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JAMES ALPHEUS SEAMAN, M. D., F. A. C. S .- The medical coterie of Spring- field is notable for the calibre and skill of its members, among whom is James Alpheus Seaman, M. D. His success as a specialist, his breadth of scientific attainments and the variety of his professional and civic inter- ests have all commanded attention. He is a native of Jersey Heights, New Jersey, born February 9, 1890, son of Captain Thomas Albert and Mary Ellen Dwight (Somers) Seaman. He received his early schooling in the Hoboken High School, New Jersey, which is also known to many as Martha's
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Institute; was graduated from Amherst College, and earned his medical degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City.
Like many of the young medical men of the World War period, Dr. Seaman enlisted in the United States Medical Reserve Corps and was assigned to duty in the Department of Training Camp activities. Since 1919 he has practiced surgery and urology in Spring- field, and has been an urological specialist since 1925. Dr. Seaman started the first obstetrical clinic in 1919 at the Olivet Com- munity House. He has served on the staff of the Springfield Hospital since 1920 in the surgical department, and has been the urolo- gist of the hospital since 1925. He is also urologist to the Holyoke City Hospital and the Shrine Hospital for Children. In 1923 Dr. Seaman was particularly active in stim- ulating interest in the beginning of an out- patient department in the Springfield Hos- pital. He became a member of the board of trustees of the Family Welfare Association as early as 1920, and was chairman of the Social Service Department of the Springfield Hospital some five years later. Dr. Seaman has devoted a great deal of his time and en- ergies to the promotion of humanitarian projects, more especially those to which his profession contributes and serves.
Numbered among Dr. Seaman's profes- sional affiliations are the Springfield Medi- cal Society, Hampden County Medical So- ciety, the Massachusetts State Medical As- sociation, in which he is on the board of censors, the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Urological Association. As a student his Greek letter fraternities were: Theta Mu Sigma, preparatory school, Phi Gamma Delta, academic college, Pi Mu, medical school. He has been a member of the Springfield Academy of Medicine for a
number of years and its secretary since 1923. Dr. Seaman is a member of Samuel Osgood Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Springfield and a thirty-second degree Ma- son, Scottish Rite. Numbered among his clubs are the Osler Club (medical), and the Longmeadow and Blandford Country clubs. He is a member of the South Congrega- tional Church, and since 1930 has served as a deacon.
At South Church, Springfield, June 30, 1919, Dr. James Alpheus Seaman married Meta Schaff Mallary, daughter of the Rev. R. DeWitt Mallary, D. D., and Lucy (Walker) Mallary. Dr. Mallary is widely known as the former president of the Amer- ican International College. Mrs. Mallary was for some years home missionary for the foreign-born in Springfield, and a notable civic and welfare worker. Dr. and Mrs. Sea- man are the parents of three children: I. Marguerite, born January 9, 1922. 2. James, born November 17, 1925. 3. Nancy, born June 26, 1928.
THOMAS FRANCIS REILLY, M. D., F. A. A. P .- Within the short space of a decade Dr. Thomas Francis Reilly has be- come one of the most prominent pediatri- cians in Hampden County. Establishing himself in the city of Springfield during 1926 he initiated a specialized practice in children's and infants' diseases which has since been marked for its outstanding dis- tinction and success. His achievements have brought him the richly merited recognition of his professional colleagues and the public. Not only does he enjoy a large and lucrative practice but he is also associated in an offi- cial capacity with the leading medical insti- tutions of this section.
Dr. Reilly was born in Bridgewater, Feb- ruary 5, 1898, son of Patrick F. and Cath- erine (Buckley) Reilly. His father, who is
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deceased, engaged in the shoe manufactur- ing industry throughout his life, first at Bridgewater, later at St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Reilly received a general education in the public schools of St. Louis and after com- pleting his studies there matriculated at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated with a Bache- lor of Science degree in the class of 1920. Directly after finishing his academic studies he determined to pursue a medical career and entered the medical school of this insti- tution securing his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1922.
