History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 102

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1390

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MARK SPAULDING BRADLEY, M. D.

Ancestors of Dr. Mark Spaulding Bradley fought for American Independence in the Revolutionary war and through all the intervening years down to the present representatives of the family have borne their part in wisely shaping the development and progress of the communities with which they have been identified. They have been found ready to meet changing conditions and the broadening opportunities which have come with the passing years, and Mark Spaulding Bradley is today an exponent of the spirit of the age in his mastery of modern scientific problems having to do with the practice of medicine and surgery. Through the development of his powers he has come to leadership not only in the medical profession but also in connection with business interests which have had to do with the improvement and upbuilding of Hartford.

A native son of New England, he was born January 16, 1868, in East Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, his parents being Dr. Oscar Holmes and Julia A. (Spaulding) Bradley. The ancestral line is traced back to Nathaniel Holmes, who came from Ireland and established his residence in Londonderry, New Hampshire, being a worthy representative of the Scotch-Irish element that has meant so much in American citizenship. His son, Jonathan Holmes, the great-grandfather of Dr. Bradley, served as an officer of the American army in the Revolutionary war and was on duty at Bennington, Vermont, under General Stark and also passed through

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the memorable battle and winter at Valley Forge, where the soldiers under Washing- ton underwent untold hardships and privations. In the maternal line Dr. Bradley is descended from Edward Spaulding, of English birth, who arrived in the new world in 1630, settling at Braintree, Massachusetts. His father, Dr. Oscar Holmes Bradley, took up the study of medicine and became a distinguished surgeon of southern New Hampshire, where he also figured prominently in business circles as a bank president.

The youthful days of Dr. Bradley were passed in East Jaffrey, where he mas- tered the elementary branches of learning, while later he matriculated in Dartmouth College, where he studied for a year. Subsequently he pursued a course in biology in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and then turned to the profession of which his father was an eminent representative. Whether inherited tendency, environment or other cause had most to do with his choice of a life work it is perhaps impossible to determine, but the success of his later years have proven that the choice was well made. He won his M. D. degree upon graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University as a member of the class of 1892 and had his first practical experience by serving as an interne in the New York City Hospital. Ambitious to make his work of the greatest usefulness in medical and surgical practice, he then went abroad and studied in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Halle and Berlin, pursuing postgraduate courses in medical schools and hospitals, in which he thoroughly investigated the methods of medical and surgical procedure.

With his return to his native land Dr. Bradley opened an office in South Man- chester, Connecticut, where he engaged in general practice for a decade. He then again went abroad for special study with the purpose of specializing in diseases of the skin, ear, nose and throat. His highly developed powers in this field are widely acknowledged. He has always kept in touch with the trend of modern scientific thought, research, and investigation and his labors have been of far-reaching and beneficial effect. When for the second time he completed a course in foreign lands and was thus more thoroughly equipped for the onerous and responsible duties of his profession, he located in Hartford and his ability along the line of his specialty soon gained him position among the leading dermatologists, aurists, and laryngologists of New England. He has been on the visiting staff of the Hartford Hospital for twenty years and is now their chief dermatologist, and is also on the consulting staff of the Manchester Memorial Hospital. For three years, from 1904 until 1907, he served as medical director of the Hartford Life Insurance Company and for nine years was assistant medical director of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. While his practice has long been of an extensive and important character, he has yet found time to cooperate in the management and direction of other business interests which have proven a vital force in Hartford's industrial and commercial growth. He became a director of the Hartford, Manchester & Rockville Tramway Company, so continuing to serve for many years, or until 1905, when he resigned. He was chosen secretary and one of the directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company and is also a representative of the directorate of the Williams Brothers Manufacturing Company 'and the Glazier Manufacturing Company, both at Glastonbury. He was also at one time a director of the Vernon Woolen Company of Vernon, Connecticut, which passed out of existence in 1908. In all these organizations his sound judgment and keen discrimination have been recognized and his opinions have at all times carried weight in business councils.

