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adolph Franz
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he has been intimately identified with public and business affairs here for a number of years. Apart from the above-mentioned official post he has served as a selectman and in 1932 was chairman of this legislative unit. Socially he is a member of West Springfield Post, No. 201, American Legion, the West Springfield Chamber of Commerce of which he is a director, fraternizes with the Knights of Columbus, and belongs also to the Verdi Club and the Columbus Club. In his religious convictions he adheres to the Roman Catholic faith and worships at the Saint Thomas' Church of that denomi- nation.
ADOLPH FRANZ, SR., M. D .- For al- most half a century, Dr. Adolph Franz, Sr., has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine. His entire career has been spent in Hampden County and the greater part of it in the city of Holyoke, where his interests have centered since the beginning of the century. He is today one of Holyoke's lead- ing physicians and surgeons.
Dr. Franz was born at Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, on July 6, 1862, a son of Adolph and Elizabeth (Birnie) Franz and a descendant of a German family. His grand- father, August Franz, who was a tea mer- chant, lived in Germany throughout his en- tire life. Adolph Franz, the father, was born in Neu-Strelitz in the Grand-Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, on Decem- ber 10, 1830. He came to the United States in early life and enlisted in the United States Army, in which he served for forty-five years. He fought through the Civil War with the Union forces and both before and after that conflict, participated in the cam- paigns against the Indians of the western plains, rising to the rank of ordnance ser- geant. He died at Attleboro, Massachu- setts, on December 25, 1919. Elizabeth
(Birnie) Franz, his wife, was born in Ire- land in 1840 and died in March, 1916, at Attleboro, the home of her son.
Dr. Adolph Franz completed his prelimi- nary education in the high school at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, and subsequently entered Dartmouth College, where he was a student in 1883 and 1884. At the end of that time he entered the Medical School of Colum- bia University to prepare for his professional career and was graduated from that institu- tion in 1887 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he opened offices at South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in general practice as a physician and surgeon until 1902. Since that year his activities have centered at Hol- yoke, where his offices are located at No. 266 Maple Street. Dr. Franz's professional rep- utation was well established early in his career, and the high standing which he en- joys is based on the merit of his services continued through more than four decades. He is well known both as a physician and surgeon, is a Fellow of the American Col- lege of Surgeons and is now senior surgeon at Providence Hospital, Holyoke. Dr. Franz is also a member of the courtesy staff of City Hospital in Holyoke, a member of the Hol- yoke Medical Society, the Massachusetts Medical Association, the Springfield Acad- emy of Medicine and the American Medical Association. His professional duties have absorbed his interest almost exclusively and he has had few other connections, although meeting the obligations of good citizenship in supporting all worthy community causes. Dr. Franz is a member of St. Jerome's Ro- man Catholic Church at Holyoke. He is fond of the out-of-doors and finds his prin- cipal recreation in walking.
On June 11, 1890, in Epping, New Hamp- shire, Dr. Adolph Franz, Sr., married Louise M. Norton, who was born in Portsmouth,
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New Hampshire, daughter of James and Annie (Hanley) Norton, both born in Ports- mouth and both now deceased. Her father was a veteran of the Civil War and a master mechanic in the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Mrs. Franz is a graduate of Portsmouth High School. She is a member of St. Jerome's Roman Catholic Church at Hol- yoke, a member of the Holyoke Women's Club and various other women's organiza- tions of the city.
Dr. and Mrs. Franz became the parents of six children : I. Dorothy, who was gradu- ated from Smith College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and is now associated with the real estate office of Frank Brinckerhoff at Springfield. 2. Fred, a veteran of the World War, who was graduated from Cor- nell University with the degree of Bachelor of Architecture and is now a practicing architect in Holyoke. 3. Louise, a graduate of Smith College, where she took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 4. Gertrude, who was graduated from Simmons College with the degree of Bachelor of Science ; she has been engaged in department store work as a buyer of woman's apparel. 5. Katherine Hanley, a graduate of Smith College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts; she married Carl Alderman, of Holyoke. 6. Adolph, Jr. (see accompanying biography), a practicing physician in Holyoke.
