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Vinal, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 2, 1849. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, where he remained completing his education by working out some mathematical prob- lems until his sixteenth year. Then he was am- bitious to become a man of business, and, finding employment with' Albert A. Pope in Boston, set earnestly to work. On reaching his twenty-first birthday he was admitted a partner in the business, the firm name being changed to Albert A. Pope
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iron river-bridge built in Boston, and the new patent leather, and shoe-manufacturers' goods, and
& Co. Their specialty at this time was glove calf, so successfully was the business developed that in 1878 Mr. Pope retired. Mr. Vinal and A. W. Pope; under the old firm name for three years, and afterwards as Vinal, Pope, & Co., continued the business until 1889, when Mr. Pope withdrew, and Walter H. Holbrook and Samuel W. Bates were ad- mitted, the firm name being changed to Charles .1. Vinal & Co. The nature of the business is the same as that of the old firm, - shoe-manufacturers' goods, and also glove calf, grained and patent leathers. - but it is considerably extended. The firm are extensive dealers in shoe lacings, and import di- rectly from large European houses ; and they are manufacturers of Dongola goat, curing skin directly from Calcutta. Mr. Vinal has repeatedly visited England and the Continent, and his business con-
VINAL, CHARLES A., son of Albert and Eliza A. nection with English manufacturers, with whom his
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dealings are direct, is a matter of considerable im- portance. In politics he is independent, and he has no political aspirations. He was married in 1880, to Miss Helen B. Furber, of New Hampshire ; they have three children : Charles A., jr., Ethel, and Albert Vinal. Mr. Vinal's residence is still in his a place here : native city of Cambridge.
WADE, LEVI CLIFFORD, was born in Allegheny, Penn., Jan. 16, 1843 ; died at Homewood, Oak Hill, in Newton, Mass., March 21, 1891. His parents were of New England birth. He was edu- cated at home and in the public schools until he was thirteen years of age. From thirteen to six- teen he was under private tutors; from sixteen to nineteen he studied in Lewisburg University, where he passed through the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes. He then entered Yale College at nineteen, and was graduated in the class of 1866 with special honors. While in college he was one of the editors of the "Yale Literary Magazine," and took several prizes in debate, declamation, and composition. He studied Greek and Hebrew exegesis one year under Dr. H. B. Hackett, and theology one year under Dr. Alvah Hovey, and taught school in Newton from 1868 to 1873, study- ing law at the same time. He was admitted to practice in 1873, and was employed by I. W. Rich- ardson in his law practice until 1875, when he opened an office on his own account in Boston, and here continued until May 1, 1880. During the last three years he was in partnership with Hon. J. Q. A. Brackett, under the firm name of Wade & Brackett. After ISSo Mr. Wade confined himself exclusively to railway law and management, and was counsel for the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fé, the Atlantic & Pacific, the Sonora, and the Mexican Central Railway Companies. He was one of the four original projectors and owners of what is now the property of the Mexican Central Railway Com- pany, and was its president and general counsel at the time of his death. Mr. Wade was married in Bath, Me., Nov. 16, 1869, to Margaret, daughter of Hon. William and Lydia ( Elliot) Rogers ; of this union there are four children : Arthur C., William R., Levi C., jr., and Robert N. Wade. Mr. Wade represented Newton in the lower house of the Leg- islature four successive years, from 1876 to 1879, and in the latter year he was elected speaker of the House. He was one of the directors of the General Theological Library, of the Mexican Cen- tral Railway Company, the Sonora, the Atlantic & Pacific, and the Cincinnati, Sandusky, & Cleve-
land Railroad Companies. From the numerous testimonials of sorrow at the death of Mr. Wade, and of respect for his great worth and important services, the following resolutions of the directors of the Mexican Central Railway may properly be given
Whereas, in the 'providence of God, Levi C. Wade, president of this company, has been removed by death, and whereas the board of directors, recognizing and fully appre- ciating his long and valuable service and the warm personal regard in which he was held by each member of the board, desire to place upon the records their appreciation of his loyalty to this company and his worth as a man. At the commencement of the building of the Mexican Central Rail- road in ISSo, Mr. Wade was its attorney, and in that position he displayed remarkable skill and sagacity. In 1884, upon the retirement of Thomas Nickerson from the presidency, Mr. Wade was elected to fill the vacancy. He assumed the position under circumstances discouraging and disheartening. The railroad was not earning the interest on its first-mortgage bonds. The company was heavily in debt, and its credit was gone. Mr. Wade, as its president, threw himself with all his power and energy into the reorganization of the securities. Upon this he worked incessantly, and succeeded