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TILTON, FRANK HERBERT, M.D., son of John and Celia Luce (Meader) Tilton, was born in Great Falls, N.H., July 2, 1856. His education was attained in the public schools of Nashua, N.H., in the University of Vermont, and the University of the City of New York. Adopting medicine as a profession he began practice in 1879 at Norway, Me., where he remained for a period of seven and a half years. Then he removed to East Boston, and has since been established here. He has hekl prominent offices in the Knights of Pythias, the Masonic, and the Odd Fellows orders. He is a
FRANK H. TILTON.
Prescott Small ; they have two children : Winona and Celia Tilton.
TOBEY, EDWARD SILAS, son of Silas and Mary (Fuller) Tobey, was born in Kingston, Mass., April 5, 1813 ; died in Brookline March 29, 1891. His father, of Berkeley, Mass., was a graduate of Brown University, class of 1807 ; his grandfather, Hon. Samuel Tobey, also of Berkeley, was judge of the court of common pleas of Taunton, and engaged as a ship-owner in the commerce of Newport, R.I. : and his great-grandfather, Samuel Tobey, was a graduate of Harvard College, 1731, and the first minister of the town of Berkeley after its separation from Taunton. His mother was the daughter of Dr. Jabez Fuller, of Kingston, who was a direct descend- ant of Dr. Fuller of the " Mayflower," and Lucy (Loring) Fuller, daughter of Anne Alden, of Dux- bury, a direct descendant of John Alden. When Edward S. Tobey was four years of age his father died, and several years later his mother married Hon. Phineas Sprague, of Duxbury, a widower with a young daughter whom Mr. Tobey eventually married, April 5, 1841. They had ten children, of whom seven survive. Mr. Tobey's education was begun in the old Mason-street school, Boston, con- tinued three years in the town school of Duxbury,
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one year at a private school in Kingston, then at the academy in South Bridgewater and at a boarding- school in Medford, and finally in the high school at Duxbury. Failing health compelled him, when nearly fitted for Harvard College, to relinquish his cherished purpose of college instruction, and he entered mercantile life. In 1830, in connection with business, and also for the benefit of his health, he made a voyage in the brig "Spartan " from New York to Malaga. On his return he reentered the counting-room of his step-father, who was the senior partner in the old-established firm of Phineas & Seth Sprague, extensively engaged in foreign and domestic commerce as shipowners and otherwise. In April, 1833, again seeking health, and as super- cargo, he sailed for Charleston, S.C., in the ship " Fama; " thence in the " Dalmatia," for Cowes, Isle of Wight ; thence to Antwerp, and to St. Ubes, Portugal. At the age of twenty-four he became a copartner of Phineas & Seth Sprague, under the firm name of P. & S. Sprague & Co. Subsequently Hon. Seth Sprague withdrew and the firm continued, under the name of Phineas Sprague & Co., until ten years later, when Mr. Sprague died (July, 1853). Mr. Tobey continued the same business until 1866. In 1838 Mr. Tobey made his third voyage to Europe, as a passenger in the steamship "Great Western," one of the first steamers successfully to cross the Atlantic. It was her second voyage, and was made from New York to Bristol, Eng. Briefly visiting London and Paris, he sailed from Havre in the brig " Falco" for Malaga, where he purchased a cargo of fruit and sailed for Boston, arriving October 17, after a passage of thirty days. He remained at home closely attending to business until 1840, when, in company with Hon. Seth Sprague, he again, and for the last time, visited Europe. This was wholly a pleasure tour. They sailed May 13, 1840, in the packet ship "Stephen Whitney," reaching Liverpool in seventeen days. They travelled in England, Ire- land, and Scotland, France, on the Rhine, and in Holland, returning to New York in October, via Liverpool, in the packet ship " Roscius," a voyage of twenty-seven days. In 1838 or 1839 Mr. Tobey was chosen a director of the United States Insurance Company ; in 1839 a director of the Commercial Bank to assist in closing up its affairs, it having become embarrassed; and in 1842 a director of the Union Bank, which office he held until 1866, when he resigned because the United States govern- ment required national bank directors to take oath that they would personally attend to the duties of their office, - an obligation with which his numer- ous other duties rendered it impossible to comply.
