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On leaving college he engaged in a small
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way in a school-book agency, buying his books outright, and thus was under obligation to no one. His first independent venture was the publishing of Craik's English of Shakes- peare, which he obtained from the house of Crosby and Ainsworth. The study of Shakes- peare had just begun to be taken up in colleges and secondary schools, and the young pub- lisher realized that it was an opportune time to put out this book. A little later he secured the services of the Rev. Henry N. Hudson, who edited for him twenty-one plays for the use of the schools and the Harvard edition of Shakespeare for libraries.
His second work of importance was Allen's Latin Grammar, a book which was very well received. The success of this book led the young publisher to apply to Professor Goodwin of Harvard for a Greek Grammar. He called upon the professor and made known his errand; he at once said to him: "The manuscript you wish is in my desk at this moment, well- nigh finished."
Professor Goodwin's "Moods and Tenses," had already established his name among Creek scholars, and almost immediately upon its publication his Greek Grammar found an entrance into nearly all the leading classical schools and colleges in the country.
The popularity of Allen's Latin Grammar, however, was of short duration. It was soon found that the brief course was not sufficient for the schools, that a fuller treatise was neces- sary for the intelligent study of the texts. Therefore, Professor J. B. Greenough was called in to revise and enlarge this book, and to pre- pare editions of the Latin texts, Caesar, Cicero and Virgil. Professor Goodwin also enlarged and revised his Greek Grammar, and he and Professor John Williams White began the edit- ing of the Greek texts. These Latin and Greek books laid the foundation for the success of the house of Ginn and Company.
Philanthropy of all kinds has always appealed to Mr. Ginn. He has given especial attention to the housing of the poor in model tenements, and to the cause of peace and arbitration, look- ing forward to the disarmament of the world's great armies. This last he counts as his greatest effort for the good of mankind, and
to this work he is giving a large amount of time and money.
He was married in 1869 to Clara, daughter of Jesse and Martha (Bartlett) Glover; and again in 1893 to Francescam, daughter of Carl Christian and Maria Christiana (Vitriarius) Grebé, of Germany. By his first wife he had four children: Jessie, Maurice, Herbert and Clara; and by his second wife, two: Edwin, Jr., and Marguerita Christina.
WALTER S. GLIDDEN
GLIDDEN, WALTER S., a member of the Governor's Council for the years 1908-9-10, was born in Pittston, now Randolph, Me., April 30,
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1856, and resides at 380 Broadway, Somerville, Mass. He is a member of the firms of N. E. Hollis & Co .; Sands, Furber & Co .; L. A. Johnson & Co .; and the J. H. Whiton Company; director of J. V. Fletcher Company; president of Hollis Cold Storage Company; president of Hinckley Rendering Company; director of the New England Dressed Meat & Wool Com- pany; director of the Beacon Trust Company, Boston, and member of the executive com- mittee; director and chairman of the invest- ment committee of the Winter Hill Co-opera- tive Bank; director of the Somerville Trust
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Company; president of the Winchester Home for Aged Women; vice-president and member of investment committee of the Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank; vice-president and member of the finance committee of the Mutual Protection Fire Insurance Company; one of the board of management of Hunt's Home for Orphan Children, Charlestown; trustee of the Somerville Home for the Aged; trustee and member of the finance committee of the Somerville hospital; member of the Boston Fruit & Produce Exchange and Chamber of Commerce; member of Faith and Soley lodges, A.F. and A.M., Charlestown Royal Arch chapter, and Coeur de Lion commandery, Knights Templar; a thirty-second degree Mason; member of Olive branch, I.O.O.F., of Charlestown, and the Central Club of Somerville, Mass.
WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN
GOODWIN, WILLIAM WATSON, Ph.D., LL.D., D.L.C., for forty years Greek professor at Har- vard University, up to 1901, and from that year professor emeritus, was born in Concord, Mass., on May 9, 1831, the son of Hersey Bradford Goodwin and Lucretia Ann (Watson) Goodwin. He was graduated from Harvard in 1851 and later studied at the universities in Berlin, Göt- tingen and at Bonn. He was abroad till 1855. The next year he became a tutor in Greek at Harvard and continued as such until 1860, when he was appointed Eliot professor of Greek literature. This chair he filled for two-score years, giving up his active part in the depart- ment in 1901, while retaining his long and deep interest as professor emeritus. His knowledge of the classics was profound, as his industry was untiring.
