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F. Tracy Brand passed away at his home in Longmeadow on October 1, 1923, at the age of forty-seven years. His untimely death came as a distinct shock to the host of friends and associates he had made dur- ing his long and distinguished career who admired and respected him as a man of unique ability. Throughout, he conducted his life in accordance with the highest ethics and ideals and established a record of achievement that should be a source of in- spiration to those who follow.
The Springfield Glazed Paper Company, located in West Springfield, was established in 1874 by the late Colonel John F. Marsh who was its treasurer and general manager for nearly forty years.
He was a veteran of the Mexican War, a "forty-niner" in the gold fields of California and served throughout the Civil War. Sub- sequently he engaged in the manufacture of surface coated papers at Nashua, New Hampshire, but later disposed of his inter- ests there and removed to Springfield to engage in the same business.
This company was the first, in the nature of its products, to be established in West- ern Massachusetts and its industrial life has extended over a period of more than seventy years. The earliest plant was lo- cated on Lyman Street, Springfield, but this was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1882. In August of that year a new site for the business was acquired in West Springfield. on the banks of the Connecticut River and then near the west end of the old wooden
toll bridge. Upon the acquisition of this new site a four-story, substantial factory building was at once erected and equipped with all the new machinery and appliances requisite for production.
From time to time land was acquired and additions made to the main building. To- day from the windows of the mill there is an extended view of the river; the city of Springfield on the opposite bank and the new Memorial Bridge. On account of its rather isolated situation, unobstructed light and comparative freedom from dust and smoke, the location has always been con- sidered an ideal one for the manufacture of the product of the company.
These products are commonly known as glazed and fancy, or surface-coated papers. The base, unfinished stocks, used and com- ing from the mills manufacturing the same, in large rolls and in various weights and grades, are coated on the surface, one or both sides, by machine processes. The coating material may be white or in colors.
Then the papers, so coated, are run through calendars or other machines for the purpose of obtaining the glazed, dull, em- bossed, waterproof or other finish desired. All the processes require a technical knowl- edge of the chemistry of colors, skill and long experience in the preparation of the many formulas and the handling of the machines.
The papers are used extensively for print- ing and lithograph work, box coverings, fancy wrappers, cover papers and for many other purposes, and the products of this company have always been noted for their high standard and qualities.
WILLIAM HERBERT SHUART- Though trained as a lawyer, Mr. Shuart abandoned professional activities shortly be- fore the turn of the century to accept a position as president of the Springfield
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Glazed Paper Company, which was founded by the late Colonel John F. Marsh. As a resident of this city he has occupied a prom- inent place in the business, civic and social affairs of Springfield and vicinity.
William Herbert Shuart was born in Honeoye Falls, New York, September 21, 1852, son of Denton Gregory and Mary Elizabeth (Barrett) Shuart. His father, who was born in Plattekill, Ulster County, New York, February 9. 1805, and died in Honeoye Falls, Monroe County, New York, August 28, 1892, was one of the outstand- ing members of the Monroe County (New York), bar during his career there, which spanned nearly half a century. The elder Shuart was educated in the schools and academies of his surroundings and later, in 1829, went to New York City, where he took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1832. He returned to Monroe County and established himself in Honeoye Falls where he conducted a law practice that was marked for its outstanding distinc- tion and success. Active in politics he was the first person to be elected by the people to the office of surrogate of Monroe County in November, 1851. He served in this office for four years, 1852-56. Denton Gregory Shuart was among the founders and a mem- ber of the board of trustees of the Genesee College at Lima, New York, which was later removed to the city of Syracuse and formed the nucleus for the university there. On September 18, 1837, he married Mary Elizabeth Barrett, born in Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York, September 30, 1818, and died May 10, 1881. Mrs. Shuart was the daughter of Stephen and Lois (Day) Barrett, who removed from Sangerfield to Honeoye Falls in 1834. She was directly descended from Humphrey Barrett, who was born in England in 1592, came to this country and settled in Concord, Massachu-
setts, became a freeman in 1657, and died November, 1662, aged seventy years.
