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member of the Vermont Association of Boston, and of the Massachusetts Savings Bank Treas- urers' Club, of which he was secretary four years, and a member of the Citizens' First Volunteers Association of Cambridge, Mass. This association annually banquets the first company of volunteers that enlisted in the Civil War, on April 17, 1861. He served in the Vermont state militia when a young man. He married October 20, 1865, Flora Viola Allen, born April 2, 1844, daughter of Roswell Jr. and Mary (Snow) Allen of Pomfret, Vt. Her father was a farmer. They have no children.
JAMES BARR AMES
AMES, JAMES BARR, was born in Boston. June 22, 1846; died January 8, 1910. He got his early education in the grammar schools of Medford and Boston and in the Boston Latin School. He received his degree of bachelor of arts at Harvard in the class of 1868, and entered the Harvard Law School, receiving the LL.D. degree in 1872. He won his A.M. degree in the same year. His honorary degrees were doctor of laws from New York University in 1898, University of Wisconsin, 1898, University of Pennsylvania, 1900, Northwestern (Il1.), 1903, and Williams, 1904.
In 1868-1869, instead of going directly from college to the law school, he taught in the private school of Epes S. Dixwell, in Boston. And, as it turned out, teaching was to be his life work, and was to be so well done as to place Professor Ames among the very first of American educa- tors. He traveled in Europe for a year in 1869- 1870.
While in the law school he was first a tutor in French and German in Harvard College, 1871-1872, and the following year an instructor in history. He was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in 1873.
He never practised, for, in the fall of 1873, he became assistant professor of law at the Harvard Law School. He became professor of law in 1877, and two years later was given the Bussey chair of law, April 9, 1879. He succeeded Pro- fessor Langdell as dean of the law school, June 18, 1895, and on January 26, 1904, he was trans- ferred from the Bussey professorship to the Dane professorship.
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Professor Ames developed the "Harvard" system, or "case" system, of teaching law, which is the best recognized modern method. A constant contributor to law reviews, he also wrote a number of case complications which rank high among law text books. His essays on the history of the common law, how- ever, probably gained for him the most popular fame.
In 1880, he married Miss Sarah Russell, of Boston. They had two sons, Robert Russell Ames and Richard Ames.
WALTER IRVING BADGER
BADGER, WALTER IRVING, corporation attorney and lawyer, was born in Boston, Mass., January 15, 1859. His father, Erastus
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Beethoven Badger, was a son of Daniel B. and Anne (Clarke) Badger, and a descendant from Giles Badger, who came from England to Portsmouth, N.H., about 1750. Walter Irving Badger was a vigorous, athletic child and youth, brought up in both the city and country and fond of all kinds of sport. He played four years on the Yale University football
team and three years on the Varsity nine, being captain of the latter. After passing through the Grammar and English High School in Boston, he was fitted for college at Adams Academy, and matriculated at Yale University in 1878, graduating A.B. with the class of 1882. He became a clerk in the law office of Solomon Lincoln in 1882, and, while serving as a law clerk he took the regular course in the law school of Boston University, graduating LL.B. Cum Laude, 1885.
His practice has included such clients as the Boston & Maine Railroad: the Travelers' Insurance Company; Henry H. Rogers, of New York City; the Boston Ice Company; the Boston Gaslight Company; the Cudahy Packing Company; the United States Rubber Shoe Company; the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, of Pittsburg, Pa; the United States Express Company, etc. He was attorney for the gas company in the celebrated trial of the cases growing out of the subway explosion of March 4, 1897, and also for Mr. H. H. Rogers, in the litigation growing out of the gas war in Boston. He was married October 6, 1887, to Elizabeth Hand, daughter of Daniel and Frances (Ansley) Wilcox, of New Haven, Conn., and the two children born of this marriage are Walter Irving Badger, Jr., and Grace Ansley Badger. Mr. Badger's political affiliation is with the Republican party; he has never changed his allegiance. He is a member of the Baptist denomination. His club member- ship includes the University of Boston, the Exchange, the New Algonquin, the Curtis, the Country Club of Brookline, the University of New York, the Yale of New York, the East- ern Yacht and the Boston Yacht.
