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JONES, CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS, M.D., .born in Worcester, Mass., Feb. 22, 1845, died in Bos- ton Feb. 6, 1892, was long a well-known physician of the old West End. He was fitted for college in the Worcester schools, graduated from Harvard, third in his class, in 1866, received the degree of A.M. in 1869, and graduated from the Medical School, at the head of the class, in 1875. After serving a term as house officer in the Massachusetts General Hospital he went abroad, and, for two years, further studied his profession in the hospitals. of Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London. Returning to Boston in 1877, he opened an office on Green street, and began practice. Six years later he moved to Chambers street, and shortly before his death he established himself on Hancock street. From 1878 until his death, he was a physician at the Boston Dispensary ; and he was also one of the visiting physicians to the Home of the Good Samari- tan and to St. Monica's Home for Colored Women, under the charge of the Sisters of St. Margaret. It was said of him that he was "the best friend the sick poor around the West End ever had." Dr. Jones was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Boston Society for Medical Observation. He was an occasional con- tributor to the medical journals. He was un- married.
JONES, D. WAYLAND, M.D., was born in Ashburn- ham, Mass., June 14, 1829. He was educated in Winchendon and the Westminster Academy, and began the study of medicine in Winchendon, under Dr. Ira Russell. He graduated M.D. from the University of the City of New York in 1852. Then he settled in Medfield, Mass. After spend- ing ten years in general practice, he went to Philadelphia and took a winter's course of study with Maurey. In that city he spent five years. In 1871 and 1872 he was abroad studying in Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. Upon his return to this
country he established himself in Newton, where he remained until 1878. During the last ten years of his residence in Newton, he has devoted special attention to an improved method of treatment for the cure of rectal diseases. This treatment proving suc- cessful, he moved to Boston to devote his entire time to this specialty. His patients are now from almost every State in the Union. Dr. Jones also conducts a private hospital for his own patients. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. He was married June 2, 1887, the present being his third wife.
JONES, FRANK, son of Thomas and Mary Jones, was born in Barrington, N.H., Sept. 15, 1832. He was one of a family of seven children, six boys and one girl, and was brought up on his father's farm, one of the best in the township. His education was acquired in the local schools. When yet a lad of seventeen he left the farm and began his business career, joining his elder brother in Portsmouth, where the latter had a store on Market street for stoves, hardware, tin, and household-furnishing goods. He entered this business as salesman. In those days such goods were carted about the country from farm to farm, and customers were found at the farmers' doors. Young Jones became so successful in this trading that in four years he had accumulated enough money to buy a share in his brother's busi- ness. At the age of twenty-one he was one of the merchant-traders of Portsmouth. Soon after, he purchased the entire business, and, enlarging his trade, continued it until 1861, when he sold out to a younger brother, an employee, in the establishment. In 1858 Mr. Jones purchased an interest in the Swindels Brewery, the pioneer brewery established by John Swindels, an Englishman, in 1854, and shortly became sole owner of the establishment. Under his direction the business rapidly developed, and the brewery expanded from time to time until now it is the most extensive ale-brewery in America. In 1863 a large malt-house was added, in 1871 a new brewery built, and in 1879 a second and still larger malt-house erected doubling the capacity of the plant. In 1875 Mr. Jones with others purchased the South Boston Brewery of Henry Souther & Co. It was operated as the " Bay State Brewery," by the firm of Jones, Cook, & Co., of which he is the head, until 1889, when it was sold to the Frank Jones Brewing Company, Limited. In 1868 Mr. Jones was chosen mayor of Portsmouth, and was reelected the following year. In this position he reduced the expenses of the city and gave its improvements his
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personal supervision, showing the same interest in the city's business as in his own. In 1875 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, and in 1877 was reelected for the second term over the Hon. Gilman Marston, one of the most popular and able Repub- licans in the State. In 1880, against his emphatic protest, he was made the Democratic canditate for governor of his State, and, although defeated, received a larger vote than had ever before been cast for a Democratic candidate. He has been presi- dent of the Dover & Portsmouth Railroad since its incorporation ; is a director of the Wolf borough Rail- road, of which he was one of the projectors ; was for many years a director in the Eastern Railroad ; has been a director of the Maine Central for twenty years ; and is now president of the great Boston & Maine system. The