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house of the Legislature in 1840, 1856, 1862, and 1863 ; and inspector of the Massachusetts State Prison three years, from, 1856 to 1859. It was during this time that Deputy Warden Walker and Warden Tenny were murdered, and Mr. Stone had charge of the prison for six weeks, pending the appointment of new officials by the governor. In this position he displayed great executive ability, and gave courage to the officers under him by keeping in order the prisoners, excited and almost demoralized as they were by this double act of blood. " Will there be services in the chapel this morning?" he was anxiously asked after the mur- der of Warden Tenny. " Most certainly," he re- plied, and providing arms and ammunition for each officer, gave orders for their immediate use in case of any indications of a revolt. He was mayor of Charlestown in 1862, 1863, 1864 ; and was instru- mental in raising and forming several companies for the defence of the country during the Civil War, who did active service in the army of the North. During his administration was completed the introduction of water from Mystic pond, yielding an ample supply for the inhabitants not only of Charlestown, but of several surrounding towns. He was United States assessor, sixth Massachusetts district, from 1867 to 1873, when the office was abolished by act of Congress. He was one of the original movers for the act of in- corporation authorizing the improvement of about one hundred acres of flats lying between the north and south channels of the Mystic River, upon which to-day there is a taxable property of more than $1,000,000, and which eventually will increase to many millions, as it is the terminus of the North- ern railroads to the deep water of Boston harbor. At the organization of the Charlestown Five-Cent Savings Bank, in 1854, he was elected its presi- dent, a position he held until his death, on Aug. 12, 1891. He was also a director of the Charles- town Gas Company, and the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company. He was a man of commanding presence, loyal to his country in the hour of its peril, of sterling integrity of character, upright and honorable in all his dealings, sympa- thetic with distress, his hand open to relieve suffering without ostentation or publicity. His wife was Ann Mariah (Lindsey), a native of Charlestown, Mass., who died in 1851 ; they had four sons : Phineas J., jr., who served as paymaster in the Federal army during the Civil War, and died in 1889 ; Joseph, who was formerly agent of the Manchester (N.H.) Mills, and of the Pacific
STONE, PHINEAS JONES, eldest son of Col. Phin- eas and Hannah (Jones) Stone, was born in Weare, N.H., May 23, 1810. There he lived until No- vember, 1824, when he removed with the family to Charlestown, Mass. He began business in the West India goods trade in 1834, and by untiring industry and perserverance laid the foundation of his success in after life. He retired from this occupation in 1851. He was selectman of Charles- town in 1839 and 1840; member of the lower Mills of Lawrence, Mass., and who now resides in
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STORER, DAVID HUMPHREYS, son of Hon. Wood- bury and Margaret (Boyd) Storer, was born in Portland, Me., March 26, 1804; died in Boston, September, 1891. He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1822, and from the Harvard Medical School in 1825 ; and he received the degree of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1876. After leaving college he settled in Boston and practised here until his retirement not long before his death. He was president of the American Medical Association in 1866 ; professor of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence in the Har- vard Medical School from 1839 to 1858 ; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, and the Boston Society of Natural History ; and an honorary and corresponding mem- ber of a large number of other scientific and medi- cal societies. In addition to his medical work Dr. Storer was for many years greatly interested in scientific research, and especially in the department of ichthyology. He published a " Report on the Fishes and Reptiles of Massachusetts" in 1839, and in 1867 a descriptive work entitled "The Fishes of Massachusetts ;" also a "Synopsis of the Fishes of North America." Dr. Storer was married, April 20, 1829, to Miss Abby Jane Brewer, daughter of Thomas Brewer, of Boston ; their children were : Horatio Robinson (now of Newport, R.I.), Francis Humphreys (professor of agricultural chemistry at Bussey Institute, West Roxbury district), Abby Ma- tilda, Mary Goddard, and Robert Woodbury Storer.
STORER, MALCOLM, son of Horatio R. Storer, of Newport, R.I., and grandson of David Humphreys Storer, of Boston, was born in Milton, Mass., in 1862. His early education was obtained in Eng- land and at Newport, R.I. He graduated from Harvard, A.B., in 1885, and from the Harvard Medical School in 1889. After spending a year in study in Europe he returned to Boston in 1891, where he is now practising his profession, estab- lished in his grandfather's old home. He is un- married.
