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The Union has been fortunate in finding an excep- tional personality to carry out its idea. Mrs. Mallary had already come in close contact with the foreign people through the work of her devoted husband, the late R. DeWitt Mallary, until his lamented death, president of the International College in Springfield. By nature generous and sympathetic, possessing un- usual abilities in ministering to the sick, Mrs. Mallary quickly wins the confidence of the folk to whom she is sent.
There was foresight in the appointment, prescience perhaps, for during the twenty years that she carried on her unique work she gave full proof of her abilities and devo- tion. An important local organization once awarded her the Pynchon Medal, "to pub- licly recognize distinguished service," but her finest title was that awarded her by the people to whom she ministered-"Mother Mallary."
Mrs. Mallary was born in Lenox, Massa- chusetts, Lucy Walker, daughter of Richard H. and Anna (Perry) Walker, on Novem- ber 19, 1861. She was the granddaughter of Judge William Walker, of Lenox, who fought in the American Revolution, and the great-granddaughter of Judge William P. Walker, also of Lenox. She lived in Lenox until 1900, in Housatonic until 1908 and came to Springfield in the latter year. Mrs. Walker was educated in Miss Hotchkin's private school in Lenox and later attended Miss Salisbury's Boarding School for Girls
in Pittsfield. She was married January 16, 1883, in the Congregational Church in Lenox to the late Rev. R. DeWitt Mallary, former president of the American International Col- lege. (See preceding biography.) It was through her marriage that she first became interested in Berkshire County to work among the foreign-born, for which she was noted in Springfield.
Dr. Mallary died suddenly on January 29, 19II, but Mrs. Mallary, who already had been working with the foreign-born of the city, courageously continued her activities, and on November 17, 1912, received her formal appointment as missionary-at-large of the Congregational churches of Spring- field. At this time, in explanation of the re- sponsibilities she was undertaking, the Rev. Newton M. Hall, D. D., president of the Springfield Congregational Union, wrote :
Her commission is as broad and catholic as pos- sible. She is told to go about among the foreign people, doing good in any way which is most effective. She is hampered by no rules and regulations of the Union. She is simply to be the personal friend of every alien. The keynote of her mission is friend- ship. We all desire to help the alien, but we feel the hopelessness of our own personal effort. There is a great gulf fixed between us and the man with the haggard, hunted face, and the woman with the too- heavy burden. Mrs. Mallary bridges the gulf. She extends the sympathy and the good-will which we feel but cannot express, to the bewildered, the disheartened, the lonely, the sick in mind and body. She does this not as an "agent" of some civic philanthropic body, but with a motherly solicitude and tenderness, in the name of the Master. The official element is carefully ex- cluded. She is not searching for statistics but for hearts to comfort and sustain.
During the two decades which followed before her passing, the work of Mrs. Mal- lary expanded greatly and became increas- ingly effective. As already mentioned, one recognition of what she accomplished was symbolized by the Pynchon Medal, awarded in 1928, an honor which had been earned by
Meta Mallory Seaman
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only one other woman, Mary A. Booth, dis- tinguished scientist.