in reorganiz- ing the whole bonded debt. He built the Guadalajara branch, he finished the Tampico branch, and he completed his plans for the improvement of Tampico harbor. And, still more, he arranged, on- a most satisfactory basis for this company, a settlement in cash with the government of Mexico for all the subsidy due from the Mexican government to this corporation, - in amount over $14,000,000, -- the last draft having been paid the day before his death. Passing in review his connection with this company, commencing with its organization as its attorney, and later as its president, he met every demand. He mastered and was successful in the details of railroad work, he built branch roads, and he devel- oped and carried to success large schemes of finance. He adapted himself to all these with a quickness and accuracy seldom, if ever, equalled in the history of railroad manage- ment. Amid all the large work in which he was engaged, Mr. Wade was simple in his nature, courteous and gentlemanly in his manners, and easily approached by the humblest per- son. He showed at all times the fullest integrity and honesty of purpose, and was as magnanimous as he was broad in his conduct of affairs. He was a man of large attainments and great general knowledge. His mind worked quickly, and he had. wonderful power in grasping new subjects and carrying them to a successful issue. He worked assiduously for the company, but he never failed to recognize the touch of other interests affected by the company. His whole life was based on religious conviction. He believed, and went forward to carry out his belief. He wanted to do the right, and wrong of every kind shocked and grieved him. His place in this company cannot easily be filled.
Resolved, That, in the death of Mr. Wade, the members of the board feel that they have lost a firm friend, a noble-hearted, generous-minded, faithful man, one who has had their fullest confidence and never failed them. Their sympathy goes out to his family in their deep sorrow, with the hope that the noble example and the life that has been so full of large and successful work and noble Christian duty may be to them a consolation and a strength.
Noted, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the board, and a copy sent to the family of Mr. Wade.
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. WADE, RUFUS R., son of Abraham and Johanna (Robbins) Wade, was born in Boston July 10, 1828. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and began business life as a manufacturer of blank- books. Subsequently he was for eleven years an officer in the various penal institutions of the State, including the Cambridge House of Correction and the Charlestown State Prison. Then he was ap- pointed special agent of the post-office department at Washington, and afterwards chief of the Secret Service Department for the New England States. In 1879 he was commissioned by Governor Talbot as chief of the State District Police; and upon the reorganization of that department was reappointed by Governor Long, and continued in the office by succeeding governors. He is president of the Na- tional Association of Factory Inspectors of North America. For ten years he was secretary and treas- urer of the Middlesex county Republican com- mittee ; and he was one of the founders and the first secretary of the Middlesex (political dining) Club. He was married Oct. 10, 1849, in Charles- town, to Miss Mary A. Marsh ; they have no chil- dren. He resides in Somerville.
WADLIN, HORACE G., son of Daniel H. and Lucy E. (Brown) Wadlin, was born in South Reading (now Wakefield), Mass., Oct. 2, 1851. He was educated in the public schools and by private instruction. Then he entered the office of Lord & Fuller, of Salem, as a student of architecture, subsequently be- coming first assistant in their Boston office, and in 1874 associated with them in practice. The fol- lowing year he began practice independently in Boston, devoting himself principally to designing school and municipal buildings and domestic work. In 1879 he became an attaché of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, first as special agent. Afterwards he was in charge of special lines of sta- tistical work, and was connected with many of the more important investigations undertaken by the bureau. He was next engaged in the preliminary work of the decennial census of 1885, and was chief of the Census Division of Libraries and Schools. In 1886, upon the resignation of Colonel Carroll D. Wright, chief of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor, Mr. Wadlin was appointed to that position, in which he has since continued. He was a member of the lower house of the Legislature in 1885, 1886, 1887, and 1888, serving upon the committees on the census, woman suffrage, education, and railroads, parts of the time as House chairman of the last three. In politics he is Republican. In his own town he has been a member of the school board
since 1875 (some time chairman), and for many years a trustee of the Public Library ; he was one of the incorporators of the Reading Cooperative Bank and its first vice-president ; and he is reporter of the Reading Lodge Knights of Honor. He is a mem- ber of the American Statistical and the American Social Science Associations, one of the council of the latter. He has done much literary work in con- nection with economic and historical subjects. He was married Sept. 8, 1875, to Miss Ella F. Butter- field ; they have no children.