On the 5th of July, 1904, Dr. Bradley was married to Miss Jessie E. Goodnow, who was born in East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, November 10, 1879, her parents being Walter Lucius and Mary Adelaide (Upton) Goodnow. To the doctor and his wife were born five children: Priscilla, who was born April 13, 1905, and died April 19, 1928; George Goodnow, born December 25, 1906; Anne, who was born April 27, 1908, and is deceased; Catherine, born July 12, 1907; and Lois, born March 29, 1916.

Politically, Dr. Bradley is a republican and recognizes and meets the duties and obligations of citizenship. His religious faith is indicated in his attendance at the Baptist church and fraternally he is a Mason, having membership in Manchester Lodge, A. F. & A. M .; Pythagoras Chapter, R. A. M .; Wadsworth Council, R. & S. M .; and Washington Commandery, K. T. He also belongs to the Yale Club of New York City, the Hartford "Get together Club," Country Club of Farmington, the Hart- ford Club, the Hartford Yale Alumni Association and the Theta Delta Chi fraternity and Theta Delta Chi Club of New York City. Along strictly professional lines his association is with the City, County and State Medical Societies and the American

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Medical Association and through his connection therewith, as well as through wide reading, he keeps abreast with the advanced thought and methods of the day, his highly developed powers gaining him deserved eminence in the field of his specialty. Dr. Bradley has traveled extensively throughout this country and Europe and has also visited Africa and South America. His life has been one of broad usefulness to his fellowmen and he has ever been faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stain- less in reputation.

L. HOYT PEASE

Exemplifying the best of New England traditions in business and public service, the influence of the life of L. Hoyt Pease has been far-reaching in the institution with which he was connected in a business way, and in the community to the welfare of which he devoted so much of his time and strength. At his passing the community lost a citizen of substantial worth whose many sterling qualities were attested in the high regard which was uniformly entertained for him.

L. Hoyt Pease was born in Winsted, January 20, 1845, of the marriage of Julius W. and Mary (Hotchkiss) Pease, and was a representative of one of the old families of New England, being a direct descendant of Robert Pease, who came from England, where the family had lived for centuries, and crossed the Atlantic on the ship "Francis" in 1634, accompanied by his brother, John Pease, and his eldest son, Robert Pease. He settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and through succeeding generations the family has contributed to the development and upbuilding of New England.

When he was two years of age, the family moved from Winsted to New Britain, where he was reared, the public schools affording him his educational privileges until he had mastered the work of the grades, when he entered the New Britain high school, from which he was graduated in 1862, a youth of seventeen years. He imme- diately started in business and in 1864 became an employe at the Stanley Works of New Britain, being actively identified with that business for more than a half century. In 1887 he was made one of directors and the secretary of the corporation and in 1906 was elected treasurer, which office he contined to fill until his death. In the days when the business was struggling to gain a successful footing, his sound judg- ment, his enterprise, close application and thoroughness contributed to the desired result. Into still other fields he directed his efforts and became a prominent figure in financial circles as one of the organizers of the Burritt Savings Bank of New Britain, which elected him to its presidency, he being the first to fill the office. For many years he was on the directorate of the Mechanics National Bank and with the organization of the New Britain Trust Company he became its vice president and so continued throughout his life.

In 1880 Mr. Pease was married to Miss Julia Lillian Sawyer, a daughter of Henry E. and Julia (French) Sawyer. They had a family of three children: Her- bert Hoyt; Maurice Henry; and Dorothy Sawyer, who became the wife of Robert T. Frisbie.

Mr. Pease always took a deep and helpful interest in community affairs, giving his support to those measures which were a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride. He voted with the republican party and for many years served as chairman of the republican town committee of New Britain. In 1884 he entered upon a two years' term as councilman and in 1886 became alderman, while in 1890 he was elected mayor of his city, to which he gave a business-like and progressive administration. The cause of education ever found in him a stalwart champion and his interest in the schools was manifest in twenty-four years' service on the school board, and at the time of his death he had served many years as chairman of the board's finance com- mittee. He favored improvements in the school system and facilities with a recogni- tion of the requirements of a growing industrial city. Several new school buildings were built under his supervision as chairman of the finance committee to the economic advantage of the city.

