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He was elected ensign A. D. O. in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, June 26, 1916, and resigned, in March, 1917, to accept a commission as Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, in the branch for Aeronautical Coast defense work, his particular duties being to act as Aviation Aide to Captain Rush. On April 16, 1917, he was placed in charge of the Aviation Camp at Marblehead.
Mr. Cabot has received many patents, the most important being on the transportation of liquefied gas; he has also written a number of articles on scientific and political topics.
Mr. Cabot is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Unitarian Church. His favorite form of amusement is tennis, and he pursues aviation as a duty of national defence.
Mr. Cabot is President of the Liquid Fuel and Gas Company, Wheeling, West Virginia; Treasurer of the Bristol Oil and Gas Company; Vice-President of the Carbon Black Manufacturers Association; member of the Society of Chemical Industry, of the American Chemical Society; Trustee of the Cabot Academy, Cabot, Pennsylvania; Treasurer of the New England Watch and Ward Society, Boston; President of the Aero Club of New England and Vice-President of the Aero Club of America. Mr. Cabot put $30,000 at the disposal of Rear Admiral Fiske, U. S. N., retired, to be used for a torpedo plane capable of carrying the heaviest torpedo from England to Kiel. If this sum is insufficient he will add more.
On June 23, 1890, Mr. Cabot married Maria B. Moors of Boston. Five children were born to them, all of whom are now living; James Jackson and Thomas D., both lieutenants in the army; Eleanor, William P. and John M. Cabot.
Mr. Cabot wrote the following expressly for this publication: " Forget what the country owes you. Focus every faculty on what you owe your country, your race, and your God. Without this, one can neither live happy nor face death without fear." Mr. Cabot has carried on very successful experiments in picking up burdens in flight with a view to facilitating transatlantic flight and im- mensely increasing the radius of operation of the Military Airplane. These experiments continue.
BENJAMIN OTIS CALDWELL
B ENJAMIN OTIS CALDWELL was born in North Bridge- water, now Brockton, Massachusetts, October 14, 1845, and died at his home in the same city March 12, 1916. He was the son of Ebenezer Caldwell and Deborah Holmes.
He attended the Whitman School of North Bridgewater for his educational training and then went out into the world for the business of life and had an honorable and successful career. He was one of those men who make good in the changes and enterprises of a busy life and left a good name and a fair amount of the world's goods as a reward of his efforts.
In 1859, at the age of fourteen, Mr. Caldwell started in as a store boy and clerk in a dry-goods store in Brockton and in a year went to Taunton in the same capacity.
In 1862 he shared the inspiration of so many American youth to serve the country in the Civil War, and enlisted in the 4th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. He served in Louisiana, participating in several actions and in the campaign that resulted in the capture of Port Hudson. Returning with his regiment he associated him- self again with one of the dry-goods firms with which he had previ- ously been connected and went to Newport, Rhode Island, but returned to Brockton in 1867. In 1868 in connection with Embert Howard he took over the business of Kingman and Hollywood and formed the co-partnership of Howard and Caldwell, in the clothing and men's furnishing business. This co-partnership lasted for forty-three years and was marked not only by successful business associations, but by a life-long friendship and social intimacy which continued after the business was sold in 1911.
Not only was Mr. Caldwell eminently successful in his regular business, but in real estate enterprises and in the ownership of store property he entered into operations which showed his good judg- ment and foresight. He conducted all his affairs in a way that made him many friends. He had the qualities of an attractive personality. He was always genial and optimistic. His integrity was unques- tioned and he was ready with advice to those who desired the benefit of his experience and had reliance upon his judgment and friendly counsel. Not only in his own business affairs as the partner of a long-established house did he contribute to the welfare of the city, but in all respects he was a part and parcel of Brockton's prosperity.
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The enlargement of his store on five different occasions is evi- dence of the extent and prosperity of an establishment which stood among the largest and best known in New England.
Mr. Caldwell's home life was attractive. He had a handsome residence, where he exercised his gift for hospitality.
