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with William Sohier of this city. He was made judge of the District Court of the United States in March, 1865, by President Lincoln, and was ap- pointed circuit judge in 1878 by President Hayes, resigning in May, 1884, - making over nineteen years' service on the bench. He has since been in the practice of law, with offices at No. 3 Pemberton square. He is an independent Republican in politics. On the 19th of May, 1853, Judge Lowell married Miss Lucy B., daughter of George B. Emer- son, the former famous school-master of Boston. His son, John Lowell, jr., is associated with him in practice. Judge Lowell's great-grandfather, John Lowell, was the first United States district judge of this district. He was appointed by Washington, and made by President Adams chief justice of the circuit court for the First Circuit, under the Act of Congress of 1801, which was repealed in 1802.
LUND, RODNEY, son of Thomas and Anna M. (Currier) Lund, was born in Corinth, Vt., April 28, 1830. He was educated at the Bradford and Corinth Academies in his native State, and in 1847 began reading law with Judge W. Spencer, of Corinth. From 1850 to 1852 he read with Robert McK. Ormsby, of Bradford, and in the latter year he was admitted to the Orange county bar. He came to Boston in September, 1866, and practised in part- nership with R. I. Burbank until 1885. Then he was associated with C. H. Welch until 1890, when the firm was changed, W. E. Jewell becom- ing a member, to Lund, Jewell, & Welch. Mr. Lund has been in general practice, and is con- nected with a large patent practice. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association. He is Republican in politics, and Baptist in religion. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity. He was married Sept. 13, 1854, to Myra M. Chubb, of Hardwick, Vt.
M AINLAND, JOHN YORSTON, was born in Scot- land in 1849. He was educated in the old and in this country to which he came when quite young. He left school at nineteen, and learned the trade of a builder in Pictou, N.S., in 1866 and 1867, and in Boston in 1868 and 1869. He began business for himself here in 1873. Some of his most important contracts have been upon the Hotels Bristol and Victoria ; the Athletic Club Building in this city ; Felton Hall, Cambridge : a fine mercantile block and the Merchants' Club House in Sioux City, Ia. ; and J. Pierpont Morgan's
house in New York city. He is a member of the Masonic order, of the Massachusetts Charitable
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Mechanic Association, and of the Scots Charitable Society.
MANCHESTER, FORREST C., son of Albert B. and Elizabeth M. (Sessions) Manchester, was born in Randolph, Vt., Sept. 11, 1859. He was educated in the common schools, the Randolph State Nor- mal School, and the St. Johnsbury Academy. He pursued his legal studies in the Boston University Law School, from which he graduated in 1884, and in the office of ex-Governor Gaston ; and he was admitted to the bar on July 21, 1885. From that time to the present he has steadily practised his profession in this city. When he came to Boston. in 1883, he was an entire stranger here. His first work to attract attention was his persistent fight in behalf of the farmers on the produce question, which he began soon after his admission to the bar. He was retained in all the Massachusetts cases grow- ing out of the Hartford-bridge disaster on the Central Vermont Railroad in February, 1887, through which he won considerable reputation. In 1891 he was counsel for the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, winning the celebrated " peach case," against the New York & New England, New York, New Haven, & Hartford, the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad Companies, before
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the Interstate Commerce Commission. The decision saves Boston fifty thousand dollars in rates annually, and establishes precedents of national importance. Mr. Manchester has taken an active part in the councils of the Republican party, but has never been a candidate for political office, although re- peatedly urged to stand. He was. married on Oct.
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22, 1885, to Miss Minnie L. Beard. He resides in Winchester.
MANNING, JOHN PATRICK, was born in Boston June 17, 1851. He was educated in the public schools and a local commercial college. In 1868 he was employed in the clerk's office of the Superior Court for criminal business in Suffolk county. In 1872 he was appointed assistant clerk of this court, and in the same year was admitted to the bar. In 1874, nominated as a Democrat, he was elected clerk to fill an unexpired term caused by the death of Henry Homer, who had held the position. In 1876 he was elected - again nominated as a Democrat - clerk for the full term of five years, and has been elected every five years since that time by both po- litical parties. He is a Catholic in religion, and a member of all the prominent Catholic societies.
