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GASTON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, son of William
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born in Roxbury May 1, 1859. His early educa- the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, Rox- bury Society for Medical Improvement, and Boston Society for Medical Observation ; and he is president of the Suffolk District Medical Society. Dr. Gay is also clinical instructor in surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and surgeon to the Boston City Hos- pital. He has prepared and published in the medical journals of the day various important papers on croup, hernia, ingrown toe-nail, tracheotomy, appendicitis, shock, the aspirator, and kindred topics.
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tion was attained in private schools and in the Roxbury Latin School. He graduated from Har- vard in the class of 1880, and subsequently from the Harvard Law School. After admittance to the bar he began practice with his father and Charles L. B. Whitney, entering into partnership with them Oct. 1, 1883. His present partners are his father and Frederic E. Snow, under the firm name of Gaston & Whitney. Mr. Gaston is a director of the Manufacturers National Bank, and a trustee of the proprietors of Forest Hills Cemetery. He is a member of a number of clubs - the Somerset, the Puritan, the Athletic, and the Curtis, of Boston ; the Country Club, Brookline ; the Commodore Club, · Maine ; and other associations. He is also a mem- ber of the staff of Gov. William E. Russell.
GAVIN, MICHAEL FREEBERN, M.D., was born in Ireland May 12, 1846. His education was begun in schools in Ireland, and completed in the Boston grammar schools. His medical training was ob- tained in the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated M.D. in 1864, after acting as house surgeon in the City Hospital one year. He served in the army, and at the close of the war went abroad, where he studied in Dublin, and in Paris two years, and received the fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. Then returning to Boston in 1868, he engaged in general practice and surgery. He is one of the visiting surgeons to the City Hospital and to Carney Hospital, was a trustee of the City Hospital for several years, and was for some time pension examiner. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and the Boston Society for Medical Observation. He has been a frequent contributor to the Dublin medical press, and also to medical and other journals in this country. Dr. Gavin was married Nov. 23, 1876, to Miss Ellen T., daughter of Patrick Doherty, of New York.
GAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON, M.D., was born in Swanzey, N.H., Jan. 14, 1842. His early education was acquired in the local schools. He took the course of the Harvard Medical School, graduating M.D. in 1868, passed a year in the hospital at Rainsford's ELIJAH GEORGE. Island, and another as house surgeon at the City vency, followed two years later by his election to the office of register of probate and insolvency, which position he has ably filled ever since, being indorsed by all political parties at each election, save that of 1890, when he had a Democratic op- Hospital, and then entered into active practice in this city, where he has since remained. He is a member of the British Medical Association, of the American Surgical Association, the American Medi- cal Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, ponent. Mr. George for many years has been
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GEORGE, ELIJAH, son of William. E. George, was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., Sept. 6, 1850. He was reared in his native State, receiving a high- school and academic education in New York city, and there began the study of law. He came to Boston and graduated from the Boston University Law School in 1873, was admitted to the Suf- folk bar the following year, and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in the year 1889. He studied with the well-known law firm of Uriel H. & George G. Crocker. In 1875 he was appointed assistant register of probate and insol -.
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prominent in military affairs, and at one time was a member of the First Corps of Cadets. In 1881 he was made judge-advocate, with the rank of captain, of the First Brigade, State Militia, resign- ing in 1882 ; and in August of the same year he was appointed judge-advocate of the Second Brigade. He still holds this office. Mr. George is a member of the Union, Algonquin, Athletic, Century, Roxbury, and Massachusetts Yacht Clubs, the Beacon Society, the Curtis Law Club, and the Abstract Club; he is also a member of the Boston Bar Association, and other local organi- zations.
