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Harvard Law School, graduating in 1881. Then he entered the office of George S. Haie. Admitted to the bar in 1882, he joined a partnership fir -: with H. Eugene Bowles, and then with William C. Tarbell, which continued until 1886. In January, 1887, he became associated with Charles J. McIn- tire. Mr. Hunt was a member of the school com- mittee of Cambridge from 1883 to 1887, of the common council in 1888, and of the State senate in 1890. In the senate he was upon the commit- tees on the judiciary, on elections, and on contested election cases, and was chairman of that on bills in the third reading. He was principally instrumental in getting the Harvard-bridge project through the senate. Mr. Hunt, his father, and his grandfather occupied the same seat in the senate. On June 8, 1887, Mr. Hunt was married to Miss Abbie Brooks, daughter of Sumner J. Brooks, of Cambridge ; they have one child : Edith Brooks Hunt.
HUNT, WILLIAM PRESCOTT, son of Caleb and Re- becca (Pool) Hunt, was born in Bath, N.H., Jan. 14, 1827. His father was a woollen-manufacturer at Bath, N.H., and imported the first carding- machine used in that State, and his mother, a native of Hollis, N.H., was a cousin of W. H. Prescott, the historian. He was fitted for Dartmouth Col- lege, but receiving an offer from the South Boston Iron Company, he entered the service of that cor- poration in August, 1847, and has continued identi- fied with it and its successors to the present time. He was elected treasurer of the South Boston Iron Company in 1863, and president and treasurer in 1876, and has held the same offices in the corpora-
tions succeeding that company. He has been president of the Forbes Lithographic Manufactur- ing Company from 1875 to 1892 ; was president of the Boston Machine Company from 1864 to 1884 ; has been a director in the Boston Lead Manufactur- ing Company since 1880; and was a director in the Cavan Cotton-Gin Company from 1860 to 1888. He was elected a director of the Atlas National Bank in 1872, and president in 1878, serving until 1882 ; and he was a director in the Manufacturers' Insurance Company from 1872 to 1882. Mr. Hunt was first married in 1856, to Miss Catherine Mullen, of New York city ; she died in 1869. In 1871 he married Miss Helen S. Cum- mings, of New Bedford. He has five children : Mary E., William Prescott, Henry M., Arthur P., and John Cummings Hunt.
HUNTRESS, GEORGE L., was born in Lowell, Mass., April 4, 1848. He was prepared for college at
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Phillips (Andover) Academy, and entering Yale, partment of the Gulf until the close of the war. graduated in the class of 1870. He was a member of the Harvard Law School in 1871, then studied law in the office of Ives & Lincoln, in Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1872. He was a member of the firm of Ives, Lincoln, & Huntress until 1882, since which time he has prac- tised alone, his office now being in the Sears Build- ing. Mr. Huntress is a Republican in politics, and in 1881-2 he represented Ward II in the common council of the city of Boston.
HUTCHINSON, EBEN, son of Ebenezer and Lois W. (Williams) Hutchinson, was born in Athens, Me.,
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While leading his battalion in a desperate charge at Marianna, Fla., he received two gunshot wounds, - one in the ankle, the other in the fleshy part of the hip. The surgeons were unable to extract the ball from his hip, and he will carry it through life. At the close of the war he received unsought the position of chief commissioner of Alabama, with headquar- ters at the State House in the city of Montgom- ery, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of President Lincoln's amnesty proclamation. He was not mustered out of service until nearly a year after the surrender of Lee. In 1866 Colonel Hutchinson came to Boston, settled in Chelsea, and was admitted to practise in all the courts of this Commonwealth. In 1874 he was appointed special justice of the Chelsea police court. In 1875 he was elected city solicitor, to which position he was regularly reelected for five successive years. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1878, serving as chairman of the committee on bills in the third reading, and clerk of the committee on towns. In 1879 he was elected to the senate, and again served as chairman of the committee on bills in the third reading; also chairman of the joint committee on towns, and as a member of the joint committee on taxation. In 1880 he was reelected to the senate, and was chairman of the committee on · towns and federal relations, and of the senate com- mittee on probate and chancery. August 2, 1880, he was reappointed a special justice of the Chelsea police court, and on November 6 of the same year he was qualified as standing justice of the same court, to fill the vacancy caused by the decease of Hon. Hamlett Bates. Judge Hutchinson does an extensive law-practice, having offices both in Boston and in Chelsea. He is a large real-estate owner in the suburbs of Boston, and has a fine resi- dence in Chelsea, where there is collected one of the best private libraries in the State. He was first married in Skowhegan, Me., Nov. 11, 1863, to Rachel W., daughter of Edmund C. and Mary R. (Humphrey) Lane. Mrs. Hutchinson died Feb- ruary, 1880. On August 20, 1882, Judge Hutchin- son was married to Abbie A. Lane. His children are Maud Hutchinson and Eben Hutchinson, jr.