MARCY, HENRY O., M.D., son of Smith and Fanny (Gibbs) Marcy, was born in Otis, Mass., June 23, 1837. His ancestors were among the early settlers
of New England. His grandfather, Thomas Marcy, was one of the first settlers in northern Ohio. His maternal great-grandfather, Israel, and grandfather, Elijah Gibbs, served in the Revolutionary War. His father served in the War of 1812. He was educated in Wilbraham Academy and Amherst College. Sub- sequently he studied in the Harvard Medical School, and was graduated in 1863. He served in the Civil War, first as assistant surgeon of the Forty-third Massachusetts Volunteers, commissioned in April, 1863 ; afterwards, commissioned in November that year, as surgeon of the first regiment of colored troops recruited in North Carolina ; and then as medical director of Florida (in 1864). At the close of the war he established himself in Cambridge. In the spring of 1869 he went to Europe for further study, and entering the university of Berlin, spent a year as a special student of Professors Virchow and Mar- tin. He then visited the various capitals of Europe and studied the hospitals and their service, spending much time in London and Edinburgh. Returning home, he was among the first to adopt the methods, then unknown in this country, of aseptic and anti- septic surgery. For the purpose of devoting him- self more especially to the surgical diseases of women, he removed to Boston in ISSo, opening at the same time in Cambridge a private hospital for women, which is still maintained. He was promi- nent in the Seventh International Medical Congress held in London in 1881, was a contributor to the Eighth held in Copenhagen in 1884, and president of the gynæcological section of the Ninth held in Washington in 1887. He is an active member of the American Medical Association, of which he was vice-president in 1879, and for some. years a member of the judicial council ; and he was president of the American Academy of Medicine in 1884. He is a member of other medical and scientific organizations in both Europe and America. He has contributed ex- tensively to surgical literature, and in 1886 published in two volumes the translation of the works of Pro- fessor Ercolani, of Bologna, Italy, upon the " Repro- ductive Processes." The honorary degree of I.L.D. was conferred upon him in 1887 by Wesleyan Uni- versity. Dr. Marcy was married in the autumn of 1863, to Sarah E. Wendell, of Great Falls, N.H.
MARTIN, AUGUSTUS P., son of Pearl and Betsey Verrill (Rollins) Martin, was born in Abbot, Me., Nov. 23, 1835. He was educated in the Boston public schools, Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, and private schools in Melrose. He began business life as a clerk. When the war broke out he was occu- pying that position with Fay & Stone, boots and
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shoes, this city. Lieutenant of the Boston Light Artillery from 1858 to 1860, he was sergeant during the three months' campaign in 1861 ; then in Sep- tember he was commissioned first lieutenant, Third Massachusetts Battery, Massachusetts Volunteers, and in the following November, captain. He was chief of artillery, Morell's Division, in 1862 ; was assigned to duty by General Meade as commander of the Ar- tillery Brigade, Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, in May, 1863 ; and was commissioned brevet-colonel at the close of the war, for gallant and meritorious services. Then returning to Boston he reentered business and was made a partner in the firm of Fay & Stone. In 1868 he was admitted as a partner to the house of Francis Dane & Co., and retiring therefrom in 1871, he formed the shoe manufactur- ing firm of A. P. Martin & Co. Subsequently the firm name was changed to.Martin & Skinner, then to Martin, Skinner, & Fay, and then again to A. P. Martin & Co. General Martin has held a num- ber of prominent positions. In 1878 he was com- mander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ; in 1879-80 commander of the Massa- chusetts Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion ; in 1882 senior aid on the staff of Governor Long, with the rank of brigadier-general ; and in 1884 mayor of Boston. He was chief marshal on the occasion of the d'edication of the army and navy monument on the Common, Sept. 17, 1877, and again on the occasion of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, 1880. He has been a director in a number of corporations, and is a member of the Algonquin, Athletic, and other clubs. On Feb. 3, 1859, he was married in Boston to Miss Abbie F. Peirce ; they have one daughter and three sons : Flora E. (now Mrs. John Shepard, jr.), Franklin Pearl, Charles Augustus, and Everett Fay Martin.
was admitted to the bar, and at once began practice, opening an office in Cambridge. He labored as-
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siduously in the interests of the Order of Protection, from its establishment to the time of his death.
