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Pennsylvania, in 1919, and at the University of Wis- consin in 1920, being the author of manuals on these subjects.
In July, 1921, desiring to settle down after three years of traveling, he accepted the managership of the Chamber of Commerce at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a city which appealed to him as a New Englander. . He reorganized this Chamber, making it the largest in New Hampshire, and organized a State Chamber of Commerce body. He was chosen general secretary of the Portsmouth Tercentenary celebration. In January, 1923, he became manager of the Fall River Chamber of Commerce, his pres- ent connection. In addition to the activities already mentioned, Mr. Sherwood was for several years prior to and during the war president of the Civic Federation of Stamford, Connecticut, in the course of which time he carried through a survey of the city government which resulted in the installment of a much needed accounting system. He was the organizer and for six years a member of the board of governors of the New York Public Lecture Corps of the Board of Education of New York. For many years he has been a member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, and of the Stamford Historical Society, of which he is an officer and of whose building fund he is a trustee. He was chairman of the memorials committee in connection with the celebration of the Two Hun- dred and Seventy-fifth anniversary of the settlement of Stamford, and is president of the Department of Sociology of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, of which he was one of the organizers.
He is the author of booklets on Long Island and Southern New England, and editor of guides to New York City and the Hudson River and to Ply- mouth, Massachusetts, published by Rand, McNally & Company, and to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, issued by the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce. Among reprints which have been made of his arti- cles are the following: "The Ebb and Flow of the Immigration Tide," from the "Review of Reviews;" "The Children of the Land," from the "Outlook;" "Negotiating by Habit," from the "Outlook;" and "Facing Municipal Problems from a New Angle," from the "New York Tribune." He was the author of a series of articles on New York Harbor pub- lished in "Freight," and of a series of legends of Southwestern Connecticut published in the "Trib- une." At the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, he wrote an account of the chief events of that war for the "Tribune," which ran through the Sunday issue of that paper for nine months. He has lectured in different parts of the country on immigration problems, and has made a special col- lection of picture's illustrating his own New Eng- land. In his studies he has given special attention to New England conditions and future and to the psychology of cities. For several years he was a member of the Social Service Committee of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches of Connecticut.
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JUDGE EDWARD F. HANIFY, A. B., LL. B., LL. D .- One of the most noteworthy figures in legal circles of Bristol county, Massachusetts, today is Judge Edward F. Hanify, whose position as judge of the Second District Court of Bristol county has given him wide influence, both in public life and among the people of his native city of Fall River, Massachusetts. His service is the more significant to society for his deep interest in the ethics of his profession, as generally applied, as well as from the professional viewpoint, and his work for the juvenile delinquents who come under his jurisdiction has been for years one of the salutary forces in the progress of corrective effort in Massachusetts.
Judge Hanify is a son of Michael Hanify, who was born in Ireland and came to the United States with his parents as a youth, the family settling in Fall River, Massachusetts. He was a seafaring man for some forty or fifty years, and served in various capacities for the Fall River Line, plying between Fall River and New York City. His death, which occurred in the year 1911, at the age of seventy years, removed from the shipping circles of this city one of the pioneers in steamboat traffic of a day now gone by. The mother, Elizabeth (Brennan) Hanify, was also born in Ireland and came to this country in her youth, her parents becoming residents of Fall River. She died in the year 1886 at the age of forty-two years.
