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the Union army, at the very commencement of the struggle, by physical infirmity, the examining surgeon refusing to pass him. In politics he has always been affiliated with the Republican party, and in all the recent important political campaigns he has advocated its principles and its candidate on the stump. He has been a member of several national conventions, and was the chairman of the com- mittee on resolutions in the National League convention of 1889. Before the duties of his profession became so exacting, he was for several years a successful and popular lyceum lecturer. Of the temperance cause he has always been an ear- nest supporter, and he has delivered many addresses on this topic. For years he was the candidate of the Prohibition party for the office of attorney- general. Of local official positions he has held a comparatively large number, among them that of chairman of the school committee of Hyde Park, where he resides -a post which he filled for several years. He is connected with the management of several important corporations. Since the incor- poration of the Hyde Park Savings Bank he has been annually elected one of its trustees, and also its attorney. Mr. Gray was married in 1860 to Louise Bradford Holmes, a direct descendant of Governor Bradford.
GREEN, CHARLES MONTRAVILLE, M.D., son of George Bent and Melinda (Wetherbee) Green, was born in Medford Dec. 18, 1850. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and subsequently attended the Boston Latin School, winning a Franklin medal at graduation in 1870. He received the degree of A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1874, and graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1877. After a year in a hospital he continued his studies in Europe, return- ing to Boston in the autumn of 1879, since which time he has practised medicine in this city. He holds appointments at the Boston Dispensary, at the Boston City Hospital, and the Boston Lying-in Hospital, and is instructor in obstetrics in the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Green is a fellow and councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society, a member of the Boston Society for Medical Observa- tion, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, the Obstetrical Society of Boston, the Boston Medi- cal Library Association, and a fellow of the American Gynæcological Society. He is also a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and, through his maternal great-grandfather, who served and was wounded in the Revolutionary War, of the
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Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American surgeon in the United States Army for six months Revolution. Of the latter society he is vice-presi- at Portsmouth Grove, R.I. He was one of the dent. Although too young to serve in the Civil War, he has served for twenty years in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, holding a sub- altern's commission in the Fifth Regiment in 1875- 7, since which time he has been one of the medi- cal officers of the First Corps of Cadets. In De- cember, 1888, Dr. Green was elected a member of the Boston school committee for two years, and in 1890 was reelected for the full term of three years. Dr. Green was married June 29, 1876, to Helen Lincoln, daughter of the late Dr. John Ware, of Boston. The first child of this union, Charles M.,
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jr., died in infancy ; the second, Robert Montra- ville Green, was born July 11, 1880.
GREENOUGH, FRANCIS BOOTT, M.D., son of Henry and Frances (Boott) Greenough, was born in Bos- ton Dec. 24, 1837. His early education was begun abroad, in Germany and Italy, continued in the Cambridge High School, and finished in Mr. Brad- ford's private school in Boston. Then he entered Harvard and graduated A.B. in 1859 ; A.M., M.D., in 1867. After graduating from the Medical School he continued his medical studies in Vienna a year, and in Paris for a shorter period. Returning to Boston in 1868 he was house physician in the Massachusetts General Hospital, and also acting
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original surgical staff at Carney Hospital, and was physician to the Children's Hospital when it was first opened. He is now clinical instructor in syph- ilis at the Harvard Medical School, and physician- in-charge in the department for skin diseases in the Boston Dispensary. He was president of the Ameri- can Dermatological Association in 1891, is a mem- ber of the American Genito-Urinary Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. He is unmarried.