Mr. Pease was also prominently identified with the First Ecclesiastical Society and was its clerk and treasurer for more than thirty-eight years. He passed away in New Britain, March 20, 1919, when he was seventy-four years of age. His life had been one of activity and usefulness, guided by the soundest principles of integrity in

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business, of honor and progressiveness in citizenship and of loyalty to all those forces which make for upright manhood in every relation of life. He had the esteem of all who knew him and the warm friendship of those who came within the closer circle of his acquaintance.

WILLIAM PORTER, M. D.

For forty-four years Dr. William Porter has been actively engaged in the prac- tice of medicine and surgery in Hartford and no history of the city would be complete without his record because of the high position to which he has attained, owing to his unfaltering devotion to the call of duty and to the fact that at all times he has kept abreast with modern thought, investigation, research and progress concerning the laws which govern human life. Dr. Porter is a native of Beloit, Wisconsin, born October 16, 1855. However, he is a descendant of an old New England family and the ancestral line is traced back still farther to England, where the Porters, an ancient and honorable family, were granted a coat-of-arms, described as follows: Sable, three church bells, argent; canton, ermine. Motto: Vigilantia et virtus. Rec- ords show that when William the Conqueror went to England he was accompanied by a Roman knight, William de la Port, from whom the line is traced down through Ralph de la Port, Robert de la Port, Hugh de la Port, who married a daughter of William Russell, to their son, John Porter, of Markham, England, who married a daughter of a Mr. Gardiner, of Bishops Norton, Lincolnshire. The line comes on down through John Porter, Augustine Porter of Belton, John Porter, William Porter of Wryhall, to John Porter, who was born in England in 1590 and came to America in 1633 with his wife, Rose, and in 1635 was one of the founders of Windsor, Connecticut. Their son, Samuel Porter, born in England in 1626, was the father of Samuel Porter, born in 1660, and from him the line comes down through Eleazer Porter, his son Eleazer, born in 1728, William Porter, who was born in 1763 and died in Hadley, Massachusetts, about 1848. He was a merchant, physician and agri- culturist. He married Lois Eastman and afterward Charlotte Williams and by his first marriage had two sons, John and William.

The latter, grandfather of Dr. Porter, was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, November 14, 1792, was graduated from Williams College in 1813 and won high rank as a member of the bar at Lee, Massachusetts. He also represented his district in both houses of the general assembly and was a man of marked capability and of prominence in his state. He married Mary Ann Quincy, who died December 2, 1835, while William Porter survived until February 11, 1853, passing away in Lee, Massachusetts.

The eldest of their children was William Porter, who was born in Lee, January 10, 1820, and, like his father, attended Williams College, being numbered among its alumni of 1839. Because close study had impaired his health, he sailed for Florida and spent seven years in that sunny clime. Later he entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York city and following the completion of his studies devoted his life to the work of the ministry and to activity in the educational field. In 1845 he became professor of Latin in Beloit College at Beloit, Wisconsin. A man of scholarly attainments, his wisdom, combined with his geniality, kindliness an innate tact, made his influence of great benefit to all with whom he came in contact. He was married July 13, 1854, to Ellen Gertrude Chapin, who was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 15, 1831, a daughter of Laertes Chapin. Her ancestry is traced back to Deacon Samuel Chapin, who settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, with his family in 1642 and on the 10th of October, 1652, became one of the magistrates of the town. He died November 11, 1675, while his wife, Cecily, passed away February 8, 1683. Their son, Jepheth Chapin, was born in 1642, actively participated in the battle of Turner's Falls, May 18, 1676, and died in February, 1712. He was married July 22, 1664, to Abilenah Cooley, who died November 17, 1710, and on May 31, 1711, he married Dorothy Root, of Enfield, Connecticut. His son, Deacon David Chapin, was born November 16, 1682, was a prominent churchman and was married November 12, 1705, to Sarah Stebbins, who died February 6, 1726. His second wife, Mindwell Holton, died October 21, 1758, while Deacon David Chapin survived until July 8, 1772. His son, Deacon Edward Chapin, was born February 16, 1724, was mar-

