home  for  many  years  was  in  Bev- 
erly. Major  and  Mrs.  Ladd  were  the  parents  of  two  children :  Frank 
J.,  deceased,  a  sketch  of  whom  follows ;  and  Eunice  Adaline,  deceased, 
was  the  wife  of  Henry  K.  Spaulding,  of  Tewksbury,  Massachusetts- 


344  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Such  was  the  career  of  a  fine  gentleman  and  lawyer  of  the  old 
school.  High  minded,  he  never  lowered  his  ideals  and  carried  witli 
him  to  the  grave  the  highest  esteem  of  his  fellownien. 


FRANK  J.  LADD. 

Like  his  distinguished  fath.er,  Frank  J.  Ladd  was  a  man  of  strong 
character  and  ability,  devoted  to  his  home  and  family,  and  a  lover  of 
agriculture  and  agricultural  life,  and  at  his  fine  farm  on  the  Butman 
road  he  spent  much  of  his  time  when  free  from  business  cares,  and  the 
fine  horses  he  owned  and  kept  there  were  a  source  of  great  pleasure 
to  him. 

Frank  J.  Ladd,  only  son  of  Alajor  Jonathan  and  Eunice  Adaline 
(Stickney)  Ladd,  was  born  in  Lowell,  jMassachusetts,  July  15,  1849, 
and  died  there,  March  8,  191 5.  He  was  educated  in  Lowell  public 
schools,  finishing  in  high  school.  \\"hen  a  boy  he  was  allowed  to  visit 
his  father  in  the  city  of  Washington,  and  in  this  way  he  became 
familiar  with  the  events  of  that  period  and  acquainted  with  several 
of  the  prominent  actors  in  the  great  war  drama  staged  in  the  country 
during  the  years  1861-65.  ^^  began  his  business  career  as  an  em- 
ployee of  a  Boston  Oil  Company,  and  with  that  house  spent  several 
3-ears.  becoming  thoroughly  acquainted  with  that  business.  Later  he 
established  a  similar  business  in  Boston  under  his  own  name,  so  con- 
tinuing until  1890,  when  he  sold  out  and  became  the  accredited  repre- 
sentative of  large  business  interests  in  legislative  matters.  He  was 
deeply  read  in  matters  aiYecting  the  business  interests  of  the  country, 
and  his  advice  was  sought  from  all  quarters  when  legislation  afl:'ecting 
tariit  and  taxes  were  being  considered.  After  1890  he  made  this  his 
sole  business,  and  became  widely  known  as  an  expert  in  such  matters, 
representing  several  large  corporations.  During  his  entire  career  Mr. 
Ladd  retained  his  home  in  Lowell,  his  residence  at  No.  109  Fairmount 
street.  He  owned  a  fine  farm  on  the  Butman  road,  Lowell,  and  there 
bred  and  trained  many  fine  horses.  This  farm  is  still  owned  by  Mrs. 
Ladd,  who  operates  it  through  a  manager. 

Frank  J.  Ladd  married,  April  7,  1869,  Ella  Prudence  Clifford, 
l)orn  in  Lowell,  daughter  of  Weare  and  Prudence  (Wright)  Clifford. 
Weare  Clifford  was  born  in  Flampton,  New  Hampshire,  but  early  in 
life  came  to  Lowell,  where  he  mastered  the  art  of  dyeing,  conducting 
Cliiiford's  Dye  House  on  Andover  street  for  many  years.  He  became 
a  substantial  citizen,  jMiblic-spirited  and  progressive,  taking  particular 
interest  in  the  volunteer  fire  department,  which  he  served  as  chief  engi- 
neer. His  wife.  Prudence  (Wright)  Clifford,  born  in  Tyngsboro, 
.Massachusetts,  died  in  L,,well.  |une.  i8s7.     He  died  in  Lowell,  March, 


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1872.  Children  of  Frank  J.  and  Ella  Prudence  (Clifford)  Ladd :  Clif- 
ford Wright,  died  in  Lowell,  ay^ed  eighteen  years;  Alice  Stickney,  re- 
siding with  her  mother  at  the  family  home. 


ERSON  B.  BARLOW. 


Since  the  year  1904,  Air.  Barlow  has  been  a  resident  of  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  and  in  both  business  and  public  life  has  been  closely 
identified  with  the  interests  of  his  adopted  City,  County  and  State. 
He  has  won  public  confidence  to  the  degree  that  he  has  been  called 
to  high  and  important  office,  and  as  representative,  senator,  and  com- 
missioner, he  has  labored  for  the  best  interests  of  those  from  whom 
his  honors  came.  He  is  a  son  of  Ira  and  Elizabeth  Barlow,  who  at 
the  time  of  the  birth  of  their  son  was  living  in  Helena,  a  village  of  St. 
Lawrence  county,  New  York,  forty-five  miles  East  of  Ogdensburg. 

Erson  B.  Barlow  was  born  in  Helena,  New  York,  October  20,  1883, 
there  spent  his  youth,  and  obtained  his  education.  After  completing 
primary  public  school  courses,  he  became  a  student  at  Helena  Acad- 
emy, and  later  completed  his  years  of  educational  preparation  with 
Commercial  College  courses  at  Cornwall.  Before  coming  to  Lowell  he 
was  clerk  in  the  G.  S.  Mills  Department  Store,  at  Hogansburg,  New 
York,  but  after  coming  to  Lowell  he  became  interested  in  the  insur- 
ance business,  which  he  has  made  his  life  work.  His  other  Inisiness 
interests  are  with  the  B.  F.  Butler  Corporation. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  Mr.  Barlow  early  became  identified  with 
political  affairs,  and  in  1908  he  was  chosen  to  represent  a  Lowell  dis- 
trict in  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  and  in  191 1  was  elected  State 
Senator ;  in  1913  county  commissioner  of  Middlesex  county,  Massa- 
chusetts. His  rise  in  public  life  has  been  rapid,  but  each  promotion 
has  been  based  upon  merit,  his  career  as  a  public  official  reflecting 
nothing  but  credit  upon  him.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Washington, 
Highland  and  Central  clubs  of  Lowell,  and  very  popular. 


REV.  JOHN  M.  GREENE,  D.  D. 

Shortly  before  his  death  the  Rev.  John  M.  Greene  penned  the  fcil- 
lowing  words :  "Always  a  deep  interest  attaches  to  the  person  who 
has  done  something  to  make  the  world  happier  and  better.  Sometimes 
the  good  which  people  do  is  not  immediately  apparent,  it  is  much  con- 
cealed or  is  a  long  time  maturing.  What  others  do  stands  out  at  once 
as  a  great  and  brilliant  achievement.  Benefactors  of  humanity  ought 
to  have  their  names  published.  The  real  wealth  of  a  city  or  of  a  nation 
consists  largely  of  the  good  and  wise  men  and  women  who  live  and 
have  lived  in  it.    Banks  and  shops,  railroads,  and  steamships  are  not  a 


346  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

natiun's  glory,  but  its  wise  and  guud  citizens  are."  Truly  might  they 
have  been  written  of  him,  and  since  his  death  in  the  spring  of  1919,  in 
his  ninetieth  year,  the  many  whose  lives  were  enriched  and  blessed  by 
their  contact  with  him  have  added  their  appreciation  of  the  noble 
character  that  he  was  to  the  concrete  evidence  of  what  he  accom- 
plished. 

Rev.  John  M.  Greene  was  born  in  Hadley,  Massachusetts,  March 
12,  1830,  and  spent  his  early  years  on  the  home  farm,  improving  all 
available  opportunities  for  education.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  years 
he  entered  Amherst  College  and  was  graduated  in  1853,  one  of  the  four 
honor  men  of  his  class.  After  teaching  in  an  academy  at  Canandaigua, 
New  York,  for  one  year  he  entered  the  theological  seminary  at  Bangor, 
Maine,  teaching  higher  mathematics  and  Greek  at  Amherst  College  at 
intervals.  He  was  offered  the  presidency  of  Olivet,  a  distinction  he 
declined,  and  in  1868  he  went  on  ministerial  work  to  South  Hadley, 
about  two  years  afterward  accepting  a  call  to  the  Eliot  Church  in 
Lowell.  He  took  his  place  in  that  congregation,  July  20,  1870,  and  in 
that  parish,  either  as  active  pastor  or  pastor  emeritus,  he  continued  to 
his  death.  His  pastorate  was  among  the  longest  in  the  Congregational 
church  in  New  England.  Following  a  serious  illness,  in  1900,  Dr. 
Greene  resigned  his  active  pastorate  and  was  elected  pastor  emeritus. 
He  gave  much  of  his  time  and  energy  in  the  summer  months  to  the 
upbuilding  of  the  church  at  Matinicus,  an  island  oft"  the  coast  of  Maine, 
and  although  he  was  physically  unable  to  continue  his  work  in  his 
latter  years  his  interests  remained  numerous,  and  he  was  well  informed 
on  general  and  local  affairs,  religious  and  secular,  until  his  death.  Dr. 
Greene  was  typical  of  the  old  New  England  ministry  at  its  best,  com- 
bining a  ripe  scholarship  and  inspired  spirituality  with  a  benignity  of 
mien  and  graciousness  of  personality  that  gave  him  a  widespread  in- 
fluence and  made  him  generally  loved.  He  was  deeply  concerned  in 
the  welfare  of  educational  institutions,  and  was  an  important  factor  in 
the  founding  of  two  New  England  schools  of  high  character.  He 
advised  and  aided  Miss  Sophia  Smith  in  the  founding  of  Smith  Col- 
lege for  Women  at  Northampton,  gave  his  name  to  one  of  the  most 
important  buildings  on  the  campus,  and  throughout  his  life  served  as 
trustee.  Had  it  not  been  for  his  efforts  in  interesting  Miss  Smith  in 
the  project  and  in  guiding  her  in  its  material  establishment.  Smith 
College  never  w'ould  have  been  founded.  His  relation  to  the  Rogers 
Hall  School  was  much  the  same,  for  he  was  Miss  Rogers'  close  advisor 
at  all  times,  and  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  school. 
Victor  Hug(j  wn'te,  "Whoever  opens  a  school  closes  a  prison,"  and 
this  quotation,  used  by  Dr.  Greene  in  writing  of  Miss  Rogers,  may  be 
fittingly  added  to  the  great  volume  (if  testimony  to  the  worth  of  his 
life  and  its  wealth  in  service. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  347 

Dr.  Greene's  death  occurred  April  28,  1919.  He  passed  to  the 
place  won  by  him  and  prepared  for  him  in  the  mansions  of  his-Father. 
entrance  to  whose  portals  is  the  reward  of  the  "pure  in  heart"  and 
whither  he  had  labored  to  lead  hundreds. 

Dr.  Greene  married,  in  1857,  Louise  Dickinson,  of  North  Am- 
herst, Massachusetts,  and  they  were  the  parents  of:  William  S.,  Har- 
vev  B.,  Louise  D.,  Helen  F.,  and  others,  now  deceased. 


THOMAS  CHADWICK  ENTWISTLE. 

Belmont,  Lancashire,  England,  was  the  home  of  the  family  of 
which  Thomas  Chadwick  Entwistle  was  a  member.  His  grandfather, 
Ralph  Entwistle,  was  a  native  of  England,  a  mill  manager  in  calling, 
who  came  to  the  United  States,  his  death  occurring  in  Utica,  New- 
York.  Both  he  and  his  wife,  Katherine,  lived  and  died  in  the  .Quaker 
faith.  Ralph  (2)  Entwistle,  son  of  Ralph  (i )  and  Katherine  Entwistle, 
and  father  of  Thomas  C.  Entwistle,  of  this  record,  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  there  died,  the  father  of  nine  children. 

Thomas  Chadwick  Entwistle  was  born  in  Belinont,  Lancashire. 
F.ngland,  September  8,  1846.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  at  the  early  age  of  seven  years  began  to  work  in  the  cotton 
mills  at  Lancashire,  of  which  later  his  father  became  the  agent,  spend- 
mg  half  his  time  at  work  in  the  mills  and  half  at  school  until  he  was 
fourteen,  when  he  was  regularly  apprenticed  to  a  machinist  for  a  term 
of  seven  years  He  was  an  expert  machinist  in  the  employ  of  a  large 
English  machinery  manufacturing  company,  who  were  engaged  in  the 
manufacturing  of  textile  machinery  for  the  cotton  mills  of  England 
and  America.  In  1869  he  was  selected  by  his  employers  to  come  to 
America  to  set  up  one  of  the  first  slashers  ever  used  in  the  cotton  mills 
in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire.  After  completing  the  installation  of 
the  slashers,  he  decided  to  remain  in  this  country  and  obtained  em- 
ployment with  the  Lewiston  Machine  Company  of  Lewiston,'  Maine. 
While  with  this  company  he  designed  and  constructed  the  first  ma- 
chine ever  made  in  America  for  making  expansion  combs  fpr  warpers, 
and  later  designed  and  built  the  Lewiston  Warper,  which  w'as  exten- 
sively used  in  the  cotton  mills  of  that  period.  Later  h.e  designed,  coh- 
structed  and  patented  an  entirely  new  warping  machine,  the  first  of 
its  kind  ever  used  in  this  country ;  this  new  warper  proved  very  suc- 
cessful, and  so  great  was  the  demand  for  it  that  Mr.  Entwistle  returned 
to  England  in  the  early  seventies  and  sold  the  rights  to  manufacture 
the  warper  to  an  English  machine  company.  He  then  returned  to 
Lewiston,  Maine,  and  took  out  other  patents.  In  1875  he  left  Lewis- 
ton  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Hopedalc  Machine  Company,  at 
Milford,  Massachusetts,  where  he  devoted  his  talent  and  energies  in' 


348  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

the  designing  and  construction  of  textile  machinery  until  iSSo,  then 
came  to  Lowell,  where  he  organized  the  Phoenix  Machine  Company, 
of  which  he  became  the  agent.  This  company  occupied  large  quarters 
in  the  Belvidere  section  of  the  city  on  Phoenix  street,  the  street  tak- 
ing its  name  from  that  of  the  company.  Here  Mr.  Entwistle  designed 
and  manufactured  the  Phoenix  Warper,  which  soon  came  into  general 
use  in  the  cotton  mills  of  New  England.  After  severing  his  connection 
with  the  Phoenix  Machine  Company,  he  became  general  manager  of 
the  W'oodrufif  Iron  W^orks  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  but  in  1887  re- 
turned to  Lowell  and  engaged  on  his  own  account  in  the  manufacture 
of  his  own  inventions  and  other  specialties,  consisting  of  Patent  Warp- 
ing, Balling  and  Beaming  Machines,  all  kinds  of  Expansion  Combs 
for  Warpers,  Beamers  and  Slashers,  and  Traverse  Wheel  Card  Grind- 
ers for  American  and  English  cards.  The  products  of  the  T.  C.  Ent- 
wistle Company  found  a  ready  market  throughout  the  entire  cotton 
textile  manufacturing  industry,  and  he  quickly  built  up  a  large  and 
profitable  Inisiness.  His  inventions  have  proved  of  great  value  in  the 
textile  industries,  and  he  not  only  won  for  himself  a  high  position  in 
the  world  of  business,  but  ranked  high  among  the  inventors  of  his 
generation.  He  died  January  7,  IQ03,  in  the  midst  of  a  promising  and 
prosperous  career. 

In  politics  Mr.  Entwistle  was  a  Republican.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  First  Universalist  Church  of  Lowell,  of  the  Franklin  Literary 
Association,  and  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade.  He  was  well  known 
in  Masonic  circles,  a  member  of  Roboni  Lodge,  No.  150,  of  Lewiston, 
Maine ;  Montgomery  Lodge ;  Mount  Lebanon  Chapter,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  Milford  Commandery,  No.  11,  Knights  Templar,  Milford, 
Massachusetts ;  and  of  the  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  of  Boston, 
Massachusetts.  He  was  a  member  of  The  Club  of  Lowell,  the  Vesper 
Countrv  Cluli,  the  Yorick  and  Highland  clubs,  the  Martin  Luther,  all 
of  Lowell,  and  the  Algoncjuin  Club  of  Boston.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  famous  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  Boston. 
He  was  fond  of  travel  and  crossed  the  Atlantic  many  times.  He  was 
open-handed  and  generous,  always  to  the  extent  of  his  means,  and  took 
pleasure  in  helping  those  who  appealed  to  his  charity  nr  frirndshi]-). 
He  was  a  man  of  many  pleasing  characteristics  and  kindly  disposition. 
His  life  work  was  of  a  most  important  character.  He  set  for  himself 
high  standards,  both  of  manhood  and  of  citizenship,  and  commanded 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  while 
his  business  polic\'.  fnrcefnl  .-mfl  resourceful,  brought  him  out  of  hum- 
ble surroundings  into  important  manufacturing  associations. 

Mr.  Entwistle  married,  June  5,  t894,  Amanda  A.  Stevens,  daugh- 
ter of  Matthew  K.  and  Mary  J.  (Fowler)  Stevens,  of  Maine.  She  sur- 
vived him.  and  since  his  death  holds  the  ofifice  of  treasurer  of  the  T.  C. 
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FRANK  B.  KENNEY. 

Frank  B.  Kenney,  prominent  manufacturer  and  business  man  of 
Lowell,  has  been  identified  with  the  T.  C.  Entwistle  Company,  manu- 
facturers of  textile  machine  accessories  and  special  machinery  used  in 
this  industry.  His  connection  with  this  well  known  company  has  been 
for  many  years,  and  he  has  risen  to  the  official  position  of  president, 
the  office  which  he  so  ably  holds.  A  review  of  the  sketch  of  T.  C. 
Entwistle  well  outlines  the  prominence  of  this  company's  activities  in 
the  textile  world. 

Mr.  Kenney  is  a  member  of  various  organizations  and  clubs,  and 
is  a  prominent  member  in  the  Masonic  order,  belonging  to  its  impor- 
tant bodies.  His  residence  is  at  No.  210  Liberty  street,  and  in  home 
and  social  life  Mr.  Kennev  likewise  is  well  known. 


HUMPHREY   O'SULLIVAN. 

Humphrey  O'Sullivan,  capitalist,  national  advertiser  and  public- 
spirited  citizen,  with  whom  this  article  deals,  is  one  of  Lowell's  front 
rank  citizens,  and  one  whose  name  is  familiar  to  not  only  the  millions 
of  people  in  this  country,  but  to  many  in  various  countries  of  the 
world.  It  is  with  much  satisfaction  that  any  community  could  claim 
such  a  well  known  citizen,  and  Lowell  has  been  benefited  in  many 
ways  by  his  residence  here.  From  the  beginning  of  Irish  history 
O'Sullivans  are  traced,  their  ancient  homes  in  Cork,  Kerry  and 
Limerick.  The  chief  of  the  family  bore  the  title  of  Prince  and 
Lord,  and  in  business,  church,  state  and  professional  life,  O'Sullivans 
have  won  a  foremost  place  in  Irish  history.  The  0  has  been  dropped 
by  many  descendants  in  many  lands,  while  others  zealously  preserve 
the  ancient  name  of  their  forefathers  unchanged.  Humphrey  O'Sulli- 
van, with  whom  this  narrative  in  principal  deals,  descends  from  the 
Cork  branch,  and  is  a  son  of  Timothy  O'Sullivan,  born  in  the  parish  of 
Castle  Haven,  East  Division  of  West  Carbury,  County  Cork,  Ireland, 
a  section  in  which  O'Sullivan  had  been  resident  for  more  than  ten  cen- 
turies. Timothy  O'Sullivan  was  a  farmer  all  his  life  and  was  fairly 
well-to-do  for  that  day.  He  was  a  devout  Catholic  and  well  known  as 
a  man  of  thrift,  integrity  and  upright  life.  He  married  Catherine 
Barry,  daughter  of  James  Barry  of  the  Parish  of  Caheighy,  County 
Cork.    They  were  the  parents  of  three  sons : 

William  O'Sullivan,  the  eldest  son,  was  born  in  Skib])erecn, 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  in  May,  1844.  He  came  to  the  United  States 
when  a  young  man,  enlisted  in  the  United  States  .\rmy  at  Boston, 
Massachusetts,  was  assigned  to  the  cavalry,  served  three  years  on  the 
frontier,  1864-67,  and  was  mustered  out  at  Tuscon,  Arizona.  He  lived 
in  Tuscon  many  years  and  was  a  member  of  the  Pioneer's  Society  of 


350  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

Arizona.  He  died  at  his  liome  in  Tuscon,  in  i8y8,  leaving  liis  widow 
and  a  son,  Humphrey. 

James  O'Sullivan,  the  second  son,  was  born  in  Skibbereen,  County 
Cork,  in  December,  1848.  He  learned  the  shoemaker's  trade  and,  fol- 
lowing his  elder  brother's  example,  came  to  the  United  States,  arriving 
at  Boston,  Massachusetts,  in  March,  1867.  For  about  seven  years  he 
worked  at  the  trade  in  Boston,  New  York,  and  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
principally  in  the  latter  city,  where,  in  1875,  he  purchased  the  retail 
shoe  business  conducted  by  Frank  Brady.  He  continued  alone  in  the 
management  of  the  business  until  January  26,  1877,  when  his  younger 
brother,  Humphrey,  became  a  partner,  under  the  firm  name  O'Sulli- 
van Brothers,  capital  $1,800.  Retail  shoe  dealing  and  custom  work 
occupied  the  brothers  until  1893,  when  a  clothing  business  was  added 
and  the  Associate  building  erected,  in  which  the  business  was  located 
when  the  O'Sullivan  Rubber  Company  was  incorporated  in  1899. 
James  O'Sullivan  was  elected  president,  and  has  been  associated  with 
his  brother  Humphrey  in  that  company  until  the  present.  He  married 
Catherine  Connolly,  and  their  children  are :  Timothy,  William  (de- 
ceased), James,  Helena.  Humphrey  (deceased),  Catherine,  Francis, 
Jeremiah,  Mary  and  Julia. 

Hum]3hrey  O'Sullivan.  the  principal  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the 
third  and  youngest  son  of  Timothy  and  Catherine  (Barry)  O'Sullivan, 
and  was  born  in  Skibbereen,  County  Cork,  Ireland,  October  7,  1853. 
He  obtained  a  good  education  in  the  state  school,  and  in  time  was 
offered  a  position  of  teacher  in  a  nearby  school.  He  began  learning 
the  printer's  trade  in  July,  1868,  serving  a  five  years'  apprenticeship 
with  J.  W.  Potter  &  Sons,  becoming  a  skilled  typesetter  and  assistant 
foreman.  He  was  so  well  trained  in  job  and  newspaper  printing  that 
when  the  junior  Potter  became  general  manager  of  the  "Irish  Daily 
Telegraph"  in  Cork,  Mr.  O'Sullivan  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  printing 
of  the  afternoon  edition  of  that  paper.  He  continued  with  Potter  & 
Sons  for  a  full  term  of  five  years,  and  in  that  time  developed  far  more 
than  a  knowledge  of  the  printing  business.  He  was  under  the  capable 
training  of  Rev.  D.  McCartie,  a  cultured  and  scholarly  gentleman,  who 
was  his  tutor  in  general  literature,  voice  culture  and  the  development 
of  his  natural  talent  as  an  orator.  One  of  his  victories  while  an  ap- 
prentice was  winning  an  oratorical  contest  for  a  prize  of  five  pounds 
sterling  donated  by  Sir  Wilfred  Lawson,  M.  P.  The  contest  was  held 
in  Munster  Hall,  Cork,  and  upon  a  later  date  in  the  Rotunds  at  Dublin, 
A.  M.  Sullivan  being  chairman  of  the  committee  of  judges  on  both 
occasions.  Mr.  O'Sullivan  spoke  with  earnestness,  displayed  a  deep 
knowledge  of  his  suliject,  and  i)rcsented  his  ]K)ints  with  such  clearness 
and  eloquence  that  he  was  adjudged  the  w  inner  on  both  occasions. 


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After  completing  his  apprenticeship  he  joined  the  Printer's  Union, 
and  for  a  time  was  in  the  employ  of  Guy  Brothers,  job  printers,  of 
Cork.  In  June,  1874,  he  came  to  New  York  on  the  Inman  Line  steam- 
ship "City  of  Chester,"  landing  with  little  capital  except  his  trade,  a 
card  certifying  to  his  membership  in  the  Printer's  Union  of  Cork.  He 
was  rich  in  courage  and  ambition,  which  was  capital  that  enabled  him 
to  overcome  the  many  obstacles  which  confront  the  newcomer  from 
foreign  shores.  He  secured  his  first  work  in  a  Yonkers,  New  York, 
printing  office,  to  which  his  union  card  gained  him  admission,  but 
soon  afterward  he  came  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where  his  brother, 
James,  was  engaged  in  business  as  a  retail  shoe  dealer.  He  obtained 
a  position  on  the  Lowell  "Courier,"  later  on  "Vox  Populi,"  going  thence 
to  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  where  he  was  given  a  better  position  on 
the  "Sentinel."  There  were  no  typographical  unions  in  either  Lowell 
or  Lawrence  at  that  time,  his  union  card  was  of  no  benefit  to  him,  and, 
printing  conditions  being  chaotic,  he  abandoned  his  trade,  returned  to 
Lowell,  and  on  January  26,  1877,  became  a  partner  in  the  business  of 
his  brother  James.  O'Sullivan  Brothers  .developed  a  very  large  and 
profitable  business  as  retailers  and  makers  of  shoes,  and  their  small 
capital  of  $1,800  was  turned  over  and  over  each  year,  constantly  being 
added  to  from  profits  which  enabled  the  firm  to  expand  and  enlarge 
their  line.  Each  partner  limited  his  income  from  the  firm  funds  to  a 
minimum,  for  years  all  money  made  going  back  into  the  business, 
particular  attention  being  given  to  securing  the  best  grades  from  the 
best  known  manufacturers,  and  a  most  profitable  business  resulted. 
In  1893  clothing  was  added  and  the  Associate  Building  erected.  On 
.\ugust  28,  1899,  the  O'Sullivan  Rubber  Company  was  incorporated  to 
manufacture  and  market  the  O'Sullivan  Rubber  Heel,  invented  and 
patented  by  Humphrey  O'Sullivan.  The  officers  of  the  company  were 
James  O'Sullivan,  president;  Humphrey  O'Sullivan,  treasurer  and 
advertising  manager ;  J.  Munn  Andrews,  secretary  and  manager.  The 
success  of  this  invention  is  national  history,  and  perhaps  there  is  no 
single  article  of  wear  in  such  universal  use  as  the  O'Sullivan  Rubber 
Heel.  Mr.  O'Sullivan  is  one  of  the  greatest  of  national  advertisers, 
and  as  he  is  his  own  advertising  manager  all  the  credit  of  placing  the 
heel  upon  the  market  through  the  medium  of  printer's  ink  goes  with 
the  honor- of  the  invention  to  Mr.  O'Sullivan.  It  is  one  of  the  great 
successes  of  merchandising  on  a  large  scale  and  forever  stamps  Mr. 
O'Sullivan's  name  as  one  of  the  great  geniuses  of  the  business  world. 
This  business  led  to  that  greatest  of  all  footwear  inventions — the  rub- 
ber heel — an  article  of  manufacture  now  everywhere  associated  with 
the  name  O'Sullivan,  and  under  the  inventor's  name  and  patents  this 
article  is  made  in  the  United  States,  Continental  Europe  and  the  Brit- 


352  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

ish   Isles.      It  can,  therefore,   be   truthfully   said   that   these  heels   are 
applied  to  the  heels  of  the  world. 

Mr.  O'Sullivan  has  other  large  business  interests  in  and  out  of 
the  city,  and  holds  directorship  in  many  Lowell  financial  institutions. 
During-  his  busy  and  successful  business  life,  j\lr^  O'Sullivan  has  been 
identified  with  Lowell's  public  interests  and  has  been  a  firm  advocate 
of  the  advancement  of  all  things  pertaining  to  Lowell,  ranking  with 
the  leaders  in  public  spirit  and  progress. 

Lowell  will  long  remember  the  great  St.  Patrick's  Day  parade  and 
celebration  of  1906,  of  which  he  was  Chief  Marshal,  the  wonderful 
Fourth  of  July  celebration  of  up/,  which  he  alone  was  responsible  for, 
and  other  events  which  came  later. 

He  is  a  member  of  St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church,  and  has 
given  much  of  his  time  and  material  aid  to  church  work.  Air.  O'.Sul- 
livan  is  an  ardent  Democrat,  one  of  the  Alassachusetts  leaders  of  his 
partv,  and  for  several  years  was  a  member  of  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee. He  is  a  member  of  Lowell  Council,  Knights  of  Columbus,  the 
Celtics,  the  Yorick  Club,  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  American- 
Irish  Historical  Society,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
Court  Merrimack,  Catholic  Order  of  Foresters,  and  the  K.  \\'.  Society- 
He  is  a  loyal  supporter  of  independence  for  Ireland,  and  has  been 
identified  with  the  various  movements  to  benefit  the  cause  of  these 
harassed  people.  On  numberless  occasions  he  has  been  the  invited 
orator,  pleading  eloquently  for  justice,  and  supporting  the  cause  in  a 
material  way.  Upon  the  accession  of  King  Edward  VII.  to  the  throne 
of  England  he  cabled  a  plea  for  Irish  freedom  to  the  King.  He  has 
been  publicly  honored  by  his  fellow  townsmen  and  in  Lowell,  his  home 
and  business  headquarters,  he  is  best  known  and  held  in  highest 
esteem.  The  years,  forty-four,  Mr.  O'Sullivan  has  spent  in  the  United 
States  have  been  well  accounted  for,  and  he  stands  to-day  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  examples  of  what  energy  and  ability  can  accom- 
plish in  this  land  of  opportunity. 

Mr.  O'Sullivan  married,  January  26.  1877.  Hannah  Driscoll, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Mary  (Walsh)  Driscoll,  of  County  Cork,  Ire- 
land.    Both  of  their  children  died  in  infancv. 


GEORGE  H.  BROWN. 


At  the  age  of  tnc  years,  George  11.  Brown  was  l)rought  by  his 
irents  from  his  n,-ili\c  State  of  Maine,  and  in  his  adopted  city  he  has 
sen  from  a  street  lu-wshoy  to  the  highest  civic  position  his  fellow- 
en  (if  the  citv  can  l)estiiw  upon  him,  the  high  office  of  mayor.  Every 
e]i  nf  the  w;iv  he  has  tr;i\ele(l  he  has  taken  alone  and  unaided,  save 
r  the  friends  which  he  made  as  lie  jjassed  along  from  position  to  posi- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  353 

tion  in  his  upward  rise.  He  is  yet  comparatively  a  young  man,  but  he 
has  traveled  far,  and  the  future  holds  for  him  nothing  but  promise  of 
greater  favor.  Mayor  Brown  is  a  son  of  William  H.  and  Abby  L. 
(Crockett)  Brown,  his  father  born  in  Wells,  Maine,  but  for  many  years 
an  employee  of  Lowell  mills.  He  died  at  Jordan  Mountain,  Kings 
county.  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  July  10,  1906.  Abby  L.  (Crockett) 
Brown  was  born  in  Maine,  and  died  in  her  native  State. 

George  H.  Brown  was  born  in  W'aterville,  Maine,  May  22,  1877, 
and  in  1882  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 
There  he  attended  the  city  schools,  and  out  of  school  hours  sold  papers 
on  the  streets.  He  began  early  in  life  learning  the  printer's  trade,  but 
he  did  not  like  it,  and  at  the  first  opportunity  resigned  on  account  of  ill 
health  and  worked  on  a  farm  in  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  and  became 
an  employee  of  White's  Tannery,  passing  in  succession  to  varied  posi- 
tions in  the  Sufifolk,  Tremont,  Massachusetts,  and  Appleton.  and  the 
Bigelow-Hartford  Carpet  Mills.  In  addition  to  the  practical  knowl- 
edge gained  in  these  mills,  he  pursued  courses  of  technical  study  at 
Lowell  Textile  School,  attending  the  night  sessions  after  his  day's 
work  in  the  mill  was  completed. 

He  continued  a  mill  worker  until  war  was  declared  between  the 
United  States  and  Spain,  then  in  answer  to  President  McKinley's  call 
for  men  he  enlisted  in  Company  M,  Ninth  Regiment,  Massachusetts 
Volunteers,  and  served  until  honorably  discharged  at  the  close  of  the 
war.  After  his  return  to  Lowell,  he  passed  the  civil  service  examina- 
tion for  patrolman,  and  was  one  of  the  first  three  men  on  the  eligible 
list.  When  there  was  another  call  by  President  McKinley  for  volun- 
teers in  1899  for  service  in  the  Philippines,  he  again  enlisted,  entering 
the  Twenty-sixth  Regiment,  United  States  Volunteer  Infantry.  He 
spent  two  years  with  his  command,  serving  with  Company  I  in  many 
engagements,  skirmishes  and  expeditions  under  Colonel  Dickman,  who 
is  now  General  Dickman,  during  the  Philippine  insurrection,  his  years 
of  enlistment  filled  with  arduous  duty  on  Panay  Island  of  the  Philip- 
pine Archipelago.  He  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  in  May,  1901. 
He  then  returned  to  Lowell,  and  was  immediately  appointed  to  a  posi- 
tion as  patrolman  and  later  inspector  of  the  Lowell  police  department. 
On  March  3,  1903,  Mr.  Brown  was  commandeered  by  the  superintend- 
ent of  police  for  work  at  the  Burbank  block  fire.  In  1908,  while  still 
a  member  of  the  force,  he  was  elected  mayor,  and  on  December  15, 
1908,  he  resigned  his  position  as  patrolman,  and  on  January  i,  1909, 
was  inaugurated  mayor  of  Lowell.  He  served  a  term  of  one  year, 
giving  the  city  a  practical  administration,  and  in  191 1  he  was  elected 
commissioner  of  streets  and  highways,  and  in  1912  reelected  for  a 
term  of  two  years.     He  was  assigned  to  the  finance  department  for 


354  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

two  years,  and  was  again  reelected  in  1916  for  two  years,  his  term 
expiring  L)ecember  31,  iyi8.  He  served  during  his  last  term  as 
fire  and  water  commissioner.  In  1919  he  is  again  a  candidate  for 
the  office  of  mayor  for  a  period  of  two  years.  His  public  service 
was  of  the  highest  order,  and  he  stands  very  high  in  public 
esteem.  In  politics  he  is  a  Reiniljlican,  but  strictly  non-partisan  in 
local  afl:ai;s.  He  attends  the  Presbyterian  church.  He  is  a  member 
of  Pawtucket  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Mount  Horeb  Chap- 
ter, Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal  and  Select  Mas- 
ters ;  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Templar ;  Aleppo  Temple,  Nobles 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine  ;  Sons  of  Veterans  ;  General  Adelbert  Ames  Camp, 
United  Spanish  War  Veterans ;  Oberlin  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows  ;  also  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles. 

Mayor  Brown  married,  in  Lowell,  October  3.  1904,  Emma  \'ining, 
daughter  of  Hiram  and  Margaret  (Campl)ell)  \'ining,  of  Lowell. 


LARKIN  THORNDIKE  TRULL. 

In  the  fall  uf  1882,  Mr.  Trull,  a  newly  admitted  member  of  the  Mid- 
dlesex county  bar,  and  a  young  man  of  twenty-five,  began  practice  in 
Lowell,  with  office  at  No.  103  Central  street.  Six  years  later  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Frederick  N.  Wier,  which  still  exists  under 
the  office  firm  name  "Trull  and  Wier,"  No.  103  Central  street,  until 
July  I,  1917,  when  they  moved  to  their  present  location.  This  long 
record  of  service  goes  still  further  back  into  the  past,  even  to  the  year 
1879,  when  Mr  Trull  was  a  student  in  the  law  offices  of  the  eminent 
Richardson  brothers,  William  A.,  Daniel  S.,  and  George  F.,  all  now- 
gone  to  their  reward,  but  who,  with  their  honored  father,  Squire  Rich- 
ardson, of  Tyngsboro,  Massachusetts,  made  Richardson  a  household 
word  in  Lowell,  Middlesex  county,  and  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts, 
one  of  the  brothers,  William  A„  becoming  secretary  of  the  treasury 
of  the  United  States,  and  judge  of  the  United  States  Court  of  Claims. 

Mr.  Trull  is  of  ancient  Massachusetts  family,  son  of  Nathaniel 
Trull,  and  grandson  of  Jesse  Trull,  both  farmers  of  Tewksbury,  Mas- 
sachusetts, the  old  homestead  farm  having  been  in  the  family  approach- 
ing two  hundred  years.  There  Nathaniel  Trull  was  born  in  1806,  died 
October  14,  1884.  He  married  Munanda  Wood,  born  in  1827,  died  in 
1894.  They  were  the  parents  of  daughters:  Jane,  Josephine  M.,  Fan- 
nie E.,  and  Emmeline  H.;  sons:  Jesse  N.,  Larkin  T.,  Benjamin  F., 
Loring  L.,  and  Edward  W. 

Larkin  Thorndike  Trull  was  born  at  the  Tewksbury  Trull  home- 
stead in  which  six  generations  of  Trulls  have  lived,  October  17,  1857, 
and  there  attended  public  school  until  thirteen  years  of  age.  He  was 
then  sent  to  Boston  public  schools,  thence  to  Boston  Latin  School, 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  355 

whence  he  was  graduated,  class  of  1S75.  He  next  pursued  a  classical 
course  at  Harvard  University,  entering  in  the  freshman  year,  and  at 
the  end  of  a  four  years'  course  receiving  his  Bachelor  of  Arts  with  the 
class  of  1879.  Deciding  upon  the  profession  of  law,  he  spent  a  year  in 
study  in  the  offices  of  D.  S.  and  G.  F.  Richardson  at  Lowell,  entering 
Boston  University  Law  School  in  the  fall  of  1880.  He  attended  Law 
School  two  years,  also  continuing  his  association  with  the  Richard- 
son law  office  until  the  fall  of  1882,  when  he  was  admitted  to  the  I\lid- 
dlesex  county  bar.  He  began  practice  in  Lowell  the  same  year,  and 
in  due  season  secured  a  foothold  and  began  his  upward  climb.  For  six 
}ears  he  practiced  alone,  Frederick  N.  Wier  joining  him  as  partner 
in  1888.  They  practiced  at  No.  103  Central  street  for  twenty-nine 
years,  conducting  an  extensive  legal  business.  Recently  the  old 
location  was  abandoned  and  new  offices  taken.  Mr.  Trull  served  as 
city  solicitor  for  two  years,  but  has  practiced  privately  during  his 
thirty-five  years  at  the  Middlesex  bar  and  has  won  high  standing  at 
that  bar  as  an  honorable,  upright  lawyer  of  learning,  sound  judgment 
and  abilit}'. 

During  these  thirty-five  years,  Mr.  Trull  has  figured  in  many  im- 
portant cases,  has  won  a  fair  proportion  of  victories,  and  sufifered  his 
share  of  adverse  verdicts.  But  he  has  fought  fair,  maintained  the 
courtesy  and  deference  due  the  court,  sought  no  unfair  advantage  over 
an  opponent,  but  trusted  to  his  careful  preparation,  citations  and 
strong  presentation  to  win  his  cause.  He  is  a  member  of  the  local 
and  State  bar  associations,  and  holds  the  esteem  of  his  professional 
brethren.  He  has  acquired  important  business  connections ;  is  a  trus- 
tee of  the  Central  Savings  Bank;  was  president  at  one  time,  now  a 
director  and  vice-president  of  the  Middlesex  Trust  Company ;  was  an 
original  trustee  of  Lowell  General  Hospital,  is  president  of  the  Har- 
vard Club  of  Lowell,  and  member  of  the  Yorick  Club.  In  political 
faith  a  Republican,  he  was  chairman  of  the  City  Committee  during 
1886-87,  and  for  two  years  was  a  member  of  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee. 

