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Officers of the Senate and House," covering a organizations. He is treasurer of the Massachu- setts Charitable Society ; a trustee of the Boston Lying-in Hospital ; president of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society ; a life member of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union ; a member of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association ; of the Citizens' Association ; of the Society for Politi- cal Education ; of the Young Men's Benevolent Society ; of the Bar Association of the city of Boston ; and of the Harvard Law School Associa- tion. He is also a member of the Union, St. Botolph, Algonquin, Athletic, Papyrus, Country, and Union Boat Clubs, and the Beacon Society. On the 19th of June, 1875, he was married in Boston to Miss Annie Bliss, daughter of the late Dr. Nathan C. Keep, of Boston; they have five children : George Glover, jr., Margaret, Courtenay, Muriel, and Lyne- ham Crocker. period of fifty years, and this has since formed a part of the annual "Manual for the General Court." The session of the Legislature for 1883, when he presided over the senate, was rendered famous by the Tewksbury and other extended investigations, and it was the longest on record, lasting two hundred and six days. Mr. Crocker declined a reelection to the senate of 1884. In February, 1887, upon the death of Hon. Thomas Russell, then chairman of the board of railroad commissioners, Mr. Crocker was appointed a member of that board, and by its members was chosen chairman. In July, 1888, he was reappointed for the term of three years. At the expiration of that term in 1891 Hon. Chauncey Smith was appointed to the position by Governor Russell (Democrat), but the Republican executive council, by a party vote of seven to one (seven Republicans and one Democrat), refusing to confirm the nomination, and the governor making CROCKER, JOHN MYRICK, son of Francis and Susan (Kenyon) Crocker, was born in Provincetown, Mass., May 22, 1845. His early education was ob- tained in the public schools of his native town. He entered the Harvard Medical School in 1862, and graduated in 1866. The same year he began prac- tice in Provincetown, and remained there eighteen years. In 1884 he moved to Cambridge, Mass., in which city he has since resided, enjoying a steadily growing practice. He was medical examiner at Provincetown for over ten years, and also held other responsible positions there, among them : pension examiner, member of the school committee, member of the board of health, trustee of the Public Library, and acting assistant surgeon to the Marine Hospital. He is prominent in several orders; is connected with the Amicable Lodge, Cambridge, the Joseph Warren Chapter and the Marine Lodge I.O.O.F., Provincetown, the Boston Lodge of Per- fection, the Scottish Rite, and the Cambridge Commandery Knights Templar. He is medical examiner of the Knights and Ladies of Honor and of the Home Circle. He is a member of the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society and the Cambridge Medical Improvement Society. Dr. Crocker was married in Provincetown, in 1871, to Mary, daugh- ter of William Adams ; they have one child : Inez M. Crocker. no other, Mr. Crocker continued in office. In January, 1892, however, when the annual report for the previous year was completed, he sent in his resignation. For two years (1877 and 1878) Mr. Crocker was secretary of the Republican State committee ; and in the fall of 1877 he helped to promote the organization known as the "Young Republicans," of which he was elected chairman in April, 1879. In 1889 he was appointed by Mayor Hart chairman of a commission of three to examine into the operations of the existing system of taxa- tion, and to report a more equitable system if any could be devised. In March, 1891, the committee made a report, concluding with certain recommenda- tions of which the most important were these : that municipal bonds should be released from taxation, on the ground that to tax such bonds results in loss rather than gain to cities and towns issuing the bonds, and that the many forms of double taxation should be abolished because such taxation is mani- festly unjust, and as a rule can be, and is, evaded. Mr. Crocker has prepared and published through G. P. Putnam's Sons (New York and London, 1889) a valuable parliamentary manual entitled " Princi- ples of Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies," which has had a wide circulation; and, in con- junction with his brother, prepared the "Notes on the General Statutes" published in 1869. A second edition followed in 1875, and another CUDDIRY, JOHN J., was born in Saugerties on the Hudson, N.Y., in 1847. Having at an early age, through association with his father (who had been in the blue-stone business for many years), acquired a thorough knowledge of the North River blue- simultaneously with the publication of the revision of the statutes of 1882, the latter being an enlarged edition entitled " Notes on the Public Statutes." Mr. Crocker is an officer of various business corporations, and is connected with a number of institutions and stone, he established the business in Boston under