STOWELL, JOHN, son of John J., native of Worcester, and Mary ( Davidson) Stowell, native of Charlestown, was born in Boston in 1822. His father was a watchmaker by calling, and lived most of his life in Charlestown, where he died in 1864. His mother died in 1877. They had five children,
three of whom are living. John Stowell was reared in Charlestown. He attended the grammar school, and at the age of thirteen became apprenticed to the firm of Samuel Kidder & Co., druggists and manufacturers. The firm was at that time the only manufacturing chemists in this locality. In 1858, with a son of the junior partner, Daniel White, he purchased the business of Samuel Kidder & Co. Mr. White died in 1864, since which time Mr. Stowell has continued the business. It is now con- fined to manufacturing and wholesaling, the retail business having been given up in 1876. Mr. Stow- ell is vice-president of the Warren »Savings Institu- tion, having held the office since 1861, and also a member of the board of investment. He is a mem- ber of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and of the Society for the Advancement of Science. In religion he is Universalist.
STROUT, ALMON A., son of Elisha and Mary (Hagan) Strout, both natives of Maine, was born in Limington, that State, May 8, 1835. On the ma- ternal side he is a descendant of the O'Hagan family, formerly of the north of Ireland, which has been prominent for two centuries in connection with the profession of the law, and of which the late Chancellor O'Hagan was a member. Mr. Strout
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ferred upon him the degree of A.M. in later years. He began the study of law at the age of nineteen with Hon. Joel Eastman, of Conway, N.H., finish- ing in the office of Howard & Strout in Portland, Me. He was admitted to the bar in 1857, and began practice at Harrison, Me., moving to. Port- land in 1864. In 1866 he formed a partnership with Gen. George F. Shepley, which continued until the latter was made United States circuit judge some four years later. He then formed a partner- ship with George F. Holmes, and continued the practice of his profession in Portland; in 1882 he became general counsel for the Grand Trunk Rail- way, for the New England States, which position he now fills. In 1884 he became counsel for the Bos- ton & Lowell Railroad, continuing as such until this road was absorbed by the Boston & Maine. In January, 1889, he opened an office in Boston, where he is now associated with William H. Coolidge in general practice, still retaining his office in Port- . land. The firm is one of the counsel of the New England Telegraph Company, and in a certain class of cases of the New York & New England. Mr. Strout comes of a Democratic family, but he has been a Republican since 1862. He was a member of the " count out " Legislature of Maine in 1880-1. He is a Knight Templar and a Mason.
teriors are Mr. Sturgis' specialties. He was mar- ried in 1882 to Miss Esther Mary Ogden, of Troy, N.Y., and resides in Boston.
SULLIVAN, EUGENE S., superintendent of the Mys- tic Water Works of the city of Boston, was born in Boston July 4, 1857, and was educated in the public schools. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to the business of plumbing and sani- tary engineering. In 1882, after a competitive ex- amination, he was appointed master mechanic at the Boston Navy Yard. This position he resigned in 1885 to take the management of a plumbing es- tablishment in Minneapolis, Minn. A year later he returned East to take a similar position in Lowell, which required his services throughout New En- gland. In the spring of 1889 he was appointed superintendent of the Mystic Water Works. Mr. Sullivan is an active member of the New England Water Works Association, and of several social and benevolent organizations. He has a wife and seven children.
