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But with all the rush and excitement of the times Mr. Blair had not neglected his intellectual training. He was distinguished among his companions for his brilliancy in his studies. While a lad he studied at home, and when he was older he went to Professor Mudge's school in Kansas City. In 1871 he came east and went to Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, from which he was graduated in 1874. He entered Harvard College in the fall and was graduated in 1878. His father had desired him to enter the ministry but his natural talents were better fitted for the law. On his graduation from Harvard he entered the Boston Law School, where he studied for one year. He continued the study of law in the office of Hale and Walcott. He was admitted to the bar and began his law practice in 1881.
As a lawyer Mr. Blair attained a remarkable success. He was in active practice thirty-one years.
Mr. Blair was greatly interested in Free Masonry and gave up much of his time and energy to its development. He was one of the prominent Free Masons in the East, and held practically all the chief offices in the various organizations of the State and New England.
He was a member of the various Bar Associations, of the Boston Club, of which he was at one time President, of the Harvard and other clubs. He was President of the Southern Society of Boston, a member of the Historical Society of Watertown and an Associate member of the Edward W. Kingsley Post G. A. R.
He was a member of the Democratic party. Religiously he was affiliated with the Unitarian Church.
On June 30, 1887, he married Emma Augusta Coon, daughter of James Coon and Sarah Tormay, Rev. Dr. Peabody officiating. Of that union two sons are now living, Pierpoint, a graduate of Har- vard College, 1911, and Floyd Gilbert, graduate of Harvard College, 1913, and Harvard Law School, 1916.
Mr. Blair's career was singularly successful. His generous sym- pathies had inspired many a heart and he had proved himself a brother to hundreds with whom he came in contact. More than one struggling student he helped on his way through school or college or study of the law. He finished his life work all too soon, but if life is not a matter of years, but of influence, not of accumu- lations, but of worth, he has left behind him for those who bear his name and those who loved him the remembrance of a fine and noble character.
ANDREAS BLUME
P ROMINENT among those who have earned the enviable and significant distinction of being known as self-made men must be placed the name of Andreas Blume. His career has been a notable one, for he achieved success by dint of native talent and ingenuity as well as by energy and perseverance.
Mr. Blume was born at Wyhl Am Rhine, Baden, near Freiburg, Germany, December 8, 1837, and died at his summer home in East Hebron, New Hampshire, August 25, 1917. He was the son of Joseph and Katterina Blume, and one of four boys. At an early age his mother died, and his father emigrated to America with his children, arriving here early in April of 1848. They journeyed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they made their home in the July of that year.
Immediately after his arrival there Andreas Blume began the active work of his life in a pottery factory. At this time none of the family could speak a word of English, but they made use of every available opportunity and soon acquired a working knowledge of it. Andreas later entered a tobacco shop.
Two years after their arrival in Cincinnati, the town was swept by the disease of cholera in 1850 and 1851 and this resulted in the death of Andreas' father. From that time he was forced to sustain himself.
For a number of years he filled the position of bell boy in two of the city's largest hotels, the Dennison House and the Spencer House. While in this capacity he became handicapped by an accident, and was later made clerk in the same hotels.
In these capacities he had earned enough to further pursue his education. He entered Farmers' College, College Hill, Cincinnati, and later at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he remained until his sophomore year, when he lacked funds to complete his studies.
Encouraged by the eminent law professors, Emery Washburn, Theophilus Parsons, and Joel Parker, to enter a law school, Mr. Blume came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1863, and entered the Harvard Law School. He earned his expenses and living by acting as secretary to Judge Leland, and acting as clerk during the sum-
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mer vacation at the Profile House in the White Mountains, and at the Fillmore House, Newport, Rhode Island.
He graduated from the Law School in 1865, and spent the follow- ing year in study in the law office of Judge Leland.
Mr. Blume was admitted to the Bar in 1866. Four years after his entrance to Judge Leland's office, the judge died and he suc- ceeded to a part of his business. When he entered the practice of his profession he displayed, from the first, an ability and skill which combined sound judgment, industry and integrity, and won for him a recognized leadership. His practice soon covered a wide range, including conveyancing, probate practice, and the various branches growing out of it, administration of estates, the handling of trust property, and acting as guardian for minors and insane persons.
