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tarily retired, and thus terminated an honorable career of five years in that branch of the City Government. Mr. Blanchard married Emma, daughter of William D. A. Whitman by his wife Emma Paty. Mrs. Blanchard was born in Boston and so was her mother; her father was a native of Waltham. The marriage took place at Newton. Two children were born of this union, Arthur F. and Helen. The daughter . is dead. Arthur, born at Newton in 1881, at- tended the Dana, the Harvard, and the Latin Schools of Cambridge, entered Harvard, and graduated in 1904.
Mr. Blanchard is a member of the Colonial
Club (Cambridge), Cambridge Club, Middlesex Republican Club, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
WILLIAM F. BRADBURY
BRADBURY, WILLIAM FROTHINGHAM, Master Emeritus of the Cambridge Latin School, was born in Westminster, Mass., May 17, 1829. He is descended on his father's side from Thomas Bradbury, of Essex County, England, who was born in 1610, settled in Salisbury, Mass., in 1639, and died in 1695. The line of descent is as follows: (2) William, 1649-1678; (3) William, 1672-1756; (4) James, 1701 -? ; (5) Sanders, 1737-1779, killed in the Revolu- tion; (6) James, 1767-1811; (7) William Sanders, 1800-1881. William Sanders Brad- bury, the father of the subject of this sketch and a merchant in Westminster, was born in Hollis, N.H., and attended the common school there. He was a Congregationalist, serving as deacon for many years. In politics he was first a Whig and later a Republican. He served in the Legislature of Massachusetts, in 1844, and was a trial justice for his district. Eliza- beth Emerson, his wife, was born in Hollis, N.H., July 29, 1800, being a descendant of the Rev. Daniel Emerson (1743-1801), the first minister of Hollis, N.H., through (2) Deacon Daniel Emerson, born December 15, 1746, and (3) the Rev. Daniel Emerson, 1771-1808. The atter's wife was Esther Frothingham (1770- 1849), and her father, Major Frothingham, who was born in 1734, served through the Revolu- tion, became a major, entered the honorable ranks of the Cincinnati, and died in 1809. General Washington visited him when on his last tour north, the only special call made by him when in Charlestown. Mr. Bradbury often heard his grandfather say that he remem- bered being carried out of Charlestown when the British were going to set it on fire. From 1844 to 1848, Mr. Bradbury was employed as clerk in the country store and post-office of Hollis, N.H .; in 1848, was land surveyor for that place and its vicinity, and taught in the district school during the winters of 1848 to 1854. He had never thought of going to college until May, 1852; so, when he entered
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Amherst College in August of that year it was without any special preparation. He worked his way through college by teaching during the winters, and graduated as valedictorian of the class of 1856, his brother being the salutatorian of the same class. The Cambridge school committee had not seen him, yet before his graduation he was elected teacher of mathe- matics and physics in the Cambridge High School at a salary of nine hundred dollars, and entered upon the work of the position on Monday, September 1, 1856. There were
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five teachers, two men and three women, and two hundred pupils at that time. Early in April, 1857, the master having died, Mr. Brad- bury was appointed acting-master for the remainder of the year. On November 10, 1865, he was elected Hopkins Classical Teacher, which position he continued to hold nearly forty-five years. In April, 1881, Mr. Bradbury was elected head master of the Latin School, but at the same time held the mastership of the English High School until the following September. He resigned December, 190S, from the Latin School. Thus, for more than fifty-three years he served the city as a teacher, and for thirty-three years as the head of one
of its most important schools. On his retire- ment from the head of the Latin School, Mr. Bradbury was made Master Emeritus of the Latin School.
Mr. Bradbury has been active in professional and many other organizations, serving most acceptably in various positions of honor and trust. He is an ex-president of the Middlesex County Teachers' Association, of the Massa- chusetts Teachers' Association (1879-1880), of the Cambridge Choral Society (1874), of the High School Masters' Club (1885-1886), of the School Masters' Club (1898-1899), and of the American Institute of Instruction (1901-1902).
He has been secretary and treasurer of the Classical and High School Teachers' Associa- tion since its organization in 1868, of the Teachers' Association since October, 1867, treasurer of the Teachers' Annuity Guild since April, 1893, of the Friday Evening Club since 1880, and of the Cambridge Club since 1882. He has been a member of the Handel and Haydn Society since 1864, and its president since May, 1909, having been on the board of directors twenty-five years, and secretary from 1899 to 1909. He served in the common council of this city for the years 1883 and 1884, and is an Independent Republican in politics.