SULLIVAN, JOHN HENRY, son of Michael and Mary (Kelly) Sullivan, was born in Bere Haven, County
STURGIS, R. CLIPSTON, architect, was born in Bos- ton Dec. 24, 1860. He received his early educa- tion at St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H., and at Mr. Noble's school, Boston, and after graduating from Harvard, in the class of 1881, immediately went abroad to study architecture, remaining in England and on the Continent nearly four years. On returning to this country he entered the office of John H. Sturgis, who had been practising in Bos- ton for a quarter of a century, and was well known -........... as a leading architect of the highest reputation. On the death of J. H. Sturgis, in 1888, he succeeded to the long-established practice, and in partnership with W. R. Cabot has continued to the present time. Mr. Sturgis is the architect of the club-house of the Boston Athletic Association, which cost, com- plete, upwards of three hundred thousand dollars. He also designed the residence of Mrs. Charles Blake on Beacon street, the dwelling of Eugene V. R. Thayer on Commonwealth avenue, which is re- markable for its beautiful and artistic interior ; Col- onel Peabody's house on Commonwealth avenue, JOHN H. SULLIVAN. the Church of the Advent on Brimmer street, the Cork, Ireland, April 27, 1848. He received his early education in the national schools there, and, coming to this country when a young man, pursued Mission Church of St. Augustine, the Central school- house at Milton, and the Willard school-house in Quincy. Elaborate interior detail and artistic ex- a course at Comer's Commercial College here in
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Boston. After mastering the science of navigation, while for a time following the sea, he became en- gaged in the survey of cargoes brought to this port by East India merchants. Subsequently he was made inspector of East India merchandise. After four years of this work, he became chief clerk and superintendent of the National Line of steamers, and upon the withdrawal of that line he was en- gaged in the same capacity by the Dominion Line, which succeeded it. He was also superintendent of the docks of the Warren and Leyland lines. Resigning after six years of service, he became master-stevedore of the Warren Line, which posi- tion he still holds. He was a member of the com- mon council in 1884 and IS85, of the board of aldermen in 1886 and 1887, and of the State Senate, representing the Fourth Suffolk District, in 1888. He is a member of the Sachem and Put- nam clubs of East Boston, the Knights of St. Rose, the Montgomery Guards Veteran Association, the Knights of St. Patrick, the Charitable Irish Society, and the Royal Society of Good Fellows and Foresters. He was married, Sept. 11, 1870, in Providence, R.I., to Miss Katie F. Sullivan ; they have six children : George H., John F., Mary Louisa, Annie, Arthur, and Margaret Frances Sul- livan.
University School of Medicine was graduated therefrom in 1879. Then he was abroad for sev- eral months; and on returning established himself in Concord, Mass. After two years there he came to Boston, where he has since remained. He is a member of the medical staff of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital. He is also connected with Boston University Medical School : was lect- urer of anatomy during 1888, and is now pro- fessor. In 1882 and 1883 he was member of the editing board, and since that time has been editor of the "New England Medical Gazette." He is a member of Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homoeopathy. He has written extensively as editor of the " New Eng- land Gazette," and has also contributed to various other papers. Dr. Sutherland was married March 10, 1879, to Miss Evelyn, daughter of James Baker, of Boston.
SWALLOW, GEORGE N., son of Amaziah N. and Rebecca P. (Proctor) Swallow, was born in Charles- town Jan. 2, 1854. He was educated in the grammar and high schools there. He began work as a clerk in the grocery business at No. 12 City square, Charlestown district, and is now of the firm
SUTER, HALES W., son of John and Sarah W. (Wal- lace) Suter, was born in Boston Dec. 30, 1828. The father, in early life, was engaged in the fur trade on the north-west coast (Alaska), and later was a successful merchant in the East India busi- ness in this city. Hales W. prepared for college in the Latin School, and graduated from Harvard College in the class of 1850. He studied law first with Hubbard & Watts, then at the Harvard Law School, and subsequently with John J. and M. S. Clarke. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1852, and has since practised his profession alone, except during the period between 1868 and 1876, when he was in partnership with C. T. & T. H. Russell. He has been president of the Massachusetts Title Insur- ance Company for two years, and of the Mercantile Loan and Trust Company since its organization. Mr. Suter is Republican in politics, and was in the common council in 1858.
SUTHERLAND, JOHN PRESTON, M.D., son of John Sutherland, of Boston, was born in Charlestown, under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument, Feb. 9, 1854. He was educated in Boston schools. GEORGE N. SWALLOW. After several years spent in business here he de- of A. N. Swallow & Co., in the same place. He cided to study medicine, and entering the Boston is prominent in local and State politics, and has
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served three terms in the lower house of the Legis- Dorchester and was employed for upwards of eight lature, in 1889, 1890, and 1891. He was also a years with the firm of A. Sternfeld & Bros., im- member of the Republican State committee in 1890 and 1891. He was married April 26, 1888, to Miss Florence B. Eastman. They have no children. porters, on High street, Boston. In 1874 he left the employ of this firm to accept the position of clerk of the Cochituate water board to which he was elected on July 9 of that year ; this he filled until the Boston water board was established, in 1876, when he was elected clerk of that board ; which position he has since held. He is a member of Benjamin Stone, jr., Post 68, G.A.R., of Dorchester, and served as commander during the year 1889. Mr. Swan was married April 29, 1869, to Miss Harriet W., daughter of William C. Pike, of Boston, and has two sons. He now resides in the Dor- chester district.
