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he became a member of the firm with his brother, the previous partner, Mr. Nason, withdrawing. A few years later he raised one hundred thousand dollars, and organized a stock company with four hundred thousand dollars capital, which was incor- porated as the Walworth Manufacturing Company, with J. J. Walworth as president, and C. C. Walworth as general manager of the mechanical department. In about 1885 he was made general manager of the entire business, and in 1891 was elected president of the company. He now holds the position of president and general manager. Mr. Walworth has made many valuable inventions in his line, among which are well worth mentioning his six-spindle tapping-machine, with which about ten times the amount of work, and better, can be accomplished than before ; a patent radiator ; a manifold, which reduces the cost over the old-fashioned fittings, and gives perfect control over the use of the steam ; the patent screw-plate ; and a patent safety floor-flange. In connection with another gentleman he also in- vented the Walworth sprinkler, which has saved millions of dollars' worth of property.
WALWORTH, JAMES JONES, was born in Canaan, N.H., Nov. 18, 1808. He was educated in the public schools of that town, in Thetford Academy, Thetford, Vt., and in Salisbury Academy, Salisbury, N.H. He taught public schools in New Hamp- shire three successive winters. He came to Boston in 1829, and was for ten years engaged in the hard- ware business, first as apprentice with Alexander H. Twombly & Co., subsequently as partner in the firm of Scudder, Park, & Co., and later as agent of the Canton Hardware Co. In 1841 Mr. Walworth, in connection with Joseph Nason, composing the firm of Walworth & Nason, founded the business of warming and' ventilating buildings by means of steam and hot-water apparatus upon methods such as had not up to that time been in use, but which are now almost universally adopted, and the manu- facture - of the great variety of goods of iron and brass required in the construction of such appara- tus. Beginning the business in New York, a year later a plant was started in Boston. They origi- nated and introduced into practical use the now well-known system of warming buildings by the use of small wrought-iron tubes heated by steam ; and, under Mr. Walworth's personal direction, the system was applied to numerous cotton and woollen manu- factories, and other large buildings in all the New England States, for several years before any other concern entered the field. Walworth & Nason also introduced into this country, in 1846, what is known
as the mechanical system of ventilation by the use of the " fan-blower," propelled by steam power, a system now extensively used throughout the United States. As engineer in this department, Mr. Wal- worth has designed and executed heating and ven- tilating apparatus in many of the earlier examples in hospitals, in theatres and other public buildings. Upon the foundation thus laid by this pioneer con- cern has grown a business of immense proportions, now represented by numerous establishments, small and large, in nearly every State in the Union, as well as in most European countries, involving a capital of, probably, more than fifty million dollars and the employment of one hundred thousand workmen. In the year 1852 the firm of Walworth & Nason was dissolved, Mr. Nason taking the busi- ness in New York, and Mr. Walworth continuing the business in Boston in his own name, and later in the name of J. J. Walworth & Co., until 1872, when the corporation of the Walworth Manufactur- ing Company was organized, with J. J. Walworth as president. This company now owns and oc- cupies extensive manufacturing works in South Boston, ,employing at these works and elsewhere, including their sales department in the city proper, upwards of eight hundred workmen and other em- ployés, and having actively employed in their busi- ness a capital of eight hundred thousand dollars. The salesrooms and offices are at Nos. 14 to 28 . Oliver street. From this point their manufactured goods are shipped to all points of the United States and to several European countries, their annual sales amounting to about two millions of dollars. Mr. Walworth has also been for the last twenty-seven years president of the Malleable Iron Fittings Company, a large malleable-iron establishment in Branfort, near New Haven, Conn. ; and for a long period connected, as president, with several other corporations and societies, mechanical and literary. He represented the city of Newton in the lower house of the Legislatures of 1870 and 1871.