Mr.  Trull  married,  October  8,  1884,  Hannah  J.  Bailey,  daughter 
of  Henry  B.  and  Anne  B.  (Lother)  Bailey,  of  Lowell.  The  Trull  home 
is  at  No.  56  Fairmount  street,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Trull  attending  the  Fir.st 
Baptist  Church.  If  Mr.  Trull  had  not  studied  law  he  would  have  been 
an  agriculturist,  for  he  loves  the  country  and  owns  a  farm  at  his  boy- 
hood home,  Tewksbury,  that  closely  vies  with  his  profession  in  claim- 
ing his  interests. 


JOHN  KONSTAS  GATSOPOULOS,  M.  D. 

In    1907   Dr.   Gatsop.iulos   came   to   the    United   States   from    his 
native  country,  Greece,  richly  equipped  for  the  practice  of  medicine 


356  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

and  surgery,  ha\'ing  prepared  in  Athens,  Naples  and  Paris.  The  learn- 
ing of  university  and  hospital  was  his,  many  years  of  his  life  having 
been  spent  in  study  and  hospital  practice.  The  task  that  confronted 
the  doctor  upon  his  arrival  in  Lowell  was  a  formidable  one,  for  not- 
withstanding his  professional  qualifications  which  were  of  the  highest, 
he  could  not  speak  English.  He  resolutely  set  about  his  task,  and 
within  a  year  has  mastered  English,  passed  the  State  Board  of  Medical 
Examiners,  and  gained  from  them  authority  to  practice  his  profession. 
From  that  time  his  pathway  was  much  easier  and  more  pleasant  to  fol- 
low, and  the  years  have  brought  him  recognition  by  the  profession  and 
laity  as  a  skilled  and  honorable  physician  and  surgeon.  Dr.  Gatsopou- 
los  is  a  noted  linguist,  being  thoroughly  conversant  with  Greek,  Turk- 
ish, Italian,  English  and  other  European  and  Oriental  languages,  being 
able  to  converse  fluently  in  each.  Dr.  Gatsopoulos  is  a  son  of  Konstas 
and  Vacelo  (Demeter)  Gatsopoulos,  both  natives  of  Jannina,  Greece, 
where  the  father  died  in  1896,  aged  sixty-five,  a  grain  merchant,  and 
the  mother  yet  resides,  aged  eighty-five,  cared  for  by  her  son,  the  doc- 
tor. The  latter  has  two  brothers,  Nicholas,  aged  sixty-two,  a  mechan- 
ical engineer,  of  Jannina,  Greece  ;  and  Spyros,  a  merchant  and  importer 
of  Carditza,  a  province  of  Thessaly. 

John  Konstas  Gatsopoulos  was  born  in  Jannina,  Greece,  Decem- 
ber 28,  1874,  and  was  there  prepared  in  academy  and  advanced  schools 
for  admission  into  the  University  of  Athens.  There  he  pursued  medi- 
cal studies  until  graduation,  in  April,  1899,  receiving  his  degree  in 
medicine  and  surgery.  For  one  year,  thereafter,  he  was  interne  at  the 
City  Hospital,  Athens,  then  for  two  years  at  Neker  Hospital,  Pans. 
France,  and  for  one  year  at  St.  Andrea  Hospital,  Naples,  Italy.  Fie 
practiced  his  profession  abroad  until  1907,  then  came  to  the  LTnited 
States,  locating  in  Lowell,  where  he  has  been  in  continuous  and  suc- 
cessful practice  since  190S,  his  office  being  located  in  Room  11,  No. 
},22  Merrimack  street.  In  July  and  August,  1910,  he  attended  confer- 
ences in  the  Academy  of  Paris  concerning  the  discovery  and  effective- 
ness of  the  "six-hundred-six"  treatment,  and  other  imjiurtant  medical 
researches  by  Professors  Horlick  and  Hatta — he  being  the  only  physi- 
cian from  New  England  to  attend.  In  1915  Dr.  Gatsopoulos  com- 
pleted his  naturalization  formalities  and  became  a  citizen  of  the  United 
States.  Fie  is  a  Denmcrat  in  politics,  a  member  of  the  Orthodox 
Greek  church,  and  in  11)13  was  president  of  the  Greek  Colony  in 
Lowell.  In  Athens  he  was  a  member  of  the  Greek  L'plift  Society, 
Panelleni ;  also  the  only  Greek  professional  man  to  hold  membership 
in  the  National  Geographical  Society. 

Dr.  (latsopouliis  was  elected  president  last  year  (1918)  in  the 
great  coiuentiun  in  Worcester.  Massachusetts,  of  the  Greeks  from 
North   Fpirus,  wild  furnied  a  societv  of  National  scope,  the  National 


BIOGRAPHICAL  357 

Pan-Epirotic  Union.  He  was  also  appointed  to  attend  the  Peace  Con- 
ference held  in  Paris,  as  one  of  the  two  representatives  of  the  Epirotes 
in  this  country.  The  other  delegate,  chosen  by  the  Pan-Epirotic  Union, 
at  the  convention  in  Worcester,  was  N.  J.  Kusavetis.  They  were  to 
go  to  Paris  to  put  forward  the  claims  of  the  inhabitants  of  Epirus,  in 
northern  Greece,  that  they  be  allowed  to  continue  under  the  govern- 
ment of  Greece.     Italy's  troops  entered  this  old  province. 

Dr.  Gatsopoulos  married,  in  Lowell,  in  191 1,  Edith  Co.x.  born  in 
Kent  county,  England ;  her  father  was  a  prominent  engineer. 


JONATHAN  TYLER  STEVENS. 

Jonathan  Tyler  Stevens,  son  of  Charles  A.  Stevens,  was  born  in 
\\are,  December  20,  1844.  He  was  brought  up  in  Ware,  educated 
there  in  the  public  schools,  and  in  Mr.  Woodbridge's  school  at  Auburn- 
dale,  and  began  his  business  career  with  his  father  in  the  woolen  mills 
at  Ware.  In  the  winter  of  1864-65,  he  and  his  father  made  a  visit  to 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac  in  front  of  Petersburg,  and  both  father  and 
son  were  active  in  their  support  of  the  Union  cause.  In  1875  ^^  re- 
moved to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  assumed  charge  of  the  estate  of 
his  grandfather,  Jonathan  T3-ler,  one  of  the  heaviest  taxpayers  of  that 
city,  and  in  this  duty  and  the  care  of  his  own  property  found  occupa- 
tion for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  was  interested  in  municipal  and 
national  affairs.  He  served  the  city  of  Lowell  in  the  Common  Coun- 
cil, and  in  1881-82  represented  his  district  in  the  General  Court,  serving 
efficiently  on  important  committees.  He  was  active  in  the  Republican 
part}-,  and  often  served  as  delegate  to  nominating  conventions.  He 
was  four  times  elected  vice-president  of  the  Massachusetts  Repub- 
lican Club^  He  was  an  active  member  and  generous  supporter  of  the 
First  L'nitarian  Church  of  Lowell.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New 
England  Historic-Genealogical  Society,  elected  in  1894.  He  was  inter- 
ested in  early  American  history  and  especially  in  the  genealogy  of  his 
family.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  Sons  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. "He  was  a  sincere,  straightforward,  manly  man,  cordial  and 
kindly  in  disposition,  frank  and  unaffected  in  demeanor,  and  com- 
manded the  respect  and  friendship  of  all  who  knew  him."  "His  tastes 
were  simple  and  refined,  and  his  chief  pleasure  was  in  the  pleasure  that 
others  had.  He  loved  his  children  and  did  everything  a  father  could 
to  make  it  pleasant  for  them."    He  died  in  Lowell,  March  13.  1902. 

Mr  Stevens  married,  December  3,  1873,  Alice  Coburn,  daughter 
of  Charles  B.  Coburn,  of  Lowell,  a  descendant  of  Edward  Coburn,  of 
Concord,  a  pioneer  in  1636,  whose  descendants  have  been  very  numer- 
ous in  Dracut  and  vicinitv.  His  widow  lives  in  the  homestead  in  Lowell 


358  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

She  is  a  menil)er  ui  the  local  chapter  of  the  naughters  of  the  Revolu- 
tion, of  the  First  L'nitarian  Church,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  many 
friends.  Children:  I.  Tyler  A.,  a  sketch  of  whom  follows.  2.  Julia 
\V.,  resides  at  home.  3.  Maria,  deceased,  married  William  H.  Fox.  4. 
Charles  A.,  married  Helene  A.  Chalifoux,  and  resides  in  Lowell.  5. 
Oliver,  married  lulna  Swain,  and  resides  in  Lowell. 


TYLER  ABBOTT  STEVENS. 

Tyler  Abbott  Stevens,  son  of  Jonathan  Tyler  and  Alice  (Coburn) 
Stevens,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  January  29,  1877.  After 
attending  private  and  public  schools  in  the  vicinity  of  his  home,  he 
completed  his  education  in  the  Victoria  L'niversity  at  Leeds,  England. 
In  1898  he  began  his  business  career  in  the  woolen  industry,  and  upon 
the  death  of  his  father  in  1902  succeeded  the  elder  Stevens  in  the 
management  of  the  Stevens  estate,  which  he  administers  to  the  present 
time.  Mr.  Stevens  is  a  trustee  of  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank,  and  a 
director  of  the  Traders'  and  Mechanics'  Insurance  Company.  His 
])olitical  belief  is  Republican,  and  during  1907-08  he  served  Lowell  as 
a  member  of  the  City  Council,  officiating  as  president  in  the  latter 
>ear,  and  continuing  his  service  to  the  municipality  as  a  memljer  of 
the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1909.  His  patriotic  ancestry  gives  him 
membership  in  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  his  clubs  are  the 
Yorick  and  the  Vesper  Country.  He  is  a  communicant  of  the  Uni- 
tarian church.  Mr.  Stevens  is  thoroughly  identified  with  the  best  and 
the  most  ])rogressive  influences  in  Lowell,  and  has  borne  his  full  share 
in  promoting  her  welfare  and  prosperity. 

Mr.  Stevens  married,  at  Framingham,  Massachusetts,  April  26, 
1905,  Grace  R.,  daughter  of  George  W.  and  Jennie  P.  Buck. 

MICHAEL  HENRY  McDONOUGH. 

When  a  \i)ung  man,  Thomas  McDonough  came  from  Cnunty  Ros- 
common, Ireland,  to  the  United  States,  and  settled  in  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  he  died  in  1871,  a  skilled  mechanic.  He  married  Mary 
Watson,  b'irn  in  County  Conemaugh,  Ireland,  who  also  died  in  Lowell. 
They  were  parents  of  Michael  H.  McDonough,  of  Lowell,  now  de- 
ceased, whose  life  was  spent  in  his  native  city,  who  founded  and 
directed  the  business  to  which  he  admitted  his  sons,  who  are  now  his 
successors  in  the  firm,  M.  II.  McDonough  Sons,  undertakers  and 
funeral  directors. 

Michael  IT.  McDonciUgh  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Julv 
17.   1S62,  died  in  the  citv  of  his  birth,  December  26.  191  I.     .\fter  com- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  359 

pleting  his  school  years,  he  became  an  apprentice  under  James  H. 
McDermott,  one  of  Lowell's  leading  undertakers,  and  for  twenty-two 
years  continued  in  that  employ,  becoming  an  adept  at  all  phases  of  the 
undertaking  trade  and  business.  During  those  years  he  became  well 
acquainted  in  his  city  and  very  popular.  Finally  he  established  busi- 
ness under  his  own  name,  beginning  September  i,  1906,  and  for  the 
succeeding  five  years  was  head  of  a  very  prosperous  business,  his  wide 
acquaintance  and  popularity,  as  well  as  his  thorough  knowledge  of 
every  detail,  insuring  him  success  from  the  commencement.  His 
undertaking  rooms  were  established  at  No.  108  Gorham  street,  Lowell, 
later  moving  to  the  present  location.  No.  176  Gorham  street,  in  1914, 
his  sons,  whom  he  made  his  partners,  there  continuing  the  business, 
safeguarding  their  mother's  interest  and  winning  high  reputation  as 
undertakers  and  funeral  directors.  Mr.  McDonough  was  a  Democrat 
in  politics,  and  a  member  of  St.  Peter's  Roman  Catholic  Church.  His 
societies  were  the  Knights  of  Columbus,  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians, 
Industrial  Coimcil,  Royal  Arcanum,  and  the  Catholic  Order  of  For- 
esters. He  was  a  prominent  worker  in  St.  Peter's  Holy  Name  Society 
and  was  the  financial  secretary  of  the  society  at  the  time  of  his  death 
He  held  the  respect  of  his  large  circle  of  friends,  and  was  one  of  the 
men  whose  word  was  always  to  be  relied  upon. 

Mr.  McDonough  married,  in  Lowell,  January  3,  1886,  Margaret  F. 
McGuane.  born  in  Lowell,  and  there  has  always  resided.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Donough is  a  daughter  of  Michael  and  Mary  (Tully)  McGuane,  her 
father  born  in  County  Clare,  her  mother  in  County  Cavan,  Ireland. 
Both  came  to  Lowell  when  young,  and  there  both  lived  and  died. 
Michael  H.  and  Margaret  E.  (McGuane)  McDonough  were  the  par- 
ents of  eight  children,  all  born  in  Lowell:  i.  John  Leo,  his  father's 
associate  and  partner  in  the  business  firm  of  M.  H.  McDonough  Sons, 
and  still  continuing  business  under  the  same  name ;  married  Margaret 
F.  Maloney,  of  Lowell,  and  has  a  daughter,  Margaret  M.  McDonough. 
2.  Thomas  Aloysius,  died  aged  four  years.  3.  William  Francis,  now 
deceased.  4.  Fdward  Francis,  member  of  M.  H.  McDonough  Sons. 
5.  George  Michael,  was  associated  with  his  brothers  in  the  undertak- 
ing business,  but  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Army  during  the 
World  War,  serving  in  the  Quartermaster's  Department  at  Camp 
Devens,  Massachusetts.  6.  Mary  Francis,  died  in  infancy.  7.  Mar- 
garet, residing  with  her  mother.  8.  Harry  Lewis,  residing  at  home. 
The  sons  of  Michael  H.  McDonough,  who  have  succeeded  to  his  l)usi- 
ncss,  are  all  graduates  of  the  Massachusetts  School  of  Embalming,  and 
expert  in  every  department  of  the  business.  The  reputation  of  the 
establishment  is  perfectly  maintained,  and  the  business  exists  and 
prospers  under  their  management. 


36o  HISTORY  OI'   LOWELL 

CHARLES  H.  CLOGSTON. 

Banking  has  occujjied  Mr.  Clogston  throughout  his  entire  active 
career,  and  he  is  now  known  in  financial  circles  in  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, as  the  treasurer  of  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  of  this  city. 
He  is  prominent  in  Masonry,  identified  with  numerous  social  and  civic 
organizations,  and  a  leading  member  of  the  First  Congregational 
Church. 

Mr.  Clogston  is  a  native  of  South  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts, 
born  October  17,  1867,  and  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that 
town  and  Lowell.  His  business  career  began  in  the  employ  of  the 
Railroad  National  Bank  of  Lowell,  where  he  was  employed  for  four 
years.  He  was  then  associated  with  the  First  National  Bank  of  Lowell 
for  a  period  of  sixteen  jxars,  serving  as  bookkeeper  and  teller  suc- 
cessively, after  which  he  was  for  eleven  years  paying  teller  and  assist- 
ant cashier  in  the  Union  National  Bank  of  Lowell.  His  connection 
with  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  began  at  the  end  of  this  time  in  the 
capacity  of  treasurer,  his  present  ofifice,  and  he  is  likewise  a  trustee 
of  the  institution.  The  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank  was  incorporated  in 
1861.  In  its  fifty-eight  years  of  activity  its  afifairs  have  been  so  con- 
ducted that  to-day  it  enjoys  a  reputation  for  careful,  conservative  busi- 
ness methods  surpassed  by  no  other.  Its  present  location  is  in  the 
Mechanics'  Bank  building,  Nos.  204-06  Merrimack  street,  and  here  its 
depositors  are  served  with  the  careful  consideration  that  has  won  the 
bank  its  general  popularity.  At  the  close  of  business,  January  4,  1919, 
its  deposits  amounted  to  more  than  four  millions.  Mr.  Clogston,  in 
addition  to  his  duties  as  treasurer  and  trustee,  is  one  of  the  five  mem- 
bers of  the  board  of  investment.  Mr.  Clogston  has  been  treasurer  of 
the  Lowell  Masonic  Club  since  its  organization.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  the  Massachusetts  Savings  Bank  Officers' 
Club,  and  the  Vesper  Country  Chib,  and  is  also  treasurer  of  the  Lowell 
Humane  Society.    He  is  a  Repulilicaii  in  politics. 

Mr.  Clogston  married,  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  October  20,  i8yo, 
.\nnie  J.  Dustin,  daughter  of  .\zro  and  Juliette  (Barrows)  Dustin. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clogston  are  the  parents  of  one  child,  Marion  H.,  Ixirn 
November  10,  iS'gi,  educated  in  Lowell  schools. 


SETH  BARTON  HALL. 


Seven  generations  of  Halls  preceded  Seth  Barton  Hall  in  New 
England,  his  American  ancestor,  William  Hall,  first  appearing  in  the 
records  of  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  in  1638.  William  was  a  son  of 
Rev.  William  Hail,  a  ckTgyni.in,  who  is  believed  to  be  William  Hall 
vvlio  continnrd  (be  ••l'al)yan  Chr.inicle,"  l)egun  by  Sir  •|1i.>mas  Moore. 
The  ^•o;lt-of-arm'^  is  thus  described: 


BIOGRAPHICAL  361 

Arms — Three  talbots  heads  on  a  chevron  sable. 
Crest — A  griffin's  head  azure. 

William  Hall  disappears  from  London,  England,  records  in  1638, 
and  as  he  appeared  in  Portsmouth  the  same  year  the  date  of  his  com- 
ing in  thus  definitely  fixed.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  Portsmouth, 
and  one  of  the  fifty-nine  men  who  were  admitted  inhabitants  of  the 
Island  of  Aquidneck,  August  8.  1638.  In  1639  '^e  is  of  record  in  New- 
port, Rhode  Island,  a  parcel  of  land  granted  him  in  Port.-^niouth,  May 
27.  1644,  and  his  name  is  included  in  a  list  of  freeman  in  1635.  He  was 
a  part  owner  of  Canonicut  and  Dutch  Island,  he  selling  a  part  of  his 
holdings  on  these  islands  to  Richard  Sisson,  September  6,  1654.  He 
was  commissioned  to  the  General  Court  from  Portsmouth  four  terms. 
1654-56-60  and  1663  ;  deputy  in  1665-66-67-68-72  and  1673,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  town  council  in  ir)72.  The  practical  efifort  of  Puritan  civiliza- 
tion upon  the  Indian  is  shown  in  the  appointment  of  William  Hall 
in  1673  on  a  committee  to  treat  with  the  Indian  chiefs  and  to  "seriously 
council  them  and  agree  on  some  way  to  prevent  extreme  excess  of 
Indian  Drunkenness."  William  Hall's  will  was  dated  February  20, 
1673,  and  was  probated  April  19,  1676,  his  age  at  death,  sixty-three 
years.  His  wife  Mary,  his  executrix,  died  in  1680.  They  were  the 
parents  of  six  children,  descent  in  this  branch  being  through  Zuriel, 
their  first  born, 

■  Zuriel  Hall  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  about  1645,  ^'id  'I'^d  there 
in  1691.  He  was  not  admitted  a  freeman  until  1677.  He  married 
Elizabeth  Tripp,  born  in  1648,  died  in  1701,  daughter  nf  John  and 
Mary  (Paine)  Tripp.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  children.  Their 
second  son.  Zuriel  (2),  is  head  of  the  third  generation. 

Zuriel  (2)  Hall  was  born  in  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island,  in  if'177, 
and  died  there  April  3,  1765,  in  his  eighty-eighth  year.  He  settled 
in  Rellingham,  Massachusetts,  although  some  of  his  children  were 
born  in  Portsmouth,  Rhode  Island.  He  married,  in  September,  1697, 
Susannah  Sheffield,  born  in  1676,  died  August  3,  1742,  daughter  of 
William  Sheffield  of  Sherborn  and  Hingham,  Massachusetts,  They 
were  the  parents  of  twelve  children,  the  fifth  child,  Seth,  being  next  in 
line. 

Seth  Hall  was  Iiorn  in  Bellingham,  Massachusetts,  April  2,  1707, 
died  there  April  27,  1780.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  town  affairs 
and  was  a  member  of  the  military  company.  He  married,  May  28, 
1737,  Abigail  Albee  of  ancient  Rhode  Island  family.  They  were  the 
parents  of  six  children,  descent  being  traced  through  Seth  (2),  the 
second  son  and  child. 

Seth  (2)  Hall  was  born  in  Bellingham,  Massachusetts,  May  15, 
1739,  and  died  April  22,  1737.     His  intentions  of  marriage  with  Martha 


362  HISTORY  OF  LO\\'ELL 

Thompson  were  published.  He  married  (second)  December  17,  1761, 
Elizabeth  Spear,  a  widow.  His  six  children  were  all  by  his  second 
wife.  Descent  in  this  branch  is  traced  through  his  fourth  child, 
Lemuel. 

Lemuel  Hall  was  born  in  Bellingham.  Massachusetts,  April  24, 
1768.  He  lived  in  Cumljerland,  Rhode  Island,  and  Belchertown,  Mas- 
sachusetts. He  married,  at  Cumberland,  Lucia  (or  Louisa)  fiaskill, 
daughter  of  William  Gaskill.  Descent  is  traced  through  their  son, 
Levi  Barton,  the  eldest  son  and  second  child. 

Levi  Barton  Hall  was  born  in  Cumberland,  Rhode  Island,  and 
there  obtained  a  public  school  education  and  learned  a  trade.  He 
moved  from  Cumberland  to  Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  and  there 
followed  his  trade  and  engaged  in  farming.  He  married  Maria  Draper, 
and  they  were  the  parents  of  seven  children :  Caroline  ;  Seth  Barton, 
to  whom  this  review  is  inscribed  ;  Lucy  ;  Ellen ;  Elizabeth  ;  Mary  ;  and 
Susan,  the  only  survivor,  lives  at  Northampton,  Massachusetts.  She 
married  John  L.  Draper,  now  deceased. 

Seth  Barton  Hall  was  born  at  Pelham,  Massachusetts.  January 
6,  1830,  died  in  Lowell,  January  2,  1908.  He  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools,  and  during  his  boyhood  aided  his  father  in  farm 
labor.  At  an  early  age  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  provision  dealer,  who 
taught  him  the  butcher's  trade  in  all  its  branches  from  the  purchase 
(if  the  cattle  on  the  hoof  to  their  final  sale  over  the  counter.  After 
mastering  the  business  the  young  man  opened  a  meat  and  provision 
store  under  his  own  name  in  Blackstone,  Massachusetts,  there  con- 
tinuing until  1869,  when  he  sold  out,  moved  to  Dracut,  now  part  of 
the  city  of  Lowell,  and  purchased  the  wholesale  native  beef  and  cattle 
business  of  Daniel  Gage.  By  this  purchase  he  secured  the  ten-acre 
tract  of  land  that  is  now  the  Hall  homestead.  No.  201  Hildreth  street, 
together  with  all  the  buildings  thereon,  which  included  the  buildings 
devoted  to  the  butcher  business.  Mr.  Hall  began  a  general  improve- 
ment of  the  plant  and  l)uilt  what  was  probably  the  first  modern  beef 
cooling  equipment  in  the  State.  He  bought  cattle  on  the  hoof,  dressed 
and  i)repared  it  for  the  market  and  served  both  the  wholesale  and  retail 
trade.  Some  time  prior  to  1882,  Seth  B.  Hall  formed  a  partnership 
with  Charles  P.  Perham,  and  they  became  the  local  agents  for  G.  H. 
Hammond  &  Company,  the  Chicago  wholesale  beef  packers,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Hall  &  Perham,  who  began  business  on  Dutton  street, 
Lowell.  In  18S2  Mr.  Mall  sold  out  his  interest  in  Hall  &  Perham  to 
his  sun,  Levi  L.  llall,  and  .Mr.  Perham  sold  his  interest  to  his  son, 
Charles  P.  Perham,  and  they  continued  business  as  Hall  &  Perham. 
.\fter  retiring  from  active  business,  Mr.  Hall  became  interested  in 
I'lorida  lands,  purchased  an  orange  grove  near  San  Mateo,  Florida, 


BIOGRAPHICAL  363 

and  developed  this  to  a  modern  orange  plantation,  and  for  more  than 
twenty  years  spent  the  winter  season  there. 

He  was  one  of  the  big  men  of  the  butcher  trade  in  Lowell,  and  his 
conservative  business  ability  was  generally  recognized  by  the  business 
men  of  the  city.  He  was  a  director  of  the  Wamesit  National  Rank 
and  a  trustee  of  the  Merrimack  River  Savings  Bank ;  in  politics  a 
Republican,  and  in  religious  faith  a  Baptist,  serving  for  more  than 
twenty  years  as  a  deacon  of  the  Fifth  Street  Baptist  Church.  While 
prosperity  attended  his  business  enterprise,  his  success  was  won 
through  strict  adherence  to  the  highest  principle  of  commercial  integ- 
rity and  no  man  suffered  that  he  might  gain. 

Mr.  Hall  married  (first)  Catherine  Barrows,  their  only  child  dying 
young.  Mr.  Hall  married  (second)  January  10,  1854,  Rexeville  Eunice 
Gallop,  at  Palmer,  Massachusetts.  She  was  born  at  Guilford,  Ver- 
mont, August  14,  1831,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  October  22, 
1899.  They  were  the  parents  of  six  children:  i.  Levi  Loreadon,  born 
in  Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  February  4,  1855,  died  at  San  Alateo, 
Florida.  December  28,  1918;  he  married  Cynthia  Pope,  who  survives 
him.  2.  Frank  D.,  born  in  Belchertown,  Massachusetts,  August  5, 
1857;  he  married  Ida  Kempsey,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  two  chil- 
dren :  Seth  Wilson  and  John  Richardson.  3.  Mary  M.,  born  in 
P.lackstone,  Massachusetts,  October  23,  1859,  died  February  4,  1862. 
4.  Carrie  Melissa,  born  in  Blackstone.  Massachusetts;  she  married 
Jude  C.  Wadleigh,  whose  sketch  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  5. 
Charles  Seth,  born  in  Blackstone,  Massachusetts,  March  10,  1865,  now 
general  manager  for  Swift  &  Company,  the  American  wholesale  beef 
packers,  with  headquarters  in  London,  England.  He  married  Louise 
Stephens,  of  Ithaca,  New  York.  6.  Albert  Sumner,  whose  sketch  fol- 
lows.   Mr.  Hall  married  (third)  Melissa,  widow  of  James  Richards. 


ALBERT  SUMNER  HALL. 

Trained  in  the  meat  packing  business  under  the  instruction  of  his 
father,  Mr.  Hall,  until  1913  was  identified  with  this  industry  in  asso- 
ciation with  two  of  the  best  known  packing  houses  of  the  country. 
Swift  and  Company  and  the  G.  II.  Hammond  Company.  Since  that 
date,  when  the  operations  of  the  Hall-Perham  Company,  representa- 
tives in  Lowell  of  the  G.  H.  Hammond  Company  were  discontinued, 
Mr.  Hall  has  devoted  himself  to  his  private  interests.  He  is  a  son  of 
Seth  Barton  and  Rexeville  Eunice  (Gallop)  Hall,  and  was  born  on  the 
Hall  homestead  in  Dracut,  Massachusetts,  his  present  home,  Febru- 
ary 15,  1872. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell  and  the  Mitchell 
Boarding  School  at  Billerica,  Massachusetts,  and  Bryant  and  Strat- 


364  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

ton's  Business  College,  Boston.  The  elder  Hall  followed  the  butcher 
business  throughout  his  active  years  and  Albert  S.  Hall,  in  his  father's 
employ,  learned  this  line  thoroughly,  from  the  beginning  to  the 
retailing  of  the  product.  He  entered  naturally  the  wider  field  offered 
by  the  national  and  world  business  of  Swift  and  Company,  becoming 
employed  with  that  great  wholesale  concern  in  New  York  City.  His 
thorough  preparation  and  real  liking  for  the  packing  business  won  him 
steady  advancement  to  the  position  of  relief  manager  of  all  the  plants 
of  Swift  and  Company  in  New  York  City,  and  on  several  occasions 
his  was  the  full  responsibility  for  the  direction  of  these  branches. 
Mr.  Hall  resigned  from  Swift  and  Company  to  take  over  the  interests 
of  his  brother,  Levi  L.  Hall,  in  the  firm  of  Hall-Perham  Company, 
local  agents  in  Lowell  for  the  G.  H.  Hammond  Company,  of  Chicago. 
This  firm  was  located  at  No.  51JO  Button  street,  and  Mr.  Hall  continued 
active  therein  until  1913.  when  the  lousiness  was  discontinued  .-uid  the 
.property  sold. 

Mr.  Hall  is  the  owner  of  valuable  orange  groves  at  San  Mateo, 
Florida,  and  he  gives  his  time  to  the  management  of  this  estate  and 
his  other  private  business  connections.  His  home  is  the  old  Hall 
homestead,  which  he  owns  by  purchase  of  the  interests  of  his  co-heirs 
ujion  his  father's  death,  and  in  his  home  he  finds  his  greatest  enjoy- 
ment, unrivalled  by  the  attractions  of  club  or  fraternity.  With  his 
family  he  attends  the  Episcopal  church. 

He  married  Adelaide  Gertrude  O'Brien  at  Lowell,  November  i-i, 
1905,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Gertrude  (Cozzens)  O'Brien,  and  they 
are  the  parents  of:  Louise  Estelle,  born  July  23,  1907,  and  Eunice 
Re.xe\'ille,  born  December  24,  191 1. 


HARRY   PITTS. 

From  across  the  seas,  leaving  their  English  home  in  Yorkshire, 
came  in  September,  1881,  Arthur  and  Mary  Pitts,  bringing  their  son 
Harry,  then  a  babe  of  fourteen  months.  Ashton,  Rhode  Island,  was 
their  first  American  home,  Lowell  their  next.  Arthur  Pitts,  now 
deceased,  as  is  his  wife,  was  a  mill  worker  both  in  England  and  the 
United  States,  an  overseer  and  a  man  of  good  ability.  The  son  whom 
lie  trained  to  habits  of  industry  followed  in  his  footsteps  for  a  time, 
but  the  advent  of  the  automobile  created  an  opening  that  he  embraced 
and  now,  although  not  yet  in  the  ])rime  of  life,  he  has  the  distinction 
of  owning  and  operating  the  largest  auto  supply  house  north  of  I'os- 
lon.  He  is  a  good  business  man,  fully  equipped  by  natural  ability 
and  mechanical  skill  for  the  business  he  follows,  and  is  a  firm  believer 
in   the   values  of  svstem  both   for  store  and   ofifice.     The   svstem   of 


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accounting  he  employs  in  his  business  is  one  of  modern  origin,  and 
is  pronounced  by  experts  as  the  very  best  that  can  be  devised  for 
such  a  business. 

Harry  Pitts,  son  of  Arthur  and  Mar)-  Pitts,  was  born  in  Brad- 
ford, Yorkshire,  England,  July  8,  1880,  and  fourteen  months  later  was 
brought  to  the  United  States  by  his  parents.  The  family  settled  in 
Ashton,  Rhode  Island,  where  the  boy,  Harry,  began  his  education  in 
the  public  schools.  Later  they  moved  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  continued  his  studies  in  Bartlett  street  grammar  school. 
He  began  life  as  a  wage  earner  in  the  Boott  Mills,  later  was  employed 
at  the  United  States  Printing  Mill,  thence  to  the  Lowell  Electric  Light 
Corporation,  serving  the  latter  company  for  one  year  as  "trouble 
man."  He  next  went  into  the  electrical  business  for  himself,  so  con- 
tinuing for  one  year.  He  became  well  versed  in  electrical  work,  be- 
came familiar  with  the  automobile,  and  for  a  few  years  he  was  not 
settled  in  any  one  place  of  business,  but  was  ready  for  anything  that 
came  his  way  anywhere.  He  was  variously  employed  at  electrical 
and  other  work,  was  chauffeur  for  a  time  for  Hon.  Charles  H.  Allen, 
and  one  of  the  first  regularly  employed  chauffeurs  of  the  city.  This 
continued  until  1906  when  he  was  sent  to  Europe  by  the  Peerless 
Motor  Company  of  Boston,  to  demonstrate  their  motor,  an  assign- 
ment which  kept  him  in  Europe  eight  months.  Upon  his  return  he 
became  foreman  of  the  repair  shop  operated  by  the  Peerless  Motor 
Company  in  Boston,  a  position  he  filled  for  one  year.  He  then  roamed 
from  shop  to  shop  adding  to  his  already  overflowing  knowledge  of 
motors  and  motoring.  This  continued  until  1909,  when  he  returned 
to  Lowell. 

In  1910,  Mr.  Pitts  decided  a  most  important  question  for  himself, 
and  placed  himself  among  the  business  men  of  Lowell.  He  started 
the  Pitts  Auto  Supply  Store,  at  No.  7  Hurd  street,  he  and  a  clerk 
constituting  the  entire  sales  and  office  force,  his  stock  occupying  but 
half  the  store,  another  business  renting  the  other  half.  But  his  was 
the  first  strictly  auto  supply  store  in  the  city,  and  business  came  to 
him  in  abundance.  He  soon  absorbed  the  entire  space  at  No.  7  Hurd 
street,  and  added  No.  9  in  1912,  making  them  into  one  store.  In  1916 
he  organized  the  Pitts  Motor  Sales  Agency,  to  take  the  agency  for  the 
Ford  car,  that  business  being  located  at  No.  53  Hurd  street.  Mr. 
Pitts  also  maintains  offices  at  No.  12  Hurd  street.  Success  has  come 
to  him  in  abundance,  but  it  has  been  richly  earned  and  well  deserved. 
The  capital  with  which  he  started  the  little  store  at  No.  7  was  saved 
from  his  earnings,  and  while  he  has  always  had  friends  willing  and 
ready  to  aid  him,  he  may  truly  claim  to  have  been  the  architect  of  his 
own  fortunes  and  to  have  won  his  own  way.     Both  branches  of  his 


366  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

l:)usiness  are  well  managed  and  prosperous.  While  he  is  a  most  modest 
and  unassuming  man,  he  is  proud  of  his  business  and  of  the  compre- 
hensive system  of  accounting  vtnder  which  it  is  managed. 

Still  a  young  man,  Mr.  Pitts  retains  his  early  love  for  sports,  base- 
ball being  his  favorite  recreation.  He  gave  the  Pitts  Trophy  as  a 
long  distance  swimming  prize  between  Tungsboro  and  Lowell.  He  is 
proprietor  of  the  Pitts  South  Ends  Baseball  Team,  which  held  the 
semi-professional  championship  of  the  Merrimack  valley  for  four 
years. '  Mr.  Pitts  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason  of  the  Ancient  Ac- 
cepted Scottish  Rite ;  member  of  Ancient  York  Lodge,  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons  ;  a  life  member  of  Alejjpo  Temple,  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  is  a  member  of  Lowell  Lodge,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  also  the  following:  Lowell  Country  Club;  Boston  Athletic 
Association;  Martin  Luther  Club;  Royal  Arcanum;  Lowell  Board  of 
Trade  ;  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  ;  Masonic  Club  ;  Associa- 
tion of  Massachusetts  Elks ;  Lowell  ]\Iotor  Boat  Club  ;  Kewanis  Club ; 
Fish  and  Game  Association ;  and  the  Automobile  Legal  Association. 
In  all  these  associations  and  clubs  he  takes  a  lively  interest,  and  is 
highly  esteemed  by  his  brethren,  clubmates  and  associates. 

Mr.  Pitts  married,  in  Lowell,  February  15,  191 1,  Ellen  Dalgliesh, 
d;iughter  of  Adam  and  Elizabeth  Dalgliesh.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pitts  are 
the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Eleanor  Mae,  born  November  6,  191 1,  at- 
tending Greenhalge  public  school. 


THOMAS  GOODALE  ROBBINS. 

In  1899,  after  graduation  from  law  school,  Air.  Robbins  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Massachusetts  bar,  and  later  in  the  same  year  was 
admitted  to  practice  at  the  New  Hampshire  bar.  He  located  in  Hills- 
boro,  New  Hampshire,  in  the  fall  of  1899,  and  after  a  few  weeks  came 
to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  October,  1899,  ^^^  is  there  well  known 
as  lawyer  and  educator,  having  been  connected  with  the  Evening  High 
School  for  eight  years  as  principal.  He  is  a  son  of  Captain  George  A. 
and  Mary  C.  Robbins,  his  father  a  veteran  officer  of  the  Civil  War, 
captain  of  Com[)any  .\  in  the  First  Regiment,  New  Hampshire 
Cavalry. 

Thomas  G.  Robbins  was  born  at  Hillsboro,  New  Hampshire,  Jan- 
uary 16,  1874.  After  completing  the  courses  of  Wesleyan  Academy, 
he  entered  the  law  department  of  Boston  University,  whence  he  was 
graduated  LL.  B.,  and  admitted  to  the  Massachusetts  bar,  February 
9,  1899.  He  returned  to  New  Hampshire  later  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  that  State,  September  12,  1899.  ^e  practiced  in  New  Hamp- 
shire until  October,  1899,  then  located  in  Lowell,  which  has  ever  since 


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been  his  home  and  the  seat  of  his  practice.  In  \()oy,  Mr.  Robbins  was 
appointed  principal  of  Lowell  Evening  High  School,  a  position  he  held 
continuously  until  1916.  He  is  a  member  of  the  professional  societies 
of  the  city,  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  the  Vesper 
Country  Club,  the  Mt.  Pleasant  Golf  Club,  the  First  Universalist 
Church,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Robbins  married,  March  28,  191 1,  Lilla  Eleanor  Roche, 
daughter  of  Thomas  J.  and  Lilla  Eleanor  Roche.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rob- 
l)ins  had  two  sons:  Charnley  Simpson,  born  October  16,  1913,  died  at 
the  age  of  ten  days;  and  Thomas  Goodalc,  Jr.,  April  4,  1915. 


ROBERT  B.  WOOD. 


