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BARTLETT, CHARLES W., was born in Boston on Aug. 12, 1845. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1869, and then studied law in the Law School of Albany, N.Y. He was there admitted to the bar in 1871, and the same year began the prac- tice of his profession in Dover, N.H. Two years later he came to Boston, and here he has since con- tinued in practice. He is now of the firm of Bart- lett & Anderson, with offices in the Globe Building. Mr. Bartlett is a Democrat in politics. He is a Mason of high standing, a member of Mt. Tabor
Lodge, St. John Chapter, De Molay Commandery. He was a soldier in the Massachusetts Volunteers, and is now commander of John A. Andrew Post No. 15, G.A.R.
BATEMAN, CHARLES J., architect, was born in Cambridge, March 4, 1851. He was educated in
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the public schools and in the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, and then studied architecture in the office of Faulkner & Clarke seven years, one of which was passed in their Chicago office. For three years he was with George Ropes, now of Kan- sas, and then began practice for himself in Boston, in 1876. In the year 1883 he was elected city architect, and appointed again in 1888. During his administration he built the O-street school-house and also the school buildings on Auburn street, Harbor View, George Putnam, Hammond street, and the Roxbury High School; also an engine- house in Charlestown, and other buildings. A peculiar feature of Mr. Bateman's work is that while in public office the actual cost of his plans never exceeded his first estimates. Mr. Bateman has also accomplished much notable work in private prac- tice in the way of churches and parochial school buildings. In this class of work are the parochial school buildings in Charlestown, Malden, Waltham, and East Boston; the St. Cecilia Church, Back Bay district; the St. Catherine's Church, Charles-
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town district ; Most Precious Blood, Hyde Park; been associated with this institution since 1873, a- Sacred Heart School, East Boston, and others. Among larger buildings designed by Mr. Bateman are the Carney Hospital, South Boston, Boston Col- lege, Home for Aged Poor in Roxbury, and a sim- ilar structure in Somerville ; apartment houses in Boston, and in Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury district ; the tomb at Mt. Benedict, West Rox- bury district; the Couch Block in Somerville ; and the Hotel Miller. Although the greater portion of Mr. Bateman's work is seen in large buildings, he has designed many handsome residences in the Dorchester and the Roxbury districts, and in the cities of Keene and Nashua, N.H. He resides in the Roxbury district, with his wife and family.
BATES, PHINEAS, son of Phineas and Hannah L. Bates, was born in Cohasset, Mass., Oct. 30, 1851. The family moved to Boston when he was a lad of seven, and here he was educated. He attended the Dwight School, from which he graduated, and spent one year in the Boston Latin School. In
May, 1871, he was elected clerk to John D. Phil- brick, then superintendent of schools, which posi- tion he held until 1876, when the school board was reorganized. Then he served as clerk and as acting clerk of the board of supervisors until 1879, when he was elected to his present position, that of secre- tary of the school committee, which he has filled ever since with great efficiency. He has been a close student of history and antiquities for many years. He possesses a valuable collection of docu- ments pertaining to the schools of Boston, indexed from 1792 to the present time, which cannot be duplicated.
BEACH, HENRY HARRIS AUBREY, M.D., is a native of Middletown, Conn., and was born Dec. 18, 1843. He attended school in Middletown and in Cam- bridge, Mass., entering the Harvard Medical School, and graduating therefrom in 1868. Four years prior, during the Civil War, he entered the army, and was assigned to hospital duty, which he continued for two years, being honorably discharged in 1866. He was appointed surgical house-officer at the Massa- chusetts General Hospital, and after a year of ser- vice graduated from the Harvard Medical School, where he was soon after made assistant demonstrator of anatomy, continuing until 1880, when he was appointed demonstrator in the same department. In 1885 he resigned, and has since devoted his in- struction to the department of clinical surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Beach has
surgeon to out-patients and as visiting surgeon. Hc was at one time in the surgical department of the Boston Dispensary. He was president of the Boyl- ston Society of Harvard University for 1873-74, and for two years was associate editor of the " Boston Med- ical and Surgical Journal." He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Sciences, the Society for Medical Im- provement, the Society for Medical Observation, and has contributed many valuable professional articles to the different medical publications. Dr. Beach was married in 1885 to Miss Amy M. Cheney. of this city, the brilliant pianist and composer, whose work is highly appreciated by Boston concert- goers. Of her Mass in E flat, announced by the Han- del and Haydn Society, as one of the features of the season of 1892, it was said in the secretary's
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circular : " All who have obtained acquaintance with it are unanimous in their admiration of its beauty, brilliancy, and strength. A work of such magnitude by a woman makes a positive addition to the history of music."
