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Robert Webster Mitchell was born in Saxtons River, Vermont, June 21, 1883, and received a general education in the public schools of the city of Brattleboro, graduat- ing from the high school there with the class of 1902. He then entered the Vermont Military Academy where he completed his studies in 1903. Two years later Mr. Mitch-
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ell became associated with the National Light, Heat and Power Company of New York and thereby initiated a career in the utility business that has been marked for its outstanding distinction and success. At that time he took over the Twin State Gas and Electric Company in Brattleboro which he operated for five years. In September, 1910, he joined the Turners Falls Power and Elec- tric Company, becoming manager of their office at Amherst. Later he was transferred to Springfield and remained with this cor- poration after it was merged with the west- ern Massachusetts companies to become the United Electric Company in 1928. With the reorganization he became assistant manager of the new concern, later became manager and in 1935 was appointed assistant to the president, the post he occupies today. In addition to this position he is vice-president of the Agawam Electric Company, vice- president of the Ludlow Light Company and assistant treasurer to the Turners Falls Power and Electric Company. He serves as a member of the board of directors in sev- eral of these organizations. Apart from his official connections with these utility com- panies, Mr. Mitchell is a director for the Union Trust Company and a trustee and member of the executive board of the East- ern States Exposition.
He also has been very active in the social and civic life of this section, serving as a member of the board of directors of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, vice- president of the Springfield Country Club, and holding memberships in the Longmea- dow and Colony clubs. In addition he is a life member of the Engineers Society of western Massachusetts and fraternizes with the Masonic Order where he is a member of the Melha Temple and past patron of the Order of the Eastern Star. He also belongs to the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
On December 2, 1905, Mr. Mitchell mar- ried Bessie M. Hervey of Northfield and they reside at No. 280 Rimmon Avenue, Springfield.
PLUMB BROWN, M. D .- Throughout a long and distinguished medical career that spanned more than forty years in the city of Springfield, Dr. Plumb Brown has oc- cupied a prominent place among the lead- ers of his profession and is affiliated with some of the largest medical institutions of this section. Apart from his professional pursuits he has taken a keen and active part in civic and social affairs and is a member of several of the leading organizations of this community.
Dr. Brown was born in Norfolk, Connect- icut, November 15, 1868, son of Plumb and Olive (Crissey) Brown, both natives of his birthplace. His father, who died February 2, 1896, engaged in farming and was prom- inent in the affairs of his surroundings, hav- ing occupied many of the most important and responsible public offices in the govern- ment of his community during his life. The Brown family are listed among the earliest settlers of Norfolk, representatives bearing this name having come here during the pio- neer development of this community, ac- cording to records in the hands of their descendants.
Dr. Brown received a general education in the public schools of his native commu- nity and after completing his studies, re- turned to his father's farm where he worked until he was twenty-one years of age. Of a scholarly nature and interested in medi- cine, he gained his first knowledge of the profession under the guidance of Dr. B. C. Gidinan of Norfolk in 1889. After a thor- ough preparation in the fundamentals of this profession he matriculated at the Ver- mont Medical School of the University of Vermont. and studied there for one year. He
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then entered the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege and was graduated from that institu- tion with a Doctor of Medicine degree in the class of 1892. Directly after finishing his training he returned to Norfolk, and prac- ticed under his preceptor, Dr. Gidman, for one year. At the expiration of this period he determined to establish a practice of his own and settled in South Manchester, Mas- sachusetts, where he was to remain for two years. His career in Springfield dates back to 1895. During that year he initiated a practice in this city which has since been marked for its outstanding distinction and success. He serves on the staff of the Wes- son Memorial Hospital and the Wesson Maternity Hospital. Professionally he is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the International Hahneman- nian Association, the Massachusetts Home- opathic Medical Society, the Connecticut Homeopathic Society and the Springfield Academy of Medicine.
In his social affiliations he is a member of several social and civic organizations and fraternizes with the Masonic Order where he holds a thirty-second degree and belongs to the Springfield Commandery and the Melha Temple. Through his early Colo- nial ancestry he is a member of the George Washington Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Dr. Brown is also a member of the Blanford Club.
