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RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE.
town " of New York, the " Electric Spark " and the " National Eagle " of Boston, sailing to most of the principal ports of Europe, Asia, Australia, and America. His last voyage was made in the " National Eagle," of which he was part owner, from Liverpool to Boston, in May, 1867. Upon his retirement from the sea he made his home in Brookline, where he still resides, and established his business office in Boston. In January, 1868, he was appointed surveyor by the American Ship- masters' Association of New York, for the record of American and foreign shipping; and the same year he was made marine surveyor for the Boston board of underwriters, which position he held for about ten years. In 1882 he was made surveyor for the Bureau Veritas of Paris. He is now presi- dent of the Boston Fire-brick and Clay-retort Manufacturing Company, and of the Boston Terra Cotta Company. Mr. Candage has long been prominent in Brookline town-affairs. He has been one of the selectmen ; an assessor since 1884; one of the board of trustees of the public library, and from 1880 to 1883 treasurer of the board ; five years a member of the school committee, three years its chairman ; and the town's representative
serving on the committees on harbors and public lands, and rules. He belongs to many organiza- tions, among them the Boston Marine Society, of which he was president in 1882-83 ; the New England Historic Genealogical Society ; the Bos- tonian Society ; the Brookline, the Brookline Thurs- day, the Norfolk, and the Pine Tree State Clubs ; and the Baptist Social Union. He is treasurer of the Seamen's Bethel Relief Society, and of other funds. He belongs to the Masonic Order, the Royal Arcanum, and the Independent Order of Improved Red Men. Mr. Candage has been twice married : first, May 1, 1853, to Elizabeth Augusta, daughter of Elijah Carey, jr., of Brookline; and second, May 22, 1873, to Ella Maria, daughter of Benjamin White, of Revere. Of the latter union are five children : George Frederick, Ella Augusta, Phebe Theresa, Robert Brooks, and Sarah Caroline Candage.
CANDLER, JOHN WILSON, son of Captain John and Susan (Wheelwright) Candler, was born in Boston Feb. 10, 1828. "The family is of Saxon origin. Two branches of it are noted in English history, the one in county Suffolk and the other in Essex. In church militant, as well as in the army, the Candlers achieved reputation and influence. Captain John Candler, the grandfather, emigrated from Essex, England, to Marblehead, and married, at about the close of the Revolutionary war, Abigail Hulin Rus- sell. She was the descendant of a Huguenot family and the widow of Lieut. Thomas Russell, first lieu- tenant under Captain Mudford, commanding a pri- vateer during the Revolutionary war, who succeeded the gallant captain, upon the latter's death, in com- mand of the vessel, and was successful in beating off the British blockading-vessels in the memorable bat- tle in Boston harbor. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Candler was Lot Wheelwright, who was one of the great shipbuilders and merchants of Boston during the period between 1790 and 1840, being senior member of the firm of Lot Wheelwright & Sons, for many years on Central wharf. Mr. Candler's father, Captain John Candler, jr., was an officer in the United States Navy, appointed from Marblehead, in the War of 1812 ; an officer on board the frigate " Constitution ;" and was with Commodore Stewart on the same vessel in his famous cruise through the British Channel. Mr. Candler was born while his father was in active business as shipbuilder and mer- chant in Boston. He was educated in the Marble- head Academy and the Dummer Academy, Byfield, finishing his scholastic course under the tuition
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of Rev. A. Briggs, a Baptist minister of Schoharie Academy, New York. On leaving school he took a clerkship in Boston. Soon after the death of his father, in 1849, the family removed to Brookline, where Mr. Candler has since resided. For the past thirty-two years he has been a member of different firms of ship-owners engaged in foreign trade. The present firm-name is John W. Candler & Co. Their business is chiefly with the East and West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope, and is of such character and magnitude as to class the senior member among the eminent and widely known merchants of this country. Mr. Candler's interest in politics and in all public questions, coupled with his skill and ability as a public speaker and presiding officer, have con- tinuously brought him into notice. Foreign trade has given him exceptional opportunities of acquiring extensive and precise information ; business experi- ence has taught him how to use it. He was an intimate friend of the late Governor John A. Andrew, and through the Civil War was a stanch and efficient
