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Doctor Howe is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society; the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health; is Medical Examiner for the district of Cohasset; and in 1917, a member of the local board for selective military draft. He has been also
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School Physician for Cohasset since 1907; Trustee of the Cohasset Free Public Library since 1900, and its Treasurer since 1905. He has been a trustee of the Cohasset Savings Bank since 1904, and a member of its Board of Investment since 1912. Dr. Howe has also been President of the Norfolk South District Medical Society, 1910-11; President of the Literary Club of Cohasset 1915-17; President of Sandy Beach Association 1917; and Vice-president of Cohasset Improvement Association 1917. He is a member of the Second Congregational Church in Cohasset, one of its deacons since 1900 and treasurer of the parish since 1899. He is a Mason, a member of the American Medical Association; the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, of which he was Recording Secretary 1907-15, and its president in 1917. He was President of the Men's Club of Cohasset in 1916-17, and is also a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. He has been for many years an enthusiastic botanist and field geologist, and is fond of travel.
In 1889, Doctor Howe married Martha Dresser Paul, of Dedham, daughter of Ebenezer and Susan (Dresser) Paul. They have four children: Paul, Julian Cheever, Richard Withington and Henry Forbush.
Doctor Howe has contributed occasional articles to magazines and medical journals, among them: " The Personal Relation of the Physician to his Patients "; " Cultural Education "; " Historical Evolution of European Nations "; and " War as National Disci- pline." Since 1894, he has been secretary of the Committee on Town History of Cohasset, eagerly collecting local historical data and assisting in the preparation and publication of two historical vol- umes. He wrote four important chapters in the second of these works (Cohasset Genealogies and Town History, published in 1909.) The record of such earnest, active, fruitful years is an inspiration.
From experience Doctor Howe gives this advice to the new generation: - " Let them take some responsibility in the conduct of their immediate surroundings, the family, the school, the church, the town. Unfortunately, city life discourages this responsibility, not only in young people, but in adults also. Country life, especially life in small towns, gives abundant opportunity for it. Neverthe- less, even in the country, the disposition to assume such responsi- bility needs to be encouraged. There has never been more need of intelligent co-operation and of conscientious activity in support of public interests. By these means alone can our American ideals and life be made safe and permanent."
Fred W. Hudrow
FRED MARSHALL HUDSON
F RED MARSHALL HUDSON was born at Worcester, Massa- chusetts, April 9, 1867. His father, Horace Orville Hudson, 1839-1907, was a leather belt manufacturer, whose most outstanding characteristics were stability, progressiveness, in- tegrity and charity. His mother, Lycia Lucina Pratt, daughter of Cooledge Pratt, was a home loving woman devoted to her husband and children, and giving her life to their advancement. The an- cestors of Mr. Hudson were of old English stock, coming to America among the early settlers of this country.
Mr. Hudson spent his early life in Worcester, where he attended the public and high schools until he arrived at the age of sixteen. Being fond of books he was always well up in his school work, but he was also glad when the vacations came and he could devote all his time to outdoor life on a farm. Well developed mentally as well as physically, he began to long for the active work of life at an early age, and when opportunity gave him a chance to enter business life he left the high school for a more practical school of experience.
At the age of sixteen Mr. Hudson began to earn his own living, although he had already been helping to support himself by selling newspapers, and clerking in a store after school hours. His first official position was in the Bookkeeping and Shipping Department of his father's factory. He took the position temporarily and intended to study later to fit himself to be a mechanical engineer. But he became interested in the manufacture of leather belting as his knowledge of the work increased, and he decided to make it his business in life. He then worked steadily through the various departments, learning every detail, until at the end of several years of steady progress he became Superintendent of the plant. A little later he became a partner of the firm, under the name of the H. O. Hudson and Company, Leather Belt Manufacturers. In 1902 the Hudson Belting Company was incorporated, and he was elected President. In 1907, he became Treasurer and holds both
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offices at the present time. Mr. Hudson has designed three special machines for his factory, but has not as yet taken out the patents.
