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BABSON, THOMAS M., was born in Wiscasset, Me., founder. Under him and the late Stillman S. Conant, general news-editor during Mr. Raymond's later years and subsequently managing editor of " Harper's Weekly," he thoroughly learned the journalist's trade. It was during the editorship of John Bigelow, who immediately succeeded Mr. Raymond, that Mr. Bacon became general news- editor. In 1872 Mr. Bacon resigned this position on account of ill health produced by overwork, and returned to Boston, where he established himself as the New England correspondent of the "Times." Subsequently he returned to the staff of the " Adver- May 28, 1847. He received his early education in the schools of Maine and the Highland Military School in Worcester. He came to Boston in 1863, and finished his training in the Chauncy Hall School. He studied law in the Harvard Law School, receiving his degree in 1868, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1870, when he began at once the practice of law. He was in St. Louis for two years, and then, returning home, resumed his law practice here, continuing until 1879, when he re- ceived from Mayor Prince the appointment of fourth assistant city solicitor, under John P. Healy. tiser," first serving the paper for several months as its He was appointed second assistant solicitor in 1881, and first assistant in 1885, which position he held until May, 1891, when he was appointed cor- poration counsel of the city of Boston by Mayor Matthews. He was nominated by Mayor O'Brien city solicitor in 1888, in the last week of that mayor's administration, but was not confirmed. In 1876-77 Mr. Babson represented Ward 16 in the lower house of the Legislature, but with that excep- tion has held no political office. special correspondent in New York city and then becoming general news-editor. In 1873 he was chosen chief editor of the " Boston Globe," and for five years conducted that paper as an independent journal, resigning in 1878 upon a change of policy. He again returned to the " Daily Advertiser," and assumed the duties of managing editor. In the winter of 1883, upon the retirement of Edward Stanwood, then chief editor, Mr. Bacon came into full editorial charge of the paper, and in the sum- mer of 1884 was made associate editor with Prof. Charles F. Dunbar, of Harvard College, formerly its editor-in-chief. In January, 1886, when the " Advertiser" passed into control of new hands and its policy was changed, Mr. Bacon retired, and in May, that year, was made chief editor of the " Boston Post," when that paper was purchased by a number of gentlemen known in politics as Inde- pendents. Under his editorship the " Post" ad- dressed itself to the best citizens in the community as a journal of the first class - independent in politics, and fair and candid in its discussion of public questions. In the autumn of 1891, when the control of the property was sold, Mr. Bacon retired. For many years he was the writer of the Boston letter to the "Springfield Republican," and earlier in his career a special correspondent for several Western journals and for the " New York Evening Post." He has compiled several books on Boston, and written more or less for the press upon local historical topics. He is the author of " Bacon's Dictionary of Boston " (Houghton, Mif- flin, & Co., 1886), and is also the editor of " Boston Illustrated " (Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.). Mr. Bacon was married on Oct. 24, 1867, at Somerville, to Miss Gusta E., daughter of Ira and Hannah Hill. They have one child, Madeleine L. Bacon.
BACON, EDWIN MUNROE, son of Henry and Eliza Ann (Munroe) Bacon, was born in Providence, R.I., Oct. 20, 1844. His father, born in Boston, son of Robert Bacon, formerly of Barnstable, was a Universalist clergyman and editor, who died in Philadelphia when the son was a lad of twelve years. His mother was a native of Lexington, and two of her ancestors fought in the fight on Lexington Green. His early education was mainly attained in private schools in Providence, Philadelphia, and Boston. He finished his studies in an academy at Foxborough, a private and boarding school, which flourished for many years under James L. Stone as principal, and which fitted many boys for college. Prepared for college, he determined not to enter, but at once to engage in the work of his chosen profession. At the age of nineteen he became connected with the " Boston Daily Advertiser " as a reporter, Charles Hale at the time being editor of the paper. Here he remained for several years, and then resigned to take the editorship of the " Illus- trated Chicago News " in Chicago, Ill., an enterprise which enjoyed a very brief but reputable career. From Chicago he returned East, and in the spring of 1868 became connected with the " New York Times," first as assistant night-editor, subsequently becoming night editor, and later managing, or news editor, as the position was then called. He was most fortunate in securing employment on the "Times" during the life of Henry J. Raymond, its
BACON, LEWIS HI., was born in Wellsborough, Pa., Aug. 7, 1857. After graduating from the high school, he learned the carpenter's trade of his
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father, who was one of the principal builders in northern Ohio at that time. In 1877 he entered the office of Samuel Lane, an architect, in Cleve- land, O., to prepare for the practice of architecture, and in 1880 removed to Boston. Here he was en- gaged for six years in the office of Messrs. Sturgis & Brigham, architects, as draughtsman. Then he established himself in the carpentering business, in connection with Whidden, Hill, & Co., builders, re- maining with them until I888, when he entered into partnership with George W. Morrison, the firm of Morrison & Bacon succeeding to the business of J. W. Morrison, who had been established for some twenty-five years as a master builder. The firm do a heavy business in woodwork of every description, making a specialty of the interior finish of build- ings and offices, and the better class of city resi- dences, in hard woods. They contracted for the entire interior woodwork of the northerly portion of the new Court House. The Niles Building, a large number of houses in the Back Bay district, St. Andrew's Church, a number of stations on the old Boston & Providence Railroad, and other prom- inent buildings, were their contracts. Mr. Bacon is a member of the Master Builders' Association and the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.
