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Mr. Hanks was born in South Hadley Falls on March II, 1869, son of Edwin C. and A. Eugenia (Alden) Hanks. His father was born in West Brookfield, son of Eben- ezer B. and Mary (Church) Hanks, and as a young man served for more than three years in Company F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, with the Union forces during the Civil War. He rose to the rank of sergeant and participated in many famous engage- ments of the war, including the battle of the Wilderness, where he suffered a head wound while fighting under Grant. In civil life he was a paper-maker and was employed dur- ing the greater part of his career with the Hampshire Paper Company and in the fin- ishing department of the Carew Manufac- turing Company of South Hadley Falls. About five years before his death he retired because of ill health. Edwin C. Hanks was a Republican in politics and a member of the Congregational Church of South Hadley Falls. His wife, A. Eugenia (Alden ) Hanks, was a daughter of James M. Alden, who was a carpenter in this community.
Harry Edwin Hanks, of this record, re- ceived his education in the public schools of his birthplace and after completing the high school course entered the employ of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in Holyoke as a clerk. Two years later he became associated with the Glas- gow Manufacturing Company of South Hadley Falls, and for a period of fourteen years served as paymaster of that company.
In 1905 he came to Holyoke as bookkeeper for the Holyoke Belting Company and in 1906 was elected treasurer, an office he has filled with fidelity and efficiency until the present time. This concern is a large man- ufacturer of leather belting and in adminis- tering the duties of his position Mr. Hanks has contributed substantially to its success.
In addition to this connection, Mr. Hanks has been active in many other phases of the life of the county. He was formerly audi- tor of the town of South Hadley Falls, war- den of the town meeting and for the past twelve years has served as a member of the board of health. He is a member of Hol- yoke Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of Red Cliff Canoe Club, of which he was purser for a number of years and a member of the Pocomtuck Club of South Hadley. During the World War he served on the Registration Board in South Hadley Falls and was otherwise active in the war- time movements. In politics he is a Repub- lican and in religious faith a supporter of the Congregational Church of South Hadley Falls.
Mr. Hanks has two sisters : Alice Eugenia Hanks, who is a graduate of South Hadley Falls High School and resides in this com- munity; and Mabel Elizabeth Hanks, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and now an instructor in French at Weaver High School, Hartford, Connecticut.
AUSTIN NUGENT KIRKPATRICK --- One of Holyoke's active business men and leading citizens, Austin Nugent Kirkpatrick has substantially contributed to the well- being of his native city.
Mr. Kirkpatrick was born April 9, 1900, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, son of John J. and Mary Grace (Nugent) Kirkpatrick and grandson of John Kirkpatrick, whose wife came from the family of Gilligan. His
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grandparents lived at South Hadley Falls, and there died, the grandfather being a vet- eran of the Civil War. John J. Kirkpatrick, father of Austin N. Kirkpatrick, was born June 16, 1867, in South Hadley Falls, and is now a resident of Holyoke, where he has been manager of the City of Holyoke Gas and Electric Department for a number of years, beginning this work in 1915. Prior to that time he was head of the City of Holyoke Water Department, and still earlier in his ca- reer acted as civil engineer and architect and was, in those capacities, a member of the firm of Ellsworth and Kirkpatrick. He is a member of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, and in politics has steadfastly held to an independent course. At one time he was city engineer, and also a member of the Holyoke School Board. His wife, Mary Grace (Nugent) Kirkpatrick, was born July 29, 1867, at Windsor, Connecticut, and died November 14, 1929, in Holyoke.
In his native city of Holyoke, Austin Nugent Kirkpatrick received his early edu- cation. In 1917 he was graduated from Hol- yoke High School, and in 1921 took the degree of Bachelor of Science at Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, and in 1922 the de- gree of Master of Science. He then became associated with the International Filter Company, of Chicago, serving for six months as sales and service engineer. For six months he was with the Spray Engineer- ing Company, of Boston. For ten years he was New England district manager of the American Appraisal Company, of Milwau- kee, Wisconsin, with offices in Boston. In January, 1934, after this varied experience, he became treasurer and a director of the Coburn Trolley Track Company, of Hol- yoke, continuing in this work down to the time of writing. This company manufac- tures sliding door-hardware, overhead con- veying equipment and rolling store ladders.