Judge Edward F. Hanify was born in Fall River, February 2, 1881. His education was begun in the local public schools, and he is a graduate of the B. M. C. Durfee High School in the class of 1900. Entering Holy Cross College at Worcester, Massa- chusetts, for his course in the liberal arts, he was graduated in the class of 1904 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, then entered Harvard University School of Law, from which he was graduated in ' the class of 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The young man passed his bar examinations in the year 1906, in the second year of his law course, and began his practice shortly after his graduation. He was later, in the year 1919, hon- ored by Holy Cross College, which conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws. Judge Hanify began practice as a partner of Thomas F. Higgins under the firm name of Higgins & Hanify, and this partnership existed until 1911. Mr. Higgins was elected mayor of Fall River in the year 1910, and the following year Judge Hanify was elected to the office of city solicitor, and, on account of his im- portant public services and the time demanded in their performance, the partnership was dissolved. After serving eighteen months, or thereabouts, as city solicitor, Judge Hanify was appointed by Gov- ernor Eugene Foss as judge of the Second Dis- trict Court of Bristol county. This was considered a great honor, as it placed Judge Hanify on the bench as one of the youngest judges ever appointed in the State of Massachusetts. Judge Hanify has made a remarkable record on the bench and one which is commended universally, for in his handling of juvenile delinquents he has done far more than corrective work. On the statutes of the State of
Massachusetts is a law to the effect that boys and girls between the ages of seven and seventeen shall not be treated as criminals, even in cases of serious misdemeanors, and Judge Manify, in upholding and applying this law, has given many young people a new start in life, which under other circumstances might have been denied them. This re-instatement of thoughtless youth into the paths of rectitude has given many serious-minded and useful citizens to the State of Massachusetts, who look back to the fatherly advice and guidance of Judge Hanify as the determining influence in their effort toward a wor- thy life. Judge Hanify has lectured before many audiences on this subject in various parts of the State of Massachusetts, thereby securing the co- operation of parents, educators and the people gen- erally in this beautiful and commendable work of moral salvation and social reinstatement, and his activities along this line are considered the most noteworthy achievement of his entire career thus far on the bench.
Outside a close devotion to his judicial duties, Judge Hanify in his spare moments takes a deep interest in public matters, generally. He is a mem- ber of the board of trustees of the Fall River Public Library and likewise of the Citizens' Savings Bank; has the distinction of being the first honorary mem- ber of the Fall River Rotary Club; is a member of Fall River Lodge, No. 118, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks; and of Fall River Council, No. 86, Knights of Columbus. His religious affiliation is with the Roman Catholic Church.
Judge Hanify married, in June, 1910, Mary E. Brodkorb, of Fall River, and they are the parents of three sons: Edward B., Francis, James.
CHARLES JARVIS HOLMES-The history of the Holmes family traces far back into the past, the English ancestor being credited with coming to England with William the Conqueror. Being of an- cient family and handsome conduct, he was noticed by William the Conqueror himself, and made a cap- tain in his army, and having performed his part to the satisfaction of the Conqueror, he was rewarded by him with an estate in Yorkshire. The family is traced to the eleventh century and down through nineteen recorded generations in England to William Holmes, the ancestor of the Fall River family, now represented by Charles L. Holmes, now and since 1906 treasurer of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, grandson of Charles Jarvis (1) Holmes, great- grandson of Abraham and Bethiah (Nye) Holmes, all of whom will have extended mention in this re- view. The line of descent in brief is thus traced:
(I) William Holmes, of the nineteenth recorded generation of his family, was born in Yorkshire, England, January 3, 1592, and prior to 1636 came to New England, settled in Scituate, and became a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1658. He died in Marshfield, September 9, 1678, aged eighty-six. His widow, Elizabeth, died in Marshfield, February 17, 1689, in her eighty-sixth year.
(II) Abraham Holmes, son of William Holmes, was born in 1640, lived in Marshfield, Massachusetts,
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until prior to 1698, when he moved to Rochester, where he was tow ntreasurer in 1698, and there he died, April 17, 1722. He married (first) Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of Rev. Samuel Arnold, who was pastor of the church at Marshfield, 1659-1693.
(III) Experience Holmes, son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Arnold) Holmes, was born in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in 1681, and settled just within the line of Dartmouth, in what was afterward Fairhaven, where he died in 1754. He married Patience Nichols.
(IV) Experience (2) Holmes, son of Experience and Patience (Nichols) Holmes, was born in Ro- chester, Massachusetts, June 9, 1716, and married, on December 13, 1737, Hannah Sampson, daughter of Abraham Sampson. After his mother's second mar- riage he left home, but after his own marriage, oc- cupied the homestead of his father at Rochester. Later he owned and occupied a farm in the Third Parish of Rochester, where he died March 14, 1794, aged seventy-eight. He is described as a man of small size, never weighing more than 135 pounds, but so agile, quick, and wiry, that few men could best him in a wrestling match. He was also an ex- pert marksman and fond of hunting. He was strong in Bible argument, and quick-witted, with a ready gift for repartee. In 1762 he joined the Baptist church.