WARE, DARWIN E., son of Erastus and Clarissa Dillaway (Wardwell) Ware, was born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 11, 1831. He was educated in the Salem schools, in Harvard College, from which he graduated in the class of 1852, and in the Harvard Law School. After graduating from the latter he entered the law office of C. T. & T. H. Russell, and in 1856 began practice here in Boston. He has held a number of positions of trust, and per- formed notable public service. He was a member 'of the lower house of the Legislature in 1863, and of the senate in 1864 and 1865. In 1866 he was
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appointed by Secretary Mccullough one of two commissioners for the " codification of the customs revenue, and shipping laws " of the United States ; and from 1866 to 1874, when he resigned, he was a member of the Massachusetts Harbor Commission. He is a member of the Boston Civil Service Reform Association (formerly its president); of the New England Tariff Reform League, the Massachusetts Reform Club, of the American Bar and the Boston Bar . Associations, and of the Unitarian, and St. Botolph clubs, and other social, literary, and chari- table organizations. He has been a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College for several terms since 1866. In politics Mr. Ware was a Free Soiler, then a Republican until 1884, and since that time an Independent in politics, acting generally
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with the Democratic party. On May 26, 1868, he married Miss Adelaide F. Dickey ; they have one son, Richard Darwin Ware.
WARE, HORACE E., son of Jonathan Ware, a prom- inent physician of Milton, and of Mary Ann Ware, daughter of Edmund Tileston, of Dorchester, was born in Milton, Mass., Aug. 27, 1845. He gradu- ated from Harvard College in 1867, and studied law in the Harvard Law School and with the late Judge W. S. Leland. He was admitted to the Suf- folk bar in 1869, and has been in general practice since, his present office being at No. 27 School street.
He is Republican in politics, and represented. his district (the Fourth Norfolk) in the lower house of the Legislature in 1879 and 1880. He has always resided in Milton.
WARNOCK, ADAM, supreme secretary of the Amer- ican Legion of Honor, was born in New York city in 1846. He was educated in the public schools there. At the age of sixteen he served as a special officer in the New York draft riots. He also served in the United States Navy. Early in life he became interested in fraternal societies. At eighteen he was a member of the Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars. As soon as he reached his major- ity he joined the Masons. He was long a member of Atlas Lodge of New York, and is now connected with the Columbian Lodge of Boston. He is also a member of Corinthian Royal Arch Chapter, and Ivanhoe Commandery Knights Templar, New York ; of the Commonwealth Lodge, Boston, Odd Fellows ; of Howard Lodge, Knights of Pythias, New York ; of the Yononto Tribe, Boston, Improved Order of Red Men, a charter member; of the Royal Arcanum ; the Knights and Ladies of Honor ; and the United Workmen, Pilgrim Fathers, Home Circle, Equitable Aid Union, and other fraternal in- surance organizations. He joined the American Legion of Honor in Brooklyn, and, taking his card from Stella Council of that city, organized Green- wich Council in New York city. At the organiza- tion of the Grand Council in New York he was elected supreme representative. He was elected supreme secretary at the session of 1882, and is now serving his tenth year in that position. Since 1882 he has made his headquarters in Boston, resid- ing in Cambridge. He is a member of the Union Boat and the Athletic Clubs, and of Post 30, G.A.R., Department of Massachusetts. His family consists of a wife, three boys, and two girls.
WARREN, FRANKLIN COOLEY, son of John Wright and Harriet (Cooley) Warren, was born in Lin- coln, Mass. He was educated in the public schools there and in a private school in Boston. In 1844 he began business as clerk or confidential agent for F. A. Benson, coal dealer of Boston, remaining with him for several years. In September, 1850, he began the wholesale and retail coal business with Seth Whittier as partner, under the firm name of Whittier &.Warren, at Fisk's wharf. The association continued for four years, when they dissolved part- nership. Mr. Warren then began business for him- self in the West End, on Charles street. He removed to his present office and wharf, Mt.
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Washington avenue, foot of Kneeland street, in and fifty inmates, one of the most completely ap- 1884. When he began the coal business there were pointed buildings of its kind in the country, is another of his designs; and he has also charge of the arrangement of the extensive grounds of the asylum. Mr. Warren is secretary of the Boston Society of Architects. He was married in 1888 to Miss Cath- arine C. Reed, of Boston.
forty-two coal-wharves in the city ; since then, not- withstanding that there has been an enormous in- crease in the volume of the business, the number of wharves has steadily decreased, there being now (1892) but twelve in Boston proper. Mr. Warren has travelled considerably in Europe ; other than this his time has been devoted chiefly to business ; he has never aspired to or held public office, though repeat- edly urged by his party associates to stand as a candidate for place. He can trace his ancestry back to 1630, when his ancestors came to America from England in the ship " Arbella," landing June 8, 1630, at Essex. Mr. Warren was married in August, 1850, to Miss Margaret M. Covley.