Upper Coos Railroad, over one hundred miles in length (including the Hereford), connecting north with the Quebec Central, making a through line from Boston to Quebec via the Boston & Maine and Maine Central Railroads through the White Mountain Notch, was built by him and asso- ciates in less than one year after the grant of legis- lative authority. He has projected and built more miles of railroad in his native State than any other person. He is the owner of the two great hotels, the " Rockingham " in Portsmouth and the " Went- worth " in Newcastle. The former is a structure of his own design, a monument to his taste and enter- prise, and its beauty and elegance are the pride of the city. The Wentworth was also planned by him, and equipped under his direction. The enterprise shown in his boyhood, leaving the farming town of his birth, entering the seaport city a stranger ; his indomitable will and courage, quickness of percep- tion and rare judgment, have not only made Mr. Jones master of the situation, but enabled him to succeed in a career admired by his acquaintances and of which he may well be proud. Noted for his liberality, he has never sought to cover up the adver- sities of childhood, and many a poor fellow has re- ceived from his hånd material aid and kindly assist- ance. In his country place he has over one thou- sand acres of tillage-land under a high state of cultivation, stocked with the finest cattle and horses, and the help on this estate are given steady employ- ment the year round. "Maplewood Farm," as it is called, situated about one mile from Portsmouth on Maplewood avenue, is undoubtedly more productive in its yield than any in the State. The beautiful lawns, gardens, and floral display around his premises make it one of the most attractive spots in New England. The Rockingham Hotel is his winter home. The people of New Hampshire are more
indebted to him than to any one individual for that departure in insurance business known as the "Valued " Policy Law. With him it originated, and through his persistent efforts passed to enactment. When fifty-eight foreign companies doing business in the State left he was among the foremost to organize reliable companies, taking the place and business of the old ones that cancelled their policies when the law passed. The Granite State Fire Insurance Company, of which he is president, is doing business in nearly every State in the Union, and during 1891 was third in the list in the volume of New England business, competing with one hundred and forty agency companies occupying this field. Mr. Jones was married Sept. 15, 1861, to Martha Sophia Jones, the widow of his brother, Hiram Jones, who died in July, 1859, leaving one child, Emma I., now the wife of Colonel Charles A. Sinclair. Mrs. Jones is noted for her benevolence and hospitality.
JONES, LEONARD AUGUSTUS, son of Augustus Apple- ton and Mary (Partridge) Jones, was born in Tem- pleton, Mass., Jan. 13, 1832. He was educated at
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the Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., and Harvard College, graduating from the latter in the class of 1855. In his senior year at Harvard he was awarded the prize for the best Bowdoin dissertation. Directly after leaving college he obtained the position of teacher of the classics in the high
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school of St. Louis, Mo., where he remained until the summer of 1856. Then, after declining an appointment as tutor in Washington University, he returned to Massachusetts and entered the Harvard Law School. While here he won the prize open to resident graduates of the university, and a prize in the Law School for an essay. Graduating in 1858, he studied a few months in the Boston law office of C. W. Loring, and was admitted to the bar the latter part of that year. At first he practised his profession by himself at No. 5 Court street, occupying an office with Wilder Dwight ; afterwards for some time he was at No. 4 Court street, sharing the office with George Putnam. In 1866 he formed a partnership with his Harvard classmate, Edwin Hale Abbot, which a year or two later was joined by John Lathrop, now justice of the Supreme Court of the State, the firm name becoming Lathrop, Abbot, & Jones. After an existence of several years this firm was dissolved, and since 1876 Mr. Jones has practised alone. While pursuing his profession Mr. Jones has been largely occupied with legal authorship. He has published a half-dozen important volumes, has been a frequent contributor to the law periodicals, and since Jan. 1, 1885, has been one of the editors of the " American Law Review." His legal publications in book form in- clude " Mortgages of Real Property," two volumes, " Mortgages of Personal Property," " Corporate Bonds and Mortgages," " Pledges, including Collat- eral Securities," " Liens, Common Law, Statutory, Equitable, and Maritime," two volumes, " Forms in Conveyancing," and " Index to Legal Periodical Literature." Earlier in his career he contributed frequently to the literary periodicals, among them the " Atlantic Monthly," the "North American Review," and " Old and New." In 1891 Mr. Jones was appointed by Governor Russell commissioner for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States. On Dec. 14, 1867, he was married to Miss Josephine Lee, daughter of Colonel A. Lee, of Templeton ; they have no children living.
