Biographical history of Massachussetts; biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state, 1911, vol 1, Part 4

Author: Eliot, Samuel Atkins, 1862-1950 ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts Biographical Society
Number of Pages: 492


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Similar resolutions were passed by the society of New York alumni, by the larger general body of the alumni, by the under- graduates, and by special classes.


He was appointed a member of the Massachusetts Board of Educa- tion in 1897, and was chosen presidential elector of the First Massa- chusetts District in 1896. While rendering many incidental services to his town and State, the great bulk of his labor has been educational.


He published a text-book, "Goethe's Iphigenie," when teaching at Yale in 1878; and a life of Mark Hopkins in 1892. He has also furnished numerous newspaper and mazagine articles. He is a member of the American Oriental Society; American Philological Society; Modern Language Association; University Club of New York; Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and Fellow of the American Academy. He was president of the Massachusetts Home Mission- ary Society for many years; was elected president in 1896 of the Clarke School for Deaf Mutes, which position he still holds, and was the first president of the Modern Language Association of America. He was also for many years trustee of Andover Theo- logical Seminary and is still a director of the Berkshire Industrial Farm and deeply interested in its work. He is a member of the Republican party, and has from youth been connected with the Congregational Church. He is a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The amusements with which he has relaxed this active life have been golf, fishing and horseback-riding.


He married February 24, 1863, Sarah, daughter of C. D. and E. L. Kingsbury. There have been four children of this union. Edward P. is a physician in Cleveland. Alice R. was married to Paul C. Ransom, head-master of the Adirondack-Florida School. The youngest son, Franklin, is a graduate of Yale, both from the academi- cal and law departments.


FRANKLIN CARTER


Dr. Carter has been much in earnest in his handling of life, and very desirous of making the important labors with which he has been connected successful and useful. In this effort he has spared no exertion, and has shown conspicuous ability. As a teacher and executive officer he has been characterized by insight, comprehension and push. His labors have been large, especially for a man not possessed of a strong physical constitution. He was self-denying in personal expenditure, and anxious to understand and relieve the pain and misery of his fellow men. These were the methods and purposes which he strove to impress on young men. But he believed strongly in the value of culture for its own sake. He writes for the readers of this work: "I should advise every young man to take up early in life, whatever the main line of profession or business is to be, one auxiliary object of thought and interest, and carry it on with energy until the end. It might be the study of flowers or birds, or the collection of engravings or early editions of the eminent writers, or chemical investigation, or even the playing of one musical instru- ment, some pursuit, at least partly intellectual, which should come in as a source of recreation and enjoyment apart from the main work of the day. Nothing promotes more pleasantly the usefulness of life than devotion to some such pursuit. If our successful men com- monly cultivated some such interest in the home, it would greatly broaden social relations and add much to the influence guiding the children into a serene mastery of themselves. And when the main business is laid down, it would bring delight to the 'last days,' and help to make them truly 'the best.'"


The death of Mrs. Carter broke up the home. He was married a second time on February 10, 1908, to Mrs. Frederic Leake, widow of Frederic Leake and daughter of the late Dr. H. L. Sahin of Williamstown. He still continues his lectures on Theism in the college and resides in Williamstown several months in the year.


GEORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK


G T EORGE WHITEFIELD CHADWICK, student of music in Boston and Germany, organist, composer, conductor and teacher of music, director of the New England Conservatory of Music, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, November 13, 1854. His father, Alonzo Chadwick, was a schoolmaster and afterward a business man in Lawrence. His Revolutionary ancestor was Edmund Chadwick, of New Hampshire, a soldier at Bunker Hill. His mother died when he was an infant.


He was passionately fond of music from his childhood. He attended the public schools of Lawrence, to which place his father removed after the death of his wife and gave up school teaching for business affairs. When he was eighteen years old he went to Boston to study music under Eugene Thayer, having already developed a remarkable talent for the piano and organ. He studied under Thayer for three years, and in 1876 went to Olivet College Conserva- tory of Music, Olivet, Michigan (established two years before), as professor of Piano, Organ and Theory. He remained at Olivet one year, when he went to Germany and studied at Leipzig under Jadas- sohn and Reinecke, 1877-78, and at Munich under Rheinberger, 1878-79. His first overture: "Rip Van Winkle" he composed just before he left Leipzig, and he was honored by its performance at a Conservatory concert.