His death was quite sudden, just as he was on the eve of departure on one of his pleasure trips to the South, in gratification of the love of travel and in association with his old partner. His funeral was marked by the tribute of a large attendance, and many business places closed during the hour of service out of respect to him. Representatives were present from the many organizations of which he had been an active and prominent member.
Mr. Caldwell was a member of the Paul Revere Lodge of Masons, and Bay State Commandery of Knights Templar and Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, a charter member of the Commercial Club, the Country Club, Fletcher Webster Post of the Grand Army, and the Brockton Agricultural Society. He was very much inter- ested in this last organization, having been one of its originators, and Vice-president. His executive ability was recognized in the arrangement for the famous Brockton fairs, as he was for many years Chairman of the Track Committee. His straightforward dealings won the respect of all with whom he had relations in the exciting race events. His love for horses, whether he drove his own over the road in the pastime of pleasure driving, or witnessed the friendly contests on the race track, was a genuine quality of his nature.
Although he had decided political views in support of the princi- ples of the Republican party, he preferred to keep aloof from public office and the vexations attendant upon political preferment.
In religious views he was of the Unitarian faith. He took a deep interest in the Church of the Unity in Brockton and was prominent in its affairs and served for years as its Treasurer.
Mr. Caldwell was married June 20, 1867, to Emma M. Fairbanks, daughter of Nahum and Louisa (Perry) Fairbanks of Milford, Massachusetts. Two children were born of the union, one of whom, Arthur Fairbanks Caldwell, is living and is engaged in mercantile pursuits.
Mr. Caldwell is another example of a man who, by good habits, energy and high principles, works up from humble beginnings to fortune and an honorable position in life.
JAMES BERNARD CARROLL
T HE judiciary of Massachusetts holds a high place in the annals of American legal history. Its members have always been of a superior order of intelligence, their decisions have been marked by uncommon sagacity and by a profound grasp of funda- mental justice and equity. Few of these eminent men have rendered broader and more effective service to the Commonwealth than Judge Carroll of the State Supreme Judicial Court.
James Bernard Carroll was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, on the tenth of January, 1856. His father, Patrick Carroll, and his mother, Bridget (O'Rourke) Carroll, were industrious, upright and respected citizens of Lowell. When the boy was six years old he had the misfortune to lose his father, but his devoted mother assumed the double burden of caring entirely for the family, and James was thus enabled not only to pass successively through the grammar and high-school grades, but ultimately to receive a college education. The boy was devoted to his studies, quick to grasp explanations, and unusually reflective for his years. His manly, open countenance, his cheerful disposition, his gentle manner and his willingness to oblige everyone made him a general favorite, both with teachers and scholars.
After a brilliant course in the classics, in the sciences and in philosophy he was graduated, in 1878, from Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts. The law had always been the goal of his ambitions and he followed with eminent success the prescribed curriculum in the Boston University Law School, taking the degree of LL.B. in 1880. In the following year, 1881, he began the prac- tice of his chosen profession in the city of Springfield. His ability and his oratorial powers soon brought him into public notice and he began a career of honorable service in the Springfield Courts.
When the Industrial Accident Board was organized by Governor Foss, it became necessary to appoint as chairman a man of pro- found knowledge of the law, of broad acquaintance with human nature and of intimate acquaintance with the complicated questions under dispute between the forces of capital and of labor. Mr. Carroll was almost unanimously suggested for the post, and the excellent service which he rendered to the industrial life of the Commonwealth can never be adequately described. That the merit thus acquired should receive due recognition was admitted by all, and there was, in consequence, sincere rejoicing in legal circles when Mr. Carroll was appointed by Governor David I. Walsh to a judicial position in the Superior Court and shortly afterwards pro- moted to the State Supreme Judicial Court. In all these offices of trust he has more than justified the fondest hopes of his friends and
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he stands today one of the foremost judicial lights of Massachusetts.
Judge Carroll married Mary, the daughter of Michael and Mar- garet Corbett, on the fifteenth of July, 1884, and a bright, refined, sunny home bears ample testimony to the happiness of this union. In social circles, he is a member of Saint Vincent De Paul Society and the Knights of Columbus.
