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He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1880, and began a general practice throughout New England, with an office in Boston at No. 30 Court Street. He served for a short time as private secretary to Chief Justice Horace Gray of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He was married February 12, 1885, to Mary Persis, daughter of the Hon. Charles H. and Sarah A. (Oilman) Bell, of Exeter, N.H. Her father was at one time governor of New Hampshire and United States Senator. One child was bom of this marriage, Gladys Loring Bailey. They lived in Boston up to 1890, when they removed to Cambridge. He served as chairman of the City Committee of the Non-Partisan Municipal Party of Cambridge for one year, 1902; is conveyancer for the Cambridge Savings Bank; clerk of the First Church in Cambridge (Unitarian) ; in 1900, became a member of the board of bar examiners of Massachusetts, and in 1903, became chairman of the board. He was elected to membership in the Cambridge Club, and became its president. He is a member of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, where he served for a time as a member of the committee on admission; of the American Free Trade League; the Bailey-Bayley Family Association, of which he was president, and is now treasurer; the Bostonian Society, and the American Bar Association. He left the Republican party when James G. Blaine was nominated for president in 1882, and since that time has acted with the Democratic party.

He has written articles for the Harvard Law Review, and is the author of "Attorneys and their Admission to the Bar of Massachusetts." He assisted in the compilation and pubhcation of a volume of the Bailey genealog>'.

He received his early education at the primary and grammar schools of this city, and prepared for college at the Cambridge Latin School. He matriculated at Harvard with the class of 1898, but, completing the course in three years, graduated at the age of seventeen, with the class of 1897. He next studied civil engineering at the Lawrence Scientific School, received his degree of A.M. in 1898, and entered Harvard Law School, whence he was graduated in 1901. Ha\ang been admitted to the Bar in January of that year, he now became a member of the firm of Stone, Dallinger & Bancroft. His connection with it lasted till 1907. He had, in the meantime, been assistant district attorney of Middlesex County from 1902 to 1906. In 1907 he was district attomej^ for the same County.

At one time General Bancroft was among the most active trial law^^ers in the state, but in 1909 he gave up court practice to take the position of treasurer of the Boston News Bureau. He still maintains his office practice, however. He is a director of the News Bureau and the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Co., and also of the Central Trust Co. of this city.

from 1894 to 1909, when he was retired with the rank of major-general. He has been judge advocate general of Massachusetts. During the Spanish war he held a commission in the United States service as adjutant of the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

He married Mary A. Cogan on June 25, 1902. Her death occurred on October 29, 1903. He married his second wife, Jane W. Waldron, on January 15, 1907.

He is a Congregationalist. He is a member of the following organizations: the Chamber of Commerce, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Union, the Union Boat, Colonial, Harvard (New York), and St. Botolph Clubs.

William Amos Bancroft

WILLIAM AMOS BANCROFT Bancroft, William Amos, president of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, son of Charles B. Bancroft, was bom at Groton, Mass., on April 26, 1855. He received his school education partly (1867-1872) in the Lawrence Academy, Groton, partly (1873-1874) in Phillips Exeter Academy. He then entered Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1878. After studying at the Harvard Law School (1879-1881), he was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1881. In 1882 he was elected to the Cambridge Common Council. He sat in the Legislature from 1883 to 1885. He served the city as alderman in 1891 and 1892, and as mayor from 1893 to 1896. General Bancroft was elected overseer of Harvard in 1893, and at the expiration of his first term in 1899 was re-elected for six years more. Having enlisted in the Massachusetts Volunteer MiHtia in 1875, he reached the rank of major-general after serving in the various grades. At the time of the Spanish War he was appointed brigadier-general of United States Volunteers. He was connected with the Boston Elevated Railway Company from 1885 to 1890. In March, 1896, he renewed his connection with this company, and has been president of it since October, 1899. General Bancroft is a director in the United States, Piuitan and Chelsea Trust Companies; a trustee of the Norwich University, Vermont; Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass.; and Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. He presided at the Massachusetts State Republican

Convention in 1893, and at the 120th anniversary of Phillips Exeter Academy in 1903; he was chief marshal of the Harvard Alumni in 1903, and grand marshal of the Veterans Coltunn in the Hooker Moniunent Parade the same year. He is president of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, Cambridge Club and New England

Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy; a member of the Cincinnati Order of Foreign Wars; Order of Spanish War, and the following clubs : Union, Commercial, Exchange, Art, Colonial (Cambridge) and Middlesex. His marriage to Miss Mary Shaw took place in Boston, 1878.

John Edward Barry

JOHN EDWARD BARRY Barry, John Edward, mayor of Cambridge, was bom on September 18, 1874, his parents having long been residents of Cambridge. He was named for his two uncles, brothers of his mother, and as he was "Eddie," as a child, so he continued to be known by his middle name, until many of his friends did not know that it was not his only one.

all the grades he finished in St. Thomas Aquinas college. Incidentally, Mr. Barry is the first graduate of St. Mary's School to be elected mayor of Cambridge.

A course at a Boston commercial college fitted the young man for entrance into business life. He lost no time selecting an occupation and decided in favor of the railroad business. As a boy he went into the passenger and freight agency of a large trunk line and rose to the position of clerk. He mo^-ed about the railroad offices of Washington Street, increasing his acquaintance and the number of his friends, and, accordingly, received successively better offers, until eleven years ago, he was placed in charge of the New England toiurist department of the Wabash Railroad, with headquarters in Boston. As the agent for the Wabash, it is Mr. Barry's business to persuade and induce persons contemplating a trip to the west or southwest to take his lines. He has been singularly successful in securing patronage, and he arranged for the trip of the Massachusetts delegates to the Denver convention of the Democratic party in 1908.

began to engage modestly in the game as soon as he had a vote. There was always some candidate in whose success he was interested, and he worked heroically soliciting votes for many men who since have reciprocated.

There came a time when he aspired to office, and it was with ease that he was elected to the Common Council from Old Ward 2 in the fall of 1900. Two years he served in the lower body of the City Council, and when he had completed that term he was advanced to the Board of Aldermen. In 1903, 1904 and 1905 he sat in the Board of Aldermen, and during the latter year he was its president.

During 1906 he was a member of the House of Representatives from old Ward 2, and he was courageous enough to try for a second term in a district which had then been made Republican by a normal majority of 1,200. No Democrat was assumed to have a chance in that district, but when the votes were covmted Mr. Barry was defeated by only 83, which shows the hea\^ RepubHcan following he had.

As he did not propose to move out of his home ward in order to reach Beacon Hill again, Mr. Barry had about settled down to the life of an ex-office holder when he was importuned to be a candidate for alderman again. He was returned to the Board of 1908, ending his service in April, 1909.

Two years ago Mr. Barry made his first try for the Democratic nomination for maj^or, and when Mayor Brooks was selected he entered into the campaign a loyal supporter of the party candidate. He did not oppose the renomination of Mr. Brooks, but when the Mayor expressed an intention to retire, Mr. Barry entered the field and became the Democratic candidate.

Probably no candidate for maj^or ever had a more enthusiastic body of volunteer workers or a larger band than were enlisted in the campaign for mayor. Without request and with no instructions from the candidate, scores of young men canvassed the city, conducted a door-beU campaign, rounded up voters on the streets, in the stores and on the cars. Everyone spent his own money in i\Ir. Barr>''s behalf, so strong was the admiration for him.

crease the amount of taxable property as a city of homes merely. It is essential that if we are to add to otir valuation the increase must come from industrial plants.

"It is my hope as Mayor to encourage the location of manufacturing plants in Cambridge. We have large tracts in the northern and eastern sections of the city that offer very attractive industrial sites.

"We hold out to manufacturers good railroad facilities, the privilege of water transportation and proximity to Boston. I believe that manufacturers consider it an advantage to be located near Boston, and in that respect Cambridge is near enough to satisfy anybody.

"I beHeve that much may be accomplished through the co-operation of the city administration and the Citizens' Trade Association. If we strive to secure more manufacturing and endeavor to induce the people who now work here to live in Cambridge we shall be doing a work that means increased business for oiu" merchants as well as an addition to oiu- valuation."

He has little use for the street car lines which pass his door, for Mr. Barry's chief form of recreation and exercise is walking. Being an ardent fresh-air advocate, he usually walks to and from his office, and on the coldest and most blustering days he may be seen tramping across the West Boston Bridge.

Mayor Barry did much to bring about the settlement of the Amherst Street controversy. The question of closing this street threatened at one time to deprive Cambridge of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr. Barry is a member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Union and St. Mary's Catholic Association, and was elected president of the Association of Railroad and Steamship Agents, January 6, 1912.

Beal. His father was bom August, 1845, and is engaged in the grocery business in Danvers. Henry W. Beal received his early education in the public schools of his native town and fitted for college at Phillips Academy. He entered Harvard College as a member of the class of 1897, and, though working his way through, graduated with his class, receiving his degree, Summa Cum Laude, as well as highest honors in history and political economy. After leaving Harvard he took up the study of law at Boston University Law School, and

Henry Williamson Beal

Admitted to the bar, he began to practice law with Col. J. H. Benton, at 102 Ames Building, Boston. One of the noteworthy incidents of his career is that he secured the necessary authority of city, county and state boards to permit the building of the Industrial Track at East Cambridge; this is the only track of its kind in the state of Massachusetts. Mr. Beal is a Republican in politics and was a member of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen in 1909 and 1910. He was a candidate for another term in 1911, but the tidal wave that swept away all the Non-Partisans carried him with it, though he polled a very large vote. He married, June 12, 1902, Miss Bessie Helen Roper, daughter of George H. and Maria L. Roper. They have one child, Bruce Hilton Beal, bom November 17, 1907. Mr. Beal attends the Congregational Church, and is a member of the following organizations: Colonial Club, Cambridge; Boston Real Estate Exchange; Alumni Associations of Harvard; and Phillips Academy Andover Alumni Association.