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ried July 6, 1752, to Eunice Colton, of Longmeadow, and died January 6, 1800. Their son, Aaron Chapin, born April 20, 1753, was a cabinet maker in early life and after- ward became an expert watch repairer. He served as deacon of the First Congre- gational church in Hartford. On September 11, 1777, he married Mary, daughter of Zebulon King, of East Windsor, Connecticut. She died February 21, 1829, and he passed away December 25, 1838. Their son, Laertes Chapin, was born in Hartford, August 21, 1778, and under his father learned cabinetmaking, which he followed throughout his entire life in Hartford and East Hartford. On November 12, 1809, he married Susanna, daughter of Gad Merrick, of Franklin, New York, and follow- ing her death on September 9, 1811, he married Laura Colton, of Hartford, Connec- ticut, who died September 18, 1854, having for seven years survived her husband, who passed away October 30, 1847. Among the children of the second marriage was Ellen Gertrude, wife of William Porter. They became parents of four children: William; Frank Chamberlin, a Yale professor, who married Delia Lyman; James, who died in infancy; and Mary Quincy, living in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Reared in his native city, Dr. Porter supplemented his early educational train- ing by study in Beloit College and then spent three years in a paper mill in Dalton, Massachusetts, where he had established his home. Attracted, however, to profes- sional life, he became a student in what is now the medical department of North- western University of Chicago and there won his M. D. degree in 1882, after which he did postgraduate work in Paris and Vienna, receiving instruction from some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons on the continent. With his return to his native land he settled in Hartford in January, 1884, and through the intervening years has made steady progress in his profession until he stands today as one of the eminent representatives of the medical fraternity in Connecticut, with a practice commensurate with his ability. He also serves on the staff of the Hartford Hospital and he is an honored member of the city, county and state medical societies and the American Medical Association.

On the 27th of June, 1885, in Hartford, Dr. Porter was married to Mrs. Frances (Pease) Hall, widow of Ezra Hall and daughter of Edwin T. Pease, one of the founders of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. By her previous marriage she had two children, Robert and Elizabeth, and to Dr. and Mrs. Porter has been born a daughter, Margaret Chapin, now the wife of Atwood Collins Page. Mrs. Porter holds membership in the Immanuel Congregational church. Both the Doctor and his wife have long been prominent in social circles in Hartford, where they have resided for so many years and where his professional service has proved of the greatest benefit to his fellowmen, his work being at all times actuated by the highest ideals. A man of strong purpose, of unfaltering energy, kindly, sympathetic nature, he is the loved physician in many a household in Connecticut's capital.

WILLIAM GRANT SQUIRES

William Grant Squires, master mechanic for the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford Railroad, with offices in Hartford, was born in the town of Southbury, Connecti- cut, October 20, 1874, his parents being Charles Monroe and Sarah (Hamlin) Squires, also natives of this state. The father was a miller by trade and operated both a woodworking mill and grist mill, while in addition he conducted a grocery store on the Housatonic river. Both he and his wife have now passed away.

William G. Squires pursued his education in private, public and high schools, being graduated from the East Hartford high school in 1889. He took up railroading in the following year in the East Hartford shop of the New York & New England Railroad and afterward filled a number of positions, being rapidly promoted. For seventeen years he was a locomotive engineer, making the run into Boston and other cities. His last run was on a passenger engine of which he was in charge for several years. He was next promoted to fuel supervisor and afterward became general fuel supervisor for the entire system. During the war he was supervisor for the govern- ment supervision of fuel, with headquarters in New York, having charge of all the fuel east of the Mississippi river, including New England. After the war he resumed his former position, again becoming general fuel supervisor for the railroad, and in 1922 was advanced to the position of master mechanic of the Hartford division of

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the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, having charge of the New Haven, Hartford and Willimantic division. Thus he has advanced to a position of large responsibility in railway circles and adequately meets his duties and the require- ments of his office in every particular. He is also a director of the East Hartford Trust Company and of the East Hartford Company and is recognized as a man of sound judgment in business matters.