During the fifty-three years and five months *of Mr. Bradbury's career as teacher in Cam- bridge, he was absent on account of illness but two days; he has not had a doctor since 1849.
Mr. Bradbury, on August 27, 1857, married, in Templeton, Mass., Margaret Jones, a daughter of Abijah and Phoebe Jones. Abijah Jones was a carriage maker and served as captain in the militia. Mrs. Bradbury is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College. Three children were born of this marriage: William Harvard Templeton, born July 28, 1858, gradu- ate of Harvard College, wool broker; Marion, born December 1, 1863; Margaret Seymour, born September S, 1877, graduate of Rad- cliffe College, teacher in the Cambridge Latin School. Mr. Bradbury, in addition to being the author of many text-books on mathematics, is the inventor of several school appliances, in- cluding a device for illustrating the metric system.
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EDWARD J. BRANDON
BRANDON, EDWARD J., City Clerk of Cam- bridge, was born in a small country town of Ireland, July 15, 1863, and came to this country with his parents, John and Margaret Brandon when he was but two years old. After living in Boston a few months the family removed to Cambridge. Edward attended the Cambridge public schools until he was graduated from the grammar school, and then entered the Boston College preparatory school. After graduating from the latter school he entered Boston College, but in his junior year left college to take a posi- tion in the counting-room of the New England News Company. He was rapidly promoted in this office, and in 1882 was made assistant cashier.
He resigned this position with the News com- pany when he was elected assistant City Clerk of Cambridge, January 12, 1887. The election was by the City Council in joint convention to fill an unexpired term, and was not made until the tenth ballot. The following March, how- ever, he received the unanimous vote of the Council for the ensuing year, and since that date was always unanimously elected.
Mr. Brandon was elected City Clerk in Octo- ber, 1895, upon the death of City Clerk Walter W. Pike, and has been re-elected year after year up to the present.
From the very first of his work as a city official, Mr. Brandon became interested in his- torical Cambridge and the preservation of public records. He was one of the founders and mem- bers of the first council of the Cambridge His- torical Society, and at the request of that society has compiled a volume of the "proprietors'" records of Cambridge, covering a period from 1635 to 1829, and a volume of the selectmen's records of the town of Cambridge, covering a period from 1630 to 1703. Both of these vol- umes have been highly commended by historical and genealogical societies.
Mr. Brandon has always been an ardent worker in the Father Mathew Total Abstinence societies. He was first grand knight of the Cambridge council Knights of Columbus.
He is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Asso- ciation, the Riverside Boat Club, Division 5 A.O.H., the Cambridge Club, the Cambridge
Board of Trade, the Catholic Union of Cam- bridge and the Holy Name Society of Cambridge. He was the first president of the latter society.
Mr. Brandon was married to Miss Mary A. Corcoran of Cambridge, September 18, 1890, and has three children: Margaret J. Brandon, the elder daughter, who is a graduate of the Notre Dame Academy of Boston; Edmund J. Brandon, the only son; and Mary A. Brandon.
Although unable to continue his course at Boston College, which he always regretted, Mr. Brandon did not stop studying, and in 1901
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he began the study of law, taking a few lessons in an evening school. He completed the course by studying at home and in a law office, and was admitted to the bar of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in special sitting in August, 1905.