Henry M. Bird Henry M. Bird

world by industry and enterprise, was bom in Easton, Mass., October 24, 1824, and died in Cambridge, December 27, 1890. He was married to Sarah A. Clark, who was bom in Acworth, N.H., March 2, 1827, and died August 30, 1895, five years after his death. He was educated in the public schools, where he received a good training, and was fully equipped for starting out in the world to make a name in business for himself, which he did most successfully. He entered the employ of the Chelmsford Foundry Co., at North Chelmsford, Mass., in 1840; there he remained for some time, and then went to work in the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass., where he stayed for a number of years, during the last two of which he was foreman. In 1864 he established the Broadway Iron Foundry in Cambridge. He lived to see the plant grow to be one of the most prosperous concerns of Cambridge. His estate carried on the business until 1895, when it was incorporated under the Massachusetts laws. Mr. R. C. Bird was made president, and W. W. Bird, treasurer. The plant comprises a foundry one hundred by one hundred and fifty feet in area, with pattern and fitting shops, and gives steady employment to fifty men. The present Broadway Foundry differs greatly from the foundry established in 1864 by H. M. Bird, yet does resemble it in one respect, for it is equipped with the most improved facilities of the day, just as the original foundry was with the best facilities known nearly half a century ago. To do good work at short notice and for fair prices has always been the policy of the Broadway Foundry.

Mr. Bird was always very active in church affairs, and for a number of years was a deacon in the North Avenue Congregational church, and later filled the same position in the Prospect Street Congregational church. In the latter years of his life he was an ardent supporter of the Prohibition party. The children bom to Mr. and Mrs. Bird are as follows: Charles A. Bird, now with the Albany Sand Company, of New York; George H. Bird, Congregational minister in Chicago; William W. Bird, professor of mechanical engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and Robert C. Bird, who is manager of the Broadway Iron Foundry.

Marshall Franklin Blanchard

MARSHALL FRANKLIN BLANCHARD Blanchard, Marshall Franklin, merchant in Boston, and resident of Cambridge, was bom at Wellfleet, Mass., being the son of Marshall L. Blanchard by his wife Phoebe H. Bunting. His father was bom at Charlestown, Mass., in 1824, his mother at Wellfleet, and both died at

Newton, Mass. Marshall F. Blanchard was educated first at the public schools of Swampscott, Boston and Newton, and afterwards at Bryant and Stratton's Business College. When he had completed the course of studies at this place, he entered the employ of Bunting & Emery, of which firm he is now a member. He has been president of the T Wharf Fish Market since 1902. In national politics he is a Republican; and in municipal, a Non-Partisan. He served the city on the Board of Aldermen from January, 1902, to April, 1911, when he volun- tarily retired, and thus terminated an honorable career of five years in that branch of the City Government. Mr. Blanchard married Emma, daughter of William D. A. Whitman by his wife Emma Paty. Mrs. Blanchard was bom in Boston and so was her mother; her father was a native of Waltham. The marriage took place at Newton. Two children were bom of this union, Arthur F. and Helen. The daughter is dead. Arthur, bom at Newton in 1881, attended the Dana, the Harvard, and the Latin Schools of Cambridge, entered Harvard, and graduated in 1904.

William F. Bradbury

Bradbury, William Frothingham, Master Emeritus of the Cambridge Latin School, was bom in Westminster, Mass., May 17, 1829. He is descended on his father's side from Thomas Bradbury, of Essex County, England, who was bom in 1610, settled in Salisbury, Mass., in 1639, and died in 1695. The line of descent is as follows; (2) William, 1649-1678; (3) William, 1672-1756; (4) James, 1701-? ; (5) Sanders, 1737-1779, killed in the Revolution; (6) James, 1767-1811; (7) William Sanders, 1800-1881. William Sanders Bradbury, the father of the subject of this sketch and a merchant in Westminster, was bom in HoUis, N.H., and attended the common school there. He was a Congregationalist, serving as deacon for many years. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican. He served in the Legislature of Massachusetts, in 1844, and was a trial justice for his district. Elizabeth Emerson, his wife, was bom in HolHs, N.H., July 29, 1800, being a descendant of the Rev. Daniel Emerson (1743-1801), the first minister of HoUis, N.H., through (2) Deacon Daniel Emerson, born December 15, 1746, and (3) the Rev. Daniel Emerson, 1771-1808. The /atter's wife was Esther Frothingham (1770- 1849), and her father. Major Frothingham, who was bom in 1734, served through the Revolution, became a major, entered the honorable ranks of the Cincinnati, and died in 1809. General Washington visited him when on his last tour north, the only special call made by him when in Charlestown. Mr. Bradbury often heard his grandfather say that he remembered being carried out of Charlestown when the British were going to set it on fire. From 1844 to 1848, Mr. Bradbury was employed as clerk in the country- store and post-office of Hollis, N.H.; in 1848, was land surveyor for that place and its vicinity, and taught in the district school during the winters of 1848 to 1854. He had never thought of going to college until May, 1852; so, when he entered

Amherst College in August of that year it was without any special preparation. He worked his way through college by teaching during the winters, and graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1S5G, his brother being the salutatorian of the same class. The Cambridge school committee had not seen him, yet before his graduation he was elected teacher of mathematics and physics in the Cambridge High School at a salary of nine hundred dollars, and entered upon the work of the position on Monday, September 1, ISofi. There were five teachers, two men and three women, and two hundred pupils at that time. Early in April, 1857, the master having died, Mr. Bradbury was appointed acting-master for the remainder of the year. On November 10, 1865, he was elected Hopkins Classical Teacher, which position he continued to hold nearly forty-five years. In April, 1881, Mr. Bradbury was elected head master of the Latin School, but at the same time held the mastership of the English High School until the following September. He resigned December, 1908, from the Latin School. Thus, for more than fifty-three years he served the city as a teacher, and for thirty-three years as the head of one of its most important schools. On his retirement from the head of the Latin School, Mr. Bradbury was made Master Emeritus of the Latin School.

Mr. Bradbury has been active in professional and many other organizations, serving most acceptably in various positions of honor and trust. He is an ex-president of the Middlesex County Teachers' Association, of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association (1879-1880), of the Cambridge Choral Society (1874), of the High School Masters' Club (1885-1886), of the School Masters' Club (1898-1899), and of the American Institute of Instruction (1901-1902).

He has been secretary and treasurer of the Classical and High School Teachers' Association since its organization in 1868, of the Teachers' Association since October, 1867, treasurer of the Teachers' Annuity Guild since April, 1893, of the Friday Evening Club since 1880, and of the Cambridge Club since 1882. He has been a member of the Handel and Haydn Society since 1864, and its president since May, 1909, having been on the board of directors twenty-five years, and secretary from 1899 to 1909. He served in the common council of this city for the years 1883 and 18S4, and is an Independent Republican in politics.

During the fifty-three years and five months "of Mr. Bradbury's career as teacher in Cambridge, he was absent on account of illness but two days; he has not had a doctor since 1849.

Mr. Bradbury, on August 27, 1857, married, in Templeton, Mass., Margaret Jones, a daughter of Abijah and Phoebe Jones. Abijah Jones was a carriage maker and served as captain in the militia. Mrs. Bradbury is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College. Three children were bom of this marriage: William Harvard Templeton, bom July 28, 1858, graduate of Harvard College, wool broker; Marion, bom December 1, 1863; Margaret Seymour, bom September S, 1877, graduate of Radcliffe College, teacher in the Cambridge Latin School. Mr. Bradbury, in addition to being the author of many text-books on mathematics, is the inventor of several school appliances, including a device for illustrating the metric system.

Edward J. Brandon

Brandon, Edward J., City Clerk of Cambridge, was bom in a small country town of Ireland, Jvdy 15, 1863, and came to this country with his parents, John and Margaret Brandon when he was but two years old. After living in Boston a few months the family removed to Cambridge. Edward attended the Cambridge public schools until he was graduated from the grammar school, and then entered the Boston College preparatory school. After graduating from the latter school he entered Boston College, but in his junior year left college to take a position in the counting-room of the New England News Company. He was rapidly promoted in this office, and in 1882 was made assistant cashier.

He resigned this position with the News company when he was elected assistant City Clerk of Cambridge, January 12, 1887. The election was by the City Council in joint convention to fill an unexpired term, and was not made until the tenth ballot. The following March, however, he received the unanimous vote of the Council for the ensuing year, and since that date was always unanimously elected.

Mr. Brandon was elected City Clerk in October, 1895, upon the death of City Clerk Walter W. Pike, and has been re-elected year after year up to the present.

From the very first of his work as a city official, Mr. Brandon became interested in historical Cambridge and the preservation of public records. He was one of the founders and members of the first council of the Cambridge Historical Society, and at the request of that society has compiled a volume of the "proprietors'" records of Cambridge, covering a period from 1635 to 1829, and a volume of the selectmen's records of the town of Cambridge, covering a period from 1630 to 1703. Both of these volumes have been highly commended by historical and genealogical societies.

Mr. Brandon has always been an ardent worker in the Father Mathew Total Abstinence societies. He was first grand knight of the Cambridge council Knights of Columbus.