MATTHEWS, NATHAN, JR., mayor of Boston, is a descendant of old Cape Cod stock, and a native of the West End of Boston, where he was born March 28, 1854. His early education was obtained in public and private schools in this city, and he entered Harvard in his eighteenth year, graduating with honors in 1875. From Cambridge he went to Leipsic, and in the famous university there studied two years, devoting his attention chiefly to political economy and jurisprudence. Then, return- ing to Boston, he took the course of the Harvard Law School, and in 1880 was admitted to the Suf- folk bar. For two or three years he was associated in practice with Charles M. Barnes. In his prac- tice Mr. Matthews has given special attention to equity cases. He has charge of a number of large trust-funds, and as trustee or agent for numerous estates he is one of the large taxpayers in the city. He is thoroughly acquainted with Boston real- estate matters, and is one of the examining coun- sel of the Conveyancers Title Company. For several years he has been the law editor of the " American Architect and Building News." Mr. Mat-
MARTIN, WILLIAM H., the first supreme warden of the New England Order of Protection, was born in Clermont, Pa., July 9, 1848, and died in Cam- bridge, Mass., Oct. 12, 1888. His was the leading name in the charter of the order, and he has been called its father. The name of the last lodge that he instituted before his death, No. 51, of Taunton, has been changed from Winthrop to that of Will- iam H. Martin, in his honor. He was the son of a farmer of limited means, and passed his early years on the farm. Ambitious to become a lawyer, and his preparatory education having been deficient, he came to Massachusetts at the age of nineteen, and here pursued a vigorous course of studies while sup- porting himself by hard work. In April, 1873, he thews early took an interest in political matters,
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and was foremost of a group of young Democrats who have done much in recent years to broaden and strengthen the Democratic party in the city and State. He was one of the original mem- bers of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Mas- sachusetts ; in 1888 he was one of the delegates from Massachusetts to the national convention of Democratic clubs in Baltimore, and in the same year was one of the presidential electors on the Democratic ticket ; in 1888, also, he was first made a member of the Democratic State committee ; in 1889 he was chairman of the Democratic State convention ; in 1890 he was unanimously elected chairman of the executive committee of the State committee, and brought to that position executive ability of a high order ; in December, that year, he was elected mayor of Boston, and in the following municipal election was reëlected by the largest majority ever given to any candidate for political office in the city. In 1892 he was a delegate to the national Democratic convention at Chicago. His administration as mayor of Boston has been marked by a broad and progressive policy. He has instituted many and important reforms, has followed closely and intelligently the work of every department of the government, the details of which he early mastered, and he has generally ad- ministered the affairs of the municipal corporation with an eye to the best interests of the city as a whole, not as a narrow partisan, but as a business man at the head of a great business concern. Mr. Mat- thews is a member of the New England Tariff Re- form League, of the American Statistical Society, and of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He has given much study to social and economic questions, and has contributed a number of papers upon these topics to the periodical press, one of his latest being a contribution to the " Quarterly Journal of Economics," on the fluctua- tions of the rate of interest. With all this serious work he has kept fresh his interest in athletic sports which began in college. When a student in the Harvard Law School he rowed in the Law School crew, and afterwards he made frequent boating-trips along New England rivers, with the late John Boyle O'Reilly as his companion. He has long been a member of the Union Boat Club, and of the Boston Athletic Association since its organization. Mr. Matthews was married in 1884 to Miss Ellen B., daughter of Col. Manlius Sar- gent, who was killed in the Civil War ; they have two children : Ellen Natalie and Sullivan Amory Matthews, and their home is at No. 456 Beacon street.