Judge Carroll is a man of many rare and varied gifts, and as a citizen he has given to his native state an example of untarnished personal uprightness, of high civic virtues, of broad social sym- pathies and of fearless courage in the pursuit of duty.
As a lawyer he was characterized by profound and well-nigh universal knowledge, not only of matters connected with the law but also of many other departments of learning, by his clear grasp, of the definite point at issue in a trial, by his lucid presentation of facts, by his orderly arrangement of arguments and by his forceful insistence of the fundamental ethical principles upon which justice and equity ultimately rest.
As chairman of the Industrial Accident Board, he was the very personification of impartiality. He declared that the establishment of this Board made Massachusetts the foremost State in the Union, as regards the legal protection given workingmen. He looked to the Workingmen's Compensation Law for a solution of the compli- cated problems of industrial life, and the removal of the vexatious court delays and of expensive litigation. In season and out of season this farsighted and sincere lover of his fellowmen has sought to bring capital and labor into relations of harmony.
As a dispenser of justice Judge Carroll is conspicuous by his clear and masterly statement of the law as it bears upon particular disputes, by his rigid sense of justice and by his absolute determina- tion to protect by every power in the land the well-established rights of the individual citizen. He holds emphatically that the state exists for the welfare and development of the individual, and that its highest praise is the expressed confidence of its citizens in the security and protection afforded by its courts of law.
As an orator for important civic gatherings, Judge Carroll has always been in great demand. Having a comprehensive grasp of sound moral principles and a lofty view of American citizenship, his utterances always command the attention of intelligent men, while his polished diction, his command of clear crisp English, and the ardor of a nature full of intense feeling render him a favorite speaker with all classes of citizens. Men of this type are not only a strong bulwark to the state in all emergencies, but they are moreover an inspiration to the younger members of the community to follow superior ideals and to cultivate the loftiest personal and civic virtues.
WILLIAM ENDICOTT CLAPP
T HE surname Clapp had its origin in Osgod Clapa, a Danish noble in the court of King Canute. The ancient seat of the family is at Salcombe in Devonshire. The American branches of this family are descended from six immigrants, brothers and cousins, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, about 1630, and they and their descendants have scattered to all parts of the country. Thomas Clapp, the immigrant ancestor, was born in England in 1597, and in 1634 landed at Dorchester, and was ad- mitted a freeman in 1636. He later removed to Weymouth, and still later to Scituate, Massachusetts, where he was deputy to the General Court, and a useful and eminent citizen. The Clapp family has given to the nation a long line of distinguished per- sonages. Among these may be included Thomas Clapp, born at Scituate, Massachusetts, June 26, 1703, an American clergyman and educator, who served as president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766, and was also pastor of the church at Windham, Connecti- cut, from 1726 to 1740.
William Endicott Clapp was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, August 2, 1878. His father, Granville W. Clapp, June 3, 1849, is a retired shoe manufacturer of the firm of Clapp and Tapley, a man of honesty, firmness, and perseverance. His mother, who before her marriage was Adaline Dodge, was the daughter of Benjamin C. Dodge, 1809-1858, and Almira Dodge. She is a woman of rare personality. Through his father he is descended from Isaac P. Clapp, 1800-1882, and Harriet Moore.
As a youth William Clapp indulged in the study of the classics and history. After graduating from the Danvers High School with scholarship honors he entered Amherst College, graduating in 1900 with the degree of A.B. cum laude, and a winner of the Hardy Prize for excellence in debate. During his preparatory school days he was the organizer and for three years served as president of the Sumner Club, Lyceum League of America, under the Youth's Companion, for the purpose of promoting debating among boys.
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Having decided on the legal profession at the early age of twelve, and never for a moment deviating, even in thought, from his pur- pose to become a lawyer, Mr. Clapp entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1903. Immediately after his graduation he served apprenticeship in association with General E. R. Champlin in Boston, but on the basis of acquiring his own clientage by general practice for himself in Boston and Danvers. He was studious by nature and by habit. His mind is active, his decisions clear and his speech directly to the point. Mr. Clapp has always had the strong convictions that one endowed with the privilege of an edu- cation owes an obligation to his community in the way of public service. His fellow citizens have had in him a staunch and faithful friend, and have often manifested their appreciation of his efforts in their behalf.
