Hampden county, 1636-1936, Volume III, Part 6

Author: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Publication date: 1936
Publisher: New York, The American historical Society, Inc.
Number of Pages: 770

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EDWARD ELIHU HAZEN-President of the Hazen Paper Company, Edward Elihu Hazen is prominent in the younger indus- trial circles of Holyoke. He is a member of a long established family, the first of whom was Edward Hazen, who settled in 1674 at Rowley. Descendants seemed to have pre- ferred Connecticut and Vermont, and one Thomas Hazen served notably during the Revolutionary War and, for monies advanced and assistance given in the effort to estab- lish Vermont as a separate State, he was rewarded with grants of great acreage in Hartford Township, Vermont. The grand- father of Edward Elihu Hazen was the Rev. Norman Hazen, Congregational minister, who was born in Hartford, Vermont. His son, Professor John Vose Hazen, was born in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, November 22, 1850, and died at Hanover, New Hampshire, October 19, 1919. For more than four decades he was professor of Descriptive Geometry and Civil Engineer- ing, at Dartmouth College, Hanover. He also was a man of influence in local educa- tional and civic affairs, and was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and other professional and educational as- sociations.

Edward Elihu Hazen was born March 4, 1895, at Hanover, New Hampshire, son of Professor John Vose and Harriet A. (Hurl- burt) Hazen. After being graduated from Phillips Andover Academy, in 1914, he en- tered Dartmouth College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1918. His initiation into indus- trial life followed his college career, when he spent three years with the Newport News Dry Dock Company. He then became sec- retary of the Perfect Safety Paper Company, in Holyoke, resigning in 1928 to become as- sociated with his brother, John Norman Hazen, in the Hazen Paper Company. He was elected president of the corporation and

has filled that position efficiently. The com- pany is engaged in the manufacture of spe- cial and fancy papers.

Mr. Hazen is a Republican. During his college days he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity and of the Casque and Gauntlet Club. With his family he attends the Con- gregational Church. His favorite sports are golf and squash.

On June 2, 1928, Edward Elihu Hazen married Helen B. Blyth, a native of British Columbia, Canada, daughter of the Rev. Robert Blyth, originally of Burlington, Iowa. He is a Congregational minister, who served with the English Army during the Boer War. By birth, ancestry and tradition, the Rev. Mr. Blyth and his wife are Cana- dian and English. Mr. and Mrs. Hazen are the parents of two sons: I. Edward Elihu, Jr., born July 3, 1929. 2. Robert Blyth, born November 13, 1933. Mrs. Hazen, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, class of 1925, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, taught music at her alma mater prior to her marriage. She is a member of the Arts Club, the Junior Service Corps, and the Second Congrega- tional Church of Holyoke.

JOHN NORMAN HAZEN-The well- known Hazen Paper Company, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, was organized in 1925 by John Norman Hazen. Mr. Hazen is a na- tive of Hanover, New Hampshire, born Jan- uary 14, 1893, son of John Vose and Harriet A. (Hurlburt) Hazen and a descendant of Edward Hazen, the American progenitor of the family, who, in 1674, settled at Rowley, Massachusetts. A descendant of this origi- nal Edward was the Rev. Norman Hazen, Congregational minister originally of Hart- ford, Vermont, who died at Atkinson, New Hampshire. He married a Miss Vose, and one of their children was John Vose Hazen, father of John Norman Hazen. Professor John Vose Hazen, born in Rowley, Essex

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County, Massachusetts, on November 22, 1850, was for more than forty years pro- fessor of Descriptive Geometry and Civil Engineering at Dartmouth College, Han- over, New Hampshire. He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and many other technical and professional organizations, and had served as a precinct commissioner and member of the school board of Hanover. He was a deacon in the Congregational Church, and active in civic and humanitarian affairs. Professor John Vose Hazen died on October 19, 1919, at Hanover. Many of the early generations of the Hazen family settled in and around Norwich, Connecticut, and later in Wood- bury, of the same State. One Thomas Hazen and his sons, about 1870, moved to Hartford, Vermont, and for their services to Vermont in connection with its becoming a separate State were granted extra land in Hartford Township, Vermont.