Mr. Brandon was married to Miss Mary A. Corcoran of Cambridge, September 18, 1890, and has three children; Margaret J. Brandon, the elder daughter, who is a graduate of the Notre Dame Academy of Boston; Edmund J. Brandon, the only son; and Mary A. Brandon.

he began the study of law, taking a few lessons in an evening school. He completed the course by studying at home and in a law office, and was admitted to the bar of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in special sitting in August, 1905.

Silas Edward Buck

Buck, Silas Edward, one of the publicspirited citizens of Cambridge, son of Silas Beaman and Mary Elizabeth (Smallidge) Buck, was bom in Cambridge, Mass., May 20, 1847. He was a pupil in the public school of Cambridge, and his first business position was with Parker, Wilder & Company, the wellknown commission dry goods merchants of Boston. He remained with this firm for nine years, and at the end of that time opened a store in East Cambridge for the sale of gentlemen's furnishing goods at retail. He conducted this business for three years, and then engaged in the coal business in connection with the firm of Joseph A. Wellington & Company, and he was with this firm for nine years, when he was offered a partnership, and on May 1, 1887, the firm of Wellington & Buck succeeded daughter of Nehemiah Wellington, of Middlesex County, and cousin of Austin C. Wellington (q.v.), of Cambridge, and Frederick W. Wellington, of Worcester, Mass. Silas Edward and Ellen Antoinette (Wellington) Buck had no children. They resided in Cambridge, and have a summer home at Jaffrey, N.H. Mr. Buck was a member of the New England Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Putnam that of, Joseph A. .Wellington & Co., and the business was continued at 211 Bridge Street, East Cambridge. On the death of his partner, Joseph A. Wellington, August 1, 1888, he continued the business alone, but retained the firm name under which he was carrying it on in 1907. Mr. Buck was married November, 1874, to Ellen Antoinette, daughter of Joseph Abbott and Ellen (Smith) Wellington, grand-

Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and of the Cambridge Chapter Commandery Knights Templar. He became a trustee of the East Cambridge Savings Bank, and a member of the common council of the city of Cambridge in 1889, and a member of the board of aldermen of the city in 1890. Mr. Buck died at his summer home, Jaffrey, N.H., August 28, 1908, survived by his wife.

Willard Austin Bullard

and Harriet (Loker) BuUard, was born in Wayland, December 14, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of eighteen began his business career as a clerk in the Faneuil Hall Bank, of Boston. In 1861, when the Harvard Bank of Cambridge,

He was elected president of the First National Bank in 1896, succeeding Daniel U. Chamberlin after his death. He had been cashier for many years, and had had much of the responsibility of its management for thirty years or more. Mr. Bullard was called upon to act as trustee and executor of many important estates. He stood high among the financial men of then a state bank, began business, he connected himself with it and was identified with it until his death. It was reorganized a few years later as the First National Bank of Cambridge, under the National Bank Act, finally resuming a State charter under the name of the Harv^ard Trust Company. Mr. Bullard rose through the various positions in the bank to the head.

New England, and was interested in many of the important industries of Cambridge. He was president of the Cambridge Gaslight Company; treasurer and director of the Allen and Endicott Building Company of Cambridge; a director of the Boston Woven Hose Company; was formerly a trustee of the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company; was a trustee of the

Cambridgeport Savings Bank; a director of the Home for Aged People of Cambridge; trastee and treasurer of the Cambridge Hospital, from its organization; trustee of the Dowse Institute; trustee of Daniel White Charity, which distributes coal to the poor of the City; a director of the West Point (Georgia) Manuf acttiring Company ; a director of the Riverdale Cotton Mills; and a director of the Chattachoochee Valley (Georgia) Railroad Company.

He was a member of the Cambridge Club, and attended the Unitarian Church. He had a summer home in his native town, Wayland. He married Susan Matilda Bennett, daughter of Jonas Bennett. His children are: (1) Amy CeHnea, bom March 10, 1862, who married Herbert C. Wells; (2) Henry Willard, bom December 2, 1863; . (3) Gardner Cutting, bom January- 17, 1866, graduate of Har\'ard, 1889; (4) Arthur Bennett, bom July 20, 1872; (5) Channing Sears, bom December 20, 1879, died January 8, 1907.

Arthur A. Carey

ARTHUR A. CAREY Carey, Arthur A., was bom in Italj-, February 23, 1857. He is the son of John Carey, Jr., and Alida Astor. His early Ufe was spent in New York, where his parents made their home. He matriculated at Harvard, and in 1879 was graduated. He then spent several years in Europe. In 1889, his marriage to Miss Agnes "\^Tiiteside took place, and they chose Boston as their place of residence. Mr. Carey became interested in the Museum of Fine Arts and the ]\Iassachusetts General Hospital. Later, in 1898, he came to Cambridge, and is a resident of this city at the present time. Social betterment work absorbs a large part of Mr. Carey's attention now: he has founded a settlement house in Waltham for the employees of the Waltham Watch Company, and sen-es as a tmstee. His children are Henry Reginald, Arthur Graham, Alida and Frances.

Hans L. Carstein

HANS L. CARSTEIN Carsteix, Hans L., coal merchant for a number of years at North Cambridge, was bom in Schleswig, Germany, March 17, 1841; died at his home, January', 1911; son of Glaus P. and Margareta (Detlefsen) Carstein. Glaus P. Carstein was a fanner and land owner, and during the war between Prussia and Denmark, in 1848, he was in command of a military company, and it was through political differences, that he was obliged to leave Germany, in 1850, and seek refuge in the United States. On his way from New York to California by way of Panama, he was a victim of yellow fever dying at Panama, in 1851. His property was confiscated and his family lost its usual income. His son, Hans L., under the custom of Germany, received a commercial education, and he then went to sea before the mast, and after fifteen years' sea service came back to Germany, master of the ship. The Franco- Prussian War having closed, he brought his mother and sister to the United States to join a brother who had preceded them. They arrived in Boston, Mass., 1871, at the time of the great Chicago fire, and his first work was one of philanthropy, to collect clothing for the relief of the sufferers in that city, making appeals for help on Boston Common, and receiving not only clothing, but provisions and money. He joined his brother Theodore in the paint and oil business on Hanover Street, Boston, and, meeting with business reverses in 1873, during the financial panic of that year, they gave up the business two years later. Meantime, his sister Theresa had married Frank Canter, who was in the provision business in Jamaica Plain, and in closing out the paint and oil business he joined him as a partner in 1874. He bought out the coal business of Benjamin F. Rogers at North Cambridge, and from an output of two thousand tons annually he built up the business so that in 1910, the output was over forty thousand tons annually. He married (first), in 1876, Ida Peterson, a daughter of a German Lutheran clerg>-man, and they had one son, Gustave E. Carstein, bom July 24, 1881, in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and he was prepared for college, going through Harvard, class of 1905, and on leaving college engaged in business with his father, as manager of the yards. Mrs. Carstein died in 1S81. He married (second) June 17, 1883, Magdalene, daughter of the Rev. C. F. Doring, a German Lutheran clergyman. By this marriage his children were: Lorenz F., born May 14, 1884, graduated at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. In 1906, he was assigned to the Asiatic Squadron at the Philippines. Hans L., Jr., bom in Cambridge, Mass., October 13, 1885, who after leaving school took a three years' course at Culver Military Academy in Indiana, graduating as a commissioned officer, first lieutenant-quartermaster, preparatory to engaging in business with his father and elder a congregation of between sixty and seventy German families, residents of the neighborhood of the mission house. With his family he was connected with St. James church. North Cambridge, from 1888, and he was made treasurer of the church corporation. He was a member of the Pilgrim Fathers, Young Men's Christian Association of Cambridge, and held the offices as director, trustee and treasurer of the organizations. He was also trustee of brother. Gretchen, bom in Cambridge, Mass., October 22, 18S8, was prepared for entrance to Smith College, Northampton, Mass., at the Gilman school, Cambridge, and at Burnham school, Northampton, Mass. Mr. Carstein became a layman and lay reader in the Episcopal Protestant church, of which his family were also members, and he conducted mission work in East Cambridge from 1891, in connection with the church of the Ascension, where he conducted service every other Sunday, and the Pitchman Estates in Cambridge. He was a member of the Cambridge and Colonial clubs, and in the Middlesex Republican club. He was a member of the common council of Cambridge, 1899, and alderman for six consecutive years, 1890-96, and in 1896 he refused further nomination on account of ill health. As a member of the board of aldermen he was a member of the finance committee, and the highway committee, all special committees and chairman of the investigating committee.