The Shuart family, which is of Dutch- English stock, traces its paternal ancestry in America to a representative who came to this country from Holland and settled in New Jersey, during the early part of the eighteenth century. The first ancestor of whom there is any authentic record is Johannes Shuart who, in 1773, purchased a farm of several hundred acres in the town of Plattekill, Ulster County, New York. Married twice, his second wife was Rachel Garrison of Dutch descent. They were the parents of Abraham, who was born in Ulster County, New York, in 1781, and died in 1851, at the age of seventy years. He was an early settler of Mendon, Monroe County, New York, having removed there from Ulster County in 1806, where he owned and operated a large farm throughout his life. He married Betsey Rall of Ulster County, also of Dutch descent, and they were the parents of Denton Gregory, father of William Herbert.
William Herbert Shuart received a gen- eral education in the public schools of his native community and later attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, New York. After completing his studies at the latter institution he matriculated at Syra- cuse University from where he was grad- uated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1875. He determined at this time to emulate his distinguished father and took up the study of law under his able and care- ful tutelage. Later he continued his studies in the city of Rochester and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1878. Directly after finishing his training he established himself in practice in Rochester, which he conducted with success until 1897, when he was persuaded by the late Colonel John F. Marsh, his wife's stepfather, to come to
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Springfield and direct the activities of the Springfield Glazed Paper Company as pres- ident. He was also treasurer of the com- pany for several years, a position which he occupied at the time of his retirement from business in February, 1932. In addition he was the first president of the Glazed and Fancy Paper Manufacturer's Association. He has served as a member of the board of directors and vice-president of the Spring- field Chamber of Commerce, and was pres- ident of that body for two terms during the World War.
In 1912 the movement for the creation of a National Chamber of Commerce enlisted his enthusiastic support, and in April of that year he attended a conference in Wash- ington, called for the purpose at the instance of President Taft. At that conference he served on a committee which formulated plans for a permanent organization. The report of the committee was approved by the conference, resulting in the formation of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. At the first annual meeting of the National Chamber, held in Washington in January, 1913, and also at a subsequent meeting, he served on the Committee on Resolutions. For several years he repre- sented at the Annual Meeting, the Spring- field Chamber of Commerce as National Councillor.
Among other activities he has always been greatly interested in relief and welfare work. In 1918 he was one of the organizers of the Emergency Chest, the first commu- nity relief association in Springfield. This was followed by the formation of the Com- munity Chest of which Mr. Shuart was the second president.
Socially Mr. Shuart has been active in several of the leading organizations of his surroundings, including the Society of Colo- nial Wars, the New England Historic-Gen- ealogical Society and the Connecticut Val-
ley Historical Society. He is also a mem- ber of the Rochester (New York) Histori- cal Society, belongs to the Century Club of Springfield, which he served as president in 1921, and other organizations, including the Rotary Club of Springfield, of which he was the first full term president, and is now an honorary member. He is a member of Christ Church Cathedral and its Chapter.
Mr. Shuart married Nella Sumner Phil- lips of Springfield, who was given her mid- dle name in honor of the famed statesman, Charles Sumner, an intimate friend of her father's. She was the daughter of Smith Robinson and Ida M. (Bissell) Phillips, and a direct descendant of the Rev. George Phillips, born in Rainham, England, in 1593, who came to America in 1630 and was the first minister of Watertown, Massachusetts. Mrs. Shuart was a member of the class of 1882, Smith College, and for many years was prominent in the social and church life of Springfield and actively interested in relief and welfare work. She was a mem- ber of the Society of Mayflower Descendants and of several other organizations, includ- ing the Girl Scouts of America. She was intensely devoted to the work of this or- ganization and was commissioner of the Springfield district 1924-26. Mrs. Shuart died June 14, 1933.