Aside from his purely commercial activ- ities, Mr. Kirkpatrick takes a lively interest in community affairs. He follows in the footsteps of his father in adopting a non- partisan political attitude, preferring always to support individual candidates and meas- ures of his choice in each election. He is a member of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church. During the World War period Mr. Kirkpatrick went into training as a member of the Students' Army Training Corps, so continuing for two months at Cambridge until the signing of the Armistice termi- nated that branch of the service. He is a member of the Holyoke Country Club.
Mr. Kirkpatrick's sister, M. Regina Kirk- patrick, is also a resident of Holyoke, and his brother, Francis J. Kirkpatrick, a res- ident of Springfield, is associated with the United Electric Light Company, in that city.
JAMES HENRY WAKELIN-Dividing his energies between business and banking on the one hand and music on the other, James Henry Wakelin has distinguished himself in the Hampden County vicinity of this Commonwealth by his versatility and varied accomplishments.
He was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, September 2, 1876, son of William B. and Margaret (McAuslan) Wakelin. His father, who was born in Scotland in 1844, died May 30, 1921, in Holyoke. He received his early education in his native land, coming to America in young manhood and settling first in New York City and later in Holyoke. Here he was a prominent merchant, serving as president of the department store known as the McAuslan and Wakelin Company, Inc., situated at Maple and Dwight streets. He was a Republican and a citizen who took a deep interest in the development of Hol- yoke, and was a member of the First Con- gregational Church of this city. Yachting was his favorite diversion and pastime.
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His wife, Margaret (McAuslan) Wakelin, mother of James Henry Wakelin, was born in Scotland in 1852, and died in January, 1931, in Florida while on a visit to that State.
In the schools of Nashua, New Hamp- shire, his birthplace, James Henry Wakelin received his early formal education, being graduated from high school there in 1894. He took organ lessons at the Conservatory of Music, in Boston, for four or five years. He was then associated with the department store of Forbes and Wallace, in Springfield, until he learned the business, and in 1901 he came to Holyoke and connected himself with his father's department store at Dwight and Maple streets. His previous experience had been chiefly in the clerical end of the trade, but this background was now widened by an extensive general service in the de- partment store field. His father erected a new building on the site of the old store, and in this handsomely equipped structure the younger Mr. Wakelin was manager of the store for a quarter of a century. He con- tinued in that capacity until his father's death, at which time he was both general manager and treasurer.
Though he has now withdrawn from the general managership, Mr. Wakelin contin- ues as treasurer of the business. He is ac- tive at the same time in the conduct of the affairs of the Holyoke National Bank, of which he has been a director since 1918 and president since 1925. Combining this finan- cial service with his other business under- takings, he has accomplished much in the commercial sphere for the good of Holyoke and Hampden County.
Nor has he forgotten his early musical training. In an age not too devoted to the arts and the cultural side of life, he has done remarkably well in his efforts to spread cul- tural advancement. For thirty-five years he has been organist of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Holyoke, and he is also a member of this church. Hardly any branch of Holyoke affairs has failed to interest him. He is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce, a charter member and past president of the Rotary Club's local chapter, and vice- president of the Mount Tom Golf Club. Since 1925 he has been president of the Mount Tom Realty Trust Cooperative. In the Free and Accepted Masons, he is affili- ated with Nonotuck Lodge and with the Knights Templar. He is a member of the Hampden County Clearing House and is on the financial committee of Holyoke Hos- pital. During the World War he took an active part in the Liberty Loan drives. Boating is his favorite recreation, and he owns his own fifty-five-foot power boat, and is a member of the Holyoke Canoe Club.
James Henry Wakelin married, in 1901, in Nashua, New Hampshire, Abbie Hobart, a native of Concord, New Hampshire, and a graduate of Nashua High School. She taught in the public schools of Nashua be- fore her marriage. She is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Del- phian Society, of Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Wakelin have a son and a daughter: I. Helen Wakelin, who was graduated from the Burnham Girls' School and in 1924 from Vassar College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After completing her college work, she won a fellowship at the Juilliard Foun- dation, in New York City, for four years in succession, and, carrying forward her musi- cal work, became private secretary to Carl Friedberg, noted New York pianist. 2. James Henry Wakelin, Jr., who was gradu- ated from Holyoke High School, took his Bachelor of Arts degree at Dartmouth Col- lege, and then entered Cambridge Univer- sity, in England, from which he was gradu- ated in 1934 with the degree of Master of Arts. He spent six months studying condi- tions in Germany and Austria, interesting
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himself especially in scientific research, in which he had specialized at college and uni- versity.