SILAS EDWARD BUCK
BUCK, SILAS EDWARD, one of the public- spirited citizens of Cambridge, son of Silas Beaman and Mary Elizabeth (Smallidge) Buck, was born in Cambridge, Mass., May 20, 1847. He was a pupil in the public school of Cambridge, and his first business position was with Parker, Wilder & Company, the well- known commission dry goods merchants of Boston. He remained with this firm for nine
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years, and at the end of that time opened a store in East Cambridge for the sale of gentle- men's furnishing goods at retail. He con- ducted this business for three years, and then engaged in the coal business in connection with the firm of Joseph A. Wellington & Company, and he was with this firm for nine years, when he was offered a partnership, and on May 1, 1887, the firm of Wellington & Buck succeeded
daughter of Nehemiah Wellington, of Middle- sex County, and cousin of Austin C. Wellington (q.v.), of Cambridge, and Frederick W. Welling- ton, of Worcester, Mass. Silas Edward and Ellen Antoinette (Wellington) Buck had no children. They resided in Cambridge, and have a summer home at Jaffrey, N.H. Mr. Buck was a member of the New England Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Putnam
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that of Joseph A. Wellington & Co., and the business was continued at 211 Bridge Street, East Cambridge. On the death of his partner, Joseph A. Wellington, August 1, 18SS, he con- tinued the business alone, but retained the firm name under which he was carrying it on in 1907. Mr. Buck was married November, 1874, to Ellen Antoinette, daughter of Joseph Abbott and Ellen (Smith) Wellington, grand-
Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and of the Cambridge Chapter Commandery Knights Templar. He became a trustee of the East Cambridge Savings Bank, and a member of the common council of the city of Cambridge in 1889, and a member of the board of aldermen of the city in 1890. Mr. Buck died at his summer home, Jaffrey, N.H., August 28, 1908, survived by his wife.
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WILLARD AUSTIN BULLARD
BULLARD, WILLARD AUSTIN, son of Joseph and Harriet (Loker) Bullard, was born in Way- land, December 14, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of eighteen began his business career as a clerk in the Faneuil Hall Bank, of Boston. In 1861, when the Harvard Bank of Cambridge,
He was elected president of the First National Bank in 1896, succeeding Daniel U. Chamberlin after his death. He had been cashier for many years, and had had much of the responsibility of its management for thirty years or more. Mr. Bullard was called upon to act as trustee and executor of many important estates. He stood high among the financial men of
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then a state bank, began business, he connected himself with it and was identified with it until his death. It was reorganized a few years later as the First National Bank of Cambridge, under the National Bank Act, finally resuming a State charter under the name of the Harvard Trust Company. Mr. Bullard rose through the various positions in the bank to the head.
New England, and was interested in many of the important industries of Cambridge. He was president of the Cambridge Gaslight Company; treasurer and director of the Allen and Endicott Building Company of Cambridge; a director of the Boston Woven Hose Company; was formerly a trustee of the Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company; was a trustee of the
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Cambridgeport Savings Bank; a director of the Home for Aged People of Cambridge; trustee and treasurer of the Cambridge Hospital, from its organization; trustee of the Dowse Institute; trustee of Daniel White Charity, which distributes coal to the poor of the City; a director of the West Point (Georgia) Manu- facturing Company; a director of the Riverdale Cotton Mills; and a director of the Chatta- choochee Valley (Georgia) Railroad Company.
He was a member of the Cambridge Club, and attended the Unitarian Church. He had a sum- mer home in his native town, Wayland. He married Susan Matilda Bennett, daughter of Jonas Bennett. His children are: (1) Amy Celinea, born March 10, 1862, who married Herbert C. Wells; (2) Henry Willard, born December 2, 1863; . (3) Gardner Cutting, born January 17, 1866, graduate of Harvard, 1889; (4) Arthur Bennett, born July 20, 1872; (5) Channing Sears, born December 20, 1879, died January 8, 1907.
Mr. Bullard died November 12, 1912.
ARTHUR A. CAREY
CAREY, ARTHUR A., was born in Italy, Feb- ruary 23, 1857. He is the son of John Carey, Jr., and Alida Astor. His early life was spent in New York, where his parents made their home. He matriculated at Harvard, and in 1879 was graduated. He then spent several years in Europe. In 1889, his marriage to Miss Agnes Whiteside took place, and they chose Boston as their place of residence. Mr. Carey became interested in the Museum of Fine Arts and the Massachusetts General Hos- pital. Later, in 1898, he came to Cambridge, and is a resident of this city at the present time. Social betterment work absorbs a large part of Mr. Carey's attention now: he has founded a settlement house in Waltham for the employees of the Waltham Watch Company, and serves as a trustee. His children are Henry Reginald, Arthur Graham, Alida and Frances.