BEAL, CALEB GRAY, was born in Cohasset, Mass., Sept. 6, 1836. He was educated in the public schools. As a boy he began work in Boston, in Chandler & Co.'s dry-goods store. Gradually pro- moted, he was finally placed in charge of the whole-
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sale department, where he remained many years. In in 1884 and 1885 from Boston, serving all these years 1873 he entered the house of Charles A. Smith &
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Co., and in 1889 succeeded to the business as sole proprietor.
BEARD, ALANSON W., son of James and Chloe Bartlett (Wilder) Beard, was born in Ludlow, Vt., Aug. 20, 1825. When he was ten years old his parents moved to Stockbridge, where he was trained for a farmer's life. He was educated in the public schools and in his home. At seventeen he became a school-teacher, and followed this calling until he was twenty-one. At twenty-two he was proprietor of a country store in Pittsfield, Vt., which he con- ducted until 1853, when he sold out his interest and came to Boston. Here, in the autumn of that year, he entered the wholesale clothing-business, begin- ning as salesman for Whiting, Kehoe, & Galloupe. Three years after he left that house and went into the business on his own account. Since 1847 he has been more or less prominent in public life. In the Vermont town where he had his country store he held various local offices from 1847 to 1853, in- cluding that of postmaster part of the time. From 1864 to 1866, and again from 1883 to 1885, he was a member of the Massachusetts Republican .State central committee, its chairman in 1875, 1876, and 1885. In 1870 and 1871 he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature from Brookline, and
as a member of the committee on finance, in . 1870 as chairman of the committee on mercantile af- fairs, in 1871 of that on prisons, in 1884 on tax- ation, and in 1885 on finance. He was identified with the law of 1881 exempting real-estate mortgage notes from taxation, having begun the agitation against double taxation in 1871, and continuing it through successive sessions of the Legislature. In 1868 he was a delegate to the National Republican convention in Chicago, and again to that of 1888. In 1878 he was appointed collector of the port of Boston, which position he held for four years. In 1886, 1887, and 1888 he was State treasurer of the Commonwealth. In 1888 he was the Republican candidate for Congress in the Third Congressional District, but was defeated by John F. Andrew, the Democratic candidate. In 1890 he was again ap- pointed collector of the port of Boston, which position he now (1892) holds. Mr. Beard was mar- ried on Nov. 27, 1848, in Wayland, to Miss Mary Calista, daughter of Harvey Morgan ; they have had three children : James Wallace (deceased), Ambert Wilder (deceased), and Charles Freeland Beard.
BELCHER, ORLANDO F., son of William B. and . Esther G. (Fuller) Belcher, was born in North Chelsea, Mass., Oct. 15, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of his native place, and early entered business life. He was first a manufacturer of boot-heels, but his genius taking a mechanical turn he soon became the patentee and manufacturer of the Belcher automatic cartridge-loader. This, in 1886, was sold to the United States Cartridge Company, and Mr. Belcher gave his attention to the development of real estate on the northerly shore of Boston harbor, in which he had been for some time interested, having owned since 1871 the tract of land in Winthrop now known as Cottage Park, the improvement of which as a watering-place he had begun in 1881. Later he bought the Gen. William F. Bartlett estate and the Beacon Villa property near by, and brought them into the market. Mr. Belcher was married in Winthrop Oct. 16, 1883, to Miss Lizzie D., daughter of Nathaniel Lunt.
BELL, THOMAS FRANKLIN, was born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 31, 1831. Moving to Boston at an early age, he was educated in the oldl Hawes School. He fol- lowed the trade of a house painter for about fifteen years, and then entered the realestate business. In October, 1889, he was appointed to the office of sealer of weights and measures, to fill the unex- pired term of Joseph A. Campbell, and was re-
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appointed the following year by Mayor Hart. Mr. Bell has always been active in politics, has been a member of many important committees, and for a number of years was chairman of the Ward 14 committee of his party. He is a member of the association of " Old Hawes School Boys." .