HOLLIS RUSSELL BAILEY
BAILEY, HOLLIS RUSSELL, lawyer and chairman of the board of bar examiners of Massachusetts, was born February 24, 1852, in that part of Andover which in 1855 became the town of North Andover. His ancestry from James Bailey, who was born in England and settled in Rowley about 1640, is as follows: James, born (about) 1612, married Lydia; John Bailey, born 1642, married Mary Mighill; James Bailey, born 1680, married Hannah
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Wood; Samuel Bailey, born 1705, married Mary Rolf; Samuel Bailey, born 1728, married Hannah Kittredge; James Bailey, born 1757, married Lucy Brown; Otis Bailey, born 1806, married Lucinda Alden. John Bailey of the second generation perished in 1690 in the expedition against Quebec under General Phipps, and Samuel Bailey, Jr., of the fifth generation fell at Bunker Hill.
Hollis R. Bailey's father, Otis Bailey, lived in the old Governor Bradstreet house, once
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the home of Anne Bradstreet, the first female poet of America. He was a farmer and butcher, a deacon in the Unitarian church, held several town offices and was a man of integrity, frugality and public spirit. He married Lucinda Alden, daughter of Alden and Lucinda (Briggs) Loring, of Duxbury, Mass., and a descendant of Thomas Loring, of Axminster, England, who came to Hingham, about 1635, and of John Alden, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. Thus Mr. Bailey on his mother's side inherits the toleration of
the Pilgrim Fathers; on his father's side, the sternness of the Puritans of the Bay Colony.
Hollis Russell Bailey was a strong and active child, fond of out-door life, including fishing and hunting, and from his earliest years was constantly engaged on the farm in strenuous manual labor when not in school. He claims that this mode of life had the effect to make him strong, self-reliant, industrious and per- sistent. His mother's influence in these early days also made for truth, sobriety and willing- ness to work.
His father's death, in 1866, increased the duties and responsibilities of the boy, and led him to form habits of self-reliance. His models and ideas of great men were derived from the reading of biographies and auto- biographies. He attended the Punchard Free School, Andover, and the Johnson High School, North Andover. Until 1870 the young man did not have a collegiate education in view, but at that date the advice of Dr. Samuel Taylor, the principal of Phillips Andover Academy, led him to that decision; and it was the Academy where he fitted for college, gradu- ating in 1873, fourth in his class. At the commencement he delivered a Latin oration. He received honors in Latin and Greek on his entrance examinations to Harvard.
He graduated from Harvard in 1877, stand- ing eighth in his class. He was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa as one of the first eight, in his junior year at the Phi Beta Kappa exercises, and was second marshal in 1877. He did a good deal of tutoring throughout his college course and served as proctor. During his senior year, in addition to his regular work, he took two courses in the Law School and passed the examinations. He entered the Harvard Law School one year in advance, in October, 1877, and (the course then being two years) obtained his degree of LL.B. in June, 1878. A further course of one year in the Law School gave him the degree of A.M. in 1879. He also studied law with Hyde, Dickinson and Howe. Speaking of his choice of a profession, he says: " I had no strong bent for the law. I could have pursued medi- cine or engineering with equal pleasure. The influence of my oldest sister, Miss Sarah Loring Bailey, largely determined my choice and
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first roused my ambition to seek success in the legal profession. Outside my own family, my college associates were probably the most helpful factors in stimulating and shaping my life."
He was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1880, and began a general practice through- out New England, with an office in Boston at No. 30 Court Street. He served for a short time as private secretary to Chief Justice Horace Gray of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He was married February 12, 1885, to Mary Persis, daughter of the Hon. Charles H. and Sarah A. (Gilman) Bell, of Exeter, N.H. Her father was at one time governor of New Hampshire and United States Senator. One child was born of this marriage, Gladys Loring Bailey. They lived in Boston up to 1890, when they removed to Cambridge. He served as chairman of the City Committee of the Non-Partisan Municipal Party of Cam- bridge for one year, 1902; is conveyancer for the Cambridge Savings Bank; clerk of the First Church in Cambridge (Unitarian); in 1900, became a member of the board of bar examiners of Massachusetts, and in 1903, became chairman of the board. He was elected to membership in the Cambridge Club, and became its president. He is a member of the Colonial Club of Cambridge, where he served for a time as a member of the committee on admission; of the American Free Trade League; the Bailey-Bayley Family Associa- tion, of which he was president, and is now treasurer; the Bostonian Society, and the American Bar Association. He left the Repub- lican party when James G. Blaine was nomi- nated for president in 1882, and since that time has acted with the Democratic party.