A History Of Cambridge. Massachusetts

In the board he advocated the extension of the Boston Subway to Cambridge, being the first member to open the subject on committees, and for three years he was chairman of the committee appointed to act on behalf of the city government, and before he left the board the matter was practically settled and the subway assured. In this connection he invited fifty of the most prominent citizens of Cambridge to meet at the City Hall and confer with him and Mayor Augustine Daly, and after several meetings it was unanimously voted that the subway system was far superior to the elevated system for securing effective and reasonable rapid transit from Boston to Harvard Square. Mr. Carstein was made a delegate from the eighth Massachusetts district to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, in 1904, as an acknowledgment of his work in the interest of the party in Cambridge. He composed a campaign song which was received with rousing cheers when sung to the air of "Die Wacht am Rhein," by the delegates, when Theodore Roosevelt was nominated, the chairman of the Massachusetts delegation having provided five thousand copies with both words and music printed for distribution in the Convention Hall. Few men, indeed, pass on whose death is so generally and so sincerely mourned as that of Hans L. Carstein. While he had been in failing health for some time and the end was not unexpected, the realization at the present moment that he is gone is none the less an occasion for sadness and regret. His honesty and kindliness, whether in business or social matters, surrounded him with friends and associates whose respect for him only increased as time went on. Mr. Carstein was most fortunate in his home surroundings. He made his home and his family circle the happiest place that he or any member of it could know. Even when an incurable malady fastened itself upon him, his cheerfulness did not desert him, and his weakness was borne with a coitrage that showed his abiding serenity of spirit. What this meant to him and to Mrs. Carstein and to all those whom he met in his native land on his trip abroad can well be imagined. Cambridge parts sorrowfully with such a man as Mr. Carstein, who spent here an active

Clarke, Dr. Augustus P., who was one of the leading physicians of the University City, was bom in Pawtucket, R.I., September 24, 1833, being the son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke, both lineal descendants of the earliest Puritans who were among the most influential settlers of Plymouth, Boston, Dorchester, Hingham, Roxbury, Dedham and Mendon in Massachusetts, and Providence, Newport, Portsmouth and Warwick, in Rhode Island. His father was of the eighth generation in descent from Joseph Clarke, who with his wife Alice came with the settlers comprising the first Dorchester companj^ that embarked at Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, in the ship Mary and John. He was the ancestor of the late eminent Professor Edward H. Clarke of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Clarke's mother was of the sixth in descent from Joseph Peck, who came in the ship Diligent from old Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., 1638. Among his ancestors who may be mentioned on his mother's side, was Dr. James Tallman, a physician in Portsmouth, R.I., in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was the son of Peter Tallman, who was general solicitor of the Colony; commissioner and deputy of Rhode Island. Abraham Staples was another ancestor who served in Captain Poole's company in the war against King Philip, in 1675. Another ancestor on his father's side was Rev. Ebenezer Kencks, ordained pastor of the First Baptist church of Providence, in 1719. Still another paternal ancestor was David Thompson, who settled in 1619 on Thompson's Island, Boston Harbor, prior to the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. He was a " Scottish gentleman, scholar and traveller." Among the other direct lineal descendants may be mentioned Richard Everett, who was also the ancestor of the late orator Edward Everett, and Maturin Ballou, Universalist preacher and author. Another ancestor on his father's side that may be mentioned was Geary Pufler;

Dr. Clarke attended the public schools in his native state and fitted for college in the University Preparatory School, Providence, R.I., where he entered college receiving the degree of A.M. from Brown University in the class of 1861. Before leaving college he began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Lewis L. Miller, a graduate of Brown, who at that time, was the most eminent surgeon of Rhode Island. Dr. Clarke received his degree M.D. from the Harvard Medical School.

On September 30, 1861, he was appointed Assistant-Surgeon of the 6th Regiment New York Cavalry. He served in the Peninsular Campaign under General MacClellan, was at the siege of Yorktown and in that concatenation of Seven Days' Battles including those at Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Peach Orchard and Savages' Station in June, 1862. On June 29th (1862) he was on duty at the great field hospital at Savages' Station, and realizing that the hospital would soon be captured, he preferred to remain caring for the wounded, and thus, though on duty, to become a prisoner of war and to endure all the hardships incident to such trying service, than to abandon the many helpless victims to the unready hands of the enemy. By his persistent efforts he was allowed to continue for several weeks' attendance on the wounded until all were dulj' exchanged.

He was promoted to the rank of full surgeon in the same regiment on May 5th, 1863, and served under General Dix in an expedition against Richmond in the spring and summer of 1863, and under General Meade with the Cavalry Corps in the Rappahannock Campaign and in all the operations of the army of the Potomac in the autumn of the same year.

On the opening campaign of 1864, undertaken by General Grant, Dr. Clarke was appointed the surgeon-in-chief of the Second Brigade, First Cavalry Division, and was on duty in all the operations undertaken by General Sheridan of that year.

Division, and was with Sheridan in his "colossal raid" from Winchester to Petersburg, and in the Battle of Five Forks and other battles until the surrender of the enemy at Appomatox Court House, April 9, 1S65.

During his four years' service, the war records show unmistakably that he participated in ninety-two (92) battles and engagements with the enemy. He was commissioned at the close of the war, on recommendation of his superior officers, brevet-lieutenant colonel

Dr. Clarke next spent some time in study at the medical schools and hospitals in London, Paris and Leipzig, returning in 1866 to Cambridge, where he soon estabHshed himself in practice of his profession and where he resided.

He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society; of the American Academy of Medicine, and was the chairman of the committee of arrangements at its meeting in Boston, 1906; member of the American Medical Association, and was vice-president of that body, now numbering seventy-five thousand members, in 1895-96, and was chairman of the section on physiology', 1897. He was vice-president of the Pan-American Medical Congress, at its meeting at Mexico City, Mexico, 1896. He was elected by the Russian Board, honorary president of the XII International Medical Congress held at Moscow, Russia, by invitation of his August Majesty, the Czar of Russia, 1897. He was also honored in 1890 by an invitation to contribute a paper which he read before the International Medical Congress, in Berlin, Germany. This paper was favorably received and an abstract of the same was at the time published in some of the German Medical Journals. He was a founder of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, in 1888, and wrote original and valuable contributions to its yearly published volumes for twenty years. He was a founder of the Cambridge Society for Medical Improvement, and was its secretary from 1869 to 1874. He was a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. He was a member of the Boston Medical Library Association.

He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, his great-grandfather. Captain Ichobod Clarke, having served in that war in the army under General John Sullivan in Rhode Island, 1777-78, and his grandfather, Joel Peck, having served in Captain Thomas Allen's company under the same general commander. He was a frequent and authoritative contributor on subjects coimected with his chosen profession to medical societies and journals. He was the author of a volxmie "Clarke's Kindred Genealogies," 1896, and author of a volume, "Transactions of the Gynecological Society of Boston," written while Secretary of that body, 1901-1905, and of a "Book of Poems, 1896." He was a member of the Military- Order of the Loyal Legion and was elected a member of the Council, 1895-1896. He was a member of the Cambridge Club, of the Boston Commandery Knights Templars, of the Amicable Lodge, F. and A.M., and member of Cambridge Lodge, No. 13, I.O.O.F. ; member of the Boston Brown Alumni Association, and of the Harvard

Medical Alumni Association, and charter member of the Post 56, G.A.R. He was a member of the Cambridge common council, 187 1-3, serving on the committee on finance, etc., and a member of the board of aldermen, 1874, serving on the committee on health and other committees. He was soon subsequently most influential in effecting the establishment of an independent board of health for Cambridge, as now organized.

He married in 1861, Mary Hannah, daughter of Gideon Gray, the fifth in descent from Edward Gray, of Plymouth, Mass., who married, January 16, 1651, Mary Winslow, daughter of John and Mary (Chilton) Winslow of Mayflower fame. By Dr. Clarke's marriage he had two daughters, Inez Louise and Genevieve Clarke, both educated in the arts at Radcliffe College, and both in medicine at Tufts College Medical School, where each received the degree of doctor of medicine. They are now in active practice of the profession. Mrs. Clarke died May 30, 1892. Dr. Clarke issued in 1911, the second edition, enlarged, of his original poems, entitled "A Volume of Original Poems."

This, then, is the career, briefly stated, of a man to whom Cambridge points as an heir to those qualities of his Puritan ancestors which had such a profound influence in the building up of the communities that settled in Massachusetts; and whose life she considers irrefutable evidence that the strong moral principles and the stem determination to foUow the dictates of conscience have not become impoverished in transmission. The events narrated above without adornment are perhaps the best commentary on the loyalty to duty that was always the guiding motive of Dr. Clarke's acts. Consider for a moment what it meant to be a military surgeon during the four years of the fratricidal conflict, that terrible period when the fate of the nation hung in the balance. The soldier, rifle or saber in hand, facing the enemy, finds, in the excitement which the lust to kill (latent, it is said, in even the most ci\alized) arouses in him, a kind of narcotic, as it were, by which the sensation of fear and horror is benumbed. The surgeon must, above all things, avoid any excitement, because his work requires him to be calm and self-possessed ; he must, therefore, depend only on his sense of duty and his humanity to help him endure the sights and sounds of the battle-field. Nor can he rest when the victory is won; then, indeed, his labors seem to be just beginning, for he must hasten night and day in his efforts to heal wounds, ameliorate suffering, and forestall the dread diseases that are the usual concomitants of war. Bearing all this in mind, one reads with a new understanding the line which says that Dr. Clarke was in ninety-two battles and engagements. Since the close of the war his activity had been constant. In spite of the demands made on his time by practical professional duties, he, nevertheless, added to the literature of medicine; for, not content with personally alleviating the distress of those who came directly vmder his care, he crystallized the results of his experience and study in the volumes and monographs which the medical world has received with so much appreciation. Fvirthermore, he even found time to give expression to his love of belles lettres, in the book of verse of which he is the author. Many would claim that having served humanity at large so well, they should be exempted from the duties of civic and political life. Dr. Clarke made no such plea, but, as a member of the city government, devoted some of his best efforts to Cambridge. Alwaj^s a believer in the power for good of organized effort, he allied himself with many professional, fraternal and social bodies, giving them both his moral and financial support. His home life, almost ideal, had only one cloud, the death of his wife, in 1892. His two daughters well repaid his tender indulgence and well-directed care in their rearing, by the consolation they gave him. He had no sons, but his daughters, who have taken up his chosen profession, were of late able to ease him part of its burdens. Many famiUes that relied on him in the hour of need still continue in the feeling of security that comes from the knowledge that life and health are being watched over by one who has mastered the art of healing, knowing that his ability has been inherited by his children. Dr. Clarke died Aoril 22, 1912.

