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of Houghton, Osgood & Co., which came into possession of privileges covering the works of Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes and other prominent American writers, collected during a long period by other firms. Mr. Osgood retired in 1880, and was succeeded by Lawson Valentine, of New York. The house then tookits present name, Mr. Mifflin having been admitted to partnership in 1872. His election to the office of mayor, in 1872, gave evidence of the esteem in which he was held by his fellow townsmen. Mr. Houghton's death occurred August 25, 1895.
GEORGE H. HOWARD
The surname "Howard" originated in Eng- land during the thirteenth century and was derived from Hayward, Harward and Here- ward. The first to adopt the present form of spelling was, undoubtedly, William Howard, a learned and honored jurist in the reign of Edward I. That monarch married for his second consort Margaret, daughter of Philip the Hardy of France, and his eldest son by this marriage was Thomas Plantagenet, surnamed De Brotherton. The latter's great-grand- daughter, Margaret, who was the eldest daugh- ter of Thomas De Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, became the wife of Sir Robert Howard, a descendant of William Howard, the jurist, just mentioned. Howard was the family name of several dukes of Norfolk. The Howards of America, in common with those of the mother country, are the posterity of William the Jurist. The Howard family now being considered is thought to be the progeny of Robert and Mary Howard, who came from England and were early settlers in Dorchester, Mass., where Robert was made a freeman in 1635. Their children were Jonathan, Robert, Hannah, Jeremiah, Bethia, Mary Temperance and perhaps others. Robert (2) Howard, second son and child of Robert and Mary Howard, was admitted a freeman in Boston in 1683. By his wife Elizabeth he had Sarah, Robert and Samuel. Thomas Howard, probably a grandson of Robert and Elizabeth Howard, resided in Boston. He was the father of Thomas Benjamin, Joseph and Mary. Joseph married and reared two children, Joseph and
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Mary. Thomas (2) Howard, eldest son of Thomas, was born in 1749, probably in Boston. He settled in Hingham, Mass., where he fol- lowed the trade of cooper, and his death oc- curred"there, August 29, 1829, at the age of seventy-nine years. He was married in Hing- ham, November 14, 1776, to Sarah Mansfield, born in that town October 9, 1734, daughter
Sarah, Thomas, Benjamin, Molly, Ned (who died in infancy), another Ned, Waters (died at the age of one year), Charles, Edward and a second Waters. Thomas (3) Howard, second child and eldest son of Thomas and Sarah (Mansfield) Howard, was born in Hingham, Mass., September 30, 1779. On January 7, 1807 he married Hannah Wilder, and in 1810 he
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of Joseph and Sarah (Waters) Mansfield, and died August 19, 1817. She was a descendant in the fifth generation of John and Elizabeth (Farnsworth) Mansfield, the former of whom was made a freeman at Hingham, in 1684, and his wife was of Dorchester. The line of descent from John and Elizabeth is through John (2), Joseph (3), and Joseph (4). The children of Thomas and Sarah (Mansfield) Howard were
removed to a farm in Ashburnham, Mass., residing there for the rest of his life, which terminated November 3, 1861. His wife, who died November 14, 1870, was a daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Lasell) Wilder, and a descendant in the sixth generation through Samuel (4), Thomas (3), and Isaac (2) of Edward Wilder, the emigrant ancestor of all of that name who have resided in Hingham.
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The latter was granted land in Hingham in 1637, and admitted a freeman in 1644. Mrs. Hannah Howard was the mother of seven children, Hannah, Thomas, Samuel W., Lewis, George H., Mary W. and Lucy M. Thomas (4) Howard, second child and eldest son of Thomas and Hannah (Wilder) Howard, was born in Hingham, October 28, 1809. When a young man he settled in East Cambridge, where he was a dealer in coal, and later worked in the New England Glass Works. He died November 17, 1850. December 3, 1835 he married Hannah Elizabeth, daughter of Joel S. Wright, who was at one time town clerk of Acton, Mass., and his maternal grandfather was Captain David Brown, who commanded a com- pany of minute men at the North Bridge, Con- cord, April 19, 1775. Thomas and Hannah E. (Wright) Howard were the parents of three sons: Frank Edson, born March 12, 1837 (died January 14, 1863), George H., who will be again referred to, and Thomas Melville, born November 26, 1844. The latter, who married Mary Elizabeth Mattell, died in Somer- ville, October 12, 1900. George Henry Howard, second son of Thomas and Hannah E. (Wright) Howard, was born in East Cambridge, Novem- ber 13, 1838. He attended school in Pepperell and Cambridge, and at the conclusion of his studies he found employment at the New England Glass Works in East Cambridge.
