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the Holyoke Hospital was organized he was chosen a member of its first staff, and there- after remained active in its affairs, serving as president of that institution and as chief of its staff. He saw this institution grow from a small home for the sick to that of a large, completely equipped modern hospital, with large clinics and a training school for nurses, and X-ray equipment, which he early urged as an important contribution to med- ical practice. In addition to his private practice and his work with Holyoke Hos- pital he was active also in the affairs of Providence Hospital. For nearly half a century he continued with unabated energy his ministrations and was widely known to the public and to fellow-practitioners for his attainments. The American Medical As- sociation made him a Fellow and he was a member also of Holyoke and Hampden County Medical associations and the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society.
Dr. Hubbard was prominent in business and commercial matters and served as a trustee of the People's Savings Bank. His religious affiliation was the Second Congre- gational Church, and this organization, as well as all with which he was connected, valued the influence of his personality.
On April 21, 1881, Dr. Hubbard married (first) Mary Stowe, of Springfield, daugh- ter of William Stowe, for years postmas- ter of Springfield. He married (second) Bertha G. Batchelor, of Granby.
Dr. Josiah Clark Hubbard died in Holyoke, October 1, 1928, several months after he had retired from active practice to go with Mrs. Hubbard to Europe. While in England he became ill and lived but three weeks after returning to Holyoke. The length and breadth of his services as a doctor and the respect given to him for his personal qual- ties made his death an event of sorrow to the many citizens of this section who knew him. The Holyoke Medical Association,
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whose members knew him well, combined their feelings in a resolution :
An honorable leader has been taken from us in his passing; one who carried the healing art to a high plane. His long and faithful services were a source of comfort and relief to the many whom he served. It will be an inspiration to us all. Of him it might indeed be said, he leaves behind him that loving remembrance that is better than fame, and if his epitaph is chiselled briefly in stone, it is written as his ever-welcomed aid and sympathy.
His public position was expressed edi- torially by the "Transcript-Telegram":
Dr. Hubbard was one of the old school of family physicians who knew his patients as individuals and could diagnose their ills, not merely from blood counts and pressures, but from the factors that can control the forces of the human body, spirit. . . . But Dr. Hubbard was also of the new school. If he came with the blessed power of the healing manner with the individual sickroom, so too, for years he as staff doctor at both our hospitals dealt vigorously with the newer side of medical practice. . Personally, Dr. Hub- bard was a very choice type of old New Englandism- a gentleman in the sense that we used more frequently to place that term. When one saw Dr. Hubbard, elegant in bearing, dressed as perfectly as a man knows how, step from his car with his doctor's case in hand, one had the sense of the New England aristocratic manner that is passing from us. His manner of speaking was as finished as his appearance. He was a man whose presence among us expressed culture. He demonstrated the possibility of carrying a fine bearing and choice vocabulary into a profession that strips life of all its fripperies. It was a good deal to have car- ried what Dr. Hubbard has done for Holyoke and to have rounded it out to a positive completeness.
J. FRANKLIN NORCROSS-As sole owner of the Norcross-Cameron Company, J. Franklin Norcross today supervises the activities of the oldest and largest automo- bile agency in the city of Springfield. This pioneer automotive concern, which has been in existence for over thirty years, was founded by his father, J. Walter Norcross, who conceived the idea of establishing an
agency in this city shortly after the turn of the century and continued in the business until his passing. This organization has an employee roster of more than sixty persons and is housed in a building which contains more than fifty thousand square feet of floor space. In addition, it is the only agency in this section that operates a public garage in conjunction with its other activities.
J. Franklin Norcross, born April 7, 1910. in Springfield, was the son of J. Walter and Aline J. (Keeney) Norcross, both deceased. His father, who passed away here on July 5, 1928, was born in East Longmeadow, May 23, 1879, the son of James F. and Sarah E. (Robinson) Norcross. He was educated at Wilbraham Academy and the Worcester Institute of Technology.
