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HAMMOND, JOHN WILKES, son of John and Maria Louise Hammond, was born in the little town now called Mattapoisett, then a part of Rochester, Mass., Dec. 16, 1837. His father died when he was quite young, and his youth was passed in the small village, where he was educated at the district school. Later he fitted for college at the academy in the town, and entered Tufts, graduating in the class of 1861. In 1861 and a part of 1862 he taught school in Stoughton and Tisbury, and in September of the latter year he enlisted in Com-
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pany I of the Third Massachusetts Volunteers. from which he graduated in 1873. He began practice in the Charlestown district, where he is
Returning in June, 1863, he taught the high schools of Wakefield and Melrose ; but the legal profession claimed his attention, and he pursued his studies in the Harvard Law School, and also read in the office of Sweetser & Gardner in Boston. Admitted to the bar, he practised in Middlesex county courts until March 10, 1886, when he was appointed to the bench of the superior court, which position he still holds. Judge Hammond represented Cambridge in the lower house of the Legislature during 1872 and 1873 ; and from April, 1873, to the time he re- ceived his judgeship he was city solicitor. He has filled his judicial office with honor, and has in many instances proved himself to be a discriminating and careful expounder of the law. Judge Hammond was married in Taunton on Aug. 15, 1866, to Miss Clara
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Ellen Tweed, daughter of Benjamin F. Tweed ; they have had three children : Frank, Clara Maria, and John Wilkes Hammond, jr.
HAMMOND, WILLIAM PENN, M.D., son of Josiah S. and Betsey (Parker) Hammond, was born in Plymp- ton, Mass., Sept. 15, 1843. His early education was attained in local schools; he was prepared for college at Phillips (Andover) Academy, and entering Amherst, graduated in 1869. He studied medicine with Drs. Gordon and Brewster, of Plymouth, and then took a course in the Harvard Medical School,
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now established, recognized as a leading surgeon. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the City Hospital Club, and the Harvard Medical School Association ; and he is connected with the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows, and numerous fraternal societies. On Sept. 17, 1873, Dr. Hammond was married to Miss Sarah A. Harrup; they have one child, Elizabeth P. Ham- mond.
HARDING, EDWARD MITCHELL, M.D., was born in Yarmouth, Me., Dec. 16, 1852. He obtained his early education at the North Yarmouth Academy, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City in March, 1874. He then went abroad, returning in 1876 and settling in Woburn, where he practised one year, at the end of which time he removed to South Boston. While here he was connected with the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. In July, 1879, he was ap- pointed assistant superintendent of the State Hos- pital for the Insane at Danvers, where he remained until near the close of 1880. Since that time he has been in practice in Boston. He is medical examiner for the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Associ- ation of New York city, and for the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and surgeon of the Theatrical
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Mechanics' Association. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
HARDY, JOHN HENRY, was born in Hollis, N.H., done much building, having erected and sold
Feb. 2, 1847. He fitted for college at the academies in Mt. Vernon and New Ipswich, N.H., and entered Dartmouth in 1866, graduating in 1870. Next he attended the Harvard Law School, and read law with Robert M. Morse, jr., also acting in the capac- ity of teacher in Chauncy Hall School. In Janu- ary, 1872, he was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He then formed a law connection with George W. Morse, under the firm name of Morse & Hardy. Two years later he associated himself with Samuel J. Elder and Thomas W. Proctor, under the name of Hardy, Elder, & Proctor, the firm continuing until Mr. Hardy was given a position on the bench of the municipal court, which he still holds. He was in the army, in the Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers. He was elected to the lower house of the Legislature from Arlington 1881-4, and was Arlington town counsel from 1873 to 1885.