ADOLPH FRANZ, JR., M. D .- As a practicing physician in Holyoke, Dr. Adolph Franz. Jr., represents the second generation of his family to be active in the professional life of this city. He entered private practice here upon the completion of his medical training and has also served for three years as city physician of Holyoke.
Dr. Franz was born in South Hadley Falls, on February 5, 1902, a son of Dr. Adolph Franz. Sr .. and Louise M. (Norton)
Franz (see accompanying biography). He received his preparatory education in Hol- yoke public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, from which he went on to Har- vard College in 1920. In 1924 he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Harvard and subsequently entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Columbia University, from which he was graduated in 1928 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Franz served his interneship at Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, where he was a mem- ber of the resident staff for two years. At the end of that time he returned to Holyoke and in September, 1930, opened offices at No. 276 Maple Street, where he is now lo- cated. The thoroughness manifested in his preparations for his career was reflected in his practice, and the demands upon his time and services have grown steadily during the past five years. Dr. Franz is a member of the surgical staff of Holyoke Hospital and of Providence Hospital. He was City physi- cian of Holyoke from 1931 to 1934; is a dip- lomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners and a member of several pro- fessional organizations, including the Amer- ican Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Association, the Hampden County Medical Society and the Holyoke Medical Society. In addition to these connections, he is a member of the Lions Club and the Owls Club of Holyoke, and of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church. Golf and fishing are his favorite recreations.
On August 17, 1927, Dr. Adolph Franz, Jr., married, in Brooklyn, New York, Eliza- beth Metz, who was born in Oil City, Penn- sylvania, daughter of Edward and Lena Metz. Her father, who served in the Span- ish-American War, is now associated with the Oil Wells Supply Company of Oil City. Mrs. Franz, who is a registered nurse, was graduated from high school in Oil City and
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from Brooklyn Hospital Training School for Nurses. She is a member of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church at Holyoke, the Quadrangle Club, the Women's Club and the Junior Service Corps, in all of which she is active. Dr. and Mrs. Franz are the par- ents of four children: I. Adolph IV, born June 13, 1930. 2. Elizabeth Louise, born February 19, 1933. 3. Frederick Karl, born May 29, 1934. 4. Gretchen Anne, born Jan- uary 13, 1936.
WILLIAM H. DAGGETT-One of Springfield's and Hampden County's very highly respected citizens, William H. Dag- gett did a great deal of pioneer and original work in fire prevention as chief of the local Fire Department and as one of its active members. At his retirement, in 1932, he had completed a half century of faithful service to the department.
Mr. Daggett was born October 24, 1858, in Springfield, son of Francis and Elizabeth (Belden) Daggett. His grandfather, Moses Daggett, was for many years a successful carriage manufacturer in this city. Francis Daggett was employed at the Armory until his death in 1902. His wife, mother of the fire chief, was born in New Britain, Con- necticut, and died in 1900.
In the public schools of Springfield, Wil- liam H. Daggett received his early educa- tion, also studying at the Burnett Classical and English School. He started his business career as an employee of the United States Armory at Springfield, continuing in that capacity for fourteen years and rising to the post of assistant foreman. He held that po- sition at the time he resigned from his Armory connection to accept a place as deputy chief of the newly organized perma- nent paid Fire Department of this city. As early as 1882 he had been made an associate of the department, serving as a "call man"
under the old volunteer system. In 1894, when the paid department was initiated, he was made a deputy chief. On April 1, 1908, he was elevated to the rank of chief, suc- ceeding W. J. Littlefield in that post. He was the very first fire chief in the United States, records indicate, to employ motor- ized trucks for fire-fighting purposes and to establish permanent shelter for such trucks. In the course of his years as head of the Springfield department, Mr. Daggett at- tended conventions of fire-fighters in differ- ent parts of the country, and also was a reg- ular attendant at National Safety Council meetings. At his retirement, in December, 1932, after fifty years of service to the local department and to the city of Springfield, Mr. Daggett was made the recipient of a number of elaborate testimonials expressing in beautiful wording the appreciation, not only of his own men, but of the entire popu- lace of Springfield. for the work of their beloved fire chief.