The following July he began a long period of intensive training as an interne in various large hospitals of the country, a training that was to give him a thoroughly practical ex- perience in the work in which he has since come to specialize. From July 1, 1922, to July 1, 1923, he served an interneship at the St. Louis Hospital. During the latter year he came to the city of Boston and entered the Boston City Hospital, remaining here until February 1, 1926. That summer he continued his training at the Boston Float- ing Hospital and the following October came to the city of Springfield to establish himself in the practice which he conducts so successfully today.
His ability was soon recognized and he be- came identified with many of the leading medical institutions of this county. He is pediatrician at the Mercy and Wesson Me- morial hospitals, the Buckingham Home and the contagious division of the Springfield Health Department, all of Springfield. Dr. Reilly is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics to specialize in that branch of medicine. He also acts in a similar capacity for the Brightside Institute of Holyoke, the Holy Child Guild of Westfield and is medi- cal inspector for the Springfield School De- partment. Professionally he is affiliated with the Springfield Academy of Medicine, the
Massachusetts Medical Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In social and civic affairs he has devoted his interest to a great extent to fraternal organizations. He is a member of the Ex- change Club in this city, the local post of the American Legion and fraternizes with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. During the World War he enlisted and served in the United States Army. In his religious con- victions Dr. Reilly adheres to the Roman Catholic faith and worships at the Holy Name Church in Springfield.
On September 28, 1933, Dr. Reilly mar- ried Marian L. Cummings of Springfield.
FRED M. CAMPBELL-Engaged for many years in important insurance work in the city of Springfield, Fred M. Campbell occupies a position of high standing among his contemporaries. His business experi- ence has been extensive and varied, and his participation in civic affairs in his commu- nity has been of value to its people and in- stitutions.
Mr. Campbell was born May 4, 1876, in Lyndon Center, Vermont, son of Eugene M. and Emma A. (Stoddard) Campbell, both natives of Vermont. The father, of Lyndon- ville, Vermont, was engaged in insurance work and in the coal business until his death in 1913.
In the public schools of his Vermont birth- place and at Lyndon Institute, in that same community, Fred M. Campbell received his formal education. There it was that he commenced his business career, learning the printer's trade and continuing in this same line of work for five years until he came to Springfield. His first employment here was in reportorial work for the "Springfield Republican," with which nationally known
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publication he remained associated for nine years. When his father died, in 1913, he re- turned to Lyndon, Vermont, there entering the insurance firm of Campbell and Blod- gett, which had been operated by the elder Mr. Campbell. In 1918 he came once more to Springfield, where he was made associ- ate secretary of the local Chamber of Com- merce. After a time he was made manager of the Charles E. Stickney Insurance Com- pany, the oldest established insurance agency in the city. In 1923 he bought the business and, incorporating it in association with Frank L. Dunlap, president, and Ches- ter P. Johnson, secretary, he became treas- urer of the enterprise. Soon Mr. Dunlap retired from the firm. In 1928 Kenneth B. Page was admitted to the firm, and the name was changed to Campbell, Johnson & Page. Subsequently Mr. Johnson retired from the firm and the name changed to Campbell and Page Company. This firm today does a general insurance business, handling im- portant work in the Suringfield and Hamp- den County district and is one of the largest insurance agencies in Springfield.
In addition to his service as president of Campbell and Page, Fred M. Campbell is active in many Springfield organizations. During the World War he was secretary of the War Chest. In the Free and Accepted Masons he is a member of St. Gerard Com- mandery of Littleton, New Hampshire, and Melha Temple, Springfield, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He was a member of the Nayasset Club, the Long- meadow Country Club, and is a member of the Springfield Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Faith Congregational Church. He is an individual whose opin- ion is regularly consulted on important busi- ness and civic problems, for his success in carrying forward the work of Springfield's oldest insurance agency has brought him
great prestige and standing. His years of newspaper work broadened his acquaintance with local people and conditions. In 1908, along with his other activities, he went to Littleton, New Hampshire, where he bought the newspaper known as the "Littleton Courier," one of the leading New Hampshire weekly newspapers, which he published for five years.
In 1901 Fred M. Campbell married Maude E. Bailey, of Hyde Park, Vermont. They became the parents of one daughter, Eleanor M. Campbell, who was born February 23, 1914, and a son, Gordon F. Campbell, who died in 1930 at the age of twenty years.