GERRISH, JAMES R., superintendent of institutions on Deer Island, was born in Chelsea in 1840. His early education was obtained in the Chelsea public schools. After leaving school he was apprenticed to a carpenter and builder, and continued at that business until the breaking out of the war. He entered the service with the First Massachusetts Regiment and remained in it for twenty months, when he was discharged for disability. After he had obtained sufficient rest he entered the dry- goods business as clerk with George M. Winslow. Here he was employed about seven years. Then he engaged in the real-estate and building business for himself until 1878, when he relinquished it to accept the position of receiver at the institutions on Deer Island. This position he held for three years, when he was appointed superintendent of the State prison in Charlestown. After eight years' service here he was returned to Deer Island, having been appointed superintendent of the city institutions there - the houses of industry and of reformation - which position he has since held. He is a member of the G.A.R., of the Masonic order, and of other fraternal orders .:
GILMAN, RAYMOND R., son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilcox) Gilman, was born in Shelburne Falls, Mass., July 28, 1859. He was educated in the schools of his native town, the Shelburne Falls Academy, and Boston University. Immediately after graduation he began the study of law in the office of Judge Ely, and was admitted to the Norfolk county bar - the youngest man ever admitted - on Sept. 28, 1880. He at once began practice in Shelburne Falls, but soon removed his office to Bos- ton, where he has since remained, steadily advancing in his profession. He is a prominent member of the Odd Fellows order, now district deputy grand master, and a member of the Grand Lodge of Massa- chusetts. He is a resident of Melrose, and is a
leading member of the Melrose Athletic and the Melrose Clubs. Mr. Gilman was married June 16,
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1882, to Miss Kate A. Tuttle ; they have one child : Alice K. Gilman.
GILSON, ALFRED HENRY, was born in Boston April 17, 1855. He obtained his education in the Bos- ton schools, graduating from the high school in 1873. After practising civil-engineering for six years in the Back Bay district he entered the Boston Dental College, graduating in 1882, and receiving the degree of D.D.S. He then began his professional career as a dentist. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts and New England Dental Societies, in both of which organizations he has held important offices ; and he is an honorary member of the Georgia State Dental Society. In January, 1887, he wrote a valu- able paper on " Homeopathic Therapeutics in Den- tistry," which was read by him before the State Central Dental Society of Newark, N.J. This was one of the first papers of the kind ever published. While practising all branches of his profession, Dr. Gilson makes a specialty of orthodontia.
GLINES, EDWARD, son of Jacob T. and Sarah A. (Washburn) Glines, was born in Somerville, Mass., Aug. 31, 1849. He was educated in the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1869. He early entered trade as clerk in a general
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spice and coffee store, and was with his father in the same business until the latter's retirement, which brought the son to the head of the oldest firm in its
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line in Boston. He is still carrying on the impor- tation, manufacture, and sale of spices, tea, and coffee. Mr. Glines was an officer and member of the Somerville fire department for ten years. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature two years (1882 and 1883) ; and member of the State senate in 1887 and 1888, serving on the committees on street railways, expediting "business, labor, and public health, and as chairman of the railroad com- mittee and of those on federal relations and roads and bridges. He was largely influential in the adoption by the Legislature of the important public improvement known as the widening and extension of Beacon street, giving to the city of Boston one of its most elegant boulevards. As chairman of the railroad committee, he reported and successfully advocated the passage of two important measures affecting the railroad and mercantile interests of the State, the consolidation of the Old Colony and the Boston & Providence Railroads, and the uniting of the larger and more important rival lines, the Boston & Maine and the Eastern Railroads. Mr. Glines enjoys the remarkable and unprecedented legislative record of never losing a bill which was reported by either of the three committees of which he was chairman. He has been connected with
various literary and religious associations, his church relations being with the Unitarians. He is a mem- ber of the Central, Webcowitt, and Winter Hill Clubs of Somerville, and the Central, Middlesex, New England, Taylor, and Cereal Clubs of Boston. He is a member also of the Boston chamber of commerce. He has held office in the order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Honor; and is a Mason, Knight Templar degree. He has served in the militia as a private ; has been president of the Republican city committee ; member of the Republi- can State central committee ; president of the Somer- ville common council, and overseer of the poor. Mr. Glines was married in Boston March 5, 1872, to Miss Frances C., daughter of Ziba P. and . Nancy L. (Henderson) Hanks, of Augusta, Me. They have no children.
GOOCH, JOSEPH L., was born in Lyman, Me., Aug. 26, 1849. He came to Boston in 1870, and served three years as an apprentice to the mason's trade with T. J. Whidden. After another three years as a journeyman, he formed a partnership with William Pray, under the firm name of Gooch & Pray, which concern is now one of the foremost in New Eng- land in the building line. Among the buildings erected under his supervision are the Winchester Town Hall, the Abington Savings Bank, the Brighton Grammar School ; business blocks in Boston for the heirs of D. H. Watson on Causeway street, for the Newton Associates on Columbia street, for J. Tir- rell on Federal street, and for Oliver Ditson & Co. on North street, and one at Plymouth. Mr. Gooch is an active member of the Master Builders' Associa- tion. He was married in 1877 to Miss Sarah A. Dennis. He resides in West Medford, with a sum- mer home in Hingham.