JORDAN, HENRY GREGORY, son of Dr. Henry and Pamelia (Daniell) Jordan, was born in Boston July 22, 1849. His education was begun in the Boston public schools, and completed in the Leicester Mili- tary Academy, from which he graduated in 1864. Upon leaving school he became a clerk with Fuller, Dana, & Fitz in the metal business, remaining there until 1871. The next year he entered the office of the late Col. Austin C. Wellington as clerk, and sub- sequently, upon the formation of the Austin C. Wel- lington Coal Company, he became one of the directors
of the concern. In July, 1884, he entered into co- partnership with M. S. Crebore, under the firm name of H. G. Jordan & Co., with office at No. 82 Water street, and wharf first at No. 564 Albany street, and afterwards (the following year) that formerly oc- cupied by the Franklin Coal Company, No. 30 Dor- chester avenue. Here coal-pockets were erected, and the wharf was equipped with all the modern coal-handling machinery. In April, 1891, the wharf formerly occupied by the Austin C. Wellington Coal Company, in Cambridgeport, was added to the busi- ness. In 1886 C. D. Jordan was admitted to the firm, and in 1891 E. H. Baker became a member. During their first year in business the firm handled twelve thousand tons of coal. In 1891" they handled one hundred and fifty thousand tons of every variety of coal, also doing a large wood business. Mr. Jordan has been prominent in mili- tary affairs. In 1864 he joined the Thirty-second Unattached Company Massachusetts Volunteer Mili- tia, and afterwards was a member of Company A, Fifth Regiment, Militia. In 1872 he was promoted to a first lieutenant, in 1875 was appointed adjutant of the regiment, and in 1876 was elected major, which position he resigned in May, 1878. He is a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, serving in 1880-1 as first lieutenant. In politics he is independent. He is a member and past master of St. Andrews Lodge Free Masons of Boston, past commander De Molay Commandery Knights Templar, and grand marshal Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 1890-1-2. On Sept. 16, 1873, he was married to Miss Annie K. Adams, daughter of the late Isaac Adams, of Boston ; their children are Annie Gregory and Ruth Adams Jordan.
K EANY, MATTHEW, was born in Ireland in 1832 ; died in Boston Feb. 26, 1892. He came to this country when a lad of fifteen, and when yet a young man became a successful grocer at the North End, and prominent in local politics. Soon after his arrival in Boston he entered French's Commercial College, and after three winters spent here, went to work as a clerk in a grocery shop on old North street. Here he remained for about eight years, when, upon the death of the proprietor, he succeeded to the busi- ness. When North street was widened, about the year 1859, he erected the present four-story busi- ness house, No. 232 North street, opposite the site of the old store in which he began business. Here his trade considerably expanded, and he became interested in the fishing-business, and in supplies for fishing-vessels. In 1862 he was elected to the
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common council, and reelected in 1863, 1864, 1868, of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. Kel- and 1869. He was an ardent war Democrat, and logg was married Jan. 17, 1879, to Miss Minnie during his first three years in the council he served W., daughter of Isaac W. Bradbury, of Hollis, Me. on the recruiting committee, and did much to facilitate the raising of troops and their equipment.
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In 1888 he was a delegate to the Democratic national convention at St. Louis. In 1890 he was a ballot-law commissioner ; and in 1892, shortly before his death, he was appointed by Governor Russell a member of the metropolitan sewerage commission. For over twenty-five years he was a member of the Democratic ward and city commit- tee, and during 1889-90 was chairman of that body. He was a director and trustee of the Home for Homeless Children. A widow and one son, the latter a medical student, survive him.
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KELLOGG, EDWARD BRINLEY, M.D., was born in Sheboygan, Wis., Aug. 21, 1850. He was edu- cated in the Boston grammar and high schools, and graduated A.B. from the Nunda Academy, N.Y., in 1868. Then he went to Jacksonville, Fla., where he remained nine years as one of the edi- tors and proprietors of the " Jacksonville Union." Returning to Boston in 1878, he began the study of medicine. Subsequently, in 1882, he graduated from the Bowdoin Medical School. He is now assistant medical examiner of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. He is a member
KELLOGG, WARREN FRANKLIN, son of Loyal P. and Augusta A. (Warren) Kellogg, was born in Brook- lyn, N.Y., Nov. 24, 1860. He was educated in Cambridge in private schools, the Cambridge High School, and Harvard College, graduating from the latter in the class of 1883. He began his business career at the lowest round, in the publishing-house of James R. Osgood & Co., and by rapid advance- ment in that and other Boston publishing-houses, he came to the position of business manager of the " Boston Post" in January, 1889. Subsequently, in March, 1890, he became treasurer of the corpora- tion. These positions he held, with credit to him- self and profit to the paper, until December, 1890, when he resigned to reenter the book business. While in charge of the manufacturing department of Estes & Lauriat, previous to his connection with the " Post," Mr. Kellogg compiled for that house several books, one of which, " Recent French Art,". bears his name, and another is an illustrated boys' book, adapted from Les Animaux Sauvages, under
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the title of " Hunting in the Jungle." Mr. Kellogg also wrote and published in " American Art," for September, 1888, an article on " Photo-mechanical Relief Plates," which was reprinted without the
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illustrations in the " Publishers' Weekly " and other trade papers. Early in 1892 he prepared several books of travel and adventure for boys and older people. Later in May, he became connected with the publication department of "Wide Awake," and the other periodicals issued by the D. Lothrop Com- pany. Mr. Kellogg is secretary of the Union Boat Club, and member also of the Union Club of this city, and the Harvard Club of New York. He is unmarried.