He has written articles for the Harvard Law Review, and is the author of "Attorneys and their Admission to the Bar of Massachusetts." He assisted in the compilation and publication of a volume of the Bailey genealogy.
HUGH BANCROFT
BANCROFT, HUGH, lawyer and chairman of the Directors of Port of Boston, was born at Cambridge, on September 13, 1879, being the son of William Amos and Mary (Shaw) Bancroft.
He received his early education at the primary and grammar schools of this city, and prepared for college at the Cambridge Latin School. He matriculated at Harvard with the class of 1898, but, completing the course in three years, grad- uated at the age of seventeen, with the class of 1897. He next studied civil engineering at the Lawrence Scientific School, received his degree of A.M. in 1898, and entered Harvard Law School, whence he was graduated in 1901. Having been admitted to the Bar in January
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of that year, he now became a member of the firm of Stone, Dallinger & Bancroft. His con- nection with it lasted till 1907. He had, in the meantime, been assistant district attorney of Middlesex County from 1902 to 1906. In 1907 he was district attorney for the same County.
At one time General Bancroft was among the most active trial lawyers in the state, but in 1909 he gave up court practice to take the posi- tion of treasurer of the Boston News Bureau. He still maintains his office practice, however. He is a director of the News Bureau and the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Co., and also of the Central Trust Co. of this city. He served in the militia of Massachusetts
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from 1894 to 1909, when he was retired with the rank of major-general. He has been judge advocate general of Massachusetts. During the Spanish war he held a commission in the United States service as adjutant of the 5th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
He married Mary A. Cogan on June 25, 1902. Her death occurred on October 29, 1903. He married his second wife, Jane W. Waldron, on January 15, 1907.
He is a Congregationalist. He is a member of the following organizations: the Chamber of Commerce, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Union, the Union Boat, Colonial, Harvard (New York), and St. Botolph Clubs.
WILLIAM AMOS BANCROFT
BANCROFT, WILLIAM AMOS, president of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, son of Charles B. Bancroft, was born at Groton, Mass., on April 26, 1855. He received his school edu- cation partly (1867-1872) in the Lawrence Academy, Groton, partly (1873-1874) in Phil- lips Exeter Academy. He then entered Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1878. After studying at the Harvard Law School (1879-1881), he was admitted to the Suffolk Bar in 1881. In 1882 he was elected to the Cambridge Common Council. He sat in the Legislature from 1883 to 1885. He served the city as alderman in 1891 and 1892, and as mayor from 1893 to 1896. General Bancroft was elected overseer of Harvard in 1893, and at the expiration of his first term in 1899 was re-elected for six years more. Having enlisted in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia in 1875, he reached the rank of major-general after serving in the various grades. At the time of the Spanish War he was appointed brigadier-general of United States Volunteers. He was connected with the Boston Elevated Railway Company from 1885 to 1890. In March, 1896, he renewed his connection with this company, and has been president of it since October, 1899. General Bancroft is a director in the United States, Puritan and Chelsea Trust Companies; a trustee of the Norwich University, Vermont; Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass .; and Phil- lips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. He presided at the Massachusetts State Republican
Convention in 1893, and at the 120th anniver- sary of Phillips Exeter Academy in 1903; he was chief marshal of the Harvard Alumni in 1903, and grand marshal of the Veterans Column in the Hooker Monument Parade the same year. He is president of the Mayors' Club of Massa- chusetts, Cambridge Club and New England
WILLIAM AMOS BANCROFT
Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy; a member of the Cincinnati Order of Foreign Wars; Order of Spanish War, and the following clubs: Union, Commercial, Exchange, Art, Colonial (Cam- bridge) and Middlesex. His marriage to Miss Mary Shaw took place in Boston, 1878.
JOHN EDWARD BARRY
BARRY, JOHN EDWARD, mayor of Cambridge, was born on September 18, 1874, his parents having long been residents of Cambridge. He was named for his two uncles, brothers of his mother, and as he was "Eddie," as a child, so he continued to be known by his middle name, until many of his friends did not know that it was not his only one.
He went to St. Mary's parochial school in Cambridgeport, and having advanced through
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all the grades he finished in St. Thomas Aquinas college. Incidentally, Mr. Barry is the first graduate of St. Mary's School to be elected mayor of Cambridge.