Possessed of a marked talent in mechanics he was among the first young men in Hamp- den County to manifest a keen interest in the automobile, which at the time was mak- ing its first bold bid for popularity. Henry Ford had just produced his first six-cylinder car in 1904 and the elder Norcross was an- xious to represent it in this section. Handi- capped by a limited knowledge and experi- ence in the automotive marketing field he sought some one that would help him realize his great ambition. It was at this time that he met E. Alonzo Cameron, who had been identified with the industry. Together they established a partnership and founded the present Norcross-Cameron Company, with Mr. Cameron as president and Mr. Norcross as secretary and treasurer. The original operating site was located at No. 122 Bridge Street. They removed to their present loca- tion at No. 151 Bridge Street, in 1905, the building having been erected especially for them. In 1914 a four-story addition was built in the rear. During the early years this firm acted as sales agents for the Chal-
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mers car, the Maxwell and the Peerless. When the Chrysler automobile was first put on the market they became the sole agents for this car in Hampden County. J. Walter Norcross was a member and one of the founders of the Springfield Automobile Club, the Springfield Automobile Dealers Association and in a social capacity be- longed to the Springfield Country Club, the Nyasett Club, the Masonic Order and a Rotary Club.
J. Franklin Norcross, who has become sole owner and manager of the business which was founded by his distinguished father, received a general education in the public schools of Springfield and after com- pleting his studies matriculated at the Wharton School of Finance at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania from where he was graduated in 1931, with a Bachelor of Sci- ence degree. In May, 1932, Mr. Norcross became the sole owner of the business founded by his father, and is president and treasurer. Emulating his father he has be- come one of the most prominent figures in the automotive circles of Hampden County and is president of the Springfield Automo- bile Dealers Association, being one of the youngest men ever to hold this position. He is also a member of several other automobile clubs of this section.
Socially Mr. Norcross is widely known. He is a member of the Longmeadow Club, the Colony Club, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the Springfield Rotary Club.
In 1931 Mr. Norcross married Kathryn C. Jarvis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of one son, John Frank- lin, born May 30, 1932.
HENRY W. PLATE-As president of the Massasoit Engraving Company of Springfield, Henry W. Plate directs the op-
eration of an enterprise which has developed from small beginnings to an established po- sition in its field during the sixteen years of its existence. He is a founder of the com- pany and has always been active in its man- agement.
Mr. Plate was born at Lawrence March 30, 1886, son of William H. and Ida (Hess) Plate, and received his education in the pub- lic schools of that community. He began his career with the Suffolk Engraving Com- pany, coming to Springfield in 1905, and for a time also worked for the Phelps Publish- ing Company. In these connections he se- cured a thorough training both in the tech- nical details of photo-engraving and in gen- eral business practice. In 1919 he joined with Ector F. Rosati to organize the Massa- . soit Engraving Company, with offices and plant at No. 77 Worthington Street, Spring- field. Although this still remains the com- pany's headquarters, it has grown from the very modest enterprise of 1919 to become today the largest manufacturers of photo- engravings in the city. It employs from twenty to twenty-five skilled workers, a staff of highly competent artists and is com- pletely equipped for the production of the excellent work which has always been asso- ciated with the company's name, whether in color or in black and white. The company specializes in the making of all modern re- productions, including lithography, Intaglio and four-color process plates, and has had wide experience in producing plates for school and college annuals, together with all work of a similar nature. Mr. Plate con- tinues as president of the company and Mr. Rosati as treasurer.
In addition to this connection, Mr. Plate is treasurer of the Connecticut Valley En- graving Company. He is past president of the Printing House Craftsmen, a member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and
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the Advertising Club of Springfield, is affili- ated with the Free and Accepted Masons at Springfield and with the Turn Verein. Gym- nastics have been one of his principal recrea- tions.
In 1914 Henry W. Plate married Gertrude M. Lein of Providence, Rhode Island.