Aug. 2, 1841. After a time spent in the public schools he studied at the Somerset, Bloomfield, and Waterville Academies, receiving a thorough college training. Then he entered the office of his father, at that time one of the ablest lawyers of the Somer- set bar, and in 1862 was admitted to practise in all the courts of Maine. He did not long busy himself, however, with briefs of clients, but entered the army as a private in the Twenty-fourth Maine Volunteers. His record as a soldier was most excellent. He INGALLS, WILLIAM, M.D., who bears the name of his father, who practised medicine in Boston for the first half of this century, was born in Port- land street, Boston, Jan. 12, 1813. He was pre- pared for college at Phillips (Andover) Academy, rapidly rose in position from the grade of a private soldier to that of lieutenant-colonel. Upon the mustering out of his regiment, he entered the Second Regiment Maine Cavalry Veteran Volunteers as major. In this regiment he served in the De- and entered Harvard in 1831, in the class of 1835.
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Among his classmates were E. R. Hoar, Amos A. Lawrence, Henry Lyon, and other good fellows who afterwards became renowned. He left college in 1832 and began the study of medicine under Dr. Charles Harrison Stedman, who was the surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital in Chelsea ; and in 1836 he received the degree of M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Having practised his profession in Boston until 1839, he was invited by friends to go to the Southwest. He settled in the parish of West Feliciana, La., among planta- tions, whither the following year he brought his
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wife. Here, for about eight years, he pursued his professional duties, at times of a most exacting and laborious character, and acquired many friends ; and he finaliy left there, returning to Boston, chiefly on account of the loss of his wife's health. Two years after his return (in 1849) he was appointed surgeon of the Marine Hospital in Chelsea, by President Taylor, and this position he held, per- forming its duties faithfully and creditably, until 1853, when he was superseded by President Pierce. Then he practised in Winchester until 1862, when he was appointed surgeon to the Fifth Massachu- setts Infantry, and left October 22 for Newberne, N.C. In December he was detailed for duty in South Carolina, associated with Surgeon George A. Otis, of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment. In October the following year he was appointed
surgeon to the Fifty-ninth Regiment, Veteran Vol unteers, and was in charge of the hospital at Read: ville, Mass., until June 18, 1864. Then he again went to the front with his regiment, and Surgeon Hogan, chief of the Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, placed him as surgeon-in-chief of the Third Brigade. On the 23d of June he was detailed as surgeon-in-chief of the Artillery Brigade, Ninth Army Corps, Colonel Tidball, and this service con- tinued until he was mustered out June 12, 1865. Dr. Ingalls then at once resumed practice in Bos- ton. In 1870, at the age of fifty-seven, he was appointed visiting surgeon to the City Hospital. a service for which he was peculiarly fitted by his experience in military surgery during the war. It required a regular attendance of some hours in the hospital wards during the forenoon of every day for four months in each year, and this was diligently continued by Dr. Ingalls for fourteen years, when he resigned the position. It was during this period that -the great fire of 1872 occurred, which was followed by the extensive building operations in the burnt district. The medical work of the hospital, already large, was made increasingly laborious by the unusual number of accidental injuries, requiring capital operations and other surgical treatment. Extra calls by day and night were frequent at this time, and the night service was especially exacting, the surgeons on many occasions being summoned to the hospital on successive nights. Dr. Ingalls was also during these years the secretary of the association of physicians and surgeons of the hospi- tal, and performed the duties of that office with characteristic precision and interest. In addition to the skill that he had attained by special experi- ence and training, Dr. Ingalls was distinguished by his patient devotion to his work, and especially for his gentle consideration of the thousands of patients in the hospital who came under his hand. The hospital had been open but six years when he was appointed upon its staff, and the term of his service was a most important one ; it was a period of de- velopment, enlargement, and of the establishment of right methods. He was always loyal to the tried principles and best interests of the institution. Dr. Ingalls is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Boston Society for Medical Observa- tion, and the Boston Obstetrical Society ; and he has been connected with the Boston Children's Hospital as surgeon and physician, and a member of the board of managers from its beginning twenty years ago.