BELLOWS, HOWARD P., M.D., son of the late Albert F. Bellows, N.A., the New York artist, and grandson of Albert J. Bellows, M.D., of Boston, was born in Fall River, Mass., April 30, 1852. His early education was acquired in Amherst and New York city. Then he entered Cornell University, from which he graduated B.S. in 1875 and M.S. in 1878. Finally he finished at the Boston Univer- sity School of Medicine, graduating in 1879 an M.D. Dr. Bellows served one year as resident physician in the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hos- pital, and practised another year in Boston in asso- ciation with Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft. Then he went abroad for a course of further study in Leipsic, . preparatory for a lectureship on physiology. On his return he established himself. in Auburndale, Mass., where he engaged in general practice, and instruc- tion in the Boston University Medical School as ยท lecturer and afterwards as professor of physiology. During 1884 he left general practice for a year, studying diseases of the ear exclusively, chiefly in New York, Vienna, and Berlin. Again returning to Boston, he engaged in the special practice of an aurist at No. 118 Boylston street. His office is at present in the Woodbury Building on the corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets, his residence being in West Newton, Mass. Resigning the chair of physi- ology, he was appointed in 1886 to a lectureship in otology in the Boston University Medical School, and to a professorship in the same chair in 1888, which position he holds at present. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Mas- sachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Boston Homeopathic Society and the Hughes Medical Club. Dr. Bellows was married June 20, 1880, to Miss Mary A., daughter of Dr. John L. Clarke, of Fall River, Mass.
BENNETT, EDMUND H., was born in Manchester, Vt., April 6, 1824. He is the son of the late Milo of Dr. William M. Conant.
L. Bennett, who was judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont for over twenty years, and who died in 1868. He prepared for college at the Burr Semi- nary, Manchester, Vt., and also at the academy in Burlington in the same State. He graduated from the Vermont University in Burlington in 1843, and after studying law with his father in that city he was
admitted to the Vermont bar in 1847. A year later, in 1848, he came to Boston and began the practice of law in this city, and also in Taunton, where he has a large clientage. He made his place
EDMUND H. BENNETT.
of residence for some years in the latter city, and was its first mayor. He was also judge of probate and insolvency for Bristol county from 1858 to 1883, when he resigned. Judge Bennett has edited many well-known and valuable legal works, promi- nent among them being all of Judge Story's books, English Law and Equity Reports, Massachusetts Digest, Leading Criminal Cases, Benjamin on Sales, Goddard on Easements, and the last four volumes of Cushing's Reports of Massachusetts. He has been a Republican since the formation of that party, and prior to its organization was a Whig. Judge Ben- nett was married on June 29, 1853, to Sally, daugh- ter of the late Hon. Samuel L. Crocker .. They have two children living, Samuel C. Bennett, a lawyer and professor and assistant dean of the Boston Law School, and Mrs. Mary B. Conant, wife
BENNETT, FRANK P., proprietor of the " Wool and Cotton Reporter," and also principal owner of the " United States Investor," was born in North Cam- bridge, Mass., May 2, 1853. His parents removed to South Malden, now Everett, when he was eight months oldl. He was educated mainly in the schools
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of Malden. He entered the Malden High School at the age of twelve years, and graduated from the Chel- sea High School in 1870. After leaving school he en- gaged in journalism, which profession he has followed ever since, for a short time in the West, but mainly upon Boston newspapers. In the spring of 1866 he, became the leading editorial writer on the "Boston Daily Advertiser." Of his work the late John L. Hayes wrote as follows in the Bulletin of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers : " Our New England readers are aware of the change which has taken place within the last year in the position of the 'Boston Daily Advertiser,' and with the great ability with which tariff questions have of late been discussed in its columns. The 'Adver- tiser ' has been able to assume and sustain its posi- tion through the services upon its editorial staff of Mr. Frank P. Bennett, for many years previously engaged with other Boston newspapers, who by his studies and writings upon the tariff and other indus- trial questions has become one of the most com- petent economical authorities in New England." As a financial writer for many years over the signa- ture of " E. & O. E." Mr. Bennett became widely known. In April, 1887, he established the " Ameri- can Wool Reporter," which has now become the
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" American Wool and Cotton Reporter." He has offices for his two papers in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and a large force of travelling corre-
spondents and agents covering every section of the United States. In the Massachusetts Legislature of 1891 Mr. Bennett was chairman of the committee on taxation, and took high rank as an independent legislator ; in that of 1892, a member of the com- mittee on rules, chairman of the important rapid- transit committee, and a member of a special committee to consider the adoption of a metropoli- tan park-system for the suburbs on the north side of Boston. In politics Mr. Bennett has always voted the Republican ticket, but is a believer in free raw materials. He is a member of the National Asso- ciation of Wool Manufacturers, and of the Wool Consumers' Association and other organizations.