He was only the fourth professor to hold the Eliot professorship, although the Eliot endow- ment was established by Samuel Eliot, the grandfather of President Eliot. It was held first by Edward Everett, who was succeeded by Professor Popkin. Professor Felton suc- ceeded to the endowment in 1834.
Just previous to his retirement Professor Goodwin was guest of honor at a dinner given at Hotel Somerset by thirty of his colleagues, headed by Dr. Charles W. Eliot, then president
of the University. He was given a magnificent silver loving cup, and the presentation was made by Bishop Lawrence.
He received honorary degrees from Harvard, Columbia, Amherst, Yale and Chicago, as well as from Cambridge, Oxford, Göttingen and Edinburgh. He received from the King of Greece the decoration of Knight of the Cross of the Saviour.
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Professor Goodwin was a most active sup- porter of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and he was its first director, in 1882-1883. Twice he was president of the American Philological Society. He was also a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Archaeological Society and the Colonial Society. He was active in a number of social organizations. Some of the other societies of which he was a member are the Hellenic, Lon- don; Philological of Cambridge, England; Archaeological Society and Academy of Science, Athens; Hellenic, Constantinople; and Imperial German Archaeological Institute, Berlin.
He brought distinction to Harvard and America through many of his published works. One of his last works was an edition of "Demos-
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thenes on the Crown," published by the Cam- bridge (Eng.) University Press. He had not yet become recognized as one of the world's greatest Greek scholars when he published "The Greek Moods and Tenses," afterward considered as a standard work. Professor Goodwin was a generally accepted authority on Plato. He was also the author of a widely known work on Athenian law and of "Goodwin's Greek Grammar," known to every student in classical languages throughout the country.
Professor Goodwin died June 16, 1912, at his residence, 5 Follen Street, after an illness of about a month's duration. He was eighty-one years old, and succumbed to heart disease.
His wife survives him.
JOHN WILKES HAMMOND
HAMMOND, JOHN WILKES, born in Rochester (now Mattapoisett), December 16, 1837, is the son of John Wilkes and Maria Louise (South-
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worth) Hammond. He received his education in the schools of his native town, fitting for college at the Mattapoisett Academy, and graduating from Tufts College in the class of
1861. He began the practice of law in March, 1866, having an office at East Cambridge. He continued to practice in Middlesex and adjoining counties until March 10, 1886, having in the meantime, from 1873 to 1886, been City Solicitor. He was elevated to the Superior Court Bench at that date. On September 7, 1898, he received his appointment to the Supreme Court of Massa- chusetts, of which he is still a Justice.
He enlisted September, 1862, in the Third Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, and served nine months. He is a member of the Cam- bridge, Colonial and Union Clubs. He repre- sented Cambridge in the General Court in 1872 and 1873, and has also served terms on the Common Council and School Committee. He was married in August, 1866, to Clara E., only daughter of Professor Benjamin Tweed, the well-known educator.
LEANDER MOODY HANNUM
HANNUM, LEANDER MOODY, one of Cam- bridge's most prominent real estate and mort- gage brokers, was born in Northampton, Mass., December 22, 1837. He was the son of Alex- ander C. and Laura A. (Moody) Hannum, and was educated in the public schools of North- ampton and Chicopee, at Williston Seminary, Easthampton; and at the English and Classical Institute, Springfield. After he had finished at Williston, being seventeen years old, he went to California, where he spent two years in the mining fields, and upon his return, in 1856, resumed his studies at the Institute at Springfield, remaining there a year. He was employed for the next two years as salesman in the wholesale grocery house of J. W. Hale & Co., Springfield. Going to New York, he was employed as cashier and correspondent for Elias Howe, inventor of the Howe sewing machines, until 1864, when he came to Cam- bridge, and soon became extensively engaged in the grocery and ice business, and later in real estate, which business he followed with gratifying success. Mr. Hannum served the city in various public capacities. He was first elected to office in 1873, as a member of the common council, where he served one year. In 1874 and 1875 he was
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a member of the board of aldermen. In 1876 and 1877 he represented his city in the House of Representatives, serving as chairman of the committees on public buildings and on street railways. In 1881 and 1882 he was a member of the Senate, and there served as chairman of the committees on prisons and on state house, and a member of the insur- ance committee. He also served for several
Lodge F. and A.M., and chairman of its board of trustees, past officer of the Cambridge Royal Arch Chapter, and member of the Boston Commandery; was an honorary member of several military organizations and G.A.R. Posts; of the Cambridge and Colonial Clubs, the Citizens' Trade Association, and of the Real Estate Association.