INNIS, GEORGE H., commander of the Massachu- setts.department G.A.R., was born at Marblehead
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on Jan. 5, 1845. His early education was received JACK, FREDERICK LAFAYETTE, M.D., was born in Boston Jan. 3, 1861. He was educated in the Boston grammar and Latin schools, and studied medicine in the Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1883 and receiving his degree of M.D). He was then appointed assistant in the aural department of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. In the autumn of 1887 he went to Europe and studied under Politzer and Gruber in Vienna. Upon his return to Boston he resumed the practice of his profession. He is now assistant aural surgeon to the Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, consulting aural surgeon to the Children's Friend Society, Instructor Boston Polyclinic, a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, the American Otological Society, and the Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society. Among his literary contributions may be noted " A Case of Necrosis of the Temporal Bone ; Removal of the Labyrinth ; Recovery." "Adenoid Growths in the Naso-Pharynx; Results of their Removal in Seventy Cases of Middle-Ear Diseases." " Injury of the Ear from a Piece of Wood." All of these have been read before the societies and pub- lished in medical journals. in Marblehead schools, and at the breaking out of the war, although very young, he was a member of Company B, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, of Marblehead. Then on Aug. 16, 1862, he enlisted in the Tenth Massachusetts Light Battery for three years. This battery went into camp at Lynnfield on August 23, and on October 14 left for the front. It was stationed at Washington, D.C., until December 26; when it took up the line of march to Poolsville, Md. Here it remained until June 24, 1863, when it pro- ceeded to Maryland Heights, where it joined the Army of the Potomac, Third Army Corps, with which it was connected until Grant took command of the armies. In March, 1864, Commander Innis was appointed guidon of. the battery, and held this position until he was mustered out, at Gallop's Island, Boston harbor, on Sept. 9, 1865. During his term of service he was engaged in the following battles : Auburn, Kelley's Ford, Mine Run, Wilderness, River Po, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Tolopotomoy Creek, Cold Harbor, siege of Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Reams' Station, Hatch's Run, first and second, Lee's retreat and surrender. He was one of the original members of Dahlgren Post 2, of South Boston, and has passed through the different chairs, including that of commander. He has also occupied the positions of junior and senior vice department-commander of the depart- ment of Massachusetts, and was elected senior vice commander-in-chief G.A.R. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard F. Tobin. He has brought to the honorable office which he now holds the resources of a well-matured mind and uncommon . he remained about six years. Then he was in the executive ability. He was for some time an officer
JACKSON, PHILIP ANDREW, son of Michael and Margaret (Shelly) Jackson, was born in Boston June 12, 1863. He was educated in the Andrew Grammar and the English High Schools, graduating from the latter in 1881. After leaving school he spent about three months in a cotton-buyer's office, and then entered the city surveyor's office. Here sewer department as draughtsman for about two under the sheriff at the Court House in Boston, years, and in the water department the same and Dec. 15, 1890, was appointed on the board of fire commissioners in the place made vacant by the death of Mr. Tobin. period. This he left to take charge of the street- cleaning division under the reorganized street de- partment during Mayor Matthews' administration in 1891, when he was appointed deputy super- intendent of this division. Mr. Jackson is un- married.
JACK, EDWIN EVERETT, M.D., was born in Boston Jan. 25, 1863. He was educated in the grammar and the Boston Latin schools, gradu- ating from the latter in 1880; and at Harvard, graduating A.B. in 1884 and M.D. in 188 ;. Then he spent two years in the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and has since been in private practice. He is a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Society and the New England Oph- thalmological Society. He is physician to the eye department of the Boston Dispensary, and to the St. Elizabeth's Hospital. In 1891 he spent six months in Europe. Dr. Jack is unmarried.