John Norman Hazen was graduated from the Hanover (New Hampshire) High School, in 1910, and matriculated at Dart- mouth College, from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1914. A year later he re- ceived the Masters degree in Commercial Science from the Tuck School at Dartmouth. After leaving college, Mr. Hazen was the secretary, for a short time, of the New York Society for the Study of Unemployment Problems. In November, 1915, he removed to Holyoke, and was associated with the Taylor Logan Company, and with its affili- ate, the New York, New England Company, also of Holyoke. Starting in the employ of these companies as cost accountant, he eventually was made treasurer. When it became evident that the United States was certain to become involved in the World War, Mr. Hazen entered the first Officers' Training Camp, at Plattsburg, New York, where he was commissioned second lieuten-

ant in the Ordnance Department, U. S. A., and ordered to Washington, District of Co- lumbia. Here he served in the Supply Divi- sion until he was sent to represent the Ord- nance Department at the office of the Chief of the Staff, Embarkation Division. While there he had charge of the ordnance ma- terials being sent overseas. In March, 1918, he received his honorable discharge with the rank of captain.

Upon his return to civilian life, Captain Hazen went with the Taylor Logan Com- pany, of Holyoke, with which he remained until 1925, when he resigned to organize his own Hazen Paper Company, of which he became president and treasurer. In 1928 he was joined in the corporation by his brother, Edward E. Hazen, who later was made its president. John Norman Hazen has since been the treasurer and general manager of the company. He is a popular clubman, a member of the Lions Club, the Mt. Tom Golf Club, the Tavern Club and the Young Men's Christian Association. While in col- lege he was a member of the Greek letter fraternities Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon, as well as the Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society.

On June 19, 1920, John Norman Hazen married Marie Weis, daughter of Joseph and Isabel (McMillan) Weis, of Holyoke. Mr. Weis is president of the Perfect Safety Paper Company, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Hazen were the parents of a son, John Vose, born June 25, 1928, who died on July 14, 1931. On April 2, 1935, another son, Thomas Norman Hazen, was born. Mrs. Hazen, a former Vassar undergraduate, is a member of the Holyoke Woman's Club, member and past treasurer of the Junior Service Corps, and a member of the Arts Club, of Holyoke.

JAMES ANTHONY JUDGE-As presi- dent of the Highland Manufacturing Com- pany, of Holyoke, founded at the beginning

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of the century by his father, James Anthony 1920, Hazel F. Doyle, a native of Holyoke, Judge occupies a position of leadership in the Massachusetts paper and stationery trade. This company produces stationery, blank books and school papers of all sorts, and has a business of broad proportions and influence.

Mr. Judge was born July 7, 1890, in South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts, son of Patrick J. and Mary A. (Holmes) Judge and a grandson of Anthony Judge and Barbara (Loftus) Judge, both born in County Mayo, Ireland, and both of whom died in South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts. Patrick J. Judge, a biography of whom accompanies this, was founder of the Highland Manu- facturing Company, already mentioned, and died on March 25, 1935. James Anthony Judge attended the Holyoke public schools, was graduated in 1910 from Williston Semi- nary, and, in 1914, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taking the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engi- neering. For one year he was instructor on the staff of the electrical engineering depart- ment at Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, in Cambridge. Then, in 1915. he be- came permanently associated with his fath- er's business, the Highland Manufacturing Company, of Holyoke, as superintendent of the plant. In 1921 he was made assistant treasurer of the company, and in 1928 was elevated to the presidency.

Mr. Judge is also president of the Judge- Fay Company, a firm of commercial printers in Holyoke. He takes a lively interest in civic, social and fraternal affairs. He is a staunch Democrat, a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, and a leader in the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, which in 1922 and 1923 he served as Exalted Ruler.

James Anthony Judge has been twice married. He married (first), on October 12,

who died in March, 1921; and (second), on September 21, 1925, Elizabeth G. Doyle, a native of Stafford Springs, Connecticut, sis- ter to his first wife, and daughter of Michael and Mary (Sweeney) Doyle, both natives of Ireland. Michael Doyle came to the United States and for many years was associated with the Central Vermont Railroad as divi- sion foreman of construction. Mrs. Judge is a graduate of the Sacred Heart School and Holyoke High School, as well as a lead- ing member and worker in St. Patrick's Ro- man Catholic Church. She also belongs to the Business and Professional Women's Club, of Holyoke. Before her marriage she was associated with the New England Tele- graph and Telephone Company, holding the position of chief traffic clerk and having charge of seventeen exchanges.