From July, 1869, until his death Mr. Blume acted as conveyancer for the Eliot Savings Bank of Roxbury, Massachusetts.
In 1883 Mr. Blume was elected to the Boston City Council and remained in it for five consecutive years. In 1888 he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served during 1889.
Mr. Blume was twice married. His second marriage occurred August 15, 1900, to Mrs. Lizzie A. Toppan, daughter of Joseph J. and Elmira Leighton. Mrs. Blume is of distinguished family, her father having been a well known contractor of Boston. He leaves a son, Howard Blume, a successful business man of Boston.
As a lawyer and advocate Andreas Blume has had a career which exerts a powerful and exemplary influence upon the profession of law throughout the country. He was a man of sterling character and high standing, upright, honest, and universally respected.
At the Bar he gained an honorable reputation. To profound legal learning he united a boundless range of intellectual reasoning, and his death has removed a prominent member of the legal fra- ternity.
The life of Andreas Blume has been the exemplification of what he says to young people that perseverance is the road to success.
JOHN ERVING BRADLEY
J 1 OHN ERVING BRADLEY was born in Worcester, Massa- chusetts, on February 26, 1860. He was the only son of Henry Osgood and Sarah L. (Stockbridge) Bradley, and on both his father's and mother's side was of New England descent. Daniel Broadley, the American ancestor of his father's family, came from England and settled in Rowley, Essex County, Massa- chusetts, in 1623, and John Stockbridge, his mother's ancestor, came from England in June, 1635, and settled in Hanover, Massa- chusetts, in the old Plymouth Colony.
Another ancestor was William Brewster, of Plymouth fame. Mr. Bradley's paternal grandfather was Osgood Bradley, who was born January 15, 1801, and died May 11, 1884, and who married Fanny Sanger; and his maternal grandfather was Lebbeus Stock- bridge, his grandmother being, before her marriage, Lydia Lane.
The railway car manufacture, with which Mr. Bradley has been long identified, was begun by his grandfather, Osgood Bradley, who was the pioneer in that business in Massachusetts, and the first manufacturer of railway cars in the United States. The business was continued by his uncle and his father, the latter of whom was born September 17, 1828, and died in 1901.
As a boy, John E. Bradley was fond of reading and enjoyed especially works on history and the biographies of great men. His early character, on the moral and spiritual side, was largely in- fluenced by his mother. After graduating from the Worcester High School, he spent one year in Amherst College, but his tastes were in the direction of mercantile and mechanical pursuits, and at the age of eighteen he entered the employ of the Jerome Marble Com- pany of Worcester, Manufacturers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Paints, Oils and Mill Supplies.
He remained with this concern for four years, obtaining a. thorough knowledge of the various details of the Mill Supply business, and at the age of twenty-two, in order to comply with his father's wishes, he became connected with the Car Building firm of Osgood Bradley and Sons. At first he was a clerk; later he was promoted to be Assistant Manager. After the death of his uncle in 1896, he was made the General Manager of the business, and continued in that position until the death of his father, five years later, when he became the sole owner of the establishment. In 1910, the Osgood Bradley Car Company was formed and he was made President of that corporation. Under his management and presidency the high reputation of that establishment has been constantly maintained, and its business greatly increased.
Mr. Bradley is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Society of Amherst College, and, through his interest in industrial affairs, he is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
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the Master Car Builders' Association of America, the National Association of Manufacturers; the American Railroad Appliance Association, the New England Steam Railroad Club, the New England Street-Car Railway Club, in which he is a member of the executive board, the New York Railway Club, the Canadian Railway Club, the American Electric Railway Manufacturers' Association, the Railroad Business Association, the New England Street Railway Club, the American Electric Railway Association, the Worcester Metal Trade Association; and other organizations.
He is also a member of the Home Club and the Worcester Country Club, of the Worcester Club, of whose membership committee he has been a member; the Tatnuck Country Golf and Tennis Club, the Tatassit Canoe Club, of which he is, or has been, the Commo- dore, and the Up-Town Club, of which he is the President. He also belongs to the Engineers' Club of Boston, the D.K.E. Club of N. Y., and the Railroad Club of New York.
He is interested in Masonic matters, having passed through all but the highest degree.
For three years he was a member of the State Militia, in the Worcester Light Infantry, and is a member of its Veteran Associa- tion.