GOODRICH, FREDERICK E., son of Elizur Tryon and Mary Catherine ( Beach) Goodrich, was born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 16, 1843. He was educated at the Hartford public high school and Yale Col- lege, from which he graduated in 1864. The same year he entered journalism with Dorsey Gardner, one of his classmates, who started " The Monitor," an anti-monopoly paper, in Trenton, N.J. After a short experience here and upon the abandonment of the enterprise, he returned to Hartford, where he was engaged as editor of "The Courant." Two years were devoted to this work, and then, the own- ership of the paper changing, he retired and came to Boston. That was in May, 1867. His reputation had preceded him, and he at once found a position on the " Post" as assistant to Nathaniel Greene.
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Subsequently he became managing editor, and then in 1875 succeeded Col. Charles G. Greene as editor-in-chief. This position he held, conducting the paper with ability and skill, until 1878, when, finding himself out of touch with the controlling in- terest in the ownership, he withdrew from the man- agement. Then he was for two years editorial writer for the " Boston Globe ; " also mayor's clerk for Mayor Prince 1879-81. During this period, besides his journalistic work, Mr. Goodrich engaged in general literary work, contributing short stories to the earlier "Scribner's" (which afterwards became the " Century "), " Harper's, " and other magazines. In 1883 he was elected city clerk of Boston, and re- elected the following year. Then, returning to journalism, he became a regular contributor to the editorial columns of the "Daily Advertiser" and other journals ; and in the spring of 1886, when the " Post " passed into new hands, he returned to that paper as a leader writer, which position he has since held. During the years 1887-9 he was also private secretary and chief clerk under the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall, collector of customs at this port. In August, 1890, with Dr. Edward E. Hale and a few others, representing science, history, literature, and kindred interests, he purchased the " Boston Commonwealth, " and made it the repre- sentative journal of this line of thought in Boston. Mr. Hale and Mr. Goodrich are the editors, and under their conduct the "Commonwealth " has become a sort of organ of thinking Boston, an inter- mediary between the learned societies and culti- vated people. Of Mr. Goodrich's publications between covers are the lives of General Hancock and Grover Cleveland ; the former, originally written as a campaign biography, revised and expanded after the death of Hancock into a substantial volume. He has an intimate knowledge of munici- pal law and history, and has prepared several useful and important publications for the city of Boston. Mr. Goodrich was married Nov. 20, 1866, to Eliza- beth Williams Parsons, daughter of Edward W. Parsons, of Hartford, Conn .; they have had three children : David Parsons ( now an architect practising in Boston), Harold Beach (graduate of Harvard Col- lege, 1892), and Theodora Caroline Goodrich.
GOODSPEED, JOSEPH HORACE, was born in East Haddam, Conn., Jan. 14, 1845. He was educated in Trinity College, Hartford. In 1865 he went to Denver, Col., where he was successfully engaged in the banking business until 1870. From this he went into the railroad business, becoming con- nected with the St. Joseph ( Missouri) Railroad,
remaining there until 1876. He was then general auditor of what was known as the " Joy " Railroad in the West. At that time (1876) Massachusetts passed a law creating the office of supervisor of rail- road accounts of this Commonwealth, and through Charles F. Adams, then the chairman of the railroad commissioners, the position was offered to Mr. Good- speed, which he accepted and held until ISSI. Then he was made general auditor of the Mexican Central Railroad. This position he held until 1887. When the consolidation of street railroads was consummated with the establishment of the West End Street Rail- road Company, Mr. Goodspeed was offered the posi- tion of treasurer, which he accepted and still holds.
GOVE, WESLEY AUSTIN, was born in Boston Sept. 9, 1835. He attended the public schools here, finishing his education at the Wilbraham Academy. At the beginning of the Civil War he went to the front as a lieutenant in the Forty-first Massachusetts Regiment, and afterwards served as a captain in the Third Massachusetts Cavalry. He . began public life in 1866, as a member of the lower house of the Legislature ; reelected in 1867, serving during the latter session on the committee on military affairs. He was elected to the senate of 1886, from the First Suffolk District, serving on the committee on harbors and public lands (as chair- man), and also on water supply. He was re- elected to the senate the following year, and was chairman of the committee on harbors and lands, and a member of the committee on towns. In December, 1889, he was chosen to represent the First District in the Boston board of aldermen, and during his term of office he devoted much time and attention to the matter of public improvements and the general welfare of the district he repre- sented. Mr. Gove is a director of the First National Bank of East Boston, and of the Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company ; he is also director of the East Boston Company, and trustee of the East Boston Savings Bank. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, an Odd Fellow, and a mem- ber of the New England and Jeffries Clubs.