PATRICK J. JUDGE-Among the many of Irish birth who came to Massachusetts to better their fortunes were the parents of Patrick J. Judge, founder of the Highland Manufacturing Company of Holyoke. He, like his parents, had the optimism, ambition, and enterprise which seems to be character- istic of the natives of Ireland who have played such important parts in the develop- ment of New England.

Patrick J. Judge was born April 22, 1860, in County Mayo. Ireland, son of Anthony and Barbara (Loftus) Judge, both born in County Mayo and both of whom died in South Had- ley Falls, Massachusetts. He first became identified with the paper business in 1879, when he accepted a position as the book- keeper of the Albion Paper Company, of Holyoke. He had lived in the United States from the time when he was only two and one-half years old, so that his whole back- ground was American. He had, moreover, lived in South Hadley Falls from early

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Patrick J. Judge married Mary A. Holmes, daughter of John A. and Ann (Clarken) Holmes. She was born in Clinton, Massa- chusetts, September 22, 1860, and is now a resident of South Hadley Falls. John A. Holmes was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in Monson, Massachusetts. He was a master dyer, who at one time was associated with Donald Mackintosh and had an interest in the business headed by Mr. Mackintosh. He was also superintendent of the dyeing department of the firm. For a number of years he served as sexton of St. Paul's Prot- estant Episcopal Church while it stood on the site of the present Hadley Falls Trust Company. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Judge were the parents of a son, James Anthony Judge, president of the Highland Manufac- turing Company, a review of whose life ac- companies this.

JUDGE GEORGE BARR HAAS- Throughout the years that he has been identified with Ludlow, Judge George Barr Haas has been outstanding as one of its chief citizens, a man who played leading rôles in civic, fraternal and social affairs. His career has been unusual in the variety of its activities and the uniform success he

childhood, and was well acquainted with has gained in different fields of endeavor local customs and needs when he ventured He was born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill into business for himself by founding, in 1901, the Highland Manufacturing Com- pany, with which his life was closely twined. He served as treasurer and general man- ager of the company, and his son, James Anthony Judge, is now president, having become associated with his father in 1915. Patrick J. Judge was a Democrat in his po- litical views, and a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, in South Hadley Falls. County, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1886, the son of Frank Haas, a prominent townsman of the Pennsylvania municipality, who served several terms on the Pine Grove Town Council, and Elizabeth (Barr) Haas. The son received his early schooling in the common and high schools of Pine Grove, was graduated from Stevens Academy and attended Penn College. In 1908 he followed a literary bent, apparent through his chil- hood and manhood, by entering newspaper work. After two years' experience on vari- ous papers in his native State he went on the editorial staff of the "Springfield Repub- lican," and remained with that daily until 1920, when he became publicity manager for the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates. Sub- sequently, he was appointed employment manager of the associates. Judge Haas is president of the Hampden Mortgage Cor- poration and has served as a director in the Hampden Cooperative Bank and a corpora- tor of the Ludlow Savings Bank. Judge Haas first entered public life in 1921, when he was appointed a member of the Ludlow Playground Commission, on which he re- mained up to and including the year 1924. In that year he was elected chairman of the Town Forestry Committee and still holds this position. When, in 1924, the town of Ludlow began to prepare for its one hun- Patrick J. Judge's death on March 25, 1933, caused a distinct loss to the city with which he had been so long associated. dred and fiftieth anniversary celebration. Judge Haas was elected chairman of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Committee, and to him is due much of the credit for the success of that famous ob- servance. In 1924, also, George Barr Haas was made trial justice of the Ludlow Police Court, and has served in this office since that time ; and in the same year he was ap- pointed chairman of the committee that had charge of the drafting of a set of by-laws for the town.

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Judge Haas, prominent in athletics and sports, was president of the Ludlow Athletic and Recreation Association from 1921 to 1925. He helped organize and served as president of the Ludlow Fish and Game Association. He was one of the organizers and served for several years as a director in the Ludlow Country Club ; was director of the Hampden County Improvement League for the town of Ludlow for two years; and chairman of the Town "Clean-up" Commit- tee for five years. He is a member of the Pine Grove Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania ; Brigham Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons; Lodge of Perfection and all Scottish Rite bodies of this order ; and the Publicity Club, of Springfield. His wife is a com- municant of Union Church in Ludlow, and Judge Haas is a member of the Parish.