He returned to Boston in 1880 and his overture was given at a Handel and Haydn festival in that city, Mr. Chadwick conducting. He was at once made instructor in harmony and composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, and in 1881 he conducted the music of Œdipus in both Boston and New York. In 1887 he was selected as conductor of the Boston Orchestral Club and in 1890 became conductor of the Springfield Festival Association. On the organization of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1891 he was selected to compose the music of the Ode to be used at the dedication of the buildings of the Exposition at the open-


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ing of the Fair. He submitted his "Symphony in F Major" in competition for the three hundred dollar prize offered by the National Conservatory of Leipzig to be contested in New York, and he won the prize. He composed the music for the comic opera "Tabasco" presented by the Cadet Corps in Boston in 1894.


On the resignation of Carl Faelten as director of the New England Conservatory of Music in 1897, Mr. Chadwick was selected as his successor and he still holds the position. In 1897 he received degree of M.A. from Yale and in 1905 LL.D from Tufts. He was elected as one of the vice-presidents to membership in the Institution of Art and Science; in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion and of St. Botolph Club, Boston. His recreation he found in yachting, tennis and bicycling. He is the author of: " A Treatise on Harmony" (1897), which had in 1904 passed through ten editions. His choral work includes the following pieces: "The Vikings' Last Voyage"; "Phoenix Expirans"; "The Lily Nymph"; "The Lovely Rosabelle"; "The Pilgrims' Hymn"; "Judith," a lyric drama, and " Noël," a Christmas Pastoral, composed for the Litchfield County (Connecticut) University Club. His orchestral works besides "Rip Van Winkle," "Euterpe," " Adonais," "Thalia and Melpomene" overtures, are three symphonies, two suites, a symphonic poem "Cleopatra," his symphonic sketches for orchestra, and twelve songs from Arlo Bates's "Told in the Gate," besides many songs, pianoforte pieces and choruses for mixed and female voices.


CALEB CHASE


HE career of Caleb Chase presents a happy combination of the work of an old-school Boston merchant with that of a Twentieth Century business man. Born of Cape Cod stock, he inherited the pluck and energy and integrity character- istic of that sea-going section of New England.


He was born in Harwich, Massachusetts, December 11, 1831. His father was Job Chase, a shipowner and seafaring man in early life, who afterward kept a country store in Harwich until about twenty years of his death, which occurred at the ripe age of eighty- nine. He was a public-spirited man of more than local influence, one of the original stockholders of the old Yarmouth Bank, and prominent in the public enterprises of his day. Mr. Chase's mother was Phobe (Winslow) Chase.


Caleb Chase was educated in the public schools of Harwich, and early went to work in his father's store, where he remained until he reached his twenty-fourth year. But he was not the type of man to live out his life and satisfy his ambitions in a Cape Cod country store. Striking out for himself, he came to Boston and entered the employ of Anderson Sargent & Company, at that time a leading dry goods house of the city. After about five years with this firm, during which he traveled in its interests, first through the towns of Cape Cod, and later in the West, he became connected with the wholesale grocery house of Claflin, Saville & Company, beginning in September, 1859. He remained with this house until January, 1864, shortly after which he engaged in business for himself as a member of the firm of Carr, Chase & Raymond then formed. In 1871 this firm was succeeded by Chase, Raymond & Ayer, and in 1878 the present house of Chase & Sanborn was organized for the importation and distribution of teas and coffees exclusively. Mr. Chase has been for many years the head of this house, which ranks among the largest importing and distributing tea and coffee houses in America. Large branch houses are also established in Montreal and Chicago.