Edward E. Clark

EDWARD E. CLARK Clark, Edward E., was bom in Cambridge, Mass., November 4, 1870. He is the son of Martin V. B. and Sarah M. (RoUins) Clark, both natives of New Hampshire. Edward E. Clark attended the Willard Primary, the Webster Grammar, and the Cambridge Latin Schools, and entered Harvard College in 1890. Dependent upon his own resources in acquiring a college education, he supported himself by doing newspaper work and tutoring, and, in 1894, graduated from Harvard with the

Closely identified with Cambridge life from his boyhood days, he has the knowledge of city affairs, the training, the education, the temperament and the other qualifications necessary to fit him to serve in any position with credit to his constituents.

He is a member of Amicable Lodge, F.&A.M. ; the Economy Club of Cambridge; Dtmster Lodge, I.O.O.F.: Citizens' Trade Association; Cambridge Lodge of Elks; Middlesex Club;

Mr. Clark's first entry into politics was made in 1900, when he became a member of the Cambridge Common Council, and he remained there four years; in 1903 he was elected and ser\-ed as president of that body. During his ser\-ice in the council, he was a member of all the important committees, including those on finance, claims, city charter, legislative matters, etc., thus being enabled to acquire an intimate knowledge of how the city's business and financial affairs should be conducted.

During the years when Cambridge Republicans were passing through the most trjang experience that had ever come to them in the historj' of the party of that city, after the Democrats, under the leadership of Mayor IMcNamee, had wrested the control of the City Government from them, iSIr. Clark was a member of the Common Council and was chosen president of that body. The Democrats were in complete possession of the Board of Aldermen and the Mayoralty, and the Non-Partisanship idea found expression only through a bare majority in the Common Council.

His inctmibency of the office of president of the lower branch became, therefore, in many respects, a noteworthy one. There were occasions when turbulence and dissension threatened to ovens-helm the sessions of the lower branch, and only the exercise of rare judgment and discrimination prevented subversion of the deliberative character of its proceedings. Mr. Clark succeeded admirably in performing the task devoh'ing upon him. So well did he act his part that, when he aspired to represent the fourth representative district on Beacon Hill, his fitness for the higher legislative arena was immediately recognized and his election was assured.

age of sixteen he came to Boston, and immediately began to profit by the opportimities afforded to a youth of courage and energy. At the age of twentj'-one he joined his father and brother in a co-partnership for the manttfacture of fancy crackers. In 1861 he began, upon his own account, the manufacture of confectionery in East Cambridge, employing at the outset about half a dozen hands. His energy and business sagacity enabled him to develop the large and successful establishment which he controlled. On February 23, 1879, the frame structure in which his business was located was totally destroyed by fire; but with characteristic energy he immediately began the erection of the spacious building on Broadway, which, at the time Mr. Close was taken ill, he had begun to enlarge. By untiring attention to details, always among the first to adopt improved methods of production, he had developed a business that required several hundred employees, and j-ielded a product of about ten tons of confectionerj' daily. Mr. Close had rendered valuable public ser\ace to the city of Cambridge in various capacities. He was a member of the Common Council in 1883, of the Board of Aldermen in 1885 and 1886, and of the House of Representatives in 1888. Mr.

Close was a member of Dunster Lodge of Odd Fellows; Amicable Lodge, F.&A.M.; Royal Arcaniun; New England Confectioners' Club; and the Universalist Club of Boston. He was for several years president of the Howard Benevolent Association, and had been active in various charitable movements. He was a director of the Cambridge Electric Light Company and other corporations, and was connected with the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was a member of the Cambridge Club and of the Citizens' Trade Association, of which he had been president. Mr. Close was a member of the First Universalist Chtirch. He died at his summer home at Allerton, Mass., August 18, 1911. He is survived by two sons, George E. Close and Frank D. Close, and four daughters: Mrs. Florence A. Gale, Mrs. Alice L. Mandell of Newton, Mrs. Bertha M. Bunton and Miss F. Evelyn Close. He also leaves two sisters. Miss Caroline Close and Mrs. John F. Moore, of Allston.

Edward R. Cogswell, M.D.

Cogswell, Edward R., was bom in South Berwick, Me., June 1, 1841, and came to Cambridge in April, 1852. He entered Harvard College in 1860. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company F, 44th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volimteer Militia, and served with that regiment as a non-commissioned ofiBcer tmtil the following June, when the regiment was mustered out of service.

After leaving coUege, he entered the Harvard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1867 and immediately entered upon the practice of his profession in this city.

When an independent Board of Health for the city was established in March, 1878, he was appointed its executive officer, resigning at the close of the year 1879. In Jime, 1869, he was chosen a member of the School Committee, upon which Board he served over ten years. In the years 1885, 1886, 1887 and 1890, he was a member of the Board of Aldermen, and from 1885' to 1887 a trustee of the Public Library.

Francis Cogswell

Cogswell, Francis, formerly Superintendent of the Schools of Cambridge, was bom in Atkinson, N.H., Jvme 24, 1827, being the son of Joseph B. and Judith J. Cogswell. He attended school at the Atkinson Academy and at the Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, N.H., and taught district schools in Merrimac, Georgetown and Weymouth, Mass. He also conducted a private school in Georgetown for one or two years. His first connection with the Cambridge schools was in April, 1854, when he was elected Master of the Putnam School, which position he held for about twenty years. In September, 1874, he was elected Superintendent of Schools and held that position until 1905. Mr. Cogswell's work at the head of the school department needs no encomiimi. For the twenty-two years of his administration the edu- cational development of the City kept ahead, of its rapid, general growth, and Cambridge public schools are looked upon today as models. He has contributed quite extensively to educational publications. Harvard College honored him with the degree of Master of Arts in 1861.

Hira.M M. Comstock

who, in the early seventeenth century, came from England with his wife Elizabeth, settled first in Wethersfield, Conn., and subsequently removed to New London. The subject of this sketch was educated in the district schools of his native town. At the age of eighteen he came to Boston, and a few years later engaged in business with Charles S. Gove, under the firm name of Comstock & Gove, manufacturers of soda water. The business prospered exceedingly under Mr. Comstock's direction, which as head of the firm he continued up to the time of his death on March 22, 1883.

He was a well-known and highly-esteemed citizen of Cambridge, where he made his home and where his widow still resides. He was a prominent Free Mason, being a member of Cambridge Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Boston Commandery, Knights Templar; and other Masonic bodies ; and had taken the thirtysecond degree of Masonry. Mr. Comstock married January 1, 1857, Betsey J. Richardson, bom in Corinth, Vt., daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Batchelder) Richardson. Her father was a descendant, in the seventh generation from William Richardson, who, bom in England in 1620, came to Massachusetts about 1640, with his brother Edward. One child was bom of this marriage, but died in infancy. Mrs. Comstock has been from early life a lover of art, and when quite young she developed a talent for painting. After the death of her husband she pursued her art studies under some of the best masters in this country and in Europe, and has attained a creditable rank among contemporary artists. This gift has been consecrated to charity. The proceeds from the sale of her pictures are devoted to some worthy cause. Mrs. Comstock is a New England woman of the best type, and among her many sterling qualities the most conspicuous are courage, cheerfulness and charity. She is a member of the Shepard Memorial Church, Cambridge; of Hannah Winthrop Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution; and of the Society of the Founders and Patriots of America.

Both the Comstocks and the Richardson family were identified ^vith the important events of the colonial and revolutionarj' periods. Alfred E. Richardson, bom ]\Iay 25, 1832, who was engaged in architecture and building in Boston for many years, was a brother of Mrs. Comstock. He died in Strafford, Vt., April 4, 1880.

John W. Coveney

CovENEY, John W., one of the most prominent men in Cambridge, was bom in Cambridge, April 10, 1845. He received his education in the public schools of Cambridge. In 1861, when Sumter was fired upon, he enlisted at the age of 16 as a volunteer, and marched to the defence of the Union, in the Twenty-sixth

Massachusetts Regiment. He served under Butler at New Orleans, and in the campaign of the Gulf. On his return from the war, he began work as an undertaker in Cambridge, which business he carried on successfully. On his return to Cambridge he became prominent in the politics of Old Ward Three, and, with his brother, Jeremiah W. Coveney, the late postmaster of Boston, made the initial move that won recognition for the people of the Irish race in that section of the city.

Although a factor in political matters in his section of the City, he did not seek office for himself vmtil 1886, when he was elected a member of the Common Council. He was re-elected in 1887, and his fearlessness won him the respect of all with whom he came in contact.

In the faU of 1887 his record in the Council was recognized by his nomination and election to the legislature as a representative from what was then the fifth, now the third, Middlesex district. He was re-elected in 1888, and again in 1889. During his three years in the House his ability was quickly recognized, and he ranked high among the Democratic leaders of that time. He was unyielding in his fealty to the interest of the Democratic Party, and was among the most aggressive debaters in the House.

In 1891 and 1892 he served in the State Senate and was on the committee on railroads and mercantile affairs. He was also chairman of the committee on library. He served on the Boards of Aldermen of 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905. In the fall of 1903 he accepted a Nonpartisan nomination to the Board of Aldermen and was one of the Non-Partisan majority in the Board that upheld the hands of Mayor Daley during his first term in 1904. He was chosen by the Non-Partisans as president of the Board, and he served impartially and well. He was re-elected as a Non-Partisan member of the Board for 1905, being one of the two Non-Partisans elected. In the summer he announced that he would not seek re-election to that body again.