WARREN, H. LANGFORD, architect, although of an old Massachusetts family, was born in Manchester, Eng., in 1857. He was brought by his parents to this country when an infant, and has since lived for long periods on both sides of the Atlantic, his later school and college days having been spent in Ger- many and England. After taking the special course at the Institute of Technology, he entered, in 1879, the architect's office of the late H. H. Richardson, in Brookline, and remained in his employ for five years. Then he spent a year and a half in travel and study in France, Italy, and England. On re- turning to this country he took charge of the archi- tectural department of the "Sanitary Engineer " in New York. Returning to Boston in 1886, he opened an office for himself at No. 9 Park street. He designed the elegant residence of Charles J. Page, at the corner of Westland avenue and Parker street, which is especially noteworthy for its artistic interior - a line in which Mr. Warren is very success- ful. He also built the residences of William B. Strong and G. A. Burdett in Brookline, and a num- ber of residences at Waban, Newton. He has a branch office in Troy, N.Y., where he has built, among other structures, several important city resi- dences, and has done much fine work in Saratoga, Lake George, and other places in that vicinity. Among his other works may be mentioned the Scripps Cemetery Chapel at Detroit, a Gothic building with stone and brick vaults, and the town hall in Lincoln, Mass., recently completed. Mr. Warren has given considerable attention to land- scape gardening ; he designed the arrangement of Renfrew Park at Newport, R.I., besides its nineteen elegant dwellings, a Casino, with tennis courts, etc., and large club-stables. A large orphan-asylum in Troy, N.Y., which accommodates some two hundred
WARREN, NATHAN, was born in Waltham, Mass., Feb. 11, 1838. He comes from the old New Eng-
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land stock from which most of the Massachusetts Warrens are descended. The original John Warren came from England and settled in the Massachu- setts Bay Colony in 1630, and the descendants of this family may be said always to have been repre- sented prominently and actively in affairs since the early settlement. Mr. Warren's grandfather, for whom he was named, was a soldier of the Revolu- tion ; his father was in service in the War of 1812, and Mr. Warren himself was in the Civil War. So the family for three successive generations has a good military and patriotic record in the history of the country. Brought up on a large farm, on the out- skirts of the busy manufacturing village of Waltham, attending the public schools and graduating at the high school, he was inclined to pursue his studies still further in a college course, but decided upon a commercial life. With this view he entered a wholesale dry-goods house in Boston, and was after-
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wards established in New York in the commission business. In 1862 he enlisted in the Forty-fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and served through his period of enlistment in North Carolina. Subsequently he was in the public service in Louisi- ana, and in Washington at the close of the war. After the war he returned to Boston and was interested in shipping and commission business, in trade principally with Cuba, South America, and the west coast of Africa. In this connection he made quite an extensive trip to several places in the last- named part of the world during the years 1867-8. He has also travelled extensively in Europe and through his own country, especially in the North- west, beyond the line of the frontier, before the con- struction of the great railways. Soon after the establishment of an active and independent agency of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in Boston, Mr. Warren became connected with that society in its local business, and he has since been identified with its rise and progress and with the institution of life insurance. He is now the principal representa- tive of the Euqitable Life in Boston. He is also vice- president of the Life Underwriters Association in this city. He has always been actively interested in public and political affairs. In 1880-1 he represented Wal- tham in the lower house of the Legislature, when he was chairman of the committee on insurance and a member of the joint committee for revising the public statutes. He has also been a member of the Republican State central committee, and chairman of local and district committees in political cam- paigns. He is considered a person of excellent judgment, is calm, cool, and dispassionate, strong and sincere in his views. As a Mason, he has been a member of Monitor Lodge in"Waltham for many years, and for two years the master. As a member of the board of trustees of the Waltham Public Library he was president for several years. What- ever has been for the public welfare of the commu- nity in which he has lived has found in him an active and conscientious supporter. Mr. Warren is fond of books and studies, and apart from business duties has done considerable work with his pen on topics of the day and other subjects of more per- manent character. He contributed the history of Waltham in the recently published History of Mid- dlesex county, and on the occasion of the sesqui- centennial celebration of the incorporation of that place was one of the committee of three to prepare the oration of the day, which, as an experiment of joint authorship for the preparation of an historical address within a very brief time, was eminently successful. He resides at Waltham, in a pleasant
country house outside of the city. In 1883 he married Miss Charlotte E. Bacon, of Springfield ; they have one child, Richard Warren.