KENDALL, HENRY H., architect, was born in Braintree, Mass., in 1855. The greater portion of his life has been passed in Newton, although for ten years or more he was in Washington, D.C., as chief draughtsman for the supervising architect of the treasury department. He was instructed in the public schools of Newton, and later entered the Institute of Technology, and after graduating there- from studied architecture in the office of William G. Preston. In 1887 he began practice for himself, and in July, 1890, formed a partnership with Edward F. Stevens, under the firm name of Kendall & Stevens. Their chief work has been the designing of municipal buildings in Newton, school buildings in Woburn, and several fine residences in Newton and the Roxbury district. Before entering into part- nership with Mr. Stevens, Mr. Kendall built a num- ber of elegant private houses in Washington, several of which he designed after he left the capital.
grand vice-commander and afterwards grand com- mander. In 1882 he was first elected representa- tive to the Supreme Council, and has been reelected
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at every session since. He was elected supreme treasurer at the session of 1891.
KENDRICK, GEORGE, W., JR., supreme treasurer of KENNEDY, ALONZO LEWIS, M.D., son of the late Lewis Kennedy, of New Castle, Me., was born in that town Oct. 22, 1844. He was educated in the Lincoln Academy of New Castle and the Boston University School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1875, being a member of the second class of gradu- ates from that institution. He has since practised in Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy. He has written various articles on homeopathy for the press. the American Legion of Honor, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., July 31, 1841. He graduated from the Boys' Central High School, and first began business in a broker's office, where he remained until he opened an office on his own account in 1865. He is now vice-president of the Third Na- tional Bank, Philadelphia, and director of the Fidelity Mutual Life Association. His connection with fraternal organizations began in 1862, when he joined the Masonic fraternity. He has passed through the elective offices of the Grand Command- ery Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, and is past KENNEDY, GEORGE G., M.D., was born in Rox- bury Oct. 16, 1841. He was educated in the pub- lic schools there, graduating from the Roxbury Latin School in 1860 ; and in Harvard College, graduating with high honors in 1864. He then pursued the course of studies in the Harvard Medical School, re- ceiving his degree of M.D. Immediately after, in 1867, he assumed control of the establishment of Kennedy's Medical Discovery, which was founded by his father, the late Dr. Donald Kennedy. In 1872 grand master of the Grand Council of Royal Super- Excellent and Select Masters of Masons, illustrious commander-in-chief of the Philadelphia Consistory, and inspector-general thirty-three degrees. His portrait hangs in the grand commandery room of the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia. He was one of the charter members of the first council instituted in Philadelphia of the American Legion of Honor, and was elected commander ; and at the formation of the grand council of Pennsylvania he was elected he visited Europe for observation. He was always
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interested in the study of medicine and botany. He is a member of the Herbarian Committee of the college. He is also a member of the National Geographical Society of Washington, of the Masonic- Order of Massachusetts, and of the Union and St. Botolph Clubs. After the death of his father he took full control of the management of Kennedy's Medical Discovery. He is one of the older resi- dents of Roxbury, having lived on Warren street all his life, and has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of the district. Dr. Kennedy was married
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Feb. 28, 1865, to Miss Harriet White Harris, of Boston.