He was a man of magnetic personality, an interesting talker, a hard fighter for whatever interests he represented. In the turbulent days in the Aldermanic Chamber, he proved himself a master on questions of parliamentary procedure and was quick to take advantage of openings left by his adversaries.

George Howland Cox

GEORGE HOWLAND COX Cox, George Howland, youngest child of James and Mercy Nye (Howland) Cox, was bom October 9, 1854, in Fairhaven, formerly New Bedford, Mass. He attended the public schools of his native place, and was so well equipped that he was enabled to enter the West Point Military Academy. Owing to his ill health he was obliged to resign, and this was the occasion of his reluctantly entering upon a civil rather than a military career. However, this change was anything but disastrous so far as concerns material success. He was proven himself an admirable financier, as is attested by his successful labors as president of the Cambridge Trust Company and a member of its directorate; and his abilities as an executive officer have been abundantly evidenced in various important positions, as president of the Cambridge Park Commission, and a member of the State Armory Commission. His interest in local benevolent and charitable institutions is manifested by his connection with the Cambridge Home for Aged People, as director and treasurer of the Cambridge Hospital, the Cambridge School for Nurses and the Dowse Institute, in each of which he is a trustee. He is an active member of leading patriotic and social bodies - the society of Colonial Wars; the Good Government League of Cambridge, in which he is a director; the Colonial Club and the Cambridge Club of Cambridge, in each of which he is an ex-president; the Saint Botolph Club of Boston; and the Oakley Country Club of Watertown. He is also a member of the Cambridge Board of Trade, and has served as president of that body. He is affiliated -svith Amicable Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cambridge. He is a member of the Unitarian Church, and in politics is a Republican.

Mr. Cox married, in New Bedford, September 25, 1877, Ella P. Whittennore, and they have one child, George Howland, Jr., bom February 8, 1880. The family residence is Riverbank Court, Cambridge. Mrs. Cox is the youngest

James Valentine Cox

JAMES VALENTINE COX Cox, James Valentine, son of Gershom Flagg Cox, was bom in Hallowell, Me., July 1, 1813. Like his ancestors he followed the sea. He made his home at New Bedford, Mass., and engaged in whaling, rising step by step to the position of master. He made many voyages at a time when the whaling industry was very profitable, and amassed considerable wealth for his day. He served several years in the office of inspector of customs at New Bedford, and held various other positions of trust and honor in New Bedford. He married, November 19, 1838, Mercy Nye, daughter of John and Mercy (Howland) Nye, of Fairhaven, Mass. He married second, Annie E. Edwards, October 5, 1869. He died November 23, 1884, beloved and honored by the entire community. Children: James Nye; Myra; George Howland, bom October 9, 1854.

John F. Crocker

Crocker, John F., son of Isaiah and Deborah (Goodnow) Crocker, was bom in South Yarmouth in 1851. His early education was in the public schools of that town. Later he studied at the Friends' School at Pro\'idence. In 1869 he entered business as the Cape Cod representative of a Boston grocery company. He took up business for himself in 1884, forming the firm of Crocker & Eldridge, now Eldridge, Baker & Co. He devoted his time to this business vmtil 1891, when he retired for two years.

In November, 1894, Mr. Crocker succeeded to the business of Wallace F. Robinson & Co., and in 1896 consoHdated the firm with Niles Bros., in a corporation known as the Boston Packing and Prov-ision Co., of which he became treasurer and manager. Reorganization of this corporation was effected in 1898, and it was merged with the John P. Squire Company, with Mr. Crocker as general manager. He remained wdth the firm until 1906, when he formed the banking firm of Crocker & Fisher, of Boston. In 1910, he retired from active business, but had devoted a great deal of time to business at Leroy, N.Y., where is located the Leroy Cold Storage & Produce Co., of which he was vicepresident and treasurer.

Mr. Crocker was married, in 1874, to Martha A. Earle of Boston. Their children are Avis W., Grace G., Martha E., John F., Jr., Allan E., Richard S. and Stewart M. Mr. Crocker died December 6, 1911.

man of the Board of Trustees of Cambridge lodge of Elks. He is one of the ablest of our citizens. A man of education, he brings within the circle of business a ripeness of culture and breadth of courtesy which has greatly assisted his keen intelligence in carving out his high

Henry J. Cunningham

Cunningham, Henry J., commissioner of public safety, was graduated from St. Dunstan's College in 1887, after which he entered upon a five years' course of philosophy and theology at the famous Urban University, commonly known as the College of the Propaganda, Rome. His health failed him, however, and at the end of two years, he returned home, finally abandoning the ministry and devoting himself to the business which he has carried on with such pronounced success.

In 1894 he established the real estate firm of Cunningham Brothers, one of the largest in Cambridge. He was the active member of the firm until this year (1912) when he retired in order to give his entire time to the city as Commissioner of Public Safety. The appointment was made by Mayor Barry, under the provisions of the Act of the Legislature of May 20, 1912, which places the poHce and fire departments of Cambridge in charge of a single commissioner.

Mr. Cunningham has long been interested in social, commercial and political interests of the city, and has taken an active part in public life for several years. He has been on the executive committee of the Cambridge Taxpayers' Association, a member of the Citizens' Trade Association, and of the Intercolonial Club of Boston; was formerly president of the Catholic Union of Cambridge; one of the founders of the Hospital Aid Society of the Holy Ghost hospital, and today acts as one of its board of directors. Mr. Cunningham's judgment as an insurance man is highly regarded. He was for several years a member of the rating committee of the Cambridge Board of Fire Underwriters. He was the first chair- position among local business men. Mr. Cunningham was formerly chief of police of Cambridge. He is an active leader in Democratic affairs in the city. Mr. Cunningham is a bachelor and resides at Camelia Avenue.

Thomas Edward Cunningham, M.D.

Cunningham, Thomas Edward, M.D., son of John and Mary (Murphy) Cunningham, was bom in Prince Edward Island, January 5, 1851. His general education was obtained in the schools of his native town and at St. Dunstan's CoUege, Charlottetown, P.E.I. Then he began the study of medicine with Dr. Breer of Charlottetown, a leading practitioner of that place, and in 1870 came to Boston. Two years after he entered the Harvard Medical School. Graduating in 1876, he established himself in Cambridge, and in a few years built up a large and successful practice. He is a memlicr of the Harvard Alumni Association, Massachusetts Medical Society, Cambridge Medical Improvement Association, Boston Medical Library, Advisory Board of the Hospital for Contagious Diseases, American Medical Association. He organized the Hospital Aid Society of the Holy Ghost

Thomas Edw.'Vrd Cuxnin'Gham, M.D.

Dr. Cunningham has been married twice. His first marriage occurred in 1879, to Miss Marjr Doolej' (deceased); and the second on Februar}' 3, 1891, to Miss Mar>' Kane. He has two children, Edward and Thomas Cunningham.

Samuel Silas Curry

SAMUEL SILAS CURRY Curry, Samuel Silas, president of the School of Expression, Boston, author and educator, was bom on a farm in Chatata, Bradley County, Tenn., November 23, 1847. His father, James Campbell Curry, was a farmer, characterized by honesty and uprightness. He married Nancy Young, a relative of David Crockett. Dr. Curry's great-greatgrandfather on his father's side was Robert Campbell (1755-1831), brother of Col. Andrew Campbell and of Col. Arthur Campbell (1745- 1781), whose ancestors came from Scotland through the north of Ireland and settled in Augusta County, Va. Dr. Curry's great-grandmother had eight uncles in the battle of King's Mountain.

Samuel Silas Curry was brought up in the country on his father's farm. He did his full share of hard work while preparing himself for college during the period of the Civil War and, while at college, during vacations. He had few books in childhood, but studied history by the advice of his father.

He planned to enter one of the eastern colleges, but through the influence of Dr. N. E. Cobleigh, president of East Tennessee Wesleyan University, at Athens, he matriculated there, in 1869, taking his A.B. degree in 1872, with the highest honors of the class or of any previous class of the college, having done four years' work in two and a half years of residence. He had an imaginative and artistic temperament.

Literature was from his childhood his ambition, and President Cobleigh therefore advised him to adopt it as a profession. He entered Boston University as a post-graduate student, taking within eight years the successive degrees of "A.D., A.M. and Ph.D. Much of his work was done in the Boston Public Library, where he pursued many courses in reading and independent investigation. He was teacher of Latin and Greek in New Hampshire Seminary in the spring of 1873. In 1878 he was graduated in the Boston University School of Oratory. He had expected to enter the ministry', when the loss of his voice compelled him to relinquish his plans, but not till after he had taken vocal lessons of specialists in all parts of the world in hopes of regaining his voice. This experience led him to take up the teaching of speaking as his life-work.

In 1879, on the death of Prof. Lewis B. Munroe, dean of the Boston University School of Oratory, and the consequent discontinuance of the School of Oratory, he became instructor of elocution and oratory in the College of Liberal Arts connected with the University.

He made three trips to Europe, and while there was a pupil of Lamperti, James, Goodsonne and Ricquier, and had the advice and counsel of Regnier with the privilege of observing the methods at I'Ecole de Declamation in the Conservatoire. Besides his instructions from these masters, he was a pupil for several years of Steele Mackaye, the pupil and successor of Delsarte, and Mackaye made him a tempting ofTer to take charge of a school of acting in New York City, which he declined. In 1883 he was made Snow professor of oratory in Boston University, and in 1880, he was granted the privilege of arranging special classes from the overflow of applicants, and these classes in 1884 became a part of the School of Expression. In 1888 he presented to the directors of the University the alternative of allowing him to establish a separate department, or to accept his resignation as a teacher in the University. An increase in salary and other advantages were offered to him, but the University again declined to recognize officially a school of oratory, and he thereupon resigned and devoted the time thus released to developing the School of Expression which had already become well known. He has been acting Davis professor of oratory at Newton Theological Institution from 188-4; instructor in elocution, Harvard College, 1891-94; in Harvard Divinity School, 1892-1902; instructor in Yale Divinity School, 1892-1902; Teachers' College of Columbia University; the University of Chicago; lecturer on art, the State University of Minnesota, The State University of Washington, and in many other leading educational institutions throughout the country.

