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MCINTIRE, CHARLES J., son of Ebenezer and Amelia Augustine (Landais) McIntire, was born in Cambridge, Mass., March 26, 1842. His father's ancestors moved from Salem to Oxford (now Charl- ton), Worcester county, in 1733, and were among the first town officers there ; his mother is a lineal descendant of John Read, a distinguished lawyer and citizen of Boston in colonial days; her father was a French exile and United States artillery officer, and she was born in Fort Moultrie, S.C., where he was in command. Charles J. was educated in the Cambridge public schools, by private tutors, and in the Chapman Hall School of Boston. Then he took the Harvard Law School course, and subsequently finishing his law studies in the office of ex-Mayor Dana, of Charlestown, was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865. These studies were interrupted by the Civil War, during which he served as a soklier of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. He began practice in Boston immediately after his admis-
sion to the bar, making his residence in Cam- bridge. Of the latter he is now city solicitor, hav- ing been elected to that position in 1886. For three years he was assistant district attorney for. Middlesex county. He has served in the Cambridge common council (1866 and 1867), the board of aldermen (1877), three years on the school board, and in the lower house of the Legislature ( 1869 and 1870). In 1883 he was the " People's " candidate for mayor of Cambridge. The same year he was elected president of the Forty-fourth Regiment As- sociation. Mr. McIntire was married in 1865, in Charlestown, to Miss Marie Terese Linegan ; they have five children : Mary Amelia (Cornell Uni- versity), Henrietta Elizabeth (Harvard Annex), Charles Ebenezer, Frederick, and Blanche Eugenie McIntire.
MCINTOSH, DAVID, the leading plasterer of Boston, was born in Canada Nov. 10, 1844. He came to Massachusetts in 1869 and began business as a plasterer in Lynn, remaining there until 1872, when he removed to Boston. He has done a vast amount of work on large buildings and handsome residences of this city erected since that time, among them the new State-street Exchange and the American Telephone and Jordan buildings. The work in the Gillette and Vanderbilt mansion-houses in New- port, R.I., is also his. In 1889 Mr. McIntosh established the Boston Fire Proofing Company at Revere, and began the manufacture of the porous terra-cotta building materials, blocks of terra-cotta porous and light, yet harder and stronger than brick, for flooring and partitions, and absolutely fire-proof. The new Exchange, the Telephone, Ames, John Hancock, and other large buildings in Boston are supplied with these blocks. Mr. McIntosh is one of the directors of the Master Builders' Association, has his office in the building at No. 166 Devonshire street, and resides in the Roxbury district.
MCKAY, GEORGE EDWARD, was born in Charles- town Jan. 26, 1841. After passing through the public schools and graduating from the high school, he was employed as clerk in a tailoring establishment. Afterwards he started in business for himself. This he continued until 1877, when he was appointed by Mayor Prince to the posi- tion of superintendent of Faneuil Hall Market, which he still holds. Mr. Mckay is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Knights of Honor, and has held high positions in all these societies.
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MCKAY, HENRY SQUAREBRIGS, architect, was born in Shelburne, N.S., Sept. 10, 1861. He obtained
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tute of America, and the Megantic Fish and Game Club. He was married in Shelburne, N.S., to Miss Robena Mckay. He resides in Longwood.
McKIM, JOHN W., was born in Boston Nov. 25, 1822. He was graduated from Union College in 1844, and was a classmate of ex-Governor Alex- ander H. Rice. He read law in Washington, D.C., with Messrs. Dent & Grammer, and later practised in that city. In 1850 he was elected a member of the Washington city council, but a few years after he went to Ohio and was appointed district attor- ney of Defiance county. At the breaking out of the Civil War he was at the head of a law-firm in Toledo, O., but answering to the call of his coun- try, he served through the struggle, as a captain with the brevet of major, in the quartermaster's depart- ment, and was stationed in Boston. In 1867 he be- gan the practice of law in this city. In 1870 and 1871 he was elected to the lower house of the Legis- lature. In 1874 he was appointed judge of the West Roxbury municipal court upon its establishment, the appointment being made under Governor Tal- bot ; and in March, 1877, under Governor Alexander H. Rice, he received his present appointment, judge of the Probate Court for Suffolk county, and of the Court of Insolvency. Judge Mckim has heard
his education in the Provinces, and later in Boston. After studying architecture in Canada and in the United States, he entered the office of Thomas W. Silloway, of this city, remaining in his employ a year ; then, in 1882, they formed a partnership which continued for a year or more. In 1884 he engaged in practice alone, so continuing until 1888, when the present firm of Mckay & Smith was formed by the admission of Frank W. Smith, Mr. Mckay's former draughtsman. Mr. Mckay has devoted himself chiefly to planning churches and public buildings, his principal works being the First Baptist Church, Malden; the' Worthen-street Bap- tist Church, Lowell; Prospect Hill Congregational Church, Somerville ; Charles River Baptist Church, Cambridge ; Dearborn-street Baptist Church, Rox- bury ; the town hall at Amherst : Odd Fellows Hall, Medford ; and the " Abbotsford " apartment-house on Commonwealth avenue, Back Bay district. He received medals from the State for his plans of the State House Extension. Among the private resi- dences designed by him are those of J. J. Stan- wood and I. S. P. Atwood, in Gloucester ; J. H. Stetson, South Weymouth ; and D. H. Mckay, JOHN W. McKIM. Brookline. Mr. Mckay is the president of the Braintree Granite Company, a member of the Bos- many notable cases during his administration, and ton Architectural Club, of the Archaeological Insti- his decisions have been characterized by fairness
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and sound judgment. He resides with his family in Jamaica Plain.