WALKER, C. HOWARD, architect, was born in Boston June 9, 1857. After passing through the public schools of this city he studied architecture with Messrs. Sturgis & Brigham, and spent two years in New York city. In 1881 he went abroad, where he continued his professional education for over two years, being sent out by the American Archaeological Society in the Assos Expedition to Asia Minor. He has followed his calling in Boston for six years, in 1889 forming a partnership with Herbert R. Best, with main offices at No. 6 Beacon street, and a branch office in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Best re- sided in the latter city, and built there a large bank building, a handsome church edifice, and other structures. On the Ist of March, 1891, Thomas R. Kimball, graduate of the Institute of Technology in 1889, was admitted to partnership on his return from abroad, the firm name becoming Walker, Kimball, & Best. On April 26, 1891, Mr. Best died in Omaha, and Mr. Kimball has succeeded him in the Western office. In Boston the firm's largest works are the fine Hotel Ludlow, in the rear of Trinity Church, one of the most imposing edifices in that fair section of the city, and the new Mt. Vernon Church, corner of West Chester park and Beacon street. The concern has had several contracts with the Boston Park Commissioners for bridge designs and artistic buildings. In suburban residences they have met with great success, and have designed some of the most elaborate private dwellings at Chestnut hill, Brookline, Cambridge, and Man- chester-by-the-Sea. They are the architects of the Longfellow Memorial Park, Cambridge, the public fountain in Quincy, and similar works of architect- ural art. Mr. Walker is instructor and lecturer in the Institute of Technology, on the history of ornament, and in the Art Museum, on decorative art.
WALKER, J. ALBERT, son of the late Nathaniel K. and Sarah A. ( Pray) Walker, of Portsmouth, N.H., was born in that city Aug. 13, 1839, and was the
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eldest of eight children. He went to the public schools of Portsmouth, and subsequently was placed under the tutorage of W. C. Harris, who had gained local fame as an instructor of the youthful mind. He was here a witness of the sudden death of the master during recitation. About this time the young man was seized with a passion to "go to sea," and forsook his books for a sailor's life. A few months, however, served to satisfy him with this occupation, and he returned home and became a
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this was insufficient, and accordingly, in 1890, he secured an additional lease from the Concord Rail- road Company, and erected another large pocket, besides raising the old one in order to admit a car carrying twenty-five or thirty tons. The distribu- tion of the coal at Boston is by two large pockets on the Boston & Maine Mystic wharf, and one on the Boston & Maine Mystic-river wharf. The Ports- mouth end of the business is in charge of A. W. Walker, and C. O. Walker and E. L. Churchill at- tend to the Boston part. Mr. Walker himself looks after the purchasing of stock for both coal depots, and when it is considered that the business is second to none in the New England States it will be seen that the task is not a light one. But he does not allow his strong social instincts to be sub- dued in the rush and competition of money-getting. He is a member of the Algonquin, Art, and Beacon Clubs of Boston ; also of the New Hampshire Club, and of several of the leading secret fraternal socie- ties. He is attached to DeWitt Clinton Command- ery Knights Templar, to St. Andrew's Lodge of Masons, and to the Piscataqua Lodge of Odd Fel- lows. He is a director of the New Hampshire National Bank of Portsmouth, and of the Bank of Mutual Redemption of Boston; treasurer of the Manchester Mills of Manchester, N.H. ; vice-presi- dent of the Milford & Hopedale Electric Railroad, Milford, Mass .; vice-president of the Milford, Grafton, & Upton Railroad ; a director of the Ports- mouth & Dover Railroad, and of the Granite State Insurance Company. There are also other minor institutions with which he is connected. He has given liberally to charity, and in his native city two institutions have particularly felt his benefactions - the Cottage Hospital and the Chase Home. The religious belief of Mr. Walker is that of the Unita- rians. In politics he is a strong Republican. Much against his wishes, he was made a candidate for gov- ernor of New Hampshire at the convention of 1891 in Concord. Although after having put his hand to the political plow he never turned back, and showed vote, however, which he received was a handsome one. In 1865 Mr. Walker married Miss Amanda M., third daughter of the late William Pettigrow, of Portsmouth, whose fame as a shipbuikler was almost national. Two children were born to them, one, a girl, dying in infancy ; the other, Miss Mabel Walker. His residence is at Portsmouth, N.H.