In 1895 he founded a quarterly review. Expression, and made it the organ of the School of Expression. Its aim, like that of the school, is to show the relation of vocal training to education; to make the spoken word the exponent and servant of the highest literature, and thus to save elocution from becoming merely mechanical and artificial; to raise the standard of public taste and to prove the possibility of successfully reading the best literature in public entertainments. Sir Henry Irving gave a recital for the benefit of the school, in 1888, the proceeds endowing the Irving lectureship.

From this school-teaching experience, Dr. Curry undertook a series of works based upon his investigations and discoveries in regard to voice training, vocal expression and delivery, and the relations of these to art, with a view of publishing them as text-books. The first of these was "The Province of Expression" (1891), followed by "A Text-Book on Vocal Expression" (1895); "Imagination and Dramatic Instinct" (1896) ; "The Vocal and Literary Interpretation of the Bible" (1904); "Alexander Melville Bell," (1906); "Founda- tions of Expression" (1907); "Browning and the Dramatic Monologue" (1908); "Mind and Voice" (1908). He also edited "Classics for Vocal Expression," (1888), and has several volumes (ready for publication) in preparation.

He received the degree of Litt.D. from Colby University in 1905. He served the Boston Art Club for fifteen years as librarian. He has made scientific investigation of the cause of minister's sore throat, of stammering, of the primary cause of the misuse of the voice, of the fundamental principles underlying the science of training the voice, also of training the body. He has endeavored to reform all elocutionary teaching, and to show that true speaking can only be taught by stimulating the processes of the mind. In speaking of his experiences he says: "Young people should dare to do as they dream; to think about what they do and to act out what they think; not to be governed too much by outer influences." In 1882 he married Anna Baright, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Miss Baright was of a long line of Quaker ancestors, including the Carpenters, Deans, Mabbets and Thomes, wellknown families of Duchess County. Her maternal great-grandfather, the only break in the Quaker line, was Gen. Samuel Augustus Barker, who served in both wars between the United States and Great Britain, and afterward was a member of the New York Legislature. Mrs. Currj^ was a graduate of the Boston University School of Oratory, and has been a teacher at the School of Expression from its establishment. They have had six children, of whom four are living.

Frederick W. Dallinger

FREDERICK W. DALLINGER D.\LLiNGER, Frederick W., was bom in Cambridge, October 2, 1871, graduated from the Cambridge Latin School in 1889, entering Harvard College in the fall of the latter year, where, in 1893, he received the degree of A.B. summa cum laude. He received the degree of A.M. in 1894, and of LL.B. in 1897. During his eight years at the imiversity he paid his expenses by working during the summer and by private tutoring. He was one of the originators of intercollegiate debating, having been secretary and president of the old Harvard Union, a member of the \actorious Har\'ard debating teams in 1892 and 1893, and the manager and coach of many subsequent Harvard teams. He was also president of the Har\'ard International Law Club, and a member of many other college organizations. In the fall of 1893 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was re-elected by a large majority the following year.

As chairman of the committee on county estimates, single-handed, at a time when reform was not popvdar, he fought the state and cotmty machines of his own party and succeeded in securing the enactment of laws completely reorganizing the whole system of county finances. He was one of a handful of Republican members who supported Governor Greenhalge in his veto of the Fall River police bill and of the Bell telephone stock watering bill.

Because of his fearless attitude, a determined effort was made by the state and county machine of his own party, the corporations and the liquor interests to prevent his return. Although it was for his own personal benefit to devote himself to his studies at the Harvard Law

School, he felt it his duty to the public to go back to the legislature. Accordingly he announced himself as a candidate for the Senate, which body had blocked some of his measures in the interest of the people. His candidacy was ridiculed by the press, and a niimber of other strong candidates entered the field. He went straight to the people of Cambridge, however, and carried ever)- ward by large majorities, and received a unanimous nomination in the convention. His election was bitterly contested and a very large sum of money was spent to accompUsh his defeat. Most of his enemies,

For many years he has been a director of the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Association, and was for some time vice-president of that beneficent organization.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Odd Fellows Hall Association and was one of the incorporators of the Cambridge Masonic Hall Association. He is warden, treasurer and president of the Men's Club of the Church of the Ascension; vice-president of the Middlesex Branch of the Massachusetts Sunday School Union; member of the council of the Middlesex Bar Association, and chairman of the legislative committee of the Massachusetts Conveyancers' Association. He has for many years been a public administrator for Middlesex County and attorney for the Reliance and Columbian Cooperative Banks.

Mr. Dallinger was awarded highest honors in poUtical science by Harvard University, and in 1897 Longmans, Green & Co. pubUshed his book, "Nominations for Elective Office in the United States," which soon came to be recognized as a standard authority throughout the country.

Richard Henry Dana

RICHARD HENRY DANA Dana, Richard Henry, lawyer, was bom in Cambridge, January 3, 1851. His father, Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882), was a son of Richard Henry (1787-1879) and Ruth Charlotte (Smith) Dana, and grandson of Francis (1743-1811) and Elizabeth (Ellery) Dana, and John Wilson and Susanna (Tillinghast) Smith, of Taunton, Mass., great-grandson of Richard (1700-1772) and Lydia (Trowbridge) Dana, and of William Ellery, the signer, and a descendant from Richard and Ann (Ballard) Dana, through Daniel their youngest son and Naomi (Croswell) Dana, his wife. Richard Dana, the emigrant and progenitor of the Dana family in America, was probably of French descent. Richard settled in Cambridge by or before 1640 and died in 1690. Richard (1700-1772) of the third generation was graduated at Harvard, 1718, was a Son of Liberty, and presided at some of their meetings in Faneuil Hall. He subjected himself to the penalties of treason by taking the oath of Andrew Oliver, not to enforce the Stamp Act (1765). He was representative to the General Court and was at the head of the Boston bar. He married Lydia, daughter of Thomas and sister of Judge Edmund Trowbridge, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, one of the first to wear the scarlet and powdered wig. Francis Dana (1743-1811), Harvard, 1762, was a Son of Liberty, delegate to Continental Congress from November, 1776 to 1784-85, signer of the Articles of Confederation; United States Minister to Russia, 1781-83; judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1785-91, and Chief-Justice of Massachusetts, 1791-1806; a founder and vicepresident of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; LL.D., Harvard, 1792.

Richard Henry (1787-1879) was the author, poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the North American Review. Richard H. Dana (1815-1882) was the defender of Sims and Anthony Bums, fugitive slaves; counsel of the United States government before the Intemational Conference at Halifax, N.S., in 1877, growing out of the Geneva Award of 1872; author of "Two Years Before the Mast" (1840), (1869), "To Cuba and Back" (1859), "Annotations to Wheaton's Intemational Law" (1886), etc. Richard Henry Dana, bom January 3, 1851, counts among his direct ancestors Governor Simon Bradstreet and Thomas Dudley, and the first American Poetess, Ann Bradstreet. He was prepared for college in public and private schools of Cambridge, Mass., and at St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., and was graduated at Harvard University, class orator and A.B., 1874, and at the law school of the University LL.B., 1877. He was stroke oar of the freshman crew, 1870; for three years stroke oar and for two years captain of the University crew, and during his law course at the University he had the advantage of extended travel in Europe, where he carried letters of introduction that brought him in contact with persons of distinction in society and statesmanship in everj' city he visited. He continued the study of law in the office of Brooks, Ball & Storey, and in 1879, made the trip in a sailing vessel from New York to San Francisco, in which voyage he visited many of the scenes so graphically described in his father's "Two Years Before the Mast." He declined the position of secretary of Legation at London, proffered by President Hayes in 1877, and on January 6, 1878, he was married to Edith, daughter of Henry Wadsworth and Frances (Appleton) Longfellow, and one of the " blue-eyed banditti" of the poet's " Children's Hour." Six children, four sons and two daughters, blessed this union. Mr. Dana's law practice soon became extensive and his service in behalf of various religious, and charitable and civil service reform organizations was freely given. He became a regular contributor to the "Civil Service Record," which he edited in 1889-92, and he was an uncompromising advocate of tariff and political reform. He was for many years secretary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform League; in 1888 he drafted the act which resulted in the adoption of the Australian ballot by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the pioneer in the movement in the United States in that direction. He planned the scheme of work of the Associated Charities of Boston, 1878-79, and was chairman of its committee of organization. He served as president of the board of trustees of the New England Conservatory of Music, 1891-98, and during that time raised $165,000 for the institution. He has been president of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association 1890-91, and was active in trying to introduce into Massachusetts the Norwegian system of regulating the sale of liquors. He served as president of the Cambridge Civil Service Reform Association, 1897-1901. He was a member of the standing committee of the diocese of Massachusetts, and was elected a substitute delegate to the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in America, held in Boston in 1904, serving as chairman of the general convention committee. He was made trustee and treasurer of the Episcopal Theological School, of Cambridge, in 1894, and has held the office of president of the Alumni Association of St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H. In 1901, Governor Crane, of Massachusetts, appointed him one of the three commissioners to inquire into the question of constructing a dam at the mouth of the Charles River, and the favorable report of the commission made in 1903, which led to the accomplishment of the great project, was written largely by Mr. Dana. In 1901 he was appointed by the board of overseers of Harvard University on the visiting committee in the department of philosophy, and organized the movement for raising funds for building Emerson Hall, which resulted in procuring about $165,000. He was a member of the executive committee of the Cambridge Good Government League and the Massachusetts Election Laws League, was president of the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association, and is chairman of the council of the United States Civil Service Reform League. He is a vice-president of the Massachusetts Reform Club; a member of the New York Reform Club, and was president of the Library Hall Association, organized for the improvement of the municipal government in Cambridge. His social club affiliations include the Union and Exchange Clubs, of Boston; the Essex County Club; the Oakley Country Club, of Watertown, of which he was president ; and the Harvard Club, of New York. His trusteeships have included the New England Conservatory of Music; the Oliver Building Trust; the Washington Building Trust; the Delta Building Trust; the Bromfield Building Trust and the Congress Street Building Trust. He is the author of "Double Taxation Unjust and Inexpedient" (1892); "Double Taxation in Massachusetts" (1895); "Substitutes for the Caucus" (Forum, 1886); "Workings of the Australian Ballot Act in Massachusetts " Annals of American Academy, (1892) ; and Conference of Good Government, (1906); Address on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Town of Dana (1901) ; and other papers and addresses on civil service reform, taxation, ballot reform, election expenses and better houses for working men. ,