(V) Abraham Holmes, son of Experience (2) and Hannah (Sampson) Holmes, was born June 9, 1754, in Rochester, Massachusetts, and there died September 7, 1839, after a remarkable and success- ful life as a member of the Plymouth and Bristol county bars. He was regarded as a learned and skilled lawyer, and was a most interesting speaker, his addresses abounding in anecdote, wit, and humor. At the age of eighty he addressed the Bristol county bar, in session at New Bedford, on "The Rise and Progress of the Profession in Massa- chusetts," and in it gave sketches of the early law- . yers. Abraham Holmes was admitted to the bar of Plymouth county in April, 1800, being then forty-six years of age, and not regularly educated for the pro- fession of law. He had previously been president of the Court of Sessions, and when he applied for ad- mission to the bar, the members voted to admit him in consideration of "his respectable official character, learning, and abilities, on condition that he study three months in some attorney's office." He con- tinued in practice until August, 1835, when, reaching eighty-one years of age, he retired, having met with a considerable degree of success, and gained honor- able standing. After his death the members of the bar of Bristol, Plymouth, and Barnstable counties, at a meeting held in Plymouth, October 25, 1839, paid respectful tribute to his talents, learning, and character, and adopted a resolution expressing a high sense of his personal worth as a man, "whose mind was enriched with various learning; whose memory was a repository of the most valuable reminiscenses; whose legal attainments gave him high professional eminence; and whose social qualities were an orna- ment of the circle of friendship during a long life of integrity and usefulness." He was a member of the
executive council of Massachusetts in May, 1821 and 1822, and in May, 1822-1823, under Governor Brooks.
Abraham Holmes married, December 26, 1776, · Bethiah Nye, born February 16, 1759, died December 14, 1832, daughter of Ichabod and Bethiah (Black- well) Nye. Children: Bathsheba, died unmarried; Rosalinda, married Anselm Bassett; George B. N., married Elizabeth Valentine; and Charles Jarvis, of whom further.
(VI) Charles Jarvis Holmes, youngest son of Abrahamı and Bethiah (Nye) Holmes, was born May 9, 1790, in Rochester, Massachusetts, died at Fall River, Massachusetts, May 13, 1859, aged sixty-nine, and was buried in the same cemetery in Rochester in which had been laid at eternal rest, his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great- grandfather -- five generations. He was a man of ar- dent friendships, genial disposition, and a high sense of honor. His intellectual powers were strong and well cultivated, and he read carefully the English classics, was a thorough student of the law, and in writing his own epitaph, he closed with these words: "By profession a lawyer; by practice a peacemaker."
Charles J. Holmes studied law in his father's office in Rochester, and was admitted to the Ply- mouth bar in 1812. He practiced his profession in Rochester for a quarter of a century, and became both prominent and influential. In 1838 he moved to Taunton, but in 1842, receiving appointment to the office of collector of customs at the port of Fall River, he moved to that city, where he filled. at various times other offices of importance-master-of- chancery, commissioner of bankruptcy, etc.
In politics he was a Republican, ardent and san- guine, strong in his convictions and strong in sup- port of his party. He represented Rochester in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1816-17- 19-20-24-26-27-31-32; was State Senator from Ply- mouth county in 1829 and 1830; a member of the Massachusetts executive council in 1835, and presi- dential elector in 1836. He was appointed by Presi- dent John Tyler to the office of collector of customs, and all his life he held the respect and esteem of his fellowmen.
Charles J. Holmes married (first) October 17, 1814, Cynthia Crocker, who died August 17, 1828, aged forty. He married (second) in 1830, Louisa Haskell, who died October 11, 1846, aged forty-four, daughter of Ebenezer and Bathsheba (Crocker) Haskell. Charles J. Holmes by his second marriage had two children: Emma Louisa and Charles Jarvis (2). Emma Louisa Holmes was born November 4, 1830, and died March 31, 1881. She married, on August 20, 1856, Daniel Stillwell, of Fall River, born February 11, 1825, died December 20, 1878, leaving two daughters: Louisa Holmes Stillwell, who married John H. C. Nevius, and Sarah Richmond Stillwell, who died in February, 1889.