Mr. Hudson is a member of several Masonic Orders, including the Athelstan Lodge, Worcester Chapter, Hiram Council, Worces- ter County Commandery Forty-five, Worcester Lodge of Perfec- tion, Princes of Jerusalem, Lawrence Chapter, Rose Croix Massa- chusetts Consistory, Aletheia Grotto, and Stella Chapter, Eastern Star. He also holds the rank of Past Noble Grand, Ridgely Lodge 112, and of Past High Priest of Mount Vernon Encampment 53, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Hudson is a Repub- lican. He has always attended the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church of Worcester, and served as Trustee during 1908, resigning owing to pressure of other matters. His favorite modes of relaxa- tion are fishing and motoring.
Mr. Hudson was married November 22, 1887, to Lilla M., daughter of James H. and Mary J. (Tenney) Buck, granddaughter of Thomas H. and Polly B. (Brewer) Buck, and of Chauncy B. Tenney and Martha Brewer Tenney. They have three children living, Philip Orville, Warren James, and Bertha Louise.
Mr. Hudson has been a student all his life and has read ex- tensively, finding books on travel, engineering and chemistry most helpful. He believes his success is due largely to private study, combined with contact with men in active life, and based on good home influences during childhood. His business creed is interesting and instructive: " Work regularly and honestly at any trade or profession which you like and are interested in. Study and im- prove your knowledge of your work, and read for general informa- tion. Save something. What you get amounts to nothing. It is what you save that counts."
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HENRY STANLEY HYDE
T HE name of Henry Stanley Hyde long stood among the foremost in New England for successful financiering and for business integrity; and the city of Springfield has had no more loyal citizen.
Mr. Hyde was born in Mt. Hope, Orange County, New York, August 18, 1837, and died at his home in Springfield, February 2, 1917. He was the son of Oliver Moulton and Julia Ann (Sprague) Hyde, and a descendant of William Hyde who came to Newton, Massachusetts, in 1633. When he was but three years of age his parents removed to Detroit, Michigan, and there he was educated in private schools and began the active work of his life as a bank clerk.
The law was not without its attraction and he studied for a time in the offices of Howard, Bishop, and Holbrook, and later with Jerome, Howard, and Swift.
In 1862, he came to Massachusetts, locating in Springfield, and immediately became connected with the Wason Manufacturing Company, railway car builders. In 1864, two years after his advent, he became treasurer of the company and remained in that capacity until his death. There have been but few men who have presented a business career of such unvarying success, won not by chance, but by the application of sound judgment.
Mr. Hyde was connected with a number of the leading business concerns of Springfield. He was president of the E. Stebbins Brass Manufacturing Company, and of the Springfield Printing and Binding Company, vice-president of the Hampden Savings Bank, and of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and a director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was also treasurer of the Springfield Steam Power Company, and a director in several manufacturing corporations in and out of the state.
Mr. Hyde was connected with the telephone company from its infancy and was practically the founder of the first exchange in Springfield in 1879. The organization before its absorption was known as the Springfield Telephone Company.
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Mr. Hyde served as president of the Agawam National Bank for over twenty-two years, and it was, in a large measure, due to his able management that the institution held the place it did among the national banks of New England. He possessed in an eminent degree, the requisite qualifications of tact, executive ability, energy, and firmness essential to a bank president. His character and reputation were alike so favorable that the mere fact of his being its head was a guarantee of the bank's reliability.
Mr. Hyde was actively interested in the Springfield Hospital from its establishment as a city hospital, he served as first president of the Board of Trustees.
In 1875 Mr. Hyde was elected to represent the First Hampden district in the State Senate. His sterling integrity and his adminis- trative and executive ability gave him large influence.
In politics he was a Republican, and he served at various times as a member of the Common Council and the Board of Aldermen. In 1884 and in 1888 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago, and from 1888 until 1892 he was a Massa- chusetts member of the Republican National Committee. He was also a member of the State Central Committee.
From 1887 to 1903 Mr. Hyde served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, being auditor from 1888 to 1889, and vice-president from 1900 to 1903. He was also chairman of the Sinking Fund Commission of West Springfield, and retired from that position only a few days before his death.