Mr. and Mrs. Shuart were the parents of three children: I. Christine, born Decem- ber II, 1884; graduated from Smith College in the class of 1907; married May 6, 1915, Karl R. Hammond, son of Dr. Charles H. and Mary (Tracy) Hammond, of Nashua, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond are the parents of one son, William Bart- lett, born October 25, 1918, and Audrey, born November 22, 1920. 2. John Denton, born November 16, 1894; attended Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, and en- tered Williams College with the class of 1918. He joined the first naval unit organ-
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ized in a college in February, 1917, and later was assigned to the United States Cruiser "Chester." He served on this ship overseas for seventeen months during the World War and attained the rank of ensign. Later he was appointed junior lieutenant in the Naval Reserve. He received an honorable discharge from the service in the spring of 1919, and for several years was associated with the Springfield Glazed Paper Com- pany as secretary and later as president. On April 30, 1917, he married Harriet Dickinson, daughter of Henry and Stella (Paige) Dickinson, of Springfield, and they are the parents of three children : John Den- ton, Jr., born April 29, 1918, Barbara Phil- lips, born June 26, 1920, and Steven Dickin- son, born December II, 1922, died May 10, 1928. 3. Katharine Barrett, born June 20, 1899; a graduate of Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, June, 1918; married, December 1, 1920, A. Stuart Pratt, Jr., son of A. Stuart and Josephine (Stewart) Pratt, of West Newton. They are the parents of two sons : A. Stuart Pratt, 3d, born Septem- ber 30, 1921, died August 23, 1930; William Shuart, born May 27, 1924.
JAMES N. MURPHY-In a business ca- reer that has been almost entirely in asso- ciation with the Henry G. Sears Wholesale Grocery Company, James N. Murphy of Holyoke has risen from a modest position to the executive post of treasurer and gen- eral manager of the firm. He was born Sep- tember 24, 1891, at Holyoke, son of Wil- liam and Minnie (Ryan) Murphy, the for- mer of whom was born in Putnam, Con- necticut, and the latter in Leeds, that State. His father was a book binder.
Mr. Murphy received his education in public schools of his native community and early after his school days became employed by Henry Sears. His aptitude for this busi-
ness was combined with a quick intelligence and he was gradually promoted to higher positions. His elevation to his present office of treasurer and general manager is recogni- tion of his ability both as a business and as a technical executive, and his experienced hand has directed these dual activities in a commendable manner. His business inter- ests occupy almost all of his time and atten- tion, not only because of the necessary duties to be discharged but also because of his preference to be so engaged. Mr. Mur- phy is a strong supporter of the work car- ried on by his church, the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic.
In 1924 James N. Murphy married Helen T. Lennehan, of Massachusetts.
REV. JOHN J. ROGERS-For more than a third of a century the Rev. John J Rogers, of Longmeadow, has been engaged in the work of the Catholic Church in New England. The fruitful results of his minis- try in various parishes have been harvested by others, while he went on to further sow- ing. Since 1928 he has been assigned to the difficult post in charge of St. Mary's Parish in Longmeadow, and St. Michael's Parish in East Longmeadow.
The Rev. Mr. Rogers was born at Mil- ford, Massachusetts, July 6, 1875, son of John and Catherine (Mann) Rogers, na- tives of Ireland. Both are deceased; his father was for many years a boot manufac- turer in New England. After attending the grammar and high schools of Milford, the Rev. Mr. Rogers matriculated at Holy Cross College, and was graduated from St. An- selm's College, with the class of 1897. He went to Laval University, at Quebec, Can- ada, for his theological education, and was graduated in 1902. That same year he was ordained by Bishop la Breck, and received his first appointment as assistant at Gilberts-
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ville, Massachusetts. This was followed by an assignment to Pittstown, Pennsylvania, and to Fall River, Massachusetts. In 1913 he went to Dalton, Massachusetts, where he remained throughout the World War pe- riod, and was prominent not only in the religious and civic circles of Dalton, but was one of the leaders in the various "drives" undertaken for the raising of Liberty and other national loans, and securing funds for the Red Cross Society and other humani- tarian agencies of the time.
In 1923, the Rev. Mr. Rogers was ap- pointed pastor of the church at Thornedyke, Massachusetts, where he was continued un- til 1928, when he was transferred to his present charge, St. Mary's and St. Michael's, Longmeadow and East Longmeadow. Here, as always, he has entered heartily and con- structively into civic and other community activities. He is County Chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, member of the Knights of Columbus, and Loyal Order of Foresters, the Men's Club of Longmea- dow; is a past president of the Dalton Rod and Gun Club, and affiliated with several of the local clubs. He has always been a lover of outdoor sports and particularly of hunt- ing and fishing.
