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retical and practical, into their schools. He re- mained there three years, and then went to Europe to complete his professional education in Vienna and Heidelberg. He returned to Boston in 1882, where he has since practised his profession. He was
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appointed aural surgeon to the Boston Dispensary in 1885, which position he has since resigned. He is now aural surgeon to the City Hospital, and assistant physician to the department for diseases of the throat and nose. Dr. Leland is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, and the American Society for the Advancement of Physical Culture. He is a medical director of the Young Men's Christian Association Gymnasium.
LEONARD, GEORGE H., third son of James A. and Lucy (Shaw) Leonard, natives respectively of Middleborough, Mass., and Providence, R.I., was born in Middleborough June 26, 1837. His father, who died in 1861, was a manufacturer of boots and shoes for Boston and Western markets. He was educated in the Middleborough Academy. His business career began in Boston, where he spent one year after his graduation from the academy. The following two years he was in Chicago engaged in mercantile pursuits, and returning to Boston in 1858 he became connected with Messis. Murdock
LELAND, GEORGE ADAMS, M.D., was born in Bos- ton Sept. 7, 1850. He was educated in the gram- mar and Latin schools and Amherst College, graduating from the latter in 1874. He received the degree of M.D). from the Harvard Medical School in 1878, and graduated from the City Hospital the same year. He was then sent by Amherst College to Japan, under the imperial government, to introduce physical culture, theo- & Beverly, importers of heavy goods for manu-
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facturers of leather. This firm was succeeded in He was brought up on a farm, and his early edu- 1861 by Murdock & Leonard ; then in 1865 the firm name became George H. Leonard & Co .; in 1871, Leonard, Beverly, & Co .; and in 1877, George H. Leonard & Co. again. The business of
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the house is the largest of its kind in the country. Besides the store and office Nos. 201 to 207 Pur- chase street, the firm have several storehouses. Mr. Leonard is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce, the Boston Associated Board of Trade, and the Boston Oil Trade Association. He has been one of the board of directors of the Homco- pathic Hospital since 1865, and was for a number of years chairman of its executive committee ; and he is connected with several charitable institutions, is a member of the Art Club, and belongs to Trinity Church. Mr. Leonard was married in 1864 to Miss Ella M. Thomas, of Philadelphia ; they have had three children: John William Thomas (who died Sept. 13, 1887, during his sophomore year at Harvard), George H., jr., and Edith G. Leonard.
LESEUR, HORATIO, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., June 20, 1820 ; died in Hyde Park Dec. 23, 1891. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest practising dentists in Boston, having started his professional career long before the establishment of dental colleges or other facilities now enjoyed for obtaining a practical knowledge of dentistry.
cation was received at the district school. As a young man he opened a country store, and in this way was enabled to accumulate some means. In 1852 he came to Boston and entered the office of Dr. J. A. Leseur in Winter street, which at that time was entirely occupied by dwellings. He soon opened an office of his own on Washington street, and subsequently moving to Hanover street, was associated with Dr. William A. Bevin in perfecting the manufacture of vulcanite plates for artificial teeth. Here he built up a lucrative practice, and instructed many other dentists in the art. He re- mained in Hanover street until 1874, when he removed to Temple place, and finally to Boylston street, in the Hotel Pelham. Dr. Leseur established his home in Hyde Park before that town was in- corporated, and was one of its most prominent citizens, both in church and local affairs. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding on the evening of Feb. 14, 1891, and at that time the re- markable fact was revealed that in the fifty years there had not been a single break in the family circle. Three daughters and their husbands, and eleven grandchildren, were all present to take an active part in the rejoicings. Many valuable presents were received, among them an elegant gold watch from the Sunday-school where Dr. Leseur had been a constant teacher for twenty- seven years. His grave is in a beautiful lot, which he had selected, in Forest Hills Cemetery.