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separate prison for women, a philanthropic work, defraying his own expenses. He has been a promi- nent member of the national board of trade and has served for several terms as one of the vice-presi- dents from Massachusetts. He was president of the Boston board of trade in 1877 and 1878, and declined renomination. He has been president of the Com- mercial Club three terms. Mr. Candler is a Repub- lican in politics, but of the liberal wing of the party, advocating change of navigation laws, revision of the tariff, and modification of sundry commercial treaties. In 1876 and 1878 he was a prominent candidate for congressional honors. In 18So he was elected a member of the Forty-seventh Congress by the Re- publicans of the Eighth Congressional District, and in 1888 he was elected to the Fifty-first Congress in the Ninth District by a large majority, after an exciting and memorable contest, in which the Hon. Edward Burnett, the previous representative, was again the opposing candidate. During the Fifty- first Congress he was chairman of the world's fair committee, known as the select committee on quadro-centennial of the discovery of America, an important body which controlled largely the action of Congress on this measure. It was recognized by the members of the Fifty-first Congress that no individual member had more influence, by means of his tact and earnestness and judgment, in securing the passage of the act and inaugurating the celebra- tion, than John W. Candler, of Massachusetts. Mr. Candler was married in September, 1851, to Lucy A., daughter of Henry Cobb, of Boston. She died in October, 1855. His second marriage occurred in November, 1867, with Ida M., daughter of John Garrison, of the Garrett Garrison family, for many generations living on the Hudson River, New York, who died in April, 1891. His family consists of three daughters : Cora, who married Charles G. Bush, of Weston, and who resides in West New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. ; Anita, who married Hon. David S. Baker, jr., of North Kingston, R.I., residing in Wickford, R.I. ; and Amelia G. Candler.
CAPEN, G. WALTER, architect, was born in Can- ton, Mass., in 1853. He graduated from the Insti- tute of Technology in the class of 1877, and then entered the office of J. P. Rinn, remaining there until 1880, when he began practice for himself. He is the architect of a number of fine buildings in Canton, Mass., among them being the Canton Corner Engine-house, the residences of T. B., J. L., and W. H. Draper, Charles Sumner, J. W. Wattles, and J. D. Dunbar, the large mill of the Rising Sun Stove
supporter of the great "War Governor" in his patriotic task. In 1866 Mr. Candler was a member of the Legislature, but declined a renomination. From 1869 to 1873 he was an earnest advocate of a board of prison commissioners. After the creation of the board by the State, he served for several years as its chairman. For four years he devoted much time to the prosecution of the work of building the Polish Company, and the new Knitted Carpet-lining
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Mills. In Hyde Park he has designed the resi- the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, chairman of the finance committee of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, director of dences of George H. Whiting, W. H. Turner, E. H. Williams, Fred Tirrill, W. H. Alles, and a large number of smaller but artistic homes. Of his latest . the American Congregational Association, member work are an elegant stone country house and stable for George H. Morrill, jr., of Norwood, and other artistic residences in the same town.
CAPEN, SAMUEL BILLINGS, son of Samuel Childs and Ann (Billings) Capen, was born in Boston Dec. 12, 1842. He is the eighth generation from Ber- nard and Jane Capen, the progenitors of all the Capens in New England. They came to Dorchester
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of the Boston Indian Citizenship Committee, and member of the Congregational Club, of which he was president in 1882. He is a prominent and in- fluential member of the school committee, chairman of the committees on school-houses, on manual- training schools, legislative matters, and annual re- port, and one of the committee on accounts. Mr. Capen was married Dec. 8, 1869, to Miss Helen Maria Warren, daughter of the late Dr. John W. Warren ; they have two children : Edward, and Mary. Warren.
CARLETON, GUY H.,. born in Boston Sept. 29, 1851, now the secretary and treasurer of the Smith- Carleton Iron Company, has long been a leading man in his business. He was secretary, treasurer, and director in the G. W. & F. Smith Iron Com- pany, which preceded the Smith-Carleton Company. .The latter was incorporated in 1889, and Bryant G. Smith, son of the late George W. Smith, of the former company, was made the superintendent. They have furnished the iron work for many large buildings, including those of the Master Builders' Association, the Quincy Market Storage Company, the John Hancock Company, the Edison Electric Light Company, Bell Telephone, and the Mutual Life ; the "Shuman Corner ;" the Walter Baker & Co.'s mill ; the Farlow Building ; several Beacon- street apartment-houses ; the Arlington library ; sev- eral breweries and factories ; and a number of notable residences, including W. K. Vanderbilt's mansion in Newport, and several in the Back Bay district, Boston. Their works in Boston street are the most complete in the country. Mr. Carleton was one of the orig- inal nine who started the Master Builders' Associa- tion. He was married in 1875 to a daughter of the late George W. Smith, founder of the G. W. & F. Smith Iron Company. He resides in Boston.