He was on the board of managers of the Suffolk Savings Bank ; was one of the founders of the Boston Board of Trade ; was chairman of many of its im- portant committees, notably that on the subject of the cause of the crisis of 1857 and its remedies. In his report on this subject he set forth his views of the true theory and system of banking and its relation to the question of currency, which received the unani- mous acceptance of the board, and was generally endorsed by the press. His later report on the resto- ration of American shipping interests was one of his most valuable contributions to the community at the time it was presented, and in pamphlet form has been widely circulated. He was vice-president of the board in 1859, and in 1861, 1862, and 1863 its president, - three years being the limit of tenure of that office by the same person, as provided by its constitution. In 1861 Mr. Tobey became a director in the Union Steamship Company and chairman of its building committee for the construction of two iron steamships of 2,000 tons each. These were the " Mississippi " and the " Merrimac," built by Harrison Loring, of South Boston. They were to run between Boston and New Orleans, but were pre- vented by the outbreak of the Civil War, sold to the United States government and used as transports throughout the war. The " Mississippi," on her first voyage, carried General Butler and his regiment to New Orleans. At the close of the war they were sold to a New York company, and one of them made the shortest passage on record at that time between New Orleans and New York, - five days and twenty-two hours from the bar. . Mr. Tohey was also a director of the Boston and Southern Steamship Company, and chairman of its building committee for the construction of two iron steam- ships, the "South Carolina " and the " Massachu- setts," 1,160 tons each. These also were built by Harrison Loring. They were successfully employed between Boston and Charleston, S.C., for about six months, when at the outbreak of the war they passed into the hands of the government and subsequently performed important blockade service in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. The "South Carolina " took twenty-five prizes the first six months of her service. During the war Mr. Tobey was prominent in many ways. He was appointed by Governor Andrew a member of the committee on harbor defence, and was also chairman of the committee of the board of trade on the same matter. In this capacity he inspected the fortifications in the harbor from time to time in company with military officers, and at one time with Secretary of the Treasury Chase, and the fact of its defenceless condition, though
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officially reported to Secretary of the Navy Welles, was carefully excluded from the newspapers to avoid attracting attention of the South. Incidentally, he also visited Fortress Monroe and the Army of the Potomac. He was one of the Boston committee appointed in 1861 to meet delegates from other cities in Washington and confer with Secretary Chase and Congress as to the financial policy to be adopted by the government. In 1861, also, he was presi- dent of the Boston Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, and as chairman of its army committee was actively engaged in cooperation with the United States Christian Commission in supplying the soldiers in the field and in aiding the sick and wounded. Soon after the close of the war he became one of the one hundred corporators of the national asylums for soldiers. In 1861 he received the Republican nomination for mayor of Boston, at that time equivalent to an election, but his business engagements obliged him to decline it. The next year he again received the nomination and accepted it, although under political circumstances then which made failure almost certain, but he was defeated by only 960 votes. A third time he was nominated by acclamation, and again business engagements com- pelled him to decline. In 1866 he was elected to the State Senate. There he served on the com- mittees on federal relations and mercantile affairs (chairman), and on a special joint committee on rates of interest (chairman). He declined to be a candidate for a second term. In 1875 he was appointed postmaster of Boston, by President Grant, - an appointment wholly unsolicited, - and was reappointed by Presidents Hayes and Arthur. During his continuance in the office, covering eleven years, he served under the administration of five presidents and of nine different postmasters-general. He brought to the duties of the office a long business experience and administered them on business prin- ciples. He was the first treasurer of the Russell Mills, Plymouth, Mass., a successful duck manufact- uring company; and continued in that office from 1854 until his death. Mr. Tobey held official relations to many educational, religious, and philan- thropic institutions : he was president of the Con- gregational Association, the American Missionary Association, the Boston City Missionary Society (for eight years), the American Peace Society, and the Congregational Club. He was the first president of the Pilgrim Society, which was organized in 1865 ; and in 1871 as president of that society caused to be inscribed on the eastern face of the large rock on Clark's Island in Duxbury Bay, which sheltered the Pilgrim band on their first Sunday in America, the
terse record in their journal, "On the Sabbath Day We Rested." He was a trustee of Dartmouth Col- lege for eight years, receiving from that institution the honorary degree of A.M., and was the first contributor towards the Webster professorship there ; also a trustee of Bradford Academy ; and he took a leading part in the movements resulting in founding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and secured from Dr. William J. Walker, then residing in Newport, R.I., the generous gift of $75,000 to the original fund. He was a member of the Historic Genealogical Society ; an officer in the Webster Historical Society ; and a member of the Mount Vernon Church from the first year of its foundation, in 1842, until his removal to Brookline in 1883; treasurer of the society for eighteen years, and for several years chairman of the prudential committee. Upon removing to Brookline he trans- ferred his church relations to the Harvard church, Rev. Dr. Reuen Thomas, pastor.