In April, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, in a company raised in Cambridge, which was assigned to the Sixteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, as Company A, and proceeding to the front joined the forces under the command of General Wool. In the fall of 1861 he was promoted to the first-lieu- tenancy of Company C, of Groton, which was ordered to Baltimore for the purpose of pro- tecting troops passing through the city; and his regiment subsequently joined the command of General McClellan at Fortress Monroe, where he witnessed the famous action between the Merrimac and the Monitor. He afterwards served in the Army of the Potomac, partici- pating in the battle of Seven Pines and several other important engagements, including the second battle of Bull Run.
As his elder brother had been stricken with a fatal illness, and his younger brother was
also serving his country in the Army, he was obliged to resign his commission in order to care for his family, and he reluctantly withdrew from the service for that purpose.
Accepting a position at the Portland (Me.) Glass Works, he had charge of the mould department there for four years, at the expira- tion of which time he resigned in order to accept a more lucrative position that had been offered to him by the management of the newly estab- lished glass works in Montreal, Province of Quebec, and he remained in that city some eighteen months. Returning to Cambridge he pursued a special course at Bryant and Stratton's Business College, at the conclusion of which he accepted an appointment as a constable on the state police force under Major Jones, and retained it until 1871. In the latter year he entered as a bookkeeper the employ of W. L. Lockhart, manufacturer of and whole- sale dealer in undertakers' supplies, and was admitted to partnership in 1893, and is still engaged in that business.
In politics Mr. Howard is a Republican, and during the past thirty-eight years has fre- quently been elected to public office. For the years 1873, 1874, 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884, he served in the Cambridge common council, being president of that body for three years; was a member of the board of aldermen in 1875 and 1876; was appointed one of the sinking fund commissioners in 1887, and a member of the water board in 1SSS, retaining both of these important trusts for a number of years.
He was trustee and is now vice-president of the Wildley Savings Bank and was formerly a director of the East Cambridge Savings Bank. He was made a Master Mason in Portland, Lodge No. 1, from which he was demitted to Putnam Lodge, Cambridge, entered the chapter of Royal Arch Masons in 1882, and is a charter member of Cambridge Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also affiliated with New Eng- land Lodge, I.O.O.F., and P. Stearns Davis, Post 57, G.A.R., the Knights of Honor and the Knights and Ladies of Honor; is one of the original members of the New England Order of Protection, in which he has occupied all of the important chairs; is a comrade of Post No. 57, G.A.R., of which he served as
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commander for twelve terms or until declining further election; and is a member of the Cambridge and Colonial Clubs.
For twenty-five consecutive years prior to 1896 he was superintendent of the Sunday school connected with the Second Baptist church, and was at one time a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. April 28, 1861, Mr. Howard married Miss Charlotte Bruce Wickens, who was born in Shelburn, N.S., June 23, 1840, daughter of Joseph and Isabella Wickens. Of this union there are two daughters, Lottie Evangeline, born March 14, 1862, and Lillie Belle, born March 10, 1865. Lillie Belle is now the wife of Hubert W. Pierce, of Newton, Mass., and their children are Earle Howard, born February 3, 1888, and Ruth Evangeline, born January 2, 1898. Earle Howard Pierce graduated from Dartmouth in 1910, and took the Thayer course in 1911.
ARCHIBALD MURRAY HOWE
HOWE, ARCHIBALD MURRAY, eldest son of James M. and Harriet B. (Clarke) Howe, was born in Northampton, Mass., May 20, 1848. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Brookline, including the High School, and from the latter entered Harvard University, taking his bachelor's degree with the Class of 1869. Among his classmates were Frank D. Millet, Francis G. Peabody and Henry Marion Howe, son of Dr. Samuel G. and Julia Ward Howe, and now professor of metallurgy at Co- lumbia University. Having pursued the regular course at the Harvard Law School and obtained the necessary practical experience in the office of George S. Hillard, he was admitted to prac- tice in the courts of Massachusetts, in June, 1872. Possessing a taste and capacity for political life and being desirous of obtaining a practical knowledge of the scheme of federal government, he accepted the position of private secretary to the Hon. Henry L. Pierce, and retained it during the sessions of the Forty- third Congress, residing at the national Capital for a period of eleven months. In 1875 he became associated in the practice of law with Henry F. Buswell and Charles H. Walcott, and "has ever since been actively connected with the legal profession of Boston and Cambridge, in
which latter city he has resided for many years. Although well versed in the general practice of law, he devotes his attention chiefly to the administration of estates and the care of trust funds, and in this special field of usefulness he has been eminently successful.