Mrs. Mallary had always been especially active in Congregational Church work. She was a former president of the Ladies' Benev- olent Society of the Housatonic Congrega- tional Church, an active member of South Congregational Church in this city, and a member of the Congregational Club. Other organizations with which she was actively connected included the Springfield Women's Club, Citizens' League and Social Forum. She was a trustee of the American Inter- national College and the Union Relief Asso- ciation, a director of the Visiting Nurse Association, the Travelers' Aid Society, Young Women's Christian Association and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Mrs. Mallary was granted threescore years and ten of life, and in her passing Springfield lost one of its most notable citi- zens and humanitarians. A great trust had been placed into her hand, at an age when most persons would be thinking of their personal comfort and retirement from public activities. It may be that a better under- standing of her achievements and their value to humanity may be realized from the fol- lowing words from the Service of Consecra- tion, read in her presence before the altar of the church, at the initiation of her work. Sufficient to say that she fulfilled every duty to which she was consecrated :
Thou are dedicated to be our representative under Christ to the people of all nations sent by the Prov- idence of God to our community ; to make them wel- come to our houses of worship; to bring them our messages of friendliness and good cheer ;
To be a friend, a guide and a counselor to those who are discouraged and bewildered and homesick amid alien surroundings ;
To heal the sick, to minister to the broken-hearted, to be a mother to the forlorn and helpless; to visit the widows and fatherless in their affliction ; to minis- ter to the dying and to comfort those who mourn ;
To strengthen those who are tempted; to give hope to those who have fallen; to show to those who have sinned the everlasting mercy of the Father, through Jesus Christ Our Lord ;
To enlighten, to instruct, to persuade, to warn; to teach the lessons of faith and honor and patriotism and righteousness ;
To make manifest, in season and out of season, by word and deed, through watchfulness and prayer, with zeal and courage, the Gospel of Him who came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
META MALLARY SEAMAN (Mrs. James A. Seaman)-Meta (Mallary) Sea- man, musician and teacher of voice at Springfield and a well-known figure in the civic life of Hampden County, was born at Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1889. She is a daughter of the Rev. Raymond DeWitt and Lucy (Walker ) Mallary (q. v.). Her father. a Congregational minister in Lenox and Housatonic, also served for some years as president of the American International Col- lege in Springfield. He was the author of "Lenox and the Berkshire Highlands" and several other published volumes. Her mother was city missionary of all the Con- gregational churches in Springfield. She was particularly well known and well loved for her work among the foreign-born, and was known affectionately by them as "Mother Mary" or "Saint Lucy."
Mrs. Seaman received her preliminary education in the public schools of Lenox and at Great Barrington High School, from which she was graduated in 1906. Subse- quently, she entered Mount Holyoke Col- lege, from where she was graduated in 1910. An early interest in music and singing devel- oped steadily through these years and after local training in these subjects she carried on advanced study in voice with Dudley Buck and Isidore Luckstone in New York City, from 1912 to 1917. Meanwhile, she began private teaching in 1910, continuing
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to take pupils until 1921. From 1911 to 1918 she was also teacher of voice at Mount Hol- yoke College and the American International College, and from 1912 to 1916 served in a similar capacity at MacDuffie School for Girls. During 1921 she taught voice at Smith College. In addition to these connec- tions she supervised the training of the choruses at American International College and the First Congregational Church of Springfield from 1911 to 1921; at Suffield Boys' School in Connecticut from 1918 to 1920; for the Massachusetts Mutual Insur- ance Company from 1924 to 1928; and for the Girl Scouts of Springfield in 1924.
Mrs. Seaman's civic and charitable inter- ests have been even more numerous. She has been active in the Community Chest organization of Springfield; is a director of the Hampden County Children's Aid Soci- ety, the Home for Friendless Women and Children, the Scout Council and Scout Camp; and a corporator of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Visiting Nurse Association and the Meeson Maternity Hospital. She has been much interested in mental hygiene work in this county ; is an active member of the Spring- field group interested in the hospital cot- tages for children in Baldwinsville, Massa- chusetts; is a member of the Springfield Hospital Volunteer Social Service Commit- tee ; was a leading figure in the "Share Your Clothes" campaign at Springfield in 1932 and was head of the Women's Army in the Community Chest Drive of 1935-36. She was a member of the National Recovery Administration Compliance Board in Hamp- den County during the life of that agency ; and has served as chairman of the Hamp- den and Hampshire Counties Consumers' Council. Through these connections she has exerted a wide influence in the life of Springfield and the county.
Mrs. Seaman was also president of the Springfield Women's Club and the Mount Holyoke Club of Springfield; a director of the Hampden County Women's Clubs and the Springfield Musicians' Club ; and a mem- ber of the Tuesday Morning Music Club, the League of Women Voters, the College Club and the Young Women's Christian Association. For three years she was coun- cillor to Mount Holyoke College from the Springfield Club. Mrs. Seaman is a mem- ber of the South Congregational Church of Springfield.
On June 30, 1919, in Springfield, she was married to Dr. James Alpheus Seaman, well known urologist of this city, member of the New England Urological Society, the Amer- ican Urological Society and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. They have three children : I. Marguerite, born January 9, 1922. 2. James Alpheus, born November 17, 1924. 3. Nancy Raymond, born June 26, 1928.