ASA GEORGE BAKER-During his long connection with the G. & C. Merriam Company, publishers of Webster's diction- aries, Asa George Baker played an impor- tant part in the work of scholarship which is the company's principal occupation and in the business administration of its affairs. He was for twelve years president of the company, including the period in which the monumental Second Edition of the New In- ternational Dictionary was brought to com- pletion, and is now chairman of its board of directors.
Mr. Baker was born on September 27, 1866, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a two- story frame house on South Third Street, which was torn down only recently to make way for the expansion of the Boys' Tech- nical High School of Milwaukee. In the days when this was a primary institution, the old Fifth Ward or Webster School, Mr. Baker's father, Orlando Merriam Baker, was its principal. He was later representative of various educational book publishers. In 1866, shortly after the birth of his son, he relinquished his duties as an active educator to become associated with the Ivison, Blake- man, Taylor & Company. He rose rapidly
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within the organization and eventually, when they became part owners of the G. & C. Merriam Company, he represented the Ivison interests in that company and finally succeeded to the presidency of the Merriam Company, a place which he held at the time of his death. His wife, the mother of A. G. Baker, was Abbie Maria (Walton) Baker.
Asa George Baker received his education in Massachusetts schools. After his gradua- tion from Springfield High School in 1884, he entered Amherst College, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in 1888. Immediately thereafter he began work in the editorial office of G. & C. Mer- riam Company, located at that time in New Haven, Connecticut, beginning an associa- tion which has continued without interrup- tion during the intervening years. When he first joined the company the staff were at work on the revision of Webster's Diction- ary which resulted in what was called the "1890 edition." Mr. Baker began as office boy, but soon developed both interest and skill in editorial labor and when he came to Springfield on June 3, 1890, he at once con- cerned himself with the editorial work of the main business office. From that time onward he had much to do with this phase of the company's efforts and was the pub- lisher's representative in the revisions of 1900 and 1909. Meanwhile, Mr. Baker was also active in the business departments of the company and in 1914 became one of the managers. In 1921 he was elected vice- president and in 1922 assumed the presi- dency, serving as such for the following twelve years. The crowning achievement of his administration as chief executive of the company was the publication of the Second Edition of Webster's New Interna- tional Dictionary in 1934. With the com- pletion of that task he resigned the presi- dency of the company in November, 1934,
becoming chairman of the board of directors, which position he still holds.
Mr. Baker's long experience both as an editor and publisher of dictionaries and his thorough knowledge of the field helped to make possible the success of the Second Edition. On page iv of the volume, the following paragraph appears in the Pub- lishers' Statement :
A. G. Baker, president of G. & C. Merriam Com- pany, contributed a many-sided judgment gained through his invaluable editorial experiences on the "International" and the "New International Dictiona- ries." The successful correlation between editorial and business policies, upon which has depended the accomplishing of this huge task, has been largely a result of his wisdom.
In the Preface, page vi, of the Second Edition appears a statement which gives further evidence of the value placed upon his services :
The value of the judgment of the editorial board has been greatly enhanced by the character of its mem- bership. A. G. Baker, president of G. & C. Merriam Company and in general charge of editorial work, had been employed as an assistant editor on the "Inter- national Dictionary" in 1890, and as managing editor of the "New International Dictionary" of 1909. His peculiarly intimate knowledge of both the business and the professional sides of dictionary editing has been of the utmost value.
At the dinner held in Springfield on June 25, 1934, to announce the publication of the new edition of the dictionary, Dr. William Allan Neilson, president of Smith College and editor-in-chief of the edition also spoke in very high terms of Mr. Baker's part of the project :
He is chief of all-the head of the firm [said Dr. Neilson.] He is a dictionary man in every sense. I don't know of anyone in the world who has been reared, so to speak, in more of a dictionary atmos- phere he has eaten and drunk dictionary through a large part of his life, and has acquired a dictionary sense-one of the rarest of qualities. People who work with him on the editorial board are aware there
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is no feature of dictionary work on which he hasn't a seasoned judgment. He represents also in a very complete way the attitude of the house itself. I have had occasion in the last forty years to work with some half dozen publishers, but I have never found in any of them the attitude that characterizes the same kind of pride in the product. A dictionary, to be first rate in the highest sense, must perfectly inform and perfectly express-that is what the firm exists for. Selling a dictionary (the commercial aspect of it) seems to me to be a matter to take second place, being considered only because it must be. .