ECTOR F. ROSATI-In 1919 there was incorporated the Massasoit Engraving Com- pany, with headquarters at No. 77 Worth- ington Street, Springfield. It was then a very small concern and, although its loca- tion is the same after sixteen years, it has grown to be the largest manufacturers of photo-engravings in the city. The company specializes in the making of all modern re- productions, including lithographic Intaglio and four-color process plates, and has had wide experience in producing plates for school and college annuals and similar work. The employees comprise from twenty to twenty-five skilled artisans, with an art de- partment of artists capable of turning out layouts in black, white and color. The equipment of the company is unusual in its completeness and suitability for excellent workmanship. The president of the organi- zation is Henry W. Plate, and the treasurer is Ector F. Rosati, both officials being prac- tical craftsmen and capable of doing fine en- graving and art work.
Ector F. Rosati is a native of Italy, born April 20, 1884, who learned in his native land to make copperplates. He migrated to New York City where he completed his technical training in the National Academy of Design. Removing to Springfield, he has since been connected with the Massasoit Engraving Company and has been an im- portant factor in its development and suc- cess. He is a member of the Artists Guild, of which he is the president, the Art League, and the Kiwanis Club, all of Springfield.
Fraternally he is affiliated with Roswell Lee Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Con- necticut Valley Consistory, Scottish Rite, holding the thirty-second degree, and Melha Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also holds a membership in Smithsonian Institution of Washington, District of Columbia. He is the son of Erminie and Victoria (Rossi) Rosati, both of Italian birth.
In 1908 Ector F. Rosati married (first), Prudence Dodge, deceased, and they were the parents of a daughter, Doris. He mar- ried (second) Clara Lucas, and they have a son Warren Rosati, born in 1912.
BURTON A. ADAMS-In point of serv- ice as a school official, Burton A. Adams is the dean of educators in Springfield. He became identified with the school system at the beginning of the present century and has steadily risen both in the imporance of his achievements and his standing in the phase of education in which he has specialized. Mr. Adams was born at Essex, May 9, 1875, son of Philip T. and Emma (Wright) Adams, the former a native of Newburyport, who died in 1910. Mrs. Adams was born in Marshfield, this State, and lived until 1919. Philip T. Adams, a veteran of the 48th Massachusetts Volunteer „nfantry, was in the employ of the Boston and Maine Railroad for forty-seven years, beginning as a fireman and later was promoted to engi- neer which position he followed until his death in 1910.
Preparatory to his career as an educator. Burton A. Adams studied in the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University, New York City, and several ex- tension schools. He began as a teacher un- der the auspices of the American Missionary Association, which sent him to the State of Mississippi, from which he later went to
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Alabama. He came to Springfield, Massa- chusetts, in 1900, as an instructor in the Mechanics Arts School, the predecessor of the present Technical High School. Later he was appointed director of the shops, also having supervision of the industrial arts work of the whole school system, a notable feature of the municipal educational system. In October. 1934, he was appointed principal of the Technical High School. Mr. Adams is a member of the executive committee of the Eastern Arts Association, and is affili- ated with county, State and national educa- tional associations. He has attended many State and national conventions of educators and addressed them upon the subject of his own work. Many of his pupils have become leaders and high officials in New England, and elsewhere, and it is with pardonable pride that he can look back to his accom- plishments as an instructor of youth, as a factor in the success of a great number of his pupils. He has not only trained minds and hands, but inculcated principles and habits of morality and altruism which have directly contributed to character and good citizen- ship. Aside from his professional work, Mr. Adams has a variety of interests and activi- ties. He is president of the Hampden County Cooperative Bank. In 1918 he enlisted with the 26th, or Yankee Division, American Ex- peditionary Forces, the first complete Amer- ican unit to be formed and sent overseas. As a first lieutenant he was assigned to the Intelligence Service and played rôles in sev- eral of the offensives in which the "YD's" were involved. Later he was promoted to the rank of major and received a citation from General Pershing. Mr. Adams is a member and vice-president of the Sons of the American Revolution, being eligible by reason of a notable ancestry. Among his clubs are the Kiwanis and the American Le- gion, Post No. 21, of Springfield, of which he is a past vice-commander. He is chair-
man of the board of trustees of the G. A. R. Memorial Building. His church is Faith Congregational, of Springfield, of which he has long been treasurer and a generous sup- porter of its work.