A  descendant  of  Robert  Wood,  of  English  birth,  and  of  the  third 
generation  of  his  family  to  reside  in  Lowell,  Robert  B.  Wood,  after 
residence  in  other  cities,  returned  to  Lowell,  and  as  an  exponent  of 
photographic  art  conducts  the  Marion  Studio  in  the  Chalifoux  build- 
ing, ranking  with  the  best  camera  artists.  He  is  a  grandson  of 
Robert  Wood,  born  in  Saymundham,  England,  April  23,  1820,  and 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1839,  locating  in  the  city  of  Boston, 
October  13  of  that  year,  and  died  in  the  city  of  Lowell,  February  2, 
1892.  He  located  in  Lowell,  October  28,  1842,  and  there  became  dis- 
tinguished in  his  profession  of  veterinary  surgery  and  in  political 
life.  As  a  veterinarian  he  answered  calls  upon  his  skill  from  all  parts 
of  Massachusetts  north  of  Boston.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Aldermen  in  1880-81,  a  pioneer  member  of  the  Old  Residents  Associa- 
tion ;  member  of  Ancient  York  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ; 
Mt.  Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal 
and  Select  Masters ;  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Templar ;  The 
Humane  Society ;  and  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade.  He  married,  in 
.Vugust,  1846,  Martha  A.  ^^lason,  who  survived  him,  the  mother  of  his 
only  son,  Charles  R.,  and  his  daughters,  Annie  M.,  who  married  Frank 
P.  Hill,  of  Newark,  New  Jersey ;  and  Mary  E.,  who  married  Harry  R. 
Rice,  of  Lowell. 

Dr.  Charles  R.  Wood,  only  son  of  Dr.  Robert  Wood,  was  born  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  July  11,  1847,  ^"d  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  his  native  city.  The  success  attained  by  his  father  as  a  veterinarian 
impressed  him  with  a  favorable  opinion  of  that  profession,  and  he 
made  it  his  own.  He  prepared  at  New  York  College  of  Veterinary 
Surgery,  and  after  obtaining  his  degree  returned  to  Lowell,  where  he 
practiced  for  a  time,  later  removing  to  Providence,  Rhode  Island.  He 
attained  eminence  in  his  profession,  was  a  man  of  high  character, 
greatly  esteemed  where  he  was  known.     He  married  Lizzie  B.  Wig- 


368  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

gin,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  three  sons,  and  one  daughter:  I.  Rob- 
ert B.,  of  further  mention.  2.  Harry  M.,  now  residing  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  district  manager  of  the  Export  American  Industries,  a  corpora- 
tion for  introducing  American  made  goods  to  foreign  buyers ;  he  mar- 
ried Bertha  Moody,  daughter  of  Horace  E.  and  Janet  C.  Moody,  of 
Lowell.  3.  George  H.,  a  photographer,  associated  with  his  brother, 
Robert  B.  in  the  work  of  the  Marion  Studio ;  he  married  Eva,  daugh- 
ter of  Alexander  and  Elizabeth  Cruikshank,  her  father  an  ice  cream 
manufacturer  of  Lowell ;  they  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  June 
Elizabeth.  4.  Harriet,  married  Walker  F.  Whitaker,  an  automobile 
salesman  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island ;  they  are  the  parents  of  a 
daughter,  Elizabeth. 

Robert  B.  Wood,  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Charles  R.  and  Lizzie  B. 
(Wiggin)  Wood,  was  born  in  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  Febru- 
ary 20,  1876.  He  was  educated  in  the  grade  and  high  schools  of  Salem, 
Massachusetts,  and  after  completing  his  school  years  was  associated 
with  his  father  for  five  years,  but  the  profession  followed  by  his  father 
and  grandfather  did  not  make  any  appeal  to  his  nature,  and  after  the 
live  years  association  he  made  his  start  as  an  artist.  He  began  his 
new  career  with  the  "Courier-Citizen"  of  Lowell  in  the  art  depart- 
ment, advanced  rapidly,  and  became,  as  he  has  continued,  one  of  the 
strong  features  in  that  department  of  the  "Courier-Citizen."  In  191 1 
Mr.  Wood  purchased  the  Marion  Studio  founded  in  Lowell  by  John 
Marion  about  1861.  Since  191 1  he  has,  in  addition  to  his  duties  in 
connection  with  the  art  room  of  the  "Courier-Citizen,"  conducted  the 
Marion  Studio,  being  assisted  at  the  studio  by  his  brother,  George  H. 
Wood,  a  talented  photographic  artist.  At  the  Marion  Studio  photog- 
raphy in  all  its  branches,  portrait,  scenic  and  commercial,  has  been 
brought  to  a  high  degree  of  perfection,  an  appreciative  public  respond- 
ing to  the  efforts  made  in  their  behalf  with  a  liberal  patronage. 

Mr.  Wood  is  a  member  of  Kilwinning  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons ;  Mt.  Horeh  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Mason  ;  Ahasuerus  Coun- 
cil, Royal  and  Select  Masters;  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Tem- 
plar; and  in  the  Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade, 
the  Vesper  Country  Club,  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a 
man  of  genial,  friendly  nature  and  pleasant  personality,  has  many 
friends,  and  is  highly  esteemed  as  a  business  man  and  citizen. 

Mr.  Wood  married,  November  25,  1903,  Ethel  L.  Peirce,  daugh- 
ter oi  Andrew  and  Lucy  L.  (Darton)  Peirce,  of  the  New  England 
Peirce  family  from  which  sprung  Franklin  Pierce,  president  of  the 
L'nited  States.  The  Wood  residence  is  No.  153  Fort  Hill  avenue. 
Lowell. 


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ANDREW  G.  STILE. 


As  city  treasurer,  Mr.  Stile  was  the  honored  head  of  a  depart- 
ment of  the  city  government  with  which  he  had  long  been  connected. 
In  fact  he  came  to  the  treasurer's  office  .shortly  after  completing  his 
high  school  course,  and  worked  his  way  from  the  bottom  in  a  subordi- 
nate position  to  that  of  one  of  the  heads  of  the  Lowell  city  govern- 
ment. He  is  a  son  of  Alva  G.  Stile,  born  in  Watcrford,  Vermont,  in 
1S31,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  1914,  a  grain  and  flour  mer- 
chant. Alva  C.  Stile  married  (first)  Carolina ,  born  in  Stock- 
ton, Massachusetts,  who  died  in  1867.  He  married  (second)  Amelia 
Johninson.  of  Lowell.  He  married  (third)  Mrs.  Mary  Hanchet,  a 
widow,  now  deceased.  The  children  of  his  first  marriage  are :  George 
F.,  deputy  sheriff  and  court  officer ;  Carolina,  married  Fred  F.  Pack- 
ard, of  Brooklyn;  Andrew  G.,  of  further  mention;  A.  Gertrude;  Ber- 
tha A. 

Andrew  G.  Stile  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  April  4, 
1865,  and  educated  in  the  grade  and  high  schools  of  the  city.  He 
began  business  life  as  junior  clerk  in  the  treasurer's  office,  and  through 
various  promotions  came  to  his  last  position,  city  treasurer.  He  is  an 
able  man  of  business,  skilled  in  the  duties  of  the  treasurer's  office,  and 
was  a  worthy  custodian  of  the  city  funds.  He  retired  from  city 
treasurership,  and  is  now  living  at  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  holding  the  thirty-second  degree. 
Ancient  Accepted  Scottish  Rite ;  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks ;  Worthen  .Street  Baptist  Church  ;  and  the  Cen- 
tral Club.    He  is  fond  of  sports  of  the  open,  particularly  that  of  fishing. 


JOHN  MICHAEL  PINARDL 

John  Michael  Pinardi,  son  of  Charles  .V.  and  Frances  (Abl)iati) 
Pinardi,  was  born  in  Rockland,  Maine,  October  12,  1880.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  and  high  schools  of  Groton,  Connecticut,  and  com- 
pleted his  studies  in  The  Commercial  College  of  \\'esterly.  Rhode 
Island.  He  began  and  finished  an  apprenticeship  in  marble  and 
granite  cutting  at  Quincy,  Massachusetts,  under  the  w^-ll  known  Cav- 
anaugh  Brothers  of  that  city.  He  then  returned  to  Westerly,  Rhode 
Island,  and  for  two  years  took  up  statue  cutting,  sculpturing  in  clay 
and  the  finer  details  of  monumental  art  in  the  studios  of  his  father. 
In  1903  he  came  to  Lowell.  Massachusetts,  and  for  ten  years  pursued 
his  calling  with  Gumb  Brothers  as  lettercr  and  carver  of  artistic 
memorial  work.  At  the  same  time  he  attended  the  Lowell  Evening 
Drawing  School,  and  in  a  remarkably  short  siKice  of  time  he  graduated 
with  the  highest  possible  honors  in  three  <if  its  principal  courses, 
namely,  the  free-hand  class,  modeling  in  clay  and  the  course  in  archi- 

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370  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

tcctural  drawing  and  water  color.  In  1913  he  organized  the  Lowell 
Monument  Company,  and  as  the  head  of  this  enterprise  has  accom- 
plished excellent  results  by  his  agreeable  personality  and  honorable 
business  methods,  rendering  service  and  performing  work  of  high 
merit.  Mr.  Pinardi  is  in  a  position  to  give  full  rein  to  his  natural 
artistic  talent  in  designing  tasteful  and  appropriate  monuments, 
memorials,  and  statuary  for  park,  cemetery,  church,  and  home,  and  in 
addition  to  extensive  work  along  these  lines  he  has  done  considerable 
interior  marble  work  for  public  buildings.  His  artistic  talent  comes 
from  a  long  line  of  ancestors,  both  paternal  and  maternal.  His  father, 
Charles  A.  Pinardi,  of  Westerly,  Rhode  Island,  won  fame  as  a  sculp- 
tor, many  notable  works  of  art  being  credited  to  him,  while  most  of 
the  Abbiati  family,  formerly  residents  of  the  northern  section  of  Italy, 
long  celebrated  as  an  art  center,  were  highly  skilled  workers  in  marble 
and  stone 

The  Lowell  Monument  Company  has  its  plant,  yards,  and  offices 
at  Nos.  1056-62  Gorham  street,  and  is  equipped  with  complete  and 
most  modern  appliances  for  the  manufacture  of  all  kinds  of  marble 
and  granite  memorial  work.  Many  beautiful  monuments  of  splendid 
design  and  execution  have  been  placed  by  the  company  in  the  various 
cemeteries  of  the  city,  and  from  its  yards  a  number  of  works  of  art 
have  gone  forth  to  various  parts  of  the  United  States.  The  popularity 
of  the  company  and  the  quality  of  its  work  are  attested  by  its  growth 
from  a  modest  beginning  to  membership  among  the  very  few  leading 
concerns  of  its  kind  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts.  Mr.  Pinardi  has 
supplied  a  great  need  in  Lowell,  for  whereas  it  was  formerly  neces- 
sary to  import  desirable  sculptured  memorials,  statues,  and  art  work 
in  granite  and  marble,  he  now  not  only  supplies  Lowell's  demands, 
but  has  an  important  outside  patronage.  He  has  recently  installed 
new  machinery  to  facilitate  work  on  the  many  war  memorials  for  dif- 
ferent parts  of  the  country. 

In  1900  and  1901  Mr.  Pinardi  was  a  member  of  Company  K, 
Fifth  Massachusetts  Infantry,  at  Braintree.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  and  several  leading  fraternal  organizations. 
Politically  he  is  an  Independent,  and  in  religion  a  member  of  the 
Sacred  Heart  Rduian  L'atholic  Church,  also  affiliating  with  the  Holy 
Name  Society  of  that  congregation. 

Mr.  Pinardi  married,  in  Lowell,  June  30,  11)04.  Joscjihine  Trudel, 
daughter  of  Michael  and  Josephine   (Hamel)   Trudel.  of  L(.)well. 


CHURCH  OF  THE  IMMACULATE  CONCEPTION. 

The   Church   of   the    Immaculate   Conception,   dedicated   June    10, 
',  is  a  \-vv\-  h.-indsonn-  nne.  and  with  its  -^tatuc  ■>[  the  Immaculate 


BIOGRAPHICAL  371 

Conception,  wnich  was  placed  in  the  niche  near  the  top  of  the  gable 
on  the  Merrimack  street  side,  and  with  the  beautiful  lawn  in  front 
called  Columbus  Park,  forms  a  most  pleasing  view.  The  church  owes 
its  existence  to  the  Order  Oblates  of  Mary  Immaculate,  two  priests  of 
that  order  coming  to  Lowell  in  1868.  Their  coming  was  the  result  of 
a  wish  expressed  by  Bishop  Williams  during  a  conference  with  Father 
\'anderburg,  Provincial  of  the  Order  of  Oblates  in  Canada,  that  a 
French-Canadian  priest  be  sent  to  Lowell  to  care  spiritually  fur  the 
fast  growing  colony  of  French  Canadians  in  that  city. 

The  two  Oblate  Fathers  sent  to  Lowell  to  preach  a  mission  were 
Rev.  Andrew  M.  Garin  and  Rev.  Father  Lagier.  They  were  made 
welcome  at  St.  John's  Flospital,  and  there  conducted  services  in  St. 
John's  Chapel  connected  with  that  institution.  Soon  Father  Garin 
bought  a  building  on  Lee  street,  and  from  this  sprang  St.  Joseph's, 
which  he  founded  and  built  up  to  be  the  strong  and  prosperous  parish 
of  St.  Joseph's.  Services  were  continued  at  St.  John's  Chapel,  but 
soon  it  was  thought  best  that  the  chapel,  which  was  part  of  the  hos- 
pital, should  be  placed  wholly  in  charge  of  the  Oblates,  and  arrange- 
ments were  made  to  that  effect  with  Sister  Rose,  then  Superior  of  St. 
John's  Hospital.  This  change  converted  the  chapel  into  a  parish 
church,  which  was  given  the  name.  Church  of  the  Immaculate  Con- 
ception. Owing  to  the  increase  in  population  it  was  not  long  before 
a  new  church  was  a  necessity,  the  little  wooden  chapel  purchased 
from  tlie  Sisters  of  Charity  in  charge  of  St.  John's  Hospital  having 
fulfilled  its  mission  in  giving  birth  to  two  prosperous  churches,  St. 
Joseph's  for  the  French  and  Immaculate  Conception  for  the  English- 
speaking  ;)eople.  A  lot  was  purchased  by  the  first  pastor.  Rev.  James 
McGrath.  an  Oblate,  whose  pastorate  began  in  October,  1870,  and 
upon  that  lot  rose  the  present  beautiful  building.  Plans  were  made 
by  the  famed  architect  Keely,  of  Brooklyn,  New  York.  Work  was 
begun  on  the  foundation  walls  in  April,  1871,  and  the  cornerstone  laid 
with  appropriate  ceremonies  by  Bishop  Williams,  December  30,  187 1. 
The  following  summer  the  basement  was  finished  and  blessed,  Solemn 
High  Mass  being  sung  by  the  Provincial  of  the  Order  of  Oblates, 
Father  Vanderburg,  and  a  sermon  preached  by  Bishop  Williams,  July 
7,  1872.  The  basement  was  used  as  a  temporary  church  until  the  com- 
pletion of  the  main  building  in  1877.  Dedicatory  services  were  held 
June  10,  1877,  Solemn  High  Mass  being  celebrated  by  Rev.  Father 
.\ntoine.  Provincial  of  the  Oblates,  Bi.shop  O'Reilly,  of  Springfield, 
Massachusetts,  preaching  the  sermon.  The  building,  modern  Gothic, 
and  cruciform  in  style,  is  of  granite,  one  hundred  and  ninety-two  feet 
long,  one  hundred  and  nine  feet  wide  in  the  transepts,  and  seventy- 
six  feet  in  the  nave,  seating  about  two  thousand  persons.  A  notable 
feature  of  the  interior  is  the  magnificent  marble  altar  erected  in  188-8 


2,-j2  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

replacing  the  one  in  former  use.  On  November  24,  18/8,  occurred  the 
translation  of  the  relics  of  St.  Veracunda,  that  date  yet  being  ob- 
served as  an  annual  anniversary  event  of  the  church.  The  parsonage, 
a  building  in  keeping  with  the  church,  is  erected  at  the  corner  of 
Stackpole  and  Fayette  streets,  the  work  being  started  on  that  build- 
ing in  1889.  In  1892,  the  lot  in  front  of  the  church  facing  on  East 
Merrimack  street  was  bought  and  converted  into  a  beautiful  lawn 
called  Columbus  Park.  In  the  parish  are  two  schools  in  charge  of 
the  Gray  Nuns,  the  first  opened  in  September,  1881,  with  six  Sisters  in 
charge.  Father  McGrath  was  succeeded  as  pastor  by  Rev.  C.  J.  Smith, 
and  he  by  Rev.  William  D.  Joyce,  born  in  Ireland,  November  30,  1856, 
under  all  of  whom  the  church  flourished  and  became  one  of  the  best 
equipped  in  the  archdiocese.  He  was  succeeded  in  1901  by  Eugene 
A.  Dorgan,  then  by  Father  McRory,  who  was  pastor  for  two  years, 
and  after  him  came  Father  George  Nolan,  for  jiart  of  a  year,  and 
finallv  Father  Tighe,  who  is  still  at  the  head  of  this  church. 


PATRICK  FRANK  DEVINE. 

Thirty  years  ago,  in  18R8,  Mr.  Devine  came  to  Lowell  from  Boston, 
and  estab'ibhed  the  business  which,  under  the  firm  name,  P.  F.  De- 
vine,  he  has  most  successfully  conducted.  He  is  a  son  of  Neal  and 
Bridget  (Bradley)  Devine,  both  born  in  Ireland,  who  came  early  in 
life  to  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  there  were  married.  Neal  Devine 
was  engaged  in  the  hotel  business  in  Boston  for  many  years,  finally 
moving  to  Scarboro.  Maine,  where  he  bought  a  farm,  becoming  as 
successful  a  farmer  as  he  had  formerly  been  a  hotelkeeper.  At  the 
death  of  his  wife  he  retired  from  all  business,  moved  to  Lowell,  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  there  resided  until  death.  Two  of  his  sons  also  became 
residents  of  Lowell.  John  and  Patrick  F. 

Patrick  F.  Devine  was  born  at  the  home  farm,  ScarI)oro,  Maine, 
April  15,  1862,  and  died  November  17,  1918,  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 
He  was  educated  in  Scarboro  public  schools,  and  remained  in  the 
town  of  his  birth  until  twenty-one  years  of  age,  engaging  for  several 
of  those  years  in  the  dairy  business.  He  then  went  to  Boston,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  entered  the  factory  employ  of  Josiah  Gumming, 
then,  as  now,  a  prominent  manufacturer  of  trunks,  traveling  bags,  and 
leather  goods  of  varied  kinds.  He  remained  with  Mr.  Gumming  four 
years,  and  became  thoroughly  skilled  in  the  manufacturing  of  trunks, 
traveling  bags  and  kindred  kind.  He  then  located  in  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, where  under  the  name  P.  F.  Devine  he  founded  what  is  now 
the  leading  business  of  its  kind  in  the  city.  The  first  store  opened  by- 
Mr.  Devine  in  Lowell  was  at  No.  32  Middlesex  street,  the  Grown 
Theatre  now  occupying  the  site.     He  opened  that  little  store  on  St. 


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373 


Patrick's  Day,  1888,  with  a  stock  of  trunks,  bags,  leather  goods,  he 
being  proprietor,  clerk,  bookkeeper,  cashier,  and  office  boy.  But  he 
triumphed,  and  from  this  small  beginning  went  forward  to  a  fine  busi- 
ness success  as  manufacturer  and  merchant.  In  five  years  he  outgrew 
his  original  quarters  at  No.  32  and  secured  the  adjoining  store  at  No. 
30,  and  soon  afterward  opened  a  branch  store  on  Central  street.  In 
1905  he  moved  from  Middlesex  to  Merrimack  street,  opening  at  No. 
88,  later  at  No.  124,  there  remaining  until  191 5,  when  again  being 
cramped  for  room  he  moved  to  his  present  commodious  store  at  No. 
156  Merrimack  street.  In  1914  he  closed  out  the  Central  street  store, 
and  now  concentrates  his  Lowell  business  at  No.  156  Merrimack 
street.  The  success  he  met  with  in  Lowell  is  also  the  story  of  a 
branch  of  the  same  business  which  he  established  in  Lawrence,  Mas- 
sachusetts, in  1898,  at  No.  410  Essex  street.  That  store  in  time  proved 
too  small,  and  the  business  is  now  located  at  No.  260  Essex  street. 
On  March  17,  1918,  the  thirtieth  anniversary  of  his  beginning  busi- 
ness in  Lowell  was  held,  many  of  his  friends  and  employees  celebrat- 
ing the  occasion  by  a  banquet  in  Mr.  Devine's  honor.  During  the 
summer  of  1918  he  was  incapacitated  by  a  serious  illness,  the  business 
in  the  meantime  being  under  the  capable  management  of  Mr.  Devine's 
wife,  a  woman  of  strong  character  and  business  ability,  who  had 
always  been  his  confidant  in  business  matters.  In  politics,  Mr.  Devine 
is  an  Independent  with  Democratic  leanings,  a  member  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  church,  Knights  of  Columbus,  Royal  Arcanum,  Lowell  Board 
of  Trade,  and  a  strong  supporter  of  all  movements  for  Lowell's  bet- 
terment. 

Mr.  Devine  married  in  Lowell,  January  27,  1896,  Emma  Frances 
Head,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Sarah  (Cunningham)  Head,  her  father 
an  upholsterer  by  trade,  born  in  London,  England;  her  mother  in 
Ireland ;  both  parents  died  in  Lowell.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Devine  are  the 
parents  of  a  daughter,  Dorothy  Mae,  born  in  Lowell.  The  family  home 
since  marriage  has  been  at  No.  67  Park  View  avenue  until  the  spring 
of  1 91 8,  when  it  was  sold. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  life  story  of  Patrick  F.  Devine,  a  man  who  left 
his  impress  upon  the  business  life  of  his  city,  and  set  an  example  of 
industry,  integrity  and  business  foresight  which  everj^  young  man 
can  with  profit  emulate.  He  thoroughly  mastered  every  detail  of 
the  business  which  he  proposed  to  follow,  and  that  knowledge  covered 
the  manufacturing  as  well  as  the  merchandising  departments.  With 
this  expert  knowledge  of  his  business  as  his  principal  capital  in  the 
beginning,  he  rapidly  acquired  skill  and  ability  as  a  merchant,  success 
following  as  sure  result.  While  he  became  the  leading  merchant  of 
his  line  in  Lowell,  he  did  not  sacrifice  the  finer  side  of  his  nature,  but 


374  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

was  devoted  to  his  lu)me  and  famil}-,  and  there  his  many  good  qual- 
ities shone  brightest.  He  was  social,  genial  and  hospitable,  making 
friends  easily,  his  personality  attracting  men,  his  manly,  upright  life 
retaining  the  respect  and  esteem  until  the  end. 


REV.  PATRICK  JOSEPH  HALLY. 

Father  ILilly  prepared  for  the  [iriesthcji  ul  in  his  native  Ireland, 
but  since  ordination  has  been  engaged  in  pastoral  work  in  the  arch- 
diocese of  I'oston,  Massachusetts,  wdiere  he  has  labored  with  most 
gratifying  result.  He  is  now  pastor  of  St.  Columba's  Parish,  in 
Lowell,  and  engages  in  his  holy  calling  with  a  heart  filled  with  zeal 
and  love  for  his  fellowmen.  Patrick  J.  Hally,  son  of  Patrick  and 
Bridget  (Prendergast)  Hally,  was  born  in  Clonmel.  County  Tipperary, 
Ireland,  March  zt,.  1846.  He  was  educated  in  the  Christian  Brothers 
School  of  St.  Peter  and  Paul's  Parish  in  Clonmel,  St.  John's  Diocesan 
Seminary  in  Waterford  City,  and  Royal  College  of  St.  Patrick,  founded 
in  171J3  for  the  education  of  the  Roman  Catholic  clergy  in  Maynooth, 
County  Kildare.  At  All  Hallows  College,  Dublin,  he  was  ordained  a 
priest  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  September  29,  1868. 

Tne  same  year  he  came  to  the  United  States,  and  in  November 
was  appointed  assistant  to  Rev.  Henry  Lennon,  rector  of  the  Immac- 
ulate Conception  Church  at  Newburyport,  Massachusetts.  There  he 
served  as  assistant  jiastor  until  Father  Lennon's  death,  in  1871,  then 
was  pastor  of  several  parishes  in  the  archdiocese  of  Boston,  viz. :  Dan- 
vers,  Plymouth,  Wakefield,  Salem,  Georgetown,  Allston,  Maiden,  and 
finally  St.  Columba's,  at  Lowell,  his  present  charge.  These  assign- 
ments were  filled  with  honor  and  as  the  young  father  grew  in  strength 
as  pastor  and  spiritual  leader  his  responsibilities  were  correspondingly 
increased.  The  result  of  his  years  of  labor  were  the  complete  extin- 
guishment of  many  parish  debts  ;  the  enlargement  and  improvement  of 
the  church  at  Danvers ;  the  building  of  a  rectory  at  Wakefield  :  the 
building  of  the  Church  of  St.  Agnes,  at  Reading,  and  the  building  of  a 
parochial  school  for  boys,  and  the  purchase  of  a  convent  at  Salem ; 
the  consecration  there  October  5,  1890,  of  the  Church  of  the  Immacu- 
late Conception  by  Archbishop  Williams,  assisted  by  Bishops  Healey, 
of  Portland,  and  O'Reilly,  of  Springfield,  Massachusetts ;  the  erection 
of  a  rectory  in  Allston,  and  the  opening  of  Cheverus  Centennial 
School  in  Maiden,  a  school  furnishing  instruction  to  eleven  hundred 
boys  and  girls  of  the  .Sacred  Heart  Parish.  To  this  temporal  gain 
must  l)e  added  great  si)iritual  uplift  and  the  improved  conditions  of  all 
parish  work  which  f(jllowed  tin-  npcning  of  these  new  churches  and 
schools. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  375 

Fatlier  Hally  came  to  St.  Columba's  Parish,  in  Lowell,  Jan- 
uary 16,  1916,  and  has  served  his  parish  most  acceptably  during  the 
years  which  have  since  intervened.  He  is  wholly  devoted  to  the  work 
of  the  ministry,  and  deems  no  labor  too  severe  if  within  the  line  of 
duty.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians,  the  Cath- 
olic Order  of  Foresters,  the  Knights  of  St.  Rose,  and  the  Knights  of 
Columbus. 


FRANK  WALTER  FOYE. 


The  city  of  Lowell  has  no  more  stirring  or  successful  business 
man  than  the  one  whose  name  heads  this  article.  Mr.  Foye,  in  addi- 
tion to  being  head  of  the  well  known  flour  firm  of  Frank  W.  Foye 
Company,  of  Lowell,  is  traveling  salesman  for  the  William  ^I.  Flan- 
ders Company,  wholesale  grocers,  of  Boston,  and  is  widely  known  as 
one  of  the  most  aggressive  men  in  the  New  England  territory. 

James  H.  Foye,  father  of  Frank  Walter  Foye,  was  born  in  Lowell, 
and  lived  there  all  his  life.  For  over  thirty-one  years  he  was  a  con- 
ductor on  the  street  cars,  serving  continuously  and  never  taking  a 
vacation.  Mr.  Foye  married  Theresa  Hughes,  also  a  native  of  Lowell, 
and  their  children  were :  Frank  Walter,  mentioned  below ;  JMadaline 
T. ;  Harold  J.,  married  Theresa  Spalene  ;  Helen  M. ;  and  Alice  D.  Mr. 
Foye  died  December  10,  1918,  and  up  to  his  last  illness  was  actively 
engaged  as  one  of  the  old  standbys  of  the  road.  He  was  a  man  of 
strong  principles  and  great  good  nature,  and  was  much  liked  and 
highly  esteemed.     His  widow  is  still  living  in  Lowell. 

Frank  Walter  Foye,  son  of  James  H.  and  Theresa  (Hughes) 
Foye,  was  born  July  10,  1887,  in  Lowell,  and  attended  the  Highland 
Grammar  School  and  the  Lowell  High  School.  While  a  student  at  the 
latter  institution,  he  was  one  of  the  track  athletes  of  the  school,  being, 
in  fact,  among  the  most  prominent,  and  representing  the  Lowell  High 
School  in  the  six  hundred  yard  race  at  the  Boston  Athletic  Association 
Meet  held  in  1905.  At  the  beginning  of  his  business  career,  Mr.  Foye 
secured  employment  with  the  Talbot  Clothing  Company  of  Lowell, 
with  w^hich  he  remained  one  year.  Desiring  then  to  engage  in  a 
wholesale  line,  he  obtained  a  position  as  salesman  for  the  wholesale 
grocery  house  of  Cofi'ey  Brothers,  of  Lowell,  and  as  their  Lowell 
salesman,  had  charge  of  this  territory  for  four  years.  During  that 
four  years  he  greatly  enlarged  his  knowledge  of  the  wholesale  grocery 
business,  and  when  a  wider  field  was  offered  him  was  fully  prepared 
to  accept  it.  For  the  next  ten  years  he  was  travelling  salesman  for 
the  large  wholesale  grocery  house  of  Daniels,  Cornell  Company.  Man- 
chester, New  Hampshire,  taking  charge,  practically,  of  all  their  South- 


T^yC)  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

ern  New  Hampshire  and  Eastern  Massachusetts  territory.  In  1917 
he  entered  upon  his  present  position  of  travelHng  salesman  for  William 
M.  Flanders  Company,  wholesale  grocers  of  Boston,  with  headquarters 
in  Lowell.  Each  one  of  the  houses  with  which  Mr.  Foye  has  been 
connected  has  found  that  his  wisely  directed  aggressiveness  caused  a 
speedy  and  extensive  increase  in  its  sales,  a  result  which  created  a 
large  demand  for  his  services.  This  demand  increased  year  by  year 
as  Mr.  Foye  gained  experience  and  assumed  greater  responsibilities. 
He  is  now  almost  without  a  rival  in  his  own  special  line  of  business. 

Being  in  constant  touch  with  the  conditions  of  the  wholesale  and 
retail  grocery  business  of  the  New  England  territory,  and  having  a 
personal  acquaintance  with  practically  every  grocer,  at  least  every 
retail  grocer  in  northern  New  England,  and  thus  knowing  the  demands 
of  the  trade,  Mr.  Foye  occupied  a  position  abounding  in  opportunity. 
Always  alert  to  recognize  opportunity,  he  saw,  in  1919,  a  very  advan- 
tageous opening  for  the  introduction  of  a  high  quality  standard  brand 
of  flour.  With  him  to  perceive  was  to  act,  and  he  promptly  secured 
the  agency  of  the  Bridal  Veil  brand  of  flour  for  the  Lowell,  Lawrence, 
and  Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  territory.  It  was  then  that  he  organ- 
ized the  firm  of  Frank  W.  Foye  Company,  in  Lowell,  and,  in  addition 
to  his  connection  with  William  M.  Flanders  Company,  of  Boston, 
became  the  distributor  of  the  Bridal  Veil  flour.  His  success  in  the  sale 
of  this  flour  in  this  territory  has  been  truly  wonderful.  He  disposes 
of  it,  literally,  in  car-load  lots.  Being  a  keen  student  of  the  flour 
market,  he  is  not  afraid  to  take  chances  in  purchasing  in  large  lots  in 
order  that  he  may  dispose  of  it  in  the  same  way  to  the  trade.  Politi- 
cally Air.  Foye  is  a  Republican.  He  belongs  to  Lowell  Council,  No. 
72,  Knights  of  Columbus,  and  Lowell  Council,  No.  365,  United  Com- 
mercial Travellers,  of  which  he  is  senior  councilor.  His  clubs  are 
the  Nashua  Country  Club,  the  Longmeadow  Golf  Club,  the  Washing- 
ton Club,  of  Lowell,  and  the  Eastern  Commercial  Travellers'  Club. 

Mr.  Foye  married,  January  7,  1913,  at  Lowell,  Emma  AL,  daugh- 
ter of  Walter  H.  and  Margaret  C.  (Maguire)  Bagshaw,  of  tliat  city. 
A  biography  of  Mr.  Bagshaw  appears  elsewhere  in  this  work.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Foye  are  the  parents  of  four  children:  Margaret  Theresa, 
Ilene  Aneta,  Emma  M.,  and  Walter  Bagshaw.  The  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Foye  is  in  Chelmsford  Centre,  and  it  is  there  that  Mr.  Foye  de- 
lights to  spend  the  few  hours  of  leisure  permitted  him  by  the  strenuous 
demands  of  his  business.  His  favorite  recreations  are  golf  and 
athletics. 

Frank  Walter  Foye  may  be  truly  termed  a  dynamo  of  energy  and 
a  real  live  wire.  He  has  proved  by  his  experience  that  "the  course 
of  boldness  is  the  course  of  safety." 


IIOGRAPHICAL  377 


ALBION  C.  TAYLOR. 


Just  completing  a  half  century  of  life  in  Lowell,  his  birthplace, 
Mr.  Taylor  bears  a  name  long  associated  with  Lowell's  business  life, 
and  is  head  of  the  business  another  Albion  C.  Taylor  founded,  in  1854. 
The  original  business  was  buying,  selling  and  shipping  of  fruit.  After 
a  few  years,  Albion  C.  Taylor,  father  of  the  present  owner,  admitted 
a  partner,  Gilmore  G.  Cook,  the  firm  name  being  Cook,  Taylor  &  Com- 
pany. The  business  was  then  changed  to  a  dry  goods  and  ladies' 
ready-to-wear  garment  house.  This  business,  one  of  the  oldest  in  the 
city,  is  now  owned  by  Albion  C.  Taylor,  son  of  the  founder,  who  from 
boyhood  has  been  connected  with  it,  beginning  at  the  bottom  and  thor- 
oughly mastering  every  detail  of  each  position  held  before  being 
advanced  to  a  higher  one.  At  one  time  two  stores  were  conducted  by 
Mr.  Taylor,  the  main  store  at  Nos.  231-235  Central  street,  the  other 
at  Nos.  98-100  Merrimack  street,  both  under  the  original  firm  name, 
Cook,  Taylor  &  Company.  At  the  present  time  the  business  is  con- 
ducted at  the  Merrimack  street  store,  the  firm  having  leased  the  Cen- 
tral street  store.  The  firm  is  well  known  and  years  ago  bore  the  title, 
"Old  and  Reliable,"  a  name  never  forfeited. 

Albion  C.  Taylor,  the  father,  was  born  in  Waterbury,  Maine,  in 
1834.  After  several  changes  and  hard  experiences,  as  a  lad,  he  located 
in  Lowell,  where,  in  1854,  he  started  a  small  fruit  store.  He  developed 
strong  business  ability,  and  when,  a  few  years  later,  he  established  the 
dry  goods  firm,  Cook,  Taylor  &  Company,  it  was  no  novice  but  a 
practical,  alert  business  man  who,  with  zeal  and  wisdom,  assumed 
the  reigns  of  management  and  developed  the  business  which  now, 
sixty  years  later,  is  owned  and  ably  managed  by  another  Albion  C. 
Taylor.  After  a  successful  business  life,  during  which  he  won  civilian 
honors  as  well,  Mr.  Taylor  died  in  1901,  aged  sixty-seven  years. 

Albion  C.  Taylor,  son  of  the  founder  of  the  firm.  Cook,  Taylor  & 
Company,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  at  the  family  home  on 
Appleton  street,  June  6,  1868.  He  passed  the  grade  schools  and  en- 
tered high  school  but  before  finishing  the  course  in  that  school,  left 
to  enter  Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business  College  in  Boston.  After  com- 
pleting his  school  years,  he  entered  the  employment  of  Cook,  Taylor 
&  Company,  there  under  his  honored  father's  direction  mastering  the 
details  of  the  business  of  which  he  is  now  the  owner  and  directing 
head.  The  lines  carried  by  this  "Old  and  Reliable"  house  consist  of 
general  dress  goods,  coats,  suits,  ladies'  ready-to-wear  garments  and 
furnishings.  Perhaps  the  oldest  house  of  its  kind  in  the  city,  its  pat- 
ronage is  substantial  and  secure,  the  years  having  established  that 
confidence  which  is  the  basis  of  all  prosperity. 


378  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

Mr.  Taylor  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  in  1904  represented 
Ward  Nine  on  the  Board  of  Aldermen.  He  has  real  estate  interests  of 
importance,  but  his  mercantile  business  is  his  great  business  interest 
with  Cook,  Taylor  &  Company,  the  only  mercantile  house  with  which 
he  has  ever  been  connected.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
and  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  highly 
esteemed  as  a  business  man  and  citizen. 


JOHN  WILLIAM  ROBINSON. 

The  success  which  attended  Mr.  Robinson  as  head  and  sole  owner 
of  Robinson  &  Robinson,  structural  engineers,  of  Lowell,  ]\Iassachu- 
setts,  is  a  wonderful  testimonial  to  the  value  of  the  International 
Correspondence  School,  and  a  high  tribute  to  his  own  energy,  perse- 
verance and  ability.  Thousands  have  taken  these  courses  without 
attaining  unusual  results,  but  when  the  right  man  and  the  right  course 
of  study  form  a  combination  wonderful  results  follow.  And  this  is 
true  of  every  educational  institution  or  system,  the  man  is  the  motive 
power,  the  school  the  medium  through  which  ambition  crystallizes 
into  action.  While  Mr.  Robinson  does  not  detract  from  his  own  well 
directed  effort,  he  gives  to  the  International  Correspondence  School 
the  credit  for  providing  the  ojJiKirtunity  which  was  otherwise  denied 
him. 

John  W.  Robinson  is  a  son  of  Josei)h  Robinson,  who  at  the  age  of 
nineteen  came  from  his  native  England  to  the  United  States,  and  is 
now  overseer  in  the  Lowell  Bleachery  and  Dye  Works.  He  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  J.  Robinson,  reside  at  No.  230  Princeton  street,  Lowell. 

John  W.  Robinson  was  born  in  Nashua,  New  Hampshire,  April 
9,  1875.  During  his  youth  he  resided  in  Nashua,  Lawrence  and 
Lowell,  in  all  these  cities  attending  the  public  schools.  After  leaving 
school  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Lowell  Bleachery  as  office  boy, 
being  then  in  his  fourteenth  year.  He  continued  with  that  corporation 
four  years,  filling  the  positions  of  office  boy,  junior  clerk,  and  clerk. 
He  left  the  Bleachery  to  become  assistant  cashier  of  the  old  Western 
Division  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railway,  a  branch  soon  afterward 
closed  by  legislative  enactment.  Being  of  a  mechanical  turn  of  mind, 
he  decided  this  was  an  opportune  time  to  connect  with  some  mechan- 
ical activity,  learn  it  thoroughly  and  make  it  his  life  work.  He  chose 
architectural  drawing  and  engineering,  secured  a  position  with  \\'.  H. 
Wiggin,  a  jirominent  contractor,  enrolled  for  an  engineering  course 
with  the  International  Correspondence  School,  and  before  reaching 
his  twentieth  year  had  so  progressed  that  he  had  won  his  employer's 
confidence,  and   was  called   upon  to  make  estimates  of  cost  and   to 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  379 

superintend  some  important  construction.  He  continued  in  constantly 
increasing  responsible  positions  with  Mr.  Wiggin  for  fifteen  years, 
on])'  the  death  of  his  employer  dissolving  the  bond.  He  had  developed 
into  a  strong  self-reliant  man,  with  a  rich  fund  of  constructive  exper- 
ience to  reinforce  his  natural  abilit}-  and  technical  attainment,  ranking 
among  the  strong  men  of  his  business  which  may  be  also  termed  a 
profession. 