MCLAUGHLIN, JOHN A., was born in Boston Feb. 1, 1853. His education was obtained in the Eliot and Mayhew public schools, and at Boston College, where he took a five years' course. He early be- came interested in local politics. In 1881 and 1882 he was a member of the common council ; in 1883 and 1884 he was a representative from the Seventh Suffolk District in the lower house of the Legislature, serving on the committee on water supply ; in 1887 he was elected to the board of aldermen, and was reelected the two succeeding years, serving during his terms on the most impor- tant committees - as chairman of those on State aid and on sewers, and a member of those on finance and on paving ; and in March, 1891, he was ap- pointed by Mayor Matthews deputy superintendent of the bridge division of the street department, which position he still holds. He has been a mem- ber of the Democratic ward and city committee for about fourteen years, was its secretary for four years, and member of its finance committee for three.
McLAUTHLIN, GEORGE T., son of Martin and Hannah (Reed) McLauthlin, was born in Dux- bury, Mass., Oct. 11, 1826. His early education was obtained in the public schools of East Bridge- water, to which place his parents had moved in his infancy. At sixteen he undertook shoemaking on his own account, and a little later began his business career by employing help to assist him. He thus secured the means, supplemented by working morn- ings and evenings while at school away from home, to secure an academic education. At eighteen he was unexpectedly solicited to teach school, which offer he eagerly accepted. He followed that occu- pation four winters with exceptional success, during -which time he devoted a part of each year to shoe- making and a part to attending school. At twenty- one he possessed a well-stored mind and a small sum of money with which to start into more ex- tended business. His eagerness for knowledge led him to continue his studies while at work at the bench with his hands, snatching problems from the open book and mentally digesting them while the routine manual labor went on. While still in his boyhood he attempted a new system in his shoe- shop, whereby more work could be accomplished with the same men than had before been deemed possible. He gave each man a special part of the work on each shoe, in which work each soon be-
came expert. This, it is believed, was the origin of the " gang system," and to Mr. McLauthlin belongs the credit of conceiving it and demonstrating its great value. Upon attaining his majority he joined in a partnership with his elder brother, Martin P., at Marshfield, in the manufacturing of shoe ma- chinery. At that time very little was known of shoe machinery, and few shoemakers could yet be induced to drop the old lapstone for a $15 rolling- machine, or add to their inexpensive " bench kit" of tools a $3.50 leather skiving and welt-splitting machine, although these would save their cost in a short time. Therefore the business proved, at first, too limited for both, and resulted in his buying out the interest of his brother Martin. In 1850 he moved to Plymouth, Mass., where he added the manufacture of water-wheels and general machinery to his shoe-machinery business ; before long he be- came widely known as " the water-wheel man," hav- ing sold his wheels in nearly every State and Territory of the United States, in Canada, Nova Scotia, South America, Turkey, and Africa. In 1852 he opened an office on State street, which was his Boston head- quarters until 1865, when he removed his office to his present works. In 1854 he removed his ma-
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chine works to Boston. Having maintained a sound, active business record in the machinery line for forty-five consecutive years, -the last thirty-one years at No. 120 Fulton street, the
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present stand, -he has become extensively and McMichael was married Oct. 24, 1882, to Miss favorably known. Mr. McLauthlin's success has Florence E., daughter of Walter H. Sturtevant,
not been of the "booming " nature; it has been without a financial reverse, and of steady, perma- nent growth, aided by close economy, the exercise of sterling integrity and sound business principles. He has never sought, but has declined, political honors, desiring rather to give constant attention to his business. His mechanical genius is of a re- markable nature, many improvements and labor- saving inventions being the product of his brain, but very few of which he has patented. He is now perfecting several important inventions. Besides doing general machine and contract work, he has several exclusive specialties, among which are the J. C. Hoadley portable engines, which have a world-wide reputation ; McLauthlin's drop-tube safety steam-boilers, accredited by the best steam- experts as being of the highest merit ; McLauthlin's bark-shaving mill, the magic crusher, the magic pul- verizer, McLauthlin's improved elevator, and the test turbine water-wheels,- perfected through a series of five thousand three hundred test experiments, made with a most ingenious automatic testing-apparatus contrived by Mr. McLauthlin, by which results were registered to within one-twentieth of one per cent. of absolute accuracy. All of these except the bark mill and the improved elevator, which are of recent origin and are not yet in general use, have a wide reputation and are of acknowledged superi- ority. Mr. McLauthlin has been a prominent di- rector in several corporations. He was married in 1854 to Miss Clara M. Holden, daughter of the late Freeman Holden. She died in 1882.