BENNETT, SAMUEL C., son of Edmund H. Bennett, was born in Taunton April 19, 1858. He prepared for college at St. Mark's School in Southborough, and at the Adams Academy at Quincy. Entering Harvard, he graduated in the class of 1879. He then studied law with his father and at the Boston University Law School, graduating from the latter in June, 1882. In January, 1884, he was admitted to the bar, and has since practised his profession in this city. He is also assistant dean and professor at the Boston University Law School: Mr. Bennett is an Independent in politics, an Episcopalian in religion, and a member of the Puritan Club.
BENTON, JOSIAH H., JR., was born in Addison, Vt., Aug. 4, 1843. He pursued his early studies at Bradford Academy, Vermont, and at the New Lon- don Institute, New London, N.H. Graduating from the Albany Law School, he was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1866. Mr. Benton began practice in Bradford, Vt., going from that place to Lancaster, N.H., where he remained till 1873. In 1869 and 1870 he was private secretary to the governor of the State of New Hampshire, and in 1870 and 1872 was clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives. In 1873 he removed to Boston, where he has since resided. He has an extensive and varied general practice, and has also been general counsel for the Old Colony Railroad and Steamboat Companies since 1878. Since 1879 he has been a director and counsel of the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire, and he has engaged in most of the important railroad litigation in that State. In the trial of cases he is thorough in their preparation and conduct, quick to grasp a situation, and far- sighted in the interests of his clients. For the past five years he has lectured on " Railroad Corpora- tions" before the Law School of the Boston Uni- versity. During the Civil War he served as a private
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in the Twelfth Vermont Volunteers, and is now a member of Edward Kinsley Post, G.A.R., in Boston. His great-grandfather was a captain in the Conti-
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nental army, and Mr. Benton has in his possession an autograph order written by Gen. Washington to Capt. Benton, at Valley Forge.
BERRY, JOHN KING, son of Nehemiah Chase and Hannah H. (King) Berry, was born in Randolph, Mass., Nov. 8, 1854. He acquired his educa- tion in the Roxbury Latin School, from which he graduated in 1872; and at Harvard College, graduating in 1876. Subsequently he attended the Boston University Law School, and in 1880 was admitted to the Suffolk bar. In 1890 he was admitted to practice in the United States courts. He is a member of the firm of Berry & Upton, No. 166 Devonshire street, attorneys for the Master Builders' Association, and is also in general practice.
BESARICK, JOHN H., architect, born in New York, acquired his architectural education in Boston, for eight years associated with S. J. F. Thayer. In 1869 he went into business on his own account, and for fifteen years his office was in Pemberton square ; he is now at No. 33 Bedford street. Mr. Besarick has done much work on Catholic as well as Protestant structures, the St. John's Seminary, the St. John's, St. Patrick's, and other parochial schools,
seminaries in Brighton, and churches in Glou- cester, Rockland, and Whitman, all showing evi- dences of his skill. Other work of his is shown in the People's Church, Emmanuel Church, St. James Swedenborgian Church, Roxbury District, and sev- eral others; in a number of school-houses, the Hotels Gladstone, Rochdale, and Nightingale, and in many residences : that of J. W. Converse on Beacon street, and a number of others in the Back Bay district, possess many fine interiors designed by him. Mr. Besarick was married, in Boston, to Elizabeth Morrill. He resides in the Dorchester district.
BIGELOW, GEORGE B., son of Samuel and Anna J. (Brooks) Bigelow, both natives of Massachusetts, was born in Boston April 25, 1836. He graduated from Harvard in 1856, and studied law in the Law School two years, and afterwards with Dana & Cobb, a famous firm of that day. Admitted to the bar in 1858, he began practice in 1860 in Boston, and has continued in the profession successfully ever since, having done mostly chamber practice, per- taining to mercantile, real estate, and probate mat- ters, and corporations. He has been counsel for the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank (one of the largest in the State) for seventeen years. He has affiliated with the Republican party in politics, but is Independent in his views. He is a member of the Boston Athletic Association, the Boston Art Club, and the Bostonian Society.