JACKSON, WILLIAM, was born in Brighton, Mass., March 13, 1848. Receiving his early education in the public schools, he entered the Institute of Technology in 1865, leaving it the first of May, 1868, to accept a position at the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. He continued his labors there until 1870. From this date until 1876 he was occupied with the water-works survey and the extension of the system in Brighton and West Roxbury, and with the private practice of engineering. In 1876 he was appointed assistant engineer on the main-drain-
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age work of Boston, and continued in this depart- ment until April, 1885. On the death of Henry M.
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Wightman, Mr. Jackson was elected city engineer, and has held this position ever since. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and the New England Water Works Association; also of the Union Club of Boston and the Engineers' Club of New York.
JACOBS, DAVID H., was born in West Scituate April 5, 1820. When seventeen years old he began to learn the mason's trade with Greenleaf, Cushing, & Adams. For many years he was employed by Nathan Prince, and worked a long time on Fort Independence and the Massachusetts General Hos- pital. Then, in 1873, the firm of David H. Jacobs & Son was formed. Among the many notable buildings erected by them are the Boston City Hall, the Institute of Technology, the Chauncy Hall School, the Quincy House, and School-street Block. They have also erected a number of monuments, including the memorial arch at Tilton, N.H., the Webster monument at Concord, N.H., and the soldiers' monuments at Cambridge, New Bedford, and New Haven, Conn. Mr. Jacobs died in May, 1887, and his son, J. Arthur Jacobs, succeeded to the business, and has since conducted it under the old firm name and style.
JACOBS, J. ARTHUR, son of David H. Jacobs, wa, born in Boston Oct. 15, 1848. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and graduated from the high school in 1866. He went into the woollen business in 1867, and remained for three years. He began to learn the trade of mason and builder in 1870 with his father, and three years after went into partnership with him. The Pierce Building at Cen- tral wharf, numerous store-buildings, and the fire ladder-house on Harrison avenue are his latest works. Mr. Jacobs was one of the founders of the
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Master Builders' Association, and is now one of the most active members of the board of directors.
JEFTS, WILLIAM ALONZO, son of Granville A. and Rebecca (Gould) Jefts, was born in Stoneham, Mass., Nov. 29, 1861. He was educated in the schools of Meirose, and at the Naval Training School at Newport, R. I. He entered the navy, and visited all parts of the world. Leaving this service in 1881, he returned to Stoneham. He started in business with a team on the road, selling house- furnishing goods. Then he opened a store in a small way. Subsequently, moving to Melrose, his business steadily expanded, and to-day he occupies the largest building in Middlesex county devoted to the house-furnishing business. He is recognized as one of the leading merchants in his line in this section. Mr. Jefts is also a director in the Atlas
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Real Estate and Building Company. married.
JENKINS, CHARLES, assistant superintendent of public buildings, son of Charles and Mary (Han- son) Jenkins, was born in Scituate, Mass., Dec. 3, 1826. He received his education in the public schools, and when yet a lad went to sea. Subse- quently he learned the carpenter's trade, apprenticed to Samuel Mason, of Charlestown. He remained with Mr. Mason until 1856. Then he entered the department of public buildings at the Boston City Hall, and was assigned to look after school-houses and keep them in good order. At that time the duties of the office were not so difficult as at the present. He was made assistant superintendent of public buildings by Mr. Tucker when the latter was appointed superintendent. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Masons, the Odd Fellows, Franklin Lodge, and of the order of Red Men. His first wife, whom he married in 1845, was Elizabeth Lawrence ; his second, married in 1886, was Emma Halstick.