WASHBURN, FRANK L., son of George and Abby M. (Cheney) Washburn, was born in Peterborough,
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N.H., May 1, 1849. He is a nephew of Hon. P. C. Cheney, ex-Lieutenant Governor and United States Senator from New Hampshire, and of Rev. O. B. Cheney, president of Bates College, Lewis- ton, Me. He was fitted for college at New Hamp- ton, N.H., and attended Bates, from which he graduated. He studied law in Boston with his cousin, the late Horace P. Cheney, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in November, 1879. He at once began practice in this city, and for thirteen years has been associated with Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. On June 14, 1877, he was married to Miss Annabelle E. Philbrick, of Candia, N.H .; they have two children, Grace and Katharine Washburn.
WASHBURN, GEORGE HAMLIN, M.D., son of Rev. George Washburn, president of Robert College. Constantinople, Turkey, was born in Constantinople May 22, 1860. He was educated in the prepara- tory department of Robert College. Coming to America, he entered Amherst, where he graduated in 1882, receiving the degree of A.B. Afterwards, in 1886, he graduated from the Harvard Medical
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School, receiving the degree of M.D. He was in to out-patients at Carney, The Children's, and the City Hospital two years ( 1885 and 1886), and then established himself in Boston in general prac- tice. He is physician to the Boston Dispensary, and to out-patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in the department for diseases of women, and surgeon to out-patients at the Free Hospital for Women: He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, of the Medical Library Association, and of the Obstet- rical Society of Boston. Dr. Washburn was married in 1887, to Miss Anna M., daughter of S. C. Hoyt, of Auburn, N.Y.
WATSON, FRANCIS SEDGWICK, M.D., was born in Milton, Mass., May 31, 1853. He was educated
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in the private schools of Eps Dixwell and John Hopkinson. He entered Harvard and graduated in 1875, and then the Medical School, gradu- ating in 1878. He was house surgeon at the Mas- sachusetts General Hospital from 1878 to 1879, and finished his medical education by two years' study in Vienna, Strasburg, Paris, and London. Returning to Boston in 1881, he began the prac- tice of his profession in this city, where he has since continued. Since 188t he has held various appointments : surgeon to the department of genito- urinary diseases, Boston Dispensary ; assistant sur- geon to the Home of the Good Samaritan ; surgeon
the City Hospitals; and assistant visiting surgeon to the City Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Ameri- can Association of Anthropologists, and instructor in minor surgery and in genito-urinary surgery in the Harvard Medical School. His principal writings include the following papers: "Tumors of the Bladder ;" "Spontaneous Fracture of Stone in the Bladder ; " " Points in Connection with the Renal Calculus ;" "Cases. of Tuberculosis of the Urinary Tract;" "Stone in the Bladder ; " " Lumbar Nephrotomy ; " and " Monograph on the Operative Treatment of Hypertrophied Prostate." He has in- vented the following new appliances : a splint for the treatment of acute hip-disease ; perineal drain- age-tube for the bladder ; and bladder speculum and scissors cautery, for removing bladder tumors. He was delegate to the Berlin International Medical Convention, Aug. 18, 1889, from the Association of American Anthropologists. Dr. Watson was married June r6, 1886, to Miss Mary, daughter of Thomas H. Perkins, of Boston.