GRINNELL, C. A., was born in Providence, R.I., Dec. 4, 1816. His education was obtained in the public schools. Upon completing it in his six- teenth year he sailed for Baltimore. There, in Sep- tember, 1832, he entered the employ of his uncle, Comfort Tiffany, who was the head of the firm of Tiffany, Shaw, & Co., jobbing domestic and shoe house. He was employed in the shoe and hat department. In those days boys received no compensation, but were allowed to sell such articles as the firm did not deal in ; and young Grinnell and another boy joined together and sold blacking (of their own make), and morocco hats for children, by which means they made considerable money. A few years later Mr. Grinnell was transferred to the counting-room, where he took charge of the books
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of the whole business, and subsequently to the dry- goods sales department. In 1840 the firm of Tif- fany, Shaw, & Co. was dissolved, and Mr. Tiffany, taking the shoe and hat department of the old firm, began afresh, and associating with him as partners Mr. Grinnell and a Mr. Fite, established the firm of Tiffany, Fite, & Grinnell. On the death of his uncle Mr. Grinnell formed a copartnership with J. W. Jenkins under the firm name of Grinnell & Jenkins, which lasted until 1864. In that year Mr. Grinnell came to Boston and entered into copartnership with Frank Dane and his brother James F. Dane. On the death of Frank Dane he continued with J. F. Dane, under the firm name of J. F. Dane, Grinnell, & Co. This is now one of the oldest houses in the trade. The factories of the firm are in West Med- way and Salem. They are equipped with the latest improvements, and are run to their full capac- ity, turning out medium grades of men's and boys' boots and children's shoes. Their business is exclusively wholesale, the firm selling direct to the jobbers and dealers only. Mr. Grinnell has been so long and so honorably associated with the shoe and leather trade of Massachusetts that he is looked upon as one of its main props. It is to him and a few other merchants of the same character that the trade is indebted for the establishment of the New England Shoe and Leather Association ; and those who remember the meeting convened by ex-Gov- ernor. Claflin in 1869 for its formation will recall the speech made by Mr. Grinnell on that occasion. He was chosen one of the directors of the new organization. In 1876 he was elected its president, and was reelected for the years 1877, 1878, and 1879. He has endeavored to benefit the young men of the day, and has on special occasions lec- tured at the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Men's Christian Union on practical topics. Although beyond the allotted period of threescore and ten, Mr. Grinnell is still to be found at his office, active not only in his business there, but attending carefully to his duties as a director of the Bank of Redemption. He is still, also, a direc- tor of the Shoe and Leather Association. In 1840 he was married to the daughter of Daniel Cobb, a member of the Friends' Meeting, and one of the wholesale domestic-goods merchants of Baltimore, Md. Her loss in 1890, occurring one week after the celebration of their golden wedding, was a great affliction to him. He is of a most philanthropic and generous disposition, and his gifts are numer- ous and well bestowed.
and Agnes (Lawrence) Gunter, was born in York county, N.B., Feb. 11, 1850. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and in the Univer- sity of New Brunswick. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Atherton, of Fredericton, N.B. Then he came to Boston and studied in the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1877. He established himself in the Charlestown district, where he now has a large and successful practice. In 1876 Dr. Gunter was married to Miss Imogene Mosher ; they have two children : Beatrice Mildred and Edith Gladdis Gunter.
H ABERSTROH, ALBERT, son of Lucas and Friedericke (Muller) Haberstroh, was born in Boston July 25, 1855. He was educated in Rox-
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bury and Jamaica Plain public schools. He began business life as entry clerk and assistant book-keeper with Phillips, Shuman, & Co., on Summer street. But here he did not long remain. He had inherited a taste for art, and in this direction he early turned his attention. He first attended the evening draw- ing schools, and then studied in the Museum of Fine Arts under the late Otto Grundmann. Later, under Dr. Rimmer, he took a course in anatomy, sculpt- ure, and painting. He also won approval in his drawing and color at the Lowell Institute. In the GUNTER, ADOLPHUS BYRON, son of George F. meantime he had become connected with his
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father's mural decorative business, which had flour- ished here in Boston since 1840; and in 1877 he was admitted to partnership, when the firm name was changed to L. Haberstroh & Son. Under this title he has conducted the business as the sole successor of his father since the latter's death, which occurred several years ago. He is the in- ventor of several patented mural processes of decoration, and his work is shown in theatres, churches, hotels, public buildings, and private resi- dences in Boston, Lowell, Newton, Haverhill, Springfield, and other Massachusetts cities, in Savannah, Ga., Detroit, Mich., Huntington, Pa., Binghamton, N.Y., Plainfield, N.J., and many other places in different parts of the country. As a mural figure-painter Mr. Haberstroh ranks with the foremost in his profession. He is a member of the Art and Architectural Clubs ; of the Art Students' Association, of which he was one of the first secre- taries ; and of the National Society of Decorators and Painters, for some time vice-president. Mr. Haberstroh was married in 1880 to Miss Emma Baumgarten ; they have two sons: Emil M. and Arthur F. Haberstroh.