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the firm name of Cuddihy & German. Mr. German committee two years; and has been a member died in 1883, and the business continued under the of the State committee fifteen years. He was a name of J. J. Cuddihy. The concern has filled many large contracts in Boston and vicinity. Its work includes the underpinnings and sidewalks of the buildings of S. S. Pierce & Co., at the corner of Dartmouth street and Huntington avenue, Back Bay district, and Court and Tremont streets, down town ; the R. H. Stearns sidewalks on the corner of Tremont street and Temple place ; the American Bell Tele- phone Building underpinning, safe, floors, and side- walks, corner of Milk and Oliver streets ; the Bradley and Davis estate, corner Tremont street and Temple place ; and blue-stone in many houses on the Back Bay, such as those of Dr. W. S. Bryant, Dr. Fay, Mr. Amory, and George B. Davenport ; and side- walks on Bedford, Chauncy, Edinboro', Essex, Beacon, School, and other streets. Mr. Cuddihy is a member of the Master Builders' Association. member of the executive council of Governor Ames, 1888, and was renominated, but declined the honor, for 1889. He is a director in the Mechanics National Bank of Boston, having been prominent in its reorganization ; also a trustee in the Union Institution for Savings, Boston ; a director in the Bay State Gas Company ; is one of the fore- most capitalists in the organization of the Boston Gas Syndicate, and is largely interested in the gas business. He is also a member of several local yacht clubs, always having taken a lively interest in yachting matters; is a prominent member of the Suffolk Club, and of the Charitable Irish Society of Boston. He was chief ranger in the In- dependent Order of Foresters, and is a member of the Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Montgomery Light Guard Veteran Associa- tion, and an honorary member of the Kearsarge
CULVER, JANE KENDRICK, M.D., was born in Warren, Mass., and is a descendant on the maternal side of the Feltons - a name associated with a family of educators. She graduated and received the de- gree of M.D. in the year 1879, at the Boston Uni- versity. She is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Surgical and Gynecological Society of Boston, and the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society, to all of which she has contributed papers. The Physiological Institute, which made its beginning in the city of Boston when the matter of " higher education for women " was unpopular, is a society in which she has taken deep interest.
CUNNIFF, MICHAEL MATTHEW, son of Michael and Ellen ( Kennedy) Cunniff, was born in Roscom- mon, Ire., in 1850, his parents coming to Bos- ton when he was three months old. He obtained his early educational training in the Boston public schools. This was supplemented by a course of commercial training in the Bryant & Stratton Com- mercial College, Boston. His first business con- nection was in the wine and spirit trade, with his brother Bernard, in this city. He subsequently re- tired from that line to enter a general banking and brokerage business, principally in the handling of gas securities and real estate. He has also been identified with the West End Street Railway, the Charles River Embankment Company, and other land and railroad improvements in Boston and vicinity. Mr. Cunniff was chairman of the Demo- cratic city committee for two years; chairman of the executive branch of the Democratic State
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Veterans. Mr. Cunniff was married in Boston, June 30, 1890, to Miss Josephine Mclaughlin, daughter of the late Francis Mclaughlin.
CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS EDWARD, M.D., son of John and Mary ( Murphy ) Cunningham, was born in Prince Edward Island Jan. 5, 1851. His gen- eral education was obtained in the schools of his native town and at St. Dunstan's College, Charlotte-
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town, P.E.I. Then he began the study of medicine with Dr. Beer of Charlottetown, a leading prac- titioner of that place, and in 1870 came to Boston. Two years after he entered the Harvard Medical School. Graduating in 1876, he established himself in Cambridge, and in a few years built up a large and successful practice. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Harvard Med- ical School Association, and of the Cambridge Medical Improvement Society. Dr. Cunningham has been twice married. His first marriage oc- curred in 1879, to Miss Mary Dooley (deceased) ; and the second on Feb. 3, 1891, to Miss Mary Kane. He has two children : Edward and Thomas Cunningham.