From 1903, before his graduation from the Harvard Law School, to 1912, he served as a member of the Danvers School Committee, and as chairman from 1907 to 1912. His able advocacy of the measures calculated to advance public interests gained for him a wide reputation and much popularity. In 1906 he was appointed Town Solicitor, and he served faithfully for four years. As a citizen he is public-spirited, liberally encouraging every commendable work, and entertaining a deep interest in all worthy movements.
Since 1905 Mr. Clapp has served as attorney for the Danvers Savings Bank, and since 1902 he has been a member of the Republi- can Town Committee.
Mr. Clapp was a member of the English Six Law Club of Harvard, the Pierian Sodality of Harvard, and he was leader of the Glee Club in 1903. He is a prominent member of Amity Lodge of the Masons. He has served as corporation treasurer of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity, and is now financial secretary of the Amherst Alumni Chapter.
In politics Mr. Clapp is a Republican. In religion he is a com- municant of the Maple Street Congregational Church of Danvers, and a teacher of a Sunday-School class of boys. For some time he was the leader of an adult class for the discussion of the practical problems of religion. He organized and was the first president of the Men's Club connected with his church. For relaxation he finds much pleasure in music.
On June 26, 1907, he was married to Abbie L. Yapp, daughter of George and Sarah (Davis) Yapp of Littleton, Massachusetts. Two
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children were born of this marriage, Wilma Gertrude, and Warren Endicott Clapp.
Mr. Clapp is a member of the Essex Bar Association and the Salem Bar Association. He has served as president of the Danvers Board of Trade since 1916.
The secret of William Endicott Clapp's success lies in his sound common sense, the logic and alertness of his intellect, and the tire- less industry that has enabled him to master every detail of his profession. Possessed of a liberal education, a close student of the principles of the law, thorough in his investigations, methodical in the arrangement, and discriminating in the selection of evidence, he is successful before juries, forceful in his statement of facts, and quick to see the weak points of his opponent's case and prompt to take advantage of them.
As a lawyer he displays ample learning, unfailing courtesy and dignity, and a conscientious desire to do equal and exact justice. Mr. Clapp's advice is :
" To young men with the endowment of an education, let me say that I esteem most highly those men whose attitude and point of view in life has for its foundation the being one's natural self, with the spirit of a simple democracy antagonistic to anything that savors of the aristocrat or snob. Assume nothing which you are not, never pretend that you do or can know it all, and if you possess the real substantial qualities that education and experience alone can give you and which deserve to merit, tortoise-shell glasses or other artificial means of pretension will not be required to impress upon others the learning and dignity which you possess and the respect with which they must regard you."
" The first and last thought should be to minister and serve."
"Amherst taught me this brand of democracy."
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CHARLES RUSSELL CODMAN
C HARLES RUSSELL CODMAN was born in Paris, France, October 28, 1829. His father was a native of Boston and bore the same name, Charles Russell Codman, and was born December 19, 1784, and died July 16, 1852. His mother was Anne MacMaster of New York City. His grandparents were John Cod- man and James MacMaster, Margaret Russell and Anne Van Bus- kirk. His father was a merchant, a man of sterling integrity. His lineage goes back to the Pilgrim Fathers of the Mayflower, John Winslow and Mary Chilton; John Codman, his grandfather, was also a distinguished Boston merchant. James Russell, his great- grandfather, and Daniel Russell, his great-great-grandfather, were both Councillors of the Colony of Massachusetts.
Among the books which occupied his attention were the ser- mons of Phillips Brooks and of Frederick W. Robertson, the histories of Rome, Greece, England, and France, the poems of Tennyson and Shakespeare. His early education was obtained at a private school in Boston and at a school in College Point, New York. He graduated at Harvard in 1849, became a student of law, and was admitted to the Suffolk Bar.