HARRINGTON,. CHARLES, M.D., was born in Salem, Mass., July 29, 1856. After instruction in the schools of that city, and spending a year at Bowdoin College, he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in the class of 1878. Then he took the Harvard Medical School course, graduating in 1881. During the last year of his connection with the Medical School he served as house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital. The next two years were spent in special study at the University of Leipzig, Strasburg, and Munich. In 1883 he re- turned to the Harvard Medical School as assistant in chemistry, and in the -same year he was ap- pointed chemist to the State board of health. In 1885 he was appointed instructor in hygiene in the Harvard Medical School, which position he still holds. In 1889 he was appointed inspector of milk and vinegar for the city of Boston.
street. They handle suburban and farm property, and employ fifteen salesmen to attend to their ex- tensive business in this line. Mr. Harrington has twenty-five houses in 1890, eleven of them in Som- erville. He has done much to develop the suburbs,
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particularly the cities and towns of Somerville, Belmont, Malden, and Everett. Mr. Harrington is a prominent citizen of Lexington, where he re- sides, and is concerned in promoting its social and political interests. He was married in Worcester May 3, 1881, to Miss Miriam A. Temple, eldest daughter of Luther and Rozan Temple.
HARRIS, FRANCIS AUGUSTINE, M.D., the medical examiner for the northern district of Suffolk county, was born in Ashland March 5, 1845. He was educated in the common schools of Rindge, N.H., and later in West Cambridge (now Arlington). He graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1862, and the same year entered Harvard College, graduating in 1866, and receiving the degree of A.B. He received the degree of M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1872. During the interim between the time of graduation from the academic department and from the medical school he was engaged as master of the Boston Latin School for three years. In 1871 also he was appointed
HARRINGTON, EDWARD T., eldest son of Tyler and Caroline (Atherton) Harrington, was born in Bolton, Mass., Dec. 14, 1842. He was educated in the public schools in Worcester and vicinity. Coming to Boston in 1873, he entered the real- estate business, and in 1876 formed a partnership with Benjamin C. Putnam. In 1882 he sold out to Mr. Putnam and retired, but in 1885 bought and continued the business. He admitted his book- keeper, Charles A. Gleason, into partnership, and on Jan. 1, 1890, established the present firm of Edward T. Harrington & Co., at No. 35 Congress surgical interne in the Massachusetts General
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Hospital. The year following his graduation in Hull Yacht Clubs. In 1850 Mr. Hart was married, medicine from Harvard he passed in the medical in Boston, to Miss Elizabeth Snow, of Bowdoin, Me. : they have one child, a daughter (now Mrs. C. W. Ernst). Mr. Hart's city home is on Common- wealth avenue, and his summer home at Galloupe's point, Swampscott. school of the University of Vienna. In June, 1877, he was appointed to his present position, medical examiner for the northern district of Suffolk county, it being the first appointment made under the new law. He has been demonstrator of medico-legal examinations in the Harvard Medical School for ten or twelve years, and for several years he was professor of surgery at the Boston Dental Col- lege. Among Dr. Harris' classmates in Harvard College were William Blaikie, the athlete ; Dr. Charles Brigham, of San Francisco, who distin- guished himself in the Franco-Prussian War ; Henry Rolfe, who is at the head of the Masonic order in the State of Nevada; Moorfield Story ; and others of note. Dr. Harris is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; of the Papyrus Club, being president of that organization in 1882 ; and of the St. Botolph Club. He is a lover of the drama, and has written several plays, among them " Chums " and " My Son," the latter having a most successful run at the Boston Museum, and afford- ing the late William Warren one of his most famous parts, that of " Herr Weigel."
HART, THOMAS NORTON, son of Daniel and Margaret (Norton) Hart, was born in North Read- ing, Mass., Jan. 20, 1829. His father's ancestors settled in Lynnfield, and his mother's father was Major John Norton, of Royalston, who fought in the Revolution. Thomas N. Hart was educated in the schools of his native town, and when a lad of thirteen he came to Boston to earn his living. He first found employment in the dry-goods store of Wheelock, Pratt, & Co. Two years later, in 1844, he entered a hat store. In this business he made steady progress, and in course of time became a partner in the firm of Philip A. Locke & Co. Sub- sequently he founded the prosperous house of Hart, Taylor, & Co. About the year 1879 he retired from the business with a competency. Soon after he assumed the presidency of the Mount Vernon National Bank, of which he is still the head. Mr. Hart is an earnest Republican. He has been a member of the Boston common council ( 1879, 1880, and 1881), of the board of aldermen ( 1882, 1885, and 1886), and mayor of the city ( 1889 and 1890). In 1891 he was appointed by President Harrison postmaster of Boston, which position he still holds. He is identified with a number of societies and organizations, is treasurer of ,the American Uni- tarian Association, an officer of the Church of the Unity, and a member of the Algonquin and the
HARVEY, JOHN FRANKLIN, M.D., son of Moses C. and Amanda ( Knox) Harvey, was born in Lowell, Mass., Aug. 26, 1847. His parents moved to Law- rence when he was but a year old, and there he obtained his early education in the public schools. He entered the College of the City of New York in 1882, taking special courses, and graduated in 1889. After leaving school and before entering college he was at work, and while pursuing his medical studies he continued in business, to obtain the means to meet the expense of his education. At one time during this period he was a leather salesman on the road. He began the practice of his profession in New York city, and moved to Boston in July, 1890. His specialty is gynæcology and obstetrics. He is now demonstrator of anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of other medi- cal organizations, and is prominent in the Masonic order, thirty-second degree, Knights Templar, the Ancient Order United Workmen, and the Golden Cross. On Jan. 7, 1887, he was married to Miss Minnie J., daughter of Obed Tingley, of New Brunswick.