GRAHAM, DOUGLAS, M.D., son of a Scotch farmer, was born in Kirkoswald, Scotland, May 2, 1848, It was in this village that his great- grandfather on his mother's side of the family, Hugh Rodger, was schoolmaster and taught Robert Burns mathematics. The old-fashioned clock that belonged to Mr. Rodger and timed Burns' lessons now stands in the hall of Dr. Graham's residence. On his father's side, Dr. Graham's great-grand-
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uncle was the veritable Tam o' Shanter, whose name Ann Jane (Henderson) Graham, was born in En- he bears. Dr. Graham's descent has been traced to Sir William Wallace, the defender of Scotland ; thus proving, as Bret Harte says, that it is danger- ous to climb the ancestral tree too far lest we find that one of our ancestors has been hung ; for Wal- lace was not only hung, but drawn and quartered, though in a good cause, however. At the age of sixteen Graham emigrated to the United States and continued his studies at the academy in Lee, Mass. In 1873, after a three years' course of study, he graduated with honor from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He was then admitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the follow- ing year took a post-graduate course in the Harvard Medical School. He has since been engaged in private practice in Boston, devoting special atten- tion to massage, and occasionally visiting Europe to investigate this subject. He has written numer- ous articles as well as a large treatise on massage, all of which have been freely quoted and stolen from on both sides of the Atlantic. He is regarded by the profession as the authority in the United States on this subject. He is a member of the Alumni Association of Jefferson Medical College, of the American Medical Association, of the British Med- ical Association, and other organizations.
GRAHAM, JOHN R., son of James Graham and
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niskillen, county Fermanagh, Ire., Dec. 19, 1847. He came to this country with his parents when a lad, and received his early education in the Boston public schools. He began his business career in the boot and shoe manufactory of J. T. Penniman in Quincy, and he is now one of the largest gentlemen's custom boot and shoe makers in the United States. His stores are at No. 280 Washington street, Boston, and his manufactory in Quincy, where he resides. He is much interested in public matters, and in 1892 represented the Fifth Norfolk District in the lower house of the Legislature. He served in the Civil War, enlisting in Company E, Fourth Massa- chusetts. Cavalry, and Company A, Forty-second Massachusetts Infantry, and he is now a leading member of Post 88, G.A.R. He is concerned in im- portant local enterprises ; is president of the Quincy & Boston Electric Street Railway, and director in the Quincy Electric Light and Power Company ; and he is.also director in the Broadway National Bank of Boston. On Feb. 28, 1871, Mr. Graham married Mary E. B. Graham ; they have eleven children, - six boys, Robert B., John W., Harold and Malcom (twins), James Lester, and Edward Montrose, - and five girls, Clara Louise, Edith Rowe, Mary Augusta, Annie Henderson, and Beatrice Graham.
GRAINGER, WILLIAM HENRY, M.D., son of William and Charlotte (Cotter) Grainger, was born in Mallow, county Cork, Ire., Nov. 7, 1845. His early education was acquired in a private school at Mallow ; subsequently he went to a private tutor in Dublin, and the Bandon Institute. He came to the United States in November, 1864, and made his home first in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he studied med- icine, and subsequently he graduated from the Medical School of the University of the City of New York. In 1870 he moved to Boston and here began the practice of his profession ; he is now one of the most successful physicians of East Boston, and is regarded as an authority especially on diseases of the lungs. He has been a frequent contributor in late years to the leading medical journals. Dr. Grainger belongs to a number of professional organ- izations ; is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Boston Gynecological Society, and the Boston Med- ical Library Association. He also belongs to the Charitable Irish Society, the Catholic Union, the Wendell Phillips branch of the Land League, and the Clover Club. He has served as a member of the school committee, first elected to the board in the autumn of 1886 ; and has been a trustee of
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the East Boston Savings Bank since 1881. In 1873 Dr. Grainger was married to Miss Mary A. Le Blanc,
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of Boston ; they have six children, all boys : William H., Henry A., Edward J., George L., Charles J., and John G. Grainger.