McMICHAEL, WILLIS BROOKS, M.D., son of E. K. and Clementine (Haggett) McMichael, was born in Belfast, Me., Sept. 15, 1856. His educa- tion was obtained in the schools of Newcastle, N.H., Portsmouth, N.H., Newburyport, Mass., and Boston, his parents having moved to this city when he was about eleven years of age. He graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1874, and from the Boston University in 1878. He then entered the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated in 1881. He is now surgeon to the Warren line of steamships ; examining physi- cian for the Travellers Insurance Company, the Legion of Honor, and the Pilgrim Fathers; has been district physician since 1883, and is recog- nized as one of the leading practitioners of East Boston. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He is connected with the Ma- sonic fraternity and the Royal Arcanum. Dr.
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of East Boston ; they have one child, Earle Mc- Michael.
MONARY, WILLIAM S., was born in North Abing- ton, Mass., March 29, 1863. He was educated in the public schools of that town, in the Lawrence Grammar School of South Boston, and the English High School, graduating from the latter in ISSo, and receiving a Franklin medal. Upon leaving school he became a reporter on the "Commercial Bulletin," and advanced through the various grades to the position of managing editor. Then, on account of ill-health, he relinquished newspaper work for a time, resuming it early in 1891, when he became interested in the "Sunday Democrat" as part owner. Subsequently the paper passed under his control and management. He was early inter- ested in politics; and in the Cleveland campaign of 1884, when he was but twenty-one years of age, he took the stump on the Democratic side. In 1886 he was elected to the common council, and reelected the following year; in 1888 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, and reelected in 1889 ; and in 1890 he was elected to the senate, the youngest member of that body, being but twenty-seven years of age when sworn in for the session of 1891. He was reelected to the
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senate of 1892. Mr. McNary has been a member of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served as lieutenant of Company B, Ninth Regiment, for two years. He is also a prominent yachtsman, and a member of the South Boston Yacht Club.
McNEIL, NEIL, was born in Cape Breton May 9, 1846. He came to Boston in 1861, and eight years several buildings.
after, with his brother Hector, began the carpentry and building business, under the firm name of McNeil Brothers. In 1871 Hector died, and Mr. McNeil has continued the business under the same style to the present time. It has so developed that contracts of every nature and extent are executed, and Mr. McNeil now employs more masons than carpenters in his building operations, although he has an extensive wood-working establishment in the Dorchester district. He has built a number of the finest residences in the Back Bay district, among them those of Charles F. Adams, Charles T. White, Mrs. Henry Keyes, William Bliss, J. Arthur Beebe, Henry H. Fay, Charles Head, and others. The elegant seaside houses of F. W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Gammill, and Mrs. Brooks at Newport, the country houses of W. D. Sloane and John S. Barnes at Lenox, with others in both places, are his work. He has also done considerable building in New York city and other points distant from Boston. Mr. McNeil is one of the active members of the Master Builders' Association. He was married in Boston in 1872, and resides in an artistic dwelling in the Dorchester district.