After  the  death  of  his  long  time  employer,  Mr.  Robinson  entered 
the  same  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Robinson  &  Robinson,  to 
avoid  confusion,  there  being  another  John  W.  Robinson  in  the  city. 
The  offices  are  at  No.  64  Central  street,  Lowell.  Mr.  Robinson's  busi- 
ness, as  sole  owner  and  manager,  is  the  making  of  plans,  engineering 
and  construction  of  industrial  buildings.  He  also  deals  at  wholesale 
in  lumber,  brick,  lime  and  cement,  and  is  employed  by  several  fire 
insurance  companies  to  appraise  their  fire  losses  all  over  Xew  Eng- 
land. Other  corporations  rely  upon  Mr.  Robinson  for  engineering 
plans,  specifications,  estimates  and  construction,  the  Lowell  Bleachery, 
Tremont  and  Suffolk  Mills,  and  Lowell  Electric  Light  Company, 
supplying  him  with  a  great  deal  of  building.  As  a  contracting  engi- 
neer, he  has  developed  a  large  business,  and  has  won  the  confidence  of 
the  large  mill  owners  who  adopt  his  plans  and  accept  his  estimates  as 
final  authority. 

Mr.  Robinson  is  a  member  of  the  National  Contractors'  Associa- 
tion :  Lowell  Board  of  Trade ;  Builders'  Association  of  Lowell ;  the 
Yorick  Club;  \'esper  Country  Club;  St.  John's  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church ;  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  man  of  untiring 
industry,  but  not  unmindful  of  the  softer  side  of  life,  enjoys  a  game 
of  golf,  and  is  partial  to  the  social  features  of  club  life.  But  as  he  won 
success,  so  he  retains  his  position  by  keeping  in  advance,  pushing 
instead  of  being  pushed  by  the  demands  of  his  business,  and  by  being 
always  at  his  post. 

Mr.  Robinson  married,  in  Lowell,  June  i.  1904,  Blanche  Staples, 
daughter  of  Arthur  and  Olive  Staples.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robinson  are  the 
parents  of  three  children :  Priscilla,  born  January  30,  1908 ;  Arthur 
M.,  born  Januarv  18,  191 7,  and  Blanche  Elizabeth,  born  September  6, 
Hn8. 


GEORGE  HENRY  SPILLANE. 

A  native  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  there  trained  in  the  busi- 
ness of  life  insurance,  in  which  he  is  now  engaged  in  Lowell,  Mr. 
Spillane  has  become  thoroughly  identified  with  his  adopted  city  in 
numerous  connections,  business  and  social. 


38o  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

He  was  born  Novemlser  i6,  1883.  son  of  John  E.  and  Mary  E. 
Spillane.  and  was  educated  in  the  George  street  elementary  school,  the 
Dearborn  evening  grammar  school,  the  Boston  evening  high  school, 
Comer's  Business  College,  Sheldon  School  of  Scientific  Salesmanship, 
and  the  Suffolk  Law  School ;  at  present  attending  the  latter  in  his 
junior  year.  His  business  career  was  begun  as  assistant  chief  clerk 
in  the  wire  department  of  the  city  of  Boston,  and  after  a  period  in  the 
municipal  employ  he  became  an  agent  for  the  John  Hancock  Mutual 
Life  Insurance  Company,  rising  to  the  post  of  assistant  superintendent 
of  the  Boston  agency  of  that  company,  under  Robert  H.  Clark,  for 
many  years  the  leader  among  the  company's  superintendents.  In  191 5 
he  took  up  his  duties  as  sujjerintendent  of  the  Lowell  agency  of  the 
John  Hancock  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  and  has  since 
remained  in  successful  charge  of  the  interests  of  that  organization 
comprising  fifty  representatives  in  the  territory  of  Lowell  and  sur- 
rounding towns. 

Mr.  Spillane  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order 
of  Elks,  Washington  Club,  the  Yorick  Club,  the  Longmeadow  Golf 
Club,  the  Vesper  Country  Club,  the  Highland  Club,  the  Boston  City 
Club,  Lowell  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  and  Lowell  Board 
(jf  Trade,  having  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  latter 
l>udy.  He  is  a  communicant  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  He  is  a 
bachelor. 


PATRICK  DEMPSEY. 

The  life  of  Patrick  Dempsey,  one  of  the  leading  Irishmen  of  the 
city  of  Lowell  and  perhaps  the  first  of  his  race  to  occupy  prominent 
position  in  Lowell's  business,  contains  much  that  is  of  interest  to  the 
student  of  human  nature.  He  blazed  the  business  trail  for  men  of  his 
race  to  occupy  high  position  in  finance  and  business,  his  elevation  to 
a  seat  on  the  board  of  directors  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Lowell 
being  the  first  instance  of  a  man  of  Irish  birth  sitting  as  a  director  of 
any  bank  in  Lowell.  He  was  engaged  in  the  wholesale  liquor  busi- 
ness, both  in  Lowell  and  in  Boston,  yet  it  was  his  invariable  habit  to 
spend  his  evenings  at  home  with  his  family,  and  it  was  indeed  a  rare 
occasion  which  saw  him  on  the  streets  after  6  p.  m.  After  wealth 
came  to  him,  he  bought  the  old  Southwick  homestead,  funnerly  the 
Southwick  House,  at  No.  236  Salem  street,  Lowell,  and  there  he  dis- 
pensed a  warm,  hearty,  and  generous  hospitality,  the  latch-string 
literally  "always  hanging  out."  Yet  there  was  a  grave  and  serious 
side  to  his  nature  not  expressed  by  his  fine  business  ability  nor  by 
his  love  of  home  and  family,  but  was  shown  in  his  great  love  for 
books,  particularly   those   dealing  with   history.      He   did   more   than 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  381 

read  history,  he  studied  it,  and  could  quote  dates  of  important  events 
freely  and  correctly.  His  general  reading  took  a  wide  range,  and  he 
could  converse  surprisingly  well  upon  subjects  foreign  to  the  average 
man.  He  loved  books,  and  his  home  in  Lowell  and  his  summer  resi- 
dence at  Juniper  Point  were  both  kept  well  supplied  with  his  favorite 
authors  and  subjects.  But  with  it  all  Mr.  Dempsey  was  a  keen,  shrewd 
Inisiness  man,  and  in  his  various  enterprises  displayed  sound  judg- 
ment and  accumulated  a  generous  fortune,  although  his  beginning  was 
modest  and  his  capital  small,  this  compensated  for  by  an  over-abund- 
ance of  energy  and  ambition. 

Patrick  Dempsey  was  a  son  of  Christopher  Dempsey,  and  a  grand- 
son of  Arthur  Dempsey,  both  of  whom  lived  and  died  upon  the  small 
farm  near  Rathbran,  Parish  of  Baltinglass,  County  Wicklow,  Ireland. 
Arthur  Dempsey,  by  hard  work  and  economy,  was  able  to  purchase 
that  farm  and  there  reared  a  large  family. 

Christopher  Dempsey,  son  of  Arthur  Dempsey,  was  born  at  the 
home  farm  in  1775,  there  passed  his  life,  became  its  owner,  and  died  in 
1S45.  He  married  Catherine  Kelley,  born  in  Rathbran,  and  they  were 
the  parents  of  seven  children ;  Patrick,  to  whom  this  review  is  dedi- 
cated, being  the  fifth  child,  the  others :  Sarah,  who  came  to  the  United 
States,  and  married  Thomas  Rafter,  of  Lowell ;  Bridget,  came  to  the 
United  States,  and  married  Joseph  Redmond,  of  Lowell ;  James,  came 
to  the  United  States,  settled  at  Lonsdale,  Rhode  Island,  where  he  was 
employed  in  a  bleachery,  going  thence  to  Peabody,  Massachusetts,  and 
still  later  to  Lewiston,  Maine ;  he  became  an  authority  in  textile  manu- 
facturing, and  for  twenty-five  years  was  agent  for  the  Lewiston 
Bleachery  and  Dye  Works;  his  son,  William  P.  Dempsey,  whom  he 
taught  the  business,  owns  the  Dempsey  Bleachery  and  Dye  Works 
in  Pawtucket,  Rhode  Island  ;  Arthur,  died  in  youthful  manhood  in 
Ireland;  Dennis,  remained  with  his  parents  and  became  the  owner  of 
the  home  farm;  Christopher  (2),  came  to  the  United  States,  locating 
first  in  Lonsdale,  Rhode  Island,  going  thence  to  Lowell,  where  he  was 
living  at  the  outbreak  of  war  between  the  states ;  he  enlisted.  May  30, 
1862,  in  Company  G,  Thirty-second  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teers, when"he  was  thirty-three  years  of  age ;  he  saw  hard  service  with 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  was  made  corporal,  and  while  carrying  the 
colors  at  the  head  of  his  regiment,  at  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness, 
fought  from  May  4  to  May  7,  1864.  was  fatally  wounded,  dying  in  a 
military  hospital ;  his  name  is  inscrilied  on  one  of  the  bronze  tablets 
placed  on  the  walls  of  Lowell's  Memorial  Hall.  The  news  account  of 
his  death  follows : 

"Come  on,  bovs,  I  have  the  flag."— The  last  dying  words  of  Ser- 
geant Christopher' Dempsey,  color-bearer  of  the  Thirty-second  Regi- 


382  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

nicnt  of  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  who  died  in  hospital  at  Washing- 
t(in,  June  8,  1864,  from  wounds  received  in  the  battle  of  the  Wilder- 
ness. He  leaves  a  wife  and  one  child  tn  mourn  and  feel  his  loss.  He 
l)ore  his  flag  and  escaped  through  all  the  great  battles  that  his  regi- 
ment was  in  until  the  last  day's  lighting,  when  just  after  planting  his 
colors  on  the  rebel  breastworks,  amid  the  heavy  fire  of  the  enemy, 
he  received  his  death  wound.  In  his  last  moments  of  life  his  mind 
wandered  back  to  the  scenes  of  strife,  and  his  last  words  were:  "Come 
on,  boys,  I  have  the  flag." 

This  incident  inspired  a  stirring  poem  by  (ieneral  W.  H.  Hay  ward. 

Patrick  1  )empsey  was  born  at  the  home  farm  in  kathhran,  Bal- 
tinglass,  County  Wicklow,  Ireland,  [March  17,  1822,  and  died  at  his 
home  in  the  city  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  December  13,  1902.  He 
spent  the  first  sixteen  years  of  his  life  on  the  home  farm  as  his 
father's  assistant,  and  passed  the  four  following  years  at  the  provision 
trade  in  Dublin,  where  he  received  the  business  training  that  proved 
so  useful  after  his  arrival  in  the  United  States.  He  and  his  brother 
James  came  id  this  country  in  the  same  ship  in  1842,  and  he  spent 
the  first  year  uf  his  American  residence  at  Fall  River,  Massachusetts, 
an  employee  of  the  Hope  Mills.  He  continued  a  textile  mill  worker  in 
Cranston,  Rhode  Island,  and  in  Somerville,  Massachusetts,  but  in  the 
last-named  city  his  health  failed  and  he  was  obliged  to  seek  out-of- 
door  employment.  Not  finding  anything  suitable  in  Somerville,  he 
went  to  Albany,  New  York,  and  there  found  a  position  with  one  of  the 
contractors  of  a  section  of  the  Erie  Canal,  then  being  built  across  New 
York  State  to  connect  the  (ireat  Lakes  with  the  Hudson  River.  He 
remained  in  that  employ  for  some  time,  later  went  further  West,  not 
returning  East  until  1846,  when  he  located  in  Lowell,  and  the  same 
year  rented  the  basement  at  No.  381-83  Market  street,  in  a  small  way 
beginning  the  making  and  bottling  of  root  l^eer.  He  devoted  himself 
to  the  upbuilding  of  this  business  with  all  the  energy  and  strength  he 
possessed,  making  the  root  beer  at  night  and  spending  his  days  selling 
it.  He  prospered,  of  course,  for  this  combination  of  youth  and  energy 
could  not  be  denied.  Soon  he  added  other  beverages  to  his  list  and 
rente<l  the  store  almve  his  business  as  a  salesroom,  retaining  the  base- 
nwnt  for  manufacturing  purposes.  Later  he  opened  a  wholesale  store 
for  the  sale  of  li<|Uiirs  under  the  firm  name,  P.  Dempsey  &-  Company, 
occupying  the  double  stores,  No.  381-83  Market  street,  continuing  the 
active  head  of  that  firm  for  fifty-three  years,  1846-99.  In  the  latter 
year  he  retired  and  \va^  succeeded  by  his  son,  George  C.  1  )emi)sey, 
and  Patrick  Keyes,  who  continued  at  the  same  location  and  in  Boston. 
He  purchased  the  buildings  in  which  he  began  business  in  184(1  and 
ac(|uired  other  valuable  real  estate  in  the  city,  including  the  South- 
wick   homestead   on   Salem    street   in    which   he   resided.      He    was   a 


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member  ut  the  St.  Patrick's  Roman  Catholic  Church.  He  took  little 
interest  in  politics  nor  did  he  belong  to  any  clubs,  his  business  engage- 
ments and  his  home  ties  filling  his  cup  of  life  to  the  brim.  His  sum- 
mer home  at  Juniper  Point,  Massachusetts,  held  strong  attraction  for 
him.  and  no  place  was  so  dear  to  him  as  his  Salem  street  home. 

Patrick  Dempsey  married  (first)  in  1848,  at  Lowell,  Bridget  Hill, 
who  died  January  29,  1859,  the  mother  of  three  children:  Katherine, 
Marghretta,  and  Elizabeth,  all  deceased.  I^lizabeth  Dempsey  married 
John  F.  l.ennon,  D  D.  S.,  of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  son  of  John 
Lennon,  of  Lowell.  Mr.  Dempsey  married  (second)  at  Lowell,  July 
21,  1863,  INIargaret  Deehan,  who  died  at  the  Juniper  Point  Home, 
Salem,  August  17,  1912.  Margaret  Deehan  was  the  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Isabelle  (Hagerty)  Deehan,  her  father  coming  to  the 
L'nited  States,  a  young  man,  and  settling  in  Portland,  Maine.  There 
he  remained  some  time,  purchasing  a  horse  and  wagon  and  establish- 
ing an  express  hauling  business.  He  married  Isabelle  Hagerty,  and 
I)\'  thrift  and  economy  was  able  to  give  his  five  children  a  good  educa- 
tion. Charles  and  Isabelle  Deehan  were  the  parents  of:  Elizabeth, 
married  John  Marren,  of  Lowell ;  Bridget,  married  Hugh  Carney,  of 
Portland,  Maine;  Margaret,  married  Patrick  Dempsey.  of  Lowell; 
Hannah,  deceased,  a  Dominican  sister;  Mary,  married  John  Lane,  of 
Portland,  Maine. 

Patrick  and  Margaret  (Deehan)  Dempsey  were  the  parents  of 
the  following  children,  all  born  in  Lowell:  i.  George  Christopher,  his 
father's  successor  in  business  ;  married  Abigail,  daughter  of  James  and 
Martha  (Cummings)  Hanley,  her  father  a  brewer  of  Providence, 
Rhode  Island;  they  are  the  parents  of  three  children:  Gerald  H., 
Ethel  H.,  and  Justin  H.  Dempsey.  2.  Katherine,  married  James  II. 
Carmichael,  of  Lowell,  and  has  children  :  James  Dempsey,  Katherine, 
Margaret,  Elizabeth,  Elinor,  and  Frances  Carmichael.  3.  Sarah,  a 
resident  of  Brookline,  Massachusetts.  4.  Helen  C,  married  James 
Phelan,  a  shoe  manufacturer  of  Lynn.  Massachusetts.  3.  Alice,  mar- 
ried Dr.  George  A.  Leahey.  of  Lowell,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  four 
children:  George  A.  (2),  Brendan  Dempsey,  Kevin  Dempsey,  died  in 
infancy,  and  Garret  Dempsey  Leahey.  6.  Anna  Margaret,  married 
William  F.  Harrington,  a  manufacturer  of  stockings  of  Manchester, 
New  Hampshire,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  three  children  :  William 
E.  (2),  Margaret  Patricia,  and  Ruth  Harrington.  7.  Edith,  who  died 
in  Brookline,  Massachusetts,  September  30,  1918. 


ARTHUR  EDWIN  HATCH. 

Mr.  Hatch's  business  interests  are  in  his  New  England  birthplace, 
Lowell,  Massachusetts,  and  he  is  also  a  graduate  of  two  of  the  best 


384  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

known  educational  institutions  of  his  native  State.  Arthur  E.  Hatch 
was  born  October  18,  1874,  and  after  attending  the  pubHc  schools  of 
Lowell,  obtained  his  college  preparation  at  Phillips  Academy,  An- 
dover,  Massachusetts,  whence  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1894. 
He  was  graduated  from  Harvard  University  in  1898  and  began  his 
business  career  with  the  C.  F.  Hatch  Company,  manufacturers  of 
paper  goods.  In  (October,  1898,  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  this  con- 
cern, and  has  since  ably  and  efficiently  discharged  its  important  duties. 
His  principal  business  connection  in  addition  to  this,  his  main  interest, 
is  as  trustee  of  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank,  of  Lowell. 

Mr.  Hatch  is  a  Republican  in  political  belief.  He  attends  All 
Souls'  Church,  of  Lowell,  and  is  identified  with  numerous  social  organ- 
izations, including  the  Yorick,  Vesper,  Rockport  Country,  and  Lowell 
Harvard  clubs.  While  a  student  at  Harvard,  he  was  elected  to  mem- 
bership in  the  Pi  Eta  fraternity. 

Mr.  Hatch  married,  in  Lowell,  October  31,  1905,  Maude  T.  Bow- 
ers, born  in  Lowell,  August  20,  1874. 


FRANK  TALBERT  MUSSEY. 

This  name,  originally  He  Mussat.  comes  from  the  French,  the 
pioneers  of  the  family,  who  were  descendants  of  the  French  scientist 
and  author  of  that  name,  settling  in  Vermont,  whence  came  Frank 
Talbert  Mussey,  proprietor  of  the  Crescent  Towel  Company,  their 
offices  being  located  at  Xo.  163  Middle  .street,  Lowell.  He  is  a  grand- 
son of  Henry  Mussey.  a  lifelong  farmer  of  Rutland,  the  "Marble  City" 
among  the  fireen  Hills  of  \'ermont,  and  a  son  of  George  L.  ^lussey, 
of  Rutland,  a  brick  manufacturer  and  farmer,  who  was  the  fourth  of 
ten  children,  seven  boys  and  three  girls.  George  L.  and  Melintha  A. 
(Clark)  Mussey  were  the  parents  of:  Samuel  C,  of  Newton,  Alassa- 
chusetts ;  Carrie  M.,  deceased;  and  Frank  Talbert,  of  further  mention. 

Frank  Talbert  Mussey  was  born  in  Rutland,  Vermont,  October 
14,  1 868.  and  now  is  a  resident  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  His  parents 
moved  to  Lowell  in  1876,  and  here  he  obtained  a  good  public  school 
education  in  the  grade  and  high  schools.  He  completed  his  studies  in 
1885  and  the  same  year  entered  the  employ  of  his  brother,  Samuel  C. 
Mussey,  who  was  proprietor  of  a  steam  laundry  in  Lowell.  During 
the  years  which  followed,  Mr.  Mussey  was  associated  with  the  laundrj' 
business  in  various  capacities  and  with  varying  success,  but  in  1909 
he  incorporated  the  F.  T.  Mussey  Towel  Supply  Company,  now  oper- 
ating as  the  Crescent  Towel  Company,  an  enterprise  which  has  been 
very  successful.  Mr.  Mussey  operates  four  wagons  in  gathering  and 
distributing  to  his  many  customers  in  Lowell,  and  to  the  management 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  385 

of  the  business  he  devotes  his  entire  time.  For  many  years  he  has 
been  a  member  of  and  flute  player  in  the  Lowell  Cadet  Band,  and  is 
a  member  of  Company  G,  Sixteenth  Regiment,  Massachusetts  State 
Guard ;  and  of  the  Musicians'  Union,  local,  No.  83,  American  Feder- 
ation of  Musicians.  He  is  secretary  of  the  Xew  England  Linen  Sup- 
ply Association;  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order;  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks ;  is  a  Republican  in  politics ;  and  in  his  relig- 
ious affiliations  an  attendant  of  the  First  Universalist  Church. 

Mr.  Mussey  married,  June  30,  1903,  Pearl  E.  Saunders,  daughter 
of  John  W.  and  Sarah  S.  (Willard)  Saunders,  of  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mussey  are  the  parents  of  a  daughter,  Dorothy, 
and  of  two  sons,  Walter  C.  and  Robert  S.  The  family  home  is  at  No. 
108  Hastings  street. 


HENRY  KIRKE  WHITE. 


When  seven  years  of  age,  Henr^'  Kirke  White  was  brought  to 
Lowell  by  his  parents,  and  there  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  was 
known  to  his  friends  as  "Kirke,"  and  while  he  never  sought  prom- 
inence for  himself,  his  many  friends  would  not  allow  him  the  cjuiet 
and  peace  he  really  craved,  for  his  nature  was  modest  and  retiring. 
He  was  a  man  of  genial,  pleasing  personality,  a  favorite  everywhere, 
and  a  most  zealous  advocate  for  any  cause  which  he  espoused.  He 
rendered  a  real  service  to  many  a  good  cause  in  Lowell,  and  through 
his  generosity  and  aid,  failure  was  often  averted.  In  practical  philan- 
thropy few  men  in  Lowell  equalled  his  record,  although  little  of  this 
was  known  beyond  the  family  circle.  It  is  true,  nevertheless,  that 
many  a  needy  person  found  him  a  ready  helper  and  genuine  sympa- 
thizer. Another  delightful  trait  of  Mr.  White's  character  was  his 
kindly,  thoughtful  courtesy,  a  trait  perfectly  natural  to  him.  He  was 
a  son  of  William  Henry  White  and  his  first  wife,  Maria  Theresa 
(Towie)  White,  and  of  the  tenth  generation  of  the  family  founded  in 
New  England  by  William  White,  of  the  "Mayflower."  si.xth  signer  of 
the  "Compact." 

Henry  Kirke  White  was  born  at  Winchester,  Massachusetts. 
August  23,  1858,  and  died  in  Lowell,  June  1,  191 5.  In  1863  his  parents 
moved  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  where  he  attended  Moody  Grammar 
School  and  Lowell  High  School,  he  later  entering  Amherst  College, 
whence  he  was  graduated,  class  of  1880.  After  graduation  he  was  at 
once  admitted  to  a  partnership  with  his  father  and  brothers  in  the 
leather  manufacturing  business,  which  his  father  had  founded  and 
developed.  He  continued  active  in  the  firm,  White  Brothers  &  Com- 
pany, until  its  merger  with  the  American  Hide  &  Leather  Company, 

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386  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

when  he  witlidrew  from  acti\'e  business,  becoming  a  director  of  the 
American  Hide  and  Leather  Company.  For  a  time  he  studied  law, 
more  as  a  diversion  than  with  interest  to  practice,  as  he  never  applied 
for  admission  to  the  bar.  He  did,  however,  become  interested  with 
his  father  in  the  large  farm  at  Pittsfield.  New  Hampshire,  and  the 
culture  of  apples  became  a  passion  with  him.  Large  orchards  of 
apple  trees  were  planted  there  by  the  two  enthusiasts,  father  and  son, 
neither  of  whom  lived  to  realize  the  full  value  of  the  work  they  were 
doing.  He  spent  a  great  deal  of  his  time  at  the  farm  after  retiring 
from  tlie  firm,  but  retained  his  home  in  Lowell,  at  the  old  White  man- 
sion, Xo.  250  Nesmith  street. 

In  politics  Mr.  White  was  a  Republican,  and  in  1896  and  1897  he 
represented  his  ward  in  Common  Council.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
High  Street  Congregational  Church  from  boyhood,  and  interested  in 
many  of  the  city's  social  and  other  activities.  For  one  year  he  was 
president  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade.  His  clubs,  the  Vesper 
Country  and  Yorick  of  Lowell,  the  Hamilton  Association  of  Boston. 
As  a  member  of  the  city  government  he  served  through  a  trying  period 
in  such  a  manner  as  to  win  the  confidence  of  his  fellow  members  of 
both  parties.  In  his  death  the  city  lost  a  useful,  valuable  citizen,  and 
he  was  truly  mourned,  even  beyond  his  large  circle  of  personal  friends. 

Henry  Kirke  White  married,  June  5,  1900,  Florence  D.  Parkhurst, 
of  Templeton,  Massachusetts,  daughter  of  Charles  and  I'^.lizabeth 
(Darrow)  Parkhurst.  Mrs.  White  survives  her  husband,  continuing 
her  home  at  the  White  mansion  on  Nesmith  street,  Lowell.  She  is 
also  the  owner  of  the  farm  at  Pittsfield,  where  she  spends  a  great  deal 
of  her  time,  there  continuing  its  operation  as  a  fruit  growing  farm, 
and  gathering  bountiful  apple  harvests  from  the  orchards  planted  by 
her  husband. 


EDWARD  GALLAGHER. 

As  far  back  as  1887,  Mr.  Gallagher  was  a  baseball  enthusiast,  he 
organizing  in  that  year  the  club  now  referred  to  as  the  old  Lowell 
Club,  an  organization  ranking  among  the  leaders  in  that  day.  The 
years  have  not  caused  the  loss  of  his  love  for  baseball  and  he  is  still 
a  "fan.''  In  his  younger  days  all  forms  of  manly  contests  appealed  to 
him,  and  he  was  one  of  the  boxing  and  wrestling  bout  promoters  of 
Lowell.  l!ut  after  his  marriage  he  gave  up  that  form  of  sport.  As 
a  business  man  he  has  been  successful,  now  being  engaged  in  business 
at  No.  165  Chelmsford  street,  Lowell,  his  native  city.  He  is  a  son  of 
James  and  Margaret  Gallagher,  his  father  a  member  of  the  old  Lowell 
military  company — the  Jackson  Musketeers. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  387 

Edward  Gallagher  was  born  in  old  St.  Peter's  parish,  Lowell, 
Massachusetts,  August  21,  1856,  and  there  spent  his  youth.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Edson  street  school,  completing  grammar  school 
courses,  then  entering  the  em])loy  of  the  Lowell  Machine  Shop  as  an 
office  boy.  He  continued  in  the  employ  of  that  corporation  until  1873, 
when  the  panic  of  1872-73  caused  the  laying  off  of  a  large  number  of 
employees,  he  among  the  number.  He  then  spent  five  years  in  the 
grocery  business  with  William  McAloon,  as  his  clerk,  leaving  him  in 
1878  to  become  a  traveling  salesman,  handling  gas  mantels.  When 
he  retired  from  the  road  he  engaged  in  business  for  himself,  having  a 
store  on  Gorham  street,  which  he  conducted  until  becoming  proprietor 
of  the  Gallagher  House  on  William  street.  He  conducted  the  Galla- 
gher House  until  1915,  then  retired,  to  again  engage  in  mercantile 
life,  his  store  located  at  No.  165  Chelmsford  street.  Mr.  Gallagher 
represented  the  Sixth  Ward  in  Common  Council  in  1876  and  1877, 
elected  as  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Margaret's  Roman 
Catholic  Church,  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  Democratic  State  Execu- 
ti\e  Committee  for  a  number  of  years,  and  Lowell  Lodge,  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

Mr.  Gallagher  married,  in  18S8,  Katherine  O'Brien,  of  Ayer, 
^Massachusetts.  They  are  tlie  parents  of  a  daughter,  Katherine,  now  a 
student  at  Simmons  College. 


EUGENE  SUMNER  HYLAN. 

For  forty-two  years  a  woolen  manufacturer  of  Lowell,  Mr.  Hylan 
has  for  the  past  twenty  years  conducted  his  extensive  operations  under 
the  title  of  the  New  England  Bunting  Company.  He  holds  position 
among  the  successful  industrial  leaders  of  his  city  and  is  identified 
with  many  departments  of  the  life  of  Lowell. 

Eugene  S.  Hylan  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  September 
15,  1847,  ^nd  as  a  youth  attended  the  public  schools  of  Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania,  completing  his  studies  in  a  Lowell  commercial  college. 
At  the  age  of  thirty  years  he  began  independent  business  operations 
as  a  manufacturer  of  woolens  and  has  continued  in  prosperous  pursuit 
of  this  line  of  endeavor  to  the  present  time  (1919).  Since  1899  he 
has  transacted  business  as  the  New  England  Bunting  Company,  a 
concern  that  is  widely  and  favorably  known  throughout  the  trade. 
Until  his  resignation,  in  1918,  Mr.  Hylan  was  a  trustee  of  the  Lowell 
Textile  School,  his  service  on  the  board  and  his  generous  interest  in 
the  institution  inspired  by  his  high  ideals  for  the  industry  he  had 
made  his  life  work  and  the  desire  that  its  future  be  entrusted  to 
trained  men.     i\Ir.  Hylan  is  a  member  of  the  Vesper  Country  Club, 


388  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

the  Yorick  Cluh,  and  the  Middlesex  Club,  of  Boston,  and  is  a  com- 
municant of  the  Unitarian  church,  of  Lowell.  He  is  one  of  Lowell's 
substantial  citizens,  a  dependable  supporter  of  enterprises  of  civic 
advancement  and  improvement.  Mr.  Hylan  married,  in  Lowell,  Esther 
J.  Holt,  born  in  Lowell,  daughter  of  John  Holt.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hylan 
are  the  parents  of:  Alice  L.,  who  married  W.  \'.  .Adams,  of  Lowell; 
Grace  A.,  John  B.,  Edwin  J.,  Jennie  M..  and  Florence  L. 


WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  MACK. 

When  yet  a  high  school  student,  Mr.  Mack  began  working  at  the 
business  which  he  later  adopted  as  his  own,  and  is  now  well  estab- 
lished as  an  undertaker  and  funeral  director  in  his  native  city,  Lowell, 
Massachusetts.  He  is  the  son  of  IMichael  Joseph  and  Theresa  (Miles) 
Mack,  both  now  residents  of  Lowell.  Michael  J.  Mack  was  born  in  Bel- 
fast, Ireland,  but  when  three  months  old  was  taken  by  his  parents  to 
luigland,  where  he  lived  until  twelve  years  of  age.  His  father  came  to 
the  United  States  alone,  and  two  }'ears  later  his  wife  anil  son  came. 
The  lad,  Michael  J.,  attended  school  in  England,  and  for  eighteen  )-ears 
was  employed  as  a  color  man  in  the  yarn  department  of  the  Bigelow 
Carpet  Company's  factory  in  Lowell.  He  then  entered  the  insurance 
field,  and  for  the  i)ast  twelve  years,  1906-1918,  has  been  a  Lowell 
representative  for  the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 
He  married  Theresa  Miles,  born  in  Lowell,  her  present  home. 

William  Alexander  Mack  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
July  28,  1893.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  that  city, 
passed  the  grades  of  Moody  Grammar  and  Lowell  High  School,  fin- 
ishing with  graduation  in  191 1.  The  year  previous  to  graduation  he 
had  begun  work  in  the  undertaking  shops  of  James  W.  McKenna, 
in  Centreville,  Lnwcll,  using  his  spare  hours  and  \-acation  jieriods 
in  that  way.  After  leaving  school  in  1911,  he  continued  in  Mr. 
McKenna's  employ  until  1913,  when  he  became  a  student  at  The 
Renouard  Training  .School  for  Embalmers  in  New  York  Citv,  com- 
I>leting  the  cciin'se  with  gradtiatii  >n,  December  20,  1913.  From  that 
time  until  1915  he  was  in  the  employ  of  John  J.  O'Connell,  of  Lowell, 
and  in  191 5  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  business  which  continued 
under  the  firm  name,  O'Connell  &  J\Iack.  On  June  i,  1918,  that 
partnership  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Mack  purchasing  the  business  and 
succeeding  to  the  ownership  of  the  undertaking  establishment  of 
James  H.  McDermott,  the  oldest  undertaker  in  Lowell.  For  fifty 
years  Mr.  McDermott  had  been  in  the  undertaking  business  on  Gor- 
ham  street,  and  as  his  successor,  Mr.  Mack,  the  youngest  undertaker 
perhaps  on  the  street,  began  his  independent  business   career.     Mr. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  389 

Mack  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  a  member  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
church.  Holy  Name  Society,  and  other  church  organizations.  He  is 
treasurer  of  Lowell  Aerie.  Xo.  223,  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles,  and 
is  one  of  the  energetic,  rising  young  business  men  of  Lowell.  His 
undertaking  establishment  is  at  No.  70  Gorham  street,  his  home.  No. 
80  Whitney  street,  Lowell. 

Mr.  Mack  married  in  Lowell.  Massachusetts,  June  6,  T917,  Mary 
Annabelle  Sheehan,  born  at  her  parents'  home.  No.  140  Cross  street, 
Lowell,  daughter  of  William  H.  and  Julia  (Leary)  Sheehan,  her 
father  also  born  in  Lowell,  a  chemist  by  profession,  but  now  employed 
at  the  Rigelow  Carpet  Company,  in  another  line.  His  wife  was  also 
born  in  Lowell,  at  the  family  home.  No.  140  Cross  street.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  William  Alexander  Mack  are  the  parents  of  William  .Alexander, 
Jr..  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  June  5,  1918. 


NEWELL  FULLER  PUTNAM. 

In  1918,  after  a  long  term  of  service  in  the  employ  of  the  city  of 
Lowell  in  offices  for  which  his  professional  training  particularly  qual- 
ified him,  Mr.  Putnam  formed  his  present  relation  with  the  L'nited 
States  Cartridge  Company. 

Newell  F.  Putnam  was  born  in  Freeman,  Maine,  April  16,  1867, 
and  after  attending  public  schools  took  up  civil  engineering.  He  was 
engaged  in  this  line  from  1881  to  1891,  entering  the  ofifice  of  the  city 
engineer  of  Lowell,  where  he  remained  until  1909.  On  January  i,  1909, 
he  was  elected  superintendent  of  streets  of  Lowell,  serving  until  Sep- 
tember, 1915.  and  in  1915-16  he  filled  the  ofifice  of  city  commissioner. 
In  1918  he  became  identified  with  the  United  States  Cartridge  Com- 
pany in  the  capacity  of  foreman,  his  position  at  this  time  ( 1919)-  Mr. 
Putnam  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order  and  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  his  club  is  the  Central,  of  Lowell.  He 
is  a  communicant  of  Grace  Universalist  Church.  He  is  widely  known 
in  the  Lowell  locality  through  his  public  service,  which  has  been  of  a 
high  type  of  usefulness,  and  his  circle  of  friends  is  large. 

Mr.  Putnam  married,  in  Lowell,  November  3,  1892,  Alice  F. 
French,  born  in  East  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  February  7,  1868, 
daughter  of  Amos  B.  and  Carrie  French.  Mr.  and  :\Irs.  Putnam  are 
the  parents  of  one  son,  Harold  M..  born  February  18.  1895. 


JOHN  FRANCIS  SAUNDERS. 

John  Francis  Saunders,  whose  life  ended  so  suddenly  at  his  home 
in  Lowell,  August  17.  19 14.  in  the  midst  of  a  career  already  notable. 


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and  promising  still  more  lofty  achievement,  was  an  exception  to  that 
rule  which  claims  that  death  is  needed  to  awaken  the  appreciation  of 
our  fellows  and  that  the  prophet  is  not  without  honor  save  in  his  own 
countrv.  For  Mr.  Saunders'  strong  but  genial  personality,  cou^iled 
with  his  well-gounded  knowledge  of  his  life's  work,  had  won  both 
recognition  and  success  from  the  outset  of  his  business  life,  and  there 
were  none  of  his  fclhiw  citizens  who  held  a  larger  place  in  public 
esteem  than  he. 

Born  in  Lowell,  February  24,  1869,  the  son  of  Edward  and  Julia 
(Dean)  Saunders,  Mr.  Saunders  was  of  Irish  extraction.  II is  parents 
were  both  natives  of  County  Kerry,  Ireland,  his  father  having  come  to 
America  while  still  a  young  man,  and  had  settled  in  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, and  here  followed  the  occupation  of  farmer  and  landscape 
gardener,  and  was  chief  farmer  on  some  of  the  large  estates  in  and 
adjoining  Lowell.  Here  he  met  and  married  Julia  Dean,  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  seven  children,  all  of  them  born  in  Lowell,  and 
three  of  whom  survive.  These  arc :  Nellie,  the  wife  of  John  Flynn, 
a  retired  merchant  of  Lowell,  now  living  in  Dracut  Centre  ;  Mary,  a 
resident  of  Lowell ;  and  Edward  F.,  chief  engineer  of  the  Lowell  Fire 
Department.  John  Francis  Saunders  began  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Lowell,  but  when  the  Xavierian  Brothers  established 
their  parochial  school  here,  he  was  one  of  the  first  pupils  to  enter, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  first  class  which  graduated  from  the  insti- 
tution. After  completing  his  school  work,  he  secured  employment  in 
a  retail  produce,  grocery  and  meat  market,  and  the  record  of  his  success 
should  serve  as  an  inspiring  example  to  others,  for  he  started  out  in 
boyhood,  empty-handed,  stimulated  only  by  the  laudable  ambition  to 
succeed.  He  wisely  used  his  time  and  talents,  and  embraced  every 
opportunity  that  pointed  towards  advancement.  At  length  he  decided 
to  establish  a  business  of  his  own,  and  in  1894,  with  a  limited  capital, 
opened  Saunders'  Market,  on  Gorham  street,  near  the  corner  of  Sum- 
mer street.  It  was  a  small  store  but  it  proved  to  be  the  beginning  of 
what  is  to-day  the  largest  market  in  the  city,  and  which  still  occupies 
the  original  location,  the  business  having  in  the  meantime  expanded 
to  such  an  extent  that  the  entire  street  floor  of  the  building  is  required 
for  the  sales  and  display  room,  and  the  erection  of  a  large  warehouse 
and  storage  l)uilding  became  necessary.  In  the  beginning  the  entire 
business  of  the  market  was  handled  as  one  department,  but  a<  the 
business  grew  the  s\-stem  was  gradually  improved,  and  now  the  \ari- 
ous  lines  of  produce  are  in  separate  departments,  each  department 
being  ecjuipped  with  modern  appliances  for  the  sanitary  keeping  and 
marketing  of  its  particular  goods.  To  build  the  large  retail  market 
in  the  city  of  Lowell  was  not  an  undertaking  easily  accomplished. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  391 

The  remarkable  success  Mr.  Saunders  attained  as  a  merchant  came 
from  his  power  to  concentrate  and  expend  all  his  energy  on  one  enter- 
prise, and  from  his  habits  of  industry  which  kept  him  steadily  at  his 
post.  He  never  relinquished  the  active  management  until  his  sudden 
death  removed  him  from  the  business  he  founded  and  developed  to 
an  unusual  condition  of  prosperity. 