Mr. Howe is widely and favorably known, both for his fine legal attainments and his numerous commendable personal characteris- tics, prominent among which is his patriotism and implicit faith in the integrity and justice of our state and national political institutions, and on more than one occasion he has forcibly demonstrated the wisdom of his advanced views relative to their improvement. In politics he acts independently and takes a lively interest in all important issues-municipal, state and national. In 1877 he served in the Cambridge Council, was in 1890 chosen representative to the legislature on a combined Democratic and Independent ticket, and in various other ways has rendered valuable public services, being an earnest advocate of civil service reform. In his religious belief he is a Unitarian, being a member of the First Parish Church, Cambridge, and a life member of the American Unitarian Association. He is also a member of the St. Botolph Club, Boston, and was vice-president of the Massachusetts Reform Club.
On June 4, 1881, Mr. Howe was united in marriage with Arria Sargent Dixwell, daughter of Eps Sargent and Mary Ingersoll (Bowditch) Dixwell, of Cambridge.
THEODORE C. HURD
HURD, THEODORE C., well known to the public as Clerk of the Middlesex County Courts, having held this office since 1872, was born in Newton, January 19, 1837, and was the son of Sarah B. and William Hurd. He received his education at Framingham Academy and Union College, and later graduated from the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Middle- sex Bar in 1860, and served as district attorney for six years. He was a lieutenant in the Forty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment, and acted as judge advocate for the department of North Carolina. He was a member of the Loyal Legion and the G.A.R., and a prominent member of several social clubs. He was a representative
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to the General Court in 1867, 1869, 1870 and 1871, serving on important committees, and was a member of the aldermanic board of 1873. Few men have a larger circle of friends than Mr. Hurd, and his ability and courtesy in filling his official position have met with merited recognition.
Theodore C. Hurd was married twice. His first marriage, to Mary Elizabeth Platt, took place at Newark, Del., May 1, 1862. By this marriage he had four children: George Platt,
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born May 9, 1863; Kate Gemmill, born Decem- ber 23, 1864; Sarah Hooker, born July 8, 1866; Jenny Lindsay, born October 13, 1867. He was married to his second wife, Alice May Howard, at Watertown, September 23, 1879. The children born of this marriage are: Roger Howard (April 13, 1881), William Minot (Feb- ruary 2, 1883), and Theodore Chester (Febru- ary 25, 1885).
Theodore C. Hurd died May 25, 1911.
ROGER H. HURD
HURD, ROGER HOWARD, of Winchester, Sec- ond Assistant Clerk of Courts, Middlesex
County, was born in Cambridge, April 13, 1881, being a son of Theodore Hurd. The family moved to Winchester in 1888, and Roger Hurd attended the public schools there. He left the High School in 1898 and entered the Boston Art School that fall.
Since the summer of 1899 he has been em- ployed in the office of the Clerk of Courts. He was appointed Fourth Assistant Clerk, March 27, 1903, and Second Assistant, January 5, 1912.
He was married on May 25, 1906, to Miss Elsie May Dean. They have one daughter, Virginia Alice, born March 11, 1907.
Mr. Hurd served one enlistment in the First Corps Cadets, M.V.M. He is a member of the Winchester Country Club.
EDWIN HENRY JOSE
JOSE, EDWIN HENRY, born in Hollis, Me., April 27, 1847, is a son of Benjamin Berry and Harriet Jose. He received his preliminary education in the schools of his native town, Biddeford High School, Limerick Academy, and Waterville Classical Institute. He grad- uated from the Harvard Law School in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Law, and began the practice of law in Cambridge in November of that year. In the course of his professional duties he has served as counsel for various large corporations. Mr. Jose has lived in Cambridge since beginning to practice in 1873. He married, in 1867, Emma E. Parlin.
STILLMAN FRANCIS KELLEY
KELLEY, STILLMAN FRANCIS, has had a career which is one of the notable examples of the success so frequently achieved by Cape Cod boys in mercantile life. He was born at East Dennis, Mass., February 28, 1851. His parents were Stillman and Olive (Howes) Kelley; his father was born in Harwich, Mass., February 16, 1816, and his mother in East Dennis, Mass. His early education was received in the schools of his native town, and later he prepared himself for business in the Boston schools. He was formerly a member of the firm of Stillman F. Kelley & Co. This firm did the largest business in the importation and jobbing of sugar and molasses in the country.
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Mr. Kelley is a director in several important companies and corporations, and for several years had an active interest in the management of the Faneuil Hall National Bank.
As a member of the Cambridge Water Board he has excellently served the city, devoting much time and energy to the important under- takings of that body. On October 13, 1875, he married Chloe C. Sears, born in East Dennis, daughter of Nathan and Sarah C. Sears, both of whom were born and always lived in East Dennis. Two children were born of this mar- riage: Stillman Randolph Kelley, born Decem- ber 17, 1878, who died May 24, 1911; and Edmund Sears Kelley, born December 16, 1886.