TOBEY, WALTER HENRY, M.D., son of G. G. Tobey, was born in New York Dec. 2, 1847. He was educated. in the public schools and an academy in New York, and graduated from the New York Homeopathic Medical College, M.D., in 1874. He then practised with his preceptor, Dr. H. A. Hough- ton, of Boston, for four years, after which he engaged in general practice alone. He was connected with the Homeopathic Dispensary for three years. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, the Surgical and Gynecological Societies, the Hahnemannian Club, and the Ameri-, can Institution of Homoeopathy. He has contrib- uted a number of noteworthy papers to the various medical journals. Dr. Tobey was married Sept. 23, 1885, to Miss Mary, daughter of Alfred Baker, of New York.
TORREY, GEORGE A., corporation counsel of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, is a son of Ebenezer and Sarah A. Torrey, and was born in Fitchburg May 14, 1838. His father was a prominent man in State politics, having been a member of the State senate, and was also at one time in the governor's council. The son attained his early education in Fitchburg, and prepared for college at Leicester Academy, graduating from Harvard in 1859. He then entered the Harvard Law School, and finished his course there in 1861, the same year beginning practice in Fitchburg with Nathaniel Wood. This association lasted until 1873, when Mr. Torrey came to Boston, and has since been engaged in practice here. Since 1887 he has occupied his
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present position as corporation counsel of the Fitch- burg Railroad Company. He has been twice elected
GEORGE A. TORREY.
to the State senate, in 1872 and 1873, and during both terms rendered faithful and efficient service.
TOWER, BENJAMIN L. M., son of Dr. George and
BENJAMIN L. M. TOWER.
Adeline (Lane) Tower, was born in Boston June 17, 1848. His father was a well-known physician of Boston, who died in 1876. Mr. Tower is a graduate of the Boston Latin School, and of Harvard in the class of 1869. He studied at the Harvard Law School, completing his preparation for the legal profession in his present office, the firm then being Brooks & Ball. In March, 1872, he was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar, and in 1874 became a member of the firm of Brooks, Ball, & Storey. In 1887 the present firm of Ball & Tower was estab- lished. In politics Mr. Tower is Republican, with Independent views. He is master of St. John's Lodge, Free Masons, the oldest in the United States ; a member of St. Bernard Commandery, and of the Algonquin, Athletic, and several yacht clubs.
TREFRY, WILLIAM D. T., son of Samuel Stacey and Rebecca (Wormstead) Trefry, was born in
WILLIAM D. T. TREFRY.
Marblehead, Mass., May 10, 1852. Both his father and paternal grandfather held positions of trust and honor, and on his mother's side he is descended from a family celebrated in local annals for its patriotism and the bravery of several of its members in the Revolution. He was educated in the Marble- head public schools, and fitted for college there. Then he entered Tufts, and graduated in the class of 1878. He studied law in the office of Ives & Lincoln, Salem, and was admitted to the Essex bar
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at the April term of the court in 1882. In his own town he has served ten years, 1880-90 inclu- sive, as a member of the school board, chairman of the board for four years ; and as a trustee of the Abbott Public Library for a number of years. He has been a member of all the bodies in the Scottish rite of Masonry up to and including thirty-second degree, also of all the bodies in the York rite; dis- trict deputy grand master of the Eighth Masonic district ; past master of Philanthropic Lodge ; and is at present prelate of Winslow Lewis Com- mandery of Knights Templar, Salem, and junior grand warden of Sutton Lodge of Perfection, Salem. In the autumn of 1890 Mr. Trefry was elected State auditor of accounts, on the Democratic ticket, with William E. Russell as governor, and served through the year 1891 with marked success. In December, 1891, he was appointed by Governor Russell a mem- ber of the board of commissioners on savings banks. He is unmarried.