A course at a Boston commercial college fitted the young man for entrance into business life. He lost no time selecting an occupation and decided in favor of the railroad business. As a boy he went into the passenger and freight agency of a large trunk line and rose to the position of clerk. He moved about the railroad
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offices of Washington Street, increasing his acquaintance and the number of his friends, and, accordingly, received successively better offers, until eleven years ago, he was placed in charge of the New England tourist department of the Wabash Railroad, with headquarters in Boston. As the agent for the Wabash, it is Mr. Barry's business to persuade and induce persons con- templating a trip to the west or southwest to take his lines. He has been singularly successful in securing patronage, and he arranged for the trip of the Massachusetts delegates to the Denver convention of the Democratic party in 1908.
Some men are born with a zest for politics, and Mayor Barry is one of that kind. He
began to engage modestly in the game as soon as he had a vote. There was always some can- didate in whose success he was interested, and he worked heroically soliciting votes for many men who since have reciprocated.
There came a time when he aspired to office, and it was with ease that he was elected to the Common Council from Old Ward 2 in the fall of 1900. Two years he served in the lower body of the City Council, and when he had com- pleted that term he was advanced to the Board of Aldermen. In 1903, 1904 and 1905 he sat in the Board of Aldermen, and during the latter year he was its president.
During 1906 he was a member of the House of Representatives from old Ward 2, and he was courageous enough to try for a second term in a district which had then been made Republican by a normal majority of 1,200. No Democrat was assumed to have a chance in that district, but when the votes were counted Mr. Barry was defeated by only 83, which shows the heavy Republican following he had.
As he did not propose to move out of his home ward in order to reach Beacon Hill again, Mr. Barry had about settled down to the life of an ex-office holder when he was importuned to be a candidate for alderman again. He was re- turned to the Board of 1908, ending his service in April, 1909.
Two years ago Mr. Barry made his first try for the Democratic nomination for mayor, and when Mayor Brooks was selected he entered into the campaign a loyal supporter of the party candidate. He did not oppose the renomination of Mr. Brooks, but when the Mayor expressed an intention to retire, Mr. Barry entered the field and became the Democratic candidate.
Probably no candidate for mayor ever had a more enthusiastic body of volunteer workers or a larger band than were enlisted in the cam- paign for mayor. Without request and with no instructions from the candidate, scores of young men canvassed the city, conducted a door-bell campaign, rounded up voters on the streets, in the stores and on the cars. Everyone spent his own money in Mr. Barry's behalf, so strong was the admiration for him.
Speaking of his policy as mayor Mr. Barry said: "Cambridge cannot be further developed as a residential city. We cannot hope to in-
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crease the amount of taxable property as a city of homes merely. It is essential that if we are to add to our valuation the increase must come from industrial plants.
"It is my hope as Mayor to encourage the location of manufacturing plants in Cambridge. We have large tracts in the northern and eastern sections of the city that offer very attractive industrial sites.
"We hold out to manufacturers good railroad facilities, the privilege of water transportation and proximity to Boston. I believe that manu- facturers consider it an advantage to be located near Boston, and in that respect Cambridge is near enough to satisfy anybody.
"I believe that much may be accomplished through the co-operation of the city adminis- tration and the Citizens' Trade Association. If we strive to secure more manufacturing and endeavor to induce the people who now work here to live in Cambridge we shall be doing a work that means increased business for our merchants as well as an addition to our valua- tion."
He is a bachelor, and lives with his two sisters, Misses Abbie C. and Kathryn C. Barry, at 347 Broadway, the three constituting the family.
He has little use for the street car lines which pass his door, for Mr. Barry's chief form of recreation and exercise is walking. Being an ardent fresh-air advocate, he usually walks to and from his office, and on the coldest and most blustering days he may be seen tramping across the West Boston Bridge.
Mayor Barry did much to bring about the settlement of the Amherst Street controversy. The question of closing this street threatened at one time to deprive Cambridge of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Barry is a member of the Elks, Knights of Columbus, Catholic Union and St. Mary's Catholic Association, and was elected president of the Association of Railroad and Steamship Agents, January 6, 1912.