BAILEY, ANDREW JACKSON, city solicitor of Boston, son of Barker Bailey, of the Hanover, Mass., family of that name, and Alice, daughter, of David and Alice Ayers, of Portsmouth, N.H., was born in Charlestown, Mass., July 18, 1840. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Charlestown and at Harvard College, a member of the class of '63. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted, on April 16, 1861, in the Charlestown City Guards, Company K, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volun- teers, and served with that regiment in the first battle of Bull Run. At the end of his term of ser- vice he returned to Harvard. In 1864 he again enlisted, this time in the City Guards, and was commissioned second lieutenant, Company H, Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Mr. Bailey studied law with John W. Pettingill and Hutchins & Wheeler of this city. In 1866 he was elected clerk of the police court in Charlestown, which office he held until his resignation thereof in 1871. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar. During the years 1868 and 1869 he was a member of the common council of Charlestown, president of that body the latter year, and from 1869 to 1872 he was a member of the Charlestown school committee. He was a member of the lower house of the Legisla- ture during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and of the
Senate in 1874. While in the House, he served on the committee on probate and chancery, and was chairman of the committees on elections and on mercantile affairs, and in the Senate was a member of the committee on the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, being prominently identified with the legislation
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which finally resulted in the State's acquisition of the tunnel. He was also, in the Senate, chairman of the committee on labor matters, and reported and secured the passage through that body of the first bill passed by this Commonwealth regulating the employment of women and children in manu- facturing establishments. He was a member of the common council of Boston for the years 1880 and 1881, and served as president of that body in 1881 until November, when he resigned and was elected city solicitor of the city of Boston, which office he has ever since held by continuous elections or ap- .pointments. Mr. Bailey was one of the promoters of the Soldiers' Home in Massachusetts, and has been one of its trustees since its incorporation. He is a member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and a member of Post 11, G.A.R., and has served for two years as judge advocate of the Department of Massachusetts, G.A.R. He is also a member of the Hugh de Payen Commandery of Free Masons, a member of the Fifth Lodge of Free Masons, of which he is one of the char- ter members, and a member of the Bunker Hill
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Monument Association. In January, 1869, he was married to Miss Abby V., daughter of John and Hannah Getchell, of Charlestown.
BAILEY, 'DUDLEY PERKINS, son of Dudley Perkins and Hannah Barrows (Cushman): Perkins, was born in Cornville, Me., Oct. 24, 1843. He was educated in the district school of his native town, at Monson Academy, Monson, Me., and at Waterville College, now Colby University, from which he graduated in 1867. Before entering college he taught school (in 1862) in St. Albans, Me. He studied law with the Hon. William L. Putnam, of Portland, Me., and was admitted to the bar April 28, 1870. Soon after he removed to Massachusetts. He has long been a member of the school committee of . Everett (1873-74; 1876-80; 1882-91) ; has been director or trustee of the Everett Public Library from 1878 to date, and secretary of the board 1878-92 ; represented the town in the lower house of the Legislature in 1886-87, when he was house chairman of the com- mittee on taxation ; has been treasurer of the First Baptist Church in Everett 1878-92 ; is a life mem- ber of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention, and has been director thereof 1887-92, member of the finance committee 1889-92, chairman 1892, and
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1867, and to the " Bankers' Magazine," of New York, since 1875. He is author of several pamphlets on the " Clearing-house System," which give a greater amount of statistical information than can be found elsewhere. He is also author of the part relating to clearing-houses in a work entitled " Practical Banking," by A. S. Bolles, published by the Homans Publishing Company ; and he prepared the histori- cal sketches of the town of Everett, in Drake's " History of Middlesex" (1879), and in Lewis's " History of Middlesex County " (1890). He is a member of Palestine Lodge, F. and A. M. of Ev- erett, and of Royal Arch Chapter of the Taber- nacle of Malden. He is also a member of the American Statistical Society. Mr. Bailey is un- married.