ADDISON LOOMIS GREEN-During the years in which Addison Loomis Green has been a prominent member of the legal fraternity of Massachusetts, he has not only received merited recognition as a skilled lawyer, but has been noteworthily active in the life and affairs of his city and State. He was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, Oc- tober 23, 1862, son of Thomas Jefferson and Elvira Eunice (Loomis) Green, and the grandson of Asahel Green of Lunenburg, a veteran of the War of 1812. Thomas Jef- ferson Green settled in Westfield in early manhood and became one of the leading contracting builders of the place. He also engaged in the lumber business, and was a substantial citizen, a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Elvira Eunice Loomis, daughter of Orrin Loomis, native of the western states. She was born in Russell, Massachusetts, and died in Westfield.
Addison Loomis Green, after being grad- uated from the Westfield grammar and high schools, matriculated at Wesleyan Univer- sity, Middletown, Connecticut, from which he was graduated in 1885, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then was an in- structor in Latin and Greek for two years at Westfield High School, and in the mean- time was reading law with Henry Fuller, formerly State Senator and county commis- sioner. Later he went to Springfield where he studied law in the office of Maynard and Spellman and was admitted to the bar in November, 1887. He located in Holyoke in December, 1887, and began the practice of his profession in January, 1888. After a few years he organized the law firm of Green and Heywood. When his partner, William
C. Heywood moved to New York City the firm became Green and Bennett, and still later it was Green, Bennett and Lyon, upon admitting to the firm Clifford S. Lyon and his son, Addison B. Green. Mr. Green is still the senior member. The firm is en- gaged in the general practice of law. Mr. Green is a member of the Hampden County Bar Association, Massachusetts State Bar Association and the American Bar Associa- tion. He was for many years chairman of the Judicial Council of Massachusetts, is a past president of the Massachusetts Bar As- sociation, chairman of the board of Farr Alpaca Company of Holyoke, and president of the Morris Plan Company of Holyoke. He was also a member of the Judicature Commission appointed in 1910 to investigate judicature and judicial processes of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts.
Mr. Green is a Phi Beta Kappa man and also a member of Psi Upsilon Greek letter fraternity. He is a trustee and a member of the executive committee of the Wesleyan University and chairman of the board of the American School of Prehistoric Re- search. He is personally keenly interested in prehistoric archeology. During the World War period, Mr. Green was one of the lead- ers in the efforts made to sell Liberty Loan bonds, and also in the drives for support of the Red Cross and other humanitarian or- ganizations. He is a member of the Hol- yoke Chamber of Commerce, of Mt. Tom Golf Club and the Union Club of Boston. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Mt. Tom Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons and the Commandery, Knights Templar. He is a vestryman of St. Paul's Protestant Epis- copal Church, and chancellor of the Cathe- dral.
In Holyoke, on December 17, 1891, Addi- son Loomis Green married (first) Maud Ingersoll Bennett, daughter of Joseph L.
Addison L. Janau.