GRANT, MELVILLE C., son of Adam and Harriet Newell (Hutchins) Grant, was born in Boston April 20, 1841. He was educated in the public schools of Boston and Chelsea. He began active life as a mason and builder, and after working some years at his trade, on Jan. 1, 1873, became a mem- ber of the building firm of B. F. Dewing & Co. Subsequently he conducted business alone, and exe- cuted many important contracts. During his long . career he has built a large number of notable pub- lic and private buildings throughout the New England States. Mr. Grant has an admirable war record, and has since continued his interest in military affairs. He was a member of the Charles- town artillery at the breaking out of the war, and left Boston with it April 19, 1861, serving three months. He had a hand in the fight at Bull Run. Then he enlisted October 24, that year, in Company C, United States Engineers, as private, and was acting sergeant-major when he was honorably discharged Oct. 24, 1864, at Petersburg, Va. He is now presi- dent of the Association of Veterans of United States Engineers, an officer in Gettysburg Post 191, G.A.R.,
and is an active member of the Boston Lancers and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He is also prominent in fraternal organizations : is a past presiding officer in lodge, encampment, and canton, Odd Fellows; and a member of Colum- bian Lodge, Free Masons; Columbian Council Legion of Honor, and of Sumner Lodge Knights of Honor. He was one of the early members and some time a trustee of the Master Builders' Associa- tion, and has long been connected with the Charitable Mechanic Association. Mr. Grant was married Dec. 5, 1865, to Miss Harriet C. Organ ; they have six
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children : Fred A., Gurney S., Alice G., Melville E., Benjamin D., and Amy E. Grant.
GRAVES, CHESTER HATCH, was born in Sunder- land, Mass., Jan. 5, 1818. He was educated in the schools of that locality. He came to Boston in 1844, and the year following entered the house of Seth W. Fowle, manufacturers of and dealers in patent medicines. Here he remained until 1849, when he associated himself with the house of John T. Hearn, with which he was connected for a period of twelve years. In 1861 he engaged in business for himself. Subsequently he associated with him in business his sons Edward C. and George A. Graves, and these two now carry on the business under the firm name of C. H. Graves & Sons. Their " Hub Punch " is one of their specialties.
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GRAY, ORIN T., was born in Norridgewock, Som- erset county, Me., June 2, 1839. His father, Robert D. Gray, was a thrifty farmer and lumberman, who during the summer months managed the farm, and in winter conducted an extensive lumbering-busi- ness on the Kennebec and Dead Rivers ; and Capt. Joshua Gray, his grandfather, was one of the most prominent and influential citizens of his town and county. His mother, Lurana (Tinkham) Gray, was the daughter of Deacon Orin Tinkham, of Nor- ridgewock, after whom he was named. She was a woman of rare ability, strength of character, and culture. Before her marriage she taught school, and won more than a local reputation as a writer both of prose and poetry. On either side of the house, Mr. Gray is the descendant of robust Revo- lutionary ancestors. Both his grandfathers were officers in the last war with Great Britain. His maternal grandfather was of the best old Puritan stock. During his forty years' residence in Nor- ridgewock he exercised an influence in town and church affairs second to that of no man in the town- ship. Nor was his maternal grandfather a man of less mark and power. The Hon. John Tinkham, father of Deacon Orin, was born and lived in Mid- dleborough, Mass., in the house which had been con- secutively occupied by four generations of his family. He was a member of the town, county, or State government almost constantly from the time that he attained his majority until his death. He served, on several different occasions, in both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature. Orin T. Gray's education was begun in private schools and under the tuition of private instructors. At the age of twelve he was reported as the best scholar in the schools of the town. He subsequently prepared for college in the Anson and Bloomfield Acade- mies, and also under private tutors. At seventeen he successfully passed his examination for admis- sion to the sophomore class. After pursuing his collegiate studies for two years, during much of which time he was engaged in teaching, he was prostrated by a serious illness attributed to over- work. Upon recovery he decided to begin at once the study of the law for his chosen profes- sion. Entering the office of Josiah H. Drummond, of Waterville, then the attorney-general of Maine, he studied for more than two years, and in 1860 was admitted to the bar at the session of the Supreme Court in Augusta. He had then just completed his twenty-first year. He began practice in Waterville, but in the autumn of 1862 removed to Boston, where he has since remained. He now enjoys a large clientage. He was prevented from entering
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