Robert Douglass

ROBERT DOUGLASS Douglass, Robert, the second child and older son of Robert and Betsey Hadley Douglass, was bom in Cambridge, Mass., June 17, 1806. In 1812 his parents left that City, business being at a standstill on account of the Embargo. His father was a carpenter and an expert mechanic, and set up the machinery in cotton mills which were being built at that time. They returned in 1816 or 1817, after having lived in several towns of Massachusetts. With that exception Cambridge was always his home. As a boy he worked with a carpenter, but this was too hard for him. In 1822 his father died, leaving his mother in very poor circumstances with a family of seven children dependent upon her. It was necessary that the older son shovild help his mother, and he was apprenticed to Isaac Lum, probably the earliest manufacturing confectioner in Cambridge, of whom he learned the trade. After leaving the latter' s establishment, he spent a short time in Roxbury, and in June, 1826, before he was of age, commenced business for himself on the comer of School and

Cherry Streets. He bought his sugar in small quantities and brought it out of Boston himself, and after it was made into candy carried it into Boston to sell. From this small beginning by untiring industry, strict economy and fair dealing was built up the largest confectionery manufactory at that time in New England, sending wagons all over these states. Soon he moved to near the comer of Windsor and School Streets. On account of his increasing business and of loss and annoyance caused by the high tides, which in those early days had unobstructed rise over the marshes, one of which in 1830 covered the place to a depth of three feet in fifteen minutes, he bought an estate on what is now Massachusetts Avenue, comer of Douglass Street, where his business was carried on. He introduced the manufacture of English and medicated lozenges in this vicinity. In 1834 his brother Royal became his partner, and in 1843 this firm was dissolved. In the following year he entered into partnership with Charles Everett, under the firm name of Everett and Douglass, for the sale of domestic goods on commission in Boston. This continued for three years only, and he was never afterwards in any active business. In 1836, he bought shares in the Cambridge Bank. He was connected with that institution and its successor, the Cambridgeport National Bank, as director or president for more than forty-four years, holding the latter office for nineteen years. He was trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank from its incorporation in 1853 vmtil his death, and vice-president for the last twenty-six years of his life. He served as one of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of the city of Cambridge, was a member of the Cambridge Water Board, and was the treasurer of the Union Glass Works of Somerville. He always attended the First Universalist Church, having identified himself with that society when very young. He was married in 1832 to Adeline M. Welch, daughter of Joseph W. Welch of Cambridge, who died in 1857. In 1860 he married Anna E. Dexter, daughter of Henry Dexter of Cambridge, and they had three daughters. Mr. Douglass died Febmarv 19, 1885. Mrs. Anna E. Douglass died October 26, 1913. Mr. Douglass was pre-eminently a self-made man. He had little opportunity to obtain an education when a boy ; but notwithstanding that fact, he became a successful business man, and one whose advice was sought by many, and this he was always most willing to give. He was kind and genial to all with whom he was brought in contact. He was a man of the strictest integrity, of whom it could truly be said that his word was as good as his bond. He was very quiet and retiring, and refused to hold any public office.

Henry Endicott

HENRY ENDICOTT Endicott, Henry, was bom in Canton, November 14, 1824; son of Elijah and Cynthia (Childs) Endicott. He belongs to the branch of the Massachusetts family of Endicotts that settled in Canton in 1700. Mr. Endicott was educated in the public schools, and began business life in the manufacturing of steam engines and boilers in Boston, in 1845, under the firm name of Allen & Endicott, and has had a long and successful career in this branch of work. He was president of the Allen & Endicott Building Company, director of the Cambridge Gas Light Company, director of the First National Bank of Cambridge, and president of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. Mr. Endicott was connected with the Masonic order fifty-seven years, being Master Mason, in 1860, in Amicable Lodge, and Worshipful Master in 1864, '65, '66; was Master Mason of Mizpah Lodge (U.D.) in 1868, and elected Worshipful Master in 1869, under charter, and was District Deputy Grand Master, District No. 4, in 1867, '68. Was exalted, in 1861, in St. Paul's Royal Arch Chapter, Boston; was Scribe in 1862, '63; King, 1864; High Priest, 1865, '66; also High Priest of Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter (U.D.) in 1865, and Grand King of the Grand Chapter of Massachusetts in 1867. He was made Royal and Select Master, in Boston Council, in 1861, and was made a Knight Templar, in 1861, in Boston Commandery, and became a member the same year; was elected Captain General in 1868;

Generalissimo, 1869, '70; and Eminent Commander in 1891, '92. He received the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, from the fourth to the thirty-second, in the Grand Consistory of Massachusetts. Mr. Endicott has filled a ntmnber of other important offices in the order, was a member of the Colonial Club, of Cambridge, and the Union Club. He married, in 1847, Miss Miriam J. Smith, who died in 1849. In 1851 he was again married, to Miss Abby H. Browning, of Petersham. They had four children, of whom one only survives; Emma Endicott Marean. He has five grandchildren. Mr. Endicott died No\^- ember 8, 1913.

Robert Oliver Fuller

He was educated in the public schools. He began his commercial career in the iron business in 1855, under the firm name of Gay, Manson & Co., changed in 1857 to Robert O. Fuller, then Fuller & Dana in 1860, and in 1866 to Fuller, Dana & Fitz.

A'Ir. Fuller was a trustee of Worcester Academy, Colby University, and Newton Theological Institution. He was one of the founders of the Boston Baptist Social Union, and its president in 1874; president of the Boston Baptist Bethel ; president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and a member of the executive committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union. He was a member of the Cambridge common council in 1861-'62, but had uniformly declined all other city offices.

He was a member of the House of Representatives, 1871; in 1872-'73 a member of the state Senate, and in 1889 a member of the executive council of Governor Ames, from Cambridge.

Mr. Fuller was married in Cavendish, Vt., May 31, 1855, to Sarah P., daughter of Joseph and Emma (Baldwin) Parker. Of this union were seven children: Mary F., Robert O., Alfred C, Grace, Annie, Charles Sumner and Helen Fuller.

Arthur Elmer Denison

Denison, Arthur Elmer, for thirty-six years a resident of Cambridge, was bom in Burke, Vt., December 5th, 1847. He fitted for Tiifts College at Westbrook Seminary, during which period he enlisted in the service of the United States Army, being mustered out with the rank of Sergeant, and graduated from Tufts in 1869 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.

After his graduation, he returned to Maine, and there founded and became the first cashier of the Norway National Bank, reading law in his spare moments. After he had made the decision that he was fitted to adopt the legal profession as his life work, he resigned his position in the Bank, went to Portland and entered the office of the Hon. William Wirt Virgin, who later became one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Coiut of Maine, and in whose office Mr. Denison received a fine legal training.

He was admitted to the Maine Bar in 1872, and directly afterward came to Boston, where he was associated with Henry W. Paine, then one of the foremost lawyers and citizens of the Commonwealth, and for thirty-eight years thereafter practised law in Boston, where he attained the highest eminence in his chosen profession, both as a practicing attorney, and as Master and Auditor in nimierous important and complex cases.

He was married in 1873 to Ida E., a daughter of the late Dr. Ward Eddy Wright of Cambridge. Of this union two children were bom, one, a daughter, died in infancy; the other, a son, is now a practicing attorney in Boston. After Mr. Denison's marriage, he moved to North Cambridge, and here he spent the remainder of his life. Suggestions of public honors were frequently made to him, to all of which he gave a firm refusal, but in his own quiet way, and by the very force of his remarkable personality, he found much good to do in the world as a citizen in the ranks.

He was a member and had been a vice-president of the Cambridge Club; a past president of the Universalist Club of Boston; a member of the Mizpah Lodge of Masons; and honorary counsel of the Avon Home. He was a trustee of Tufts College, to the duties of which he gave largely of his time, strength and ability, which the College recognized by giving him the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1908. For many years he was Chairman of the Standing Committee of the First Universalist Chiu-ch on Inman Street; and later, after his removal to North Cambridge, he took a prominent part in

Mr. Denison died on the 18th of May, 1910, after a brief illness, closing a life fvdl of honor, and possessed of the respect of all who were privileged to know him.