Judge George Barr Haas married, in In- dian Orchard, Massachusetts, November 26, 1914, Amy Duner, daughter of Niles and Emily Duner.

ELIPHALET TRASK TIFFT -- More than a half century of service in the single office of city treasurer has entitled Eliphalet Trask Tifft to the very high regard.of the people of Springfield, bringing him recog- nition and honor from individuals in all walks and departments of life and from the community as a whole.

Mr. Tifft was born June 9, 1860, in Spring- field, son of Lewis A. and Lurancie (Trask) Tifft and grandson of Eliphalet Trask, se- lectman of the town of Springfield, third ma- yor of the city of Springfield, and Lieuten- ant-Governor of Massachusetts in 1857, 1858 and 1859. Lewis A. Tifft enlisted as second lieutenant in Company A, 46th Massachu- setts Volunteer Militia, and returned from the service as captain. Later he reenlisted, and was captain of Company A of the 8th Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. His Civil

War service won him recognition when the Springfield camp of the Sons of Veterans was named for him.

In the Springfield public schools Eliphalet Trask Tifft received his early education, and in 1879 he was graduated from high school. It was perhaps significant that the house in which he was born in Court Street was sit- uated within a stone's throw of the old City Hall and the present Municipal Group, for very soon after he completed his high school education Mr. Tifft was actively engaged in the service of the city. It was in August, 1881, that he began his long period of em- ployment by the city of Springfield, enter- ing the city treasurer's office as assistant. In December, 1887, he was first elected city treasurer, and from January I, 1888, until January, 1932, a period of forty-four years, he was Springfield's city treasurer. His work in the treasurer's office, as already noted, covered more than fifty years. Throughout this period of brilliant service to his city, he was reelected by the voters of both political parties, always without opposition. In this period the city grew from a population of 35,000 to the present figure of 150,000, and Mr. Tifft, in his own quiet way, accom- plished many important changes in the local government. He served under twenty-seven different mayors.

In the course of his long connection with the treasurer's office Mr. Tifft achieved many remarkable results of his labors. He had Springfield's bonds made legal for in- vestment by banks in New York State, or- ganized the first association of city treas- urers and collectors of the State of Massa- chusetts, secured passage of an act by the Legislature whereby municipalities could purchase security bonds for their officials and so do away with personal bonds, and issued and mailed to banking houses com- parative statements of the financial standing of Massachusetts cities, so showing that the

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city of Springfield had the best rating in the Commonwealth. As the years went on, Mr. Tifft became a leader in local business and civic life, and he is now vice-president of the Hampden Savings Bank, vice-president of the Morris Plan Bank, a director of the Mu- tual Fire Assurance Company and the Kim- ball Hotel Company, an honorary member of the City Treasurers' and Collectors' As- sociation of Massachusetts, and a trustee of the Home for Aged Men and the city of Springfield Memorial Building. He was awarded the Pynchon Medal by the Adver- tising Club of Springfield. A true "booster" of his city, Mr. Tifft has often commented upon the remarkable standing held by Springfield in the family of cities, always backing his statements by quotations of facts and figures to allay any opposition. In a special address that he delivered before the Rotary Club on June 5, 1925, while he was still treasurer of the city, he said in part :

Now for a few observations gathered through my long term : The City of Springfield has been fortunate that its department heads have been men free from political bias or control, men of experience, honest and in many instances actuated in their labors by motives of civic pride and sentiment. What is said about department heads applies to many in subordinate positions. Their fathers and their grandfathers lived and labored here, serving the town and city in various capacities-in the future, we can say their mothers and grandmothers.