MAXWELL, J. AUDLEY, was born in Sunbury, Ga. His father, Joseph Edward Maxwell, graduated from Yale College and was a prominent cotton-planter of Georgia ; and his grandfather graduated from
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Princeton College. He himself graduated from Franklin College, the academic department of the University of Georgia, taking first honor in his class. He spent a year in travel, then studied law in the office of Joseph Lumpkin, chief justice of Georgia, but declining practice went to West Point Military Academy, where he graduated in the school of civil engineering, and entered that profession just prior to the Civil War. He served throughout the entire war, was commissioned by the Confederate government second lieutenant in the regular army, and at the end of the war was major, commanding Maxwell Battalion of Light Artillery ; he was with Johnson's army when the latter sur- rendered to Sherman. After the war he resumed civil engineering, becoming successively chief engi- neer of the Bainbridge & Thomasville Railroad, the South Georgia & Florida Railroad, and the Bruns- wick & Vicksburg Railroad. Later, as contractor, be built the Albany & Blakely Railroad. He came to Boston in 1873 and engaged in the practice of law, continuing to the present time in general practice. He has done much in directing Northern capital towards Southern enterprises. In politics he is, and always has been, Democratic. His wife, now
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deceased, was Miss Kathleen Cameron, of Ridge- wood, N.J.
MAYNADIER, JAMES E., was born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 23, 1839. He is the son of the late Gen. William Maynadier, at one time chief of ord- nance in Washington, D.C., who died in the United States service. He received his early instruction in the schools of his native State, completing his edu- cation in Washington, D.C. In 1856 he came to Boston and entered the law-office of Causten Browne, with whom he studied and practised after his admission to the bar in 1860. In 1862, then a member of the Independent Corps of Cadets, he enlisted in the regiment that company raised, and served as private and non-commissioned officer in Company K, Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Infantry, for one year. At the close of the war he resumed his practice in Boston, and for several years had as a partner George O. G. Coale. For the last two years E. S. Beach has been associated with him, with offices at No. 27 School street. His practice is confined almost exclusively to patent cases. Mr. Maynadier is a Democrat in politics, and is president of the Taunton Democratic Club. He is a member of the Episcopal church.
MCCALL, SAMUEL W., son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, was born in East Providence, Pa., Feb. 28, 1851. He was fitted for college in the New Hampton, N.H., Academy, and entering Dartmouth, was graduated in the class of 1874. He then came to Massachusetts and studied law with Staples & Goulding in Worcester, where he was subsequently admitted to the bar. He began prac- tice in Boston in January, 1876, and has since con- tinued here. Between May, 1888, and January, 1889, he served as editor of the " Boston Advertiser." Mr. McCall was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1888 and 1889, the latter year serving as chairman of the committee on the judi- ciary. He was again returned to the Legislature, serving in that of 1892 and taking a leading part on the Republican side of the house. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Chicago in 1888. On May 23, 1881, Mr. McCall was married, in Lyndonville, Vt., to Miss Ella Esther, daughter of Sumner S. Thompson ; they have four children : Sumner Thompson, Ruth, Henry, and Catherine McCall. He resides in Win- chester.
MCCORMACK, ALEXANDER LESLIE, M.D., son of Peter and Annie (McDonald) McCormack, was
born in Prince Edward Island in 1854. His edu- cation began in the schools of Charlottetown, P.E.I .. and was completed in the University of Vermont and the University of the City of New York. He began the practice of medicine in East Boston soon after graduation, and has since remained there. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, and of the leading Scottish clubs of Boston. Dr. McCormack was married in 1885, to Miss Minnie McLaren ; they have three children : Lillian, John, and Leslie McCormack.
MCDONALD, JAMES ATHANASIUS, M.D., son of Ron- ald and Mary McDonald, was born in Charlotte- town, P.E.I., May 2, 1842. He was educated in the Prince of Wales and St. Dunstan Colleges, in that Province, and, coming to Boston, entered the Harvard Medical School in 1862, graduating in 1866. He began practice in Charlestown, where he has since remained, prominent in political as well as medical circles. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature of 1866, of the Charlestown school board from 1869 to 1876 inclusive, and of the Boston school board from
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1887 to 1891. He is now surgeon of the Ninth Regiment. He is a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Society and of the Gynecological Society. Dr. McDonald was married May 30, 1869, to Miss Annie Sprague ; they have four chil-
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dren living : James A., William J., Annie S., and Louis R. McDonald. Three others have died.