Mr. Hyde was president of the First Universalist Society of Springfield, the Nayasset Club, the Springfield, and the Country clubs.
In 1860, Mr. Hyde was married to Jennie S. Wason, daughter of Thomas W. and Sarah Longley Wason who died in 1889. Four children were born of this marriage: Jerome V., Henry S., Thomas W., and a son who died in infancy. They later adopted a daughter Fayolin J. Hyde. In 1892, he was married to Ellen Trask Chapin, daughter of the Honorable Eliphalet Trask of Springfield.
As a man of sound sense and practical wisdom in all that related to the every-day concerns of life, Mr. Hyde was preeminent among his fellows. He was a man of quick perception, fine faculties, and a large power of generalization. Liberal and philanthropic, he aided every well directed public enterprise, and enjoyed the un- mixed respect and esteem of his fellow citizens.
JOHN BROOKS JENKINS
I N an old fashioned homestead built in 1786 at Andover, Massa- chusetts, the birthplace of his father, John Brooks Jenkins was born October 11, 1829, and died September 12, 1915. He was the son of Benjamin Jenkins, born April 15, 1786, a man who was greatly interested in the welfare of his farm and who took great pride in his country estate. He married Betsey Berry Brooks who was thrifty, energetic, and greatly interested in the intellectual life of her children. She was of a religious temperament, and an influ- ential guide throughout his life. Mr. Jenkins ancestors were all of American birth for four generations so that when the war of 1861 took place Mr. Jenkins' patriotism knew no bounds.
He attended the schools in his district and the education there received, allied with the splendid training of his mother, gave him a good foundation. He inherited from his parents a fine constitu- tion and, being extremely fond of outdoor life, he decided to become a lumberman. He liked the floating of logs down the river, the free and easy life, the companionships and brotherly kindness among the men. For fourteen years he engaged in that work, seven years in Maine and seven in Vermont.
When the war broke out in 1861, Mr. Jenkins enlisted in Com- pany B, Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment. During this period he passed through untold sufferings. The friends with whom he had enlisted were killed. He was at Petersburg during the nine months before the surrender. The hardships of tramping through the marshes and the severity of the climate at various times during the campaigns were experiences which he often related to interested friends. Later in life Mr. Jenkins suffered the loss of both his limbs, amputation being necessary after severe accidents. The second accident occurred while he was fighting a forest fire in the Scotland District about twelve years before his death.
When a young man Mr. Jenkins served as a special commissioner of Essex County and also as a selectman of Andover. He was later a member of Bartlett Post 99, Grand Army of the Republic,
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and of Saint Matthews Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He was a Republican in his political associations and affiliated with the South Congregational Church.
Mr. Jenkins was very well known as a Grand Army Veteran, and highly esteemed among his comrades. Despite many years of suffering he maintained his cheerfulness and optimistic spirit. He was not unmindful of the importance of the service he had rendered to his country, and was endowed with an unquenchable patriotic zeal.
He was married September first, 1853, to Ellen Holt, daughter of Sarah and Dean Holt, granddaughter of Sarah and Dean Holt. Her ancestors were among the first settlers of Andover. They had seven children three of whom are living, Charles B., Frank, and Elizabeth.
It may be said without exaggeration that few men in the State, not occupying official positions, have been so widely and sincerely mourned as Mr. Jenkins. His genial, unselfish spirit made his loss singularly felt. He took an active interest in the welfare of his community and his sound judgment with ripe experience assisted materially in promoting its prosperity. Always frank and fearless he faithfully discharged his public duties. He maintained for him- self and required from others the highest standards of integrity and gave the Commonwealth a dignified and efficient service with no thought of personal aggrandizement. Never once did he shirk an opportunity or flinch from any responsibility which presented itself before him as right. In such a record as this there is neces- sarily revealed all the sturdiness of his New England stock and all the force of character which he himself developed during a man- hood of hard work and service for his country.
Orastus Jones
ERASTUS JONES
E RASTUS JONES, a shoe manufacturer of Spencer, Massa- chusetts, was born in Spencer, September 11, 1825 and died March 14, 1907.