On October 26, 1892, Dr. Brown married Rebecca A. Bassett of Norfolk, and they be- came the parents of a son ; Elliott Bassett, now with the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut. The family resi- dence is at No. 39 Brown Street, Springfield, and the summers are spent in Blanford. Mrs. Brown died June 18, 1935.
DANIEL J. O'CONNELL-As president of Danicl O'Connell Sons, Inc., of Holyoke, Daniel J. O'Connell heads one of the prin-
cipal general contracting firms of Hampden County. Since the time when it was first established by his father its interests have broadened steadily, and many of the chief construction projects of this section have been entrusted to its care.
Mr. O'Connell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on September 18, 1864, a son of Daniel and Johanna (Brassel) O'Connell. His father, who was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1837, came to Holyoke as a boy in his 'teens in 1849 and obtained his first employment with the old Hadley Falls Com- pany. He also worked on the Holyoke dam and canals before entering the wood and coal business for himself. Later he served as superintendent of highways at Holyoke and still later founded the general contract- ing firm which he continued during his ac- tive years. He was a member of St. Jerome's Roman Catholic Church, Holyoke, and died in this city in 1921 at the age of eighty-four. His brother, John O'Connell, a retired re- tail grocer and real estate agent, is still living in Holyoke, at the age of ninety-five. Johanna (Brassel) O'Connell, wife of Dan- iel O'Connell, was also born in County Kerry and died in Holyoke.
Daniel J. O'Connell, of this record, was educated in the public and parochial schools of Holyoke and attended the old Elm Street High School for three years. At the end of that time, when he was seventeen, he became associated with his father in the general contracting business and learned the various details connected with its operation from the bottom up. At the age of twenty- four he became a partner in the business, the name of which was then changed to Daniel O'Connell and Son. Under this name it was continued until the retirement of the elder O'Connell. The present corporation, Daniel O'Connell Sons, Inc., was formed in 1926 with the following officers: Daniel J. O'Connell, president; John J. O'Connell,
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treasurer ; and George P. O'Connell, sec- retary. . Daniel J. O'Connell has served as president from the time the corporation was established, sharing the control and direc- tion of the enterprise with his two broth- ers. This firm continues its large business in the general contracting field, and the scope of its activities now covers a wide territory. Among the many important proj- ects on which they have been engaged may be mentioned the following: the power house for the street railway at Holyoke, the last addition to the Fan Alpaca Com- pany's plant; the power house and pipe development of the city of Springfield, the approach for the new Memorial Bridge at Springfield, the demolition of the North end bridge at Springfield after the fire; the plant of the Turners Falls Power Company, the Millers Falls Paper Mill, and the power plant at Lunenburg, Vermont, now owned by the International Paper Company. They have constructed more than one hundred miles of concrete and bituminous highways for the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, and in the past year have built: four miles of concrete road for the State of Connecticut, running south from the Massachusetts line; the road for the Massachusetts Highway Commission at Agawam; and other important sections of the State highways at Otis and North Adams. Some years ago they built the road to the top of Mount Holyoke, whereby tourists are enabled to travel by motor car to the top of the mountain. This firm also erected the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church of Holyoke, school buildings in Hol- yoke, Springfield and other communities, and have done repair and construction work for all the mills of Holyoke. They have accepted construction contracts of every type and are now engaged in erecting the new steam development plant for Massa- chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst.
They have erected a number of bridges, the most important of which is the new con- crete bridge over the Connecticut River at Greenfield, and for a number of years also manufactured brick at Chicopee.
In addition to his long connection with the company which he now heads, Mr. O'Connell has participated in other phases of Holyoke life and in spite of the demands made upon him by his business interests has always fully met the duties of good citizen- ship. He is a Democrat in politics, voting independently in accordance with his esti- mate of men and principles, a member of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus and the Holyoke Country Club and a charter member of Holyoke Lodge, No. 902, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. For two years he served as a member of the city council. Mr. O'Connell's favorite diversion is golf.