Mr. Hannum was married December 15,
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years as special commissioner for Middlesex County, and for twelve years as one of the water commissioners of Cambridge. For seven years he was chairman of the Republican city committee, and had been especially prominent in municipal politics, and was a member of the Library Hall Association. His church connections were with the Third Congregational (Unitarian) church, where he served many years as chairman of the parish committee. He was a member and past master of Amicable
1869, to Anne Howard Demain. Mrs. Hannum died in April, 1909. This was a great sorrow and, no doubt, hastened Mr. Hannum's death, which occurred, September 17, 1909. He is survived by one sister, Esther F. Hannum, who has for many years been a member of his household.
Mr. Hannum was a true type of a self-made man. He was liberal both in his views and with his means; he was a man of high ideals, a wise counselor, a safe leader, a patriotic citizen, a good neighbor, and a loyal friend.
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DR. WILFRED ERNEST HARRIS
HARRIS, WILFRED ERNEST, physician, was born at Aylesford, Nova Scotia, September 3, 1873. His father, the late Major Thomas Rees Harris, merchant, military man and for many years representative of King's County in the Nova Scotia legislature, was born in 1837; and his mother, whose maiden name was Annie I. Farnsworth, in 1846. His paternal ancestors came from Massachusetts and were among the original grantees that settled in the Township
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of Horton, King's County. On the maternal side he is a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens.
Dr. Harris's early education was received in Nova Scotia, and he had the advantage of being instructed by private tutors as well. Foreseeing the important part that osteopathy would play in the art of healing, the young man decided to adopt it as his life work. He accordingly matriculated at the American School of Oste- opathy, Kirksville, Missouri, where he pursued his studies under the founder of Osteopathy, and from which he obtained his degree of Doctor in February, 1900. The post-graduate work that he did later in European hospitals supplied
him with much valuable experience; so when he came to Cambridge, Massachusetts, a short time after, and began to practise, he was well prepared for his task.
It was his intention, however, to continue his researches, and hence the offer of the chair of therapeutics in the Massachusetts College of Osteopathy was accepted by him with that end in view. How highly his services to that institution are appreciated is shown by the fact that four years later, when the then president retired, Dr. Harris was unanimously chosen to succeed him and has held that position since, also retaining the chair of therapeutics. His ability as an executive was given national recog- nition when, at the convention of the American Osteopathic Association in 1907, he was elected president of the Associated Colleges of Oste- opathy in America.
The Cambridge Osteopathic and Surgical Sanitarium, an important addition to the insti- tutions of the city, was opened in 1903; Dr. Harris became resident physician, and subse- quently was made its president. For the past six years he has been giving special attention to diseases of the stomach and intestines.
Though thus actively occupied with his pro- fessional duties, he has nevertheless found time to help propagate, by his lectures and writings, a clearer understanding of the aims of osteopathy. Much distinction has been won by him on ac- count of his addresses on this subject to scien- tific and popular audiences, among which might be mentioned those at Bates College, Maine, the Boston Physiological Society, the Greater New York Osteopathic Society and the Canadian Club of Boston, etc.
His marriage took place in 1899, his wife being Miss Jean Cordelia Hammond Van Allen, a native of Morrisburg, Dundas County, Ontario. They have no children.
Dr. Harris is a member of the following pro- fessional organizations: the American Oste- opathic Association; the Massachusetts Oste- opathic Society; the Academy of Osteopathic Physicians; and the Associated Colleges of Osteopathy, of which he was president in 1907 and 1908. The religious and social bodies with which he is affiliated are the Episcopal Church, the British Charitable Society, the Canadian Club of Boston, the Intercolonial Club of Boston
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and the Independent Order of Foresters. He is also a member of the firm of Fred E. Harris and Company, importers and merchants, of Aylesford, Nova Scotia. He is a registered physician of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts. His consulting office is at 483 Beacon Street, Boston, but his residence is in Cam- bridge.