Along with his other activities, Mr. Dag- gett assumed responsibilities of authorship, writing several articles for magazines and newspapers on the subject of fire prevention and related topics. He participates also in business, social and fraternal life in Spring- field. He is vice-president and a director of the Highland Cooperative Bank here, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum and of Roswell Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. He belongs to the Rotary Club, the Nayasset Club and the Winthrop Club, of Springfield.
In 1892 Mr. Daggett married Genevieve M. Flynn, of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, daughter of James D. Flynn, of Buffalo, New York, who died in 1905, and Annie (Crow1) Flynn, of Harper's Ferry, who died in 1872. The children of this marriage were: I. Roswell B. Daggett, born April 12, 1896, studied in the public schools, Brown Uni-
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versity and was graduated in 1920 from the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland. He was selected by the depart- ment to take a special course at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology where he received the degree of Master of Science. Continuing thereafter in the service as an ensign of the first junior grade until he was promoted to lieutenant and finally to the rank of lieutenant commander, he is in the department of naval construction. He mar- ried Lois M. Gibbnoney. 2. Robert T. Dag- gett, born July 15, 1904, is engaged as an interior decorator.
ROE S. CLARK-The successful growth of the Package Machinery Company in Springfield from a small organization to the largest of its type in the world is due in a large measure to the vision and ability of the executives as explained by its treasurer, Roe S. Clark, who for nearly a quarter of a century has been associated with this com- pany and during this period has contributed diligently and unsparingly to its develop- ment. As one of the leading executives he has become prominent in the trade organi- zations connected with this business and has been deeply interested in bettering laboring conditions, aiding in the establishment of a profit-sharing plan and the formation of an employees committee, operated entirely by and for the three hundred persons who are associated with this company in Springfield.
Mr. Clark was born in Granville, Massa- chusetts, September 25, 1887, son of Sidney C. and Carrie (Smith) Clark, both deceased. He received a general education in the pub- lic schools of his native community and after completing his studies started on an ac- counting and auditing career which was to pave the way to the position he occupies at the present time. During his early years in business he supplemented his early scholas-
tic training by taking various courses of- fered by some of the leading business insti- tutes and correspondence schools of the Na- tion. He worked for various concerns in this district and then in 1916 became asso- ciated with the Package Machinery Com- pany and began a career that has since been marked for its distinction and success. He was made acting treasurer of the organiza- tion.
The Package Machinery Company was founded in 1913 by William L. Putnam, George W. Kyburg, Thomas L. Jefferson and F. B. Reddington. It was started in a modest capacity, devoted entirely to the manufacture of machines employed in pack- age wrapping. The Nation was their market and in a short time orders were coming in from abroad. The plant was expanded and the succeeding year saw it grow until it finally had become the largest establishment of its type in the world with branch offices in New York City, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; and Los Angeles, California. Abroad, associate plants are maintained at Leeds, England, and Stuttgart, Germany.
The Springfield operating base today oc- cupies an area of one hundred and twelve thousand square feet where over three hun- dred people are employed. They maintain an up-to-date hospital with a nurse in con- stant attendance and physicians who visit periodically. There is a modern restaurant on the grounds and an organization known as the Employees Aid Association, operated entirely by the personnel. Any one serving the organization for five years or more re- ceives an emblem, as a sign of recognition and appreciation on the part of the company. A profit-sharing plan, known as the com- pensative warrant, can be enjoyed by all those employees who have been with the concern for a year or more and a group in- surance scheme has been in force since 1926.
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It is these features that Mr. Clark has been so instrumental in working out, and the re- sults that have been obtained have not only won for him the esteem and respect of the personnel but grateful admiration and rec- ognition of his executive colleagues.