(VII) Charles Jarvis (2) Holmes, only son of . Charles Jarvis and Louisa (Haskell) Holmes, was born in Rochester, Massachusetts, March 4, 1834, and died at Fall River, Massachusetts, February 26, 1906, in his seventy-second year. In the passing of Mr. Holmes, Fall River lost one of its prominent
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citizens; the business community, a strong, progres- sive force; and the religious world, a bright and shining example. Of ancent Colonial ancestry traced to the Plymouth Colony, Mr. Holmes possessed the strong body, the vigorous intellect, and the high moral and religious spirit of his ancestry, and from youthful manhood was identified with the business, social, and official life of the city to which he came in early boyhood.
Early in his career he became associated with the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, and for fifty years he safeguarded the interests of the multitude of people who made that institution the medium through which their savings were conserved. His years were more than three score and ten, and his breadth of mind and strength of character fully met the heavy demands of business and civic life. As banker, treasurer, cashier, alderman, member of city and State governments, and a leader in church work, there was scarcely a life in the city which had not in some measure felt the stimulus of his energy, his devotion, and his faith.
Mr. Holmes was in his fifth year when the family moved to Taunton, and in his ninth year when he moved to Fall River, the city that was his home until the close of his long and honorable life. He was educated in the public schools of Fall River, and was a member of the first class formed in the Fall River High School, whence he was graduated, class of 1853. He was then nineteen years of age, and immediately after graduation he entered the employ of the Massasoit Bank of Fall River. That was the beginning of his long career as a financier, a busi- ness in which he so rapidly rose in rank that in 1855, at the age of twenty-one, he was elected treas- urer of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, in- corporated April 10, 1855, an office he held until his passing in 1906, when he was succeeded by his son, Charles L. Holmes, father and son having been guardians of the bank treasury ever since its found- ing, sixty-eight years ago. The same year (1855) Mr. Holmes was appointed cashier of the Wamsutta Bank, which in 1864 was reorganized as the Second National Bank, of Fall River. He was also presi- dent of the King Philip Mills, president of the Saga- more Mill, and a director of the Border City Mills, all great textile manufactories of Fall River, he be- ing a man of the highest rank as financier and business man.
Hardly less influential was he in the official life of city and State, his terms of service covering a long period of time in many different positions. In 1873 he represented Fall River in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and both in that body and later (1877-78) in the State Senate, he rendered active, useful service. In the Senate he was chair- man of the committee on banking. For two years he was a member of the Fall River Board of Alder- men; for sixteen years he was a member of the school committee, and during that time exerted a strong influence upon the city's educational affairs. He was a trustee of the Fall River Public Library for thirty years; chairman of the Civil Service Com- mission for the Fall River district; member of the
board of overseers of the poor; and chairman of the Massachusetts State Committee of Associated Sav- ings Banks, a committee on which he held a lead- ing position for thirty years. He held not only the offices named, but also for a long time served in municipal positions requiring financial sagacity and integrity. In politics he was a Republican.
Mr. Holmes was a member and senior deacon of the Central Congregational Church. His position. in the community was that of a progressive business man, a respected citizen, and a cooperator in all movements started for the improvement of the con- dition of the people. On financial and municipal affairs, Mr. Holmes was considered one of the best authorities in the city, and his opinion was fre- quently sought on difficult questions. His long ex- perience in official and business life, and his high standing as man and citizen, qualified him to rank among the representative men of the commonwealth, and no man was more highly esteemed for his fine qualities of mind and heart.
Charles J. (2) Holmes married, on May 4, 1858, at Fall River, Mary A. Remington, daughter of Joshua and Joanna Remington, and they were the parents of three children: Mary L., born May 15, 1859; Anna C., born March 5, 1861; and Charles L., a sketch of whom follows.
CHARLES LINCOLN HOLMES-Knowing but one allegiance throughout his business career, Charles Lincoln Holmes began at the bottom of the ladder and rose until he is today treasurer of the banking concern whose doors he entered at the close of his school years. An only son of Charles Jarvis (2) and Mary A. (Remington) Holmes (see preceding sketch), he was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, May 21, 1866, and there resided, an honored and influential business man and financier, treasurer of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, of which his honored father was the first treasurer. He was educated in the public schools of the city of his birth, finishing with graduation from high school, class of 1885. He began his business career the same year by becoming an employee of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank, and during the thirty-eight years which have since elapsed, he has known no other allegiance in the business world. He received several promotions during the twenty- one years, 1885-1906, that he was privileged to associate in the banking business with Charles Jar- vis Holmes, the first treasurer, and when, in 1906, that strong pillar of support to the bank and an im- portant figure in its development was called hence, Charles L. Holmes was chosen his successor, an of- fice he has now most ably filled for seventeen years. The bank, founded in 1855, has had a healthy growth, its total resources at the close of business, November 25, 1922, totalling $12,783,741.73, with George S. Davol, president.