TUCKER, CHARLES E., was born in Boston May 6, 1847. He was educated in the Dwight and Latin Schools, and after leaving school went into the em- ploy of Lewis Coleman & Co., remaining with them for three years. He was then in the employ of James Edmond & Co., forinerly of Liberty square, and also occupied the position of book-keeper with the Boston branch of A. T. Stewart & Co., of New York. While holding the latter position he was ap- pointed treasurer of the Globe Theatre by the late Arthur Cheney. In 1872 he was clerk in the treas- urer's and collector's office at City Hall, and in 1873 was appointed permanently in the department, filling various positions until 1883, when he was made chief clerk. This position he held until 1889, when he received the appointment of receiver of water-rates and subsequently receiving teller of taxes, which position he now holds.
TUCKER, JAMES CREHORE, son of Joseph and Lydia (Crehore) Tucker, was born in Milford, N.H., Oct. 26, 1831. His education was obtained in the common schools of his native town. He came to Boston in 1849 when a lad of eighteen, and after thoroughly learning the carpenter and builder's trade with Ansel Lothrop, he successfully followed this line of work in this city and neighbor- hood until 1864 ; in that year he was chosen by the city council superintendent of public buildings of the city of Boston, and this office he has held with- out interruption ever since. The buildings under his charge number nearly three hundred. Mr. Tucker is a prominent member of the order of
Odd Fellows, and is one of the directors of the Odd Fellows Hall Association; he also belongs to
JAMES C. TUCKER.
the Free Masons, and to a number of other frater- nal societies. He was married in Boston, Nov. 16, 1858, to Miss Maria A. Sampson. They have no children.
TUCKERMAN, J. WILLARD, was born in Racine, Wis., Aug. 3, 1853. He was educated in Wiscon- sin and in Cambridge. He first entered the dry goods commission business ; then became a stock- broker, and from 1880 to 1888 was a member of the firm of Howard, Walter, & Co. ; then withdraw- ing from this firm he began a real-estate business at No. 113 Devonshire street, and in Brookline, hand- ling a large amount of Brookline property and fire insurance. He is the agent for the Beaconsfield terraces on Beacon and Tappan streets, Brookline, private dwellings erected in the Knapp estate. Mr. Knapp named the first terrace " The Frances," the given name of his wife ; the second " The Richter," after his eldest son ; the third " The Filmore," after his eldest daughter ; the fourth " Marguerite," after his second daughter. Each terrace contains from six to ten houses, and each is different in architect- ure from the others. There is a handsome park of over six acres, artistically arranged and cared for at the personal expense of Mr. Knapp, for the general use of the dwellers in the terraces. There is also a
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fine tennis-court, a handsome casino with large alone. In 1890 he was appointed solicitor for the dancing-hall and music-room, bowling-alley and billiard-room in the middle of the park, and all the houses are heated by steam from a central plant. Mr. Tuckerman is also agent for Eben D. Jordan, who owns almost the entire south-westerly slope of Corey hill.
TUFTS, ARTHUR W., son of Gilbert and Mary (Chickering) Tufts, was born in Charlestown Feb. 20, 1828. His ancestors came to this country early in the seventeenth century, that on his father's side settling in Medford, that on his mother's side in Dedham, where he was prominent in the early history of the town. Arthur W. was educated in the public schools of Charlestown, and in the Chauncy Hall School, Boston. He . was first em- ployed in mercantile business on City wharf, Boston, and during the greater part of his career he was a member of the firm of Flint & Tufts, whole- sale lumber-dealers, this city. While a resident of Charlestown he served in the common council and on the school committee : three years in each. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1879, 1880, and 1881, and of the senate in 1882 and 1883, in each branch serving on important committees. In the senate he was chairman of the committees on cities and on the treasury. He was presidential elector in 1884, and delegate to the national Republican convention in Chicago in 1888. Although now retired from active business he is connected with several corporations as director, is president of the Roxbury Institution of Savings, and is trustee of various estates. He is also one of the corporate members of the American Board of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions and one of the auditors of the board ; president of the City Mission- ary Society, and a member of the executive commit- tee of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. Mr. Tufts was married Nov. 9, 1853, to Miss Annie Hooker, daughter of Rev. Henry B. Hooker.