BAILEY, HOLLIS RUSSELL, son of Otis and Lu- cinda Alden (Loring) Bailey, natives respectively of Andover and Duxbury, Mass., was born in North Andover, Mass., Feb. 24, 1852, in the old Governor Bradstreet house, once the home of Anne Bradstreet, the first female poet of America. He fitted for college at Phillips (Andover) Academy, graduated from Harvard with the degree of A.B. in 1877, and from the Harvard Law School with the degree of I.I .. B. in 1878, taking the degree of A.M. in 1879. He also studied law with Hyde, Dickinson, & Howe, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in February, 1880. He began practice at No. 30 Court street, in the office of William R. Richards, but is now established in the new Exchange Building on State street. During a part of one year he was private secretary to Chief Justice Gray. His practice, though general in character, has been largely on the equity side of the court. He is an Independent in politics. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Har- vard, of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, and of the New England Tariff Reform League. In his religious views he is a Unitarian. Mr. Bailey was married Feb. 12, 1885, to Mary Persis, daughter of ex-Governor Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, N.H. He resided in Boston from 1880 to 1890, but is now living in Cambridge.
BAKER, ALMENA JANE, M.D., was born in Winter Harbor, Gouldsborough, Me., April 5, 1842. Her early education was attained in the common and high school of Gouldsborough. In 1876 she grad- uated M.D. from the Boston University Medical DUDLEY P. BAILEY. School, and subsequently studied in European hos- attorney for the corporation 1889 to date. He pitals, spending a year in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. has been a contributor to various periodicals since She was physician to the Boston Homeopathic
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Dispensary for two years, and has been a member this party for place. In 1889 he became interested- of the medical staff of the Homoeopathic Hospital in fraternal insurance, and was one of the founders of the Order of ÆEgis, the first endowment order chartered in Massachusetts. He served two years on the board of trustees of this order, and then resigned to become a member of the executive committee, which position he is still holding. Sub- sequently he aided in developing the Order of the World, another endowment and life insurance order, and was elected to his present office, that of su- preme treasurer of the relief and general funds. Mr. Baker married Miss Clara S. Davis on June 4, 1879 ; they have two children : Marion Sinclair and Charles Sidney Baker. for about seven years. She is also president of the " Sunny Bank Home " at Watertown, for conval- escent women and children. In 1881 she was sent from the American Institute of Homoeopathy as a delegate to the International Medical Congress, held that year in London. She is a member of various other societies, including the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society ; the Boston Ho- mæopathic Medical Society, of which she has been president and also secretary ; the Massachusetts Surgical and Gynæcological Society ; the Gregory Society ; the Alumni Association of the Boston University Medical School, at one time its presi- dent ; the Society for the University Education of Women ; and the Women's Educational and Indus- trial Union, serving upon its board of directors. Dr. Baker has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals.
BAKER, CHARLES H., son of John and Elizabeth Baker, was born in Roxbury March 12, 1853, where he received a liberal education in the public schools, and has since resided .. Shortly after graduation he entered a well-known mercantile house in Boston,
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and remained with it until iSeo, when he assumed official duties. An active Republican of the " stal- wart " type, he has several times been the choice of
BAKER, GEORGE TAYLOR, was born in Cambridge- port Sept. 2, 1856. He obtained his early educa- tion in the public schools of Chelsea. He then attended Brown University, for one year, and from there came to the Boston Dental College, graduating from the latter institution in 1880. At the dental college he was associated with Robert L. Robbins, D.D.S., at that time its treasurer. Im- mediately after graduating he began his professional career alone, succeeding to Dr. Thomas Cogswell's practice in 1885. Dr. Baker is a member of the Massachusetts and the New England Dental Socie- ties, and of the American Academy of Dental Science.