CURRIER, FRANK D., United States naval officer of Customs, was born in Canaan, N.H., Oct. 30, 1853. He received his education in the public schools, the Meriden Academy, Meriden, N.H., and at Dr. Hixon's school in Lowell, Mass. He studied law, first in the office of Pike & Blodgett, and after- wards with George W. Murray, of Canaan, N.H., and was admitted to the bar from the latter office in 1874. He began the practice of his profession at Canaan, N.H., where he continued until appointed by President Harrison United States naval officer of Customs for the district of Boston and Charles- town, Mass., May 19, 1890. He has, for several years, been prominent in New Hampshire politics. He was a member of the lower house of the Legis- lature of that State in 1879 ; clerk of the State senate from 1883 to 1886 ; was elected State senator in 1886, and upon the organization of that body was chosen its president ; was secretary of the New Hampshire Republican State committee from 1882 to 1888 in- clusive ; and delegate to the national Republican convention in 1884. He is a member of Social Lodge No. 53, and St. Andrews Royal Arch Chapter No. 1, Free Masons, of Lebanon, N.H., and Sul- livan Commandery Knights Templar of Claremont, N.H.
CURRY, GEORGE E., is a native of Cleveland, Tenn., where he was born Feb. 13, 1854. His early edu- cation was attained in the local schools. Coming to Boston at the age of nineteen, he entered the Boston Latin School, and graduated therefrom in 1878. Then he took the course of the Boston University College of Liberal Arts, graduating in 1881 ; and afterwards entered the Boston University Law School, finishing his studies in 1884 and re- ceiving his degree. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, that year. He has since been in
the active and successful practice of his profes- sion in this city, with an office in the Equitable Building. Mr. Curry is a member of the Hull and
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Dorchester Yacht Clubs, and of the Masonic order. In politics he is a Democrat.
CURTIS, BENJAMIN ROBBINS, son of the late Judge B. R. Curtis, of the United States Supreme Court, was born in Boston June, 1855, and died in this city Jan. 25, 1891, when occupying a position on the bench of the municipal court. He was a worthy son of an eminent father. His early edu- cation was received at schools in Boston, and at the age of eleven he was entered at the famous St. Paul's School, in Concord, N.H. There he was fitted for college, and entering Harvard he gradu- ated in the class of 1875, which included an un- usually large number of men who have become prominent in business and professional life. His bent was towards literature and law, and while in college he was one of the editors of the " Harvard Advocate." After two years spent in the Harvard Law School, he read law in the office of the Hon. Albert Mason, now chief justice of the Superior Court, and in 1878 was admitted to practice in the courts of the Commonwealth. Before entering the Harvard Law School he made a tour of the world, and upon his return published the journal of his travels in the attractive volume now widely known
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under the title of "Dottings Round the Circle." In ton, Mass., Jan. 17, 1847. The family is well known 1879 he was the principal collator of facts for " The Life and Writings of B. R. Curtis," his father ; in
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the following year he edited " The Jurisdiction, Practice, and Peculiar Jurisprudence of the Courts of the United States ; " and in 1885 Vol. II. of Meyer's " Federal Decisions in Courts." In 1881 he was appointed lecturer in the Boston University Law School, on jurisdiction of United States courts. He was made a judge by Governor Robinson, who appointed him to the municipal bench in April, 1886, and at the time of his last short illness he was in line for appointment to the superior bench. As a judge, dealing with peculiar, trying, and often sad cases which come before the lower courts, he was just and merciful. Judge Curtis was a member of the Somerset, St. Botolph, and Papyrus clubs, and of several benevolent and philanthropic organizations. He was of a retiring disposition, but not unsocial. His friendships were many and strong, and to those who were fortunate enough to know him intimately he was one of the most companionable of men. He was married in 1877, to Miss Mary G., a daughter of Professor Horsford, of Cambridge. His widow and three children, a son and two daughters, survive him.