JOHN J. HIGGINS
The life of JOHN J. HIGGINS, district attorney of the County of Middlesex, reads like the story of one of Horatio Alger's heroes. The story
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might be called "From Breaker Boy to Prose- cuting Attorney," for that is just what Mr. Higgins' experience has been. Since early youth he has been compelled to fight his own way, and to his undying ambition to rise in life is due the fact that he is now one of the chief officials of Middlesex County rather than a poor miner in the pits of the Pennsylvania coal mines. Born in the North End of Boston, May 17, 1865, of poor parents, he was moved from place to place with his parents, going at various times to Newark, Philadelphia, Savannah and
to Scranton, where he worked as a breaker boy at the age of eight, receiving the munificent salary of seven dollars a month for his work. His mother died in 1874, when he was less than nine years old, and his father lost his life in the con- struction work of the Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River shortly after. At the age of ten the boy worked in a furniture store in Boston for two dollars a week, and still later worked on a farm in Madbury, near Dover, N.H. Here he attended the district school until he had learned all it could teach him. Then with but fifty cents that he had borrowed in his pocket, he went to Exeter, where he attended Phillips Academy. He graduated from Exeter in 1887, and that fall entered Harvard Law School, doing chores for his tuition and board. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar just after the completion of his second year at Harvard, and on the completion of his course opened an office in Boston. In 1891 he removed to Somerville where he still lives.
In January, 1906, Mr. Higgins formed a law partnership with Albert A. Gleason with whom he is still associated. He was elected Alderman of Somerville, in 1902, and has also been a member of the legislature. In the fall of 1907 he was elected district attorney, which office he has since held. He has filled the office with dignity and honesty, and has tried, as govern- ment prosecuting officer, many of the most sensational cases in the history of the country.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
HIGGINSON, THOMAS WENTWORTH, author, soldier, and reformer, was one of the men to whom Cambridge will always point with pride. He is the son of Stephen and Louisa (Storrow) Higginson, and was born in this city, December 22, 1823. His preparatory education was received at the private school of William Wells. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1841, and from the University Divinity School in 1847, when he was ordained as pastor of the First Congregational Society in Newbury- port. He left this church on account of anti- slavery preaching in 1850, and the same year ran as a Free-Soil candidate for Congress. He was pastor of a free church in Worcester from 1852 to 1858, when he left the ministry, and
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devoted himself to literature. With Theodore Parker and Wendell Phillips he was indicted for murder for his connection with the at- tempted rescue of Anthony Burns, and was very prominent in all the exciting scenes of the troublous times just preceding the Civil War. He was a captain in the Fifty-first Massachusetts Regiment, and afterwards colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers (later known as the Thirty-third United States Troops), the first regiment of freed slaves en- listed in the National Army. He took and
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held Jacksonville, Fla., but was wounded in South Carolina, in August, 1863, and in October, 1864, resigned, on account of dis- ability. His subsequent life was devoted al- most entirely to literary pursuits. He resided in Newport from the time of his withdrawal from service until 1878.
Colonel Higginson was a member of the Massa- chusetts House of 1880 and 1881, serving as aide-de-camp to Governor J. D. Long during this time. From 1881 to 1883, he was a member of the state board of education, and was state military and naval historian. He was also a trustee of the Cambridge public library.
Colonel Higginson was an earnest advocate of woman suffrage, and a prominent contributor to the literature of the cause. He was also a frequent contributor to the leading Ameri- can periodicals, and had written numerous histories and biographies. He was also promi- nent as a translator from the French, German and Italian, and was a popular lecturer. He married, September 16, 1847, Mary Elizabeth Channing, of Boston, and February 6, 1879, Mary Pattee Thatcher, of West Newton.
Mr. Higginson died at his home in Cambridge, May 9, 1911.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex County, August 29, 1809. He was the son of Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D., and Sarah (Wendell) Holmes. His father was a native of Woodstock, Conn., a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1783, and pastor of the First Congregational Church, Cambridge, 1792 to 1832. His mother was the daughter of the Hon. Oliver Wendell of Boston, a graduate of Harvard, and the son of Hon. Jacob Wendell, an eminent Boston merchant.
Dr. Holmes obtained his preparatory educa- tion under the tuition of various instructors, during the year 1824-1825 at Phillips Academy, Andover, and matriculated at Harvard, graduat- ing therefrom in the famous class of 1829.
After graduation he devoted a year to the study of law, but not finding it quite congenial to his tastes, abandoned it for that of medicine. In 1833 he visited Europe, previous to which he had chosen the medicinal profession, and for two years and six months had studied with Dr. James Jackson and his associates. While in Europe he attended L'Ecole de Medicine, Paris, and spent between two and three years in attendance on the hospitals in Europe. In 1835 he returned to Boston, rejoined the medical school of Harvard University, and in 1836 received his degree of M.D. In 1838 he became professor of anatomy and physiology in Dart- mouth College, and on the resignation of Dr. John C. Warren in 1847, was elected his suc- cessor to the chair of anatomy in the medical department of Harvard University.