TURNER, WILLIAM DALL, son of John B. and Ellen Augusta (Cobb) Turner, was born in Brookline, Mass., Nov. 15, 1863. He was educated at the Adams Academy, Quincy, spending five years there ; and at Harvard, graduating in the class of 1884. Then he studied two years at the Harvard Law School. His first association was with Sumner C. Chandler, formerly of Brookline and now of New York, in general law-practice in Palatka, Fla. Sub- sequently he returned to Boston, and was for a while associated with Lyman Mason, and then for a year with H. W. Chaplin. At present he is practising
metropolitan sewerage commissioners, the State board having charge of the construction of the sys- tem of sewerage for a number of cities and towns. In 1891 he took a leading part in the movement to secure the introduction here of the "Torrens " sys- tem of State registration of titles to land now in force in the Australian colonies and elsewhere, ap- pearing before committees of the Legislature, and writing various articles for the " American Law Review" and the newspaper press in its support. Mr. Turner is unmarried.
TYLER, JOSEPH H., register of probate and insol- vency, Middlesex county, was born in New Hamp- shire in 1825. He was educated in the public schools, at Phillips (Andover) Academy, and at Dartmouth College, graduating from the latter in 1851. Then he began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in April, 1853. Removing to Cambridge, he practised there until 1859, when he was elected (in the fall of 1858), at the creation of that office, register of probate and insolvency, which position he now holds. He has been a member of the Cambridge common council and board of aldermen, serving two years in each branch, and of the school board. He was a director and president of the Cambridge Railroad Company, and has been a director of the Cambridge National Bank since its organization, a trustee of the East Cambridge Five Cents Savings Bank for more than twenty-five years, and a master in chan- cery of Middlesex county since 1885. His son is a lawyer of Boston and a graduate of Harvard College, and his daughter is a graduate of the Har- vard Annex.
I JPHAM, HENRY LAURISTON, D.M.D., son of the late Joseph Emerson Upham, of Temple- ton, Mass., was born in Phillipston, Mass., Feb. 25, 1848. His education was obtained in the Temple- ton High School, the Appleton Academy, N.H., and the Green Mountain Institute, Woodstock, Vt. He was in the West several years for his health, three years acting as secretary and treasurer of the Tiffin (Ohio) water-works, beginning with their construc- tion, and three years as receiver of supplies on the United States snag-boat " Richard Ford," operat- ing in the Wabash and White Rivers. Returning East he entered the Harvard Dental School, and graduated in June, 1886. Establishing himself in Boston, he has since continued the practice of his profession here. He is also an instructor in the Harvard Dental School. He is a member of the Harvard Odontological Society.
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V IAUX, FREDERIC HENRY, was born in Boston
May 24, 1848. His father, Edward H. Viaux, was a native of Paris, France, an instructor in Har- vard University, and long an official in the French consulate of Boston. The son was a Franklin-medal scholar of the Latin School, and in 1870 was grad- uated at Harvard, and was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He passed his first year after graduation in teaching private pupils, and at the same time organized a movement in Boston for the relief of the distress and destitu- tion in France occasioned by the Franco-Prussian war. The result of his labor in this direction was the " French Fair," so called, held in the Boston Theatre in April, 1871, which proved one of the most interesting and successful fairs ever held in Boston. Mr. Viaux was a member of the executive committee in charge of the enterprise, and its sec- retary. Over $75,000 was distributed among the sufferers by the war in France through its results. Preferring a business career to the long novitiate necessary for the practice of a profession, Mr. Viaux established himself without previous training as a broker in real estate, and has ever since been connected with real-estate interests. In 18So he began the work of improving the large district of marshes and flats on the Cambridge side of the Charles-river basin, and secured the legislation in- corporating the Charles River Embankment Com- pany, under whose auspices the enterprise has been carried forward. He has been connected with this corporation since its inception, and in the pursuance of his service thereto was instru- mental in introducing here the new hydraulic system of dredging. It was chiefly through his efforts that the Harvard bridge, the first stone and great thoroughfare connecting Boston with Cam- bridge and the country beyond, became a reality ; and he designed the elaborate plan for the laying out for residential purposes of the riparian quarter of Cambridge now in process of reclamation. In 1888 he started the movement for the establish- ment of the Real Estate Exchange of Boston, of which institution he is the treasurer and manager. In 1892 he took charge of the improvement of the extensive waste lands of East Cambridge, between Craigie and West Boston bridges. He is a director in several corporations and a member of numerous associations and clubs. He was married in 1873, to Miss Florence B. Farrar, and has three children : Victor, Florence, and Frederic Viaux.
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