Mr. Bradley is the owner of the Osgood Bradley Building in Worcester. He has served as director of the Citizens' Committee on Taxation.
Politically, he has always been a Republican, but though fre- quently invited to enter active political life, he has always felt that his business and social interests would prevent his devoting the necessary amount of time to political affairs, and he has, therefore, declined to be a candidate for political positions.
His church affiliations are with the Congregationalist body, and he is an attendant at the Piedmont Congregational Church of Worcester. Traveling is his favorite form of recreation.
On October 13, 1887, he married Emma, daughter of Hon. James and Maria (McKenney) Dingley. Her father was a prominent business man of Gardiner, Maine, and the first mayor of that city, to which position he was elected for several terms.
He has two children, Mrs. Helen Bradley Wood, and Katharine Bradley, and the family residence is in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He commends fidelity and promptness, as qualifications most helpful in building up a sound American character.
Mr. Bradley inherited his business, but the enormous expansion of it in these modern times has been the product of the labors of his busy brain and his tireless efficiency. He has become one of the great manufacturers of the state, great in power and great in use- fulness.
GARDNER COREY BROOKS
G ARDNER COREY BROOKS was born in Brookline, Massa- chusetts, September 10, 1856, and died there November 26, 1916. His father, George Brooks (November 28, 1819- October 22, 1907) son of Kendall Brooks (January 10, 1792-January 1, 1872) and Mary Pettee, was widely known as a merchant and dealer in shoe manufacturers' supplies; a man of integrity and of sound principles. Mr. Brooks' mother, Eliza Corey, daughter of Mary Gardner and Timothy Corey (April 2, 1782-August 10, 1844) was a noble woman, strong in spirit and of fine character. Mr. Brooks was of English descent, one of his ancestors being Thomas Gardner, who came from England and settled in Brookline, Massa- chusetts, in 1718. From one of his ancestors the region now known as Corey Hill was named.
He became greatly interested in the business carried on by his father and older brother, George K. Brooks, under the firm name of Brooks and Company, dealers in shoe manufacturers' supplies. His brother died in 1901 and his father in 1907. After that time he carried on the business by himself. His father founded the concern and he was the first dealer who introduced the manufacture of French calf leather into the United States. The house was a reliable and prosperous concern.
Mr. Brooks was politically a Republican, and a stanch supporter of that party. He was a member of the Brookline Baptist Church. Both he and his father, who for some fifty years was a member of the board of deacons, were deacons of that church and were among its most faithful attendants and deeply interested in its welfare, especially the work in the Bible School.
March 13, 1883, he married Emily Janet Seaverns, daughter of Henry G. and Emily (Hensho) Seaverns of Brookline, who died in 1907. In 1910 Mr. Brooks married Nellie Hedlund, daughter of Charles F. and Alma C. Hedlund of Jamaica Plain. Of this marriage there were two children, Helen and Gardner Corey Brooks, Jr.
Mr. Brooks, like his father, had three interests which were of vital importance to him, and to these he was thoroughly devoted, his home, his business and his church. He was held in high esteem by all who were acquainted with him because of his many fine qualities. He was a very quiet, unassuming sort of person, with no ostentation about him. Simple, direct and truthful in utterance, of high pur- pose, and with a beautiful kindliness and sincerity of spirit which won many friends. He was a business man in the true sense of the word, sagacious and practical, untiring in energy and enthusiasm. He was a willing and generous contributor to the work of his denomination and to the various activities of the church. He was greatly loved and esteemed, and left an influence which is a blessing to all who knew him.
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NATHANIEL HADLEY BRYANT
N ATHANIEL H. BRYANT, at the time of his death, which occurred on February 28, 1916, was the dean of the whole- sale coal business in Boston. He was born in that city on August 18, 1823, and was the son of Nathaniel Bryant, an expert on mahogany woods and a cabinetmaker, born September 5, 1784, and died on November 8, 1870.
His mother, whose name before her marriage was Clarissa Blodgett, was the daughter of James and Ruth Hadley Blodgett, her father having been born in 1763 and having died on March 23, 1836. Mr. Bryant's paternal grandfather was Amos Bryant, a Revolutionary soldier, who was born September 17, 1756, and died December 9,1796. His wife before her marriage was Eleanor Morse.