HADLOCK, HARVEY DEMING, born Oct. 7, 1843, is descended, in the seventh generation, from Na- thaniel Hadlock, who came from England in 1638 and settled in Charlestown, was subsequently one of the founders of the town of Lancaster, Mass., and whose son Nathaniel is mentioned in Felt's " His- tory of Salem " as having been fined and punished for declaring " that he could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's preaching, and that in persecuting the Quakers the government was guilty of innocent blood." From his paternal grandmother he is descended from Thomas Manchester, one of the earliest settlers (1642) of Portsmouth, R.I. His father, Edwin Hadlock, a master mariner in early life, succeeded to the shipping and merchandise business established by his father, Captain Samuel Hadlock, after acquiring by purchase " Little Cran- berry Island," and by which he had amassed a fortune. His mother, Mary Ann Stanwood, was de- scended from Phillip Stanwood, one of the earliest settlers (1653) of Gloucester, Mass., and the fourth generation from Job Stanwood, the soldier men- tioned in history, and Martha Bradstreet, his second wife. His preliminary studies were under the su- pervision of his mother and in the schools of his native place until the age of thirteen, when he removed with his parents to Bucksport, Me., where he became a student at the East Maine Conference Seminary. Here, and under private instructors, he
pursued classical studies fully equal to the course prescribed by New England colleges of that day, and subsequently he spent a year in the scientific department of Dartmouth College. In September, 1863, he began the study of law in the office of Hon. Samuel F. Humphrey at Bangor, Me., and under the friendly supervision of ex-Governor Edward Kent, then one of the justices of the Su- preme Judicial Court of Maine ; and on Jan. 6, 1865, he was admitted to the bar of that court and entered upon his legal career at Bucksport, Me. In 1865-6, business having led him to New Orleans, he pursued there the study of civil and maritime law under the direction of the late Christain Roselius, returning to Bucksport after an absence of several months. The spring and summer of 1868 he passed at Omaha, Neb., where he was admitted to practice in the courts of Nebraska, both State and Federal. Returning East he was, on Oct. 7, 1868, admitted as an attorney and counsellor of the Su- preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and began practice at Boston. The following spring he was admitted to practise in the State and Federal courts of the State of New York. In the autumn of 1869 he returned to Boston, engaged largely in criminal cases, in the defence of which he was very suc- cessful, and in 1871 proceeded to Maine and at- tended railroad meetings relating to the construc- tion of a line of railway leading from Bangor to some eastern point, via Bucksport. In the spring of 1873, the construction of the road being as- sured, he resumed practice at Bucksport, and sub- sequently was retained as counsel for the Bucksport & Bangor Railroad, of which corporation he was one of the directors. From ISSI to 1887 he re- sided in Portland, Me., maintaining as a member of the Cumberland bar his leading position, and adding new laurels to his fame as a successful prac- titioner in causes involving the most important in- terests of railway corporations, patents, and maritime affairs, as well as criminal cases ; and it was said that he tried more causes and was capable of doing more work than any other lawyer in that city. Many of his clients at this time were residents of adjoining States, and he was employed in various professional affairs. In 1887 he removed to Bos- ton, where he has resided up to the present time, the range of his practice extending beyond the limits of the State and Federal courts of New Eng- land and New York, and embracing cases of great moment pending in the Supreme Court of the United States. On Jan. 26, 1865, he was married to Miss Alexene I. Goodell, of Searsport, Me., and has two children living, Inez and Webster ; his eld-
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est son, Harvey Deming Hadlock, jr., born Dec. 4, 1870, died Jan. 22, 1886, from accidental shooting while handling a revolver.
HAILE, WILLIAM HENRY, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1890, 1891, and 1892, son of William and Sebrana Haile, was born in Chesterfield, N.H., Sept. 23, 1833. His father, who was a success- ful merchant and manufacturer, was also the first Re- publican governor of New Hampshire, and when Mr. Haile was quite young removed to Hinsdale, N.H., where the lad's boyhood was passed. He received his education in the public schools of the place, prepar- ing for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H. He attended Amherst College for a year and a half, leaving there to enter Dartmouth, from which institution he graduated with high honors in 1856. Mr. Haile then studied law in Springfield, Mass., and after being admitted to the bar practised in Boston for a while. His tastes, however, ran in another direction, and he soon removed to Hinsdale, N.H., where he engaged in the manufacture of woollen goods, becoming the partner of his father and Hon.