WILLIAM CHURCHILL HAMMOND,
Mus. D .- A boy who had the qualities which bring success in many fields of endeavor, chose to take his endowments into the or- dinarily limited field of the church organist. He is William Churchill Hammond, Mus. D., whose fiftieth anniversary as organist and choirmaster of the Second Congrega- tional Church of Holyoke, was celebrated by that city in February, 1935. For the larger part of this half century he also has been head of the Department of Music at Mt. Holyoke College. One has written of him :
When he was a young man there were those who told him he was building on stony soil to dedicate
his life to what they called a "Mill City." But to this young New Englander, who from some ancestor with a reach to the stars, must have drawn down the gleam, the many people from many old world back- grounds were sources of new power. He held them breathless with their own music to which he had bade them free coming. They paid a hundredfold. Together, master and people, Holyoke has become a city of unusual musical culture. When youth chooses its own talent that it holds sacred, and offers it with his life to the Glory of God, it must follow that he catches the radiance from that glory and scatters it along life's way. Finer tribute can be paid to no man than to say he has made his city and its people richer in life because he has done his work with and for them.
Dr. Hammond was born November 25, 1860, in Rockville, Connecticut, son of Jo- seph Churchill, Jr., and Katherine Isham (Burr) Hammond. The name is as old as the Puritan settlement of New England. Musical talent seems to have been charac- teristic of both parents. Whatever their ambitions for their capable son, no obstacle was placed in his way by his father and mother when early he chose music as a career. He was aided in securing excellent training from the first, and in the fifteenth year of his life he began playing the organ in the Second Congregational Church of Rockville. This initiation of his long and remarkable career began on January 4, 1876. On April 1, 1884, he became the organist of the Pearl Street Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut. On January 29, of the following year, Dr. Hammond played at the dedication of the new Second Congre- gational Church of Holyoke. He also played at the first service held in the church on February I, and on the next day was en- gaged by the Parish Committee for one year. For full fifty years since that time he has been organist and choirmaster of this church.
The coming of Dr. Hammond to Holyoke was motivated by the opportunity it pro- vided to put in practice ideas then novel and
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not generally approved. Says a commenta- tor :
He had a vision of bringing music to everybody, opening wide the ways to do it, so that every man, woman and child could share it. He wanted it to be a part of his life's work that music, in Holyoke, could be had for the asking. So it has been with the Second Congregational Church, a center from which he has gone afar --- spreading influence in music. The free organ recital in a small New England city was a new thing when Dr. Hammond started to work out his life plan.
His first recital was given on March 31, 1885. From 1890 to 1910, he made a specialty of organ recitals and was in constant de- mand for similar work all over the country. During this same period, Dr. Hammond was instructor of organ at Smith College, and in September, 1899, he was called to head the Department of Music at Mt. Holyoke Col- lege, where he has been thus 'employed since.
To those statistically inclined it may be of interest to know that to the middle of February, 1935, Dr. Hammond has given eight hundred and twenty-six recitals in the Second Congregational Church, more than half a hundred while connected with Smith College, more than four hundred at Mt. Holyoke College, and an unknown number in all parts of the United States. Nor does this work, given for the pleasure and cul- tural influence upon the people of Holyoke, cover the whole of the musical activities of Dr. Hammond. In 1900 he began forming the choir which has become so important a part of Mt. Holyoke College music and car- ried the fame of that institution afar. From the beginning he made a specialty of Christ- mas carols, and since 1925 the Glee Club of Mt. Holyoke has annually given a concert in Town Hall, New York City, and it has vis- ited Washington, Philadelphia, Hartford, and Boston and other cities, gaining for it- self an established reputation. The great
annual Christmas concert by the choirs of his church and Mt. Holyoke College have been the inspiration and the models for such events throughout our country.