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In 1849 he retired from general practice, and although holding his professorship, he devoted himself now more especially to the pursuit of letters. He was professionally distinguished as an accurate anatomist and skillful micro- scopist and auscultator.
But the widest fame of Oliver Wendell Holmes was as a poet, wit, and man of letters. From boyhood the Muse had been his constant at- tendant, and while the sun of prosperity wooed him to enjoy the genius of his life, the love of the beautiful led him on to accomplish. Many of his most charming effusions have never been embalmed, save in the memory of his
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friends; but his best-known works are: “Terpsi- chore," "Urania," "Astrasa," "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "Professor at the Break- fast Table," "Elsie Venner," "The Guardian Angel," "Songs of Many Seasons," "Memoirs of John L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson," etc.
He was married June 15, 1840, to Amelia Lee, daughter of Hon. Charles Jackson, of Boston. Of this union were born three children: Oliver Wendell, Jr., associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; Amelia Jackson, widow of the late Turner Sargent; and Edward Jackson Holmes. Dr. Holmes died October 7, 1894.
JOHN HOPEWELL
HOPEWELL, JOHN, is a notable example of Yankee push and industry. Born in Green- field, February 2, 1845, the son of John and Catherine Hopewell, his early education was
obtained in the public schools at Shelburne Falls, whither his parents moved when he was but a year old. He attended school until he was fourteen, and then entered the cutlery establishment of Lamson, Goodwin & Co., to learn the trade. During a part of this time he attended night school, and subsequently studied some time in a private academy. In 1861, he went to Springfield, and was employed in the armory there during the war, being dropped at its close in accordance with the order dis-
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charging all single men. While at the armory he attended night school and learned book- keeping, afterwards securing a position as accountant, which he soon relinquished, how- ever, for more active pursuits. For a while he carried on a publishing business in Albany, N.Y. He then engaged in the sale of the products of L. C. Chase & Co., manufacturers of plushes, robes, blankets, etc., on the road, and afterwards located in Boston as their representative. The business of the concern increased rapidly, and in 1SSS Mr. Hopewell succeeded the Chases, becoming the head of the firm, L. C. Chase & Co., and treasurer of the Sanford Mills. Though always taking an active part in public affairs, Mr. Hopewell was
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not politically active until 1887. In 1889 he was elected president of the Cambridge Repub- lican Club, which office he held till he went abroad, in 1892. In 1891 he was elected to the State Legislature, but was obliged to decline re-election, and also strong solicitation for the use of his name as candidate for Congress, on account of ill health. He is a strong Protec- tionist, and was a director of the Home Market Club a number of years; and of numerous corporations. Mr. Hopewell, is also largely engaged in the raising of Guernsey cattle on the Maple Ranch stock farm, at Natick. He was a director of the Boston Merchants Associa- tion in 1892, and is a member of the Colonial, Cambridge, and the Boston Art Club.
He married, in 1870, Sarah W. Blake, of Springfield. They have three sons and two daughters.
Mr. Hopewell now resides in Newton, Mass.
HENRY OSCAR HOUGHTON
HOUGHTON, HENRY OSCAR, was born in Sutton, Vt., April 30, 1823, being the son of William and Morilla (Clay) Houghton. His ancestors were among the early New England colonists, the Houghtons first coming to this country in 1630, settling in Lancaster. When he was about ten years of age his parents moved to Bradford, on the Connecticut River, and after a few terms at the local academy, he became apprentice in the office of the Burling- ton Free Press. He afterwards worked at the printer's trade in Nunda, N.Y. Ambitious for an education, young Houghton devoted his evenings and spare moments to study, and at the age of nineteen entered the University of Ver- mont. After graduating in 1846, he came to Boston and worked at proof reading and reporting on the Traveller for about two years. He first began business as a master printer in 1849, when with Mr. Bolles, of the firm of Freeman & Bolles, he established an office on Remington Street. In 1864, Mr. Houghton entered the publishing business, forming a partnership with Melancthon M. Hurd, of New York, under the name of Hurd & Hough- ton. The firm existed under the same name until 1878, when it was succeeded by that
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