publican side. In the years 1865, 1866, and 1871 he was a representative from the town of Hinsdale in the New Hampshire Legislature, and soon after he returned to Springfield this State. In 1881 he was elected mayor of that city. In 1882 and 1883 he was elected State senator from the First Hamp- 'den Senatorial District, serving on the committees on military affairs, mercantile affairs, banks and banking, and manufactures. In the autumn of 1889 he was nominated as lieutenant-governor on the Republican ticket, with John Q. A. Brackett at the head, and was elected at the subsequent election in November. He ran again in 1890 and 1891, and although the head of the ticket was in each case defeated, he received the election to the office for which he was nominated. He is recog- nized as a leader in his party. Mr. Haile was married Jan. 1, 1861, to Miss Amelia L. Chapin, daughter of Ethan S. and Louisa B. Chapin, of Springfield ; they have had three children : William C., who died on Aug. 14, 1864, Alice, and Henry Chapin Haile.
HALE, EDWIN B., son of Aaron and Mary (Kent) Hale, was born in Oxford, Grafton county, N.H., June 16, 1839. He was educated in the district school, in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., and in Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in the class of 1865. Then he took the regular course in the Harvard Law School, and, admitted to the bar, began the practice of his profession in Boston in partnership with James B. Richardson - an association which still continues. When he moved to this State Mr. Hale made his home in Cambridge, and before beginning the practice of law .he was superintendent of the public schools there. In 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature, holding positions on im- portant committees and taking a leading part in the work of the sessions. Mr. Hale is unmarried.
HALL, BOARDMAN, son of Col. Joseph F. and Mary M. (Fanow) Hall, was born in Bangor, Me., April 18, 1856. He was educated in the West- brook Seminary, Dr. Hanson's Preparatory School of Waterville, Me., and Colby University. He studied law in the Boston University Law School, and his first professional connection was with the office of Hon. William H. Mclellan, attorney- general of Maine, in 1879. He has since practised in Boston, and was for some time assistant United States attorney. He has met with marked success, especially in criminal cases. He defended Jacob
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Rufus S. Frost, of Chelsea, the concern being known as Haile, Frost, & Co. This partnership was very successful, and subsequently was transformed into a corporation entitled The Haile & Frost Manufac- turing Company, Mr. Haile becoming the treasurer. He early interested himself in politics, on the Re- and Chaskell Bostwick in the Cross-street homi-
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cide case, Frank Nelson for the homicide of Lena Johnson, and Daniel H. Wilson for the homicide of his wife. He was counsel for Capt. Edward J. Reed and the owner of the bark " Petrel" in the
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scurvy cases tried October, 1890, in the United States courts ; defended David Wilbur Wood, opium smuggler ; was counsel for Leda Lamontague, extra- dition case ; and was in the Foss will case and the whiskey-trust cases. He has been a member of the Boston school committee, and has done newspaper work and law editing.
HALL, E. H., son of Horace Hall, of North Read- ing, was born in North Berwick, Me., Sept. 17, 1864. In 1875 his family moved to this State, where he received a high-school education, to- gether with a thorough course in a commercial college and in music. In 1882 he entered the em- ploy of his brother, C. P. Hall, a dry-goods mer- chant on Washington street, remaining one and one-half years. Having an ambition for decoration in drapery, he secured a position in the drapery and upholstery department of C. F. Hovey & Co., Summer street. The experience gained while there, together with the study of works on modern drapery, upholstery, and mural decoration, well equipped him as a practical decorator, and he went directly from Hovey & Co. into the service of H. J. Allen & Co., interior decorators on West street.
Upon the dissolution of this firm he formed a co- partnership, Oct. 1, 1888, with Walter B. Allen, under the firm name of Allen, Hall, & Co., at No. 88 Boylston street, beginning business with limited capital. During the three years of their united efforts they have become well established, and are now recognized among the leading interior decora- tors of Boston ; they employ from forty to sixty expert workmen and artists. They are enabled to make estimates for the entire interior furnishings of fine residences, which is their specialty. Much of their work is to be seen in the Back Bay district. The entire interiors of the houses of Myron W. Whitney in Watertown, and George E. Keith in Brockton, are among the fine interiors which they have completed. Mr. Hall was married Dec. 17, 1888, in Wolfborough, N.H., to Miss Abbie A. Whitton, daughter of Charles A. Whitton, of that town.