On many other occasions Mr. Tifft re- vealed similarly his strong faith in his home city. So quietly did this faith manifest it- self, however, that frequently the citizens of Springfield knew less of his work than did officials of other cities. It was often pointed out by experts that Springfield was the gainer from the fact that its treasury was continued on a record of sound experience, confidence and good judgment, its policies being not subject to rapid changes accom-

panying shifts in political control. The "Springfield Union," in a long editorial pub- lished on March 6, 1931, after Mr. Tifft an- nounced his plan to resign from the city treasurership, paid high tribute to him by making a comparison between the Spring- field and Fall River experiences in handling public money. The editorial convincingly set forth the argument that Fall River's fre- quent political changes had been responsi- ble for its less substantial treasury policy, saying in part :

Loans were too frequently and freely resorted to for covering deficits in ordinary operations; tax rates were raised higher and higher while industries lan- guished under the burden. When industrial proper- ties were sold for taxes, the city only took on more obligations while losing revenue. In time Fall River was paying a rate twice as high on its bonds as was Springfield, and finally an effort to borrow more brought no bids at any figure. That was the equiva- lent of a bankruptcy which has resulted in a form of State receivership through legislative act and the Gov- ernor's appointment of a commission.

Mr. Tifft's other work was also mentioned in the same editorial :

Mr. Tifft . .. already knew the methods and re- quirements of that office. From the smaller figures of that day it has grown to handle receipts of over $22,000,000 a year and to make regular payments to more than 4,000 municipal employes. Payrolls now amount to about $7,000,000 a year. The relative im- portance of this municipal financial agency may be measured by the fact that the total receipts of Hamp- den County are only about $2,000,000, while it is a relatively small issuer of bonds.

Mr. Tifft has long maintained an official force based on continuing experience and efficiency without regard to political views or party allegiance. It is a trained force which, however, might be disrupted by a political change as it is not subject to civil service protection.

The paper also praised Mr. Tifft for his careful training of an obvious successor in office :

The Deputy City Treasurer, Mr. George W. Rice, Jr., has served in that office for about nine years, hav-

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ing been promoted from prior service as paymaster. He is thoroughly schooled in the policy and methods that have resulted so beneficially to the city. He plainly becomes a natural subject for promotion as a means of continuing the present efficient organization. In view of the importance of this office in our munici- pal government to the city's financial reputation and to the taxpayers, it would be the good fortune of both were the office to be maintained, in the future, as it has been for so many years, outside the range and influ- ence of periodic primary and election contests.

In 1885 Eliphalet Trask Tifft married Katharine E. Higginbotham, of Springfield, who died in 1909, leaving two sons, Lewis E. and Charles Tifft. These sons are widely and favorably known for their business ac- tivity in the Springfield district, where they operate the firm of Tifft Brothers, invest- ment bankers. Their father has a desk in the offices of his sons, and from this vantage point continues his deep interest in the busi- ness, civic and public affairs of Springfield.

CHARLES CALVIN JENKS, Banker and Industrialist-On the threshold of ninety Charles Calvin Jenks, of Holyoke, Massa- chusetts, could look back over the years he bore so gracefully with the knowledge that they had been good and useful. He was of old New England stock with a background of ancestors that were of the oldest stock our country possesses. The Jenks family were outstanding factors in making Holyoke "the greatest center for the making of fine writ- ing papers in the world"-back in the last two decades of the past century. He was associated prominently with the paper in- dustry and banking for a half century to their very great advantage. Throughout his life there was present a keen sense of the privileges of citizenship, of altruism, of a feeling of stewardship that found outlet in charitable and helpful deeds.

Mr. Jenks was born in Adams, March 6, 1845, the son of Edwin Franklin and Nancy (Fisk) Jenks. He was a direct descendant

of Joseph Jenks who came to this country from Smithsfield, England, in the early Puritan days, and was associated with the first iron foundry on this Continent at Sau- gus, Massachusetts, in 1648. He held the first patent issued by this government and was the inventor of a scythe. A hand-made kettle made by him is one of the coveted treasures of the museum at Saugus. Mr. Jenks and his son, Daniel A., have tried repeatedly to obtain it, but money cannot buy the article. Joseph Jenks, the second Governor of Rhode Island, is the son of the above mentioned Joseph Jenks and a direct forebear of Charles C. Jenks.

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Hampden county, 1636-1936, Volume III, Part 6

Author: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Publication date: 1936 Publisher: New York, The American historical Society, Inc. Number of Pages: 770

Author: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Publication date: 1936
Publisher: New York, The American historical Society, Inc.
Number of Pages: 770