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ANDREWS, WILLIAM H. H., son of Charles, native of Essex, and Dolly ( Bradstreet) Andrews, native of Rockport, Mass., was born at Pleasant Ridge,
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Me., May 10, 1839 ; died in Philadelphia April 20, 1892. Fitted for college at Hampden Acad- rmy and the Maine State Seminary, he entered Bowdoin in 1861. The following year, on August S, In joined the army as a private in the Eleventh In- Fintty Maine Volunteers. On the Ist of March, 1864, he was commissioned first lieutenant and regimen- tal quartermaster. Afterwards he served as act- ing adjutant-quartermaster on Gen. R. S. Foster's staff, as acting adjutant of his regiment, as post quar- termaster at Fredericksburg, Va., as post quarter- master, commissary of subsistence, and ordnance officer at Warrenton, Va., and was commissioned captain Company A, Eleventh Regiment Maine Volunteers, Oct. 30, 1865. In 1867 Mr. Andrews . came to Boston and entered the law office of Charles Levi Woodbury and M. E. Ingalls. In 1868 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar and succeeded M. E. Ingalls (now president of the Big "4" railroad system) in the practice of the law, associated with Mr. Woodbury until 1890. In politics Mr. Andrews was a Republican. He has been a member and the secretary of the school committee of Hyde Park for six years. From 1885 to 1886 he was manager of the " Boston Post." He was subsequently president and treasurer of the O. T. Rogers Granite Company
of Quincy, Mass. He was a member of John A. Andrew Post 15, G.A.R., also of the Massachusetts Commandery Military Order Loyal Legion. Mr. Andrews married Elizabeth Wood, of Philadelphia, Oct. 22, 1873, and three of their children are now living, - Thomas W., Isabella J., and Elizabeth A. Andrews. .
ANGELL, GEORGE THORNDYKE, was born in South- bridge, Mass., in 1823. He was an only child, and his father, Rev. George Angell, a Baptist clergyman, died when he was but three years old. His mother, the youngest daughter of Paul Thorndyke, of Tewks- bury, supported her little family by teaching school. For some years she was teacher of a girls' seminary in Salem. Mr. Angell first came to Boston when a lad of fourteen, and went to work in a dry-goods shop in Hanover street. Here he remained for two or three years, and was then sent to an academy in Meriden, N.H., to be fitted for college. He first entered Brown University, in the autumn of 1842 ; but finding the expenses there higher than he could afford, after a year's study he left Providence and went up to Hanover, N.H., entering Dartmouth. There he graduated in 1846. He then returned to Boston, and for three years taught school and studied law. The first year he read in the office of Judge
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studying also at the Harvard Law School. In 1851 he was admitted to the bar, and entered the office of Samuel E. Sewall, with whom he subsequently formed a copartnership which continued for fourteen years. Mr. Angell early became interested in the cause of animals, and in 1864 he provided, by will, for the use of a considerable portion of his property, after his death, in " circulating in schools, Sunday- schools, and elsewhere" information calculated . to prevent cruelty to them. But his attention was most sharply directed to the subject of the need of organization for their protection by the beginning of Henry Bergh's work in New York, and by several cases of cruelty which had come under his own ob- servation ; and early in 1868 he led actively in the formation of the Massachusetts Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals. At that time he was enjoying a large and lucrative practice, but he sub- stantially abandoned his profession and devoted his energies and the greater part of his time to his phil- anthropic work. The society was incorporated in March, 1868, and among its most active founders was Mrs. William G. Appleton, who ardently sup- ported Mr. Angell's work from the beginning. Through his energetic efforts from one thousand two hundred to one thousand six hundred members and patrons were secured for the society within a few months after its incorporation; a new law was enacted ; the monthly publication, "Our Dumb Animals," the first paper of its kind in the world, was started, its first edition of two hundred thousand copies ; and prosecuting agents set to work in town and city. In 1869 Mr. Angell went abroad and · further advanced the cause in the old country. In London he addressed the Royal Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals, urging them to start a paper similar to " Our Dumb Animals " (which they subsequently did-), and to spend their money widely in humane education ; and he also enlisted the warm sympathies of Madam -afterwards the Baroness - Burdett-Coutts in this work. Late in the season he attended - the only delegate from America - the World's International Congress of S.P.C.A. Societies at Zurich. Soon after his return from his European travels in 1870, Mr. Angeli went to Chi- cago and took a leading hand in the formation of the Illinois Humane Society. During the next ten years he lectured in many cities, assisted in the formation of other societies, and instituted many reforms. In 1882 the first " American Band of Mercy" was formed in his Boston office, and in ISS4 three thousand four hundred and three bands established in different parts of the country were reported. In 1889 he organized a continental of George W. was David Armstrong, born in Wind-
society for the definite purpose of forming hum .:: societies, bands of mercy, and spreading hum .... instruction over the continent. In 1872 Mr. Ang .... was married to Eliza A. Martin, of Nahant.