He was educated in the Spencer public schools. After several years in the employ of his brother Asa T. Jones, a manufacturer of Spencer the two formed a partnership in 1846, the firm name becoming A. T. and E. Jones. This partnership continued until 1862, when the senior member of the firm retired and Hezekiah P. Starr was admitted in his place. The firm then became E. Jones and Company, a name familiar to the shoe trade in the country for forty years or more. The Jones factory has been several times enlarged since it was first built in 1860, and it has always been equipped with the latest types of machinery.
Mr. Jones was President of the Spencer National Bank from its organization in 1825, and for some twenty-five years was president, trustee and member of the board of investment of the Spencer Savings Bank. He was town treasurer of Spencer for several years and also town clerk. In 1874 he was representative to the General Court and in 1896-97, was State Senator from the fourth Worcester Senatorial district. During his first term in the Senate, he was on the committee on banks and banking, and chairman of the joint standing committee on liquor laws. While in his second term he was chairman of the committee on banks and banking and a member also of the committee on taxation and printing.
In politics Mr. Jones was an active Republican. Mr. Jones was a member of the Congregational Church.
He was married June 5, 1850, to Mary I. Starr, daughter of John Starr of Thomaston, Maine. The children of this union are: Lucy I .; Julia F .; Mary P .; Everett Starr.
Both in public and in private life long years of intercourse en- deared him to his many friends and business associates, while his generous contributions to charitable and public causes aroused a warm regard among all who knew him.
EBEN S. S. KEITH
E BEN S. S. KEITH was born in Sagamore, Massachusetts, October 24, 1872. He is the son of Isaac N. Keith and Eliza F. Smith. Mr. Keith comes of distinguished lineage. Among his ancestors was Sir William Keith, Knight, who was created Earl Marischal of Scotland, by James II, of that kingdom in 1458. This office remained in the family by regular succession to George Keith, who joined in the rising of 1715, and whose honors and estates fell under the Act of Attainder in 1716. The Rev. James Keith, the first of the name in this country was born and educated in Aberdeen, Scotland and came to this country in 1662 at about 18 years of age. He was ordained in 1664 and settled in Bridgewater where he labored in the ministry for fifty-six years.
Mr. Keith passed his boyhood in his native region, enjoying the sports which enter into the typical life of the American boy. After graduating at the High School of Bourne, he entered the machine shop of the Keith Manuafcturing Company in 1890. His father was the head of the concern and the young man took up the busi- ness of building cars. He served as inspector of cars and bookkeeper and displayed such an efficient understanding of the business that in 1894, at the age of twenty-two he was admitted to partnership.
The title of the firm from 1899 to 1907 was I. N. Keith and Son. Since January 1907 the name of the concern has been the Keith Car and Manufacturing Company of which Mr. Keith has been the president. In its operations this company is well known for its large and important business in the equipping of railroads. The business has contributed to the industrial development of the part of the state in which it is located.
Mr. Keith, for his business experience and his sterling qualities as a man of discernment and decision and for his political principles, was elected to the Massachusetts Senate and served in that body in 1907 and 1908 and 1909. His constituents were not confined to any one party for although a Republican he was actively supported by many other political associations. He represented the Cape Senatorial district which has generally sent men of marked business
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and political sagacity. After service in the Senate he served for three terms in the Executive Council. He declined further service much to the regret of the people of all political parties. Though rigid and decided in his views and actions, taking the course on public questions which he deemed for the best interests of the state, without fear or favor, he made many friends by his adhesion of high principles of public policy.
In local politics Mr. Keith has served as Chairman of the Re- publican Town Committee and showed a disposition to assist in the honest work of a party as well as to receive its honors. The civic duty which so many avoid for the sake of business or from disinclination to engage in any party work was recognized by him as a citizen's part. He also served his constituents as a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1908 and as an alternate- at-large in 1916.
Mr. Keith has taken an interest in Masonic Associations, and those of a kindred nature. He is a thirty second degree Mason; a Shriner, and a member of the Knights of Pythias.