in the ship " Mary and John" May 30, 1630. The oldest gravestone in New England bears the name of Bernard Capen, who died in 1638. He is also the eighth generation from John Alden, of the Ply- mouth Colony, and of Roger Billings, who came to Dorchester in 1640. Samuel B. was educated in CARNEY, MICHAEL, was born in Culdaff, county Donegal, Ire., November, 1829. He received his education in the national schools of his native place, and came to this country when twenty years old, arriving in Boston in 1849. He found employ- ment in the shipyard of Donald McKay, the famous shipbuilder of his time, in East Boston. Here he soon acquired a thorough practical knowl- edge of fastening or bolting ships, a special branch of the business, and then with two others formed a the old Quincy Grammar School and the English High, graduating from the latter in 1858. He be- gan his business career in the carpet store of Went- worth & Bright, and became a partner in the firm in 1864, when the name was changed to William E. Bright & Co .; afterwards it became William E. Bright & Capen. His firm is now the well-known Torrey, Bright, & Capen. Mr. Capen holds many positions of trust and responsibility. He is a director of the Howard National Bank, president of copartnership, and took the contracts of fastening
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all the famous clipper-ships built by Mr. McKay during the period from 1851 to 1860. During the same time he took similar contracts on the ships built by the Briggs Brothers, of South Boston. When the war of the Rebellion broke out, the busi- ness of ship-building was almost wholly given up, owing to the increased tariff imposed by the govern- ment on all imported materials that were used in the construction of ships, and thus being obliged to seek other employment, Mr. Carney engaged in the fire-insurance business. He continued in this busi- ness up to the time of his appointment to his pres- ent position of register of voters. During this period he held many positions of trust and respon- sibility. He served as an assistant assessor of the city from 1859 to 1879. He was two years a mem- ber of the common council, and was elected six successive times to represent old Ward 2 in the Legislature. During his service as a member of that body he acted as chairman of the committee on inland fisheries, on the committee on street rail- roads, and on that of public charitable institutions, which in 1876 investigated the institutions of the State. While a member of the latter committee a bill was introduced the tenor of which was to grant religious liberty in all the prisons throughout the State. Mr. Carney earnestly advocated this meas- ure on the floor of the house, and his speech mate- rially aided its final passage. He was a charter member of the Catholic Union of Boston, and has been during the past twenty-four years president of St. Mary's Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, for which society he obtained a special charter while a member of the Legislature.
CARSON, HOWARD ADAMS, son of Daniel B. Car- son, formerly a railroad contractor, was born in West- field, Mass., Nov. 28, 1843. His early education was in the schools of North Oxford ; and he gradu- ated from the Institute of Technology in the class of 1869. He was in the office of Messrs. Shedd & Sawyer the same year. In 1870 he was assistant engineer for the Brady's Bend Iron Com- pany in Pennsylvania. From 1871 to 1873 he was assistant engineer on the Providence Water Works, and for the next four years was assistant engineer in charge of the construction of sewers in that city. In 1877 he went abroad with Joseph P. Davis, then
and estimates for what is now known as the Metro- politan System of Sewerage of Massachusetts. In the latter part of October, 1889, the Metropolitan sewerage commission appointed him their chief engineer. He is the inventor of the so-called "Car- son Trench Machine " and various other appliances and methods which are used on sewerage and simi- lar works. Mr. Carson is one of the trustees of the Institute of Technology, and was for four years president of the Alumni Association.