APOLLONIO, NICHOLAS ALESSANDRO, was born in Stonington, Conn., March 10, 1815 ; died in B ... ton Oct. 30, 1891. When he was a boy his parent. moved to New York city, where at the age of fiftec. he entered the office of the "New York Aibion." and later, under the cognomen of "Seebright," he contributed to the " Spirit of the Times." In 1845 he came to Boston and edited the " Youth', Guide." He became identified with the Free Sol party, and was a member of its city committee from 1848 to 1854. In the latter year he was a candi. date for the office of city registrar, and was elected by the concurrent vote of the city council, and this position he retained until his death, a period of nearly forty years. During that time by persistent efforts he succeeded in securing what is now recog. nized as one of the most efficient registration sys- tems in this country. His administration of the duties of his office stands as a monument to his memory ; and if other proof were wanted the fact that he retained his office during the many political changes would be sufficient guarantee of his effi- ciency. He was prominently identified with the Masonic orders, and was a member of the following lodges : St. John's, St. Paul's, Adelphi, and St. Matthew's Chapter. He had taken the thirty-second degree, was junior warden of De Molay Com- mandery, and past grand commander of St. Omer Commandery. Mr. Apollonio was a man of pro- nounced character, and his genial qualities made him many friends. He took a broad view of hu- manity, and his position afforded frequent opportu- nities of doing kindly acts which he loved to do. He was married first to Miss Sarah Gibbs, Oct. 29. 1840 ; and second, on May 20, 1869, to Caroline A. Drowne, daughter of the Hon. Daniel P. Drowne. of Portsmouth, N.H. His children were : Lydia A .. Nicholas T., Samuel T., Spencer M., and Thornton D. Apollonio.
ARMSTRONG, GEORGE W., born in Boston Aug. 11, 1836, is a direct descendant of Charles Robert Armstrong, one of the original Scotch settlers of Londonderry, N.H., whose ancestors were of the Scottish lowland clan Armstrong, dwelling near the English border on the " Debatable Land ; " his fore- fathers emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, whence he came to America. The father
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ham, N.H., and his mother was Mahalia (Lovering) liam Aspinwall, of Brookline, a patriot of Revolu- tionary days, who took a part with the Brookline minute-men in attacking the British troops on their retreat from Concord on the memorable 19th of April, 1775. His great-grandfather was Isaac Gardner, the only Brookline minute-man who was killed on that day. He is a direct descendant of Peter Aspinwall, of Toxteth Park, near Liver- Armstrong, a descendant of Governor Edward Wins- low. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and is one of the old " Hawes School boys." In his fourteenth year he was obliged, by the severe illness of- his father, to leave school, and was soon thrown upon his own resources. His first work was that of a penny-postman, and his district was the whole of South Boston. He was next employed on the " South Boston Gazette," the " Sunday News," and as a newsboy in State street. In the autumn of 1851 his father died. In March the following year he became a newsboy on the Boston & Albany Rail- road, and at this work he was employed for nine years. Afterwards, for several months, he was en- gaged on the railroad in various positions, as brake- man, as baggage-master, as sleeping-car conductor, and as conductor on the regular trains. Then he left the employ of the company and became man- ager of the news business on the road. Three years later he became half-owner of the restaurant and newsroom in the Boston & Albany station, and in 1871 the sole proprietor. In 1865 he purchased King's baggage-express and organized the " Arm- strong Transfer," adding passenger carriages. In 1882, with the cooperation of Edward A. Taft, he organized the " Armstrong Transfer Company," be- coming its president, with Mr. Taft as general man- ager. In 1869 he purchased the news business of the Fitchburg Railroad, and in 1877 extended it over the entire Hoosac Tunnel line. In 1875 he extended his restaurant and news business over the Eastern Railroad, and became owner of the restau- WM. ASPINWALL. rants and newsrooms in the Boston station and along the line at Portsmouth, Wolfborough Junction, and Portland. At the same time he owned the res- taurants and newsrooms on the Boston & Albany line at South Framingham, Palmer, Springfield, and Pittsfield. His newsboys are upon all the trains. At present (1892) he is the proprietor of the dining and news rooms on the Boston & Albany, the Bos- ton & Maine, the Fitchburg, and the Old Colony systems. Mr. Armstrong was married Dec. 10, 1868, 'ing to the United States with his father and family, to Miss Louise Marston, of Bridgewater, N.H., who died on Feb. 17, 1880. His present wife is Flora E., daughter of Dr. Reuben Greene, of Boston, to whom he was married on June 7, 1884. His chil- dren are Mabelle, Ethel, and George Robert Arm- strong. His home is in Brookline.