Mr. Clark was named to his present posts of secretary and treasurer in 1930, being the second person to occupy these positions since the founding of the company. He is also prominent in other business and finan- cial organizations, serving as a member of the board of directors of the Western Mas- sachusetts Employers Association, a direc- tor of the National Metal Trades Associa- tion, vice-president of the Goodwill Indus- tries and chairman of the executive commit- tee of the Cheney-Bigelow Wire Works. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Hampden Cooperative Bank and a member of the executive committee of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
Though business responsibilities have claimed most of his attention he has not neglected the social and civic life of his sur- roundings. In this connection he is chair- man of the finance committee of the town of Brimfield, has served as a director of the Community Chest. He has taken a keen and active part in the affairs of the Young Men's Christian Association where he is now a member of the board of directors, and is also a trustee of the Hitchcock Academy. Socially he holds memberships in the Ki- wanis Club, the Nyasset Club, the Spring- field Country Club and the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. He fraternizes with the Masonic Order where he holds a thirty- second degree and is a member of Melha Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of this city. In his re- ligious convictions he worships in the Con- gregational Church.
In 1910 he married Sarah M. Hosmer, a native of this State, and they are the par- ents of two children: I. Eleanor H., born May 3, 1913, a graduate of Oberlin College. 2. Roe S., Jr., born August 16, 1920, now a student at Hitchcock Academy.
PAUL W. LANGHAMMER -- The Pack- age Machinery Company of Springfield owes much of its world-wide recognition to the mechanical genius of Paul W. Langhammer, superintendent of this organization and a member of the board of directors. Thor- oughly trained in his trade in his native Ger- many, he came over to this country as a young man and worked in various capacities for some of the largest industrial and scien- tific concerns of the Nation. Of an inven- tive turn of mind he aided in the invention and development of some of the first pack- age machinery apparatus in the United States, thus paving the way for the found- ing of the present company, which is the largest of its type in the world.
Mr. Langhammer was born in Ruhla, Ger- many, December 18, 1883, son of William and Auguste Langhammer, both natives of that country. He received a general edu- cation in the schools of that country. He then became an apprentice mechanic at the age of fifteen and later attended the Me- chanical Art School in Berlin. He worked at this occupation until he came to the United States in 1905. He first settled in New York City where he was employed in the experimental department of the West- ern Electric Company and then went to East Pittsburgh where he became connected with the experimental department of the West- inghouse Electric Company. After work- ing at the latter place for some time he went to Elgin, Illinois, and became associated with the Elgin National Watch Company.
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where he built watch machinery and tools. It was shortly thereafter that he applied himself to the invention and development of package machinery apparatus, with H. Y. Armstrong and Thomas Jefferson, Jr. The original machine was patented and in 1913 the consolidation of several industrial com- panies was completed and formed the basic structure of what became the Package Ma- chinery Company. Mr. Langhammer came to the city of Springfield at this time and in 1914 was given entire supervision of the plant, which entails directing some three hundred employees.
This organization, which started in a modest capacity, markets its products throughout North America and exports to thirty-two foreign countries. It has offices in New York City, Cleveland, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California. The operating head- quarters of the company is in Springfield where a completely and modernly equipped industrial plant is maintained, with hospital- ization facilities and other features that di- rectly benefit the worker as well as the executive. In addition to being superin- tendent and director of this concern, Mr. Langhammer is also superintendent and di- rector of the National Bread Wrapping Ma- chine Company, Incorporated. He is cred- ited with having instigated many new de- velopments that has taken place in the wrapping machinery industry in the past decade and a half.
Though he has never sought public office Mr. Langhammer has maintained a keen and active interest in civic affairs and serves as a commissioner on the Board of Health in Springfield and has had a similar position with the Board of Survey in this city. So- cially he is a member of many of the local clubs and fraternizes with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, where he is a Past Noble Grand, and is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons.