MCNUTT, JOHN J., was born in Truro, N.S., Sept. 29, 1822. He learned his trade as a wood- worker in Elizabeth, N.J., began business in Saco, Me., and came to Boston in 1842. Here, two years after, the firm of Paul & McNutt, build- ers, was formed, and this continued until 1858, since which time Mr. McNutt has conducted the business as sole proprietor. He is known as the master builder and pioneer of Wareham street. He now owns the extensive Novelty Wood Works at the junction of Malden and Wareham streets, which manufacture wood mouldings, sashes, doors, inside trimmings, and, in fact, every description of build- ing wood-work ; and he has played an important part in the construction of superior dwellings, busi- ness houses, churches, theatres, etc., in Boston and vicinity. He has fitted up a large number of banks, banking-houses, offices, and stores ; and many of the magnificent interiors in the business quarters are the result of his skilful handiwork. Mr. McNutt has been in business continuously for nearly fifty years,
and he is styled the " Father of Wareham Street,: on account of his liberal and generous support of many of his brother builders and carpenters in finan- cial difficulties, and the agreeable relations which are maintained between him and his men, the term of service of some of them dating back to the time when he began the business. His works occupy
MEEHAN, MICHAEL, was born in Ireland June 20, 1840, and came to the United States in 1855. At the beginning of the Civil War in . 1861 he shipped before the mast in the United States navy, and served three years. After the war he learned the trade of a mason and subsequently entered into business as a contractor in Boston, meeting with good success. He early took an interest in poli- tics, and was secretary of the Democratic State. central committee in 1878 and 1879. In 1884 and 1885 he was elected superintendent of streets, and was deputy superintendent during the adminis- tration of Mayor Hart in 1889 and 1890.
MERRILL, MOODY, son of Winthrop and Martha N. Merrill, was born in Compton, N.H., June 27, 1836. He passed his early life on the paternal farm, devoting his winters to study and teaching in different New Hampshire towns. He intended taking a college course, but was prevented by reason of ill-health. In 1859 he came to Boston and read law in the office of William Minot, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1863. From 1865 to 1874 he served on the school board, and for some years he was chairman of the Rox- bury High School committee. For three years, 1869-1871, he was a member of the lower house of the Legislature; and in 1873 and 1874 was a member of the senate. In the latter year he was chairman of the committee in charge of the memorial services on the death of Charles Sumner, and compiled a memorial history of that occasion. In 1872, when the Highland Street Railway was organized, Mr. Merrill was chosen president of the road, and this office he held until the company was absorbed by the West End Street Railway Com- pany, in 1886. Prior to the existence of the High- land Railway the Metropolitan Road had been without a competitor, and the new rival, with the valuable improvements it adopted, compelled many changes for the better. In 1886 Mr. Merrill se- cured the passage of the bill authorizing all the street railways of Boston to consolidate. He was also largely instrumental in establishing the famous Boston park system, which, when completed, will
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be one of the finest in the world. In 1880 he was a Republican member of the Massachusetts electoral college. After that he took no active part in politics until the fall of 1890, when he was the Republican candidate for mayor of Boston. Mr. Merrill is the president of the Roxbury Club.
MEYER, GEORGE V. L., son of the -late George A. Meyer, was born in Boston June 24, 1858. Clubs.
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His father was a native of New York, and his mother, Grace Helen Parker, a native of Boston, a granddaughter of the late Bishop Parker. He entered Harvard College in the class of 1879, and on graduating went into the office of Alpheus H. Hardy & Co., remaining in this house until 1881, when he became a member of the firm of Linder & Meyer, merchants, - a firm which his father had established on India wharf in 1848. Its offices are at No. 89 State street. Mr. Meyer is also presi- dent of the Ames Plow Company, a director of the Old Colony Trust Company, a director of the Bank of Commerce, and treasurer of the Boston Lying-in Hospital. He has taken an active interest in politics, and in 1889 was elected on the Republican ticket to the common council, in which he served two years. During this time he was a member of the finance committee, the committee on water, on laying out and widening streets, and on the Charles- river bridges. In the fall of 1890 he was elected
to the board of aldermen from the Fourth District, receiving the nomination of both the Democrats and Republicans ; and in 189t he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Ward 9 in the lower house of the Legislature. While in college Mr. Meyer took an active part in athletics, and was on the class rowing-crew of 1879. He is a mem- ber of the Athletic, St. Botolph, and Somerset
MILLER, GEORGE N., was born in Gardiner, Me., June 6, 1838, and came to Boston when eighteen years of age. He learned his trade, of mason and builder, as an apprentice to David H. Jacobs, and in 1867 went into business with his brother Marquis S. Miller, under the firm name of M. S. & G. N. Miller. He is an active member of the Master Builders' Association and a director of the Working- men's Cooperative Building Association. He was married in Lynn, in 1868, to Miss Hannah Howell. [For a list of some of the noteworthy buildings erected in Boston by the brothers, see sketch of Marquis S. Miller].