HALL, WILLIAM DUDLEY, M.D., was born in Bridge- port, Conn., July 13, 1856. He obtained his early education in the public schools and boarding-schools of his native town and vicinity, graduating from Phillips (Exeter) Academy in 1876. Entering Har- vard College, he graduated in 1880; then he went through the Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1883. Dr. Hall was house officer at the Car- ney Hospital one year, and then interne of the Eye and Ear Infirmary for two years. He has practised in Boston since 1886. He is assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Eye and Ear Infirmary and surgeon to the Boston Dispensary and the St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the New England Ophthalmological Society.
HALSEY, FREDERICK WADSWORTH, M.D., son of the late Cornelius E. Halsey, of Plattsburg, N.Y., was born in that city July 3, 1849. He was edu- cated in the public schools and the academy there, and graduated M.D. from Columbia College, D.C., in 1871. He was first appointed resident physician to the Asylum Hospital at Washington, D.C. ; after- wards served nine months at the Homeopathic Dispensary in Albany, N.Y. ; then established him- self at Port Henry, N.Y., where he remained four years ; then went to Middleboro, Vt., where he practised ten years; and then (in IS85) came to Boston, where he has since remained successfully practising his profession. He was rectal surgeon to the Murdock Hospital for four years, and is now lecturer on rectal surgery in the Boston University School of Medicine. He is a member of the
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Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, of a year. He soon entered the office of Benson & the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society, the American Institute of Homoeopathy, the Surgical and Gynæcological Society, and the Hahnemann Club. He has been a frequent contributor to medical journals. Dr. Halsey was married Feb. 14, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of George C. Chapman, of Middleboro, Vt.
HAMLIN, EDWARD SUMNER, eldest son of Nathan Sumner and Harriet (Fletcher) Hamlin, was born in Westford, Mass., June 28, 1830; died Feb. 2, 1888. The Hamlin family were among the promi- nent Cape Cod early settlers; James Hamlin came to Cape Cod in 1650, settling in Barn- stable : his brother, Giles Hamlin, settled in Middle- town, Conn. Eleazer Hamlin, the great-grand- father of Edward S., was born in Harwich, Mass .; moved to Pembroke, from which town he com- manded a company in the Revolutionary War ; afterwards promoted to the rank of major; then moved to Harvard, and from there to Westford. Here the father of Edward S. was born. He was for many years town clerk, and chairman of the
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board of selectmen and overseers of the poor. He also served in the Legislature. In politics he was a Democrat. Edward S. was educated at Westford Academy. At the age of twenty he came to Boston and went to work at a salary of one hundred dollars
Pray, coal merchants, as clerk. Next he entered into a copartnership with the late Royal Bosworth, and as wholesale and retail coal-merchants they continued together until about the year 1881, when Mr. Bosworth retired. Mr. Hamlin then carried on the business alone until his death. Since his death the business, which had become one of the largest in New England, has been successfully continued by his sons Edward and George P. Hamlin. . In politics Mr. Hamlin, like his father, was a stanch Democrat, but while he took an active interest in public matters he never would consent to run for office. He was a prominent Mason. Of his four sons, Edward and George P., as has been stated, continued the coal business, and Charles S., the eldest, is a prominent lawyer, with offices in the Equitable Building. The youngest son is Frederick D. H. Mr. Hamlin left also two daughters, Harriet G. and Jane G. C. Hamlin. Mr. Hamlin was a cousin to the late Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, of Bangor, Me.
HAMMER, CHARLES D., son of Charles and Susan (Dunkel) Hammer, both Pennsylvanians, was born in Baltimore, Md., March 9, 1844. His education was attained in the public schools of Cleveland, O. He early entered the coal business in Pennsyl- vania. He began his present business in 1875, as a solicitor for the Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, in that city, and in 1886 he was sent to Chicago as one of the general agents for Illinois. On the Ist of April, 1891, he came to Boston, as manager of the company's oldest and largest agency. Mr. Hammer served three years during the Civil War, first as private, then adjutant, and then as captain in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry of the Army of the Cumberland. He is now a member of the Military Oder of the Loyal Legion. On Jan. 7, 1875, he was married in Philadelphia. He has one child, Helen F. Hammer.
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