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Mr. Chase's name is widely known through the remarkable suc- cess of the business house which he formed, and of which he is justly proud. It is in his business that a fine combination of integrity and enterprise has found scope. Naturally conservative, he has ever been jealous of his own good name, and of the reputation of everything with which he might be connected. This conservatism and integrity has helped to make the firm name the synonym for business honor. With integrity, Mr. Chase has coupled a rare spirit of enterprise which has enabled him to seize the opportunity for business success opened by modern legitimate advertising. He knew his goods were right, and he wanted all the world to know it. The Boston merchant of the old school was honest, but he was not always enterprising.


Mr. Chase is a Unitarian in religion and a liberal supporter of that faith. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and while he has often been urged to seek public office, he has invariably declined, preferring to devote his leisure to his home and his energies to his extensive business interests. He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery and a member of the Algonquin Club.


Caleb Chase has not been a mere money-maker. He has made money that he might use it. While he has been modest to the verge of timidity in allowing the use of his name, he has for many years lived with an open hand for every good cause. His benefactions have been wide and very generous. While he is extremely reticent, he is known to have been one of the early benefactors of the Frank- lin Square House, and a generous giver to the churches of his town, and to the American Unitarian Association.


He was married in 1866 to Miss Salome Boyles, of Thomaston, Maine. They have no children.


GUY WILBUR COX


G T UY WILBUR COX was born in Manchester, New Hamp- shire, January 19, 1871. His father, Charles Edson Cox, born December 16, 1847, now retired, is a man of high moral character in business and in private life. The mother of Guy W. Cox is Evelyn M. (Randall) Cox. His grandparents were Walter B. Cox (1816-1878) and Nancy (Nutter) Cox, and Thomas B. Ran- dall (1807-1848), and Mary (Pickering) Randall. He is a descend- ant from Moses Cox, who came from England about 1640 and settled in Hampton, New Hampshire; on his mother's side from John Pickering, who came from England as early as 1633 and settled at Strawberry Bank, now Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Picker- ing family has had a prominent place in the history of New Hampshire from the time of Capt. John Pickering, who settled at Portsmouth in 1636, from whom all of that name are descended. In 1680 he was a member of the first assembly held in New Hampshire, and in 1690 he was a delegate to the convention which prepared a constitution for the colony.


Guy Wilbur Cox had an early taste for music and mathematics. He was able without special difficulty to gratify his desire for a college education. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1893, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He held in college high rank in general scholarship, especially in the classics, sciences and mathe- matics, and was valedictorian of his class. In regular course he received the degree of Master of Arts. He was appointed a teacher in the Manchester High School, where he gave instruction in Chem- istry and Physics. He held that position from 1893-94. From 1896-99 he was an instructor in the Boston Evening High School. By his own preference he chose the profession of the law for his life- work. His circumstances and the varied influences which surrounded him confirmed his choice. He entered the Law School of the Bos- ton University, where he graduated 1896 with the degree of Bachelor of Law, Magna Cum Laude. He was at once admitted to the Bar


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of Suffolk County, and became a partner in the law firm of Butler, Cox & Murchie. He entered upon his profession with his inherited and characteristic energy, and he has been rewarded with the suc- cess which he has earned. He has continued in his practice, giving special attention to insurance and corporation law and to the laws relating to street railways. His field has been broad and his pro- fessional calling has given full exercise to his talent and wide training. Mr. Cox regards the influence of home, of contact with men in active life, of school, of private study, of early companionship, all as having a strong influence upon his own success in life.


He is a Republican in politics and has been honored by election to public office, where he has rendered good service which has been recognized. In 1902 he was elected a member of the City Council of Boston from Ward 10. He was chosen a member of the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives in 1903-04, and in 1906-07 a member of the State Senate from the Fifth Suffolk District. In the House of Representatives he was a member of the important com- mittee on cities, and took a leading part in its deliberations and in the advocacy of its recommendations. He was also a member of the special committee on the relation of employers and employees. In the Senate he was chairman of the committees on election laws, metropolitan affairs, and taxation, and a member of the committee on education and military affairs. At the close of the session of 1907 he was made chairman of the State commission on taxation, appointed to consider the whole subject of taxation and to revise and codify the laws relating thereto. At a later time he was ap- pointed by the governor, chairman of the committee to represent the state at the National Tax Conference. His legal knowledge and ability have in this way had their natural extension in a wise and serviceable citizenship. His rare training and experience have the promise of continued employment for the benefit of the public service.