BAKER, HENRY A., was born in Newport, N.H., Nov. 27, 1848. He was educated in the public schools. In 1870 he entered the office of Dr. W. F. Davis, and read dentistry with him for two years. Then, in 1871 and 1872, he attended the medical department of Dartmouth College, and in 1873 be- gan the practice of his profession in Woodstock, Vt. In 1874 he began the study of his specialty, oral deformities, and about this time, realizing the lack of dental cooperation in Vermont, called the dentists of that State together at Montpelier, the movement resulting in the formation of a State dental society in March, 1877, Dr. Baker being chosen vice-president. In 1878 he sold out his practice in Woodstock and moved to Boston, where he entered the Boston Dental College, graduating with honors in 1879, and securing the first prize in the senior class. In April, 1879, Dr. Baker was chosen demonstrator of the college. He filled the position for several years, when he was appointed lecturer on oral deformities. This office he held for seven years, and then resigned. In 1881 he read a paper before the Massachusetts Dental Society, in- troducing a new appliance for correcting speech in
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cases of cleft palates, and in 1887 he contributed a chapter for the " American System of Dentistry " on " Obdurators and Artificial Uvula." He is a member of the Massachusetts and New England Dental Societies, in both of which he has held im- portant offices. He is also a member of the Ameri- can Academy of Dental Science, and an honorary member of the Vermont and the New Hampshire State Dental Societies. Dr. Baker is the inventor of a pneumatic mallet, an operative stool, and various other articles for dental purposes.
BALCH, GEORGE HALLET, son of Joseph W. and Maria (Hallet) Balch, was born in Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, May 27, 1847. He was educated in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he entered the counting-room of William Perkins & Co., so long well known in the shipping business, and at twenty-two he started on a journey round the world, in which two years were consumed. Return- ing to Boston in 1872, he went into the office of the Boylston Insurance Company, fire and marine, with which his father had been connected for many years, and its president since 1853. He had charge of the fire-insurance branch of the business until the death of his father in January, 1891, when he was elected to the position thus left vacant, that of presi- dent of the company. Mr. Balch is a member of the Boston Yacht Club. He is unmarried.
BALL, HENRY B., architect, son of True M. and Alice (Sistare) Ball, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., July 27, 1866. He was educated in the schools of Portsmouth and in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After four years spent in the office of Peabody & Stearns, he devoted a year to travelling and studying architecture abroad. Upon his return to Boston he started in business for himself, and
Brooks. Moorfield Story and Benjamin L. M. Tower were also his partners for a considerable time; and the firm, since April, 1887, has been
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known as Ball & Tower. It is now one of the most successful and best-known in the city. Mr. Ball has always been a Democrat, but has never devoted much time to political life; he has, however, been twice chosen to the common council and was its president one year.
BALL, JOSIAH WARREN, was born in Holden, Mass., June 28, 1841. In 1860 he entered the army, and served in two cavalry regiments. For his bravery in 1890 entered into partnership with W. H. 'he was promoted to a lieutenancy. He remained Dabney, under the firm name of Ball & Dabney. Mr. Ball is a member of the Puritan, Country, Union Boat, and. Architectural Clubs, and of the National Lancers. in the service until 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Returning home, he studied dentistry under Dr. Tourtellot, after which he went to Ala- bama and was associated with his brother, Dr. S. BALL, JOSHUA D., son of Walter and Mary Ball, was born in Baltimore, Md., July 11, 1828. He received a classical education in Baltimore, and coming to Boston in May, 1847, began here the study of law, while employed in the office of the dierk of the United States Circuit Court. He then Trad with Messrs. Chandler & Andrew, and later with Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, and was admitted to the bar in November, 1840. From 1852 to July 1, 1XSI, he was associated with the late Benjamin F. Ball, for three years. He then came to Boston and graduated from the Boston Dental College in 1869, being a member of the first class to complete a course at that institution. His practice in Boston has become very extended and lucrative. He is a member of the Massachusetts and New England Dental Societies. Dr. Ball was first married to Miss Elizabeth B. Farrington, of Roxbury. She died some years ago. For his second wife he married, October, 1879, Miss Edna E. Smith, of St. John, N.B.
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BARNES, CHARLES M., son of Dr. W. A. Barnes, of Decatur, Ill., was born in Macon County, Ill., Oct. 12, 1854. He fitted for college at Phillips (Andover) Academy, and graduated at Harvard in 1877, and from the Law School in 1880. He studied law in the office of Meyers & Warner, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He was associated as partner with Nathan Matthews, jr., for about two years, and is now a member of the firm of Barnes, Bond, & Morison, engaged in general practice at No. 40 Water street. He was instructor in sales in the Harvard Law School in 1882-83. He edited the thirteenth edition of Kent's "Com- mentaries." He is a member of the Massachusetts Reform Club and of the Boston Bar Association. In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Barnes was married Oct. 31, 1882, to Lillian J. Young, of Philadelphia.