Mr.  Saunders  was  united  in  marriage,  December  27,  1899,  to  Alice 
Josephine  Mahoney,  a  native  of  Lowell,  and  a  lifelong  resident  of  the 
place.  She  is  the  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Mary  Gertrude  (Coleman) 
Mahoney,  her  father  having  been  born  in  County  Waterford,  Ireland, 
and  now  residing  in  Lowell.  His  wife,  who  was  also  a  native  of 
County  Waterford,  died  in  Lowell,  November  21,  1918.  Eight  chil- 
dren were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Saunders:  i.  Edward  John,  born 
March  6,  1901,  now  a  student  at  Holy  Cross  College,  Worcester,  Mas- 
sachusetts. 2.  Alary  Julia,  born  August  5,  1902,  died  December  6, 
1905.  3.  Alice  Josephine,  born  October  31,  1904.  4.  John  Francis,  Jr., 
born  September  27,  1906.  5.  Eleanor,  born  May  10,  1908.  6.  Thomas, 
born  May  31.  1910.  7.  Julia  Dean,  born  October  6.  191 1.  8.  Kegina, 
born  March  i,  1914,  died  August  7,  1914. 

Mr.  Saunders  had  but  two  great  interests  in  his  life,  his  family 
and  his  business,  and  to  these  he  devoted  his  entire  t'ime.  He  was  a 
devout  Catholic.  He  was  a  member  of  Lowell  Council,  No.  72, 
Knights  of  Columbus ;  of  the  Friendly  Sons  of  St.  Patrick ;  and  of  the 
Alpine  Club.  The  family  residence,  built  in  1898,  is  at  No.  548  Fletcher 


DANIEL  D.  O'DEA. 


As  owner  of  the  Dan  O'Dea  Motor  Company,  Mr.  OTJea  con- 
ducts a  prosperous  business  enterprise  located  in  one  of  the  largest 
and  best  equipped  show  rooms  in  Lowell.  All  his  life  from  the  age 
of  fifteen  years  he  has  been  connected  with  either  the  livery  or  auto- 
mobile business,  and  can  be  considered  an  expert  on  any  matter  con- 
nected with  either  of  these  forms  of  public  conveyance.  His  first  occu- 
pation was  driving  horses,  his  first  position  with  a  livery  firm.  He 
began  his  career  as  an  auto  salesman  with  the  Lowell  branch  of  the 
Buick  Company,  and  since  starting  in  business  for  himself  in  1915  has 
sold  $200,000  worth  of  motor  cars  and  trucks.  He  has  a  service  sta- 
tion and  reputedly  the  best  repair  shop  in  the  city.  He  is  fearless, 
progressive  and  public-spirited.  Lowell,  owing  to  his  initiative,  had 
ihe  automobile  show  at  which  all  Lowell  automobile  dealers  exhib- 
ited, as  they  will  at  the  coming  show  in  January,  1920.  He  is  a  son 
of  Lawrence  and  Delia  O'Dca,  his  father  a  mill  man,  now  deceased. 


392  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

his  mother  living  and  resicUng  at  No.  68  Church  street.  Lowell.  Their 
children :  Daniel  D.,  of  further  mention ;  Francis  J.,  special  delivery 
clerk,  Lowell  post  office;  Gilmore,  a  chauffeur;  James  L.,  a  clerk  in 
Lowell  post  office;  John  B..  employed  at  the  United  States  Cartridge 
Company  ;  and  Margaret  L.,  a  clerk. 

Daniel  D.  O'Dea  was  horn  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  December 
19,  18S8,  and  until  fifteen  \erir>  <if  age  attended  the  public  primary 
and  grammar  schools.  While  still  a  school  boy  he  was  employed  in 
.shining  shoes  at  the  Sunlight  SIk  .e  Store,  then  conducted  by  James 
Coughlin.  He  began  at  the  age  of  fifteen  as  a  regular  hand,  driving  a 
team  for  E.  15.  Conant,  was  with  O.  P.  Davis,  liveryman,  and  drove  for 
J.  T.  Peavey,  of  Brooklyn,  a  wholesale  clothier.  This  carried  him  to 
man's  legal  estate,  and  soon  afterward  he  secured  a  position  with  the 
Lowell  Buick  Company  and  began  his  successful  career  in  the  auto- 
mobile business.  He  continued  with  about  six  years  working  on  the 
floor,  in  the  garage,  demonstrating,  teaching  beginners,  and  finally 
became  salesman,  meeting  with  success  during  the  four  years  he 
ser\ed  in  this  capacity.  Becoming  thoroughly  capable  in  all  branches 
of  the  business,  Mr.  O'Dea  founded  the  Dan  O'Dea  Motor  Company 
in  T915,  and  in  1916  incorporated  under  the  same  name,  capital  .$10,000. 
He  secured  agencies  for  the  Scrujjp,  Booth  and  National  cars  and 
trucks,  later  gave  up  the  Scrupp  and  substituted  the  Vim  truck  and 
Chevrolet  car.  He  now  also  has  National,  Jordan  and  Reiniblic 
truck  agencies.  The  show  rooms  are  at  No.  no  Middle  street,  the 
service  station.  No.  30  Varnum  avenue.  Eight  men  are  kept  steadily 
employed,  and  he  conducts  a  large  business  in  line  with  the  best 
modern  business  principles.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board 
of  Trade,  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  U.  T.  C,  and 
the  South  End  Club.  Mr.  O'Dea  during  the  World  War  served  his 
countrv  in  service  overseas. 


PIERRE  ZOTIQUE  HEBERT. 

The  first  twenty-four  years  nf  the  life  of  Pierre  Z.  Hebert  were 
spent  upon  the  home  farm  in  Can.nla.  and  there  he  imbibed  those 
habits  of  energy,  thrift,  and  indii^ii'\ .  wliirh  ever  distinguished  him. 
He  was  a  son  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe  (  l.anseou)  Hebert,  both  of  whom 
passed  their  lives  in  St.  Constance.  Canada,  his  father  a  farmer. 

Pierre  Z.  Hebert  was  born  at  the  home  farm  at  St.  Constance, 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  July  i,  1855,  died  in  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, .-\pril  24,  1910.  He  was  educated  in  St.  Constance  schools,  and 
from  boyhood  was  his  father's  farm  assistant.  After  completing  his 
school  years  he  remained  at  home,  and  until  1879  so  continued.     He 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  393 

then  came  to  the  United  States,  going  to  Little  Rock,  Arkansas,  where 
he  was  employed  on  a  large  cotton  plantation.  Neither  the  work  he 
had  to  do,  nor  the  climate,  nor  the  surroundings  were  congenial,  and 
he  soon  came  Xorth.  locating  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  1880.  He 
was  here  engaged  as  a  painter  for  a  few  years,  but  this  did  not  agree 
with  him,  and  under  a  physician's  advice  he  gave  up  that  occupation. 
During  his  latter  years  in  Canada,  and  in  the  few  years  in  Lowell, 
he  had  accumulated  some  capital  from  his  savings,  artd  when  again 
out  of  employment  he  decided  to  engage  in  a  business  of  his  own.  He 
finally  formed  a  partnership,  and  as  Duprey  &  Hebert,  opened  a  fur- 
niture store  on  Aiken  street.  This  partnership  was  soon  dissolved. 
Air.  Hebert  buying  his  partner's  interest  and  moving  the  store  to  No. 
308  Aiken  street.  This  was  then  a  rented  store,  but  later,  when  pros- 
perity came,  as  a  result  of  his  wise  management  and  energy,  he  bought 
the  building,  and  there  continued  in  business  twenty-two  years,  until 
his  death.  Mr.  Hebert  had  great  faith  in  Lowell,  and  all  the  profits 
of  his  business  were  invested  in  city  real  estate,  particularly  in  what 
is  known  as  the  French  quarter.  He  bought  wisely,  and  was  the 
owner  of  considerable  business  property  and  a  home  at  No.  321  Hil- 
dreth  street.  He  was  a  devoted  member  of  St.  Louis  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  and  in  politics  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Hebert  married  Rosaline  Methe,  at  Lowell,  November  4, 
1883,  she  born  at  St.  Sebastian,  Quebec,  Canada,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Letourneou)  Methe,  her  father  born  in  St.  Sebastian,  her 
mother  in  the  city  of  Quebec.  William  Methe  was  a  farmer  of  St. 
Sebastian  until  1886,  when  he  came  to  Lowell  with  his  family.  He 
returned  to  Canada  in  1889,  and  there  spent  the  active  years  of  his  life. 
After  retiring  from  farming  he  and  his  wife  moved  to  New  P.edford, 
Massachusetts,  where  several  of  their  children  had  settled  and  there 
both  died.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hebert  were  the  parents  of  seven  children, 
all  born  in  Lowell,  five  of  whom  are  living:  Virginia,  married  Elzlar 
Laduc,  a  furniture  dealer  of  Lowell,  and  they  have  a  daughter.  Jean- 
nette ;  Romeo,  married  Gertrude  Lorenger,  of  Lowell,  and  has  a 
daughter,  Retta ;  Rosaline,  married  Alfred  Capone,  of  Lowell,  and  had 
children:  Pierre,  Wilfred,  and  Louis;  Alfred,  a  recently  honorably 
discharged  soldier  of  the  United  States  army;  Alzear.  a  school  boy. 
Mrs.  Hebert,  after  her  husband's  death,  disposed  of  his  furniture  busi- 
ness, but  retains  the  ownership  of  his  building,  and  continues  her  resi- 
dence at  the  old  home.  No.  321  Hildrelh  street. 


CHARLES  RUNELS. 

Retired  from  the  business  that  mainly  occupied  him  throughout 
his  active  career,  granite  cutting,  Mr.   Runels'  association  with  the 


394  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

business  and  industrial  circles  of  Lowell,  his  native  city,  continues  in 
his  vice-presidency  of  the  Merrimack  River  Savings  Bank  and  his 
financial  interest  in  numerous  leading  enterprises  of  the  locality. 

Mr.  Runels,  son  of  George  and  Mary  A.  (Morrill)  Runels,  was 
born  in  Lowell,  October  i8,  1849.  -ind  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  birthplace,  going  from  high  school  to  Bryant  and  Strat- 
ton's  Business  College,  in  Boston.  Upon  the  completion  of  his  studies 
he  learned  the  granite  cutter's  trade  in  the  granite  yards  of  his  father 
in  Lowell,  and  for  a  number  of  years  pursued  that  calling.  In  1872, 
with  his  brother,  Henry  Runels,  Nat  A.  Davis,  and  Charles  W.  Foster, 
he  formed  the  granite  cutting  firm  of  Runels,  Davis  &  Foster.  Later 
these  partners  retired  from  the  firm,  and  Mr.  Runels  continued  inde- 
pendently with  prosperous  result  until  1898,  when,  the  Boston  & 
Maine  Railroad  Company  taking  the  land  occupied  by  the  plant,  he 
discontinued  his  operations  in  this  line.  Throughout  its  existence 
as  a  firm  and  under  Mr.  Runels'  independent  management  it  was  a 
thriving  and  prosperous  concern.  It  supplied  the  granite  for  many 
conspicuous  buildings  of  Lowell,  Boston,  and  the  surrounding  country, 
and  Mr.  Runels  was  associated  with  the  large  contracting  firm  of 
Trumbull  &  Cheney,  of  Boston,  in  the  erection  of  the  piers  and 
approaches  of  the  Aikens  Street  Bridge,  in  Lowell.  Among  Mr. 
Runels'  present  business  interests  is  the  vice-presidency  of  the  Mer- 
rimack River  Savings  Bank,  and  he  is  a  charter  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  this  institution.  Mr.  Runels'  service  and  support  has 
been  freely  given  to  enterprises  of  civic  progress  and  benefit.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Lowell  General  Hospital,  holding  member- 
ship on  the  board  of  trustees  and  the  executive  board,  and  public 
spiritedly  and  disinterestedly  discharges  the  duties  of  citizenship.  A 
Republican  in  politics,  he  served  his  city  as  a  member  of  the  Common 
Council  in  1876,  and  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1888.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade,  and  the  Vesper  Country  Club.  His 
fraternity  is  the  Masonic  order,  in  which  he  belongs  to  the  lodge, 
chapter,  council,  commandery  and  other  Masonic  bodies. 

Mr.  Runels  married  Mary  ]•"..  Lettency,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  X. 
and  Matilda  (Inglis)  Letteney,  uf  Granville,  Xova  Scotia,  her  father 
a  shipbuilder  and  mariner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Runels  are  the  parents  of 
three  children:  1.  Clara  E.,  born  in  Lowell,  July  30,  1880,  died  Octo- 
ber 17,  18S6.  2.  Ralph  E.,  born  in  Lowell,  August  12,  1887,  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell,  and  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology;  now  general  manager  of  the  General  Building  Company, 
<jf  ncistun;  married  Beatrice  M.  Horn,  and  had  one  child,  Ralph  E., 
Jr.,  wliii  died  in  infancy.  3.  Chester  M.,  born  in  Lowell,  June  i,  1892; 
eilucaled  in  the  Lowell  public  schools  and  the  Massachusetts  Institute 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  395 

of  Technology:  an  architectural  engineer  in  the  empIo%-  of  Stone  &• 
Webster,  of  Boston  ;  married  .Margaret  A.  Thompson,  of  Lowell.  The 
Runels  home  is  a  beautiful  residence  at  No.  818  -Andover  street 
Lowell. 


J.  HENRY  COLLINS. 

As  president  and  general  manager  of  the  New  England  Electric 
&  Supply  Corporation,  of  No.  261  Button  street  and  Nos.  62-64  Cen- 
tral street.  Lowell,  Mr.  Collins  occupies  a  position  for  which  he  is 
admirably  fitted  by  technical  education  and  practical  experience.  He 
came  to  Lowell  a  young  man,  but  experienced  as  an  engineer  skilled 
in  electrical  and  sanitary  engineering  as  taught  in  a  technical  school, 
with  practical  knowledge  of  telegraphy,  and  with  two  and  a  half  years 
experience  in  a  locomotive  works.  Since  his  coming  in  1885  he  has 
been  variously  engaged,  forming  the  corporation  of  which  he  was  head 
in  1902.  The  growth  of  the  business  has  been  marvelous,  the  original 
store  being  a  single  room,  ten  by  twenty-four  feet,  the  present  location, 
a  building  thirty  by  eighty -eight  feet,  with  three  floors,  all  occupied  by 
the  corporation.  In  addition  a  store  at  Nos.  62-64  Central  street  has 
been  conducted  since  1912,  the  store  seventeen  by  forty-five  feet,  with 
five  additional  rooms  on  an  uppper  story  used  for  storing  stock.  No 
better  comment  upon  Mr.  Collins  as  a  business  man  and  executive 
could  be  made  than  the  foregoing  facts.  Mr.  Collins  is  a  son  of  Michael 
Collins,  of  Irish  descent,  born  in  Northfield,  Vermont,  a  railroad  fore- 
man for  several  years,  but  later  a  farmer.  He  married  Mary  C.  Cush- 
ing,  they  the  parents  of:  J.  Henry  Collins,  of  further  mention;  Eugene, 
deceased:  Mary,  deceased;  Charles  E.,  a  graduate  of  Norwich  Uni- 
versity, now  a  civil  engineer  of  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania ;  Alice  L., 
a  graduate  M.  D.,  practicing  in  Philadelphia;  John  L.,  a  graduate  of 
Norwich  University,  now  a  civil  engineer  of  New  York  City  :  iMuma 
A.,  a  graduate  M.  D.,  practicing  in  Philadelphia. 

J.  Henry  Collins,  eldest  son  of  Michael  and  Mary  C.  (Cushing) 
Collins,  was  born  at  Burlington,  Vermont,  February  i,  1865,  and  there 
passed  through  the  grade  and  high  schools.  He  then  entered  North- 
field  University,  taking  the  engineering  courses.  After  graduation  he 
was  employed  in  telegraph  line  construction,  spent  two  and  a  half 
years  with  the  St.  Albans  Locomotive  Works  in  their  shops,  was  in 
charge  of  a  telegraph  station  at  W'aterbury,  Vermont,  filling  all  these 
positions  prior  to  his  coming  to  Lowell  in  1885.  His  first  position  in 
Lowell  was  as  engineer  with  the  Lawrence  Corporation,  but  shortly 
after  his  coming  he  formed  an  association  with  the  Lowell  Creamery, 
which  continued  for  about  nine  years,  being  superintendent  during 
the  last  seven  years  of  that  engagement.    The  following  two  years  he 


396  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

was  engaged  in  the  restaurant  business  in  Lowell,  with  a  fair  degree  of 
success. 

In  1903  he  founded  the  New  England  Electric  and  Supply  Cor- 
poration, beginning  business  in  a  single  room  at  No.  14  Cabot  street. 
The  following  year  he  moved  to  No.  249  Market  street,  but  the  busi- 
ness soon  outgrew  that  location  and  was  moved  to  No.  231  Dutton 
street,  there  remaining  three  years  before  being  removed  to  its  pres- 
ent location.  No.  261  Dutton  street,  a  four  story  brick  building  which 
the  corporation  purchased  in  1913,  the  entire  building  being  occupied 
as  store,  display  and  stock  rooms.  The  Central  street  store  was 
opened  in  1912.  Mr.  Collins  is  a  thorough  master  of  his  business, 
bringing  to  it  the  knowledge  and  training  of  an  engineer,  the  mechani- 
cal skill  of  an  expert,  and  the  business  ability  of  the  merchant.  He  is 
a  large  dealer  in  plumbing  and  electrical  supplies,  and  among  the 
buildings  which  he  has  supplied  can  be  mentioned :  The  Chalifoux, 
the  John  Pilling  Shoe  Company,  Federal  Shoe  Company,  the  Mann 
School,  Massachusetts  Cotton  Mills,  American  Hide  and  Leather 
Company,  Samson  Stair  Company,  Blossom  Street  Baptist  Church, 
Spaulding  Shoe  Company,  Merrimack  Manufacturing  Company,  Boot 
Mills,  Lowell  Paper  Tube,  Northern  Street  Baptist  Church,  Paige 
Street  Baptist  Church,  Merrimack  Clothing  Company,  Hamilton 
Restaurant,  Putnam  Clothing  Company,  A.  G.  Pallard  Company,  city 
of  Lowell  High  School,  City  Hall  building,  C.  L  Hood  Company, 
Lowell  jail,  Chelmsford  Street  Hospital,  Lowell  General  Hospital  and 
the  Shaw  Stocking  Company.  Mr.  Collins  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  for  one  term  was  a  member  of  Council  from  the  First  Ward.  He 
was  offered  a  renomination,  but  refused  to  accept,  his  business  de- 
manding his  time.  He  is  a  member  of  Ancient  York  Lodge,  Free  and 
Accepted  Masons,  is  past  grand  of  Merrimack  Lodge,  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  Lowell ;  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Associa- 
tion ;  Lowell  Board  of  Trade ;  and  Worthen  Street  Baptist  Church. 

Mr.  Collins  married  Amelia  A.  Gushing,  daughter  of  Richard  R. 
Gushing,  a  contractor.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Collins  are  the  parents  of  a  son, 
Harold  G.  Collins,  now  associated  in  business  with  his  father.  He 
married  Nvnctte  Sunlard,  l)orn  in  Bordeau.x,  I'^rance. 


FRANCIS  EDWARD  APPLETON. 

A  civil  engineer  by  profession,  Mr.  Appleton,  until  1890,  devoted 
himself  to  the  duties  of  that  profession  exclusively  save  during  the 
years  1878  and  1880,  but  from  1882  he  has  been  in  the  employ  of  The 
Locks  and  Canals  Corporatinii  of  Lowell,  his  present  position  being 
purchasing  agent.  He  is  a  son  of  F.dward  and  Frances  Anne  (.Atkin- 
son) Apijlcton,  his  father  a  ci\il  engineer  in  railroad  service. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  397 

Francis  Edward  Appleton  was  born  in  Reading,  Massachusetts, 
-May  25,  1853,  there  completing  full  courses  of  public  school  study, 
finishing  with  high  school.  He  then  became  a  student  at  Worcester 
Polytechnic  Institute,  his  work  as  a  civil  engineer  beginning  soon 
after  graduating  from  that  institution  in  1874.  He  continued  an  engi- 
neer until  1890.  but  in  1878  he  was  paymaster  of  a  woolen  mill  at 
Gonic,  New  Hampshire,  and  in  1880  spent  a  year  in  Texas  as  chief 
clerk  in  the  maintenance  of  way  department  of  the  Galveston,  Harris- 
burg  &  San  Antonio  Railroad.  On  January  i,  1890,  he  became  pay- 
master with  the  Locks  and  Canals  Corporation  of  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, continuing  in  that  position  until  December  31,  1916,  then 
becoming  purchasing  agent  for  the  same  corporation,  his  term  of 
service  now  covering  a  period  of  thirty-seven  years  (1920).  For  twenty- 
three  years  he  has  been  a  director  of  the  Lowell  Cooperative  Bank, 
and  since  May,  1914,  has  been  its  vice-president.  In  politics  Mr. 
Appleton  is  a  Republican,  in  religious  connection  is  affiliated  with 
Grace  Universalist  Church.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  order, 
New  England  Water  Works  Association,  Lowell  Historical  Society 
and  the  Societ}-  for  the  Preservation  of  New  England  Antiquities. 

Mr.  Appleton  married,  December  15,  1880,  in  Reading,  Massa- 
chusetts, Sarah  L.  Stoodley,  daughter  of  Major  Nathan  Dame  and 
Rebecca  Allen  (Goldthwait)  Stoodley.  Their  only  child,  Samuel 
Chandler  Appleton,  born  February  14,  1885,  died  May  22,  1885. 

It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  an  Appleton  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  Lowell,  who  in  1821  purchased  from  the  proprietors  of  the  Locks 
and  Canals  on  the  Merrimack  River  the  first  canal  built  by  that  cor- 
poration, known  since  its  completion  in  1796  as  the  Pawtucket  Canal. 
These  men,  founders  of  Lowell  and  purchasers  of  the  canal,  were 
Patrick  T.  Jackson,  Nathan  Appleton  and  Kirk  Boott.  That  was  the 
beginning  of  the  wonderful  system  of  canals  which  furnishes  Lowell 
with  its  splendid  water-power. 


HIRAM  COLDWELL  BROWN. 

After  a  varied  business  career  marked  everywhere  by  a  high 
degree  of  success,  Mr.  Brown  is  now  well  established  in  business  as 
an  undertaker  and  funeral  director,  his  place  of  business.  No.  14  Lor- 
ing  street,  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  He  is  a  son  of  Charles  Brown, 
who  was  born  in  Cornwallis,  Nova  Scotia,  Canada,  and  there  resided 
until  1867.  a  fisherman,  farmer,  carpenter  and  contractor.  In  1867  he 
came  to  the  United  States,  locating  at  Wellesley,  Massachusetts, 
where  he  was  assistant  superintendent  of  the  large  Baker  estate  there. 
He  was  in  charge  of  the  construction  of  several  of  the  artificial  caves 
on  the  estate,  and  connected  with  landscape  gardening,  which  has 


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made  the  estate  famous  in  Massachusetts.  After  leaving  W'ellesley 
he  engaged  in  contracting  and  bridge  building,  doing  work  of  that 
class  in  different  parts  of  New  England  and  neighboring  States.  He 
was  very  successful,  and  in  his  later  years  retired  from  business  and 
owned  farms  in  different  places  which  he  cultivated.  In  this  way  he 
lived  at  Pelham,  New  Hampshire ;  Dracut,  Massachusetts,  and  other 
places.  He  died  at  the  home  of  his  daughter  in  Somersworth,  New 
Hampshire.  He  married  Elizabeth  Bennet,  in  Cornwallis.  Nova 
Scotia,  who  died  in  Jersey  City,  New  Jersey,  and  they  were  the  par- 
ents of  Hiram  Coldwell,  of  whom  further ;  Charles  Brown  was  a  son 
of  Charles  Brown,  born  near  Cornwallis,  Nova  Scotia,  Canada,  a  fish- 
erman there  for  many  years.  The  Browns  are  of  English  ancestry, 
the  first  comers  settling  in  Nova  Scotia. 

Hiram  Coldwell  Brown  was  born  at  Wellesley,  [Massachusetts, 
July  25,  1867.  His  father's  business  took  him  to  dift'erent  parts  of  the 
Eastern  States,  consecjuently  his  education  was  obtained  in  widely 
separated  schools ;  East  Boston,  Massachusetts ;  Goff's  Falls,  New 
Hampshire ;  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and  Dracut,  Massachu- 
setts. After  his  father  began  farming,  Hiram  C.  Brown  became  his 
assistant  on  the  farm  in  Dracut,  Massachusetts,  and  Pelham,  New 
Hampshire,  following  agriculture  for  eight  years.  In  1892  he  located 
in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  became  a  clerk  and  manager  of  markets, 
produce  and  grocery  business,  so  continuing  for  ten  years  until  1902 
when  he  established  in  business  for  himself,  conducting  a  grocery  and 
market  very  successfully  until  1914.  He  then  sold  his  business  and 
entered  upon  a  course  of  study  at  the  New  England  Institute  of 
Anatomy,  where  he  completed  a  course  in  modern  methods  of  em- 
balming, graduating  and  receiving  his  diploma,  October  3,  1914.  He 
passed  the  Massachusetts  Board  of  Examiners  for  Embalmers,  Octo- 
l)er  7,  1914,  and  was  licensed  by  the  New  Hampshire  State  Board, 
July  14,  1916.  He  later  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  undertaking 
business  of  J.  B.  Curry  on  Branch  street,  Lowell.  On  September, 
1917,  this  partnership  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Brown  retiring  and  estab- 
lishing in  the  same  business  at  No.  345  Westford  street.  Lowell,  there 
remaining  until  September  i,  1918,  when  he  moved  his  undertaking 
rooms  to  No.  14  Loring  street,  where  he  has  built  a  chapel  and  com- 
plete modern  mortuary  establishment,  unrivalled  in  the  city.  Mr. 
Brown  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  an  attendant  on  the  services  of 
Trinitarian  Congregational  Church,  and  is  a  member  of  all  bodies  of 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  including  Highland  Lodge, 
Daughters  of  Rebekah.  Centreville  Lodge,  No.  215,  Pilgrim  Encamp- 
ment, and  Canton  Pawtucket,  Patriarchs  Militant.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber uf  Lowell  Lodge,  No.  8,  Royal  .Vrcanum.  and  Greenhalge  Council. 


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Mr.  Brown  is  a  successful  business  man,  honorable  and  upright  in 
his  dealings,  and  is  a  strong  believer  in  the  "square  deal."  lie  has  a 
good  business  which  extends  far  beyond  city  limits,  a  great  many  of 
his  calls  coming  from  Pelham,  New  Hampshire,  and  surrounding  New 
Hampshire  towns.  Pelham  is  one  of  his  boyhood  homes  and  there  he 
was  for  several  years  his  father's  farm  assistant.  All  this  has  brought 
him  a  wide  circle  of  friends  and  to  these  he  continually  adds,  his  pleas- 
ing personality  attracting,  his  honorable,  upright  business  methods 
retaining  the  friends  he  makes  on  every  hand. 

Mr.  Brown  married,  at  Lowell,  April  22,  1896,  Mary  Francis 
Thorne,  born  in  Lowell,  daughter  of  John  and  Sarah  (Hill)  Thorne, 
her  parents  both  born  in  England.  John  Thorne,  an  expert  carder, 
was  long  employed  in  English  woolen  mills,  then  came  to  the  United 
States  and  was  in  charge  of  the  carding  room  at  the  Brookside  Mills 
in  West  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts.  His  home  was  in  North  Chelms- 
ford, where  he  and  his  wife,  Sarah  (Hill)  Thorne,  died. 


WALTER  HENRY  RICKEY. 

For  many  years  district  superintendent  of  the  Bay  State  Railroad 
Company,  but  since  April,  1918,  operating  manager  of  the  B.  F.  Good- 
rich Rubber  Company,  Mr.  Hickey  is  reaping  the  reward  of  his  years 
of  able  effort  in  subordinate  position.  Promotion  did  not  come  un- 
deserved, the  years  preceding  having  been  sjjent  in  arduous  position 
impossible  for  a  man  of  ordinary  attainment  to  fill.  He  came  to  the 
position  he  holds  through  a  winding  way,  his  earlier  years  having 
been  spent  in  an  entirely  different  field.  In  addition  he  had  learned 
a  trade,  and  when  the  Bay  State  was  about  to  equip  their  cars  with  the 
air  brake  it  was  to  Mr.  Hickey  they  turned  as  an  expert  on  piping  the 
cars  to  carry  the  air.  He  is  a  son  of  Walter  and  Elizabeth  (Campbell) 
Hickey,  the  former  of  Boston  birth,  the  latter  of  Lowell. 

Walter  Henry  Hickey  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  July 
6,  187S,  and  has  ever  been  a  resident  of  his  native  city.  He  attended 
the  public  school  until  fifteen  years  of  age,  then  became  a  wage-earner, 
his  school  attendance  thereafter  being  confined  to  the  evening  high 
school.  His  first  position  was  with  the  Merrimac  Manufacturing 
Company,  of  Lowell,  his  first  work  being  performed  in  the  bleach 
house.  He  did  not  long  remain  with  the  Merrimac  Company,  going 
next  to  the  Lawrence  Manufacturing  Company  as  a  yarn  weigher. 
For  two  years  he  continued  in  that  department,  then  decided  to  learn 
a  trade.  He  became  an  apprentice  in  the  ])ipe  shop  of  the  Lawrence 
Company,  and  for  four  years  he  continued  in  that  department,  acquir- 
ing a  good  knowledge  of  cotton  mill  piping  methods.  At  the  end  of 
his  four  years  he  left  the  Lawrence  Company,  securing  a  position  a= 


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piper's  he'per  with  T.  Costello.  Under  Mr.  Costello  he  completed  his 
trade  and  was  pronounced  an  expert  piper,  qiiaHfied  for  any  piper's 
jjosition.  In  1897  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Bay  State  Railway 
Company  at  the  Lowell  power  house,  and  for  two  years  was  engaged 
in  pipe  work  principally  in  and  around  the  engine  room.  In  1899  he 
abandoned  the  engineering  department  for  the  operating  department 
of  that  road,  serving  for  one  year  as  an  extra  conductor,  believing  that 
with  that  start  he  could  rise  to  higher  position.  As  an  extra  he 
attracted  attention  by  his  willingness,  faithfulness,  and  mechanical 
ability,  a  regular  run  being  assigned  him  in  1900.  He  continued  on 
the  rear  platform  three  years,  constantly  gaining  in  experience  and 
knowledge  of  street  railway  problems.  In  1903  Superintendent 
Thomas  called  him  up  and  assigned  him  the  position  of  starter  at 
Lake  View  Park.  During  the  next  fourteen  years  he  was  in  succes- 
sion starter,  operating  foreman,  and  claim  adjuster,  filling  the  last 
named  position  until  October  i,  191 7.  when  he  was  promoted  to  the 
responsible  post  of  district  superintendent,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
until  April,  1918,  when  he  became  connected  with  the  B.  F.  Goodrich 
Rubber  Company.  He  proved  his  ability  and  reliability  in  every  posi- 
tion he  has  ever  held,  and  not  yet  in  the  prime  of  life  he  can  look  for- 
ward to  greater  usefulness.  Mr.  Hickey  is  a  member  of  the  Father 
Mathew  Temperance  Society,  the  Knights  of  Columlnis,  and  the 
Roman  Catholic  church. 

Mr.  Hickey  married,  October  8,  1908,  Eleanor  E.  Calvin,  of  Hud- 
son, New  Hampshire,  a  woman  of  strong  character  and  womanly 
grace  and  a  true  helpmeet.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hickey  are  the  parents  of 
tme  daughter. 


PATRICK  KELLEY. 


At  the  age  of  eighty-one  years,  Patrick  Kelley's  useful  life  ended, 
a  life  which  began  in  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  fifty-eight  of  those  years 
having  been  spent  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  Patrick  Kelley  was 
born  June  10,  1837,  and  until  i860  resided  in  his  native  Ireland.  In 
that  year  he  came  to  the  L^nited  States,  coming  direct  to  Lowell,  his 
first  employment  being  the  sawing  of  a  cord  of  stovewood.  He  was 
next  employed  by  a  farmer,  but  only  for  a  short  time,  the  owner  of 
the  farm  being  Phineas  Whiting.  He  finally  secured  work  with  the 
Bigelow  Carpet  Works  and  lemained  with  that  compau}'  eighteen 
months,  until  the  Civil  War  resulted  in  the  closing  of  the  carpet 
works.  For  the  next  five  years  he  was  employed  as  coachman  by 
Isaac  Farrington,  a  wealthy  manufacturer  of  West  Chelmsford.  In 
1867  he  began  working  for  C.  B.  Coburn  &  Company,  as  teamster,  re- 
maining   two    years,    when    his    former    employer,    Mr.    Farrington, 


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secured  fci  him  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  storeroom  of  the  Talbot 
Dye  Works,  manufacturers  of  chemicals,  now  on  Market  street, 
Lowell,  located  at  that  time  in  North  Billerica.  He  remained  there 
two  years,  and  in  the  meantime  had  been  appointed  a  special  police 
officer,  on  duty  Sundays  and  holidays.  After  leaving  the  dye  works 
he  was  appointed  to  the  police  force  on  full  time,  and  for  twelve  years 
he  served  the  city  well.  In  1880  he  started  a  bottling  business  on 
Middle  street,  and  later  the  firm  of  Patrick  Kelley  &  Company  was 
organized,  and  located  at  Nos.  19-27  Davidson  street,  from  which  he 
retired  in  favor  of  his  son.  Thomas  F.  Kelley.  Mr.  Kelley  was  a  char- 
ter member  of  Lowell  Lodge,  No.  87,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks;  member  of  the  Immaculate  Conception  Church;  and  in 
oolitics  was  a  Democrat. 

Mr.  Kelley  married,  December  2~,  1871,  Julia  .\.  Comnierford. 
who  died  December  28,  1903.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kelley  had  children:  1. 
Mary  Ellen,  born  December  i,  1872,  died  January  27,  1873.  2.  Rich- 
ard L.,  born  December  22,  1876,  died  May  4,  1890.  3.  Josephine,  born 
March  15,  1878,  died  August  18,  1883.  4.  Thomas  F.,  born  February 
13,  1881.     Mr.  Kelley  died  July  23,  1918,  at  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 


JAMES  E.  DONNELLY. 

James  E.  Donnelly  was  born  in  the  City  of  Lowell,  and  educated 
in  its  public  schools.  After  leaving  school,  for  many  years  Mr.  Don- 
nelly was  associated  in  business  with  his  father,  John  J.  Donnelly, 
who  was  engaged  in  the  horseshoeing  business  in  Lowell.  Under  the 
old  form  of  city  government,  Mr.  Donnelly  served  the  city  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  committee,  and  for  many  years  as  purchasing  agent. 
Under  the  present  form  of  government,  the  commission  form,  he  has 
held  the  office  of  commissioner  of  finance,  commissioner  of  streets  and 
highways,  and  commissioner  of  public  property  and  licenses,  and  is 
at  present  the  commissioner  of  finance.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  the  Young  Men's  Catholic  Institute,  the  .Xn- 
cient  Order  of  Hibernians,  the  Foresters  of  America,  and  the  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.     His  club  is  the  .Alpine. 


SAMUEL  GRIFFIN  PARKER. 

During  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  a  boy  named  Josiah  Parker 
stood  afar  off  watching  the  unequal  conflict.  The  boy  who  watched 
this  momentous  struggle  was  but  eleven  years  old,  and  the  home  in 
which  he  lived  was  one  of  four  hundred  which  was  destroyed  at  that 
time.     Shortlv  after  this  he.  with  his  parents,  moved  to  Wilton,  New 


402  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

Hampshire.  Samuel  Griffin,  another  hid  of  but  sixteen  years  of  age, 
played  a  man's  part  with  the  sturdy  patrints  wlio  defied  the  British 
regulars  at  Breed's  Hill.  This  Samuel  (iiiftin  wa-  the  father  of  Sophia 
Griffin,  who  later  married  Josiah  Parker,  the  third  of  the  name,  and 
the  son  of  the  boy,  Josiah  Parker,  who  watched  the  historic  battle  as 
recorded. 

Josiah  and  Sophia  (Griffin)  Parker  were  the  parents  of  Samuel 
Griffin  Parker,  to  whose  memory  of  an  honorable,  upright.  Christian 
life  this  review  is  dedicated.  Seventy-nine  years  was  the  term  allotted 
to  Samuel  Griffin  Parker,  and  at  its  close  but  one  sentiment  was  ex- 
pressed by  those  who  knew  him  :  "A  good  man  has  gone  to  his  re- 
ward." A  more  unselfish  life  was  never  lived,  nor  one  more  beauti- 
fully exemplifying  the  scriptural  description,  "diligent  in  business, 
fervent  in  spirit,  serving  the  Lord."  His  home  was  his  only  club,  and 
there  was  his  greatest  joy.  He  was  most  kindly  in  heart  and  very 
hos})i  table. 

Samuel  Griffin  Parker  was  born  in  Nelson.  New  Hampshire, 
March  i8,  1820.  and  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts.  January  9.  1899. 
Josiah  Parker,  his  grandfather,  had  removed  from  Charlestown.  Mas- 
sachusetts, to  Wilton,  New  Hampshire,  and  there  his  son.  Josiah  (3) 
Parker,  was  born,  and  later  moved  to  Nelson,  where  he  married  Sophia 
Griffin,  of  Nelson,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  eleven  sons  and 
daughters.  Samuel  Griffin  Parker,  one  of  the  eldest  of  these  children, 
grew  up  at  the  home  farm  in  Nelson,  but  when  he  was  eleven  years  of 
age  his  father  liecame  an  invalid,  and  a  few  years  later  died,  leaving 
the  farm  heavily  mortgaged.  1  his  threw  a  heavy  responsibility  upon 
the  boy,  but  right  manfully  he  assumed  it  and  nobly  did  he  adminis- 
ter the  trust.  He  attended  the  district  school  as  much  as  possible,  but 
from  the  age  of  eleven  was  his  father's  chief  assistant,  and  very  soon 
his  successor.  He  remained  at  Imme  with  his  mother  until  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  managing  the  farm  with  such  skill  and  liending  to  his 
task  with  so  m.uch  energy  of  purpose  that  he  paid  off  all  indebtedness 
formerly  resting  upon  the  old  home.  Then  relincjuishing  his  interest 
in  favor  of  his  mother,  he  started  out  into  the  world  a  strong,  well- 
developed,  self-reliant  young  man  of  twenty-one.  In  addition  to  pay- 
ing off  the  mortgage,  the  young  man  had  saved  four  hundred  dollars  in 
cash,  and  with  that  as  capital  he  came  to  Lowell,  Mas.sachusetts,  and 
began  his  career  as  a  business  man.  His  only  experience  in  business 
had  been  in  connection  with  his  farming  operations,  but  he  possessed 
the  business  instinct  and  was  able  to  meet  and  deal  with  the  nmst  ex- 
perienced. Naturally  he  chose  the  line  of  activity  with  which  he  had 
the  closest  acquaintance,  his  first  venture  being  in  the  wholesale  meat 
business.  This  prospered  and  soon  he  was  buying  and  selling  real 
estate,  conducting  both  lines  successfully  for  a  number  of  years.     In 


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1857  he  extended  his  operations  by  purchasing  an  interest  in  a  Boston 
plant  which  manufactured  soda  water.  That  business,  which  later 
grew  to  immense  proportions,  was  then  in  its  infancy,  the  Boston  fac- 
tory in  which  Mr.  Parker  was  interested  being  the  first  manufactory 
of  soda  water  in  the  United  States  as  well  as  in  Euroi)e.  His  interest 
in  that  enterprise  was  very  profitable  and  he  shortly  became  the  sole 
owner.  He  also  became  the  part  owner  of  the  Indian  Head  Hotel  at 
Nashua,  Xew  Hampshire,  and  for  a  time  was  its  manager.  He  con- 
tinued his  real  estate  dealing,  becoming  a  large  owner  of  Lowell  prop- 
erty. 