Mr. Cox is connected with numerous societies: The Dartmouth Alumni Association; the University Club of Boston; the Wollas- ton Club; the Republican League Club; the New Hampshire Club; the Order of Odd Fellows; the Phi Beta Kappa and others. He finds recreation in golf and music. He resides at the Hotel West- minster, Boston.


WINTHROP MURRAY CRANE


A PUBLIC man who has stepped at once into a commanding position in Washington, and yet whose national career has scarcely begun, is Winthrop Murray Crane, senator from Massachusetts. Though long a leader in the executive coun- cils of the Republican party, Mr. Crane was known to the country at large chiefly as a notably wise and successful governor of Massa- chusetts, until his entrance into the Senate Chamber to fill the place left vacant by the death of the venerable George F. Hoar in 1904. No senator of this generation has grown more rapidly in solid influ- ence and enduring fame within the first years of service.


Mr. Crane is a fine exemplification of the truth that many of the ablest and most sagacious public men of to-day are products not of the law but of exact, practical business. He was a manu- facturer by profession when he entered upon public life, and he had been steadily engaged since boyhood in this calling, a heritage from his fathers. It was his grandfather, Zenas Crane, who had founded the first paper-mill in western Massachusetts. In 1801 this pioneer, who had learned his trade in the mill of his brother at Newton Lower Falls, near Boston, and at Worcester, established by the clear waters of the Housatonic a new industry in the town of Dalton. Forty years later he transferred his business to his sons, Zenas Marshall and James Brewster Crane, who were his partners.


Winthrop Murray Crane is the youngest son of Zenas Marshall Crane and of his wife Louise Fanny (Loomis) Crane. He was born in Dalton, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1853, and educated in the Dalton schools and in Williston Seminary in Easthampton, Massa- chusetts. At seventeen he began to work in his father's paper-mill, which was an important concern. The Crane paper, made with honest thoroughness and the most painstaking skill, had won the highest reputation in America. It was the handiwork of this firm which was utilized by the Treasury Department, and while a very young man Mr. Crane himself went to Washington to demonstrate


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the value of the silk thread in this government paper production. The secret of the success which the Crane business had achieved was that its managers had been consummate masters of their art and had given close personal attention to every process of their industry. Mr. Crane himself, as a young man, knew every detail of the business, and, as in the days of his fathers, every item of the work was done on honor. The Crane family added woolen manu- facturing and other interests to its original occupation of the paper industry. The relation of these able and far-sighted manufacturers to their employees was the ideal one of friends, counselors and benefactors. There was an ever-present sense of comradeship, of genuine, whole-hearted cooperation. This relation has remained to the present day.


Winthrop Murray Crane from his youth has been an interested and active Republican. Long ago his wisdom in counsel came to be recognized by the leaders of the Republican organization in Massa- chusetts. Years before he himself had entered public life it was a fact that no important step in party management in his own State was taken without his approval. Soon his fame as a sagacious political leader and manager extended to broader fields.


In 1892 Mr. Crane, though averse to official position of any kind, was elected a delegate at large to the Republican National Conven- tion in Minneapolis which renominated President Harrison, and he was chosen as the Massachusetts member of the Republican National Committee. In that circle of keen, practical, sagacious men, his remarkable ability gained prompt recognition. In 1896 and again in 1904 Mr. Crane was reelected the Massachusetts represen- tative in the national organization. In these same years he was again a delegate at large to the Republican National Conventions. Meanwhile at home Mr. Crane had steadily advanced to posts of commanding leadership. He was nominated and elected lieutenant- governor of Massachusetts, serving as such with the honored and lamented Governor Roger Wolcott in 1897, 1898 and 1899. Then Mr. Crane himself was nominated and elected governor for three successive terms, for 1900, 1901 and 1902. He gave the State a memorable administration.