He married, in October, 1900, Bessie O'Donnell, daughter of the late Patrick O'Donnell of Holyoke. She is also a mem- ber of Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church and of various women's organizations in this city. Mr. and Mrs. O'Connell are the parents of three daughters and one son: Mrs. Leo A. Byrnes, wife of a Holyoke phy- sician ; Alice and Margaret O'Connell; and Daniel O'Connell, Jr., a graduate of Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, who is associated with Daniel O'Connell Sons, Inc.
EARLE LINWOOD CARTER-By rea- son of the qualities shown in the manage- ment of the Springfield office of the Paine- Webber Company, Earle Linwood Carter holds an unusually high place in the busi- ness circles of this western Massachusetts center. A young man with the background of a college education and graduation from the Harvard College of Business Adminis- tration, he was the first to represent the Paine-Webber Company in the city, and
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speedily made it one of the foremost of its kind. Notwithstanding the scope of his business activities he has not neglected to be public-spirited nor to identify himself with most of the progressive civic move- ments. He is a sportsman and member of many clubs.
Mr. Carter was born at Bar Harbor, Maine, April 24, 1893, son of L. P. and Ella (Hanson) Carter, of Bar Harbor. His father was a contractor who died in 1934. After being graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege, in 1917, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Earle Linwood Carter matriculated at the College of Business Administration, Harvard University. With the entrance of the United States into the World War, he enlisted in the United States Navy with the rank of ensign. Upon his return to civilian life, Mr. Carter opened an office in Spring- field as the representative of the Paine- Webber Company, nationally known invest- ment and brokerage firm, and has since con- tinued as its manager. He is largely respon- sible for the expansion of the office, and under his supervision is included practically all of the western part of Massachusetts.
Fraternally Mr. Carter is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Springfield Cham- ber of Commerce and of other business and civic organizations. Among his clubs are numbered: the Harvard, of Boston, Dart- mouth, of Boston, New York Athletic, West- chester Gunning Association of Norfolk, Virginia, Colony, Harvard, of Connecticut Valley, Advertising, of Springfield, Spring- field Fish and Game, University, of Spring- field, Exchange, Longmeadow Country, and the Dartmouth Alumni Association.
Earle Linwood Carter married Marion Putnam Wright, a descendant of the famous Israel Putnam. Genealogists trace the Amer- ican Putnam family through John, yeoman,
son of Nicholas Putnam, of Penne, Eng- land, of the sixteenth generation from Simon de Pattenham (1160). John Putnam was born at Aston Abbotts, County Bucks, Eng- land, and came to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1630. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are the parents of two children: I. Nancy W., born April 2, 1923. 2. Charles W., born April II, 1931.
RAY M. WILEY-A counselor of un- usual and recognized abilities in the general practice of the law, Ray M. Wiley, of Springfield, has been connected with cases of such international repute as to some- times overshadow his qualifications for other and different activities. He was retained as counsel in the celebrated Sacco-Vanzetti case, the reverberations of which have not yet ceased. He was also counsel in the noted Gray-Snyder case, and was retained by Gerald Chapman. His work in these and many other cases less publicly known, won the respect and the approbation of his confreres, for he is a lawyer who makes the interests of his client dominant without any great consideration of his own fortunes, and labors to promote justice without thought of personal glory.
Mr. Wiley was born June 12, 1889, at Holyoke, son of Nelson H. and Ellen N. (Corkum) Wiley, the former a veteran of the United States Navy in the War Between the States, who was born at Newmarket, New Hampshire and died in 1920. His mother is a native of Nova Scotia, Canada. Mr. Wiley completed his formal education and in 1915 was graduated from the Kent Law School, Chicago, Illinois, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws. During the World War period, Mr. Wiley was engaged in special military service. In 1919 he was ad- mitted to the bar of Florida, and came to Massachusetts three years later and has been engaged in a general practice of his profession, with offices in Springfield. He is
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a member of the Hampden County Bar As- sociation and is fraternally affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons. Always interested in civic affairs he has not aspired to public office. His public utterances are noteworthy for their candor and fearless- ness. His legal treatise on law against reli- gion was a novel attack against the Eight- eenth Amendment as being in violation of the Amendment which provides that the Congress shall pass on law establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Mr. Wiley has received high com- mendation from Newton D. Baker, Elihu Root and many other leaders of public thought. He is also recognized as one of the leaders in the United States in the movement against capital punishment. While frequently taking the negative side in the discussion of national affairs, he has won respect and confidence in the integrity of his ideals and the rightness of his conclu- sions. Mr. Wiley is both a linguist and author; his book "Wisdom in Her Glory," has received many favorable criticisms. Markedly an individualist in his attitude toward life and truth, he is the foe of sham and shallow profundity, of pretense, prudery and charlatanism.