"Sir.  Parker  decided  that  a  good  profit  was  awaiting  the  man  who 
had  the  courage  to  try,  and  the  ability  to  transact  an  export  business 
in  apples,  and  perfecting  his  arrangements  he  shipped  the  first  con- 
signment of  the  fruit  ever  sent  from  this  country  to  England.  Re- 
frigeration was  then  an  imperfect  art  and  shipments  were  made  only 
in  winter,  but  for  several  years  he  continued  in  the  business  with 
satisfactory  results  to  himself,  adding  a  new  industry  which  has  since 
resulted  most  profitably  to  fruit  growers  in  all  sections  of  the  country. 
So  his  life  was  passed,  industry  being  ever  its  dominating  character- 
istic. The  success  he  achieved  was  fairly  won,  and  in  the  accumula- 
tion of  his  fortune  no  man  was  prevented  from  exercising  his  every 
right,  no  governmental  favor  was  obtained,  nor  any  man  pulled  down 
that  he  might  rise.  He  dealt  fairly  and  honorably  with  all  and  de- 
manded only  his  own.  He  was  offered  directorships  in  banks,  but 
always  refused,  saying:  "I  do  not  want  the  responsibility  of  handling 
other  people's  money."  He  attended  Kirk  Street  Congregational 
Church,  Lowell,  and  in  politics  was  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Parker  married,  in  1846,  Sarah  Stevens,  of  Mount  \'ernon, 
Xew  Hampshire,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Tabitha  (Sawyer)  Stevens, 
her  father  a  native  of  Chelmsford,  Massachusetts,  his  parents  moving 
to  Stoddard,  Xew  Hampshire,  when  he  was  two  years  of  age,  settling 
on  land  patented  to  them  while  it  was  still  virgin  forest  by  the  State. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parker  were  the  parents  of  four  daughters,  of  whom  two 
survive,  .Alice  C.  and  Lina  S.  Parker,  who  reside  in  Lowell,  their 
home  being  at  X'o.  57  Belmont  avenue. 


ARTHUR  J.  GAGNON,  D.  D.  S. 

Dr.  .\rthur  J.  Gagnon,  now  engaged  in  the  practice  of  dentistry  in 
the  city  of  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  was  born  at  St.  Ursule,  Province  of 
Quebec,  Canada,  July  12,  1868,  a  son  of  Boniface  and  Judith  (Bran- 
chaud)  Gagnon.  His  father  was  a  merchant  of  Three  Rivers,  Canada. 
He  received  a  high  school  and  college  education,  and  after  obtaining 
his  degree,  began  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  Lowell  in  1886.     In  that 


404  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

profession  he  has  conliiiued  without  interruption  for  thirty-three 
years.  He  has  been  very  successful.  Dr.  Gagnon  is  a  memlier  of  the 
Vesper  Country,  the  Martin  Luther,  the  Yorick  and  Lafavette  clubs, 
and  the  C.  M.  A.  C. 

Dr.   Gagnon   married,  July   26,    lyoo,   in   Lowell.   Hermine   Bella- 


WILLIAM  STEUBEN  SOUTHWORTH. 

With  the  passing  of  William  S.  Southworth,  at  Tampa,  Florida, 
after  an  illness  of  but  two  days,  the  textile  industry  of  New  England 
lost  one  of  its  best  known  mill  agents,  the  city  of  Lowell  lost  a  citizen 
of  honor  and  uprightness,  the  mill  workers  of  the  city  lost  a  true, 
loyal  and  sympathetic  friend.  Mr.  Southworth  was  one  of  the  most 
successful  textile  manufacturers  in  New  England,  not  only  because 
he  had  the  practical  knowledge  of  manufacturing,  but  because  he 
was  a  hard  worker,  and  he  understood  men.  He  enjoyed  working  out 
manufacturing  i)nil)lenis.  Ahtch  of  his  work  he  did  long  after  the 
day's  schedule  was  ended  for  tlie  operatives.  Few  knew  the  earnest- 
ness of  his  eii(lca\(ir.  In  his  dealings  with  employees,  Mr.  South- 
worth  was  u^^ually  able  to  strike  a  balance,  he  saw  their  side  as  well 
as  that  of  the  mill  owntrs,  and  because  he  was  able  to  get  their  view- 
point he  enjo\ed  tlirir  isteem  and  confidence,  and  out  of  such  rela- 
tions came  one  (if  the  finest  and  most  effective  organizations  known  to 
American  textile  manufacturing.  He  was  exact,  and  he  sought  that 
virtue  in  others.  He  was  fair  in  his  business  dealings,  and  in  time  the 
Massachusetts  cotton  mills,  under  his  direction,  obtained  a  reputation 
for  production  excelled  by  ncine.  It  was  but  natural  with  such  leader- 
ship that  expansion  should  cinne,  and  the  Massachusetts  Cotton  Mills 
not  only  developed  wonderfully  in  Lowell,  but  the  new  mills  started 
in  Lindale,  Georgia,  under  the  same  management  prospered  as 
much  as  those  in  Lowell.  Modern  methods  in  both  plants,  together 
with  well-paid  and  satisfied  emplo}-ees,  contributed  to  the  success  of 
the  Massachusetts  activities.  That  he  shared  the  esteem  of  employees 
as  well  as  of  mill  owners  was  evidenced  at  the  time  of  Mr.  South- 
worth's  retirement  by  the  following: 

We,  the  undersigned  employees  of  the  Massachusetts  Cotton 
Mills,  learning  with  unfeigned  regret  that  you  are  this  day  to  retire 
from  the  position  which  ynu  so  long  and  honorably  filled  as  agent  of 
this  corporation,  tender  t(5  you  with  one  accord  this  manifestation  of 
our  regard  and  esteem.  We,  who  have  worked  with  you,  know  better 
than  others  can  possibly  know  what  your  untiring  services  have 
meant  to  the  Massachusetts  mills,  and  through  them  to  the  city  of 
Lowell.  We,  who  have  been  your  associates,  realize  better  than  any 
others  can   realize   the  full   worth   of  your  personal   character,   your 


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devotion  to  our  common  tasks,  your  kindness ;  in  short,  your  human- 
ity. To  these  we  testify,  trusting  that  you  will  not  misunderstand  or 
be  greatly  displeased,  if  we  mark  this  day  of  parting  with  a  word  of 
heartfelt  praise. 

The  public  at  large  has  marked  the  growth  of  the  Massachusetts 
mills  during  the  twenty-nine  years  of  your  service  as  agent :  but  only 
those  within  can  have  known  what  it  cost  in  hours  of  patient  plan- 
ning, wise  foresight,  courage  and  physical  fatigue.  You,  sir,  have 
erected  a  monument  more  enduring  than  bronze,  and  if  we  others 
have  borne  any  part  therein  it  has  been  under  your  leadership,  and 
under  the  constant  inspiration  of  your  example.  We  regret  your  de- 
])arture  from  our  common  labors,  but  we  are  sure  that  twenty-nine 
years  of  your  service  will  prove  as  important  to  the  future  of  these 
mills  as  they  have  been  to  their  past,  and  with  full  hearts  we  wish  you 
long  life,  a  well-earned  rest,  and  every  blessing. 

Mr.  Southworth  was  a  descendant  of  Constant  Southworth,  who 
came  to  Plymouth,  Massachusetts,  in  1620;  John  Alden,  Plymouth, 
1620;  Thomas  Tolman,  of  Dorchester,  1630;  Richard  Kent,  Ipswich, 
1634.  He  was  a  son  of  Gustavus  W.  Southworth,  born  Septemijcr  16, 
181 1,  the  third  son  of  Gordon  B.  and  Abigail  Southworth,  of  Dorset, 
Vermont.  Gustavus  W.  Southworth  married  (second)  January  28, 
1845,  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  Susan  Jane  Alden,  born  in  Baltimore,  Mary- 
land, November  3,  1819,  seventh  child  of  Jonathan  and  Mehitable 
Alden,  of  that  city.  Gustavus  W.  Southworth  died  .\ugust  30,  1854, 
his  widow  November  28,  1861.  Gordon  B.  Southworth  was  a  son  of 
Joshua  (2),  son  of  Joshua  (i),  son  of  Nathaniel,  son  of  William,  son 
of  Constant  Southworth,  the  American  ancestor  of  the  family  who 
came  in  1620. 

William  S.  Southworth,  son  of  Gustavus  W.  and  Susan  Jane 
(Alden)  Southworth,  was  born  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  17, 
1849,  did  in  the  city  of  Tampa,  Florida,  February  11,  1919.  He  was 
named  after  an  uncle  who,  in  1849,  was  made  agent  of  the  Lawrence 
Manufacturing  Company  of  Lowell,  a  fact  which  greatly  influenced 
the  lad's  after-life.  Until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age  he  followed  the 
fortunes  of  his  parents,  and  in  turn  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Kenosha,  W^isconsin ;  Newmarket,  New  Hampshire;  and  Nahant. 
Massachusetts.  He  came  to  Lowell,  in  1864,  and  was  given  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Lawrence  Manufacturing  Company  as  ofifice  boy  in  their 
counting  room.  Two  years  later  he  entered  the  offices  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  locks  and  canals,  continued  in  the  engineering  department 
of  that  organization  until  1876,  with  the  exception  of  two  years  as  a 
printer  and  assistant  editor  on  the  Lowell  "Courier."  Two  years, 
1876-78,  were  spent  as  assistant  clerk  in  the  Massachusetts  House  of 
Representrtives.  and  five  years  with  George  Draper  &  Sons,  builders 
of    cotton    mill    machinery   at   Hopedale,    Massachusetts.      There    he 


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gained  the  practical  mill  experience  which  later  was  of  great  value  in 
the  rehabilitation  and  expansion  of  the  Massachusetts  Cotton  Wills, 
to  which  he  came  in  1882  as  superintendent,  Frank  H.  Battles  then 
being  superintendent.  On  Mr.  Battle's  retirement,  in  1889,  Mr.  South- 
worth  was  appointed  agent,  and  for  twenty-two  years  he  continued  at 
the  head  of  the  Massachusetts  Cotton  Mills,  resigning  May  31,  191 1. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  Mr.  Southworth  was  president  of  the 
Lowell  Five  Cents  Savings  Bank ;  a  director  of  the  Shaw  Stocking 
Company  ;  and  a  trustee  of  the  Lowell  Cemetery  Association.  He  had 
been  a  director  of  the  Railroad  National  Bank  until  its  merger,  and 
was  an  ex-treasurer  of  the  Lowell  Hospital  Association.  He  was  long 
an  honored  member  of  the  New  England  Cotton  Manufacturers'  Asso- 
ciation, and  of  Kirk  Street  Congregational  Church.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican,  but  with  strongly  developed  independent  tendencies. 
He  was  interested  in  man_\-  worthy  causes  and  was  most  generous  and 
helpful. 

Mr.  Southworth  married,  November  20,  1871,  Ella  Frances  Emer- 
son, who  died  January  8,  1917.  They  had  no  children.  In  his  will  Mr. 
Southworth  generously  remembered  those  institutions  whose  work 
had  appealed  to  him  in  life:  The  Lowell  Boy's  Club,  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  the  Young  Women's  Christian  Association  ;  all 
sharing  in  his  bounty. 

THE  TRADERS'  AND  MECHANICS'  INSURANCE  COMPANY 
(MUTUAL) 

This  oompan)-  was  incorporated  as  a  mutual  company  and  was  so 
conducted  until  1S34,  when  a  stock  department  was  added.  It  was 
run  as  a  joint  stock  and  mutual  company  until  1881,  when  capital  and 
surplus  was  divided  among  the  shareholders,  and  only  the  mutual 
business  continued.  The  company  has  paid  losses  up  to  January  i, 
1917,  aggregating  $2,671,588.22,  and  pays  dividemls  on  all  ex]iiring 
policies,  having  paid  as  high  as  seventy  per  cent,  return  premiums  on 
five-year  policies,  fifty  per  cent,  on  three-year  and  thirty  per  cent,  on 
one-year  policies.  The  present  treasurer  of  the  company,  Edward  M. 
Tucke,  is  a  son  of  Edward  Tucke,  who  for  fifteen  years  was  president 
of  the  old  Lowell  National  Bank.  Office  of  the  treasurer.  Room  24. 
No.  53  Central  street. 

The  present  officers  are :  President,  Nicholas  G.  Norcross ;  secre- 
tary and  treasurer,  E.  M.  Tucke  ;  assistant  secretary,  Edward  W.  Brig- 
ham.  Directors :  Nicholas  G.  Norcross,  George  S.  Motley,  Franklin 
Nourse,  Walter  H.  Howe,  Frank  P.  Putnam,  Frank  E.  Dunbar.  F,.  M 
Tucke,  Percy  Parker,  Tyler  A.  Stevens. 


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JOHN  J.  O'CONNELL. 

For  fifteen  years  Mr.  O'Coiinell  has  been  engaged  in  the  under- 
taking business  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  the  present  firm  name, 
O'Connell  &  Fay.  To  a  high  reputation  as  a  business  man  he  adds 
years  of  public  service  in  both  city  and  State  legislative  bodies,  during 
which  he  has  compiled  an  honorable  record.  He  is  very  popular  and 
influential  in  city  politics,  one  of  the  local  leaders  of  the  Democracy. 
John  J.  O'Connell  is  a  son  of  Timothy  and  Mary  A.  (Finnegan) 
O'Connell,  his  father  born  in  County  Cork,  his  mother  born  in  Lim- 
erick, Ireland.  They  moved  to  County  Kerry,  where  Mr.  O'Connell 
was  a  farmer  the  remainder  of  his  days,  and  there  both  died.  Timo- 
thy and  Mary  A.  (Finnegan)  O'Connell  were  the  parents  of  eleven 
children,  eight  sons  and  three  daughters.  Three  of  the  sons  came  to 
the  United  States :  Timothy,  who  after  a  few  years  in  Lowell  went 
West  and  there  died;  John  J.,  of  further  mention;  and  Michael,  a 
member  of  Lowell's  police  force. 

John  J.  O'Connell  was  born  in  the  village  of  Brosna.  County 
Kerry,  Ireland,  February  7,  1863,  and  there  spent  the  first  seventeen 
years  of  his  life.  He  came  to  the  United  States  in  1880,  a  passenger 
on  the  then  largest  passenger  steamship  afloat,  "The  City  of  Berlin," 
arriving  at  New  York  City.  He  soon  found  his  way  to  Lowell,  Mas- 
sachusetts, where  he  was  for  a  time  a  mill  employee,  but  later  secured 
a  position  with  the  city  department  of  streets.  Later,  and  for  eleven 
years,  he  was  proprietor  of  a  cafe  in  Lowell,  selling  out  in  1903,  and 
engaging  in  the  undertaking  business  as  a  member  of  the  firm,  O'Con- 
nell &  Cashman.  Their  undertaking  rooms  were  first  on  Lawrence 
street,  later  on  Central  street,  and  since  1908  at  No.  658  Gorham  street. 
O'Connell  &  Cashman  were  succeeded  by  O'Connell  &  Mack,  and  the 
latter  by  the  present  partnership,  O'Connell  &  Fay.  The  firm  enjoys 
a  high  reputation,  and  is  highly  regarded  as  honoral^le.  upright  busi- 
ness men. 

Mr.  O'Connell  affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party  after  becom- 
ing a  citizen,  and  has  always  taken  an  active  part  in  public  aflfairs, 
both  as  an  interested  citizen  and  public  official.  In  1903  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  City  Common  Council  to  fill  out  the  unex- 
pired term  of  John  Grady,  and  in  1904  was  elected  to  succeed  himself. 
He  sat  in  the  first  council  to  occupy  their  quarters  in  the  new  City 
Hall,  John  J.  Pickman  then  being  mayor.  In  1916  he  was  elected  to 
represent  the  Sixteenth  Middlesex  District  in  the  State  Legislature, 
his  committee  appointment  being  State  house  and  library.  For  five 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Democratic  executive  committee  for 
Ward  Four,  and  in  1917  he  was  elected  a  delegate  to  the  Massachu- 
setts Constitutional  Convention  to  serve  two  years,  being  a  member 


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of  the  sperial  committee  of  the  convention  State  finances.  In  rehgious 
faith  Mr.  O'Connell  is'  a  member  of  Sacred  Heart  Roman  CathoHc 
Church.  He  is  a  member  of  Court  Merrimack,  Foresters  of  America ; 
Division  No.  i,  Ancient  Order  of  Hibernians;  Lowell  Aerie,  Fraternal 
Order  of  Eagles ;  Lowell  Lodge,  No.  87,  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks ;  Ward  Four  Improvement  Association ;  Harmony 
Club ;  and  The  Bunting  Cricket  Association. 

Mr.  O'Connell  married,  February  22,  i8y2,  Mary  A.  Walsh,  born 
in  Lowell,  daughter  of  Redmond  Walsh.  The  family  home  is  at  No. 
61  Newhall  street. 


WILL  T.  S.  BARTLETT. 


Mr.  Bartlett  has  had  nearly  forty  years  experience  in  the  hard- 
ware business,  comes  from  an  old  New  England  family,  is  a  member 
of  the  Pawtucket  Congregational  Church,  belongs  to  the  Red  Men, 
Sons  of  Veterans,  is  president  of  the  Lowell  Paper  Tube  Corporation, 
and  is  actively  interested  in  numerous  manufacturing  enterprises. 
He  was  born  April  19,  1867,  in  the  mill  district  of  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts, receiving  his  education  in  the  public  schools,  and  at  an  early 
age  was  obliged  to  earn  his  keep,  working  in  the  mills.  Early  in  1883 
he  entered  the  hardware  business,  and  since  then  has  devoted  all  his 
energies  to  the  promotion  and  development  of  this  business  until 
to-day  he  is  the  dean  of  the  dealers  of  Lowell,  and  has  a  well  appointed 
and  large  stocked  store.  In  1895  he  succeeded  to  a  business  that  had 
been  established  since  1826.  Mr.  Bartlett  is  a  man  of  genial  energy, 
strong  convictions,  resourceful,  aggressive  and  progressive,  faithful 
and  conscientious.  At  one  time  in  his  early  life  he  was  active  in  mili- 
tary affairs,  serving  three  years  in  Company  D,  Second  Corps  Cadets, 
Massachusetts  State  Militia.  In  politics  he  is  a  progressive  Repub- 
lican. 

On  September  9,  1897,  he  was  married  to  Alice  M.  Colton,  daugh- 
ter of  Dr.  John  Jay  and  Czarina  C  (V'arnum)  Colton,  and  they  are  the 
parents  of  two  children:  Winthrop  C,  born  July  19,  1898,  and 
Czarina  V  ,  born  March  2,  1914. 


CHARLES  HENRY  MOLLOY. 

When  gathered  to  his  fathers  in  1916,  Charles  H.  MoUoy  left  two 
able  sons  to  continue  the  business  he  founded  in  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, and  when  his  country  called,  the  elder  brother  responded,  and  is 
now  in  France,  the  younger  brother  continuing  the  business.  Charles 
Henry  MoUoy  was  a  son  of  James  Molloy,  born  in  Ireland,  who  came 
to  the  United  States  when  a  young  man,  and  settled  in  Georgetown, 


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Massachusetts,  where  for  many  years  he  was  a  prosperous  farmer, 
highly  respected.  After  retirement  he  moved  to  Haverhill,  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  died.  He  married  Bridget  McGrath,  born  in  Ireland, 
who  died  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts.  They  were  the  parents  of 
Charles  Henry  Molloy,  now  deceased,  who  for  twenty-one  years  was 
engaged  in  the  undertaking  business  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

Charles  Henry  Molloy  was  born  in  Georgetown,  Massachusetts, 
June  8,  1861,  and  died  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  December  7,  1916. 
His  youth  was  spent  at  the  farm  in  Georgetown,  his  education  secured 
in  the  schools  of  that  town  and  Haverhill,  Massachusetts.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  was  employed  for  a  time  in  Georgetown  mills,  later 
went  to  Boston,  where  he  was  employed  until  1893,  coming  to  Lowell 
in  that  year.  During  his  first  years  in  Lowell,  he  was  employed  in 
an  undertaking  establishment,  then  on  July  i,  1895,  began  business 
under  his  own  name  at  No.  343  Market  street,  there  conducting  a 
successful  business  as  an  undertaker  and  funeral  director  until  his 
death,  twenty-one  years  later.  He  was  a  good  business  man,  energetic 
and  upright,  conducting  his  business  along  modern  lines,  and  stood 
high  among  his  contemporaries.  The  business  he  founded  is  now  con- 
ducted by  his  sons,  Joseph  A.  and  Leo  C.  Molloy,  under  the  firm  name, 
Charles  H.  Molloy's  Sons,  located  at  the  old  number,  343  Market 
street,  Lowell. 

Mr.  Molloy  was  a  Democrat  in  politics,  very  active  in  the  party, 
and  prominent  in  the  public  life  of  his  city.  In  1903  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen,  and  in  1905  was  reelected.  He 
sat  as  a  delegate  in  many  party  conventions,  and  was  one  of  the 
acknowledged  leaders  of  the  party  in  Lowell.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  church ;  a  past  exalted  ruler  of  Lowell  Lodge, 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  treasurer  for  nine  years 
until  his  death;  treasurer  of  Lowell  Lodge,  Ancient  Order  of  Hiber- 
nians ;  member  of  the  Catholic  Foresters  of  America ;  Massachusetts 
Catholic  Order  of  Foresters;  and  treasurer  of  Court  Wamesit,  For- 
esters of  .America. 

Mr.  Molloy  married  Catherine  O.  Herlihy.  horn  in  Lawrence. 
Massachusetts,  the  city  in  which  she  now  resides.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  three  children,  all  born  in  Charlestown,  Mas.sachusetts:  i. 
Frances  Claire,  born  May  13,  1888,  married  Elias  J.  McQuade,  of  the 
firm  of  Dickerman  &  McQuade,  of  Lowell ;  they  are  the  parents  of  two 
children:  Martha  and  Elias  (3)  McQuade.  2.  Joseph  Aloysius,  of 
whom  further.    3.  Leo  Charles,  of  whom  further. 

Joseph  Aloysius  Molloy,  the  eldest  son.  was  born  May  25,  1889, 
and  educated  at  St.  Anselms  College,  Manchester,  New  Hampshire. 
He  later  joined  his  father  in  the  undertaking  business  in  Lowell,  and 
upon  the  latter's  death  succeeded  him.    When  war  with  Germany  was 


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imminent  he  enlisted,  being  the  first  business  man  in  Lowell  to  enter 
the  army  as  an  enlisted  man.  He  detailed  a  mounted  orderly  at  the 
army  camn  at  Framingham,  Massachusetts,  was  selected  to  attend  the 
officers'  training  camp  at  Plattsburg,  New  York,  passed  the  course 
successfully,  and  was  commissioned  second  lieutenant  in  the  United 
States  regular  army.  He  was  assigned  to  duty  with  the  Twenty- 
third  Regiment,  United  States  Infantry,  and  with  that  regiment  w-ent 
overseas,  the  Twenty-third  being  one  of  the  first  regiments  of  the 
American  Expeditionary  Forces  arriving  in  September,  1917.  He  has 
seen  hard  service,  his  regiment  having  l)een  in  the  thick  of  a  great 
deal  of  fighting. 

Leo  Charles  Molloy,  the  younger  of  the  two  sons  of  Charles  Henry 
Molloy,  was  born  March  30,  1891.  He  was  educated  at  St.  Anselms 
College,  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and  at  Holy  Cross  College, 
Worcester,  Massachusetts,  finishing  his  studies  at  Holy  Cross  in  191 1, 
and  since  then  he  has  been  associated  with  the  undertaking  business, 
and  with  his  brother,  Joseph  A.,  now  in  France,  constitutes  the  firm 
of  Charles  H.  Molloy 's  Sons,  No.  343  Market  street,  Lowell,  Massa- 
chusetts. In  the  absence  of  his  brother  the  burden  of  management 
falls  upon  the  shoulders  of  the  younger  brother. 


WILLIAM  H.  GOLDSMITH.  JR. 

William  H.   Goldsmith.  Jr.,  is  agent  of  the   Lowell  Shop,  Saco- 
Lowell  Shops,  Lowell.  Massachusetts. 


JAMES  P.  ROBINSON. 

With  the  passing  of  James  P.  Robinson,  founder  of  the  James  P. 
Robinson  Iron  Foundry  of  Lowell,  the  city  lost  one  of  her  loyal  native 
sons  and  veteran  foundrymen,  one  who  from  the  beginning  of  his 
apprenticeship  until  the  rendering  of  his  final  account,  thirty  years 
later,  knew  no  other  interest.  The  business  he  founded  was  also  the 
business  school  of  his  sons.  James  P.,  Jr.,  and  Richard  T.,  who  de- 
veloped an  aptitude  and  skill  under  their  honored  father's  instruction, 
and  when  he  retired  at  the  command  of  the  Master  they  succeeded  to 
the  business,  and  the  James  P.  Robinson  Iron  Foundry  under  their 
management  continues  its  successful  course,  and  each  year  shows  a 
substantial  increase  in  the  volume  of  business  handled. 

James  P.  Robinson  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  Feliruary 
6,  1S65,  and  died  in  the  city  of  his  birth  and  continued  residence.  May 
12,  1912.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  Lowell  until  seventeen 
years  of  age,  leaving  high  school  to  become  a  moulder's  apprentice. 
That  was  in  1882,  his  employer,  William  Edwards,  then  operating  tlie 
Union  Iron  Foundry  in  Lowell.     After  comi)leting  his  a])prenticeship 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  411 

I\Ir.  Robinson  continued  as  journeyman  for  a  few  years,  acquiring 
skill  as  a  moulder  and  becoming  familiar  with  all  the  foundry's  de- 
partments, pattern,  casting  and  finishing.  He  was  ambitious  to  estab- 
lish a  business  under  his  own  name,  conserved  his  resources  carefully, 
and  finally  took  the  decisive  step  by  forming  a  partnershij)  with  his 
brother  Anthony  and  bought  the  Union  Iron  Foundry  from  William 
Edwards.  Robinson  Brothers  made  good  castings,  built  up  a  good 
class  of  patrons  and  prospered.  They  enlarged  as  business  needs  de- 
manded. When  they  dissolved  partnership,  Anthony  Robinson  con- 
tinued the  Union  Iron  Foundry  and  James  P.  Robinson  established  the 
James  P.  Robinson  Iron  Foundry,  in  1908,  and  when  Anthony  Robin- 
son died  he  bought  the  Union  Iron  Foundrj',  operated  it  a  few  years 
and  closed  it  up.  But  the  years  had  given  him  stalwart  sons  to  share 
the  burden,  and  the  business  continued  under  the  new  conditions  as 
the  James  P.  Robinson  Iron  Foundry.  Mr.  Robinson  continued  head 
of  the  business  until  his  last  illness,  then  turned  the  control  over  to 
James  P.,  Jr.,  and  Richard  T.  Robinson,  its  present  managers.  James 
P.  Robinson  married  Hannah  O'Leary,  of  Lowell.  Their  children  are : 
James  P.,  Jr.,  Richard  T.,  Joseph  P.,  deceased ;  Gertrude,  Josephine 
and  Madeline.  James  P.  Robinson,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachu- 
setts, August  20,  1888.  He  attended  the  graded  and  high  schools  of 
the  city  until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age.  then  entered  the  Union  Iron 
Foundry  as  an  apprentice,  under  his  father  and  uncle,  developing 
strong,  mechanical  ability,  and  when  in  1908  the  James  P.  Robinson 
Iron  Foundry  was  established,  he  with  his  brother  became  mem- 
bers of  the  company  upon  whom  the  burden  of  management  fell.  In 
1912,  as  the  eldest  son,  he  succeeded  his  father  as  head  of  the  business. 
The  plant  is  located  on  Foundry  street,  off  Plain,  and  there  light  and 
heavy  castings  are  manufactured.  James  P.  Robinson  married,  June 
18.  1913,  Ingrid  I.  Pihl,  the  family  home  being  at  No.  208  Princeton 
street.  They  were  the  parents  of  two  daughters,  Eleanor  and  Muriel, 
both  now  deceased. 

Richard  T.  Robinson  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  August 
30,  1890.  He  attended  the  public  graded  and  high  schools  of  Lowell 
until  he  was  about  fifteen  years  of  age.  then  became  an  apprentice  in 
Robinson  Brothers  Foundry.  He  became  a  member  of  the  firm,  the 
James  P.  Robinson  Iron  Foundry,  and  since  the  death  of  James  P. 
Robinson,  Sr.,  in  1912,  has  shared  with  his  brother  the  responsibili- 
ties of  the  business,  ever  a  large  and  successful  one.  He  is  a  member 
of  Lowell  Lodge,  No.  87,  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
at  the  present  time  (1919)  loyal  knight  of  the  lodge.  Richard  T.  Rob- 
inson married  Margaret  O'Harie,  of  Lowell,  they  the  parents  of  two 
daughters:  Dorothy  and  Blanche.  The  family  home  is  at  No.  27 
Albert  street,  Lowell. 


412  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

LOUIS  P.  TURCOTTE. 

Coming  from  his  Canadian  birthplace  to  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
as  a  young  man,  Louis  P.  Turcotte  has  since  been  a  resident  of  this 
city,  engaged  successively  in  grocery  dealings,  mechanical  lines,  and 
liquor  dealings,  to  the  present  time  (1919).  He  was  born  in  St.  Guil- 
laume.  Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  October  18,  1848,  and  attended 
the  public  schools  of  his  birthplace,  completing  his  education  in  eve- 
ning schools  in  Lowell,  tlis  independent  business  operations  began 
in  1875,  when  he  became  a  grocer  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  and  from 
1876  to  1888  he  was  employed  as  a  mechanic.  In  the  latter  year  he 
became  a  liquor  merchant  and  continued  his  activities  in  this  field  with 
prosperous  result  to  the  present.  This  has  been  his  main  business 
connection  during  that  time,  although  he  has  been  closely  concerned 
in  pul)lic  affairs,  serving  in  1890  and  1891  on  the  City  Council,  elected 
on  the  Republican  ticket.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks,  and  the  American  Citizen  Lafayette  Club. 
His  church  is  the  Roman  Catholic. 

Mr.  Turcotte  married,  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  October  18, 
1876,  Marcelline  Blanchette,  daughter  of  Jean  Louis  and  Adelaide 
(Poissant)  Blanchette,  and  they  are  the  parents  of:  Homer  H.  L., 
who  married  Nora  Hotin,  of  Lowell;  Lucien  P.,  who  married  Mar- 
garet Lake,  of  Lowell:  Evangeline  M.:  Henry  L. ;  Lucienne  A.,  who 
married  Horace  H.  Phaneuf,  of  Lowell:  Gabrielle  M.;  and  Arthur  L. 


FIRTH  B.  ROLLINSON. 


When,  in  1914,  Mr.  Rollinson  came  to  Lowell  as  general  manager 
of  the  Middlesex  Company  (woolen  department),  now  the  Brookfreld 
Woolen  Company,  it  was  not  as  a  novice  in  either  mill  management 
or  woolen  manufacturing,  for  in  the  textile  school  and  in  the  woolen 
mills  of  England  he  had  won  highest  standing  as  a  designer  and  prac- 
tical textile  worker,  and  in  Canada  and  in  the  United  States  had  held 
managerial  positions  of  importance  with  large  woolen  manufacturing 
corporations.  He  is  a  son  of  Samuel  C.  and  Ann  (Brodhead)  Rollin- 
son, both  of  English  birth  and  parentage. 

Firth  B.  Rollinson  was  born  in  Holmfirth,  near  Huddersfield, 
England,  December  27,  1864,  and  there  attended  public  school  and 
academy.  Deciding  to  become  a  textile  worker,  he  determined  to  pre- 
pare for  the  higher  positions,  and  in  accordance  with  his  plans  entered 
for  and  completed  a  three  years'  course  in  designing  under  Professor 
Beaumont  at  the  Yorkshire  College,  the  oldest  school  of  its  class  in 
the  entire  world.  This  course  he  completed  shortly  after  arriving  at 
legal  age,  and  when  twenty-two  years  old  he  was  filling  the  position 
of  designer  and  manager  of  the  Savile  Mills,  at  Dewsbur\',  England. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL  413 

For  six  years  he  remained  in  Dewsbury,  then  spent  six  years  in  the 
same  capacity  at  tlie  Robert  Wilson  \\'oolen  Mills,  at  Batley,  England. 
In  1895  he  came  to  America,  going  in  1898  to  the  Paton  Manufactur- 
ing Company  at  Sherbrooke,  Canada,  the  largest  woolen  and  worsted 
manufacturing  corporation  in  Canada.  There  he  continued  for  six 
years  as  superintendent,  then  came  to  the  United  States,  locating  at 
Dayville,  Connecticut,  there  spending  several  years  as  superintendent 
of  the  Assawaya  Company.  From  Dayville,  Mr.  Rollinson  came  to 
Massachusetts,  connecting  with  the  North  Adams  Manufacturing 
Company,  but  two  years  later  going  to  Utica,  New  York,  as  general 
superintendent  of  the  Famous  Globe  Mills,  remaining  there  through 
the  years  1912  and  1913.  In  1914  he  again  came  to  Massachusetts, 
locating  in  Lowell  as  general  manager  of  the  Brookfield  Woolen  Com- 
pany, No.  40  Warren  street,  incorporated  in  1916,  Henry  Lewis,  presi- 
dent, Brook  Stevens,  treasurer.  In  this  position  he  held  true  to  the 
high  reputation  which  had  preceded  him,  and  is  still  well  known 
among  the  representative  mill  men  of  his  city.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Alasonic  order,  and  of  the  Congregational  church. 

Mr.  Rollinson  married,  September  4,  1888,  Louisa  Jessup,  of 
Huddersfield,  England  ;  they  are  the  parents  of  Florence,  Bessie,  and 
Jack  Rollinson. 


JOHN  J.  MAHONEY,  A.  B.,  A.  M. 

Many  years  ago  John  Alahoney  opened  the  first  undertaking 
establishment  in  the  city  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts.  When  he  laid 
down  the  burden  of  management,  it  was  assumed  by  his  son,  John  D. 
Mahoney,  who  conducted  the  business  until  his  death.  John  D.  Ma- 
honey  was  also  interested  in  public  affairs  and  served  Lawrence  as 
both  councilman  and  overseer  of  the  poor.  He  married  Ellen  E. 
Regan,  of  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  and  among  their  children  was 
John  J.  Mahoney,  now  principal  of  Lowell  Normal  School.  Both  John 
D.  and  Ellen  E.  Mahoney  have  passed  to  their  reward,  both  dying  at 
the  age  of  sixty  years,  he  in  December,  1915. 

John  J.  Mahoney  was  born  at  Lawrence,  Massachusetts,  Decem- 
ber 2,  1880,  and  there  began  his  education  as  a  pupil  at  St.  Mary's 
Parochial  School,  continuing  until  graduated,  valedictorian,  class  of 
1896.  He  then  entered  Phillips  Andover  Academy,  there  pursuing  a 
brilliant  career  during  his  three  years  as  a  student.  He  was  gradu- 
ated with  honors,  class  of  1899,  and  on  graduation  day  was  presented 
with  several  prizes  won  for  Greek  and  Latin  excellence,  the  crowning 
honor,  the  conferring  of  a  $250  scholarship  at  Harvard  University.  At 
Harvard  he  continued  his  brilliant  career  as  a  student,  and  in  1903  was 
graduated  Bachelor  of  Arts,  magna  cum  laiide,  missing  the  coveted 


414  HISTORY  OF   LOWELL 

siDiniia  cum  hiitdc  li}-  one-half  of  an  A,  his  A's  secured  in  courses  total- 
ling fourteen  and  one-half,  the  needed  number  being  fifteen.  At  Har- 
vard he  specialized  in  the  classics,  but  later  made  education  his  spe- 
cialty, and  has  taken  the  Professor  Hanus  courses  and  Har\ard 
Graduate  School  courses,  sufficient  to  earn  the  Harvard  Master  of 
Arts  in  education. 

After  graduation  from  Harvard,  Professor  Mahoney  began  his 
career  as  an  educator,  his  first  position  being  as  a  teacher  in  English 
in  the  Lawrence  High  School  during  the  school  year  1903-04.  In 
October,  1904.  he  was  elected  headmaster  of  the  largest  grammar 
school  in  Lawrence,  the  Packard  School,  there  being  many  candidates 
for  the  position,  all  more  experienced  than  the  chosen  one.  From  1904 
to  1912  he  continued  head  of  the  grammar  school  above  referred  to, 
and  for  six  years  of  that  period,  1906-12,  was  supervisor  of  evening 
schools  in  Lawrence,  being  the  pioneer  organizer  of  that  now  impor- 
tant branch  of  the  public  school  system  of  Lawrence,  l^ut  then  almost 
wholly  overlooked.  In  connection  with  the  development  of  the  eve- 
ning school  system  of  the  city,  Professor  Mahoney  took  upon  himself 
another  branch  of  school  work,  and  is  the  author  of  one  of  the  very 
first  pamphlets  ever  jjrinted  on  "The  Teaching  of  the  Foreigner  in 
the  Evening  School." 

In  1912  Professor  Mahoney  severed  his  cnnnections  with  the 
Lawrence  schools,  accepting  election  as  assistant  supfrinten<lcnt  of 
schools  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts.  There  he  was  super\'isor  of 
the  grammar  graded,  and  as  a  special  assignment  was  in  charge  of  the 
seventy-five  teachers  of  the  High  and  Latin  School.  He  was  in  sole 
charge  of  the  evening  schools  of  the  Cambridge  public  school  system, 
and  during  the  three  years  he  was  in  charge  thoroughly  reorganized 
the  evening  schools.  The  most  important  construction  work  carried 
forward  and  completed  under  his  inspiring  leadership  was  the  scien- 
tific investigation  of  the  problem  of  teaching  English  and  the  ado])tion 
of  a  course  of  study  for  the  Cambridge  schools,  the  clearest  and  most 
definite  solution  of  the  problem  ever  put  forth.  In  1915  he  was  elected 
principal  of  the  Lowell  Normal  School,  his  present  position. 