Burton A. Adams married, in 1901, Mary King Humphrey, a native of Faribault, Min- nesota, and of New England ancestry. They have a daughter, Dorothy W. Adams, a graduate of Smith College in 1928, and who also holds the Master's degree in Arts from the University of Chicago.
PHILIP MUNSON JUDD-As treasurer of the Judd Paper Company of Holyoke. Philip Munson Judd shares the responsi- bility for the control of an enterprise with which the family name has been associated since the business was established by his father during the last century. He has other important business connections in this county, and many civic interests to which he has given much of his time over a long period.
Mr. Judd was born in Huntington, Mas- sachusetts, on April 19, 1877, a son of John Kellogg and Cleora Fowler (Munson) Judd. He is a grandson of Harvey Judd, a carpen- ter and farmer, born in Chester, Massachu- setts, died in South Hadley, and his wife, Catherine (Kellogg) Judd, and a direct de- scendant of Thomas Judd, who came from England to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early Colonial period, removing subse- quently to Connecticut. John Kellogg Judd, the father, was born at South Hadley on January 27, 1851, and in his younger years was traveling representative for a number of concerns in the paper and allied trades. In 1883 he established the Judd Paper Com- pany, wholesale distributors of paper at Holyoke, and in 1890 incorporated it under its present name, serving thereafter as pres- ident of the company until his death on De- cember 23, 1929. He was a Republican in
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politics and a member and deacon of the First Congregational Church of Holyoke for many years. He served for a time as pres- ident of the common council and member of the board of aldermen of the city and exercised an important influence in civic af- fairs. Cleora Fowler (Munson) Judd, his wife, was born in Huntington, Massachu- setts, on May 8, 1852, and died at Holyoke on January 30, 1930. She was a daughter of Garry and Harriet (Lyman) Munson, born respectively in Norwich (now Hunt- ington), and Southampton, Massachusetts, and a descendant of Thomas Munson, born in England, who founded the family in Bos- ton and later moved to Hartford, and then to New Haven, Connecticut.
Philip Munson Judd, of this record, was educated in the public schools of Holyoke and at Worcester Academy, from which he was graduated in 1895. Immediately after- wards he became associated with his father's company as office boy and shipping clerk and in the intervening three years rose through various positions in the office and on the road. In 1898 he left the company to become connected with the Eslaeck Paper Company of Holyoke, but after two years returned to the Judd Paper Company as treasurer, an office he has held without in- terruption since that time. The varied ex- perience of his earlier years has been very valuable to him in his present duties and his services have been an important factor in the development of the company through more than three decades. He has had the close cooperation of his brother, Clifford Kellogg Judd, who has been with the com- pany since 1897 and is now its president.
Mr. Judd is also a director of the Amer- ican Pad and Paper Company of Holyoke, a director of the Mount Tom Railroad Com- pany and a trustee and vice-president of the Peoples Savings Bank of Holyoke. Continu-
ing the family tradition of public service he has held a number of local offices, serving for three years as a member of the board of aldermen, of which he was president for eighteen months. He was a member for three years and chairman for two, of the city board of fire commissioners. Mr. Judd is also a member and past president of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, a direc- tor of the Holyoke Hospital, a trustee of Worcester Academy, which he attended in his youth, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of the First Congregational Church of Holyoke, in which he is a deacon and was formerly superintendent of the Sunday school. He is a Republican in politics, is affiliated fra- ternally with Mt. Nonotuck Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and is a member of several clubs, including the Holyoke Rotary Club, the Holyoke Canoe Club, the Mount Tom Golf Club and the Holyoke Fish and Game Club. He finds his principal diver- sion in outdoor life.