Mr. Holmes is a member of the executive com- mittee of the Associated Savings Bank of Massachu- setts; chairman of the Fall River School Committee; a director of the King Philip Mills, and secretary of its board of directors; and a member of the
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Quequechan Club and Fall River Country Club. In politics he is a Republican, and in his church preference, a Congregationalist.
Charles L. Holmes married, on March 10, 1897, Anna S. Pratt, of Brooklyn, daughter of Judge Cal- vin E. and Susan E. (Ruggles) Pratt, her father a judge of the Supreme Court of New York, sitting in New York City for many years in the Appellate Division. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes are the parents of three children: Charles Calvin, associated with tex- tile manufacturing; Stanford, deceased; and Lincoln, now (1923) a junior in high school at Fall River.
JUDGE HUGO ADELARD DUBUQUE-The formative forces of the mind bear greater signifi- cance to the public advance than the visible activi- ties which carry forward the industrial and commer- cial progress and prosperity of the people. In this realm which lies back of all progress, Judge Du- buque, who for many years has been one of the fore- most legal lights of Fall River, Massachusetts, has contributed largely to civic, State and national ad- vance. A native of Canada, Judge Dubuque is an American by choice, rather than by the accident of birth, and his progressive spirit and high mental at- tainments have meant much to the land of his adop- tion, in which he is still one of the actively signifi- cant figures of the day. He is a son of Moses and Esther (Matthews) Dubuque, both natives of the Province of Quebec. The father was one of the pioneers in the development of Oregon when that State was still a territory, and for some years he was engaged in mining operations in that region. He was also active in farming and general mercan- tile affairs, and his death occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, when he was on his return East, after an extended stay in Oregon, he routing his tour through various interesting sections of the United States. Cut down suddenly at a comparatively early age, a life of broad usefulness was ended.
Hugo Adelard Dubuque was born at Cavignac, Province of Quebec, Canada, November 4, 1859. His education included a course at St. Hyacinthe Col- lege at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He came to the United States when still a youth of about eighteen years, and for one year was active in a shoe store at Troy, New York. Then coming on to Fall River, Massachusetts, he secured employ- ment in a drug store, but the plan of his life was by no means so narrow as to keep him permanently in a subordinate position. His evenings and spare mo- ments were devoted to the study of law, and during the years 1876 and 1877 he attended the Boston Uni- versity School of Law, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws from that institution in the class of 1877. He was admitted to the bar in November of the same year, and shortly thereafter entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in Fall River. Mr. Dubuque's subsequent record as lawyer, judge and legislator revealed the careful and ex- haustive attention which he gave to these early years of study and preparation. His practice placed him in a prominent position when he was still a very
young man, and he was noted as one of the largely successful and eminently promising men of that period. Early becoming a citizen of his adopted country, he took a deep interest and a constructive part in the affairs of the community and the State, and in the year 1889 was elected to the Massachu- setts Legislature. Subsequent reëlections returned him to that body, and his record in the legislative halls is still a matter of interest and comment among those who keep in touch with public affairs. Mr. Dubuque drafted the act creating the registry of deeds in Fall River, and he drafted the act also which brought about the building of the Superior Court House on North Main street in this city, in which the Fall River district registry of deeds was properly housed. He was the author of a bill which passed Legislature and has since been known as the Dubuque Law, providing for the collection of claims due labor and the necessaries of life. This act has been copied in many States. In 1900 he was elected city solicitor of Fall River, and this office he filled ably and well for a period of ten years. In 1911 he was apointed by Governor Foss as Associate Jus- tice of the Superior Court of Bristol county, which important positon he has held continuously since. In his record on the bench, Judge Dubuque has dis- played in marked degree those qualities of fair- mindedness and breadth of experience which count so far in upholding the dignity of the law and at the same time in making the courts a regenerative, as well as punitive institution. His keen interest in every human creature is clearly evident to all who come under his jurisdiction and he has done much to encourage high aspirations and lofty ideals among those who have been brought before him.
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