CHARLES HERBERT MACE, M. D .--- Since the first year of the present century, Charles Herbert Mace, M. D., has been en- gaged in a general practice of his profes- sion and has established a reputation for sound medical knowledge and professional ability. Into community life and activities he has entered heartily and wielded always a definite and benignant influence as citizen and man.
Dr. Mace was born at Walton, Delaware County, New York, October 10, 1871, son of Abraham Lansing and Anne (Fancher) Mace, both natives of New York. The father died in 1929, and the mother in 19II.
Abraham L. Mace was a Civil War vet- eran, who was later a hardware merchant and manufacturer. Dr. Mace received his medical degree as a member of the graduat- ing class of 1900, University of Maryland. He was then an interne, and at various times did post-graduate work in several hospitals. In 1900, he went to Huntingdon, Massachu- setts, as a practicing physician, and in 1923 removed to West Springfield, where he has since been an important factor in the med- ical profession as a general practitioner.
Dr. Mace is a member of the Massachu- setts Medical Association and the Spring- field Medical Association. During the World War period he served on the Phy- sicians and Surgeons Examining Board, and received a certificate approving of his use- ful and valuable services. He was medical examiner for Hampshire County at one time, and is completing his third term as chairman of the Board of Health of West Springfield. Fraternally Dr. Mace is affil- iated with Huntington Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past Master. He was also a charter member of Elm Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; is a thirty-second degree Mason, and member of the Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, to the West Springfield Club, and was a char- ter member of the Exchange Club, of West Springfield. Dr. Mace has always taken a lively interest in education, both as a mem- ber of the Huntington School Board and in his individual endeavors to help youth at- tend the institutions of higher learning.
In 1893, Charles Herbert Mace, M. D., married Bertha A. Greenwood, and they are the parents of a daughter and two sons: I. Louise Lansing Mace, a graduate of the Emerson School of Oratory. 2. Roswell Greenwood Mace, M. D., graduate of Tufts Medical College, and served in the Students
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Auxiliary Training Corps during the World War period. He married Elizabeth Trask, and they have two children. 3. Charles Herbert Mace, Jr., graduate of the Univer- sity of Vermont.
HARRY B. ELLIS-As president and treasurer of the Garrettson-Ellis Lumber Company of Springfield, Harry B. Ellis to- day directs the activities of one of the larg- est wholesale lumber organizations in Hampden County. In attaining this posi- tion he brings to it a wealth of well-rounded and practical knowledge gained through long experience in the business. The fact that in a little less than fifteen years he has been instrumental in building up an organization of the size and type as the one he now heads, clearly reveals his ability as an executive and business man.
Mr. Ellis was born in Enfield, Connect- icut, May 29, 1883, son of Henry H. and Mary (Bates) Ellis. His father, who was a native of his birthplace, engaged in farm- ing throughout his active life, while his mother was the daughter of a veteran of the Civil War. Mr. Ellis received a general education in the public schools of his native community and after completing his studies embarked on a business career. He has practically devoted his entire business life to the lumber industry and was well grounded in the fundamentals of this occu- pation when he came to the city of Spring- field, where in 1919 he and E. G. Garrett- son organized the Garrettson-Ellis Lumber Company, engaged in the marketing of wholesale lumber. Their first offices were in the Phoenix Building in Springfield. The growth of their business, however, en- abled them to purchase their own building at No. 32 Harrison Street in this city, which they have occupied since 1930. In their wholesale trade they reach practically every State in the eastern part of the country and
if past performance is a barometer their business should expand substantially during the next decade under the able manage- ment of Mr. Ellis. In 1932, his partner, Mr. Garrettson was compelled to resign from the firm due to ill health and it was at this time that Mr. Ellis assumed his present offices.