BIGELOW, JONATHAN, president of the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, was born in Conway, Mass., and traces his ancestry back in the seventeenth century. He was born on the Ist of January, 1825, and is the oldest of a family of ten children. When nine years old he left home to reside with his uncle in Charlestown, and when the latter subsequently re- moved to Brighton, he went with him and assisted him on a farm. During the winter months he attended school, and took advantage of every opportunity for the acquisition of knowledge. When nineteen years of age he went South and taught school in Sereven county, Georgia, sixty miles from Savannah. This was in 1844. The next year he returned North, and established a boot and shoe business in Rox- bury, which was successfully carried on for ten years. Meanwhile he had studied the produce trade, and in 1857 he established himself in this business at No. 3 North Market street, subsequently, in 1859, removing to No. 23 the same street, where he has since remained. The firm was first known as Perry & Bigelow, then by its present title of Jona-
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than Bigelow & Co., then Bigelow & Magee, and in 1852, and with Governor Andrew in 1863, 1864, again, in 1865, Jonathan Bigelow & Co. It is one of the oldest produce commission-houses in the city. Mr. Bigelow was elected to the Legislature in 1887, from the Sixteenth Middlesex District, his residence being in Watertown. In 1888 he was elected president of the National Butter, Cheese, and Egg Association, which position he still holds.
BIGELOW, LYMAN FISHER, D.M.D., son of the late Lyman W. Bigelow, of Norwood, Mass., was born in that town July 11, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Norwood, and was graduated from the Harvard Dental School in June, 1886. After graduating he was with Prof. Thomas Fillebrown, at Portland, Me. Here he remained two years. Then coming to Boston in February, 1888, he has since practised his profession in this city at No. 3 Park street. He is a member of the Harvard Odontological Society. Dr. Bigelow was married June 24, 1890, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Charles H. and Rebecca T. Hartshorn, of Walpole, Mass. They have one son, Dana Harts- horn Bigelow.
BINNEY, ARTHUR A., was born in Boston in 1865, and educated in the Roxbury Latin School and the Institute of Technology. He studied naval archi- tecture, and entered the office of Edward Burgess in January, 1888. Upon the death of Mr. Burgess, in 1891, he became a partner in the new firm of Stewart & Binney, which succeeded to the business left by the eminent yacht designer and builder.
BIRD, FRANCIS WILLIAM, son of George and Martha (Newell) Bird, was born in Dedham, Mass., Oct. 22, 1809. He attended the public schools of Dedham and Walpole until 1824, then Day's Academy, in Wrentham, Isaac Perkins, pre- ceptor. Here he fitted for college, entered Brown University in 1827, and was graduated in the class of 1831. . He began business as a paper- maker in 1833. This industry he has followed and done much to develop, continuing in it continu- ously to the present time. He has associated with himself various partners at different times, but always held control of the business, and in 1882 the firm became F. W. Bird & Son, having with him as partner Charles Sumner Bird. Their mills are at East Walpole, where Mr. Bird now resides. He was member of the House of Representatives in 1847, 1848, 1867 and 1869, 1877 and 1878 ; and of the State senate in 1871. He was also a member of the executive council with Governor Boutwell
and 1865. He was especially active in matters that pertained to the general public policy ; fought Know- nothingism with a will in 1854 ; and was strenuously opposed to the Hoosac Tunnel scheme. He has been a typical Independent in his political associations. He was a Whig until 1846 ; a Conscience Whig until 1848 ; a Free Soiler until 1856 ; a Republican until 1872 ; a Liberal Republican until 1874; and an Independent Democrat to date. Mr. Bird was member of the Massachusetts constitutional con- vention in 1853. He has ever been a man of great nervous energy and strong individuality. He has the courage of his convictions, and always moves in accordance with their promptings. He is a man very widely known in commercial and political cir- cles, and probably has enjoyed the friendship of as many of the leading men of the State as any living man. Not a stain rests upon his character, not a suspicion attaches to the sincerity of his purpose. Outliving most of his comrades who have made the State so illustrious by their wise counsel and patri- otic labors, he still takes a keen and lively interest in all that tends to keep Massachusetts in the van of every philanthropic cause and movement towards true reform. Mr. Bird was first married in Provi- dence, R.I., Jan. 1, 1834, to Rebecca Hill, daugh- ter of Benoni and Amy (Brown) Cooke, who died Feb. 5, 1835. He again married, June 20, 1843, in Boston, Abby Frances, daughter of Joseph R. and Mary ( Reynolds) Newell. Of this union were six children : Frances Newell, F. W., jr. (deceased 1874), Mary Reynolds, Charles Sumner, Caroline Augusta, and Rebecca Hill Bird.
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