On June 20, 1906, at Detroit, Michigan, Philip Munson Judd married Fern C. Wheeler, who was born in Peru, Indiana, daughter of Edgar S. and Emma (Deniston) Wheeler, both born in Indiana and both now deceased. Her father was a patent at- torney in Detroit. Mrs. Judd is a graduate of Detroit High School and Mount Holyoke College. She has been active in the life of this city and is a member of a number of women's organizations, a former director of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, a mem- ber of the Daughters of the American Rev- olution and a prominent figure in the work of the First Congregational Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Judd have one daughter, Elizabeth Wheeler, who was graduated from Emma Willard School at Troy, New York, and Wellesley College. She is the wife of Cecil C. Rice, of South Hadley, formerly
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an instructor in Massachusetts State Col- lege at Amherst, but now associated with the Judd Paper Company.
WALTER P. GUNN-One of the most widely known and highly respected lumber executives in Hampden County is Walter P. Gunn. He has devoted practically his entire business career to this industry and today occupies the post of secretary and director for the Garretson and Ellis Lumber Com- pany of Springfield. Apart from this ac- tivity he also acts in a similar capacity for the Gunn and Earl Company, linotype com- positors, an organization which was headed by his father for many years. Much of the growth and development of the aforemen- tioned lumber company can be traced to his able and careful management.
Walter P. Gunn was born in Albany, New York, December 26, 1893, the son of Walter and Grace (Pontius) Gunn. His father, who died on January 26, 1933, was president of the Gunn and Earl Company in this city for many years. His mother now resides at Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Mr. Gunn received a general education in the public schools and after completing his studies in these institutions matriculated at Brown University, from where he was graduated in 1915 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Shortly after completing his academic train- ing he became associated with the Fletcher Lumber Company in this city and contin- ued with this organization until the out- break of the World War, at which time he enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to serve with the Chemical War- fare Division of the Ordnance Department.
He received an honorable discharge from the service in 1919, returned to Springfield and entered the Garretson and Ellis Lumber Company, which he has served with out- standing distinction and success since. A brief time after joining this firm he was
appointed secretary and named a member of the board of directors, two posts he oc- cupies today. Interested in the affairs of his father's concern he has also come to hold the position of secretary for that firm.
Socially, Mr. Gunn has restricted his ac- tivities to a few of the leading clubs of this metropolis. He worships at the Episcopal Church, and during his collegiate career was affiliated with one of the large college fra- ternities.
In 1923, Mr. Gunn married Catherine Downton of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and they are the parents of two children: I. Walter P., Jr., born May 26, 1924. 2. Jane Page, born October 15, 1932.
FRED A. VOGEL-One of the promi- nent and most successful realtors of Hamp- den County, Fred A. Vogel has been identi- fied with the social, civic and business life of this part of the State for well over three decades. He first came here in 1902, as pro- duction executive for one of the largest bi- cycle manufacturing concerns in the United States, continued in this work until 1919, entered the real estate business, later founded a firm of his own and has since de- veloped one of the largest and most profit- able establishments of its type in this sec- tion. As one of the leading men in this field, he has been responsible for the development of large tracts of land and in addition main- tains a lucrative brokerage and insurance business.
Mr. Vogel was born in Erie, Pennsyl- vania, April 8, 1878, the son of Frederick C. and Amelia (Volbrecht) Vogel, both natives of Germany, who came over to this country during their youth. His father engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business. After a general education in the public schools of his native community, Mr. Vogel embarked on a business career which has since been marked for its outstanding suc-
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cess. At this time he became associated with the Tribune Bicycle Company in Erie and worked with that concern until he came to Westfield, Massachusetts, to become pro- duction engineer for the American Bicycle Company. Later, he joined the Stevens- Duryea Company in the same capacity and continued in this position until 1919, super- vising the work of as many as two thousand employees. It was directly after he deter- mined to sever his connection with this firm that he entered the real estate field, becom- ing associated with John W. Crane. The well-rounded and practical experience he had gained in the real estate business throughout this period enabled him to estab- lish a firm under his own name at this time. Under his able and careful direction this venture has prospered and grown to become one of the largest organizations of its type, operating over a radius of fifty miles and also doing an extensive insurance business.
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