MILLER, JOHN, son of L. and Mary (Hynes) Miller, was born in Ireland Aug. 9, 1821. Coming
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to this country and to Boston at an early age, he obtained his education in the public schools. He began his mercantile career in 1850 in a modest
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way, established on Hanover street in the whiskey business. He has steadily pushed his way to the front, and from a humble position in the trade his business gradually increased until in 1870 he moved into the large building numbered 298 and 300 Han- over street. This is one of the most imposing on the street, and is entirely devoted to the extensive business now controlled by the house. In 1880 his son William A. was admitted to partnership, and the firm name changed to John Miller & Co. A spe- cialty was then made of the wholesale trade, which has since assumed extensive proportions. Mr. Miller has represented his district in the common council, and also in the lower house of the Legisla- ture. He is a prominent member of a number of local organizations.
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MILLER, MARQUIS S., was born in Gardiner, Me., Jan. 19, 1840. He came to Boston when eighteen years of age, and served an apprenticeship of three years with David H. Jacobs, mason and builder. In 1867 he went into business with his brother, George N. Miller, under the firm name of M. S. & G. N. Miller, the firm soon taking rank among the leading masons and builders of Boston. Among their buildings are the Sleeper Building, corner of Arch and Milk streets ; the Manufacturers Bank ; Hotel Waquoit; Langmaid estate buildings at the South End; Wright & Moody's factory ; John C. Haynes' stores on Congress street ; the building of James S. Stone, corner of Pearl and High streets ; John Goldthwait's, Purchase and Oliver streets ; the Prince Primary School, Cumberland and St. Botolph streets ; and the Columbia Theatre. They have erected over six hundred buildings in this city alone. Mr. Miller is an active member of the Master Builders' Association. He is a director of the Work- ingmen's Cooperative Building Association, which is building houses in Jamaica Plain costing from $3,000 to $6,000. He was married in Boston Dec. 15, 1866.
MINOT, FRANCIS, M.D., was born in Boston April 12, 1821. He graduated from Harvard College in 1841, with the degrees of A.B. and .A.M., and three years later from the Harvard Medical School M.D. He has since been foremost among the physicians of the city. He is consulting physician of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and late Hersey professor of the theory and practice of physics in Harvard University. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and the Boston Society for Medical Observation.
MINOT, JAMES JACKSON, M.D., was born in Boston Oct. 11, 1852. He fitted for college in private schools in the city, received the degree of A.B. from Harvard in 1874, and that of M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1877. From 1877 to 188I he studied in Vienna, Berlin, and other cities abroad. He is now physician to out-patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital, visiting physician to the Carney Hospital, and a trustee of the Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. He was married in 1884 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Henry A. Whitney, of Boston.
MITCHELL, EDWIN VINALD, son of William Walker and Sarah Phipps (Leland) Mitchell, was born in Sangerville, Me., Oct. 2, 1850. He received his education in the common and high schools of Framingham, Mass. He began his active career when yet a youth, in the straw business with his brother at Westborough, and two years later, in 1869, he was admitted to the firm. Subsequently he was for several years connected with H. O. Ber- nard & Co., in the same town, and in 1876 entered the employ of I. D. Curtis & Co., straw-goods manufacturers in Medfield. Here he displayed such skill and executive ability that he was early promoted to the position of superintendent of the extensive works, which he held until I'884, when he secured an interest in the business. Upon the death of Mr. Curtis, in 1885, the firm of Searle, Dailey, & Co. was established, Mr. Mitchell being the resident and managing partner in Medfield, and H. A. Searle and G. F. Dailey the New York part- ners. It is to-day one of the most extensive and important houses in the country engaged in the manufacture and sale of straw goods. Colonel Mitchell is also a director of the Dedham National Bank and the Holliston Water Company. In politics he is Republican. He has been chairman of the Republican committee of his town for ten years; and in 1891 he was elected to the gov- ernor's council from the second district, in which he served on the committees on harbors and public lands, military affairs, railroads, and accounts. His title of colonel is derived from service as aide-de- camp on the military staff of Governor Brackett. He has been a selectman of Medfield, and is a trustee of its public library. He is prominent in the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows and Red Men ; an honorary member of Moses Ellis Post 117, G.A.R. ; a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and of the Norfolk, Home
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