ASPINWALL, WILLIAM, only son of Colonel Thomas Aspinwall, who was United States consul at London, Eng., from 1815 to 1853, was born in London Feb. 16, 1819. His grandfather was Dr. Wil-
pool, who came to America in 1630, settled in Dorchester, and in 1650 removed to Muddy River (Brookline). Here ten years later he built the house which stood on Aspinwall avenue opposite St. Paul's Church until 1891, when it was taken down, as it had become uninhabitable and in a dangerous condition. William Aspinwall was edu- cated in a private boarding-school at Hammersmith, near London, until he was fourteen, and then con- entered Harvard in 1834 and graduated in 1838. He began the study of law in Cambridge, under Professors Joseph Story and Simon Greenleaf, in 1840, receiving the degree of L.L. B., and continued his studies another year in the office of Franklin Dexter and George W. Phillips, when he was ad- mitted to the bar. From that time to the present he has been engaged in the practice of his pro- fession. Since 1847 he has been a legal resident of Brookline, and has taken an active part in its affairs as well as in State and national politics. From
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1850 to 1852 he was town clerk ; in 1851 and 1852 he represented the town in the lower house of the Legislature ; in 1853 in the constitutional conven- tion ; in 1854 he was a State senator from Norfolk county ; and from 1857 to 1860 he was trial justice for Brookline, finally resigning this position. He has also held the offices of selectman, assessor, water commissioner, and trustee of the Public Library (now chairman of the latter board). In national politics he was a Whig of the Webster order until 1861. From 1852 to 1856 he was a member of the Whig State committee ; in 1856, in the Fremont campaign, its chairman, with Fred- erick O. Prince as secretary and Peter Butler as treasurer. From 1861 to the present time he has acted with the Democratic party, serving for many years (until 1888, when he resigned) upon its State central committee, and as chairman from 1872 to the election of Governor Gaston in 1874. In 1866 he received the nomination of his party for Congress. He was an ardent supporter of the government during the Civil War, and called the first meeting in Brookline to urge its vigorous pros- ecution. He served two years on the military committee of the town, and was at the same time secretary of the Massachusetts Rifle Club, at whose headquarters in the old Boylston Hall in Boston several regiments were recruited and drilled. In January, 1848, Mr. Aspinwall was married to Miss Arixene Southgate, daughter of Richard King Porter, of Portland, Me., a nephew of Senator Ru- fus King; they have three children living: a daughter, now the wife of Dr. W. B. Trull, and two sons, Thomas and William Henry Aspinwall, both in business in Boston.
ATKINSON, BYRON A., was born in Sackville, N.B., Sept. 18, 1852. He attended Mt. Allison Wes- leyan Academy, and when fourteen years of age went to sea, following that vocation for five years, visiting all parts of the world and meeting with many startling adventures. In 1870 he came to Boston and entered the employment of S. A. Woods, machinist. Here he remained two years and then established the firm of Miller & Atkin- son, repairers of furniture. In June, 1873, he established the firm of B. A. Atkinson, which has grown to be the largest enterprise of its kind in New England. This has been brought about solely through the perseverance and ability of Mr Atkin- son. 'His warerooms to-day cover an area of over ten acres, and the volume of business is over one million five hundred thousand dollars per annum. Mr. Atkinson was married Nov. 13, 1878, to Miss
Annie N., daughter of Robert Farnsworth ; they have four children, and at present reside in Mattapan.