HARWOOD, JOSEPH ALFRED, son of Colonel Nahum and Sophia ( Kimball) Harwood, was born in Little- ton, Mass., March 26, 1827. He is of old English stock, a descendant of Nathaniel Harwood of colo- nial days. He obtained his school training in the public schools of his native place, and in the academies of Westford, Exeter, N.H., and Groton. He began farming and stock-raising on the old homestead at the age of sixteen, and taught dis- trict schools winters from the age of seventeen to twenty-four. In 1868 he went into partnership with his brother Nahum, under the firm name of J. A. & N. Harwood, for the manufacture of leather board, with factory at Leominster and store in Boston. He follows the same business at the present time, having added the manufacture of chair-seats and chairs for public halls, etc., under the company title " Harwood Manufacturing Co." He is still extensively engaged in farming and stock- raising on the old homestead, which has been in his family more than one hundred and fifty years, and under his management has grown to be one of the
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finest estates in the Commonwealth. Mr. Harwood has been a member of the school board ; post- master of Littleton twenty-one years ; first president of the Farmers' Club of Littleton; trustee of the Middlesex County Agricultural Society ; was on the staff of Governor Washburn, also of acting Gov- ernor Talbot ; a senator in the Legislature of 1875 and 1876 ; and an executive councillor 1877, 1878, 1879, with Governors Rice and Talbot. In 1882 he was a prominent candidate for lieutenant-gov- ernor before the Republican convention of that year. He is at present trustee of the Westford Academy and of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst ; president of the Live Stock In- surance Company, Boston ; and director in the New York Mutual Reserve Fund Insurance Company. He is a member of the Unitarian Club, the Mid- dlesex Club, and the Home Market Club. He was influential in getting the United States cattle quarantine established in Littleton. When in the senate, it was through his influence and efforts that the State prison was built at Concord. During his second term as senator occurred the celebrations of the Lexington and Concord centennials, and he was made chairman of the joint special committee of the Legislature which had the matter in hand, in- cluding the entertainment of General Grant and his cabinet. General Grant afterwards wrote him an autograph letter expressing his appreciation of the manner in which he and his suite had been re- ceived. Mr. Harwood was married in Littleton Feb. 11, 1852, to Lucy Maria, daughter of the Hon. Jonathan and Elizabeth Briard (Walker) Hartwell. Of this union were two children : Her- bert Joseph, who graduated at Harvard College 1877, and Edward. Alfred Harwood, who died in infancy.