HANS L. CARSTEIN
CARSTEIN, HANS L., coal merchant for a number of years at North Cambridge, was born in Schleswig, Germany, March 17, 1841; died
at his home, January, 1911; son of Claus P. and Margareta (Detlefsen) Carstein. Claus P. Carstein was a farmer and land owner, and during the war between Prussia and Denmark, in 1848, he was in command of a military com- pany, and it was through political differences, that he was obliged to leave Germany, in 1850, and seek refuge in the United States. On his way from New York to California by way of Panama, he was a victim of yellow fever dying at Panama, in 1851. His property was confiscated and his family lost its usual income. His son, Hans L., under the custom of Germany, received a commercial education, and he then went to sea. before the mast, and after fifteen years' sea service came back to Germany, master of the ship. The Franco- Prussian War having closed, he brought his mother and sister to the United States to join a brother who had preceded them. They arrived in Boston, Mass., 1871, at the time of the great Chicago fire, and his first work was one of philanthropy, to collect clothing for the relief of the sufferers in that city, making appeals for help on Boston Common, and receiving not only clothing, but provisions and money. He joined his brother Theodore in the paint and oil business on Hanover Street, Boston, and, meeting with business reverses in 1873, during the financial panic of that year, they gave up the business two years later. Meantime, his sister Theresa had married Frank Canter, who was in the provision busi- ness in Jamaica Plain, and in closing out the paint and oil business he joined him as a partner in 1874. He bought out the coal business of Benjamin F. Rogers at North Cambridge, and from an output of two thousand tons annually he built up the business so that in 1910, the output was over forty thousand tons annually. He married (first), in 1876, Ida Peterson, a daughter of a German Lutheran clergyman, and they had one son, Gustave E. Carstein, born July 24, 1881, in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and he was prepared for college, going through Harvard, class of 1905, and on leaving college engaged in business with his father, as manager of the yards. Mrs. Carstein died in 1SS1. He married (second) June 17, 1883, Magdalene, daughter of the Rev. C. F. Doring, a German Lutheran clergyman. By this marriage his
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children were: Lorenz F., born May 14, 1884, graduated at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. In 1906, he was assigned to the Asiatic Squadron at the Philippines. Hans L., Jr., born in Cambridge, Mass., October 13, 1885, who after leaving school took a three years' course at Culver Military Academy in Indiana, graduating as a commissioned officer, first lieutenant-quartermaster, preparatory to engaging in business with his father and elder
a congregation of between sixty and seventy German families, residents of the neighborhood of the mission house. With his family he was connected with St. James church, North Cambridge, from 18SS, and he was made treas- urer of the church corporation. He was a member of the Pilgrim Fathers, Young Men's Christian Association of Cambridge, and held the offices as director, trustee and treasurer of the organizations. He was also trustee of
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brother. Gretchen, born in Cambridge, Mass., October 22, 1888, was prepared for entrance to Smith College, Northampton, Mass., at the Gilman school, Cambridge, and at Burnham school, Northampton, Mass. Mr. Carstein became a layman and lay reader in the Episco- pal Protestant church, of which his family were also members, and he conducted mission work in East Cambridge from 1891, in connec- tion with the church of the Ascension, where he conducted service every other Sunday, and
the Fitchman Estates in Cambridge. He was a member of the Cambridge and Colonial clubs, and in the Middlesex Republican club. He was a member of the common council of Cambridge, 1899, and alderman for six con- secutive years, 1890-96, and in 1896 he refused further nomination on account of ill health. As a member of the board of aldermen he was a member of the finance committee, and the highway committee, all special committees and chairman of the investigating committee.
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In the board he advocated the extension of the Boston Subway to Cambridge, being the first member to open the subject on committees, and for three years he was chairman of the committee appointed to act on behalf of the city government, and before he left the board the matter was practically settled and the subway assured. In this connection he in- vited fifty of the most prominent citizens of Cambridge to meet at the City Hall and confer with him and Mayor Augustine Daly, and after several meetings it was unanimously voted that the subway system was far superior to the elevated system for securing effective and reasonable rapid transit from Boston to Harvard Square. Mr. Carstein was made a delegate from the eighth Massachusetts district to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, in 1904, as an acknowledgment of his work in the interest of the party in Cam- bridge. He composed a campaign song which was received with rousing cheers when sung to the air of "Die Wacht am Rhein," by the delegates, when Theodore Roosevelt was nominated, the chairman of the Massachusetts delegation having provided five thousand copies with both words and music printed for distribution in the Convention Hall. Few men, indeed, pass on whose death is so gen- erally and so sincerely mourned as that of Hans L. Carstein. While he had been in failing health for some time and the end was not unexpected, the realization at the present moment that he is gone is none the less an occasion for sadness and regret. His honesty and kindliness, whether in business or social matters, surrounded him with friends and associates whose respect for him only increased as time went on. Mr. Carstein was most fortunate in his home surroundings. He made his home and his family circle the happiest place that he or any member of it could know. Even when an incurable malady fastened itself upon him, his cheerfulness did not desert him, and his weakness was borne with a courage that showed his abiding serenity of spirit. What this meant to him and to Mrs. Carstein and to all those whom he met in his native land on his trip abroad can well be imagined.