ATWOOD, HARRISON HENRY, architect, son of Peter Clark and Helen Marion (Aldrich) Atwood, was born in North Londonderry, Vt., Aug.
H. H. ATWOOD.
26, 1863. He obtained his school training in the public schools of the Charlestown district and Bos- ton proper. For some time after leaving school he was in the law office of Godfrey Morse and John R. Bullard. Then he studied architecture with S. J. F. Thayer for four years, and for a year or more was with George A. Clough, formerly city architect. After practising his profession in the city for some time, in May, 1889, he was appointed city architect, and served in this position during Mayor Hart's administration of two years. While city architect he completed the legacies in the way of unfinished public buildings left by former admin- istrations, namely, the Horace Mann School for Deaf Mutes, the South Boston Grammar School, the Roxbury High School, and several minor build. ings; and the new work laid out, completed, or under contract during his term of office comprises four of the finest public schools in New England, namely, the Henry L. Pierce Grammar School, Dorchester, the Prince Primary School, Cumber- land and St. Botolph streets, the Bowditch Grammar
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School, Jamaica Plain, and the Adams Primary School, East Boston. All of these were placed in one single contract - a method of doing the public work never before adopted by the Architect De- partment. Beside these beautiful school-buildings, there should be mentioned the four or five engine- houses erected for the Fire Department in East Boston, Jamaica Plain, South Boston, Brighton, and the city proper. Much work was also accomplished during these two years for the Police, Water, Sewer, and Park Departments, the sum total reaching over a million dollars. Mr. Atwood was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from the Eighth Suffolk District for three years, from 1887 to 1889 inclusive, and during his service he was on the committees on State House, liquor law, mercantile affairs, and cities. He was first alter- nate delegate from the Fourth Congressional Dis- trict to the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1888. He has been a member of the Republican ward and city committee since 1884, serving as its secretary for four years, and was for two years a member of the Republican State central committee. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, F. and A. M., St. Paul Chapter, Boston Commandery, and is also a prominent Odd Fellow. Mr. Atwood was married in Boston Sept. 11, 1889, to Clara, eldest daughter of John August and Sophie Jo- hann (Kupfer) Stein ; they have one son, Harrison Henry, jr.
AVERY, EDWARD, son of General Samuel and Mary A. W. (Candler) Avery, was born in Marble- head, Mass., March 12, 1828. His father was a native of Vermont, and served in the War of 1812 : subsequently settling in Marblehead, he commanded the local brigade of militia for fifteen years, served many years as a selectman of the town, and represented it in the General Court. His mother was a daughter of Captain John Candler, of English descent. The branch of the family with which Edward Avery is connected is descended from Samuel Avery, a civil engineer, who received a grant of land in Vermont embracing the tracts known as Avery's Gores. Edward Avery ob- tained his early education in the Marblehead schools, finishing in Brooks's classical school .in Boston. He studied law in the office of F. W. Choate and in the Harvard Law School. Admitted to the bar in April, 1849, he began practice in the town of Barre, Mass. There he remained only until the winter of 1850-51, when he removed to Boston. He has since practised continually in this city, the greater part of the time in association with
George M. Hobbs, under the firm name of Avery & Hobbs, and has attained a leading position in his profession. In politics Mr. Avery has always been a Democrat, and for years has held a prominent position in his party. Since 1851, with the excep- tion of a few years, he has been a member of the Democratic State committee, several terms its chair- man ; onte he was the party candidate for attorney- general of the State, and several times for Congress. He was a member of the national Democratic con- ventions of 1868 and 1876, and at both represented .his State on the committee on platformn. In 1867 he was a member of the lower house of the Legis- lature, one of the eight Democrats who constituted the full strength of that party in the House of that year, and served on the committee on probate and chancery. In the autumn of 1867 he was a candi- date for the Senate, and on the night before the election he was also renominated as representative in the House. Elected to both positions, he took his seat in the Senate. He served as chairman of the committee on parishes, and on other important committees. Mr. Avery is an active Mason. He is a permanent member of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts ; for four years he was district dep- uty grand master of the Sixteenth Massachusetts
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district, and for some time held the office of junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge. Mr. Avery was first married in 1852, to Miss Susan Caroline,
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daughter of Caleb Stetson, of Boston. For his second wife he married Margaret, daughter of David Greene, of the well-known old Boston family which numbers Gardiner Greene, Thomas Greene, the donor of the fund which bears his name to Trinity church, and David Greene, sr., a man of wealth and. mark in his time, among its members. Her · grandmother was Ann Temple Nicholson, of dis- tinguished English descent, daughter of Commodore Samuel Nicholson, the first commodore of the infant American navy, and the first commander of the frigate " Constitution." Mrs. Avery's mother was Anna Sumner, of Brookline, daughter of Thomas i. Sumner, a well-known resident of that town, sister of the distinguished discoverer of the Sumner method of navigation in use by all nations of the civilized world, and cousin of Charles Sumner, the well-known statesman.