During  the  winter  of  1907-08,  Professor  Mahoney  went  abroad 
under  the  auspices  of  the  National  Civic  Federation  to  study  the 
schools  of  England  and  Scotland.  He  is  well  known  on  the  lecture 
platform  of  New  England  cities,  and  he  has  written  a  great  deal  for 
the  educational  journals.  His  writings  include  reports,  courses  01 
study,  and  papers  on  educational  subjects.  One  of  these  "The  Prob- 
lem of  the  Poor  Pupil,"  published  in  "Education"  in  1906;  another, 
"Economy  of  Time  in  English,"  in  "School  and  Society,"  July,  191 5, 
attracting  wide  attention  and  favorable  comment.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  England   Educational  Association  ;  the  National  Society 


BIOGRAPHICAL  4,5 

for  the  Promotion  of  Industrial  Education ;  National  Coun<»l  of  Eng- 
lish Teachers,  Harvard  Teachers'  Association;  New  England  Super- 
intendents' Association  ;  American  Institute  of  Instruction  and  other 
organizations,  social  and  professional.  He  ranks  very  high  among 
American  educators,  and  at  a  recent  convention  of  the  American  Insti- 
tute of  Instruction  held  at  Harvard,  he  conducted  one  of  the  programs. 
He  is  an  ex-president  of  the  Carter's  Club  of  Lawrence,  member  of 
the  Boston  City  Club.  Yorick  Club,  Merrimack  Valley  Country  Club, 
the  Knights  of  Columbus,  and  in  politics  is  a  Democrat. 


JAMES  HARVEY  GAMBLE. 

From  office  boy  to  superintendent  has  been  the  record  made  by 
Mr.  Gamble  with  the  American  Ma.son  Safety  Tread  Company,  a  busi- 
ness established  in  1893,  incorporated  in  1895.  With  the  exception  of 
a  short  period  with  the  Shaw  Stocking  Company,  his  entire  business 
life  has  been  spent  with  the  company  he  now  serves  as  superintendent, 
and  there  is  no  detail  of  the  manufacturing  nor  office  department  with 
which  he  is  not  familiar.  The  company  manufactures  safety  stair 
treads  for  street  and  railroad  cars ;  .A.merican  Mason  sidewalk  lights ; 
coal  hole  covers,  and  Karbolith  fireproof  flooring.  The  plant  in 
Lowell  employs  about  one  hundred  hands,  and  offices  are  maintained 
by  the  company  in  all  large  cities  of  the  country.  The  company  was 
founded  in  1893  by  William  S.  Lamson,  inventor  of  the  Lamson  Store 
and  Cash  Sj^stem,  and  is  now  capitalized  at  $500,000.  Officers:  H.  C. 
King,  president;  James  L.  Campbell,  treasurer;  J.  Harvey  Gamble, 
superintendent. 

James  Harvey  Gamble  was  born  September  20,  1880.  in  Herdman. 
Province  of  Quebec,  Canada,  where  he  spent  the  first  ten  years  of  his 
life.  His'  father  died  when  James  H.  was  but  three  months  old,  and 
in  1890  he  was  brought  to  Lowell  by  his  widowed  mother,  and  has 
ever  since  been  a  resident  of  that  city.  After  completing  the  grades, 
he  entered  Lowell  High  School,  from  which  he  graduated,  finishing 
his  studies  with  a  course  at  Perrin  Business  College,  in  Boston.  His 
first  position  was  in  the  office  of  the  Shaw  Stocking  Company,  but 
his  stay  there  was  short,  his  second  employer,  and  his  last,  the  .'Xmeri- 
can  Safety  Tread  Company.  He  began  with  that  company  as  an 
office  boy,  but  soon  began  his  upward  climb,  and  he  held  the  positions 
of  foreman,  shipping  clerk,  paymaster,  and  purchasing  agent  prior  to 
1910,  in  which  year  he  was  appointed  superintendent.  His  position 
gives  him  full  charge  of  the  plant,  but  he  understands  his  duties  thor- 
oughly, and  every  department  is  administered  in  a  modern,  business- 
like manner,  and  the  varied  output  of  the  plant  is  kept  up  to  a  high 
standard  of  excellence.     Mr.   Gamble   is  a  deep  student,  keeps  well 


4i6  HISTORY   OF   LOWELL 

abreast  ul  all  inventive  progress,  and  is  a  thorough  twentieth  century 
manufacturer. 

iVTr.  Gamble  is  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Board  of  Trade  ;  the  Asso- 
ciated Industries  of  Massachusetts ;  the  Yorick  Club ;  Vesper  Country 
Club ;  William  North  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons ;  Mount 
Horeb  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons ;  Ahasuerus  Council,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters;  Pilgrim  Commandery,  Knights  Templar;  and  Aleppo 
Temple,  Ancient  Arabic  Order,  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 

Mr.  Gamble  married,  in  1904,  at  Lowell,  Laura  B.  Symonds,  they 
the  parents  of  a  son,  Harvey  R.  Gamble,  born  May  10,  1910. 


FREDERICK  ARTHUR  FLATHER. 

Frederick  A.  Flather,  treasurer  of  the  Boott  Mills,  of  Lowell,  is 
descended  paternally  from  French  Huguenot  ancestry,  his  maternal 
line  tracing  to  Thomas  Drake,  a  settler  of  Weymouth  early  in  the 
Colonial  period  and  a  participant  in  King  Philip's  War.  He  is  a  son 
of  Joseph  Flather,  born  in  Bradford,  Yorkshire,  England,  April  i, 
1837,  who  came  to  the  United  States  as  a  youth  of  seventeen  years. 
He  became  the  owner  of  a  machine  shop  in  Nashua,  New  Hampshire, 
and  at  his  death.  February  3,  1907,  was  the  head  of  the  firm,  Flather 
&  Company.  He  married  Caroline  Drusilla  Drake,  born  January  25. 
1842,  in  Newton,  Massachusetts,  and  died  February  2,  1869. 

Frederick  Arthur  Flather  was  born  in  Nashua,  New  Hampshire, 
March  21,  1867.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  birth- 
place, and  early  in  his  business  career  was  associated  with  his  father. 
Subsequently  he  was  connected  with  the  Pettee  Machine  W'orks,  of 
Newton,  Massachusetts,  and  the  Lowell  Machine  Shop,  of  Lowell, 
both  manufacturers  of  cotton  machinery,  and  after  a  period  was  in 
the  employ  of  the  McCormick  Harvester  Company  and  the  Inter- 
national Harvester  Company,  of  Chicago.  From  the  last-named  cor- 
poration he  came  to  the  Boott  Mills  (q.  v.)  and  since  1905  has  been 
treasurer  of  that  large  and  prosperous  enterprise.  In  addition  to  this 
interest  he  is  vice-president  of  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank,  of 
Lowell,  and  a  director  of  the  Merchants'  National  Bank,  of  Boston. 
He  serves  the  Lowell  Textile  School  as  trustee,  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineers,  of  New  Y'ork,  the  Na- 
tional Association  of  Cotton  Manufacturers,  and  affiliates  with  the 
Masonic  order.  He  is  a  member  of  the  First  Congregational  Church. 
In  ]iiilitical  faith  he  is  a  Republican.  His  clubs  are  the  Eastern  Yacht, 
the  Marblehead  Neck,  Massachusetts,  the  Algonquin,  Exchange,  and 
Arkwright,  of  B(jston,  and  the  Yorick.  \'esper  Country,  and  Long- 
nu-ad.nv.  of  Lowell. 


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417 


Mr.  Flather  married  (first)  in  Pueblo,  Colorado,  June  i,  1891, 
Mary  Southerland  Prichard,  born  in  Bradford,  Vermont,  died  in 
Nashua,  New  Hampshire;  (second)  Alice  Poor  Rogers,'  born  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts.  Children:  Mary  Drusilla.  a  graduate  of 
Brown  University,  class  of  1917,  and  Bryn  Mawr  College.  1919;  John 
Rogers,  and  Frederick,  students  in  Harvard  University,  class  of  1923. 


THE  BOOTT  MILLS. 

By  act  of  the  Massachusetts  Legislature,  passed  February  6,  1822, 
the  Merrimack  Manufacturing  Company  was  incorporated,  Kirk  and 
John  Wright  Boott  being  among  the  incorporators.  The  company's 
first  mill  was  started  September  i,  1S23,  the  first  cloth  woven  in  No- 
vember, 1823,  and  the  first  shipment  made  from  the  mill  January  3. 
1824.  The  Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company  was  incorporated 
January  26,  1825;  the  Appleton  Company,  February  4,  1828;  the 
Lowell  Manufacturing  Company,  February  8,  1828;  the  Middlesex 
Company,  June  5,  1830;  the  Suffolk  Manufacturing  Comjiany,  Janu- 
ary 17,  1831 ;  the  Tremont  Mills,  March  19,  1831  ;  the  Laurence  Manu- 
facturing Company,  March  11,  1836;  and  the  Boott  Mills,  March  27, 
1835,  the  avowed  purpose  of  all  these  corporations  being  the  manu- 
facture of  cotton  and  woolen  goods  in  the  town  of  Lowell  and  Mid- 
dlesex county.  The  capital  stock  of  the  Boott  Mills  Corporation  was 
placed  at  $1,000,000,  but  on  February  11,  1837,  permission  was  given 
them  by  the  Legislature  to  increase  it  to  $1,500,000.  The  present  capi- 
talization (1919)  is  $1,550,000.  The  incorporators  of  the  company 
were  three :  Abbott  Laurence,  who  was  also  an  incorporator  and 
first  treasurer  of  the  Lowell  Machine  Shop,  president  of  the  Atlantic 
Cotton  Mills  and  the  Pacific  Mills  Company,  both  of  Lawrence,  Mas- 
sachusetts ;  Nathan  Appleton,  an  associate  of  Francis  L.  Lowell,  one 
of  the  purchasers  of  the  water-power  at  Pawtucket  Falls,  founder  and 
largest  owner  of  the  Hamilton  Manufacturing  Company,  and  Con- 
gressman; John  Amory  Lowell,  first  treasurer  of  the  Boott  Mills,  a 
man  of  wonderful  achievement  in  the  business  world,  a  fellow  of  Har- 
vard College,  for  forty  years  an  accomplished  classical  scholar,  a  deep 
mathematician,  a  botanist  of  rare  attainment  and  master  of  several 
foreign  languages.  This  combination  of  sound,  level-headed  men. 
jjractical,  scientific,  and  literary  in  their  natures,  joined  abilities  which 
meant  success  to  any  movement  or  enterprise  in  which  they  engaged. 

The  four  mills  of  the  company  are  located  on  Amory  street,  em- 
ploying sixteen  hundred  hands,  equipped  with  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  thousand  spindles  and  twenty-six  hundred  looms,  produc- 
ing corduroy,  velveteen,  sheetings,  and  shirtings,  seamless  bags,  cot- 


4t8  history  of   LOWELL 

ton.  (luck,  rejjs.  scrim,  and  Boott  Mills  absorbent  toweling',  which  com- 
prise the  company's  output.  The  plant  covers  eight  acres,  the  four 
mills  being  driven  by  nine  turbines  and  two  turbo-generators,  total- 
ling seven  thousand  horse-power.  The  present  company  has  been 
generally  occupied  in  building  up  the  property  and  its  busine.ss  for 
the  benefit  of  stockholders,  employees,  and  customers  alike. 

The  first  treasurer  of  the  company  was  John  Amory  Lowell,  son 
of  John  Lowell,  and  grandson  of  Judge  Lowell,  a  United  States  Cir- 
cuit Court  Judge.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  in  1815, 
being  then  but  sixteen  years  of  age.  He  began  his  liusiness  education 
with  Kirk  Boott  &  Sons,  later  becoming  a  partner  with  John  Wright 
Boott.  In  1835  he  built  the  Boott  Mill  at  Lowell  and  from  the  incor- 
poration of  the  company  in  1835  until  1848,  was  treasurer  of  the  com- 
pany. He  then  resigned,  but  as  president  and  director  was  a  potent 
factor  in  the  success  of  the  company  until  his  death,  October  13,  1884. 
Mr.  Lowell  was  succeeded  as  treasurer  by  T.  Jefferson  Coolidge,  who 
held  the  office  from  1848  until  1858,  giving  way  to  Richard  D.  Rogers, 
who  continued  in  office  until  1865.  Augustus  Lowell  was  treasurer 
ten  years.  1865-75,  Elliot  C.  Clark  succeeding  him  in  1875,  holding 
until  1903.  Alonzo  S.  Covell  was  treasurer  for  one  year.  The  last 
treasurer  of  the  Boott  Cotton  Mills  was  Charles  F.  Young,  and  the 
first  treasurer  of  the  reorganized  company,  the  Boott  Mills,  was  Fred- 
crick  Arthur  Flather,  who  was  elected  in  1905,  and  is  the  present  treas- 


ALEXANDER  G.  CUMNOCK. 

The  development  of  the  water  power  of  the  ^Merrimack  river  at 
Lowell,  early  in  the  nineteenth  century,  led  to  the  building  of  manu- 
factories along  its  banks,  which  grew  rapidly  as  the  canals  and  other 
arteries  were  developed  to  carry  water  to  turn  the  wheels.  Small 
detached  mills,  managed  by  the  owners  of  the  property,  in  which  only 
one  manufacturing  process  was  carried  on,  gave  place  in  1822  to  the 
experiment  of  building  a  great  industrial  plant,  owned  l\v  a  joint 
stock  company,  in  which  all  the  varied  processes  from  the  raw  mate- 
rial to  the  finished  product  should  be  carried  on  imder  one  manage- 
ment. The  instant  success  of  this  new  venture  led  to  the  estalilish- 
ment  of  other  great  manufacturing  corporations. 

The  steady  growth  of  these  industrial  plants,  the  rapid  increase 
in  population  and  the  rise  of  problems  relating  to  community  welfare 
led  the  founders  of  these  industries,  who  were  in  the  main  wealthy 
merchants  of  Boston,  to  select  for  the  managers  of  the  mills  men  of 
liberal  education  and  culture  who  brought  wisdom  and  understanding 
to   the   solution   of  proljlems   for  which   no   precedent  existed.     Thev 


BIOGRAPHICAL  419 

were  lawyers,  mainly,  and  had  little  practical  knowledge  of  manu- 
facturing. As  long  as  the  price  of  goods  was  high  and  there  was 
little  or  no  competition,  these  cori)orations  were  remarkably  success- 
ful. But  by  the  middle  of  the  century  competition  had  sprung  up. 
The  success  and  large  dividends  of  the  mills  of  the  "Mother  Textile 
City  of  America"  had  been  widely  heralded,  and  other  cities  were 
beginning  to  build  and  equip  mills  after  the  Lowell  plan.  The  Civil 
War  retarded  competition  for  a  time,  but  after  the  Declaration  of 
Peace  there  was  a  wonderful  speeding  up  of  industry.  Cotton  cloth 
which  had  sold  for  30  cents  a  yard  before  the  war  now  sold  for  6  cents. 
Dividends  were  greatly  reduced,  labor  was  becoming  self-conscious, 
demanding  shorter  hours  and  a  higher  wage,  and  the  wavs  and  means 
of  reducing  the  cost  of  operation  were  studied  with  increasing  anxiety. 
It  was  beginning  to  be  felt  that  managers,  or  agents  as  they  were 
called,  should  be  not  only  men  of  liberal  views  and  business  ability, 
but  should  possess  executive  talents  and  a  thorough  and  practical 
knowledge  of  the  varied  processes  of  textile  manufacturing.  To  this 
class  belonged  Alexander  G.  Cumnock,  who  eventually  became  the 
dean  of  the  cotton  manufacturing  industry  in  New  luighind,  by 
reason  of  his  high  executive  ability,  his  inventive  mind  and  his  long 
_\  ears  of  service. 

Mr.  Cumnock  was  born  September  28,  1834,  in  Glasgow,  Scot- 
land. His  father,  Robert  L.  Cumnock,  came  with  his  wife  and  two 
children  to  this  country  in  1846.  The  family  having  settled  in  Lowell, 
. Alexander  G.,  ambitious  to  succeed,  eagerly  availed  himself  of  the 
educational  opportunities  offered  by  the  public  schools,  becoming  a 
pupil  in  the  Edson  Grammar  School.  He  devoted  not  only  his  days  to 
study,  but  after  work  was  over,  his  evenings  as  well,  and  added  lessons 
in  mathematics  and  mechanical  drawing  to  his  curriculum.  Doubtless 
the  progress  thus  made  influenced  him  in  later  years  to  make  avail- 
able for  young  men,  unable  to  study  during  the  day  time,  the  courses 
of  study  of  the  Lowell  Textile  School,  of  which  he  was  a  founder  and 
which  has  played  an  important  part  in  the  cotton,  woolen  and  dyeing 
industry  not  only  in  Xew  England,  but  the  entire  country. 

After  serving  a  preliminary  apprenticeship  in  manufacturing  in 
various  Lowell  mills,  Mr.  Cumnock,  in  1866.  accepted  the  position 
of  agent  in  the  Ouinebaug  Manufacturing  Company  of  Danielson- 
ville,  Connecticut.  In  1868.  he  returned  to  Lowell  as  agent  of  the 
Boott  Cotton  Mills,  a  position  he  held  with  distinction  thirty  years. 
Under  his  successful  management  the  jilant  was  develo])ed  from  64,000 
sjiindles  to  treble  that  number. 

On  February  17,  1898,  Mr.  Cumnock  assumed  active  control  of 
the  Appleton  Company  of  Lowell  as  treasurer.    The  "Boston  Journal 


420  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

of  Commerce"  said  of  him  at  this  time:  "Air.  Cumnock  is  conceded  to 
be  one  of  the  ablest  manufacturers  in  the  country  and  he  certainly  was 
one  of  the  earliest  to  recognize  the  new  era  in  the  manufacture  of 
cotton  goods  and  the  necessity  of  changing  to  a  finer  and  more 
diversified  line  of  goods  that  would  be  outside  Southern  competition." 

When  Mr.  Cumnock  took  charge  of  the  Appleton  Company,  the 
mill  was  in  a  bankrupt  condition,  with  worn  out  machinery  and  old 
buildings,  some  of  them  dating  back  to  1828.  The  principal  product 
of  the  mills  was  sheetings,  which  could  not  be  succes-fully  manu- 
factured in  competition  with  Southern  mills.  :\lr.  Cumnock  rcnroan- 
ized  and  put  new  life  into  the  corporation  and  cstalilishcd  its  tniances 
on  a  sound  basis.  The  mills  were  entirely  rebuilt.  At  the  time  of  his 
death,  twenty-one  years  later,  not  a  single  mill  was  standing  which 
had  been  there  when  he  took  control  and  the  size  of  the  plant  had 
been  increased  three-fold.  The  product  of  the  mills,  too,  had  under- 
gone a  change  from  sheetings  to  colored  nap  goods.  The  corporation 
had  a  firmly  established  Inisiness,  nut  only  in  this  country  but  abroad, 
and  its  trade-mark  wa.s  copyrighted  in  thirty-twn  fureign  countries 
with  a  constantly  increasing  business.  This  remarkable  result  was 
chiefly  due  to  the  genius  for  organization  and  development  possessed 
by  Mr.  Cumnock.  "He  was  a  man  with  new  suggestions,  new  ideas, 
new  designs  and  new  accomplishments  so  that  his  mills,  the  Appleton, 
assumed  and  held  a  foremost  place  in  the  commercial  and  financial 
world  :"'  so  wrote  a  contemporary.  He  was  sixty-four  years  old  when 
he  undertook  the  reorganization  of  the  Appleton  Company,  but  of 
such  physical  vigor  that  he  seemed  a  decade  younger. 

The  greatest  monument  to  his  constructive  imagination  and  spirit 
of  enterprise  is  undoubtedly  the  Lowell  Textile  School.  Owing  to  the 
rapid  development  of  the  manufacture  of  the  coarser  cotton  fabrics  in 
the  Southern  States,  in  close  proximity  to  the  cotton  and  coal  districts, 
a  crisis  had  developed  in  the  foremost  industry  of  New  England.  This 
could  onl\  be  met  by  the  a]jplication  of  science  and  art  to  the  produc- 
tion of  finer  and  more  varied  products.  This  was  the  basic  need  for 
tlie  school.  To  the  att;;innient  of  this  ideal  he  brought  his  technical 
knowledge  and  skill,  and  it  was  largely  owing  to  his  wisdom  and  guid- 
ance that  its  foundation  was  possible.  From  its  inception  and  there- 
after for  the  twenty-two  years  of  his  life  he  was  president  of  its  board 
of  trustees.  In  a  public  address  delivered  by  Mr.  Cumnock  at  the 
opening  of  the  school,  January  30,  1897,  'ic  set  forth  the  object  of  the 
school  as  follows : 

It  seems  fitting  that  this  scIkioI.  the  first  incorporated  textile 
school  in  New  England,  slujuld  lie  located  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts, 
the  "Mother  Textile  City  of  America,"  the  city  and   State  afifording 


BIOGRAPHICAL  42, 

financial  aid  in  its  establishment  and  the  manufacturers  of  New  Eng- 
land bemg  equally  liberal  in  their  contributions.  The  advantages  of 
the  school  at  a  textile  center  where  every  commercial  fibre  enters  into 
the  product,  the  student  thus  being  directlv  brought  in  touch  with  the 
industry  and  management  thereof,  will  be  apparent.  The  object  of  the 
school  is  to  give  instruction  in  the  practical  knowledge  necessary  in 
the  cotton,  woolen,  worsted,  silk  and  other  textile  industries,  in 
sciences  and  arts  as  applied  to  these  industries,  and  in  the  processes 
and  methods  for  the  purpose  of  improving  anv  special  trade,  or  of 
introducing  new  branches  of  industry.  It  is  essentially  a  trade  school, 
and  the  whole  plan  provides  for  such  instruction  only  as  will  be  use- 
ful in  textile  trades.  Science  and  art  will  be  taught,  not  with  the 
object  of  educating  professional  and  scientific  men,  but  with  a  view 
to  industrial  and  commercial  applications;  but  the  school  olYers  to 
graduates  of  universities  and  scientific  institutions  an  opportunity  of 
instruction  in  the  practical  application  of  certain  branches  of  science. 

The  school  was  opened  in  the  Parker  block.  Middle  street.  Feb- 
ruary I,  1897,  and  five  years  later  a  permanent  building  was  built  on 
the  banks  of  the  Merrimack  river  at  Moody  street.  From  sixty-nine 
pupils  at  the  start  in  1897.  at  Mr.  Cumnock's  death  in  1919.  the  .school 
numbered  tw^elve  hundred. 

Mr.  Cumnock  passed  away  August  17.  1919.  within  a  nmnth  of 
his  eighty-fifth  birthday,  in  the  ripeness  of  years  and  in  the  full  and 
complete  exercise  of  the  talents  which  had  made  him  a  dominant  influ- 
ence in  his  day  and  generation.  With  an  absorbing  interest  in  his 
daily  pursuits,  he  found  time  for  participation  in  public  affairs.  He 
was  president  of  the  Mechanics'  Savings  Bank,  director  of  the  Lowell 
Gas  Light  Company,  and  of  the  Stony  Brook  Railway,  president  of 
the  People's  Club,  and  a  generous  contributor  to  all  the  city  char- 
ities. In  1872  he  w-as  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  .Aldermen, 
and  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Water  Works.  In  1895  he  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  Lowell  Finance  Commission.  He  was  a 
zealous  churchman,  a  devout  worshipper,  a  constant  attendant  at  Sun- 
day school,  and  for  many  years  senior  deacon  of  the  Kirk  Street  Con- 
gregational Church.  He  allied  himself  with  movements  for  the  ad- 
vancement of  religion,  and  generously  supported  plans  for  community 
betterment.  The  board  of  trustees  of  the  Lowell  Textile  School  in- 
scribed upon  their  records  this  tribute  to  his  worth  as  a  citizen : 

Ijy  his  death  the  school  has  lost  a  friend  and  guide  whose  sturdy 
character,  breadth  of  vision  and  pioneering  spirit  has  been  woven  into 
its  very  life  and  being.  A  moving  spirit  in  the  work  of  establishing 
the  school  in  its  humble  beginnings,  giving  without  stint  his  talents, 
energy  and  resourcefulness  to  its  growth  and  rapid  and  sound  devel- 
opment, he  lived  to  see  the  school  take  high  rank  among  the  best 
technical  schools  of  the  world.  To  him,  the  Dean  of  New  England 
Textile  men,  the  school  was  an  especial  pride  and  his  time  and  effort 


422  HISTORY  OF  L0WI-:LL 

and  all  the  wisdnni  which  Icmo;  and  valuable  cxi)erience  had  brought 
him  were  bestuwed  upon  it  freely  and  gladly  :  his  own  remarkable 
abilities  and  characteristics  had  made  him  a  commanding  figure  in  a 
great  New  England  industry  among  whose  captains,  past  and  pres- 
ent, he  held  an  honored  place  and  it  was  a  cherished  amliition  to  make 
the  school  a  shining  symbol  of  all  that  was  bist  in  tb.r  -i.liditv .  i  nter- 
prise,  industry,  skill  and  beauty  of  New  l-'.ngland.  \  inil.in  -inrited 
citizen,  devoted  to  the  support  of  religion  and  the  furtherance  ui  char- 
itable works,  rugged  of  mind  and  spirit  as  he  was  staunch  in  physical 
attributes,  he  brought  into  the  council  of  men  great  virility  and  a  high 
regard  for  all  the  better  things  of  life.  He  labored  intelligently  and 
zealously  for  the  prestige  of  Massachusetts  in  practical,  scientific  edu- 
cation and  in  all  things  deserved  so  well  of  the  days  in  which  he  lived 
that  his  name  should  long  be  held  in  grateful  and  appreciative  remem- 
brance. 

i\Ir.  Cumnock  was  survived  by  his  wife.  Frances  F.  Cumnock, 
wdiom  he  married  in  1855,  and  by  five  children:  Eva  F.  Cumnock,  of 
Lowell ;  Mrs.  John  Wood  Blodgett,  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan  ;  Vic- 
tor T.  Cumnock,  Arthur  J-  Cumnock,  and  Mrs.  Norman  E.  Ditman, 
of  New  York. 


WILLIAM   HENRY  WHITE. 

FYi<m  the  age  of  sixteen  years  until  his  death  at  the  age  of  sev- 
enty-four, the  life  of  William  Henry  White  was  one  of  great  activ- 
ity and  he  reached  eminence  in  more  than  one  walk  of  life.  He  began 
life  a  machinist,  and  became  high  in  authority  in  the  mechanical 
department  of  the  Erie  Railroad.  He  was  a  manufacturer  of  lumber, 
a  successful  tanner  in  Canada,  and  then  head  of  a  large  and  prosperous 
leather  house  in  Lowell,  White  Brothers  and  Company,  consisting  of 
himself  and  three  able  sons:  E.  L.,  H.  K.,  and  W.  T.  \^'hite.  Lowell 
was  long  his  home  and  as  manufacturer  and  private  citizen  he  con- 
tributed to  the  industrial  development  of  the  city  and  by  his  enterprise 
and  business  sagacity  founded  a  very  large  manufacturing  enterprise. 

This  branch  of  the  White  family  in  Massachusetts  traced  descent 
in  direct  male  line  from  William  White,  of  the  "Mayflower,"  who  was 
the  sixth  signer  of  the  "Compact"  drawn  up  in  the  cabin  of  that  vessel 
for  the  self-government  of  the  Colonists.  Of  him  Davis  says:  "The 
first  William  \\'hitc,  son  jirobably  of  Bishop  John  White  of  England, 
came  in  the  ']\Layflower'  in  \h2o.  He  married  in  Leyden.  TTolkind,  in 
1612,  Anne,  sister  of  Samuel  Fuller,  always  called  Susann.i.  He 
brought  with  him  his  wife  and  son  Resolved,  born  in  1615.  He  died 
in  1621,  and  his  widow  Susanna  married  (second)  Governor  l'"dw;ird 
Winslow." 

Resolved  \\'hite.  son  of  William  and  Susanna  ( Fuller  i  White 
came    with    his   imrents   in    the    "Mavflower"    in    1620   and    settled    in 


BIOGRAPHICAL  423 

Scituate,  ^Massachusetts.  In  1662  he  moved  to  Marshfielcl,  where  he 
owned  a  farm  on  Xorth  river,  which  he  sold  in  1670  to  John  Rogers. 
He  owned  another  farm  on  South  River  brook,  on  which  he  is  believed 
to  have  lived  after  leaving  Scituate.  In  1672  he  exchanged  this  farm 
with  Samuel  Baker.  Resolved  White  married  in  Scituate,  April  8, 
1640,  Judith  Vassall,  who  died  at  Marshfield,  April  3,  1670.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  William  Vassall,  of  Italian  ancestry,  the  English  found- 
ers of  the  family  settling  in  London  during  the  reign  of  Kings  James 
and  Charles  I.,  there  becoming  possessed  of  great  wealth  and  power. 
They  also  owned  estates  in  New  England  and  the  West  Indies,  Wil- 
liam Vassall  coming  with  Governor  Winthrop  in  1630  and  returning  to 
England  the  same  year.  In  June,  1635,  he  came  again  bringing  with 
him  his  wife  and  family,  arriving  in  the  ship  "Blessing."  William 
Vassall  is  said  to  have  been  the  wealthiest  of  all  the  Plymouth  colo- 
nists. Resolved  and  Judith  White  were  the  parents  of  William,  John, 
Samuel,  Resolved,  Anna,  Elizabeth  and  Josiah.  The  line  continued 
through  the  third  son,  Samuel. 

Samuel  White,  born  March  13,  1646,  resided  in  Marshfield  with 
his  parents,  but  later  moved  to  Rochester,  Massachusetts.  He  mar- 
ried, and  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Samuel  (2). 

Samuel  (2)  White,  born  about  1670,  married,  and  by  wife  .\iuic 
had  several  children,  including  a  son  Ebenezer,  the  youngest, 

Ebenezer  White  was  born  March  4,  1710,  and  was  a  shipwright 
of  Boston,  owning  a  house  in  Battery  Alley.  He  married  Martha 
Burbeck,  of  an  early  Woburn  family. 

William  White,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Martha  (Burbeck)  White, 
was  born  about  1740.  He  married  Mary  Bartletl,  daughter  of  Roger 
Bartlett,  who  came  from  England,  and  married  Anne  Beard  about 
1740.  His  son,  Samuel  Bartlett,  was  clerk  of  the  courts  and  register 
of  deeds  in  Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  from  1796  until  1819.  Mary 
(Bartlett)  White  died  February  23,  1826,  leaving  a  son  Samuel. 

Samuel  (3)  White  was  born  June  i,  1773.  He  married  (first) 
Penelope  Cades,  (second)  Sarah  Davis,  (third)  Hannah  Hopkins. 
Penelope  Cades,  his  first  wife,  was  born  February  9,  1778,  died  July 
12,  1807.  Samuel  (third)  White  died  January  13,  1854.  They  were 
the  parents  of  Joanna  C.  Nancy  B.,  Penelope.  Samuel  Bartlett,  of 
further  mention;  William,  and  John  B. 

Samuel  Bartlett  Wliite,  son  of  Samuel  (3)  and  his  first  wife.  Pen- 
elope Cades,  was  born  in  Boston,  May  17,  1803,  died  in  Winchester. 
Massachusetts,  in  1878.  He  was  the  first  treasurer  of  the  town  of 
Winchester,  was  a  founder  of  the  public  library  there,  the  first  com- 
mander of  the  Woburn  Military  Phalan.K.  one  of  the  organizers  of  the 
First   Presbvterian  Church   in  Winchester,  and  a  man  of  wonderful 


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424  HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 

energy,  perseverance  and  ])ul)lic   s{)irit. 

son,  an  excellent  tyjie  of  New  England 

1880,  daughter  of  Calvin,  son  of  Jiduiha 

uel  (3),  son  of  Samuel  (2),  son  of  Saniu 

of  the  family  in  New  England.     Samuel  Richardson,  born  in  England, 

in    1610,  came  to  New   England  in    1636.     He  joined  the  church   at 

Charlestown,  February  18,  1637-38 ;  was  admitted  a  freeman,  May  2, 

1638;  and  moved  to  Woburn  in  the  sjiring  of  1641.  one  of  the  original 

settlers  of  that  town.     He  was  a  selectman  of  Wobiu-n  five  terms,  and 

there  died  March  23,  1658. 

William  Henry  White,  of  the  ninth  generation  of  this  branch  of 
the  White  family  in  New  England,  son  of  Samuel  Eartlett  and  Sarah 
(Richardson)  White,  was  born  in  Woburn,  Massachusetts,  ()ctober 
26,  1829,  died  in  Pittsfield,  New  Hampshire.  No\'eml)ir  12,  i()03.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Woburn  and  WinclKstcr,  Alas- 
sachusetts,  then  until  sixteen  years  of  age  was  a  student  at  Shrppard's 
Academy.  At  sixteen  he  began  learning  the  macliiuist'-  tiadc,  devot- 
ing four  years  to  his  apprenticeship,  but  all  those  \  <  av^  .1  intinaing  his 
studies  in  geometry  and  draughting.  In  1849  he  entered  the  h.icomo- 
tive  shops  of  the  Boston  &  Lowell  Railroad  at  East  Cambridge.  Mas- 
sachusetts, and  later  was  an  engineer  of  that  road,  running  between 
Boston  and  Lowell.  From  that  road  he  went  to  the  Erie,  lirst  as 
assistant  master  mechanic  at  now  Hornell,  New  York,  and  then  to 
Dunkirk,  New  York,  on  Lake  Erie,  the  western  terminus  of  the  Erie  at 
that  time.  Lie  put  in  order  and  first  occupied  the  works  which  later 
became  the  Brooks  Locomotive  Works.  He  was  offered  a  partnership 
in  a  fine  lumber  manufacturing  enterprise,  and  until  the  destruction 
of  the  company's  plant  at  Winchester  a  fcAV  years  later  they  were 
most  profitably  engaged  in  sawing  foreign  hard  woods  for  furniture, 
pianos  and  other  purposes. 

After  the  fire,  Mr.  White  sold  his  interest  in  the  compau}-  and 
turned  to  the  leather  business.  He  acce])ted  a  commission  from  a 
Boston  house  to  locate  and  build  a  modern  tannery  in  Canada,  and  for 
five  years  he  remained  in  that  country,  locating  the  tannery  in  ;\Iont- 
real,  at  the  junction  of  the  Grand  Trunk  railroad  and  the  l.acliine 
Canal.  In  1863  he  located  in  Lowell  and  began  the  manufacture  of 
leather,  beginning  in  a  small  way  with  one  or  two  men  to  assist  him. 
The  business  gradually  increased  as  the  fine  quality  of  his  i)roduct 
became  known,  until  finally  the  volume  of  business  transacted  became 
very  large.  He  was  associated  with  his  brother  in  this  business  as 
White  B.rothers,  and  later  a  salesroom  was  opened  in  Boston  under  the 
firm  name  of  White  Brothers  &  Kilburn.  Later,  Mr.  Kilburn  retired 
and  a  son  of  each  partner  was  then  admitted,  forming  the  firm   of 


BIOGRAPHICAL 


425 


White  Brothers  &  Sons.  This  association  came  to  an  end  in  1887, 
William  H.  White  purchasing  his  partner's  interest  and  admitting  his 
three  sons,  Edward  L.,  Henry  K.  and  William  T.  White,  the  firm 
name  then  becoming  White  Brothers  &  Company. 

With  the  influx  of  new  blood,  the  business  still  more  rapidly 
increased,  the  young  men  being  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  l)usincss 
and  devoting  themselves  most  energetically  to  the  manufacture  and 
sale  of  the  plant  product.  With  their  able  father  to  direct  and  guide, 
prosperity  bountifully  attended  their  efforts,  and  at  the  factories, 
Howe  street  and  Fort  Hill  avenue,  in  Belvidere,  from  four  hundred 
to  six  hundred  men  were  kept  employed  even  in  ordinary  times.  The 
White  leather  became  well  known  in  the  market,  and  they  were  the 
pioneers  in  all  the  higher  grades  of  shoe  leather.  With  the  era  of 
consolidation  and  trusts,  the  fine  business  of  White  Brothers  &  Com- 
pany attracted  envious  eyes,  and  later  the  company  was  merged  with 
the  American  Hide  and  Leather  Company.  William  White  then  with- 
drew from  the  wearying  details  of  business  which  he  had  borne  so 
long,  and  bought  a  farm  at  Pittsfield,  New  Hampshire,  where  he 
thoroughly  enjoyed  the  life  of  a  gentleman  fruit  farmer,  having  thou- 
sands of  young  trees  growing,  specializing  in  apples.  At  various  times 
Mr.  White  was  president  of  the  Lowell  Young  Men's  Christian  Asso- 
ciation, a  director  of  the  Prescott  National  Bank,  trustee  of  the  Cen- 
tral Savings  Bank,  vice-president  of  the  Lowell  General  Hospital,  and 
deacon  of  the  High  Street  Congregational  Church.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican. 

William  H.  White  married  Theresa  Towie,  who  died  leaving  four 
children:  Edward  L.,  a  leather  manufacturer  in  Boston;  Henry  Kirke, 
deceased  (see  sketch  on  another  page)  :  William  T.,  general  manager 
of  the  American  Hide  and  Leather  Company  plant  in  Lowell,  the 
plant  established  by  his  father  and  known  in  Lowell  as  White's  Tan- 
nery, and  in  which  William  T.  was  formerly  a  partner.  She  was  also 
mother  of  a  daughter,  Theresa,  deceased.  William  H.  White  married 
(second)  in  1899,  Mrs.  Maria  C.  Lyon,  who  survived  him  several  years. 


INDEXES 


HISTORICAL-BIOGRAPHICAL 


INDEX— HISTORICAL 


History  proper  ends  with  page  572,  Vol.  II.    Part  Two,  Biographical,  follows 
immediately  thereafter,  and   is  paged  continuously  unto  Vol.  III. 