In 1907 Mr. Langhammer married Lina Bienert of Germany and they are the par- ents of two children : 1. Ericka E., born July 6, 1910, and a graduate of the Connecticut College for Women, in 1933. 2. William Paul, born April 18, 1916, now a member of the class of 1938, mechanical engineering, at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
EDWIN JOSEPH BAILEY, M. D .- A contributory answer to the mooted question, whether it is better to enter a profession early with only the background of school attendance, or to begin later when scholastic training has been combined with a varied experience in life, may be found in the ca- reer of Edwin Joseph Bailey, M. D., of Springfield. He did not turn his attention to the study of medicine until he had arrived at an age when most physicians have had a decade of practice, but those ten years were filled with activities which, while non-pro- fessional, have proved of immense value to his work as a doctor, and no doubt have as- sisted greatly his rapid rise to prominence among physicians and clientele.
Dr. Bailey was born in New Britain, Con- necticut, December 16, 1890, son of Edward M. and Mary (Larkin) Bailey, both natives of Connecticut and both deceased. His for- mal education was gained in local public schools and at Georgetown University. Like many successful men he tried his hand at various vocations before finding the one for which he was best fitted and liked best. It may be that a year's service, during the World War, in the Base Hospital at Camp Upton, influenced his choice of medicine as a career. At any rate, he matriculated later at Middlesex Medical College, from which he received his degree, Doctor of Medicine. He interned, first, in the Passaic General Hospital, Passaic, New Jersey, where he remained for a year. He then spent a year
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each in Mercy Hospital, Springfield, and the Richmond Memorial Hospital, Staten Island, New York, following this with a year as house physician in St. Joseph's Hospital, New York City.
Not until 1930 did Dr. Bailey set himself up in the general practice of his profession, in Springfield, and his immediate success speaks volumes for his ability, training, and comparative maturity of mind and experi- ence. It is noteworthy that he devotes him- self strictly to his work and wastes little of his time and energies on non-professional activities. He is affiliated with Mercy Hos- pital, Springfield. His church is Our Lady of Hope, Springfield.
ROY E. McCORKINDALE-Successful as a civil engineer and in business, and the president of Chase and Coolidge, Roy E. McCorkindale holds a prominent place in the social, civic and industrial circles of Holyoke. He was born at Childs, Cecil County, Maryland, July 15, 1891, son of Duncan L. and Martha (Mckay) McCorkin- dale. His father was a native of Grenoch, Scotland, who died in Holyoke on the last day of the year 1927, at the age of seventy- three years. At the time of his death, he was superintendent of the Parsons Paper Company in Holyoke. He was a Republi- can, a member of the First Congregational Church of the city and a public-spirited citi- zen. Mrs. McCorkindale was born in Troy, New York, and died on February 10, 1934, in Holyoke.
The early education of Roy E. McCorkin- dale was secured in his native Maryland, but it was as a graduate from the Holyoke High School in 1910, that he went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, for his technical training. From this institution he was graduated in Civil Engineering, with the class of 1914. He taught civil engineer-
ing in the Polytechnic Institute, College of Engineering, in Brooklyn, New York, dur- ing the two succeeding years. In 1916 he passed the required examination for admis- sion to the Civil Engineering Corps of the United States Army, and received a commis- sion as lieutenant, junior grade, in April, 1917. This was, of course, the beginning of the World War period for the military forces of our country, and Lieutenant Mc- Corkindale served throughout the conflict. For the most part he was assigned to the Navy Yard, at Mares Island, California, and resigned from the army with the rank of lieutenant.
Upon his return to civilian life, Mr. Mc- Corkindale returned to Holyoke and pur- chased an interest in the firm of Chase and Coolidge, engaged in the general mill sup- ply business. He began his connection with the firm as sales agent ; in 1925 he was made vice-president and since 1931, has been the president of the company. Mr. McCorkindale is a director of the Holyoke National Bank. He is president of the Men's Council, Second Congregational Church; and a member of the Mount Tom Golf Club, the Holyoke Canoe Club, and he also is a member and a director of the Rotary Club, of the city. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Mt. Moni- tuck Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Holyoke, and the Holyoke Lodge, No. 902, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His religious affiliations are with the Sec- ond Congregational Church.
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