CLIFFORD STANLEY LYON-Since determining upon law as a career, Clifford Stanley Lyon has contributed conspicuously to the prestige of the bar of Springfield and Holyoke. After being graduated from Dart- mouth College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1910, he matriculated at the Columbia University Law School, New York City, from which he received the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws with the class of 1915. During the interim between the com- pletion of his formal education and the be- ginning of his legal training, he was indus- trial director of the West Side, New York City, Young Men's Christian Association, and gained experience in life and human affairs of solid value.
Clifford Stanley Lyon was born in New York City, March 17, 1888, son of the Rev. John Stanley Lyon, D. D., and Ella G.
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(White) Lyon. Dr. Lyon was a native of Winhall, Vermont, born in December, 1861, son of Seth Stanley and Sarah Jane (Bar- nard) Lyon, the latter of whom came orig- inally from Peru, Vermont, and died in South Londonderry, of that same State. Seth S. Lyon was a lumber and sawmill man in his early years, who later retired to the old Lyon homestead in South Londonderry, where he farmed. His son, the Rev. Dr. Lyon, was a Baptist minister, who from 1901 to 1914 was pastor of the Second Bap- tist Church of Holyoke. During 1914 and 1915 he was the managing director of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, which he reorganized at that time. Among other places of importance held by Dr. Lyon at this period and later, were chairman of the Planning Board of Holyoke, trustee of New- ton Theological Seminary, trustee of the International College of Springfield, and trustee of the Connecticut Library Institute at Suffield, Connecticut. He died at Clarks- burg, West Virginia, on November 18, 1918, while serving as the field secretary for the Northern Baptist Educational Society, whose headquarters were at the University of Chicago. His wife, born in Mount Holly, Vermont, died there at the family summer home on October 9, 1934.
Clifford Stanley Lyon was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1915, and in May of that year became associated with the law firm of Green and Bennett, with offices in Springfield and Holyoke. Two years later he was admitted to partnership and the firm has since been known as Green, Bennett, and Lyon. Mr. Lyon has kept in close touch with his colleagues in the legal profession as a member of the Hampden County, Mas- sachusetts State and the American Bar asso- ciations, and is a member of the executive committee of the county organization and the grievance committee of the State asso-
ciation. From 1926 to 1930, he was assistant district attorney for the Western District. He was a member of the Parks and Recrea- tion Commission of Holyoke in 1930 and was elected chairman in 1932. He has been chairman of Holyoke Republican City Com- mittee since 1930. He is a director of the C. F. Church Manufacturing Company and of the Walsh Steam Boiler Works, Inc. A member of the Second Baptist Church, he is on the prudential committee and was for- merly superintendent of its Sunday school, and formerly president of the Westfield Baptist Association. Among his clubs are the Mount Tom Golf Club, Lions Club of Holyoke, of which he is a past president, and the Holyoke Canoe Club. Fraternally he is affiliated with Mount Tom Lodge, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, and all of the Scottish Rite bodies, being a thirty- second degree Mason, member of Melha Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a member and Past Exalted Ruler of Holyoke Lodge, Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Lyon is a director of the Young Men's Christian Association, and during his col- lege days was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. His favorite diversions are golf and fishing.
On May 27, 1917, Clifford Stanley Lyon married Gertrude Merrick, of Holyoke, daughter of A. Judson and Ella (Bentley) Merrick, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Lyon is a direct descendant of Captain Thomas Merrick, who was one of the foun- ders of Springfield. Her father, A. Judson Merrick, was for many years president of the Merrick Lumber Company, and was a native of Tolland, Connecticut, born April 12, 1847, and died in Holyoke, October 19, 1923. He came to Holyoke in the late 'six- ties and became associated with the Merrick Thread Company, which was founded by
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his uncle, Timothy Merrick, one of the pio- neer industrialists of Holyoke. A. Judson Merrick, with his Uncle Timothy, and John Merrick, also founded the Merrick Lumber Company. Mrs. Ella (Bentley) Merrick was born in Tioga, Pennsylvania, and died in Holyoke in 1892. Mrs. Lyon is a grad- uate of Holyoke High and Mt. Holyoke Col- lege, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She is a member of the Second Baptist Church and is a member and past regent of the Eunice Day Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Lyon are the parents of five children: Elisabeth Merrick, Judson Stanley, Clarke Seth, Mar- garet Ella, and Mary Lyon.