LEWIS, CHARLES HILDRETH, son of William and Jane Bond (Wadleigh) Lewis, was born in Alton, Me., Aug. 5, 1838, to which place his father had moved from Massachusetts to open up mills. His early education was acquired in the high school in Bangor, where he was prepared for college. He entered Norwich University, Vermont, from which he graduated in the class of 1855 at the age of seventeen, the youngest graduate of the university up to that time. Subsequently he received the degree of LL.I). from his alma mater. After graduation he fitted himself for the profession of surveyor and engineer, which he followed about five years in the State of Minnesota. Entering the army in August, 1861, on his twenty-third birthday, as captain, he was made brevet lieutenant-colonel in the regular army at the age of twenty-five. After the war he spent a year mining in Colorado. Then returning East he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, which position he held until 1884, when he left Wall street with credit, hav- ing amassed a fortune. Since 1884 he has been
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largely interested in developing seashore property. formed a partnership with Walter J. Paine, also edu- The building up of picturesque Sorrento, Me., is cated at the Institute of Technology, under the firm name of Lewis & Paine, with office at No. 6 Beacon street. Mr. Lewis is the architect of a number of fine residences on Commonwealth avenue and in other sections of the Back Bay dis- trict, and of business blocks on Summer, Bedford, and other streets, while in the suburbs, notably in Brookline and Melrose, and in other parts of the State, are numerous examples of his artistic design. His domestic work, though not a specialty, is admired for its refined elegance combined with economy, comfort, and convenience. due almost exclusively to his efforts. In 1880 Colonel Lewis generously endowed Norwich Univer- sity to enable it the more successfully to provide a broad education of a practical kind, and consented to take upon himself the executive management of the institution. Thereupon, the name of the col- lege was changed by act of the board of trustees to Lewis, in his honor. A few years after, however, - in 1887, -- the old name of Norwich University was restored, as many of the old graduates were attached to it, and wealthy men among them were reluctant to contribute to the institution under any name other than that which it bore when they graduated. Colonel Lewis continues as president of the cor- poration and of the faculty, and commandant of the military staff. Through his financial aid and under his direction, the college has been built up on a solid foundation, and is now one of the most flourishing of the smaller universities of the country. Colonel Lewis is a Mason, a member of the G.A.R., and of several other organizations. He was married Oct. 20, 1863, to Miss Orianna Pendleton, of Water- town, Mass. ; they have had six children, of whom four are now living : Leonora E., Dexter W., Ken- neth H., and Edison Lewis.
LEWIS, EDWIN J., JR., architect, was born in Roxbury in 1859. Graduating from the Institute of Technology in the class of 1881, with the highest honors in the department of architecture, he entered the office of Peabody & Stearns, where he remained until 1887, when he began independent practice in this city. Mr. Lewis has made a special study of the suburban residence, and a large number of country houses in the neighborhood of Boston bear the imprint of his individuality. His work, however, has not been restricted to one particular branch of the profession ; he has designed a number of apartment houses and public buildings, among them the Hotel Glenmorriston, the Dorchester Music Hall, the building for the Dedham Historical Society, and the Unitarian church in Wollaston. Mr. Lewis is a member of the Boston Society of Architects.
LEWIS, G. Wirox, architect, a native of Chautau- qua county, N.Y., prepared himself for his profes- sion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the class of 1873. He began his architectural career as a draughtsman in 1876, studying under eminent architects in this and other cities, and for fourteen years was alone in business. In 1890 he
LEWIS, ISAAC NEWTON, son of William and Judith M. (Whittemore) Lewis, was born in Walpole, Mass., Dec. 25, 1848. His early education was at- tained in the Walpole High and Classical School, where he was subsequently a teacher, and he was fitted for college at the Eliot High School in Boston. . Then he assisted in the preparation of boys for college. He entered Harvard as a member of the class of 1873, and upon graduation went abroad for further study. Returning, and after
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teaching in the academy a year, he entered the Boston University Law School. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar Jan. 31, 1876, and graduated from the Law School the spring following, with an L.L.B. He again went abroad, and upon his return he re-
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ceived the degree of A.M. from the Boston Uni- versity, being the first to be honored by that institution with this distinction. Upon his admit- tance to the bar he opened his law office at No. 82 Devonshire street, and has since continued there. Besides the offices of trial justice, commissioner, justice of the peace, and notary public to which he has from time to time been appointed, he has been president of numerous corporations, both benevolent and mercantile, and a member of the school com- mittee. He has also engaged in magazine and other literary work. His latest publication, " Pleasant Hours in Sunny Lands," written upon his return from a tour around the world in 1888, is well known, and forms a part of the geographical readers used in some of the Middle and Western States. Mr. Lewis was one of the original members of the Norfolk Bar Association. He has taken an active part in tariff reform, civil-service reform, and tem- perance legislation, placing principle above party and tried friends above political adventurers.