AYERS, GEORGE D., son of David and Martha E. College of Pharmacy to the professorship of chemis- (Huckins) Ayers, was born in Boston Aug. 26, 1857. He fitted for college in the public schools of Malden, and attended Harvard, class of 1879. Then he entered the Harvard Law School, and graduated therefrom in 1882. He continued his studies in the office of Gaston & Whitney, of this city, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1883. Two years later he associated himself with George Clarendon Hodges. He is a resident of Malden, and has taken an active interest in the affairs of that growing city, but he has many times declined political preferment. He is an ar- dent advocate of the principles laid down by the Nationalist party, and is a prominent member of that body. He is a forcible and brilliant speaker. Mr. Ayers was married Jan. 7, 1885, to Charlotte E. Carder, of Milford, Conn.
RABBITT, GEORGE FRANKLIN, was born in Barre, Mass., Nov. 25, 1848. During his early years he lived on a farm and attended the district school. At the age of sixteen he went to Phillips (Andover) Academy, where he prepared for college. Entering Harvard, he was graduated in the class of 1872. Adopting journalism as his profession, he obtained a position as a reporter on the staff of the " Boston Post," from which he was soon advanced to the editorial department, in which he did brilliant work. He remained with the " Post " until 1877, when he was appointed private secretary to Mayor Prince. At the close of this service he returned to the " Post," and during 1878-79 represented the paper in Washington, as its regular correspondent. In 1879
he was appointed by Mayor Prince a member of the board of health, and this position he stil: holds.
BABCOCK, JAMES FRANCIS, son of Archibald D. and Fanny F. ( Richards) Babcock, was born in Boston Feb. 23, 1844. His early education was accom- plished in the public schools of the city. He graduated from the Quincy Grammar School in 1857, and from the English High School in 1860. Entering the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, he devoted himself exclusively to the study of chemistry under Prof. E. N. Horsford. Completing the course of study in 1862, he entered upon the practice of his profession as an analytical chemist and chemical expert in Boston, where he still continues, being at the present time the senior chemist (in years of service) in the city. In 1869 he was elected by the trustees of the Massachusetts try in that institution. In 1874 he resigned and became professor of chemistry in the Boston Uni- versity. In 1875 he was appointed by Governor Gas- ton to the office of State assayer and inspector of liquors, and he was reappointed by Governors Rice, Talbot, Long, Butler, and Robinson until 1885, when he declined further service and accepted the appointment of inspector of milk, tendered to him by Mayor O'Brien, and continuing as such until 1889. As assayer of liquors, he suggested and advocated legislation defining the term " in- toxicating liquor," known as the three per cent. limit (since reduced to one per cent.), which was incorporated into the statute in 1880. As inspector of milk, he originated and introduced new methods in the carrying out of the details of the work of the office, thereby adding greatly to its efficiency. The . use of annotta and other coloring matter in milk, which had been universal, was almost wholly sup- pressed. This was accomplished by the discovery and application of new methods for the detection of coloring matters, which were original with Prof. Babcock and which have now been adopted by milk analysts in other cities. During his term of office he suggested much new legislation in regard to the so-called milk laws, which was adopted and has proved to be of great service in preventing the general and extensive adulteration of milk, which before his administration had been practised. Prof. Babcock has given scientific testimony as a chemi- cal expert in many important capital cases and patent suits in this and other States. He is well known as a popular lecturer upon scientific subjects, and is the inventor of the Babcock Fire Extinguisher.
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