LLOYD ELLISON-As founder and manager of the Ellison Service in Spring- field, Lloyd Ellison directs the activities of one of the most unique organizations in the country. This company, which has been or- ganized to take over the management of life insurance policies and annuities, handles claims for the insured and renders other services calculated to aid the policy holder. Though only recently established the com- pany has already gained wide favor and is experiencing a steady growth.
Lloyd Ellison was born in New York City, New York, March II, 1901. He received a general education here under private tutors until he was thirteen years old when his father died. At this time he became asso- ciated with his uncle, B. W. McDowell, in the furniture business at South Deerfield, Massachusetts, and five years later, in 1919, took over this business. When he assumed the management of this enterprise he was only eighteen years of age.
He conducted this enterprise until 1926. During this period he had become interested in the sale of life insurance policies and had become district representative for the New
England Mutual Life Insurance Company for Franklin and Hampden counties, later going to their Hartford, Connecticut, office for a six-month period of special training. Returning to Springfield to represent that company in this city he was appointed, in 1930, supervisor of the life insurance depart- ment of the Frank M. Kinney agency and continued with this concern until 1932, when he started his present business. A person of unusual business ability he was quick to recognize the opportunities that existed for a firm that could properly represent policy holders to their insuring companies. Backed with a practical experience in the business he launched his enterprise which has oper- ated so successfully since. He is widely known in the city of Springfield and takes an active interest in social and civic affairs. Mr. Ellison fraternizes with the Masonic Order and in his religious convictions wor- ships at the Community Church of Long- meadow.
On July 26, 1924, Mr. Ellison married Sabina E. Neil of Hadley, and they are the parents of two children : I. Frances E., born November 12, 1926. 2. William Bruce, born April 9, 1931.
ALFRED M. GLICKMAN, M. D .- In a decade of active practice, Dr. Alfred M. Glickman, whose parents were among the first Jewish settlers of Springfield, has firmly established his position among the leading surgeons of this city. His distinguished professional career has not absorbed his entire attention, however, and in the general life of the city he has been equally active, serving in many public and semi-public offices of responsibility and trust.
Dr. Glickman was born in Springfield on August 22, 1898, son of Henry I. and Re- becca (Lichtenstein) Glickman. While he was receiving his preliminary education in
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local public schools he earned his first money by taking care of his father's apart- ment house in his spare time. During vaca- tions he worked in the Springfield Armory and in his high school years was a page boy at the Memorial Square Library, and an usher at the Court Square and Broadway theatres. Subsequently he entered Tufts College, where he completed his academic training. He also pursued his medical course in the medical department of this institution, taking the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1921. Dr. Glickman interned for nine months in Boston City Hospital, spent a year and a half on the resident staff of Carney Hospital, Boston, and another year and a half in Monmouth Memorial Hos- pital, Long Branch, New Jersey, as resident surgeon. He began general practice at Springfield on January 3, 1924, soon there- after limited his efforts to surgery and ob- stetrics. The thoroughness and care mani- fested in his preparations for his career char- acterized his practice from the beginning and in a very brief period he took his place among the outstanding younger surgeons of the city. Dr. Glickman is now assistant visit- ing surgeon at Springfield Hospital, visiting surgeon at the Public Health Hospital, asso- ciate surgeon at Wesson Memorial Hos- pital, visiting obstetrician at Wesson Ma- ternity Hospital, Fellow of American Col- lege of Surgeons and surgeon to the Jewish War Veterans' Post in Springfield. Always alert to the newer methods and latest devel- opments in medicine, especially in his par- ticularized fields, he completed in 1934, a post-graduate course at the Edinburgh Med- ical School. He is a member of a number of professional organizations, including the Springfield Academy of Medicine, the Amer- ican Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the New England Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Asso-
ciation of Military Surgeons of the United States, is vice-chairman of the Hampden County Chapter of the American Red Cross, and is a past president of the Maimonides Medical Society.