On the 19th of June, 1902, Mr. Squires married Miss Christine Smith Nicoll, of East Hartford, where they reside. He is well known in Masonic circles and belongs to the Masonic International League of Masonic Clubs. He is also identified with the Rotary Club of East Hartford and is in thorough sympathy with its purposes to uphold the standards of American citizenship and to promote public progress. He is a director of the East Hartford Chamber of Commerce, is a fire district commis- sioner, and he belongs to the New England Railroad Club, the New Haven Railroad Club, the Railroad Veterans Association, the International Railway Fuel Association and the Road Foremen's Association. He is widely known as an outstanding figure in connection with railway operation in this section of the country and his advance- ment is the immediate outcome of capability and energy wisely directed.

WILLIAM MILLS COOPER

William Mills Cooper, engaged in the undertaking business in Suffield, was born at Marietta, Ohio, February 1, 1867, a son of Samuel A. and Hattie E. (King) Cooper. The father, a native of Ticonderoga, New York, became secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Marietta Chair Company of Marietta, Ohio. Later he spent some time in Chicago and afterward retired, living in eastern Connecticut until he passed away April 7, 1921. His wife, a descendant of the William King family, died about 1903.

William Mills Cooper attended the schools of his native city and was afterward associated with his father in business in the factory office. In 1883 he came to Suffield, where he was associated in business with his uncle, Warren Wesley Cooper, but later went to Chicago, where he was again identified in business with his father. In 1894 he returned to Suffield, where he has since lived, and here he took up the work of undertaking in connection with his uncle. He was graduated from the Renouard Training School for Embalmers in the city of New York in 1902. For a time he was in charge of the establishment and later took over the business, which he has since conducted. It was established by G. Austin, and Warren W. Cooper, who be- came an employe of Mr. Austin, took over the business in the '60s, since which time it has been carried on under the name of Cooper. Warren W. Cooper passed away September 4, 1905, and William Mills Cooper is now proprietor. Warren W. Cooper was quite active in local affairs and served as first selectman of Suffield for a number of terms. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity and he married Martha A. King.

In 1901 William M. Cooper was elected judge of the probate court and took over the office in 1902, since which time he has served in that capacity, covering more than a quarter of a century. He has always been active in local affairs and is a stanch republican in politics.

In 1895 Mr. Cooper married Miss Clara Franzen, who was born in Chicago, and they have a son, William Alden Cooper, now a farmer of Granville, Ohio. Mr. Cooper is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Consistory Mason and also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Suffield Country Club and attends the Second Baptist church.

ARTHUR C. HEUBLEIN

Arthur C. Heublein, who has gained distinction in the field of medicine and surgery, has practiced for a fourth of a century and his work has largely been the expression of modern scientific research in his chosen field. He is a native of Hart- ford, Connecticut, he having been born here, September 18, 1879. His grand- parents, Andrew and Elena (Meissner) Heublein, were natives of Suhl, Germany,

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whence they came to America in' 1850, settling in Hartford, Connecticut, since which time representatives of the family have won prominent place in the business, pro- fessional and social life of the city. Andrew Heublein died May 30, 1899, at the age of seventy-nine years.

His son, Gilbert F. Heublein, mentioned elsewhere in this work, was the father of Dr. Heublein. Dr. Heublein pursued his early education in the public schools of Hartford and afterward attended the Peekskill (New York) Military School. Having mentally reviewed the broad field of business with its countless opportunities, he decided to make the practice of medicine his life work and in 1898 enrolled as a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, winning his M. D. degree at his graduation with the class of 1902. He then gained broad and valuable practical experience as an interne in the Hartford Hospital and was splen- didly qualified for professional duties and responsibilities when he opened an office for the private practice of medicine in his native city on the 1st of January, 1905. Success attended him almost from the beginning and for five years he remained in general practice but was constantly directing his study and his labors into a special field-that of Roentgentherapy and Roentgenography. In the later years of his pro- fessional career he has concentrated his efforts and attention upon this particular field and has gained a notable place as a specialist.

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History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 102

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859 Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1390