On February 8, 1900, he married Miss Malvina M. Landers of Cotuit.
The record of Mr. Keith's life reveals his sound principles and singleness of purpose in every event and result. He is widely recognized as a man of influence, business ability and public spirit, and above everything else, is characterized by fidelity to principle and faithfulness to duty, and these qualities added to his rare mental powers and executive ability have made his success as deserved as it is great and manifold. He is a good type of the New England citizen, a man by inheritance and practice of the strictest integrity and highest sense of honor and justice. Unassuming in manner, but strong with whom he counsels, his influence permeates all those about him and reaches far beyond.
JOHN ERLE KENNEY
D R. JOHN ERLE KENNEY, one of the prominent physicians of Chelsea, Massachusetts, was born in Underhill, Vermont, on September 8, 1861, and died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sarah J. Balch on March 5, 1916. He was the son of Francis (1810-1882) and Mary Kenney. His father was a farmer and great lover of animals and birds. The ancestors of Dr. Kenney came from Glasgow, Scotland, and from Ireland. They settled in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Dr. Kenney had great difficulties in gaining the education that he desired, his time being taken up by hard work on the farm. He early determined to study hard to acquire a profession and as a result of his earnest efforts graduated from the University of Vermont.
He began active work in his profession at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia continued later in Howard, Rhode Island. For fourteen years he practiced medicine in the city of Chelsea.
In politics he was a member of the Republican Party, and in religion he was affiliated with the Methodist Church. He was also a member of the fraternal order of the Masons. He was a great lover of his home, and was a student all his days. With his study went a great love of flowers, and he spent many hours working in his flower garden.
Dr. Kenney was a man of scrupulous honesty and great industry, giving his time indefatigably to his profession. He was unmarried.
What Doctor Arnold said of boys is equally true of men, - that the difference between one boy and another consists not so much in talent as in energy. Given perseverance, and energy soon be- comes habitual. Given habits of application and perseverance, such as John Erle Kenney possessed, a man will effectively cultivate himself. This he did, and he thereby acquired not only success in his chosen profession, but the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens. Massachusetts does well to honor such a man.
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William B.Lombert
WILLIAM BARTLET LAMBERT
W ILLIAM BARTLET LAMBERT, President of the Boston Plate and Window Glass Company, is a son of Massa- chusetts by direct descent on his mother's side. His father, Henry Calvert Lambert, was an English Unitarian clergy- man. His grandfather, Luke Lambert, died at Chatham, England, April 11, 1824. Henry Lambert was born in Winchelsea, England on the fourth of April, 1812 and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, October 1, 1836. The war between the two English-speaking nations in Henry Lambert's infancy seems not to have prejudiced him in later years against the United States. Indeed, we have every reason to suppose that his thoughts turned early toward New England, and Boston eventually became his home. Loyal to every- thing English as his family always had been this young divine, fired with the new religious liberalism, waked to find himself an alien in the dominion of an Established church. He found across the Atlantic a community of rare souls with whom he was in closest sympathy - Emerson and the Concord group, the Cambridge men of letters, and the Abolitionists in Boston.
So it happened that this earnest young Englishman migrated to America because he believed that he would find there the en- vironment in which he rightly belonged. He came in the spirit of 1620 - a Pilgrim of a later day. Freedom for thinking, for worship, for working out his own ideals of life.
He gladly gave hostages to his new country when he married Catherine B. Porter, daughter of John Porter, of an old New Eng- land family. Catherine Porter's maternal grandfather, William Bartlet, a wealthy East Indian merchant of the early trading days, endowed the Andover Theological Seminary with over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He was a gentleman of scholarly attain- ments, noted for his public spirit, and one of the influential charac- ters of his time.
The son of this union, William Bartlet Lambert, was born in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1845. He enjoyed, from childhood, the finest advantages of his environment. His home and social surroundings were exceptional. His mother, a woman of distinguished mental and spiritual endowments, was a strong influence in his development, at the same time that his father's loyalty to high ideals, also exercised a strong influence over his son.
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