Mr. Baker is a member of the National Education Association, the American Geo- graphical Society, the Theta Delta Chi Fra- ternity, the Rotary Club, the Springfield City Club, the Realty Club and the Saturday Night Club. He is an independent Repub- lican in politics but has held no political office except that he was for some years a member of the School Board of Springfield. He is a member of Hope Congregational Church of Springfield. In addition to these connections, Mr. Baker was a member at various times of many learned societies, in- cluding the Modern Language Society, the National Council for Teachers of English and the American Philological Society, and was formerly a Fellow of the Society of Arts in England.
In 1935, in recognition of his distinguished attainments, Amherst College conferred upon Mr. Baker the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. The citation by Dr. Stanley King, president of Amherst College, which accompanied the granting of this de- gree, epitomizes his career :
.ASA GEORGE BAKER.
Graduate of Amherst in the class of 1888; neigh- bor for half a century: As recognized leader of a group of scholars you have given the American people their greatest dictionary of their mother tongue, add- ing new lustre to the name of the first president of the Amherst Board. By virtue of the authority duly conferred upon me by the board of trustees of Am- herst College, I confer upon you the degree of Doc- tor of Letters.
On September 8, 1892, at Kanona, Steu- ben County, New York, Asa George Baker married Lucy Cynthia Chamberlain, daugh- ter of Jesse Mark and Ervilla (Ingham) Chamberlain. They became the parents of four children : Walton Chamberlain, born in 1893; Ingham Chamberlain, born in 1896; Orlando Merriam, born in 1900, now de- ceased ; and Frederick Allen, born in 1904.
REV. JOSEPH MARCHAND-Among the benefactors of mankind whose talents are devoted to the uplift of humanity, there is no more important class than our clergy. The beloved pastor of the Church of Per- petual Help, in Holyoke, the Rev. Joseph Marchand, a representative of this class, has lost no opportunity of serving to his utmost power the highest and truest interests of the community, with which he has been identified for more than three decades.
Rev. Joseph Marchand was born at Ver- cheres, Province of Quebec, Canada, on Oc- tober 16, 1861, son of Roche M. and Aurilie (Cormier) Marchand. After attending the parochial schools of his birthplace, he en- tered Assumption College, at the age of fourteen, and was graduated eight years later. There followed four more years of study in the Seminary of Assumption Col- lege, at the end of which he went to Ware, Massachusetts, to follow his calling. On May I, 1885, the Rev. Joseph Marchand was ordained to the priesthood in Spring- field, Massachusetts, and became curate of the Notre Dame Church, there serving for four years. He then was pastor of Saint Anne Church, Three Rivers, Quebec, for fourteen years. In 1903 he was transferred to Massachusetts, and twenty months later came to the Church of Our Lady, in Hol- yoke, marking the initiation of a career that since that time has steadily increased in the importance of its contributions to the reli-
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gious progress of the city and the welfare of its citizens.
In Holyoke there stands what may well be a monument to the life and works of the Rev. Joseph Marchand, for it is his outstand- ing achievement. This is the Church of Perpetual Help, together with its convent and school dedicated in 1922. The build- ings are among the finest religious edifices in this part of Massachusetts, and were erected at a cost exceeding a half million dollars. All details of their construction were supervised by Father Marchand, and in the obtaining of the funds required he was the leader. The parish of the church in- cludes some thirty-two hundred souls, and besides himself, two assistant pastors are the religious heads of this large number. Few men have left their impress upon a city's life, or are held in greater honor by its citizens, than Father Marchand.
MILTON DELOS POMEROY -- Among the prominent and successful insurance men in Hampden County, Milton Delos Pomeroy for over two decades has conducted a large and profitable business in this field in the city of Holyoke, and today represents sev- eral of the largest companies of the country. Throughout his residence here he has taken an active part in civic and social affairs and through his efforts and contributions has come to be prominently identified with many of the leading organizations of this section.