SWAN, ROBERT T., son of Samuel and Elizabeth B. (Cushing) Swan, was born in Dorchester May 6, 1843. His father has been for many years master of the Mayhew and Phillips schools, in Bos- ton. His education was obtained in the public schools and in a private school in Eagleswood, N.J. After leaving school he entered mercantile life in Boston, and was employed with the firm of Denny, Rice, & Co., from 1859 to 1868. Then, on account of ill health, he was obliged to spend a year abroad. Returning home he went into the lumber business, where he remained a few years. He was clerk of the municipal court in the Dorchester district until the office was abolished, and a representative in the lower house of the Legislature from Ward 24, one term. Then, in 1880, he was made chief special agent of the United States Census, in charge of man- ufacturing statistics of Boston, and in 1885 chief of the divisions of enumeration and agriculture for the State Census. In 1888 he was appointed secretary of the commission on public records of parishes, towns, and counties, and in July, 1889, commis- sioner to succeed Hon. Carroll D. Wright, re- signed. Mr. Swan is a member of the Union Lodge Masons (formerly secretary), and of St. Stevens Royal Arch Chapter of Quincy (ex-sec- retary).
SWAN, WALTER E., chief clerk of the Boston water board, son of William Henry Swan (who was a school teacher in one of the Boston schools for nearly twenty years), was born in Charlestown, Sept. 7, 1844. When he was four years of age his parents moved to Dorchester, and he was educated in the public schools there, graduating from the Dorchester High School in 1861. After leaving school he first worked for Charles V. Poor & Co., wholesale druggists, on India street, Boston, where he remained but a short time, when he secured a position with Stone & Downer, Custom House brokers, on State street. With this firm he was employed until he enlisted as a recruit in the Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment. At the second battle of Bull Run he was wounded in the right hand and was discharged for disability. After his return from the war he spent two years in Philadel- phia in clerical positions, and then came back to
SWASEY, GEORGE R., son of Horatio J. and Harriet M. (Higgins) Swasey, was born in Standish, Me., Jan. 8, 1854. He attended Gorham Academy and Westbrook Seminary, and entered Bowdoin College in 1872, graduating in 1875. Two years later he entered the Boston University Law School, graduating therefrom in 1878. He was then elected a tutor in that school, and filled the position until 1883, when he resigned. In 1884 he was appointed lecturer in the Boston University Law School, and still holds that position. In 1886 and 1887 he was a member of the Boston school board. He is a member of the Curtis, the Young Men's Democratic, the Athletic, and the Pine Tree Clubs, and the Boston Lodge of Elks.
SWIFT, HENRY W., son of William C. N. and Eliza N. (Perry) Swift, both natives of New Bed- ford, Mass., was born in that city Dec. 17, 1849. His father was a retired merchant. The Swifts came from Barnstable and the Perrys from Bristol county. He was prepared for college at Phillips (Exeter) Academy, and graduated from Harvard 1871. He read law in New Bedford with Marston & Crapo for one year, and then spent two years at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1874. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar the same year and began practice soon after. He has continued suc- cessfully in general practice, largely corporation business, with Russell Gray, now at No. 50 State street. He is attorney in Boston for the Atchison, Topcka, & Santa Fé Railroad. In politics he is Democratic. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1882, serving on the committee on finance. In 1879 and ISSo he represented the Republican Ward 9 in the common council, as a Democrat. In January, 1892, he was appointed by Governor Russell a member of the board of harbor
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and land commissioners. He is a member of the a company in Roxbury. As captain of Company Somerset and Union Clubs, of the Young Men's C, Forty-first Regiment, he joined General Banks' expedition to the Gulf department, and was ap- pointed provost judge of Baton Rouge. He was captain and judge advocate on the staff of General Grover until 1864, and was one of the volunteers of the " Forlorn Hope " for assault on Port Hudson. General Swift was honorably discharged from the army, to be appointed adjutant-general of the State of Louisiana, which position he held until some time in 1865, when he resigned. Sept. 11, 1866, he was appointed, by President Johnson, naval officer of customs for the port of Boston, which office he held until March, 1867, when Gen. Francis A. Osborn succeeded him. Then in April, that year, Hon. Thomas Russell, collector of the port, ap- pointed him deputy collector. In this office he remained until 1869, when he resigned to engage in business in New York city. In July, 1874, he was again appointed deputy by Collector William A. Simmons, which office he filled, serving four years under Collector Beard and under Collector Worth- ington, until Nov. 30, 1886, when Hon. Leverett Saltonstall was commissioned collector of the port by President Cleveland. General Swift was editor HENRY W. SWIFT. of the "State," a weekly newspaper, from 1885 to 1887, and was on the editorial staff of the " Boston Evening Traveller " from 1887 to March, 1890. He has taken an active part upon the platform in every presidential election since 1852. In March, 1890, he was for the third time appointed deputy collector, by Collector A. W. Beard, and is now serving in that capacity. He is a member of the Congregational, Massachusetts, and Roxbury Clubs, the Loyal Legion, Harvard Law School Association, and Post 68, G.A.R.