KENNY, JAMES WILLIAM, son of Owen and Mary (Cannay) Kenny, was born in county Donegal, north of Ireland, Jan. 2, 1844. He was educated in the public or national schools of his native place. On March 22, 1863, he landed in Boston. His brother was already here and established in the gro- cery and liquor business at the North End. James immediately went to work for him, and remained in his employ for four years. Then he entered the brewing business for Kinney & Litchfield, as a practical brewer. In July, 1870, he left that firm and established a wholesale and retail liquor-business on Tremont street. In 1877 he engaged in the brewing business for himself, purchasing the Amory Brewery on Amory street. In 188t he erected the
Park Brewery in the Roxbury district, and began brewing in it in January, 1882. He is now a di- rector in the American Brewery ; a member of the
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Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association, and one of its vice-presidents ; and he was one of the promoters and organizers of the Massachusetts Liquor Dealers' Protective Association. He belongs to the Roxbury Club. Mr. Kenny was married April 23, 1876, to . Miss Ellen Frances O'Rourk, of Roxbury ; they have one daughter, Mary Agnes Kenny.
KIMBALL, CHARLES W., was born in Dedham, Mass., in 1841. When he was but two years old, his parents removed to Kennebunk, Me., where he was given a common-school education. At the age of fourteen years he entered a country store, where he was employed until 1857, when he removed to the present Dorchester district. Two years later he entered the service of the Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Company as a clerk. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Dorchester Company (H) of the Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. In the summer of 1863 he was detached from his regiment and assigned to duty at the " Old Capitol " Prison at Washington, D.C., where he had charge of the prison rolls and ration account. At the close of the war, in 1865, he was honorably discharged from the service and appointed chief clerk of the secret service division of the Treasury Department, which
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position he held until the summer of 1869, when he returned to Dorchester. In 1871 he was ap- pointed assistant register of deeds for the county of Suffolk.
KIMBALL, JOHN WHITE, State auditor, son of Al- pheus and Harriet (Stone) Kimball, was born in Fitchburg, Mass., Feb. 27, 1828. He attained his education in Fitchburg schools. His business life began in 1857, when he became a partner with his father and brother in the manufacture of agri- cultural implements. Retiring from this business in 1863, two years later he was elected tax collector of Fitchburg, which position he held until 1873. During this period he was also a member of the State police force, and for three years one of the State police commissioners. In 1873 he was ap- pointed United States pension agent for the western district of Massachusetts, and continued in this position until the first of July, 1877, when the office was merged into that at Boston. Then he was appointed custodian in the United States Treas- ury Department at Washington, where he had charge of the rolls, dies, and plates of the bureau of engraving and printing. In 1879 he left this position, having been appointed postmaster of Fitchburg. This place he held through two administrations, until
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March 12, 1887. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature for a number of terms
(1864, 1865, 1872, 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891), and was elected State auditor for 1892. General Kimball's military record has covered an unusu- ally long period. From 1846 to 1861 he was a member of the State militia, and at the breaking out of the Civil War captain of Company B, Ninth Regiment. This company volunteered and went into camp at Worcester on June 28, 1861. The Ninth Regiment being broken up, Companies A, B, and C formed the nucleus of the Fifteenth Regi- ment, of which General Kimball was appointed major on the Ist of August. After service in the Camp of Observation stationed at Poolsville, Md., during a part of 1861-2, his regiment be- came a part of the Army of the Potomac, and on April 29, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He commanded the Fifteenth in all of the battles of the Peninsula Campaign, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, and down to Fredericksburg. Then he was ordered to Massachusetts to take command of the Fifty-third Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, having been commissioned colonel of that regiment in November, 1862. The Fifty-third was attached to the Depart- ment of the Gulf, and during the assault at Port Hudson, on June 14, 1863, General Kimball was dangerously wounded in the left thigh. The term of enlistment of the Fifty-third expired Septem- ber 2, that year, and it returned to Massachusetts. On May 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-gen- eral, for gallant and distinguished services in the field. While in command of his regiment during the Peninsula campaign he was appointed by Governor Andrew colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regi- ment, and a request was made for his return to Massachusetts to take the command ; but the request was denied by reason of a general order to the ef- fect that no officer should be permitted to leave the Army of the Potomac for purpose of promotion. Since the war General Kimball has retained his interest in military and militia matters. In 1865 he reorganized his old company and became its captain, and in August, 1876, he was commissioned colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Militia. On Sept. 28, 1878, he was honorably discharged, having had thirty- two years of almost continuous service, including the time he was in the Civil War. He is a member of the G.A.R., in 1874 department commander of Massachusetts : and of the Loyal Legion. Since 1861 he has been connected with the Masonic fraternity, and he has served as eminent com- mander of Jerusalem Commandery Knights Temp- lar, of Fitchburg. He is a member of the Fitchburg Board of Trade, and a trustee of the
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