HASSAM, JOHN TYLER, son of John and Abby (Hilton) Hassam, was born in Boston Sept. 20, 1841. He is a lineal descendant of William Has- sam who settled in Manchester, Mass., about 1684. He fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in the class of 1863. From December 8, that year, to Aug. 1, 1864, he served in the army as first lieutenant of the Seventy- fifth United States Colored Infantry, taking part in the Red River campaign. In February, 1865, he began his law studies in the office of A. A. Ranney, and Dec. 13, 1867, was admitted to the bar. In his practice he has devoted himself principally to conveyancing. From April, 1873, to April, 1874, he travelled extensively abroad. In February, 1867, he was elected a member of the Historic Genea-
logical Society, and his interest in genealogical and historical matters has been unflagging. He was one of the directors and is now one of the council of that society, and for six years he was chairman of its committee on library. He first set on foot the exhaustive researches in England, undertaken
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by the society through Henry F. Waters, and is chairman of the committee under whose direction the work has been carried on. He is a frequent contributor to the " New England Historical and Genealogical Register," and a number of his anti- quarian and genealogical papers have been reprinted in separate form. He was one of the original mem- bers of the Boston Antiquarian Club, organized in 1879, and subsequently, in 1881, merged in the Bostonian Society ; he was one of the corporate members of the latter society, and was for nine years a member of its board of directors; he is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, elected in 1881 ; a member of the American His- torical Association ; a corresponding member of the Weymouth Historical Society ; and a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association. In 1884
he was appointed by the Superior Court of Suffolk county one of the commissioners under whose authority the indices in the Registry of Deeds are made, and the reindexing of the entire mass of records there, upon the present plan, is the result of his efforts. The printing of the early volumes
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of the Suffolk deeds is due solely to him. He suc- ceeded in rescuing from threatened destruction a large part of the original court-files of Suffolk county, and in obtaining the appropriation neces- sary for their preservation and proper arrangement ; through his exertions the records, files, papers, and documents in the State department have been arranged and made accessible for reference. He is an earnest advocate of land-transfer reform, and was the first member of the Suffolk bar to call public attention to the Australian or Torrens system of registration of title. This reform he has advo- cated in communications in the public press and before committees of the Legislature. An article by him on " Land Transfer Reform," published in the " Harvard Law Review " for January, 1891, has been reprinted by the special committee of the State Legislature. He has prepared a bill providing for the introduction of the system of registration of titles in this Commonwealth. Mr. Hassam was married in Salem Feb. 14, 1878, to Miss Nelly Alden Batchelder, daughter of Dr. John Henry Batchelder, of Salem ; they have one child : Eleanor Hassam.
HASTINGS, CAROLINE ELIZA, M.D., was born in Barre, Mass., April 21, 1841. She was educated in the local schools of her native town, and in the Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary at South Hadley. After graduating from the seminary she taught for a time in district schools, and then, in 1863, began the study of medicine. In 1868 she grad- uated M.D. from the New England Female Med- ical College of Boston (united in 1874 with the Boston University School of Medicine). She also took a course in the Polyclinic School of New York, under Carl Huntzmann, and spent some time studying in the hospitals of Vienna. In 1870 she began the practice of her profession, estab- lishing herself in Boston. She was made assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the Boston University Medical School upon the opening of that institu- tion ; three years later was appointed demonstrator and lecturer ; and in 1880 was made professor of anatomy, which position she held for seven years, finally resigning it on account of the pressure of her private practice. She is a member of the Boston and Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Societies, the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the International Hahnemannian Society. For several years she has been a leading and influential member of the Boston school committee (now serving a third term), and has been prominent in reform work.
HASTINGS, LEWIS M., Cambridge city engineer, was born in Weston, Mass., in 1853. He was educated in the public schools, and took a scientific course at Comer's Commercial College in Boston. In 1870 he entered the office of W. S. Barbour, civil engineer, Boston. In 1871 he was engaged by J. G. Chase in the office of the city engineer of Cambridge. Upon the election of Mr. Barbour to that office he was appointed first assistant engineer, and this position he held until the death of Mr. Barbour, when, in April, 1889, he was elected to the vacancy. Mr. Hastings is a member of Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and of the New England Water Works Association. He belongs to the Franklin Council of the Royal Arcanum and the Colonial Club of Cambridge.
HASTY, JOHN A., architect, was born in Water- borough, Me., Aug. 31, 1857. He early had the ad- vantage of a thorough training as a carpenter and builder, which experience has been of great assist- ance to him in his profession. He entered the ranks of architects in Boston in 1886, and early received some important commissions. The hand- some brown-stone building of the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Cambridgeport, and the residences of W. H. Wood in Cambridgeport and of William Austin in Brookline, the club-house for the Colonial Club, Cambridge, and the boat-house for Riverside Boat Club are his work. He has also designed a number of country places and buildings which are especially artistic. Mr. Hasty was mar- ried in 1882 to Annie F. Hasty, of Limerick, Me.