CUSHING, ERNEST WATSON, M.D., son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Baldwin) Cushing, was born in Bos-
in the early history of Massachusetts, to which it came in 1636 from Higham, Eng. He was educated in Boston and at Harvard College, gradu- ating from the latter in 1867. He received his degree of M.D). from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1871. He was interne in Bellevue Hospital in 1871-2, and then studied two years in Europe. Returning to Boston, he has prac- tised here since 1874. He was physician to the Boston City Hospital, in the department of diseases of the throat, from 1876 to 1884. In 1885 he again visited Europe for a year's study, where he devoted his attention to bacteriology and especially to diseases of women and antiseptic surgery. Upon his return he engaged in special practice, and in 1886 was appointed surgeon to the Free Surgical Hospital for Women. In 1887 he founded the medical journal " Annals of Gynæcology," now the " Annals of Gynæecology and Pædiatry," of which he is editor. In December, 1890, he was appointed surgeon of the Woman's Charity Club Hospital, an institution devoted especially to abdominal section. A new hospital was built in 1892, from designs by Dr. Cushing. He was secretary of the section for gynæcology of the American Medical
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Association in 1887, and also of the section for gynecology in the Ninth International Medical Congress in 1887. He was a delegate to the Tenth
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International Medical Congress at Berlin in 1890, and was the American secretary of the section for obstetrics and gynecology. He was the Spanish- speaking secretary of the section for gynæcology of the Pan-American Medical Congress, Washington, in September, 1891. He has translated and pub- lished " Pathology and Therapeutics of Diseases of Women," by A. Martin, Berlin, with notes and ap- pendix by himself ( 1890) ; and he has contributed many papers to various medical and other periodi- cals, among them : " Religious Instruction in Public Schools," " Barnard's Journal of Education," April, 1884; "Sunspots and Epidemics," " International Review ; " " Specific and Infectious Nature of Tu- berculosis," " Boston Medical and Surgical Journal," Dec. 10, 1885 ; " Relations of Certain Bacteria to Puerperal Inflammations," " Physicians' Magazine," March, 1886; "Case of Chronic Arsenical Pois- oning of supposed Criminal Nature," Suffolk District Medical Society, Boston, February, 1887 ; "Tubal Pregnancy, Rupture, Recovery," " Annals of Gynecology," February, 1888; "Drainage after Abdominal Section," read before Tenth Inter- national Medical Congress, Berlin, published in " Annals of Gynecology and Pædiatry," Novem- ber, 1890 : " A Case of Extra-Uterine Pregnancy, Operation at the Ninth Month, Recovery," " Annals of Gynecology and Pædiatry," January, 1891 ; " Va- ginal Hysterectomy for Cancer, Report of Twenty- one Cases with Nineteen Recoveries," " Annals of Gynaecology and Pædiatry," May, 1891 ; " Vaginal Hysterectomy," New York Medical Society, Albany, February, 1892. Dr. Cushing lays no claim to special inventions or particular brilliancy of opera- tion, but he has endeavored to do clean surgery, and has worked hard to do his part in the transfor- mation of surgical and gynecological practice which has taken place since 1884, by taking pains to learn what was best and newest, by diligently practising it to the extent of his ability, and by diffusing sound teaching and correct pathology as widely as possible.
Eighth New Hampshire Volunteers upon its organi- zation, November, 1861. He was commissioned. as second and first lieutenant, and served on staff duty under Brig .- Gens. Phelps, Cahill, H. E. Paine, and Major-Gen. W. T. Sherman, and after two years' service was honorably discharged for physical disability contracted by hardships which he had suffered. In 1867 he resumed the dry- goods business in Chicago, and before the great fire there was the head of one of the largest dry- goods firms in that city. After the fire he returned to Massachusetts, and in 1875 was appointed deputy sheriff for Middlesex county, residing at Lowell, Mass., under Hon. Charles Kimball, sheriff. Sheriff Kimball died in 1879, and was succeeded by Hon. Eben W. Fiske, who appointed him special sheriff; and when Sheriff Fiske died in 1884, Mr. Cushing was appointed by Gov. Butler sheriff for the unexpired term. In the election in November. following he was nominated by both political parties for sheriff, and unanimously elected ; and he still holds the position, having been nominated and unanimously elected by all political parties for three successive terms. He is a member of James A. Garfield Post 120, G.A.R., Lowell, Mass. : of the Massachusetts Commandery Loyal Legion ; and the Massachusetts Consistory.