clerk in his father's store. In 1858 he entered the firm, which was then changed to N. K. Walker & Son. From 1868 to 1880 he was a partner with C. E. Walker in the coal business in Portsmouth. This partnership was dissolved in 1880. In 1874 he sold his interest in the original store to his brother. Mr. Walker had long had his mind on the wharf property of the Concord Railroad Company, . grand capacity and leadership, he was defeated. The and in 1880 he leased it for a term of years, and built upon it one of the largest coal-pockets in New England. Four years later he opened an office in Boston, on Congress street. Business grew rapidly, and he was very soon obliged to enlarge his facilities at Portsmouth. In 1885 he bought the adjoining wharf-property, owned by W. D. Fernald, on Market street, and here built several large coal-storage sheds. Finding that the Fernald property was still WALKER, MAURICE A., M.D., son of James and Angie (Moseley) Walker, was born in Levant, Me., Nov. too small for the growing business, he acquired that of the Plaisted heirs in the same locality. But even 28, 1867. His early education was obtained in the
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public schools of Boston and in Denver, Col. In 1889 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Denver, and was senior house- officer at the Union Pacific Railroad Hospital in that city. In 1890 he returned East, and entered the Harvard Medical School, taking a post-graduate course, and receiving his degree the following year. He is now ( 1892) associated with Dr. Galvin in the management of the Boston Emergency Hospital.
WALLACE, JOHN, was born in Scotland. His edu- cation was begun there and finished in the Lincoln School here in Boston, his parents coming to this country in 1843, when he was a lad. He began business life in the shoe trade, in which he con- tinued until 1870, when he went to New Orleans. There he lived until 1880. Returning to Boston, he entered the real-estate business, buying and selling, and negotiating loans, operating principally in Back Bay and Brookline properties. He was married in Boston in 1862, to Miss Annie E. Fitch, daughter of the late Jonas Fitch. He was a resident of Commonwealth avenue before he moved to New Orleans, and has resided there since his return.
WALLBURG, OTTOMAR, was born in Boston April 15, 1843. He was educated in the Boston public schools, and being a natural artist early learned the painting and decorative trade. In 1868 he formed a copartnership with William A. Sherry, with whom he had been associated in work for several years, and, under the firm name of Wallburg & Sherry they have become widely known as designers and execu- tors of artistic fresco and other fine decorative. work. They have done the interiors of notable churches from Halifax to Texas, of many national, state, and city public buildings, and of fine dwellings in the Back Bay district, in Brookline, and other neighboring places. Among their more important works are the frescoing of the Custom House and the council chamber of the City Hall, the Odd Fellows' Halls in Lawrence and Lowell, academies in Bradford, Mass., and Geneva, N.Y., the Dudley- street Baptist Church, and the Eliot Church, Rox- bury district. In other sections of the country their work is shown in town halls, public halls, banks, theatres, and residences. They employ thirty or more skilled men, and send them often to dis- tant points to fulfil contracts. Mr. Wallburg is an ex-president of the Master Painters' and Decorators' Association of Boston, and a member of the Master Builders' Association. He was married in Boston March, 1878, to Mrs. Frances C. Schoefft. He re- sides in the Roxbury district.
WALTON, GEORGE LINCOLN, M.D., was born in Lawrence, Mass., March 15, 1854. His early in- struction was derived from the public schools of that place and Westfield, and at the Williston Academy. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1875, receiving the degree of A.B., and then entered the Harvard Medical School, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1880. The same year he went abroad, spending three years in Berlin, Leipsic, and Paris, returning to Boston in 1883, where he has since continued the practice of his profession. Dr. Walton holds the position of physician to the department of diseases of the nervous system at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is clinical in- structor in the same department to the Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, the Boston Soci- ety for Medical Observation, the Boston Medico- Psychological Association, the Boston Society of Medical Sciences, and the American Neurological Society. He has been a frequent contributor to the various medical journals.