Abbott,  Amos,  234 

Abbott,  Capt.  Edward,  ,327 

.Absentee  Ownership,  426 

Agricultural  Society.  T29 

Ansart,  Col.,  98 

.'Xnti-Slavery,  91;  beginning  of  agita- 
tion, 204 

.Appleton,   Nathan,   148 

.Arkwright  Spinning  Frame,  133;  im- 
provements,  135 

An  Association,  455 

.Arts  and  Artists,  525;  list  of  artists,  528 

.\rt  Panoramas,  317 

.Articles  manufactured  in  Lowell,  417 

.Athletics,  384 

Authors  of  Lowell,  475 

.Ayer,  Frederick  F.,  451 

Ayer,  Dr.  James  C,  24r3 

Aj'er,  James  H.,  222 

Ayer  Home  for  Young  Women  and 
Children,  378 

Ayer's  New  City,  232 

Baldwin,  Col.  Loammi,  114 
Bancroft,  Col.  Jeflferson,  221 
Baptist  Church,  first,  igS 
Bartlett,   Dr.   Elisha.  220 
Base  Ball,  385 
Belvidere,   125,   182 
Beverly,  Cotton  manufactured  at,  137 
Bibliography,  463 

Billerica,  parent  town  of  Lowell,  22 
Board  of  Trade,  422 
Boott,  Kirk,   149 
Borland,  John,  46 
Boulevard,  441 
Boundaries,  71 
Bowers,  Col.  Joseph,  120 
Bowers,  "Johnnie,"  315,  ,387 
Bradley,  Amos,  57 
Bridge,  Col.  Ebenezer,  82 
Bridges,  early,  25;    new,  364 
Bunker  Hill.  Battle  of,  82 
Butler,  Benj.  F.,  194;  in  Civil  War,  291  ; 
quoted,  330;  as  Governor,  362 


Canals,  in;  the  Middlesex,  113;  navi- 
gation, 117;    excavations  of,  133 

Carpet  Manufacture,  beginning  of,  165; 
development  of,  245 

Catholic  Church,  271;  St.  Peter's,  271; 
St.  Michael's,  553 

Cemetery,  275 

Census  of  1778,  87 

Centennial  Exposition,  Lowell  at,  351 

Central   Bridge,  230 

Centralville,  231 

Centralvillc  .Academy,  185 

Channing  Fraternity,  ,379 

Charitable   Organizations,  380 

Chelmsford,  founding  of,  21 ;  in  the 
Revolution,  79 

Christian  Hill,  56,  185 

Churches,  early,  127 

Church  League,  408 

Circulating  Library,  203 

City  Hall,  old,  224;    new,  427 

City  Library,  229 

City  Marshal,  226 

Civil  War,  Lowell's  part  in,  285;  Lo- 
well companies  prepare,  289;  lead- 
ership of  Gen.  Butler,  290;  de- 
parture of  6th  Regiment,  294;  the 
Baltimore  Martyrs,  296;  Capt. 
Follansbee's  account  of  Baltimore 
Massacre,  297;  deaths  of  Whitney 
and  Ladd,  299;  their  obsequies, 
302;  home  sacrifices,  305;  return 
of  6th  Regiment,  319;  Lowell  men 
in  other  regiment^,  319;  Lowell 
men  in  the  Navy,  323;  how  Lowell 
supported  the  National  Administra- 
tion, 331 

Coal,  introduction  of,  210 

Coburn,  Capt.  Peter,  83 

Coburn,  Samuel  A.,   160 

Colburn,  Edward,  32 

Colburn,  Warren,  172 

Comments  on  Lowell,  208,  209 

Commission  Government,  437 


430 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


Commons  establishecl.  224 

Concord  River,  9 

Congregational  Church,  first,  198; 
others,  266,  268,  269 

Congress,  first  election  to,  i86;  Lowell 
members  before  Civil  War,  233; 
after  Civil  War,  362 

Cook,  James,  233 

Corporations,  Manufacturing,  419 

Corporation  Boarding  Houses,  estab- 
lished, 155;    abandonment  of,  424 

Cosmopolitanism  of  City,  344,  395 

Cotton  Manufacture,  beginning  of,  243 

Court  House,  226 

Crompton  Loom,  245 

Cushing,  Caleb,  233 

Daughters  of  American  Revolution,  455 
Dickens,  Charles,  quoted,  255 
Dimon,  Gen.  Charles  A.  R.,  321 
Directory,   first,   179 
Distinguished  Visitors,  210,  235,  255 
Dracut,  beginnings  of,  29;    laid  out,  53; 

in  the  Revolution,  83 
Drama,  the,  279 

Dramatic  Entertainments,  early,  202 
Driven   Wells,  442 

Early  Settlers,  13,  19 
East   Chelmsford,  beginnings  of,  27;    a 
mill  village,  147;    post-office  at,  1S6 
Edson  Orphanage,  378 
Eliot,  John,  18 
Election,  contested,  loi 
Episcopal  Church,  269 
Evered,  John,  28 

Factories,  erection  of,  153:  genesis  of 
workers  in,  180;  physical  and  moral 
conditions,  247,  248;  Charles  Dick- 
ens,  quoted,   255 

Fair  Grounds,  232 

Father  Mathew  Temperance  Institute, 
378 

Ferries,  old-time,  56 

Fire  Department,  beginning  of,  195; 
modern   establishment,  228 

Fish  and  Game  Commission,  461 

Fisheries,  early,  62 

Fiske,  Rev.  John,  66 

Fletcher,  Lieut.  William,  28 

Ford,   Capt.  John,  8r 

Francis,  James  B.,  237 


French     Canarlians 


FreiK-l 
FrencI 


)f,     .342; 


General  Hospital,  376 
Gilman,  Alfred,  149 
Glass    Manufacturing,    122 
Gookin,  Gen.  Daniel,  17,  38 
Goulding,  John,   122 
Greeks,  coming  of,  399 
Green,  Benjamin,  175 

Iladley,  Samuel  P.,  118 

Hale's  Brook,  121 

Hale,   Moses,   121 

Hamilton   Company,   163 

Hanks,  Rev.  Stedman.  267 

Hapgood  Wright  Centennial  Trust 
Fund,  391 

Highland  Club,  383 

High  School,  beginning  of.  193;  de- 
velopment of,  225 

Highways.  441 

Hildreth,   Lieut.   Israel.  97 

Hildreth,  Sergeant  Richard,  54 

Hill  Cadets,  320 

Historical  Society,  453 

Holden,  Artemas,  161 

Hosford,  Hocum,  311 

Hosiery  Compau}',  356 

Hospital,  opening  of,  265 

Howard   Benevolent  Society,  266 

Howe,  Elias,  Jr.,  176 

Hunt,  Samuel,  58 

Huntington,  Dr.  Elisha,  221 

Huntington  Hall,  380 

Hurd,  Thomas,   147,  167 

Hydraulic  Engineering,  237 

Industrial  Leasers,  169 
Industries,  new,  353 
Institution  for  Savings,  201 
Irish,  coming  of,   170;    school  for  chil- 
dren,  194 

Jackson,  Patrick  T.,  214 

Jail,  227 

Journalism,    487;     "The    Courier,"   488; 

Short-lived     journals,     494;     "Vo.x 

Populi,"   495:     "The    Citizen,"   499; 

"Times,"    "Mail,"    "Sun,"    "News," 

500 


4;ii 


King  Philip's  War,  34 
Kitson,  Richard,  355 
Knapp,  Chauncey  L.,  235 

Labor  Strike  of  1903,  410 

Ladd  and  Whitney  Monument,  336 

Law  and  Lawyers;  early  and  later 
practitioners,  535 

Lawrence,  A.  &  A.,  167 

Lawrence,  Ambrose.  223 

Lews,  the  Musical,  2S1 

Lexington  Alarm,  80 

Library  at  Chelmsford,  129 

Lincoln,   assassination  of,  337 

Liquor  Traffic,  446 

Livermore,  Edward  S.  L.,  182 

Living,  mode  of  in  early  days,  59; 
later  cost  of,  421 

Locks  and  Canal  Company,  145 

Locomotive  Engine,  first  built  in  Lo- 
well, 215 

Lowell,  a  landmark  in  National  In- 
dustry, i;  founders  of,  14S;  incor- 
poration of,  157;  first  selectmen, 
161;    city  incorporated,  216 

Lowell  Dispensary,  265 

Lowell,  Francis  Cabot,  his  power  loom, 
138 

Lowell  Manufacturing  Company,  165 

"Lowell  Offering,"  472 

Lowell  Textile   School,  414 

Lyceum  Bureau,  312 

Mack,  Sewell  G.,  222 

Mansur,  Stephen,  223 

Manufacturing,  before  the  Revolution, 
64;  irregularities  exposed  by  Dr. 
J.  C.  Ayer,  309 

Mayors,  early,  220;  after  the  Civil 
•  War,  357 

McAlvin,  John   H.,  311 

Mechanics'  Fair  of  1851,  282 

Medical  Association,  504 

Medical   Practitioners,  503 

Meeting  House,  first,  66:  "Old  Yellow 
House."  68 

Meigs  Memorial,  372 

Memorial  Building,  427;  laying  of  cor- 
ner-stone,  433;    dedication   of,  435 

Men  of  Wealth,  277 

Merchants,  old-time,  178 

Merrill,  Joshua  N.,  189 

Merrimack  Company,  IS4;  agents  of, 
349 


Merrimack  Mill,   163 

Merrimack  River,  7;    237 

Methodist  Church,  199 

Middlesex  Canal,  242 

Middlesex  Mechanics  Association,  in- 
corporated, 200;  growth  of,  263; 
passing  of,  452 

Middlesex-Merrimack  Bridge,  107 

Middlesex  Village,  119 

Middlesex  Women's  Club,  459 

Mill,  the  first,  65 

Monuments,  Victory,  527;  Rodin  Statue, 
528 

Moody.  Paul,  140 

Mullin,  Rev.  Francis  J.,  562 

Musical  Arts,  201 

Musical  Lews,  313 

Nesmiths,  the,  183 

Newspapers,  423 

North   Billerica   Bridge,   110 

O'Connell,  Cardinal,  449 

Old  Ladies'  Home,  377 

Old  Marshall  Tavern,  126 

Old  Residences,  124 

Old  Residents'    Historical    .-Xssociation, 

388 
Old  Stone  House,  203 
Old  Yellow  House,  181 

Parker,  Benjamin,  68 
Parker,  Rev.  Thomas,  67 
Park  System,  4.?8 
Passaconaway,  Indian  Chief,  14 
Patent    Medicines,    beginning   of,   246; 

multiplication     of,     357;     at     their 

zenith,  420 
Pawtucket    Falls,    11,   95;     first   bridge 

at,  107;    canal  at,  III 
Pcirce   (Pierce),   Benjamin,  82 
People's   Club,  379 
Physicians,  old,  503;    list  of,  522 
Police  Court,  early,  227 
Polyglot  Colonies,  406 
Postmasters,  232 
Public  Health.  44S 
Public  Library,  443 

Railroads,    projected,    211;     Boston    & 
Lowell  road,  213;    first  train  out  of 
Lowell,  214 
Religious  Developments,  447 
Richardson,  Lieut.  James,  40 


42- 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


Roads,  early,  24 

Rogers  Hall  School,  460 

Royal,  Silas,  92 

Running  Water,  introduction  of,  228 

Sanitary   Fair,  ,i32 

Sawyer,  Jonathan,  177 

Sawyer,  Wesley,  176 

Schools,   early,    129;     modernization   of, 

188,    191;     school   boys'   fights,   317; 

development  of  school,  367:    princi- 

palship    of    Charles    C.    Chase    and 

Frank  F.  Coburn,  368 
Shaw,  Rev.  John  J.,  559 
Shay's  Rebellion,  99 
Skinner,  Deborah,  154 
Slackers  in  the  T'levolution,  86 
Slater,  Samuel,  establishes  cotton  mills, 

137 
Slavery,   61 
Social  Life,  276 
Soldiers'  Aid  Association.  303 
Soldiers'  Monument,    338 
Sons  of  American  Revolution,  453 
Southwick,  Royal,  173 
Sprague,  Nicholas,  65 
St.  Anne's  Church,  156,  196 
St.  John's  Hospital,  375 
St.  Patrick's  Church,  171 
State    Normal    School,   447 
Stott,  Charles,  175 
Street  Cars,  first,  312 
Streets,  extension  of,  364 
Sullivan,  John  L.,  116 
"Survey,"    by    Rev.    George 

gott,  451 
Surveys,  early,  8 


Taverns,  old,  106 
Telephone,   Lowell  a 
Temperance    Agitati 


cicty  in  Lowell,  207;  Reminiscences 

of  Judge   Hadley,  207 
Tewksbury  Investigation,   363 
Tewksbury  in  the  Revolution,  84 
Textile  Plants,  162 
Textile  School,  the  Lowell.  415 
Toll  Bridge,  287 
Trades   L'nionism,  346 
Trolley  System,  ,?70 
Tyng's  Island,  34 

Lnion   Rail,  204 
L'nit.'iriaus,   the.    igq,   275 
Univcrsalists,   the,  271 


Varnums,    the:     Jidin,   31 
61;    Joseph    r...   75.  9 


Vespr 
V  espe 


o;     Joseph, 
Molly,  78; 


Wamcsit,  11:    Indians,  16,  39;    the  pro- 

lirictors,   50:    later  history,   144 
Wannahmcet,  Indian  Chief,  43 
War  of  181J,  103 
\\  asliingtonian  Temperance  Movement, 

109 
Water     Power,     development    of.     131; 

improvement   of,  353 
Water     Supply,     storage     basin,     241; 

water  works,  366 
\\"ebster.    Ilumphroy,    177 
WentUM,-.!,.   T,„.|M.i.   J.U 
Wlllli|il>  ,   I  <:<:,■,-.    ij; 


Whi-llrr,    Ma,     (,.  ,ir-i-  W.. 

174 

Kenn- 

Whistler,  James   M.,  457 
Willow  Dale,  3T4.  385 
Wilson,   Henry,  234 

Woolen  Companies,  merger 

of,  415 

Wright,  Alexander,  173 

37,^ 

Wright,  Hapgood,  391 

rst    So- 

Yorick    Club,    383 

PART  TWO 


Boott  Mills,  417 

Church  of  Iminaculate  Conception,  ; 

Church  of  Sacred  Heart,  2i)2 

Hamilton  Manufacturing  Co.,  224 

Lowell  Trust  Co.,  320 

Merrimack   Manufacturing  Co.,  yo 


Rubers  Hall  Scho. 
St.  Patrick's  Chur 
St.  Peter's  Churcl 
Traders'  and  Me,- 
406 


INDEX-  BIOGRAPHICAL 

Addenda— White,  p.  155.    Mr.  White  is  a  trustee  of  the  Lowell  Textile  School. 


Abbott,  Adelaide  O 

Benjamin,  234 

David  S.,  236 

Nellie  M.,  236 

Stephen  \V.,  234 
Ames,  Adelbert.  310,  31 

Benjamin  F.,  324 

Blanche,  312 

Butler,  324,  32:^ 

Fiblle,  325 

Jesse,  311 
Anderson,  Francis  D.,  ; 

Mary  E.,  79 

William  H.,  77 
Appleton,  Edward,  396 

Francis  E.,  396,  397 

Sarah  L.,  397 
Archambault,  Amedee,  : 

Dewey  G.,  289 

Henry  A.,  289 

Pierre,  288 

Rose  F.,  289 
Ayer,  Elisha,  17 

Frederick,  17 

Frederick  F.,  22 

James  C,  Dr.,  16,  17 

Josephine  M.,  21 

Bachelder  (  Batchelder) 
147 

George  H.,  145,   146 

Henry  S.,  145 

Lidwyn,  147 

Nathaniel,  146 

Stephen,  Rev.,  145 
Bachmann,  Fannie,  183 

Hermann  H.,   183 
Baker,  Alvah  S.,  33 

Chester  S.,  Dr.,  155 

Grace  H.,  156 

Isabelle,  33 

Smith,  3T 

Smith.  Rev..  31 

William   A.,   155 
L— 28 


236 


Bancroft,  Alice,  80 

Charles,  Rev.,  80 

James,  Rev.,  79,  80 
Barlow,  Alfred  H.,  144,  145 

Elizabeth,  345 

Rrson  B.,  345 

Ira,  345 

Samuel  B.,  145 

Samuel  S.,  145 
Barnes,  Charles  E.,  172 

Charles  O.  (C.  Oliver),  171 

Henrietta,   173 
P.artlett.  Alice  M.,  408 

Will  T.  S.,  408 
Bates.  Eddo  V.,  116 
Beaulieu,  Benjamin,  242 

John  H.,  242 

Marie.  243 
Bell.  Grace  T.,  154 

Robert  .'\.,  Dr.,  154 
Bellefontaine,  Andrew,  141 

Edgar  P.,  142 

Mary  J.,  142 

Miller,  140,  141 
Bill,  Freeman  M., 

Gilman,  219 

Mary  F.,  221 
Blessington,  John  B., 

Mar.L'aret  V'.,  116 
Roott,  Kirk,   194 
Bowers,  George,  165 

Jennie,  167 

Jeralhmeel,  165 

Jesse  E.,  167 

Jonathan,  i6fi 

Joseph,  165,  166, 

Joseph  W.,  167 

Sewall,  166 

William,  166 
Brady,  Anna  A.,  297 

Frank,  297 

Frank  R..  Dr.,  207 
Brierly,  Anna  L.,   169 

David,  167.  168 


219. 


167 


434 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


Eugene  L.,  1 60 

William  H.,  167,  168 
Brown,  Charles,  y)7 

Emma,  354 

George  H..  352,  333 

Hiram  C,  397.  y» 

Mary  F.,  399 

William  H.,  y:>3 
Burrage,  Alvah  L.,  160 

Guy  H..  160 

Hamilton,  150 

Herbert  D.,  160 

John,  159 

John   ().,   160 

Mary,  160 
Butcher,  Arvilla  O..  loi 

Robert  J.,  100 

William,  100 
Butler,  Benjamin  F.,  3,  4 

Hannah  B.,  6b 

John,  4 

Sarah,  6 

Paul,  ()a 

Zeplianiah,  4 

Caisse,  Cecile,  241 

Wolf  red  P.,  240 

Wolfred  P.,  Jr.,  240 
Cameron,  Albert  B.,  184 

Alexander,  184 

Catherine,  184 
Campbell,  Abel  R.,  122,   123 

Charles,  276 

Claude  M.,  122 

Edward  G.,  276 

Florence  M.,  123 

Idola,  276 
Carter,  Albert  D.,  56,  57 

H.  Adie,  58 

John,  56,  57 

Orlando,  56 
Chalifoux,  Elizabelh  A,.  304 

Harold  L.,  301,  303 

Joseph,  302 

Joseph  L.,  301,  302 
Chase,  Charles  C,  271 

Frederick  A.,  271 

Helen  L.,  271 
Clogston,  Annie  J..  360 

Charles  H.,  360 


Coburn.  Bertha,  308 

Charles  B.,  305,  307 

Charles  H.,  305,  307 

Edward,  306 

Ephraim.  306 

Eric  D..  201 

Frank,  igg 

Frederic  W ..  304.  305,  30S 

Frederick  \V.,   199 

Grace  M.,  200 

Henry,  307 

Selena  V..  201 

Thomas,  306 
C(it;nac.  Emery,  174 

Wilfred  E.,  174,  175 
Colburn,  Warren,  197 
Collins.  Amelia  A.,  306 

.■\nnie,  266 

Harold  C.  3'/i 

J.  Henry,  395 

Michael,  395 
Conant,  E.  B.,  301 

J.  E.,  301 
Conway,  Ella  F.,  127 

George  F.,  126 

James  E.,  126 
Cruickshank,  Alexander,  266,  2f37 

Alexander  M.,  268 

Elizabeth,  267 

John,  267 
Cumnock,  .Alexander  G.,  418,  419 

Frances   F,,  422 

Robert  L..  410 
Cusbing,  Henry  W..  62 

Lester  H..  Prof.,  61,  62 

Marion,  62 

Delany,  Bryan,  240 

Catherine,  249 

John  B.,  Rt.  Rev.,  249,  230 

Thomas,  249 
Demcrs.  Adelard  P.,  143 

Helcne  E.,  144 

Pierre.   143 
Dcmpscy,  .\rthur.  381 

P.ri.lget.  383 

Christopher,  381 

George  C,  3^3 

Margaret.  383 

Patrick,  380,  381,  382 

Sarah,  383 


INDEX 


Derby,  Henry  B.,  326 
John,  Dr.,  326 
Lucius  .v.,  326,  327 
Nellie  L.,  328 
Simeon,  326 
Devine,  Emma  F.,  373 
Neal,  372 
Patrick  F.,  372 
Dickey,  Charles  M.,  247 
Joseph,  247 
Julia  A.,  248 
Donahue,  Daniel,  186 
Daniel  J.,  186 
Joseph  P.,   187 
Katherine,  187 
Donehue,  John  T.,  236 
John  T.,  Jr.,  Dr.,  236,  237 
Nellie  T.,  237 
Donnelly,  James  E.,  401 

John  J.,  401 
Donoghue,  Caroline  E.,  269 
Patrick,  268 
Richard  S.,  268,  269 
Douglas,  Edgar  H.,  236 

Nellie,  236 
Dunbar,  Frank  E.,  58,  59 
John  F.,  59 
Mary  C.  59 
Dunsford,  Jeanie,  61 
Reuben.  60 
Samuel,  60 

Fames,  Charles  H.,  127 

Lemuel,  127 

Mary  W.,  128 
Entvvistle,  Amanda  A.,  348 

Ralph,  347 

Thomas  C,  347 


Fairbanks,  Charles  F 

Henry  P.,  279 

Israel,  278,  279 

John,  278 

Jonathan,  278 

Joseph,  278 

Stephen,  279 

William  K.,  277,  280 
Fairburn,  Beulah  A.,  266 

George,  265 

George  C,  265,  266 


280 


Farnham,  Eleanor  P.,  295 
Frederick  W.,  294 
William  L.,  294 
Fisher,  Caleb  E.,  Rev.,  67 

Nehemiah,  ,67 
Flathcr,  Alice  P.,  417 
Frederick  A.,  416 
Joseph,  416 
Mary  S.,  417 
Flynn,  J.  P.,  Rev.,  293 
Foye,  Edward  H.,  270 
Emma  M.,  376 
Frank  W.,  375 
James  H.,  375 
Madeline  E.,  271 
William  P.,  270 
French,  Albert  F.,  103,  107 
David,  106 
Edmund,  106 
Etta  E.,  108 
John,  104,  105 
Joshua,  107 
William,  103 
Friend,  Mary  A.,  181 
Robert,  180 
Robert  A.,  180 

Gage,  Abiah  S.,  245 

Daniel,  243,  244 

David,  244 

John,  244 

Nathan,  244 
Gagnon,  Arthur  J.,  Dr..  403 

Boniface,  403 

Hermine,  404 
Gallagher.  Edward,  386,  387 

James,  386 

Katherine,  38/ 
Gamble.  James  H.,  415 

Laura  B..  416 
Gatsopoulos,  Edith,  357 

John  K.,  Dr.,  355,  356 

Konstas,  356 
Gcnerales,  Demosthenes  J.,  D 

John  A.,  321 

Urania  C,  323 
Gilbride,  Patrick,  230 

Patrick,  Jr.,  229,  230 

Rose  A.,  231 
Goldsmith,  William  H..  Jr.,  41 


43^' 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


Grannis.  Appletnii,  F-iev.,  62,  63 

Harrington.  Annie  M..  36 

Charles   K.,  63 

Edith.  157 

Graves,  Harrison  P.,  15;.  158 

Jeremiah  J..  157 

Helen,  159 

J"hn.  34 

Orville  D.,  158 

J'.hn  H..  33.  34 

Greeley,  Andrew.  341 

J(..hn  R.,   156,  157 

Joseph,  341 

Harris.  Edith  E.,  219 

Green,  Benjamin,  283 

Emma  R.,  72 

Isadore,  282 

George  W.,  68,  69 

Marian  M.,  283 

George  W.,  Jr.,  72 

Moses,  282 

Henry  H.,  217,  218 

Rena,  283 

Jasper,  6q 

Greene,  John  :^1.,  Rev..  345,  346 

Susan,  72 

Louise,  347 

Thomas,  68 

Guillet,  Clara,  67 

Hatch,  Arthur  E..  383.  384 

Jean  C,  64 

Maude  T.,  384 

Joseph  H.,  64,  65 

Hehert,  Alfred.  393 

Leah  M.,  67 

Alzear.  393 

Pierre,  64 

Joseph,  31)2 

Pierre  Z.,  3<:)2 

Hsggerty,  Ann  E.,  239 

Romeo,  3',3 

James,  238 

kcsaline.  yjs 

Patrick,  238 

Hickey.  Eleanor  E..  400 

Philip  P..  237.  238 

Walter.  39Q 

Winifred  C,  240 

Walter  H.,  39Q 

Hall,  Albert  S.,  363 

Hood,  Charles  L,  22,  23 

Adelaide  G.,  364 

Hovey.  Catherine.  206 

Catherine,  363 

Charles.  201 

Charles  S.,  363 

Charles  E..  207 

Frank  D.,  363 

Daniel,  206 

Lemuel,  362 

Henry  E..  Rev..  207 

Levi,  362 

Sarah  L..  207 

Rexeville  E.,  3('3 

Howard.  Albert  S..  72.  73 

Seth,  361 

Edna  M.,  73 

Seth  B.,  360,  362 

William  H.,  7-'.  73 

William,  360,  361 

Howe,  Henry  C,  276,  277 

Zuriel,  361 

John  S.,  276 

Halloran,  Alice  M.,  229 

Walter  H„  276,  27/ 

Daniel  C,  228 

Huntoon,  Bernice  E.,  46 

Timothy  J.,  Dr.,  228 

Charles,  45 

Hally,  Bridget,  374 

David,  45 

Patrick,  374 

George  L.,  44,  45 

Patrick  J..  Rev.,  374 

John.  44 

Hamel,  .Alhcrt  O.,  43 

Lucy,  4'- 

.\ntoine,  43 

I  hihp.  J4 

Harmon,  .\lbert  N..  150 

Samuel,  44 

Alice  E.,  I, SI 

Hylan,  Esther  J..  388 

.^Imon  L.,  ISO 

Eugene  S..  3'^7 

Harrigan,  George  M.,  316,  317 
John,  316 
Maria  C,  320 


Jackson.  Clara  T..  95 
Lawrence   M.,  95 


INDEX 


437 


William   B.,  Dr.,  94 
William  C,  95 
Johnson,  Annie,  177 
Apostolos  A.,  188,  189 
Catherine,  i8g 
Hugh  T.,  178 
John,  176 
John  H.,  178 
Joseph,  176 
Thomas  W.,  176,  177 

Keleher.  Daniel  J.,  Rev.,  55 

James,  55 
Kelley,  Julia  A.,  401 

Patrick,  400 
Kenney,  Frank  B..  349 
Kimball,  Cromwell,  290 

Earle  R.,  290,  292 

LeDoit  E.,  290 

Myrta  M.,  291 

Theodate  P.,  292 
Kludjian,  Assadour  H..  Dr.,  189 

Hagop,  189 

\artouhie,  190 
Knapp,  Elijah,  226 

Harrj-  P.,  226,  227 

Helen  M.,  228 

Joel,  226 

Joseph,  226 
Krasnye,  John  F.,  Dr.,  262 

Ladd,  Daniel,  342 

Ella  P.,  344 

Eunice  A.,  343 

Frank  J.,  344 

Isaac,  342 

Jonathan,  341,  342 

Nathaniel,  342 
Laurin,  Alice  M.,  50 

Henry  A.,  Dr.,  49,  50 

Martin,  50 
Lawrence,  Luther,  198 
Lees,  Adelaide  G.,  143 

Margaret,  143 

T.  Archie,  143 

Thomas,  142 

Thomas,  Jr.,  142 
Legare,  Frank  N.,  128 

Joseph  A.,  128 
Lennon,  John.  263,  264 

John  F.,  Dr.,  265 


Mary,  264 

Mary  E.,  265 

Michael,  264 

Thomas  E.,  265 
Lepine,  Benjamin,  182 

Maxime,  181,  182 

Stella,  182 

Zanaide,  182 
Livingston,  .^sa,  85 

Daniel,  85 

John,  84 

Mary  E.  C,  87 

Rena  F.,  88 

William,  84.  85,  87 

William  E.,  84,  86 
Lovcjoy,  .Andrea  N.,  275 

Christopher,  273 

Daniel,  272,  273 

Elwyn  W.,  274 

Jonathan,  273 

Ralph,  273 

Roy  F.,  275 
Lowell,  Francis  C,  190,  191 

John,  Rev.,  191 

MacBrayne,  Lewis  E.,  15 

Sarah  E.,  t6 

William  S.,  15 
McDonough,  Edward  K.,  359 

George  M.,  359 

Harry  L.,  359 

John  L.,  359 

Margaret,  359 

Margaret  E.,  359 

Michael  H.,  358 

Thomas,  358 
McEvoy,  John  A.,  255 

Mary  C,  255 

Thomas.  255 
McGilly,  Frank  P.,  332 

Mary  G.,  333 

Patrick,  332 
McKinlcy,  Emma  B.,  137 

Etta  M.,  136 

James  D.,   137 

James  H.,  135,  136 

Robert,  135 
McLean,  Thomas,  63 

William  C,  Dr.,  63,  64 
McMahon,  Edward  L..  247 

Francis,  247 


438 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


loll. 


140 


Joseph   F..  246 

Katherine,  247 

Patrick,  246 

William,  247 
Mack,  Mary  A..  389 

Michael   ')..  388 

William  A.,  388 
Malioney,  Alice  T., 

Benjamin  J.,   138 

Dennis,  151 

J.ihn,  138,  413 

John  D.,  413 

John  J.,  413 

Mollie,   152 

Patrick  J.,  151 
Mansitr,  Charles  H.,  i 

Elizabeth  A.,  154 

Fanny  S.,  214 

George  W.,  214 

Mary  J.,  213,  214 

Stephen,  213 

Stephen  M.,   154 

William  C,  213,  214 

William  L.,  214 
Marcoponlos,  George,  1 

John,   187,  188 
Marden,  Ella  B.,   14 

Florence  S.,  13 

George  A.,  11 

Philip  S.,  II 

Robert  P.,  13 
Marin,  Joseph,  241 

Josephine,  242 
Marren,  Charles  L.,  17 

John,  173 

Theresa,  174 
Martin,  Charles  A.,  20 

Kate  S.,  207,  208 

Laurin,  208 

Laurin  H.,  208 

Leonard,  208 
Meagher,  Grace  A.,  18 

John,  181 

Michael  J.,  Dr.,  181 
Means,  Robert,  198 
Meehan,  Francis  G.,   i; 

John,  152 

John  F.,  124,  125 

John  P.,  132 

Nellie  v.,  126 

Patrick,   12; 


Milliken,  Albert  D.,  222 

Ebcn  C.  222 

Elizabeth  B.,  224 
Mitchell,  Charles  A.,  129,  i^ 

Daniel  F.,  129 

Elizabeth  M.,  131 

Frederick  G.,  129,  130 

Helen  G..   130 
Molloy,  Catherine  O..  409 

Charles  H.,  408,  409 

James.  408 

Joseph  A.,  4og 

Leo  C,  410 
Moody,  Charles  H.,  149 

James  E.,  149 

Mary  G.,  150 

Paul,   195 
Morrison,  Mary  G.,  340 
Morse,  Charles  J.,  46,  47 

Matilda,  48 

William,  46 
Munn,  Amy  B.,  124 

Arthur  T.,   123 
Murphy,  Alice  B.,  90 

Daniel  J.,  iii 

Dennis,  88 

Dennis  J.,  88,  89 

John,  88 

John  H.,  no.  III 

Martha  G.,  in 
Mussey,  Frank  T.,  384 

George  L..  384 

Pearl  E.,  385 

Nesmith,  John,  6b 
Newhall,   Henry  L.,  259,  2C)i 

Hiram,  261 

Jonathan,  261 

Joshua,  261 

Susan  M.,  262 

Thomas,  260 

O'Brien,  John,  98 

John,  Rev.,  96 

Michael,  Rev.,  96,  97 

Patrick  J.,  30 

William,  Rev.,  98 

William  P..  Dr.,  29,  30 

William  H.,  30 
O'Connell,  John  J.,  407 

Mary  A.,  408 

Timothy,  407 


INDEX 


O'Dea,  Daniel  D.,  391,  392 

Lawrence.  391 
O'Donnell,  Charles  C,  149 

Constantine,  147 

Daniel,   147 

James  E.,  117 

James  F.,  117 

Katharine  F.,  148 

Mary,  118 
O'Neill,  Cornelius  J.,  99 

Dennis  F.,  99 
O'Sullivan,  Hannah,  352 

Humphrey,  349,  350 

James,  350 

Timothy,  349 

William.  349 
Olney,  Albert  H.,  329 

Bertha  H.,  329 

Louis  A.,  329 
Osgood,  Harriet  L.,  310 

Helen  A.,  310 

William  N..  309 

Parker,  Aaron,  74,  75 

Alice  C,  403 

Ethel  M.,  281 

H.  Hutchins,  281 

Hannah,  336 

Henry  F.,  75 

John,  74 

Jonas,  74 

Josiah,  401,  402 

Kendall,  335 

Lina  S.,  403 

Mildred  M.,  -jj 

Moses  G.,  Dr.,  334,  336 

Peter,  336 

Ralph  W.,  Dr.,  74.  77 

Samuel  G..  401,  402 

Sarah,  403 

Theodore,  336 

Theodore  E.,  340 

Thomas,  74 

Walter  S.,  75 
Parsons,  Olive  S.,  315 
Patten,  Aaron,  256 

Henry  N.,  259 

Nellie  F.,  259 

William  H.,  256 

William  T..  256,  258 
Perkins,  Eva  S.,  115 


George  H.,  114 

George  H.,  Jr.,  113,  114 
Pinardi,  Charles  A.,  369 

John  M..  369 

Josephine,  370 
Pitts,  .\rthur,  364 

Ellen.  366 

Harry,  364.  365 
Pollard.  Arthur  G..  7,  8 

Harry  G.,  II 

Isaac.  7 

Joseph  S.,  8 

Martha  M..  11 

Thomas,  7 

William,  7 
Prince.  Arthur  0..  118 

Bertha  I.,  119 

George  C,  118 
Putnam,  Addison,  298 

Alice  F.,  389 

Frank  P.,  298 

George  E.,  loi 

Mary  R.,  103 

Nellie,  103 

Newell  F.,  389 

Sarah,  299 

Qua,  .\lice  L.,  324 
Francis  M.,  324 
Francis  W.,  324 
Robert,  324 
Stanley  E.,  324 

Ranlett,  Charles,  109 

Elizabeth  A.,  110 

Orrin  B.,  108,  109 
Regan,  John,  49 

Katherine  J.,  49 

William.  48 

William  D.,  48,  49 
Reilly,  Mary  E.,  332 

Michael,  331 

Peter  W.,  331 
Rice,  Harry  R.,  295 

Henry,  295 

Mary  E.,  29' 
Richardson,  Caroline  A.,  43 

Daniel,  40 

George  F.,  40,  41 

Marietta,  43 


HISTORY  OF  LOWELL 


Robbiiis.  George  A.,  366 

Lilla  E.,  367 

Thomas  G.,  366 
Robinson,   Blanche,  379 

Hannah,  411 

Ingrid  I.,  411 

James  P..  410 

James  P.,  Jr.,  41 1 

John   W.,  378 

Joseph,  378 

Margaret,  411 

Richard  T.,  41 1 
Pochette,  Louis  V.,  Dr.,  161 

Norbert,   161 

Romula,   161 

Stephen  L.,   ifio,   161 
Rogers,  Elisabeth,  313 

Emily,  313 
Rollinson,  Firth  B.,  412 

Louisa,  413 

Samuel  C,  412 
Rourke,  Elizabeth,  122 

Fred  H.,  121 

Mary  E.,  122 

Patrick,  121 
Runels,  Charles,  393,  394 

Chester  M.,  394 

George,  394 

Mary  E.,  394 

Ralph  E..  394 

Saunders,  .\lice  J.,  391 

Edward,  390 

John  F.,  389,  390 
Sawyer,  Jolm  W.,  84 

Joseph,  83 

Joseph  VV.,  84 

Mary  A.,  84 

Mary  E.,  84 

Reuben,  83 

Wesley,  Dr.,  83 
Scribner,  Carrie  A.,  234 

Charles,  233 

Edward  H.,  232,  233 

Ernest  D.,  234 

Stephen  H.,  234 

Warren  F.,  234 
Shaw,  Adam,  209 

Adam  E.,  Dr.,  209 

Matilda  J.,  210 
Shepard,  Fannie  A.,  82 

Jesse,  81 


Jesse  H..  80,  82 

Ralph.  ,*i 

Thomas,  81 

William.  81 

William  E.,  81 
Simpson,  Edwin  A.,  245 

Laura  E.,  246 

OHnthus  A.,  245 
Slack,  Samuel,  162 

Samuel  B.,   162 

Sarah,    162 
Sophos,  Catherine  C,   l8fi 

Emmanuel  G.,  185 

George,  185 

John  G.,  185 
Southworth,  Constant,  405 

Ella  F.,  40O 

Gordon  B.,  405 

Gustavus  W.,  405 

William  S.,  404,  405 
Spillane,  George  H.,  379,  380 

John  E.,  380 

Mary  E.,  380 
Sprague,  Levi,  210.  211,  214 

Levi  K.,  216 

Lydia  P.,  212 

Mary  E.,  216 

Paschal,  216 

Susan  F.,  217 

William  H.,  214 
Stanley,  George  D.,  170 

George  E.,  170 

Harry  L.,  170 

Marie  A.,  171 

Phineas,  170 
Stevens,  Alice,  357 

Charles  A.,  357,  358 

Grace  R.,  358 

Jonathan  T.,  357 

Julia  W.,  358 

Oliver,  358 

Tyler  A.,  358 
Stile,  Alva  G.,  369 

Andrew  G.,  369 
Strauss,   Abraham,  Dr.,  300 

Alexander,  299 

.Vnscl  L.,  300 

F'redcrick,  299,  300 

Moses.  300 
Sullivan,  Daniel  T.,  283 

Dennis  A,  283 


INDEX 


Etta  F.,  283 
Patrick  F.,  333.  334 
Swapp,  Andrew  F.,  287 
Andrew  G.,  2S7 
Sophia  L.,  288 

Taylor,  Albion  C,  377 

Albion  C,  Jr.,  377 
Thompson,  Albert  G.,  284 

Alice  M.,  287 

Emma  F.,  135 

Fannie  A.,  285 

Nathaniel,  284 

Perry  D.,  286 

Perry  G.,  287 

Samuel,  133 

Samuel  H.,   133 

Susan  E.,  285 
Tighe,  L.  T.,  Rev.,  372 
Tripp,  Charles  A.,  154 

Elizabeth  W.,  154 

John,  153 
Trull,  Hannah  J.,  355 

Jesse,  354 

Larkin  T.,  354 

Nathaniel,  354 
Tucke,  Edward,  406 

Edward  M.,  406 
Turcotte,  Louis  P.,  412 

Marcelline,   412 

V'arnum,  Charles  F.,  iig,  120 
Nellie  H.,  121 
Percy  E.,  119,  120 
Samuel,  119 

Wadleigh,  Carrie  M.,  94 

Joseph,  93 

Jude  C,  92,  93 

Robert,  93 
Walsh,  Adelaide  F.,  331 

Adelaide  J.,  331 

Alonzo  G.,  330 

Elizabeth  M.,  331 

Francis  P.,  331 

Richard,  330 

Richard  B.,  331 
Ward,  George  M.,  Rev.,  38 

George  W.,  Dr.,  37 

Julia  E.,  39 


Mary  F.,  38 

Sullivan  L.,  Dr.,  37 
Welch,  Anna,  163 

Ellen,  163 

Redmond,  163 

Redmond,  Jr.,  163 
White,  .Agnes  P.,  155 

Ebenezer,  423 

Edward  L.,  425 

Florence  D.,  386 

George  W.  B.,  113 

Gideon  F.,  154 

Henry  K.,  385 

Maria  C.  425 

Martha,  113 
*Royal   P.,   154 

Samuel,  423 

Samuel  B.,  423 

Theresa,  425 

William,  422,  423 

William  H.,  112,  385 

William  H.,  422  424 

William  P.,   112 

William  T.,  425 
Willson,  Alice  L.,  170 

Francis,  169 

George  A.,  169 

Marian  C,  170 
Wilson,  Benjamin,  178 

Calvin  P.,  178 

Erwin  A.,  178 

Evelyn  A.,  179 

Walter  C,  179 
Wood,  Benjamin  F.,  293 

Charles  R.,  Dr.,  367 

Elliot  F.,  137 

Ethel  L.,  368 

Flora  E.,  294 

George  H.,  293 

Helen  J.,  294 

Josiah,  293 

Robert,  Dr.,  367 

Robert  B.,  367,  368 

William  S.,  137 
Wright,  .\lexander,  131,  132 

Diincan,  131 

Helen  W.,  133 

Peter,  131 

Sabn,,  133 

Sabra  W  .  133 


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