LEWIS, WESTON, son of James S. and Abigail S. Lewis, was born in Hingham, Mass., April 14, 1834. The Lewis family is one of the oldest and most re- spected in that quaint old town. He was reared and educated in his native place, receiving his in- struction in the public schools and the famous Hingham Academy, which has turned out so many capable men. Here he remained until 1850, when at the age of sixteen he came to Boston and began his business career as a clerk. He obtained an excel- lent insight into the dry-goods and small-ware busi- ness, so that ten years later, in 1860, he started the house of Lewis, Brown, & Co., so long established on Summer street. It became a large importer of small-wares, holding a high commercial position in the community. The great fire of 1872 and the financial crisis which followed in 1873 did not im- pair its solidity, and the business was carried on until 1883, when, on account of ill-health, Mr. Lewis retired from mercantile life. Mr. Lewis has occupied many important and responsible public positions. In the trying office of chairman of the State board of arbitration and conciliation he was eminently successful in bringing about the settle- ment of differences between labor and capital. He held this position for three years, until 1889, when he resigned to assume the duties of president of the Manufacturers' National Bank, which office he now holds. In the years 1865, 1866, and 1867 he was a member of the common council, and in the last- named year president of that body. In 1867 he was made one of the trustees of the Boston Public
Library, and continued in that capacity until 1880. In 1873, 1874, and 1875 he was one of the board of inspectors of State prisons, in 1875 being chair- man, and performed much valuable service in that body. Politically a stanch Republican, his busi- ness sagacity was so well known that he was ap- pointed by Mayor Gaston in 1872 as one of a commission of three to consider the question of the annexation of West Roxbury, Brookline, Brighton, and Charlestown. The formation of the Boston Merchants' Association was largely due to Mr. Lewis' efforts. He appreciated fully the value of such an organization to the business men of the city, in the way of closer intercourse and the discussion of important commercial topics. He has always been an officer of the association, and from 18So to 1882 was its president. His latest call to public office was his election to the board of aldermen of 1891 from the Eighth District. He is a member of the Art, Athletic, and Unitarian Clubs, and the Bea- con Society ; and he is a Mason of the Chapter degree. On July 18, 1855, Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Martha J. Kendall, of this city ; they have two sons: Weston K., of the firm of Weston K. Lewis & Co., and Frederick H. Lewis.
LEWIS, WILLIAM WHITNEY, architect, was born in Manchester, Eng., in 1850. He came to this country at an early age, and entered the Boys' High School in Philadelphia, and later took a course in the Institute of Technology here in Boston. Then, from 1868 to 1876, he was draughtsman in the office of Cummings and Sears ; and since 1876 he has been in practice for himself. Mr. Lewis has built some elaborate houses in Boston, Lowell, Long Branch, Philadelphia ; and in Manchester-by-the- Sea, Brookline, Somerville, and other places in the suburbs. On the Back Bay are many instances of his work, among others the house of Dr. Bradbury, at the corner of Exeter and Marlborough streets. He is also the architect of the Sears Laboratory for the Harvard Medical School ; the Veterinary Hos- pital, and the two later additions to the Adams House in Boston ; and a notable railroad station in Canton, Ohio.
LINCOLN, ALBERT L., JR., son of Albert L. and Ann Eliza (Stoddard) Lincoln, both natives of Massachusetts, was born in Boston April 29, 1850. His father was a prominent jeweller of Boston for many years. The family moved to Brookline in 1856, where Albert [ .. , jr., was prepared for college. He graduated from Harvard College in 1872, and the Law School in 1874, taking one year's extra
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course. He was admitted to the bar in the autumn of the board of overseers of Harvard College. of 1875, and has been in practice ever since in On Feb. 15, 1865, Mr. Lincoln was married to Boston. For one year he was associated with R. Miss Ellen B. Hayden, daughter of ex-Lieutenant- M. Morse, jr. His practice is general, tending tow- Gov. Joel Hayden, of Williamsburg, Mass. ; they have one daughter, Miss Bessie Lincoln. ard conveyancing. He has been selectman in Brookline six years, and chairman of the ward four years. He is secretary of his college class. In politics he is independent. Mr. Lincoln married Miss Edith Williams, daughter of the late Moses B. Williams.