CARTER, HENRY H., superintendent of streets, is a native of Boston. He graduated from the Insti- tute of Technology in the department of civil engi- neers, class of 1877. From that date until 1881 he was engaged, under the city engineer, on the con- struction of the Improved Sewerage System of the city, and from 1881 to 1883 on the construction of the Moon Island Reservoir and Dorchester Bay Tunnel. In 1883 he was appointed assistant en- gineer of the Boston Water Works, with head- quarters at South Framingham, having in charge the building of Farm-pond Conduit and the surveys for the future development of the Sudbury-river water- supply. On the completion of this work he was appointed chief engineer of the Boston Sewer De- partment, which position he held until April 1, 1889, when he was appointed assistant engineer in charge of the extension of the Improved Sewerage System. He was holding this position when, on Jan. 17, 1891, he was appointed by Mayor Matthews acting superintendent of streets. Subsequently he was confirmed as superintendent of streets under the new ordinance consolidating the departments of sewers, sanitary police, and bridges, and the office of commissioner of Cambridge bridges, and placing them under the administrative control of this officer. Mr. Carter is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
CARTER, SOLOMON, son of Solomon and Elizabeth (White) Carter, was born in Lancaster, Mass., Jan. 19, 1816. His education was acquired in the schools of his native town and in Master Whitney's evening school in Boston (which used to be in Harvard place, opposite the Old South Meeting-house ), where he studied two terms. He began work as a boy in a retail dry-goods store here, and not long afterwards became an apprentice in the drug-store of Gregg & Hollis. . Then, in 1839, when twenty- three years old, he opened a retail store on his
city engineer of Boston, to study some of the sewerage systems of Europe. For several years thereafter he was principal superintendent of con- struction of the Boston main drainage works. In 1887 he was selected by the State board of health own account in the West End. Subsequently, of Massachusetts to make the investigations, plans, removing to Hanover street, he enlarged his opera-
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tions, and there he continued in the wholesale as well as the retail drug business for about thirty years, the firm name during that period changing several times : from Solomon Carter to Solomon Carter & Co., then to Carter, Wilson, & Co., then to Carter, Colcord, & Preston, and then to Carter, Rust, '& Co. Finally, selling out the Hanover- street business, he formed a new concern under the. style of Carter & Wiley, and established it on Washington street, opposite School ; and some years after, buying out Mr. Wiley, organized the firm of Carter, Harris, & Hawley. The house is now Carter, Carter, & Kilham, and occupies the sub- stantial building on Washington street nearly oppo- site Bromfield. The business is one of the largest in the city, and the head of the house is the oldest dealer in active trade in the State. Mr. Carter has been a member of the common council (in 1849 and 1850), of the board of aldermen (in 1857), of the board of assessors and of the lower house of the Legislature (in 1869 and 1870). From an ardent Whig he became an ardent Republican. He was married in Lancaster, April 10, 1845, to Miss Abby, daughter of Levi Lewis, of that town ; they have had four sons: Frank Edward (deceased), Fred. L., now associated in business with his father, Herbert L., and Clarence H. Carter.
CHAMBERLAIN, MYRON LEVI, M.D., son of Dr. Levi Chamberlain, of New Salem, Mass., was born in Greenwich, Mass., Sept. 22, 1844. He fitted for college at the New Salem Academy, but aban- doned a collegiate course to enter the army as a recruit to the Tenth Regiment Massachusetts' Volunteers. While in camp at Cambridge he was taken seriously ill, and was discharged. As soon as his health was restored he began the study of medi- cine in the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass. In February, 1865, he was appointed a medical cadet in the regular army, and was sta- tioned at the Dale General Hospital in Worcester, and the Hicks General Hospital in Baltimore. While in the latter hospital he took the winter course of lectures in the medical department of the Mary- land Institute. He received an honorable discharge from the service in February, 1866. In March, 1867, he graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and in the following April settled in Southbridge, Mass., where he con- tinued in practice until September, 1874. The next two years were spent in rest, travel abroad (visiting Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Greece), and study. Several months were devoted to the hospi- tals in London, Paris, and Vienna. In April, 1877,
Dr. Chamberlain established himself in Boston, and he has been in active practice of medicine and surgery here since that time. He was visiting physician to Carney Hospital in 1885. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. He has devised numerous original medical and surgical ap-
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pliances. In 1874 Dr. Chamberlain was married to Miss Charlotte P. Wales, daughter of Royal S. Wales, of Wales, Mass.
CHANDLER, HENRY B., M.D., son of the late Cumberbatch Chandler, of Barbadoes, W.I., was born in Barbadoes June 24, 1855. He was edu- cated in the Montreal High School and the Uni- versity of Bishops College, Montreal, from which he graduated C.M., M.D., gold medallist and vale- dictorian of the class of 1880. He took a special course of medicine in New York, and served eighteen months in a Brooklyn hospital, and then in 1882 entered the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston as house surgeon, re- maining there for thirty months. In 1886 he was appointed assistant surgeon to this institution, and in 18So surgeon, which position he now holds. He was oculist at St. Elizabeth Hospital from 1886 to ISSo, when he resigned. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the New England Ophthalmological Society, and other medical or-
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ganizations. He has contributed important papers to the " Boston Medical and Surgical Journal " en-
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titled "Transplantation of Rabbit's Eye to the Human Orbit," and " Report of Fifty Cataract Ex- tractions by a New Method."