JENKINS, EDWARD J., son of John and Sabina E. (Donnellon) Jenkins, was born in London, Eng., Dec. 20, 1854. He was brought to Boston when
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but a few weeks old, and here he was educated and has since lived. He attended Boston public
He is un- schools, and studied law at the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1880. The following year, on November 30, he was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar, and subsequently, on December 23, to the bar of the United States court. Before he entered the Law School he had become prominent in local politics. In 1876 he was secretary of the Democratic city committee, and the same year a member of the school com- mittee. That year also he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature of 1877, and, reelected, served also in 1878 and 1879, resigning his seat the latter year. From 1879 to 1885, when he declined longer to serve, he was commissioner of insolvency. In 1881 he was the Democratic candidate for clerk of the Superior Civil Court. In 1885 he was a trustee of the Public Library. In 1886, 1887, and 1889. he was a member of the Boston common council, during that period serving as its president. In 1887 he was a member of the State senate. When .in the house of representatives he was the Democratic candidate for clerk of that body. In the Legislature he advocated many labor-measures, among them the bills abolishing the contract system of labor, regulating the liabilities of employers to make compensation for personal injuries suffered by employees in their service, making eight hours a working day for persons in the service of the State and the cities and towns, securing uniform meal- times for children, young people, and women em- ployed in factories, limiting the hours of labor for minors and women in manufacturing and me- chanical establishments, prohibiting the employment of children in cleaning dangerous machinery, and providing for the abolition of contract labor in the penal institutions. He secured the passage of the law relative to the practice of dentistry ; favored the order authorizing the employment of matrons at police stations ; introduced and voted for the orders authorizing the city of Boston to make the East Boston ferries free, to prevent fraud at primary meetings and at general elections, and to regulate the observance of the Lord's day, the purport of which was to secure such modifications as were necessary for the present social conditions of the community. He favored making Labor Day a holi- day. He advocated the creation of a board of public works for Boston consisting of nine members to be elected by the city council, and large appro- priations for the construction of the public parks of Boston. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Charitable Irish Society, the Veteran Association of the Montgomery Light Guards, and the Central Club.
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JOHNSON, EUGENE M., son of George L. and Sarah (Osgood) Johnson, both natives of Massachusetts, was born in Boston June 4, 1845. He was fitted for college in the public schools of Lynn, and graduated from Harvard in 1869. Subsequently he studied at the Albany Law School, from which he grad- nated, and in March, 1871, was admitted to the bar. He began practice in Boston, and was associated with E. C. Bumpus until 1885. Then he continued alone. . He is a member of the Boston Bar Association. In politics he is independent. Mr. Johnson married Miss Nora J. Brown, a native of this State.
JOHNSON, FRANK MACKIE, M.D., son of the late Frank Johnson, of Norwich, Conn., was born in
JOHNSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, M.D., was born in Bradford, Mass., Oct. 24, 1853. He fitted for col- lege at Dummer Academy, and entering Amherst, graduated in 1875. He then took a course in the Harvard Medical School, from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1881. He served as house officer at the Boston Lying-in Hospital from May I to Sept. 1, 1878, and as house officer in the Boston City Hospital for eighteen months preceding the first Monday of July, 1881. He is visiting surgeon to the gynæcological depart- ment of the Carney Hospital and the St. Elizabeth Hospital ; and instructor in gynæcology in the Boston Polyclinic. He is a member of the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society, and of the Boston Society for Medical Observation. He is a con- tributor to Wood's "Handbook of the Medical Sciences," on the subject of " Inversion of the Uterus," and has reported cases in the various medical journals of inversion of the uterus, proc- titis dependent on uterine and ovarian disease, laparotomy, Alexander Adams' operation, and extra-uterine pregnancy.
JONES, ARTHUR E., son of L. S. and Sophia E. (Gould) Jones, natives of Massachusetts, was born in Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 7, 1846. His father was
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Norwich April 22, 1856. His education was begun in Norwich and continued at Amherst College, from which he graduated in 1879. Subsequently he graduated from Harvard M.D. in 1882, and the following year took a post-graduate course at Har- vard. He is physician to out-patients at the West End Nursery, and is medical examiner for the North- western Mutual Life Insurance Company, the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, and the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. He was married Sept. 3, ARTHUR E. JONES. 1884, to Miss Olive, daughter of Henry Witter, of a merchant of Boston, and died April 12, 1888. Worcester.
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entering Harvard and graduated in 1867. In 1868 he entered the Harvard Law School, having spent one year abroad, and graduated in 1869. Then he studied further in the office of Henry W. Paine, and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He has been engaged in general practice since ; his office now at No. 60 Devonshire street. In poli- tics he is independent. He was a member of the common council of Cambridge, where he resides, in 1882 and 1883, and is secretary of the Associ- ated Charities of that cits. On Feb. 14, 1879, he was married to Miss Elizabeth B. Almy.
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