BARNES, HENRY J., M.D., was born in Northboro, Mass., Feb. 16, 1848. He was educated in that town, graduating from Allen's Classical School and studying under Rev. Joseph Allen and in the Har- vard Medical School, from which he graduated M.D.
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in 1872. After acting a year as interne at the Boston City Hospital, he began the practice of his profession here. In 1873 and 1874 he was surgeon to the out-patients department of the City Hospital. In 1889 he was abroad, attending, as a member, the International Congress of Hygiene, which met in
Paris, and studying European sewage-systems. During this time he visited the sewage farms of Europe, and through the courtesy of Mayor Hart of Boston and Secretary Blaine he was introduced to the principal sanitary authorities abroad, and given exceptional opportunity to study his favorite subject. He was instrumental in obtaining a special com- mission to examine the water-supply of Boston, which resulted in excavating the basins in harmony with the views he presented ; and he has long been an earnest advocate of the utilization of sewage. He has written extensively on this subject for sani- tary and medical journals, and for the State Board of Agriculture. He has lately reported upon the system of sewage from Nantucket. He introduced the order to take the street-sprinkling away from contractors and have this work done by the city of Boston. Dr. Barnes is a member of the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society, and one of its council- lors. In 1880 he was married to Miss Augustine Lelierre, of Paris.
BARRETT, WILLIAM E., son of 'Augustus and Sarah (Emerson) Barrett, was born in Melrose, Mass., Dec. 29, 1858. His education began in the public schools of his native town, was continued in the high school of Claremont, N.H., where his father was engaged in manufacture, and finished at Dart- mouth College, from which he graduated in ISSo. Choosing journalism as his profession, immediately upon graduation he obtained a position on the "St. Albans Messenger," at St. Albans, Vt. Here he remained for two years, doing general newspaper work and contributing occasionally news despatches to New York papers. In 1882 he was given a position on the " Boston Daily Advertiser" as a correspondent, and after a preliminary experience as the "Advertiser's" special in the campaign of the summer and autumn of that year in Maine, he was sent to Washington as the regular corre- spondent of the paper. Here he rapidly developed, and soon attained a position among the most active men of " Newspaper Row." As a news-gatherer he was prompt and alert, and his note and comment upon political and other movements were always bright and often brilliant. During the national campaign of 1884, when the "Advertiser " had been transformed from a party organ to an inde- pendent journal, Mr. Barrett was assigned to special service in the " doubtful" States, and his letters and despatches published during the most exciting periods of that memorable campaign were among. the most important and interesting contributions to its literature. Although himself a stanch Repub-
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lican, he was given a free hand, his instructions being to state the situation as he found it, regardless of the editorial attitude of the paper; and this he did with remarkable frankness and accuracy. In the early part of 1886 the ownership of the " Adver- tiser " changed, and it again became a Republican paper, the managers who had conducted it as an independent journal retiring ; and in June of that year, the paper being without a head, Mr. Barrett was called from Washington and placed in charge. Subsequently he became the editor and publisher, and the leading owner of the property. At present he holds the positions of president of the Advertiser Newspaper Company and publisher of the " Adver- tiser " and " Evening Record," the latter the even- ing edition of the "Advertiser," established in September, 1884. In 1887 Mr. Barrett was elected to the lower house of the Legislature from his town of Melrose. This was the beginning of a political career which has been remarkable in many respects. Repeatedly reelected, he soon took a leading hand in the legislation of the House, and was recognized as one of the foremost members. In 1889 he was elected to the speakership, and in 1890, 1891, and 1892 was reëlected ; in every case receiving a practi- cally unanimous vote after his nomination in caucus, until in 1892, without preliminary caucus of either party, he received the absolutely unanimous vote of the whole House. In the councils of his party he has also been prominent, and in the preliminary canvass of 1891 for the Republican nomination for governor, he was conspicuous among several men- tioned for that position. Mr. Barrett is a member of a number of business corporations, of political, dining, and other clubs, and of the Masonic bodies of Melrose. While a Washington correspondent he was clerk of the congressional committee to in- vestigate the so-called Copiah outrages. On the 28th of December, 1887, Mr. Barrett was married, in Claremont, N.H., to Miss Annie L. Bailey, of that town ; they have two children : a son, William E., jr., and a daughter, Florence Barrett.
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