Though business activities command much of his attention Mr. Ellis has found time to enjoy the social and civic life of his surroundings and has been a member of the Longmeadow Country Club and the Brook. lawn Country Club. He fraternizes with the Blue Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons.
In 1902, Mr. Ellis married Ethel P. Phil- lips of Massachusetts, and they are the par- ents of two children: I. Robert P., born March 8, 1907, attended Wesleyan Univer- sity. 2. Helen E., studied at Miss Bennet's School and is now married to Arthur C. Ketcham.
ERNEST HART JUDD, M. D .- In the active practice of his profession in Spring- field for more than twenty years, Ernest Hart Judd, M. D., has come to be one of the important men in the medical circles of the city. During almost all of this period he has been the examiner for the Springfield Board of Health and the Tuberculosis Dis- pensary. He was born at Bethlehem, Litch- field County, Connecticut, January 30, 1885, son of Leverett Pierce and Caroline Bird (Hart) Judd, both of Litchfield County. Both parents are living ; Mr. Judd being a retired agriculturist.
Dr. Judd attended the public schools of Bethlehem and the West Hartford High School, graduating in 1905, and Cushing Academy. He then entered Tufts College, taking a pre-medical course and received his degree, Doctor of Medicine, in 1912, from Tufts Medical College. During the years
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1912 and 1913 he was an interne in the Springfield Hospital, and established him- self in a general practice of medicine in Springfield in 1914. During the World War he served with the Medical Corps, in the 157th Depot Brigade, with the rank of first lieutenant. He is a medical assistant on the senior staff of the Springfield Hospital, and is a member of the Hampden District Med- ical Society, the Springfield Medical Asso- ciation, the Massachusetts State Medical Association, the American Medical Asso- ciation, and the Springfield Academy of Medicine. Fraternally he is affiliated with Esoteric Lodge, Free and Acepted Masons ; is a member of the Stony Hill Country Club, and the Faith Congregational Church. Golf is his chief sport and source of recrea- tion.
On April 15, 1914, Ernest Hart Judd, M. D., married Nita Kirtley, of Frankford, Mis- souri, and they are the parents of two sons : I. Kirtley Leverett Judd, born March 22, 1915, a graduate of the Springfield High School, and a student in Massachusetts State College, member of the class of 1938. 2. Willard Hart, born December 16, 1918, who attends Classical High School, Springfield, class of 1936.
AMBER A. STARBUCK, M. D .--- Only one woman physician in the history of Hampden County has ever been chosen to serve as Assistant Probation Officer. That woman, Dr. Amber A. Starbuck, honored by similar appointments to important posts in municipal and county affairs, has utilized each to improve the welfare of the commu- nity as a whole through aiding in salvaging the lives of hundreds of women and chil- dren. Gifted with rare insight into human problems, never sentimental, but consist- ently sympathetic in her approach, Dr. Starbuck has won the confidence of public officials who have now universally recog-
nized the extent of her public service in a mounting list of rehabilitated lives. Her career as assistant probation officer is looked upon as a community benefaction, for Dr. Starbuck has pioneered the field of char- acter building for women and children who have come under her guidance. This she has accomplished through her insistance upon physical well-being as "vital to the maintenance of a normal mental outlook, providing the foundation for constructive endeavor and public progress."
Her position as a director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has further enabled her to coordinate the work of assisting under-privileged members of the community towards a constructive social readjustment, while in her capacity of health officer for Middlefield, Massachu- setts, and school physician for the commu- nities of Hampden, East Longmeadow, and Middlefield she again has been permitted to foster the highest standards of physical welfare in the schools. Thus she has played a major rôle in public health matters.
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