WALWORTH, ARTHUR C., son of James J. Wal- worth, the pioneer and founder, in connection with his brother-in-law, the late Joseph Nason, of the steam-heating business in the United States, was born in Boston April 29, 1844. He is a grandson of Capt. George Walworth, of New Hampshire, and a descendant in the sixth generation from William Walworth, who came from England to Fisher's Island and Groton, Conn., in 1693, and was the progenitor of nearly all of the name in the United States. Mr. Walworth's mother was a daughter of Leavitt Nason, and a sister of Joseph Nason, his father's partner in the original firm of Walworth & Nason, founded in 1842. Arthur C. Walworth entered the Boston Latin School in 1857, and graduated with honor in 1862. Then he went to Yale College, from which he graduated in the class of 1866. Fortunate in a father who wished to give him as good an education as was then to be obtained, he was enabled to con- tinue his studies at the Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard University), and to complete his educa- tion as a civil engineer at the famous Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris. He is now at the head of the Walworth Construction and Supply Company, which is engaged in the business of erecting steam- heating and power plants. His concern is an off- shoot of the Walworth Manufacturing Company, and was started by the junior Mr. Walworth in 1887, to follow up especially the business of contracting and construction, while the old company are rather
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manufacturers and jobbers. His concern has already completed some large contracts, such as the State Insane Asylum at Concord, N.H., the Connect- icut Hospital for the Insane at Middletown, and the entire plant of Brown University in Providence, R.I., where all the buildings are warmed from a central battery of boilers. To these may be added the heating-apparatus of the new Boston Public Library, now in process of construction, which plant will be one of the most elaborate and best-equipped in the United States. Apart from his business Mr. Walworth has at times engaged in transient literary work. He has also been more or less interested in politics, and represented the city of Newton in the lower house of the Legislature of 1887 and 1888. When a young man he was interested in military matters, being a member of the Boston Cadets and at one time captain of the Newton company in the First Regiment Massachusetts Militia. He has always been active in church and social matters, and is a member of the Congregational, the Massachu- setts, the Newton, and the University (a charter member) Clubs, and of the University Club of New York. He is also an active member of the Ameri- can Association of Mechanical Engineers and the Boston Society of Civil Engineers ; and he is presi- dent of the New England Association of Master Steam-fitters. Mr. Walworth married the eldest daughter of the late Gardner Colby; their chil- dren are six in number, four boys and two girls. He resides in Newton Centre, near the old Colby estate.
WALWORTH, C. CLARK, the head of the extensive Walworth Manufacturing Company, was born in Canaan, Grafton Co., N.H., March 23, 1815. His father was Hon. George Walworth, a well-to-do farmer of Grafton County, N.H., who served in the Legislature of that State, and was otherwise promi- nent. He was born in New Hampshire, and was descended from the old English family of Walworth, whose genealogy runs back into the nobility of Eng- land, the first of whom was Sir William Walworth, lord mayor of London at the time of Wat Tyler's Rebellion, and one of the king's body guard. Sir William, in the latter capacity, was present at the meeting of the king and Wat Tyler, and when the latter was thought to be on the point of assassinating his majesty, it was the hand of Sir William which slew the rebel, thus saving the king's life. A mon- ument to the memory of Sir William stands in Lon- don to-day, in Fishmongers' Hall, and on its base is inscribed " Walworth the Brave." C. Clark Wal- worth was reared on his father's farm. He was
given a common-school and academic education, being unable, on account of poor health, to pursue a college course. After leaving school, and before he had attained his majority, he taught five different schools in his native county, each one of which was situated in a district noted for unruly and obstreper- ous scholars. In each instance he mastered the bad scholars and brought order out of chaos, de- monstrating the possession of unusual executive ability, which in after life contributed greatly to his success. In 1836, in company with his brothers George and James, he went West and settled in Illinois, the two brothers locating at Alton and en- gaging in business, and he going up into Bond county, about forty miles from St Louis, and taking to farming. He remained on the Illinois farm for about two years, and then went to Iowa to assist in the building of a mill for his brother George and Timothy Davis, then an M.C., at Anamosa, Jones county. A natural mechanic, although he had probably never before been inside such a mill, he was able, with instructions from the millwright who put in the machinery, successfully to operate it, and was placed in charge of its work. About two years later he and his brother purchased Mr. Davis' inter- est, and subsequently taking a partner, he rented his brother's interest. Under this arrangement the mill was operated for about six years, during this period kept in continuous operation both night and day, the partners standing watch at the saw alter- nately. They supplied the United States govern- ment with lumber for the construction of the national road from Dubuque, Ia., to Little Rock, Ark. After awhile they added a grist-mill to their saw-mill, and this also was kept grinding both night and day, and frequently on Sundays. During his experience at this business, Mr. Walworth, always alive to what was taking place around him, saw that an investment in land would yield good returns, and consequently entered several thousand acres of government land in Iowa, paying for it about $1.25 per acre. In about the year 1847, on account of the poor health of his wife, he returned East, intending to spend only a few months here. Leaving her at the old home at Canaan, he came to Boston, where his brother James was then engaged in manufacturing. With an idea of familiarizing himself with his brother's business, and, if practicable, to establish a similar plant in Iowa, he entered the concern. But he continued on indefinitely, eventually giving up the plan of going back to the West. Three years after he began work here he became superintendent of the workmen. By this time he had mastered every detail of the work, and had made himself invaluable. In 1852
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