WAY, JOHN M., son of Lorin and Lettice C. (Aulds) Way, natives of New Hampshire, and of English and Scotch descent respectively, was born
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in Rochester, Vt., May 29, 1829. He obtained an academic education, which he largely augmented
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by private study for a number of years. He came to Boston in 1847, where his brother, the late well- known Samuel A. Way, the millionaire, had preceded him. About the year 1850 he began the study of law with Hon. Edward Avery and the late Nathaniel Richardson, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and has been in general practice ever since .. He is largely interested in real estate in Boston, and also owns large interests in Chicago and the West. Mr. Way was born a Democrat, but since the Butler cam- paign has affiliated with the Republican party. He resides in the Roxbury district, where he was in the common council three or four years. He married, Oct. 29, 1858, his present wife, Fannie D. Thomas, of Wayland, by whom he has two children living : William T., a lawyer of Princeton, Mo., and Edith Fannie Way. By his former marriage with Sarah L. Reed (deceased), there are two children living : John M. and Clarence Way, district attorney of Yuma county, Arizona.
WEEKS, ANDREW G., son of Ezra and Hannah (Merrill) Weeks, was born in North Yarmouth, Me., June 11, 1823. He was educated in public and private schools in Portland, Me. In 1840 he came to Boston, and entered the shop of Frederick Brown, druggist and apothecary, at that time on the corner of State and Washington streets. The year following he engaged with Smith & Fowle. He re- mained with them ten years, and then (in 1851) formed a copartnership with W. B. Potter, in the wholesale drug business, under the firm name of Weeks & Potter. This was the beginning of one of the most prosperous and most influential houses in, of Samuel and Helen Sykes ; they have a family of the trade. In 1847 Mr. Weeks was married to five children. Miss Harriet P. Pierce, of New York city. They have had four children : Harriet Emma (died in infancy), Warren B. Potter, Andrew Gray, jr., and Hattie P. (now Mrs. S. R. Anthony) Weeks. He resides in Boston, and is a warden of Emmanuel Church.
WEEKS, WARREN B. P., was born in Boston in May, 1858. He was educated in St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass., and Harvard College, from which he graduated in the class of 1881. In 1882 he became clerk of the International Trust Com- pany, remaining in that corporation until 1887, when he entered the real-estate and insurance business, with office at No. 20 Water street. He has made a specialty of business property in Boston and manufacturing property out of the city, assuming the management and care of prom- inent estates, negotiating loans, and so on. In
1891 he removed to more commodious quarters, in the building erected by the John Hancock Insurance Company, on Devonshire street. He was married in Boston in 1885, and resides in the city.
WEIL, CHARLES, son of Jacob and Theresa (Bruell) Weil, was born in Merzbach, Bavaria, July 5, 1854. His parents came to the United States when he was twelve years old. His education was mainly attained in the foreign schools. He spent two years in the English High School of Ann Arbor, Mich., and at the age of fourteen came East to begin active business in a wholesale house in New York. When seventeen years old he came to Boston, and two years after, in connection with Mr. Dreyfus, he established the wholesale furnishing-house then, as now, known by the firm name of Weil, Dreyfus, & Co. Under his management and direction they have been eminently successful. Notwithstanding their serious loss by the great fire of 1872, they have by careful study of the demands of trade made steady, continuous progress, adding annually to their capital, and to-day they stand among the leading houses in the line of men's furnishing-goods, of which they are also large manufacturers. Colonel Weil is a thorough American. He received his title of " Colonel " as a member of the military staff of Governor Ames. His benevolence and open- hearted liberality are shown in many ways, but he does not seek publicity in making any of his charitable gifts. Mr. Weil was married in New York in February, 1874, to Miss Carrie, daughter
WELCH, CHARLES ALFRED, the oldest lawyer in practice at the Suffolk bar, son of Francis and Mar- garet C. (Stackpole) Welch, natives of Boston, was born in Boston Jan. 30, 1815. His father was a Boston merchant, and for many years president of the Franklin Insurance Company. Mr. Welch pre- pared for college in the Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1833. He then studied law in the office of Sprague & Gray, two terms at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. He became a partner of the late Edward D. Sohier in 1838, continuing until the death of that eminent jurist, in 1888. He is now in practice alone at No. 9 Tremont street. He has been a Democrat since 1840, and is an extreme anti-tariff man in his views. He is a Mason of the thirty-third degree, is past grand master for Massa- chusetts, and is now in the governing body of that
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fraternity. Mr. Welch resides on Beacon street in Eastern Division, and on June 1, 1891, he was ap- the winter, having a summer residence at Cohasset.
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