For a series of years he was President of the Boston Provident Association, and of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital. He has been chairman of the Trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane at Westborough, and a member of the State Board of Insanity. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives in the years 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1864 and 1865. He was a delegate at the National Convention of the Republican party which nominated General Garfield for President. He has belonged to the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, and was President of the Board for three years, and has been a Captain in the Boston Cadets. In the Civil War, he was Colonel of the 45th Massachusetts Volunteers, and served one year.
He is, in politics, an Independent. He is affiliated with the Episcopal Church, attending on the services of Trinity Church, Boston. His chief recreation has been golf.
He was married February 28, 1856, to Lucy Lyman Paine, daughter of Russell Sturgis and Mary (Hubbard) Sturgis, and granddaughter of Nathaniel Russell Sturgis and Susan (Parkman) Sturgis, and of John Hubbard and Jane Parkinson.
His is a record of an active and useful life, the study of which will be most beneficial to young men.
WILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN
W TILLIAM COOMBS CODMAN, senior member of the firm Codman and Street, was born in Cohasset, Massa- chusetts, August 6, 1860. His father, William C. Codman (1821-1903), was for many years a Calcutta merchant, but in his later years turned to specialize in real estate, and was a man of the strictest honesty and true refinement. His grandfather was the Reverend John Codman and his grandmother Mary Wheelwright Codman. On the maternal side his mother was Elizabeth Hurd, daughter of John Russell Hurd and Catherine Amory Codman Hurd. The Reverend John Codman was the fourth John Codman in line from Stephen Codman, who emigrated from England to America about 1660. William Coombs, in England an ancestor on the Wheelwright side, was said to have been the financial backer of Shakespeare, and his name is still preserved in Stratford-on- Avon as the founder of a fund for the benefit of the poor widows of that place. The Hurds were noted silversmiths and engravers before the days of the Revolution. His mother, Elizabeth Hurd, was a woman of rare quality of mind and character, whose influence over the educational and spiritual life of her children was strong.
During his boyhood, Mr. Codman was especially fond of athletics and hunting. He loved the freedom of the country, and gratified this taste in middle life by acquiring a four hundred acre farm at Hingham, Massachusetts. Its meadows and groves answer to the moods of his mind, and a walk through his favorite haunts is a means of diversion from the arduous duties of business life but nevertheless he insists that it shall be a producing farm or he would have no right to hold it. As a boy, he voluntarily took up manual labor, and learned the value of honest endeavor, persever- ance, and industry.
Receiving his early training in the public schools of Boston, sup- plemented by a course in Mr. Noble's School, he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he graduated in 1879. Owing to his father's temporary financial reverses, and to his desire that his younger brothers, John Codman and Ernest Amory Codman, might continue their studies, he was obliged to give up college just at the time of his entering. He has said that his reading of Abbot's "Na- poleon," Kane's " Arctic Exploration," Wallace's "Fair God," and the works of Dickens, Thackeray, Dumas and Victor Hugo were all helpful factors fitting him for his life work.
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At the age of eighteen, he began his active work in life as a clerk for Henry W. Peabody and Company, exporters. Three years later, at the age of twenty-one, he started in business on his own account as an importer of Mediterranean and East Indian mer- chandise, continuing in same for over 30 years.
In 1900 he assumed the real estate business of his father, who retired on his eighty-first birthday, the firm being Wm. C. Codman & Son and later changing to Codman & Street. He is best known for his work in the improvement of the Beacon Hill district, the widening of Charles and other streets in the old part of Boston, and the promotion of certain prominent buildings and as trustee of Real Estate. These improvements were undertaken largely from public spirit and love for the old city, but they have also proved financially successful.
Politically, Mr. Codman is an Independent Democrat, and al- though never interested in politics as a profession, he realizes and exercises the duties of every true American citizen.
From 1880 to 1889 he served with the First Corps of Cadets. He is a member of the Eleuses Lodge of Free Masons, St. Andrew's Chapter, Boston Council, St. Bernard Commandery, and the Boston City Club, and has until lately been a member of a number of other clubs. He was the promoter of the Exchange Club and was its first secretary, holding that position and serving as a governor for six years. In religious affiliations, he is an Episcopalian. For recreation from his business, he finds keen enjoyment in running a farm, shooting, fishing and in a game of golf.
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