LINCOLN, SOLOMON, son of Solomon and Mehitabel (Lincoln) Lincoln, was born in Hingham, Mass., Aug. 14, 1838. His early education was attained at
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the Derby Academy in Hingham, and later, under the charge of E. W., Gurney, subsequently profes- sor in Harvard College, at the Park Latin School, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1857, and from the Harvard Law School in 1864. From March, 1858, to July, 1863, he was a tutor in the college. Mr. Lincoln began the practice of law in Salem. He was a member of the firm of Ives & Lincoln, with offices in Salem and Boston ; later Ives, Lincoln, & Huntress. The latter partnership ended in 1882, and Mr. Lin- coln has since practised in Boston, having no partner. He is a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, of the American Antiquarian Society, and other organizations; and is president
LINCOLN, WILLIAM, was born in Falmouth, Mass., March 8, 1808. He was educated at the Derby Academy in Hingham, and graduated fully fitted for college in 1821, when only thirteen years of age. He did not go to college, however, but coming to Boston, went into Deacon James Loring's printing- office, where he learned to set up type and work the " Rammage " hand-press, used in those days. After serving a year here he went West, to Caledonia, N.Y., and took a position in John Butterfield's store there. In 1826 he returned to Boston and went into Joshua Sears' store. In 1829, then twenty-one years of age, he entered the commission business on his own account, dealing in Nantucket and New Bedford oil, and building up an extensive and active trade. In 1837 he sold out to his brother, Henry Lincoln, and joining Major John Fairfield at Cen- tral wharf, established the New Orleans packet-line, which soon became the principal packet-line of Boston, and did a large business for years. When the gold fever broke out in California, in 1849, Mr. Lincoln left this firm and again joined his brother Henry in India street, establishing lines of packets to California and Australia. He built and sailed twenty ships and barks, retaining the managing interests in all of them. But finally, this business proving somewhat disastrous, he returned to the oil business. Now came the oil discoveries and petro- leum wells, and Mr. Lincoln was the second man to go into the manufacture of coal oil in this country, forming a partnership with William D. Philbrick, establishing an agency in Titusville, and building a refinery in East Boston. After the dissolution of this firm, Mr. Lincoln built a large manufactory in East Cambridge. The business required the equip- ment of a line of schooners to ply between Philą- delphia and Boston for the transportation of the petroleum. In 1872 the factory was destroyed by fire, and then Mr. Lincoln and his son, William E., entered the real-estate business, in which they have continued ever since, handling a large amount of Brookline property. Mr. Lincoln has been a resi- dent of Brookline for the past thirty-nine years, and for seventeen years was a member of the board of assessors of the town, during most of that time its chairman. He was the first man to suggest the widening of Beacon street, and he has been person- ally interested in many of the improvements in
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Brookline and vicinity. His Boston office is at No. Mr. Linscott was married July 29, 1855, to Miss 43 Devonshire street. Mr. Lincoln was married in Annie Barron, a native of Maine; they have five children living : Roswell, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1883; Frank K., graduate of Bowdoin in 1888, now in Boston University Law School ; Annie M.,. graduate of Wellesley in 1889 ; Grace ; and Daniel C. Linscott. Boston, in 1838, to Miss Mary M., daughter of David Francis, of the famous book-firm of Monroe & Francis, and has four sons: the eldest, David F., is professor in the college at Geneva ; the second, William E., is with Mr. Lincoln in the real-estate business ; the third, Rev. James Otis, is an Episco- pal clergyman in Kansas; and the fourth, Walter Lincoln, is in the insurance business in Boston.
LINSCOTT, DANIEL. C., son of Jonathan and Han- nah (Clark) Linscott, natives of Jefferson, Me., was born in that town March 17, 1828. He was fitted
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for college at Lincoln and Yarmouth academies. Graduating from Bowdoin College in 1854, in the same year he came to Chelsea, where he taught school and studied law until 1860, when he was examined by Henry W. Paine and admitted to the Suffoik bar. In 1876 he was admitted to the United States Supreme Court. He has been engaged in general practice ever since ; his present office is at No. 85 Devonshire street. In politics Mr. Linscott is Democratic. For a period, during his residence in Chelsea, he was in the city government. He has resided in Boston for twenty-five years. He has long been a member of the First Baptist Church, and for several years one of the deacons. He is presi- dent of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity of Bowdoin.