Milton Delos Pomeroy was born in Am- herst, Massachusetts, December 21, 1886, son of Edmund E. and Flora E. (Newgion) Pomeroy. His father, who is also a native of Amherst, having been born here August 12, 1859, is now living in retirement at North Wilbraham. During his active business life the elder Pomeroy conducted an insurance office in South Hadley Falls but later re- moved to Holyoke. He is a member of the
Republican party and worships at the Con- gregational Church. His wife, who died in Holyoke January 21, 1908, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, July 7, 1859. The Pomeroy family trace their ancestry in this section to David E. Pomeroy, who was born in Hadley in 1719. He was the father of Edward D. Pomeroy, a farmer and grand- father of Milton Delos Pomeroy.
After receiving a general education in the public schools of South Hadley Falls Mr. Pomeroy attended Worcester Academy, where he remained until 1910. He then be- came associated with the Hampshire Paper Company and later joined the Judd Paper Company as a billing clerk. After a short connection with the latter organization he matriculated at Dartmouth College where he was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts de- gree in the class of 1914. Coming to the city of Holyoke he embarked on a career in the insurance business that has been marked for its outstanding success. He has engaged in the various phases of this work and repre- sents the Connecticut Life Insurance Com- pany and the Aetna Life Insurance Com- pany.
Deeply interested in social and civic af- fairs Mr. Pomeroy is president of the Hol- yoke Kiwanis Club; is a member of the board of directors of the Holyoke Young Men's Christian Association ; is a member of the Boy Scout Council and former secretary of the Mount Tom Golf Club. He has also acted in a similar capacity for the Holyoke Canoe Club and fraternizes with the William Whiting Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons in Holyoke. In addition he is a member of the Melha Temple in Springfield and holds a thirty-second degree. Politically he adheres to the principles of the Republi- can party and by reason of his religious con- victions worships at the Second Congrega- tional Church in this city. Mr. Pomeroy is a member of the Massachusetts Life Under-
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writers Association and the National Asso- ciation of Underwriters. A sportsman, fond of the outdoors, he finds his greatest recrea- tion in fishing, a hobby he indulges during his leisure.
On August 30, 1916, in Rockville, Connecti- cut, Mr. Pomeroy married Orra Hammond, a native of that place and the daughter of George B. and Elizabeth M. (McLean) Hammond, who are both residing there. Her father is a retired woolen manufacturer. Mrs. Pomeroy is a graduate of the Rockville High School and also of Lasell Seminary in Auburndale, Massachusetts, where she com- pleted her studies in 1912. She is a mem- ber of the Holyoke Woman's Club, the Music Club, the Daughters of the American Revolution and worships at the Second Congregational Church. Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy are the parents of two children: I. Elizabeth Hammond, born October 12, 1917, a graduate of Holyoke High School and now a freshman at the Lasell Junior College. 2. John Park, born October II, 1920.
WILLIAM GAY BALLANTINE, D. D., LL. D .- William Gay Ballantine, sometime president of Oberlin College, well-known Bible scholar and for almost a quarter of a century professor of Bible at the Interna- tional Young Men's Christian Association College in Springfield, was born in Wash- ington, District of Columbia, on December 7, 1848. He is a son of Elisha Ballantine, also an educator and college professor, and Betsy Ann (Watkins) Ballantine. After the completion of his early education he entered Marietta College in Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1868 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1872 he was also grad- uated from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and during the following academic year studied at the University of Leipzig, Germany. In 1873 he served as
assistant with the English-American Pales- tine Exploring Expedition and on his return to the United States took the degree of Master of Arts at Marietta. In the same year he was appointed professor of chem- istry and natural science at Ripon College, where he remained until 1876, and from 1876 to 1878 was assistant professor of Greek at Indiana University. In 1878 he was called to the chair of Greek and Hebrew at Oberlin Theological Seminary and in 1881 was ap- pointed professor of Old Testament lan- guage and literature at the same institution. Ten years later, in 1891, he assumed the presidency of Oberlin College, administering this office until 1896.
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