In 1896 Dr. Hammond was one of the founders of the American Guild of Organ- ists, an organization to which he has ren- dered notable service. In June, 1924, he had conferred upon him by Mt. Holyoke College, the degree of Doctor of Music. A month earlier he had given his seven hundred and fifty-ninth recital in the parish of the Sec- ond Congregational Church upon the occa- sion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, using the third fine Skinner organ of that church. When, on February 3, 1935, his own golden anniversary as organist was celebrated by the Second Congregational Church with a two-day program, he was greeted with let- ters and telegrams of appreciation and trib- ute from all over the world and was show- ered with gifts and memorials unique and valuable. It was then pointed out by the pastor of Holyoke Church, that the longest term of any Protestant clergyman in the city was only thirty-three years. A newspaper man wrote concerning his many great achievements :
Dr. Hammond could not have done all these things if he were a musician only. It is the many-sided man, large-hearted and far-visioned, working towards an ideal which includes his city and fellow-citizens, who has done so much. His love of his fellowmen reaches far beyond organ lofts and church choirs. Among men he is a force of friendliness and broad charity, using the word in its largest sense. Person- ally he is one of the happiest and sunniest of men; in church and college he radiates a cheer and force which has made his choirs notable for many years. So in the city he stands in the first ranks of its citizens.
On June 28, 1898, Dr. William Churchill Hammond married Fanny Bliss Reed, daughter of the Rev. Edward Allen Reed, D. D., and Mary (Bliss) Reed. Dr. Reed was pastor of the Second Congregational
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Church from 1886 to 1914. Dr. and Mrs. Hammond were the parents of a son, Wil- liam Churchill, Jr., born July 4, 1903, who married Gertrude Green June 24, 1935, and of a second son, Lansing Van der Heyden, born April 2, 1906.
CHARLES EDWARD VAUTRAIN- As president of Charles E. Vautrain Asso- ciates, Inc., advertising and sales counselors of Holyoke, Charles Edward Vautrain heads an organization which came into existence as a result of his long experience in adver- tising and sales promotion work. His author- ity in this field is widely recognized and has brought many demands upon his services.
Mr. Vautrain was born in Holyoke on June 10, 1891, a son of Elzear F. and Arzelie (Cote) Vautrain. He came of a French- Canadian family and was one of twelve chil- dren born to his parents. His father, a na- tive of St. Johns, Quebec, was a barber in Holyoke for many years, and died here in 1922 at the age of sixty-three. His mother, who was born in Holyoke, is still living.
Charles Edward Vautrain was educated in the grammar and evening schools of Hol- yoke, where he received his academic train- ing. Later he took special courses in adver- tising from the International Correspondence School and a complete course in sales and advertising engineering at Westport Insti- tute, Westport, Connecticut. His first posi- tion after his graduation from public school was with the White and Wyckoff Manufac- turing Company of Holyoke, where he learned the printer's trade and remained for several years. He was then employed as a printer in minor capacities with several other firms, following which he was made superintendent of the printing department of the King Press of Springfield. Two years later, in 1912, he returned to Holyoke as superintendent of the Anker Printing Com-
pany and remained in that capacity until 1917. During the next eight years he was assistant advertising manager for the Amer- ican Writing Paper Company of Holyoke and in 1925 established his present firm, Charles E. Vautrain Associates, Inc., with offices at 560 Dwight Street, Holyoke. Mr. Vautrain is both president and treasurer of the company, whose development represents his personal effort and the value placed upon his services by the many interests which have consulted him on advertising and sales problems. His contributions to these sub- jects have been recognized in wider circles than the city in which his activities immedi- ately center, particularly through his inven- tion of the chromatic chart of color composi- tion, which is now in use by leading adver- tising firms of the country, and the correla- tion chart of color interpretation, which is being used extensively by textbook writers. A million copies of the latter have already been published. Mr. Vautrain has also done considerable editing for advertising publi- cations on both advertising subjects and color psychology. He has taught advertis- ing in extension classes at the Holyoke Young Men's Christian Association, and at the present time is special lecturer on ad- vertising and merchandising at Mt. Holyoke College and a member of the faculty of Mc- Carty's Business College in Northampton.
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