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and Carrie (Ross) Bennett, the former of whom was for a long time chief clerk in the Patent Office at Washington, District of Columbia, and at one time was connected with the customs department at Hartford. Mrs. Green was born in Hartford, Connect- icut, and died in Holyoke. She was the mother of three sons and a daughter: I. Addison B. Green, attorney, and member of the law firm of Green, Bennett and Lyon ; a graduate of Hotchkiss Preparatory School, Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, and Har- vard Law School, Doctor of Laws. He is an overseas World War veteran, serving in light artillery and in the Army of Occupa- tion with the rank of first lieutenant. He married Margaret Oldham, and they have two children, Addison Green, III, and Cyn- thia Green. 2. Donald Ross Green, a grad- uate of Hotchkiss Preparatory School, and Yale University, Bachelor of Arts; now associated with Farr Alpaca Company in charge of sales. He served overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces as first lieutenant, was with the first 100,000 sol- diers of that force to leave the United States, and was honorably discharged with the rank of major. He married Constance McLaugh- lin, of Chicago, Illinois, and they have three children, Donald Ross, Jr., Lois, and Betsey. 3. David Loomis Green, a graduate of Berk- shire School and attended Wesleyan Uni- versity ; he married Ruth Pereau, of St. Louis, Missouri. He is engaged in the in- surance business in St. Louis. Children : David Joseph and Paul J. Green. 4. Con- stance Green, a graduate of the Baldwin School, married (first) Frank M. Henson, of Philadelphia. There are two children of this marriage, Frank Henson and Anne Henson. She married (second) David Dud- ley Milne, of Philadelphia, a banker. There is one child by this marriage, David D. Milne, 4th. Mr. Green married (second), June 21, 1911, Gertrude Metcalf, daughter
of Joseph and Clara (Farr) Metcalf, of Holyoke. Mr. and Mrs. Green are the par- ents of three children : Clarissa, a senior at Vassar; Gertrude (Green) Hammond, wife of William C. Hammond of New York City ; Marshall Green, a graduate of Groton School and a freshman at Yale. Mrs. Green was educated at the Farmington School, is a member of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church and very active in charitable and women's organizations.
ROBERT F. HOVEY, M. D., F. A. C. S. -For the past thirty-five years Dr. Robert F. Hovey, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, has been prominently identified with the medical fraternity of the city of Springfield and during this period has built a large and lucrative practice. Among the large medical institutions he serves here is the Wesson Memorial Hospital, with which he has been associated for many years hav- ing been one of its first surgeons. He has also served in executive capacities for a number of the leading medical organizations and has been actively interested in social and civic affairs.
Dr. Robert F. Hovey was born in Monson, February 19, 1875, son of William O. and Lucy (Ferry) Hovey, both natives of his birthplace where his father engaged in farm- ing throughout his active life. Dr. Hovey attended the public schools of his native community, later entered the Monson Acad- emy and after completing his studies here in 1891, matriculated at the New York Homeopathic Medical College where he re- ceived his Doctor of Medicine degree in the class of 1897. He then served an interne- ship at the. Rochester Homeopathic Hos- pital in Rochester, New York, for two years and after this established himself in prac- tice at Belchertown, Massachusetts, where he was to remain for one year. In 1900 he came to Springfield and initiated his long
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and distinguished career. He was one of the first surgeons on the staff of the Wesson Memorial Hospital, as well as serving as a member of the Wesson Maternity Hospital and being a member of the consulting staff of the Isolation Hospital. Dr. Hovey was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller in 1928 a member of the Board of Registra- tion in Medicine for a seven-year term. Pro- fessionally he is a member and former trus- tee of the American Institute of Homeopa- thy, a member and former president of the Massachusetts State Homeopathic Associa- tion and a member of the Eastern Homeopa- thic Medical Association. He was named a Fellow of the American College of Sur- geons in 1915. Socially Dr. Hovey is a member of the Longmeadow Country Club.
Dr. Hovey married (first), on August 24, 1904, Florence C. McWilliams of Canan- daigua, New York. Mrs. Hovey died in 1921. Dr. Hovey married (second), on De- cember 25, 1923, Emma Hutchinson of Lenox ; she died July 7, 1934. Dr. Hovey's residence is at No. 151 Forest Park Avenue, Springfield.
FREDERIC THEODORE BURK- HARDT-Among the prominent figures of the paper manufacturing industry of Hamp- den County is Frederic Theodore Burkhardt, sales agent for the Keith Paper Company of Turners Falls. In assuming his present status, his success may be attributed directly to diligent and intelligent self-effort. He has devoted practically his entire career to this industry, rising from a modest position, and the experience he has acquired has quali- fied him eminently for the reputation he enjoys among his colleagues today. As a resident and business man in Holyoke he has also taken an active part in the affairs of this city, where he is widely known so- cially and belongs to many of the leading clubs and societies.
Mr. Burkhardt was born in Holyoke, No- vember 16, 1880, the son of Gottlob H. and Friedericke (Funke) Burkhardt, both na- tives of Saxony, Germany, who passed away in this city. His father, who came to this country after the Civil War and settled in Holyoke, engaged in the grocery business throughout his life. He was a Republican in politics and worshipped at the German Lutheran Church.