HAYNES, JOHN CUMMINGS, son of John Dearborn and Eliza Walker (Stevens) Haynes, was born in Brighton, Mass., Sept. 9, 1829. He was educated in the public schools of Boston, finishing in the English High School, under Masters Bacon and Robinson. He left school at the age of fifteen, as his parents needed his active help. In July, 1845, he went as a boy into the employ of the late Oliver Ditson, the celebrated music-publisher. Here he remained until his majority, when he became inter- ested in the business, receiving a percentage of the sales. On Jan. 1, 1857, he became a partner, and the style of the firm was then changed to Oliver Ditson & Co. The death of Oliver Ditson, in December, 1888, dissolved the firm, in which Mr. Haynes had been a partner for thirty-two years. The surviving partners (Mr. Haynes and Mr. Charles H. Ditson, son of Oliver Ditson) and the executors of the estate of Oliver Ditson at once organized a corporation, under the laws of Mas-
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sachusetts, under the title of the "Oliver Ditson Company," admitting as stockholders several of the best of the young men who had grown up with the business. Mr. Haynes became the president and Charles H. Ditson treasurer of the new corporation, with headquarters in the buildings Nos. 449 and 451. Washington street. The branch houses are : . John C. Haynes & Co., Boston, Charles H. Ditson & Co., New York, and J. E. Ditson & Co., Philadel- phia. The growth of the publishing house of Oliver Ditson & Co. has been identical with the growth of musical taste and culture in the United States. Its
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influence as a civilizing' and refining agent, as the country has developed, has been marked. Mr. Haynes has also been interested in large and suc- cessful real-estate ventures that have materially added to the assessed valuation of the city of Bos- ton, where he has resided for over fifty years. When a young man he was instrumental in organ- izing the Franklin Library Association, and his con- nection with it for many years was of great advantage to him in his early training and culture. He is a life member of the Mercantile Library Asso- ciation, of the Young Men's Christian Union, of the Women's Industrial Union, and of the Aged Couples' Home Society ; he is one of the trustees of the Franklin Savings Bank; a director in the Massachusetts Title Insurance Company and Pru- dential Fire Insurance Company ; treasurer of the
Free Religious Association ; member of the Massa- chusetts Club, Home Market Club, and the Boston Merchants' Association. He joined the Free Soil party when a young man, and went with it into the Republican party, with which he is still identified. He was a member of the Boston common council four years, from 1862 to 1865 inclusive. In early life, after having been for many years a scholar in one of the Baptist Sunday-schools of the city, he became interested in the preaching of Theodore Parker. That was in 1848, and ever since he has been connected with the Twenty-eighth Congrega- tional Society, which was organized to allow Mr. Parker to be heard in Boston, serving for many years as chairman of its standing committee. He was active in the construction of the Parker Memo- rial Building, and in its recent transfer to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, the object of this transfer being to perpetuate the memory of Theodore Parker in practical, charitable, educa- tional, and religious work. He was also one of the organizers of the Parker Fraternity of Boston, for many years a powerful social and religious society. The "Parker Fraternity Course of Lectures," sustained for nearly twenty years, were remark- able for their influence in moulding and direct- ing public opinion, especially during the Civil War and the years of reconstruction immediately following. In the first course Mr. Parker deliv- ered his celebrated lectures on Washington, Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson. Mr. Haynes was married in Boston, by Theodore Parker, May 1, 1855, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. Charles and Frances (Seabury) Spear. Of this union were seven children : Alice Fanny (Mrs. M. Morton Holmes), Theodore Parker (deceased), Lizzie Gray (Mrs. O. Gordon Rankine), Jennie Eliza (Mrs. Fred. O. Hurd), Cora Marie (Mrs. E. Harte Day), Mabel Stevens, and Edith Margaret Haynes.
HAYNES, TILLY, son of Lyman and Caroline (Hunt) Haynes, was born in Sudbury, Middlesex county, Feb. 13, 1828. On his father's side he is a direct descendant of Walter Haynes, who was born in England 1583, and came to America in 1635 from the parish of Sutton-Mandeville, Salisbury, county of Wilts. From the General Court of the colony he obtained a grant of land in Sudbury, where he settled, being one of the original founders of that town. On the maternal side Mr. Haynes is directly descended from William Hunt, who came over in 1635 and settled in Concord, where he received a grant of land and was one of the original founders. When Tilly Haynes was but two years old his father
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