HENRY WILLIAMSON BEAL
BEAL, HENRY WILLIAMSON, lawyer, and ·progressive citizen of Cambridge, was born in Danvers, Mass., February 25, 1875. He is the son of Abram S. and Margaret E. (Hay)
Beal. His father was born August, 1845, and is engaged in the grocery business in Danvers. Henry W. Beal received his early education in the public schools of his native town and fitted for college at Phillips Academy. He entered Harvard College as a member of the class of 1897, and, though working his way through, graduated with his class, receiving his degree, Summa Cum Laude, as well as highest honors in history and political economy. After leaving Harvard he took up the study of law at Boston University Law School, and
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graduated with the class of 1900. At the latter place he still continued to be dependent only on his own efforts.
Admitted to the bar, he began to practice law with Col. J. H. Benton, at 102 Ames Build- ing, Boston. One of the noteworthy incidents of his career is that he secured the necessary authority of city, county and state boards to permit the building of the Industrial Track at East Cambridge; this is the only track of its kind in the state of Massachusetts. Mr. Beal is a Republican in politics and was a member of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen in 1909 and 1910. He was a candidate for another term in 1911, but the tidal wave that swept
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away all the Non-Partisans carried him with it, though he polled a very large vote. He married, June 12, 1902, Miss Bessie Helen Roper, daughter of George H. and Maria L. Roper. They have one child, Bruce Hilton Beal, born November 17, 1907. Mr. Beal attends the Congregational Church, and is a member of the following organizations: Colo- nial Club, Cambridge; Boston Real Estate Exchange; Alumni Associations of Harvard; and Phillips Academy Andover Alumni Asso- ciation.
HENRY M. BIRD BIRD, HENRY M., who in his career showed what triumphs can be achieved in the business
HENRY M. BIRD
world by industry and enterprise, was born in Easton, Mass., October 24, 1824, and died in Cambridge, December 27, 1890. He was married to Sarah A. Clark, who was born in Acworth, N.H., March 2, 1827, and died August 30, 1895, five years after his death. He was educated in the public schools, where he received a good training, and was fully equipped for starting out in the world to make a name in business for himself, which he did
most successfully. He entered the employ of the Chelmsford Foundry Co., at North Chelmsford, Mass., in 1840; there he remained for some time, and then went to work in the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass., where he stayed for a number of years, during the last two of which he was foreman. In 1864 he established the Broadway Iron Foundry in Cambridge. He lived to see the plant grow to be one of the most prosperous concerns of Cambridge. His estate carried on the business until 1895, when it was incorporated under the Massachusetts laws. Mr. R. C. Bird was made president, and W. W. Bird, treasurer. The plant comprises a foundry one hundred by one hundred and fifty feet in area, with pattern and fitting shops, and gives steady employment to fifty men. The present Broad- way Foundry differs greatly from the foundry established in 1864 by H. M. Bird, yet does resemble it in one respect, for it is equipped with the most improved facilities of the day, just as the original foundry was with the best facilities known nearly half a century ago. To do good work at short notice and for fair prices has always been the policy of the Broad- way Foundry.
Mr. Bird was always very active in church affairs, and for a number of years was a deacon in the North Avenue Congregational church, and later filled the same position in the Prospect Street Congregational church. In the latter years of his life he was an ardent supporter of the Prohibition party. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bird are as follows: Charles A. Bird, now with the Albany Sand Company, of New York; George H. Bird, Congregational minister in Chicago; William W. Bird, pro- fessor of mechanical engineering at the Wor- cester Polytechnic Institute; and Robert C. Bird, who is manager of the Broadway Iron Foundry.
MARSHALL FRANKLIN BLANCHARD
BLANCHARD, MARSHALL FRANKLIN, merchant in Boston, and resident of Cambridge, was born at Wellfleet, Mass., being the son of Marshall L. Blanchard by his wife Phoebe H. Bunting. His father was born at Charlestown, Mass., in 1824, his mother at Wellfleet, and both died at
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Newton, Mass. Marshall F. Blanchard was educated first at the public schools of Swamp- scott, Boston and Newton, and afterwards at Bryant and Stratton's Business College. When he had completed the course of studies at this place, he entered the employ of Bunting & Emery, of which firm he is now a member. He has been president of the T Wharf Fish Market since 1902. In national politics he is a Repub- lican; and in municipal, a Non-Partisan. He served the city on the Board of Aldermen from January, 1902, to April, 1911, when he volun-
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