F. T. Burkhardt first became interested in the paper business in 1898, when he joined the White and Wyckoff Manufacturing Com- pany on Race Street, during its early growth and development. He remained there sev- eral years, resigning to become a traveling sales representative for the Parson Paper Company of Holyoke and the Millers Falls Paper Company of Millers Falls. He rep- resented these concerns throughout the coun- try successfully from 1903 to 1924, and be- came a well-known and popular figure in the trade. During his long selling experience he came to enjoy a wide acquaintanceship with convertors and distributors of paper and built up a large and select clientele. It was during 1924 that he became sales agent for the Keith Paper Company of Turners Falls, the post he occupies today with suc- cess. At present his offices are located in the Hadley Falls Trust Building in Holyoke.
Mr. Burkhardt has taken an active inter- est in the social affairs of Holyoke. He is a member, chairman of the board of gover- nors and past president of the Mount Tom Golf Club, belongs to the Rotary Club of Holyoke, the Holyoke Canoe Club, and the Young Men's Christian Association of Hol- yoke. He fraternizes with the Mount Tom Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons and, politically, subscribes to the principles advocated by the Republican party. In reli- gion he worships at the Second Congrega- tional Church of this city. Fond of sports of all types Mr. Burkhardt finds his great-
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est pleasure and recreation in the game of golf.
On June 5, 1929, Mr. Burkhardt married Margaret Elsie Rowley, a native of Hol- yoke and the daughter of Stephen and Isa- belle (Barnett) Rowley. She is a graduate of the Holyoke High School and a mem- ber of the Second Congregational Church here. Mr. and Mrs. Burkhardt are the par- ents of one daughter, Lorilee Burkhardt, born September 15, 1933. By a previous marriage, Mr. Burkhardt is the father of one son, Frederic Smith Burkhardt, born December 1, 1908, in Holyoke, graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1931, and now associated with the Gramophone Company of New York City.
HERBERT GLADDING FARQUHAR, C. P. A .- The outstanding reputation of one of the leading accounting firms in the State of Massachusetts is due directly to its founder, Herbert Gladding Farquhar, who for over thirty years has been prominently identified with this field. Member of an old and distinguished New England family, which for generations has been prominent in the life of this vicinity, Mr. Farquhar is also active in social and civic affairs in the city of Springfield and is affiliated with sev- eral of the leading organizations here.
Mr. Farquhar was born in Boston, Janu- ary 22, 1877, son of Joseph and Annie C. (Williams) Farquhar, the former a native of Newton, Massachusetts, the latter of Providence, Rhode Island, and, according to family records, a direct descendant of Roger Williams. He traces his American ancestry on his paternal side to his grand- father, John Farquhar, who came to this country from Scotland about 1830 and set- tled in the city of Boston, where he con- ducted a contracting business which is still in existence. He married Eliza Ann Web-
ber, a native of Hebron, Maine, direct de- scendant of Samuel Buck, Revolutionary War veteran, who dropped his father's name after the conflict and assumed his mother's maiden name of Ames. They were the par- ents of seven children, among them Joseph, who was born in Newton, August 3, 1849, and was the father of Mr. Farquhar. Mr. Farquhar's mother was the daughter of Wil- liam L. Williams, who resided in Newport and later at Providence, Rhode Island. Through his maternal grandmother, Lois Plympton, he descends from the Plympton family, farmers and manufacturers of Rhode Island.
Mr. Farquhar received a general educa- tion in the public schools of Brookline, Mas- sachusetts, and after completing the regular high school course here in three years, and also obtaining a regent's certificate from the University of the State of New York, entered Harvard College where he passed classical studies together with an engineer- ing course at the Lawrence Scientific School
between 1894 and 1897. In February, 1898, he went to New York City and embarked on a career in the accounting profession. In New York he became associated with Bar- row, Wade, Guthrie and Company, a well- known British firm of chartered accountants and worked with this accounting firm until 1910, when he came to Springfield and be- came associated with Edwin S. Doubleday, who was also formerly connected with this company. Ten years later, on January I, 1921, he became a member of the firm of Doubleday, Farquhar and Doubleday, main- taining this association until the death of Edwin S. Doubleday in 1926, when he es- tablished his own business which he has been conducting since that time under the title of Herbert G. Farquhar and Company. Professionally he is a member of the Amer- ican Society of Certified Public Account- ants and holds a Certified Public Account-
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