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SWIFT, JOHN L., was born in Falmouth May 28, 1828. In the spring of 1845 he came to Boston, where he has since resided. Early in life he became engaged in mercantile business, and was an active member of the Mercantile Library Association, from 1848 to 1852. He studied law at the Harvard Law School, was elected to the lower house of the Legis- lature in 1855, and was an active supporter of Henry Wilson for the United States Senate. He was again elected to the Legislature in 1857, and voted for Charles Sumner for his second term as United States senator. In 1858 he was appointed pilot commissioner by Governor Banks, and re- signed the office while acting as lieutenant of the " Boston Tigers," a battalion occupying Fort Warren, under orders of Governor Andrew, at the opening of the Civil War. He was appointed United States storekeeper at the Custom House, June, 1861, resigning in August, 1862, and enlisting as a private in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteers. He was promoted to sergeant, and while the regiment was embarking on a train for Antietam, was detached as lieutenant to recruit
TAFT, CHARLES H., M.D., was born in Boston in 1857. When he was a child his parents re- moved to Somerville, where he received a thorough training in the public schools of that city. In 1877 he graduated from the classical department of the Cambridge High School ; entering Harvard College, he graduated therefrom in the class of 1881. Among his college classmates were Rev. George A. Gordon, Edward Reynolds, M.D., Rev. William L. Worcester, Moses King, Rev. Roderick Stebbins, and others of note. After graduating from college Dr. Taft engaged in a number of mer- cantile pursuits, both in New York and Boston, and then in 1884 entered the Harvard Dental School, receiving his degree of D.M.D. in June, 1886. He has been engaged since that time in active prac-
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tice in Cambridge. On June 24, 1890, he was appointed instructor of operative dentistry at the Harvard Dental School, which position he still holds. He is secretary of the Harvard Dental School Asso- ciation, a member of the Harvard Odontological and the Massachusetts Dental Societies, and secre- tary of the American Academy of Dental Science. He is exceedingly fond of athletic sports, and dur- ing his college days, when he was a member of the Harvard Athletic Association, he won many honors in different field meetings. He is now president of the Cambridge Riding Club.
TALBOT, EMORY HARLOW, son of Rev. Micah J. and Eliza (Davis) Talbot, was born in Sandwich, Mass., Sept. 11, 1851. He was educated in the East Greenwich, R.I., Academy and Wesleyan Uni- versity. Immediately after his graduation he began journalistic work, and has continued steadfastly at it ever since. His first regular connection was with the " Boston Globe " as a reporter in 1877, from which position he was subsequently promoted to the " night desk. " For several years he has been con- nected with the " Boston Journal," and now occu- pies the responsible position of night editor of that paper. He has also done much notable work as a
special news correspondent of New York and West -... journals. Aside from active membership in many
ern newspapers. He is a member of the Boston Press Club, for three years on its board of direc- tors, and of the Franklin Typographical Society. On Sept. 12, 1876, Mr. Talbot was married to Miss H. Virginia Davis, of Baltimore, Md .; they have three children : Frank, Arthur, and Ethel Talbot.
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