Another Revolutionary ancestor was Major Jeremiah Swain, who had command of a regiment that was sent against the Eastern Indians, and was a brave and talented officer and an able citizen in civil life, a physician, a Selectman, a Justice of the Peace.
He attended and graduated from the Public Latin School, then located on School Street where the Parker House now stands, and at the time of his death, he was the oldest living graduate of that School.
He became at length identified with the coal business, and for nearly sixty years was connected with that trade.
In politics he was a Republican, and his church affiliations were with the Trinitarian Congregational denomination.
Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, the author of the hymn " America," was his cousin, Mr. Smith's mother having been his father's sister.
On the 18th of June, 1872, he was married to Lucy Mason Par- sons, daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Childs) Parsons, whose grandparents were Solomon and Rebecca (Wesson) Parsons and Samuel and Elizabeth (Fricke) Child. The Parsons family are descendants of Joseph Parsons, who came to this country from Eng- land in 1630.
Four children were born to them who are still living: Miss Alice M. Bryant, a kindergarten teacher, and Miss Marion A. Bryant, both of Newtonville; Nathaniel F. Bryant, in the banking business in Boston, and Arthur P. Bryant, in the wholesale coal business in Boston.
Nathaniel Hadley Bryant was steady in the performance of duty, efficient and honorable in business relations, stanch and faithful in his loyalty to his town and to his church. He represented solid worth, and the power that comes from character. His family and his fellow citizens found in him a never-failing source of quiet strength. Upon men like Mr. Bryant depends the stability of the state.
JOHN BROWN BUGBEE
T HE life of John Brown Bugbee presents the career of a busi- ness man who started in early manhood in an honorable line of trade and devoted his life assiduously to his one call- ing, realizing that success is only to be secured by absorption in his work and fidelity to its details. His success has been the result of whole-hearted, clear-headed and conscientious devotion to his work.
John Brown Bugbee was born in Windsor, Maine, June 21, 1839. His father, John Bugbee (1810-1881), was the son of John Bugbee, a farmer in that part of New England where plenty of hard work develops a robust manhood.
His mother, Sarah Hatch (Brown) Bugbee, was the daughter of John Brown. The Bugbee ancestors were English and came of sturdy stock. The Brown family was of Scotch origin, coming to this country from the vicinity of Edinburgh.
John B. Bugbee in his early tastes sought books and magazines and he found special delight in roaming through the forests of his native state. His early work was on the farm, with added labor in a shingle mill in spring and fall as the rains and freshets furnished power for its operation. His mother held powerful sway in her home, particularly in its moral and religious well-being. He met many obstacles in acquiring an education. His reading was mainly confined to historical works, magazines and the papers of the day.
His schooling was confined to the public country schools with three fall terms at the High School and that education derived from contact with men in the great enterprises of life.
He began his life work as a tally boy in the lumber concern of Henry Cutter & Co., Boston. He adhered closely to his duties with this firm, ever at his post, watching closely the details and progress of the business until he early became a partner in the concern, and now for a number of years he has been President of the Holt and Bugbee Co. of Boston. He has become a pattern to many, won an enviable reputation and secured a competency for the evening of his life. He has been a member of the Boston Art Club and of the Algonquin Club and now is a member of the Beacon Society. In politics he is Republican on National issues, on local and municipal questions he is Independent.
Automobiling for health and pleasure constitute his chief recrea- tion.
He married Miss Frances E. Muzzey, December 25, 1863, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin Muzzey of Montville, Me., who died Nov. 18, 1868. On December 25, 1873, he married Eliza E., daughter of Samuel W. and Lucinda Hewey.
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ALFRED MONSON BULLARD
A LFRED MONSON BULLARD, a prominent insurance man, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21, 1845. His father, Francis Bullard (1805-1887), was the son of Jabez (1773-1852) and Mary (Hartshorn) Bullard. He was a lumber merchant - a man of integrity and endowed with a re- markably good disposition. Mr. Bullard's mother was Harriet D. Monson, daughter of Mary Daggett and George Monson, a woman whose moral and spiritual influence was particularly strong upon his life. Mr. Bullard is a descendant of John Bullard, who first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, about 1630. Mr. Bullard's great-grandfather, Seth Bullard, was a Major in the Revolutionary War.