Cambridge parts sorrowfully with such a man as Mr. Carstein, who spent here an active
and highly useful and honorable career. His memory and his example, however, will long remain as one of the city's best heritages.
DR. A. P. CLARKE
CLARKE, Dr. AUGUSTUS P., who was one of the leading physicians of the University City, was born in Pawtucket, R.I., September 24, 1833, being the son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke, both lineal descendants of the earliest Puritans who were among the most influential settlers of Plymouth, Boston, Dorchester, Hingham, Roxbury, Dedham and Mendon in Massachusetts, and Providence, Newport, Portsmouth and Warwick, in Rhode Island. His father was of the eighth genera- tion in descent from Joseph Clarke, who with his wife Alice came with the settlers comprising the first Dorchester company, that embarked at Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, in the ship Mary and John. He was the ancestor of the late eminent Professor Edward H. Clarke of the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Clarke's mother was of the sixth in descent from Joseph Peck, who came in the ship Diligent from old Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., 1638. Among his ancestors who may be mentioned on his mother's side, was Dr. James Tallman, a physician in Portsmouth, R.I., in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was the son of Peter Tallman, who was general solicitor of the Colony; commissioner and deputy of Rhode Island. Abraham Staples was another ancestor who served in Captain Poole's com- pany in the war against King Philip, in 1675. Another ancestor on his father's side was Rev. Ebenezer Kencks, ordained pastor of the First Baptist church of Providence, in 1719. Still another paternal ancestor was David Thompson, who settled in 1619 on Thompson's Island, Boston Harbor, prior to the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. He was a "Scottish gentleman, scholar and traveller." Among the other direct lineal descendants may be mentioned Richard Everett, who was also the ancestor of the late orator Edward Everett, and Maturin Ballou, Universalist preacher and author. Another ancestor on his father's side that may be mentioned was Geary Puffer;
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he, in 1639, settled in Mount Wollaston, Mass., and became an ancestor of the late Hon. Charles Sumner.
Dr. Clarke attended the public schools in his native state and fitted for college in the University Preparatory School, Providence, R.I., where he entered college receiving the degree of A.M. from Brown University in the class of 1861. Before leaving college he began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Lewis L. Miller, a graduate of Brown, who at that time, was the most eminent surgeon of Rhode Island. Dr. Clarke received his degree M.D. from the Harvard Medical School.
On September 30, 1861, he was appointed Assistant-Surgeon of the 6th Regiment New York Cavalry. He served in the Peninsular Campaign under General MacClellan, was at the siege of Yorktown and in that concatena- tion of Seven Days' Battles including those at Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Peach Orchard and Savages' Station in June, 1862. On June 29th (1862) he was on duty at the great field hospital at Savages' Station, and realizing that the hospital would soon be captured, he preferred to remain caring for the wounded, and thus, though on duty, to become a prisoner of war and to endure all the hardships incident to such trying service, than to abandon the many helpless victims to the unready hands of the enemy. By his persistent efforts he was allowed to continue for several weeks' attend- ance on the wounded until all were duly ex- changed.
He was promoted to the rank of full surgeon in the same regiment on May 5th, 1863, and served under General Dix in an expedition against Richmond in the spring and summer of 1863, and under General Meade with the Cavalry Corps in the Rappahannock Campaign and in all the operations of the army of the Potomac in the autumn of the same year.
On the opening campaign of 1864, undertaken by General Grant, Dr. Clarke was appointed the surgeon-in-chief of the Second Brigade, First Cavalry Division, and was on duty in all the operations undertaken by General Sheridan of that year.
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