MACDONALD, WILLIAM LOUIS, M.D., was born in Cambridge, N.B., July 29, 1834. His early educa- tion was acquired in the schools of his native town. Then he came to Boston and took the course of the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1865. There being no dental college in Boston at that time, he began at once to practise dentistry, and he has since steadily pursued his profession here. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medi- cal Society, the New England Dental Society, the Massachusetts Dental Society, and of the Harvard Almuni Association. Dr. Macdonald was married Oct. 2, 1878, to Miss Emily, daughter of Asa Wil- bur, of Boston.
MCDOUGALL, SAMUEL. J., was born in Albany, N.Y., June 29, 1830. He received his early train- ing in the public schools, and graduated from the State Normal School in that city. After teaching awhile in various towns of Oneida county, he studied medicine with Dr. James H. Armsby, of Albany, finally graduating from the medical college in that city in 1857, with the degree of M.D. Then he came to Boston and studied dentistry, ultimately practising his profession here. It was through his especial efforts that the Massachusetts Dental Society was organized, in May, 1864, with the late Dr. Keep in the chair, and Dr. McDougall as treas- urer. He also took an active part in obtaining the charter for the Boston Dental College. He was appointed professor of dental therapeutics in that institution. He is a member of the New England Dental Society, and of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
McGANN, THOMAS F., was born .in Ireland in 1843, and coming early to this country attained his education in the country schools of Duchess and Madison counties, New York. During the years 1858-61 he learned his trade as a machinist, and the eight years following worked as a tool-maker for Henry N. Harbor & Co. Then, in 1869, he began the business of manufacturing general brass goods, in which he has been engaged ever since, developing it to extensive proportions. His work appears in buildings in all parts of the country ; here in Boston he has furnished the brass-work for such buildings as the Ames and the State-street Exchange.
received in the schools of Baltimore, which he at- tended until twelve years of age, when he entered a printing-office, and served for a time as an ap- prentice. He subsequently attended St. Mary's
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College, Baltimore, and there worked in a printing- office established by the faculty. In 1845 he started for Boston by way of Philadelphia and Nor- folk, and arrived here with scanty baggage and a cash capital of six cents. He immediately sought work at his trade, and was successful. He worked as a compositor on the " Bee," the " Times," and the "Journal," and later on obtained a regular position on the " Advertiser." In 1846, while work- ing on the " Advertiser," he resigned his position to enlist as a private in the army which was starting for the conquest of Mexico. He joined the com- pany which was commanded by Captain Edward Webster, son of Daniel Webster, and served in the army until 1848, when he returned to Boston, and again entered the newspaper business. In 1850 he reported for the "Boston Herald," and subse- quently went to the " Daily Mail." A year or two later he was given charge of the "Times" job- office, where he formed the acquaintance of a num- ber of railroad men and theatrical people. While foreman of the office he took charge of Dan Rice's circus in Boston, and several other enterprises, in all of which he was very successful. For two years
M'GLENEN, HENRY A., was born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 28, 1826. His early education was he managed the business of the Marsh children at
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the Howard Athenaeum, after which he was con- nected with several companies. When Wyzeman Marshall had leases of the Howard and the Boston Theatre, Mr. M'Glenen looked after his interests, and for the two years during which Harry C. Jarrett managed the Boston Theatre he gave much of his time and services in behalf of that manager. In 1866 he relinquished printing entirely, and took charge of the concert tour of Parepa Rosa, the great cantatrice. The following year he took the Men- delssohn Quintette Club on an extended tour West, and in the spring of 1868 the Hanlons secured his services as manager for their season at Selwyn's Theatre, and he was retained in the same capacity the three following years by John Selwyn and Arthur Cheney. In 1871 he became business agent of the Boston Theatre, in which position he still remains. He is not only held in the highest esteem by the proprietor and the local patrons of the theatre, but is one of the best-known theatrical men in the country, possessing the confidence and respect of all with whom he is brought into business relations. He is also identified with many matters of public concern, and is always prompt to assist in any movement in which the public-spirited are called to lend a hand. He is president of the Massa- chusetts Volunteers in Mexico, vice-president of the National Association of Mexico Veterans, and a member of the Press and Athletic Clubs. Mr. M'Glenen was married in Boston Nov. 29, 1849, to Caroline M., daughter of Cyrus and Matilda (Cushing) Bruce ; they have two children : Edward W. and Harry J. M'Glenen.
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