The Massachusetts state government has been a good and sound one for many years. Its policy has been liberal and progressive. Many important metropolitan improvements have been carried


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through, and though these have all been amply justified, yet the cumulative cost of them had begun to be a serious burden when Governor Crane became chief executive. The State debt had increased from $6,140,000 in 1896 to $16,869,000 in 1900. In his inaugural address in that year, Governor Crane, speaking of the various items of indebtedness, said: "It will be found in almost every instance that the object is a worthy one, and I have no doubt that the Commonwealth has received full value for the moneys ex- pended," but he added, "The question for us to consider, however, is not the propriety of past expenditures, but how to take heed of the conditions which now confront us. The Commonwealth needs a breathing-space for financial recuperation."


This needful breathing-space Governor Crane, with his prestige as a man of business, readily secured. His administration was characterized by prudence in financial affairs, rigid scrutiny of new undertakings and yet encouragement of all that were essential to the well-being of the Commonwealth. His influence with the Legislature was extraordinary, and his breadth of view and gracious, conciliatory temper so impressed the people of the State that the minority party made only the most perfunctory opposition to his reelection.


Retiring from the governorship after the accustomed three terms, at the end of 1902, Mr. Crane returned to the management of his great manufacturing industries in Berkshire County. There he was engaged when, after the death of Senator George F. Hoar, in October, 1904, Governor Bates appointed him to fill the vacancy in Washington. This choice was so natural and merited that it won at once the unanimous approval of the Commonwealth. It might fairly be said of Mr. Crane that he had no rival, because the men who might have been his rivals recognized his preeminent qualifi- cations for the post and his rich deserving of its honors and re- sponsibilities.


Senator Crane took his seat on December 6, 1904. In the follow- ing January he was duly elected by the Massachusetts Legislature to fill out the term of Mr. Hoar, which expired March 3, 1907. The Legislature, on January 15, 1907, elected Mr. Crane senator from Massachusetts for the full six-year term, from 1907 to 1913. Several members of the opposing party in both branches of the General Court cast their ballots with the Republicans for the election of Mr. Crane as


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senator - a distinction unusual in the annals of the Common- wealth.


Before he became a senator there had come tempting oppor- tunities to Mr. Crane to enter the national service in Washington. When Secretary Gage resigned the Treasury portfolio in December, 1901, President Roosevelt was desirous that he should be succeeded by the sagacious governor of Massachusetts. This Mr. Crane felt obliged to decline. He could not then easily arrange a transfer of the control of his manufacturing industries which had long held important connections with the Federal government.


The senatorship, however, made a more powerful appeal to him, and he was this time enabled so to arrange his affairs at home that he could devote his extraordinary energies and abilities to the national service. The United States Senate is popularly regarded as the closest of close corporations, into whose inner circles of actual control no man, however able and powerful, can hope to make his way until after years of residence in Washington. Yet there have been exceptions to this potent rule, and the most conspicuous ex- ception in recent times is that of the junior senator from Massa- chusetts. His fellow senators knew him before he came as one of the foremost men of business in America, a man of genius for organiza- tion, management and leadership. Senator Crane justified this reputation. Without aspiring to oratory, and bearing himself ever modestly, Senator Crane won instant recognition as a vital force in the affairs of government.


His attitude toward public questions may well be described as that of a progressive conservative - an attitude which exactly befits Massachusetts. Mr. Crane happened to come to Washington when the radical temper was high and strong and threatening to sweep everything before it. He met it not in the spirit of a reaction- ary, but with courtesy, conciliation, broad and enlightened judg- ment. He proved to be the man of all men for the occasion and the hour, and before many months his fame was nation-wide and Massachusetts gladly, but without surprise, heard him acclaimed as one of the most powerful men in Washington. This was, after all, only a confirmation of what had long been known of Mr. Crane in his own Commonwealth.


Senator Crane has a beautiful home at Dalton in the Berkshires, where he is known to every one and where every one is proud to hold


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