CUSHING, IRA BARROWS, M.D., son of Caleb and Malinda Peck (Barrows) Cushing, was born in Providence, Ili., Nov. 20, 1846. His father was a native of Massachusetts (born 1793 ; died 1876), and removed to Illinois in 1836, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits : and his mother (born 1803 ; died 1870), a native of Pawtucket, R.I., was a daughter of William Barrows and sister of Doctors Ira Barrows of Providence, R.I., and George Barrows of Taunton, Mass., both distin- guished physicians and pioneers in the school of homoeopathy. He attended the common schools until sixteen years of age, and spent a portion of the next two years in the English High School at Princeton, Ill. Then in 1869 he came East, and began the study of medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr. Barrows, of Taunton. In the fall of the same year he entered the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia. Having a liking for chemistry, he took a special course in that branch under Professor Barker, of Yale, and subsequently, in 1871, during the vacation of the medical school, a full course. His third course of lectures, in
CUSHING, HENRY GREENWOOD, sheriff of Middlesex county, was born in Abington, Mass., in 1834. He was educated in the public school and the academy in Abington, and took a preparatory course for college at the Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. Deciding, however, to enter mercantile life at once, he began in the employ of Chandler & Co., dry-goods merchants in this city. After several years in their employ, he began the manu- the fall of 1871 and early winter of 1872, was at facture of boots and shoes in his native town. At the New York Homeopathic College, from which the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the he graduated in the spring. The summer he spent
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in practising with his uncle in Taunton, and then in the following winter and spring he took a post- graduate course in the New York Ophthalmic Hos- pital and College, graduating in 1873. This fin-
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Miss H. Elizabeth Alden, of Bridgewater, Conn. ; they have three children : Ira M., born Aug. 26, 1875, Maude E., born Dec. 27, 1877, and Arthur A. Cushing, born Jan. 17, 1881.
CUSHMAN, GEORGE THOMAS, M.D., was born in Dorchester Aug. 31, 1858. He was educated in Dorchester schools and in the Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 1881. He at once began the practice of his profession, which he has since steadily continued. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Suffolk Dis- trict Society. He was married Oct. 26, 1881, to Miss Sylvia, daughter of S. D. Bannsdell, of Quincy, also a " descendant of the Mayflower " Robert Cushman.
CUTTER, CHARLES KIMBALL, son of Samuel Henry and Harriet S. (Blanchard) Cutter, was born in Somerville, Mass., March 15, 1851. He graduated from Tufts College in 1872, and the Harvard Medi- cal School in 1876, and at once began the practice of his profession in Boston. Dr. Cutter paid his way through college by teaching, acting as a book agent and as insurance agent. During this period he was at different times principal of the Green Moun- tain Academy, principal of the Franklin Evening School here in Boston, and a teacher in Bedford, Mass., and Stafford, Vt. He was a delegate to the first single-tax conference, held in New York city September, 1890. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Medical Society, the Boston Medical So- ciety, and the American Medical Society. He was married Oct. 11, 1876, to Annie B. Alexander, who died April 14, 1883. On Oct. 22, 1884, he was married again, to Carrie M. Sprague. He has had two children: Loring E. (died 1887) and Enid J. Cutter.
ished, he resumed practice with his uncle, making a specialty of the eye and ear. In the spring of 1875 he removed to Brookline, Mass., where he became the successor of Dr. Warren Sanford, who had succeeded Dr. Wilde, the pioneer of homcop- athy in this section. In 1872 he was appointed by Governor Washburn assistant surgeon to the Third Regiment of the Militia, the first of his school ap- pointed here to a public professional position ; he served three years. He was the inventor, in 1882, of the widely known " Cushing process" for purify- CUTTER, CHARLES R., son of Charles R. and Antoinette P. (Parker) Cutter, was born in Boston June 24, 1850. He was educated in the public schools, and early entered business life. He began work with the Mt. Washington Glass Company, and soon went West, spending two years there working for contractors. In 1872 he became connected with the Boston street department. From 1873 to 1882 and from 1883 to 1885 he was foreman in charge of street construction in the Dorchester district : from 1885 to 1891, in the Roxbury district ; from 1882 to 1883 he was assistant superintendent of streets ; and is now ( 1892) deputy superintendent of the paving division of the department, having the expenditure ing and refining distilled liquors, the discovery of which was the result of his investigation, begun some years before, into the effect of air upon liquors. It utilizes nature's own means, and con- sists of forcing heated atmospheric air - which is first purified according to Professor Tyndall's method of destroying germs of animalcula - through the liquors, thoroughly oxidizing the fusel oil and eliminating the poisons. Dr. Cushing has been examining surgeon for several benevolent organizations. He is a member of the Massachu- setts Homeopathic Society, the Boston Medical Society, and the Gynæcological Society. He is a Master Mason. He was married Oct. 27, 1874, to of about two and a half millions in construction of
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streets. He is a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. He is a Mason, a member of the Good Fellows, and of the Order of United Work- men. On Jan. 18, 1887, he was married to Miss Cora L. Hunt.
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