On May 24, 1932, Dr. Glickman married Rose Claire Ziv, daughter of Benjamin and Anna Ziv, of Portsmouth, Virginia. They reside at No. 283 Long Hill Street, and their home is a center of bright hospitality.
In spite of the pressure of his medical duties, Dr. Glickman has been extremely active in affairs of the city and has consid- ered it an obligation of good citizenship to assume such general responsibilities as he felt he had time to discharge. He has been a member of the Springfield Board of Edu- cation since 1927 and is at present chair- man of the board. He is a member of the board of directors of the Safety Council, the board of governors of the Springfield Boys' Club; a member of the Chamber of Commerce, in which he has served as a member of the medical committee since 1929; an incorporator of the Springfield Community Chest and the Wesson Mater- nity Hospital, and has recently become a member of the committee in charge of the Springfield Tercentenary Celebration to be held in 1936. This appointment was made by the mayor and approved by the City Council. Dr. Glickman is also a past pres- ident of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- tion, a member of the board of governors of the Yonkers Home for the Aged, and has been active in the Boy Scouts of America since 1910. He is influential in Republican politics, serving as chairman of Ward One of the Republican City Committee since 1929. founder of Ward One G. O. P. Club, is a inember of the Young Men's Republican Club and has been a member of the City Club since its inception. During the war, he served in the Student Army Training
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Corps and is now a member of the United States Medical Officers' Reserve Association and holds the commission of lieutenant junior grade, in the United States Naval Reserve (Medical Corps).
In addition to these connections, Dr. Glickman has been active in religious af- fairs. He is a director of Beth-El Temple and Beth Israel Synagogue in Springfield, past president of Beth-El Men's Club and past president of the B'nai B'rith. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Social Service at Springfield. Fraternally he is affiliated with Long Branch, New Jersey, Lodge, No. 78, Free and Accepted Masons, and in this Order is a member of various higher bodies, includ- ing the Valley of Connecticut Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Melha Temple Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and che Grotto. He is affil- iated, in addition, with the Knights of Cor- been ; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the F. I. D. A. C .; the National So- journers ; is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias at Springfield, a charter member of Springfield Post, American Legion, na- tional life membership chairman of the Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity, and an associate member of the United States Naval Insti- tute. Dr. Glickman has also interested him- self in the Independence Day Association, of which he is a past president ; and the Inde- pendent City of Homes Association, of which he is a member. He is past national president of the Probus Club, a member of the Fish and Game Club, the Oxford Coun- try Club, and the Army and Navy Club, Washington, District of Columbia. With all his other duties, he finds time to conduct radio broadcasts on general health subjects in behalf of the American Red Cross, and is one of the city's popular radio speakers. There are few phases of Springfield's life
which have not benefited through his con- structive influence, and although he is still (1935) under forty years of age he has achieved a record of useful service, both within and without his profession, which has made him one of Springfield's most valuable citizens. In addition to these many time- taking interests, he pursues his hobbies of collecting etchings, woodcuts, and making amateur moving pictures.
J. WILLIAM CUNLIFFE-Among the prominent realtors and insurance executives of Springfield is J. William Cunliffe who, for nearly thirty years, has engaged in business in this community. During that period not only has he been regarded as a leader in his chosen field of endeavor but has also taken an active part in municipal affairs, being chosen for an important and responsible public office.
Mr. Cunliffe was born in Springfield, De- cember 23, 1886, son of Ellis and Nancy (Bannister) Cunliffe, both natives of Eng- land. His father was a musician and later entered the insurance business. J. William Cunliffe received a general education in the public schools of his native city, graduating from Central High School in 1905. He took a prominent part in athletics, baseball, foot- ball and basketball, and was captain of the basketball team in his senior year. In 1907 began his career as a realtor, being asso- ciated at the time with Harry G. Webster. He maintained this connection until 1919 when he decided to enter business for him- self. He established an office at No. 476 Main Street and initiated a venture that has since grown to one of the largest of its type in Springfield. In conjunction with his realty activities, which include all depart- ments of this field, he also conducts an in- surance business handling all forms except life insurance.
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