Mr. Bullard received a good education in the schools of Boston, but he is not a college-bred man. In 1861 began his active career in life as a clerk in an insurance office. By dint of industry and per- severing effort he rose rapidly and is now associated with the firm of Cyrus Brewer and Company.
Since 1886 Mr. Bullard has been a member of the Union Club of Boston, and is a Trustee for the Institution for Savings in Roxbury, and has been president of the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters.
In politics he is an Independent having changed his party on the Cleveland-Blaine issue. In religion he is affiliated with the Uni- tarian Church. As a mode of relaxation and diversion he greatly enjoys reading and walking.
February 27, 1878, Mr. Bullard was married to Florence E., daughter of Frederick A. and Emeline A. (Hook) Todd, grand- daughter of Francis and Abigail (Brown) Todd and of William and Abigail (Greenleaf) Hook. One child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bullard, Lawrence, who is in the insurance business.
Mr. Bullard in his business life is straightforward and honest. His moral character and personal virtue are above reproach and his scrupulous integrity and exactness in his business life have brought to him many friends. He is generous in thought and deed and always broad and enlightened in his views on all questions, and he stands as a worthy representative of the fine, dependable, and reliable type of New England business man.
Mr. Bullard's success is due to hard, persistent, painstaking work, fidelity to duty, a resolute determination to practice the " golden rule " and in all his efforts to be useful to his fellowmen.
GODFREY LOWELL CABOT
G ODFREY LOWELL CABOT, a scion of one of Massa- chusetts' distinguished families, who has achieved eminence as a broad-minded, sagacious business man and a patriotic, public-spirited citizen, was born February 26, 1861, at 11 Park Square, Boston. His father, Samuel Cabot, born 1815, died 1885, was an eminent physician and a noted ornithologist, ranking fore- most in his profession; and his mother was Hannah Lowell Jack- son. On the paternal side, his grandparents were Samuel Cabot and Elizabeth Perkins, while on the maternal side were Patrick Tracy Jackson and Lydia Cabot.
The Cabots are of English descent and came to Massachusetts in the eighteenth century, while Patrick Tracy came from the North of Ireland also in the eighteenth century. Godfrey Cabot is a great-grandson of Thomas H. Perkins, founder of the Perkins Institute for the Blind; and on his mother's side he is a descendant of Patrick Tracy Jackson, to whom Lowell, Massachusetts, owes its existence. The city was named in honor of Francis Cabot Lowell, a brother-in-law of Mr. Jackson.
During his early life Mr. Cabot took a special interest in sciences of every kind and in books on chemistry and physics. His mother, a woman of gracious and genial personality, exercised a strong influence on his moral and intellectual life and instilled in his mind a sense of duty.
His education began in the Brimmer School, followed by a regu- lar course in the Boston Latin School, and then by a course in J. P. Hopkinson's School in Boston. He spent one year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supplemented by a regular course at Harvard College, from which he obtained his degree of A.B., magna cum laude, in 1882. The year following was spent in business with his eldest brother, Samuel Cabot, and the next year, 1883-1884, in post-graduate work abroad in the Zurich Polytechni- cum and University in Switzerland.
In 1886 Mr. Cabot entered into a partnership with his brother, Samuel, to make gas-regulators. In 1887, he began the manu- facture of carbon black; the soot of natural gas - a species of lamp black, at Worthington, Pennsylvania; and from that time forward as he terms it, " he has paddled his own canoe." In 1899, he built the Grantsville Carbon Works in West Virginia, the largest carbon works in the world; and he also owned a factory at Cabot, Pennsylvania, which was named for him; and factories at Creston, Glasgow, and Bristol, West Virginia. In 1911, the Pennsylvania Carbon Company was purchased by him and he removed the plant to Nancy's Run, W. Va. After the purchase of the West Virginia Carbon Company near Grantsville, in 1913, he extended a pipe
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system more than one hundred miles, and has been for fifteen years the largest individual manufacturer of carbon black in the world.
Mr. Cabot has long and energetically striven to promote the public welfare. On many occasions he has gone to Washington at his own expense to plead for the metric system, for the bill that abolished making matches from poisonous phosphorus, and similar reforms. As a firm believer in Preparedness, Mr. Cabot has con- tributed large sums towards national defense in the air.
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