CHANDLER, PARKER C., son of Peleg W. and Martha (Cleaveland) Chandler, was born in Boston Dec. 7, 1848. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated from Williams College in 1872, and the Harvard Law School in 1874. He read law also with his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He has been engaged successfully in practice ever since, concerned almost exclusively with corporation practice, having been counsel for electrical companies, and now counsel for the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad. He was managing attor- ney in the suit of Cyrus W. Field vs. New England Railroad, and also in the famous seven-year case of the American Bell Telephone Co. as. Drawbaugh Telephone Co. In politics he is Republican. He was one of the originators of the Bristow Reform movement which first vigorously advocated the civil- service reform idea. He was secretary for Senator John Sherman in the latter's campaign for the nomi- nation to the presidency in 1880, and was also in charge of the Citizens' Reform movement in Boston during the Butler campaigns. He also made the original draft of the present registration-laws. He
has never aspired to any office. Mr. Chandler's family have been connected with Boston journalism for the last fifty years, during the Civil War being owners of the " Advertiser." He has devoted much time and attention to literary work.
CHANDLER, PELEG WHITMAN, son of Peleg and Esther (Parsons) Chandler, was born in New Gloucester, Me., April 12, 1816; died in Boston May 28, 1889. He was a direct descendant of Edmund Chandler, who came from England and settled in Duxbury, Mass., in 1633. There his grandfather was born. The home in New Glouces- ter was made just prior to the Declaration of Inde- pendence, and his grandfather represented that town in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1774. His maternal grandfather was Col. Isaac Parsons, a native of Gloucester, who moved to Maine in 1761. He also was a member of the General Court, and he was an officer in the Revolutionary army. Mr. Chandler's father was a graduate of Brown Univer- sity, and a successful counsellor-at-law. Mr. Chand- ler fitted for college in the classical department of the Bangor Theological Seminary, and at the age of
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eighteen graduated from Bowdoin College in the class of 1834. He began the study of law in his father's office in Bangor, then entered the Dane Law School at Cambridge, and finished in the Boston office of his kinsman, the late Prof. Theophilus Par-
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sons. He was admitted to the bar in 1837, and es- tablished himself in Boston. Before completing his legal studies he became associated with the "Daily Advertiser " as reporter of law cases in the higher courts, and for many years after he was identified with this paper, a frequent contributor to its edito- rial columns ; for a long period, also, he was one of its proprietors. In 1838 he established the " Law Reporter," the first law magazine published in the country, and successfully conducted it for about ten years, when he sold it to Stephen H. Phillips, after- wards attorney-general of the State. At about this time he published the first volume of his valuable work on " American Criminal 'Trials," beginning with the case of Anne Hutchinson, and including what has been called the best statement extant of the trial of the British soldiers in the Boston massacre of 1770. The second volume followed a few years later. The work was also published in London. In 1843 Mr. Chandler was elected to the Boston com- mon council, and, reelected, was its president in 1844 and 1845. In 1844 he delivered the Fourth of July oration for the city authorities, taking for his subject " The Morals of Freedom." From 1844 to 1846, and again in 1862 and 1863, he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature, taking a leading part in the legislation of those seasons. He was chairman of the legislative committee that reported the act which gave to Boston her water-supply, and carried the bill through the House. In June, 1846, he was chosen city solicitor, which office he held until 1853, when he resigned. In this important station, it has been truly said by one of his eulogists, " he sustained himself with a prompt energy and wise forecast.". During this period he prepared and published a volume containing the ordinances of the city, and a digest of the laws relating thereto. After his retirement from the city solicitorship he was appointed to revise the city charter and subse- quent laws affecting it. In 1849, while a United States commissioner of bankruptcy, he published a useful work on "The Bankrupt Law of the United States, and an Outline of the System, with Rules and Forms in Massachusetts." In 1850 he was a mem- CHANDLER, THOMAS HENDERSON, was born in Boston July 4, 1827. After passing through the grammar and Latin schools, he entered Harvard College, and graduated in the class of 1848. He then entered the law school, from which, in 1851, he received the degree of LL.D. The following three years he was a teacher in the Latin School, and for three years more he taught a private school. In 1857 he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Isaac J. Wetherbee, and after two years' experience ber of the executive council when Emory Washburn was governor. He was foremost among the citizens who planned and advanced the " Back Bay Improve- ment," and the act of 1859, providing for the work and for the establishment of the Public Garden, was drawn by him. In 1860 he was presidential elector at the first election of Lincoln as president. He was one of the oldest members of the Massachusetts His- torical Society, standing, at the time of his death, third on the list of active members- Robert C. as a student he became associated with him in
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