LITCHFIELD, GEORGE A., son of Richard and Xoa (Clapp) Litchfield, was born in Scituate, Mass., Aug. 21, 1838. His early education was attained in the public schools and the academy at Hanover. He entered Brown University, but did not fully complete his college course. He studied for the ministry and in 1861 was settled as pastor over the Baptist church in Winchendon, Mass. Here he remained about five years, when, on account of ill-health, he was obliged to relinquish this work. Subsequently he turned his attention to the insur- ance business, and successfully engaged in the con- duct of a large life-insurance agency for western Massachusetts. In 1874 he purchased a half-inter- est in the tack and nail manufacturing concern of Brigham, Whitman, & Co., in South Abington, the firm name being changed to Brigham, Litchfield, & Vining. Then, in the fall of 1879, he again interested himself in insurance matters, and was concerned in
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the establishment of the Massachusetts Benefit As- sociation, the leading company in New England
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engaged in the mutual-assessment insurance busi- ness. He is still an active member of the board of managers. Mr. Litchfield was married in South Abington Nov. 21, 1861, to Miss Sarah M. Gurney ; they have three children : Cannie Zetta, Everett Starr, and Frederick Ellsworth.
LITTLE, ARTHUR, architect, was born in Boston Nov. 29, 1852. After finishing a course of study at the Institute of Technology, he passed a year in the office of Peabody & Stearns. He began the practice of architecture in 1878, and until 1890 continued alone, but in the latter year formed a partnership with H. W. Brown, under the firm name of Little & Brown, the offices of the concern being in the Mason Building, No. 70 Kilby street. Mr. Little has furnished plans for a number of handsome LOCKE, FRED AUGUSTUS, was born in Boston Aug. 18, 1847. He was educated in the Boston public at Manchester, two cottages at Swampscott for the schools. On leaving school he was for a time in the employ of David Tucker, a printer in Portland, Me. During the Civil War he joined the Twenty- ninth Maine Infantry, and saw three years of ser- structures, among them residences of George Howe Little estate, several houses belonging to Rev. Dr. C. A. Bartol at Manchester, Mrs. Ole Bull's resi- dence in Cambridge, the residences of George R. Emmerton and Philip Little at Salem, of Major J." vice, being mustered out in June, 1866. Three H. Sleeper at Marblehead Neck; and in Boston years later he entered the Boston Dental College, and graduated in 1871, receiving the degree of D.D.S. He has since been engaged in active prac- tice in this city, and for a time was demonstrator of operative dentistry in the Boston Dental College. He is a member of the alumni association of that institution, and is also a member of the Merrimac Valley Association. Dr. Locke was abroad from 1872 to 1874, a portion of which time he practised in Seville, Spain. those of Mrs. Fitz, No. 75 Beacon street ; F. W. Palfrey, No. 53 Beacon street ; Mrs. Kuhn, No. 36 Commonwealth avenue ; and his own home on Ral- eigh street and the Bay State road. The latter building is most remarkable, being constructed of material taken from a number of old colonial houses, some parts being upwards of two hundred years old, the whole forming a most unique and artistic combination and a notable evidence of Mr. Little's architectural skill. He also designed the Wood- Dexter mansion in Chicago, Mr. Henry Story's residence in Washington, D.C., and the Randolph Morgan Atherton place at Ipswich. Mr. Little is unmarried.
LITTLE, JOHN MASON, was born in Boston Jan. 14, 1848. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and graduated from the English High School in 1867. He then spent one year at the Institute of Technology. In the spring of 1868 he went into his father's house, James I .. Little & Co., dry-goods commission merchants and agents for the Pacific Mills at Lawrence, and remained in various capaci- ties until the death of Mr. J. Wiley Edmands, treas- urer of the mills, in 1877 ; then his father becoming treasurer, he went into that office and remained three years as his father's right-hand man in its affairs. In 1880 he took a vacation of six months, and then assumed the entire charge of his father's property as his attorney. His experience in the
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