EDWARD KENDALL
KENDALL, EDWARD, was born in Holden, Mass., December 3, 1821, being the son of Caleb and Dolly (Sawyer) Kendall. His boy- hood was spent on his father's farm (in farm work) and study in the village school. When he became of age he made his first business venture, embarking in the lumber trade. In 1847, removing to Boston, he became an ap- prentice in the West Boston Machine Shop. Here he made rapid progress, being transferred to the boiler department after nine months' service, and soon after becoming superintendent of that department, which position he held for eleven years. In 1860 he entered business on his own account, establishing the firm of Kendall & Davis, at Cambridgeport, and giving special attention to the making of boilers. In 1865 the firm name was changed to Kendall & Roberts, and subsequently, upon the admis- sion of Mr. Kendall's sons, it became Edward Kendall & Sons. During his long and suc- cessful career Mr. Kendall has made numerous improvements and inventions in boiler manu- facture, and has become widely known in his trade. He has been a life-long advocate of temperance, and few men have been more devoted to the cause. In 1886 he was the Prohibition candidate for Congress from the Fifth District, and was candidate for governor on that ticket in 1893. He has been a director of the Massachusetts Temperance Alliance since 1888, and was for two years president of the Cambridge Temperance Reform Associa-
tion. He has always taken a deep interest in city affairs, having served his city in the General Courts of 1875 and 1876, and in the board of aldermen in 1871, 1872, 1873. He was one of the founders, and is senior deacon, of the Pilgrim Congregational church, and is promi- nent in the work of the denomination. Since
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1890 he has been a director of the Cambridge- port National Bank. Mr. Kendall is a member of the Congregational Club, of Boston, and the Cambridge Club. He married, December 16, 1847, Miss Reliance Crocker, of Paxton, Mass.
CHESTER WARD KINGSLEY
KINGSLEY, CHESTER WARD, was born and educated in Brighton, Mass., now a part of Boston. He passed the greater part of his life in Cambridge, and in all schemes for the city's good he was found in the fore. Born June 9, 1824, the son of Moses and Mary (Montague) Kingsley, he was left fatherless at the age of four years, and thrown upon his own resources at the age of ten. For the next five years he worked in the then wilds of Michigan. Returning to Brighton, he resumed his studies,
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and graduated from the high school. He soon found a place as messenger in the old Brighton Bank, and was successively made clerk and teller, and in 1851, he became cashier of the Cambridge Market Bank, which position he held for five years. In 1856 he entered the wholesale provision business, and was very prosperous. Retiring in 1865, he became treasurer of an anthracite coal-mining company.
foresight as president of the board that inaugu- rated the present magnificent water system of the city caused him to be known as the "Father of the Cambridge Water Works."
Politically, he has been a life-long Republican Prohibitionist. He was a trustee of the Newton Theological Institute, Colby University, and Worcester Academy. He was president of the American Baptist Society, and of the Massa-
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He was for eight years president of the Brighton National Bank, the successor of the old bank where he had begun his career. Mr. Kingsley served his city in the board of aldermen and school board; also in the House of Representa- tives in 1882, 1883, 1884, and in the Senate in 1888 and 1889. He was for thirty years a member of the water board, and for a number of years president of that body. His zeal and
chusetts Baptist Convention, and] he was for some years one of the executive committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and president of the Boston Baptist Social Union. He was a member of the Cambridge, Colonial and Massachusetts Clubs.
He married in May, 1846, Mary Jane Todd, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Todd, of Brighton, Mass. Mrs. Kingsley died December
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28, 1904. Mr. Kingsley passed away just five days after the death of his wife, January 1, 1904. They had seven children, but only one, Mrs. Ella J. Bacon, widow of Clinton Bacon, survives.
Mr. Kingsley was truly a noble and a good man. His interest was always keen in all good causes, and not a few educational and religious institutions felt, while he lived, the quickening impulse of his great liberality. Endowed with rare gifts as a business man, he amassed a large property, but always felt the duty of using it, to as great an extent as possible, for the good of his fellowmen. This trait was marked in his life, and he will long be remembered for it. Mr. Kingsley's service to the city of Cambridge, which he loved, was as great as it was unselfish.
CHARLES H. LAKE
LAKE, CHARLES H., is perhaps one of the best-known business men and citizens of Cam- bridge. Notwithstanding his activities in the business world, he has found time to devote to the service of both country and city. He is a member of the First Regiment Veteran Asso- ciation, and at one time served in the state militia, retiring with the rank of captain. He stands high in Masonic circles, and is a Mystic Shriner. During his thirty years' residence in Cambridge he has been several times elected to the Common Council and the Board of Alder- men, serving most acceptably in both branches of the City Government. He was in the Council two years and in the Board of Aldermen three years. He was president of the Board the last two years, where he performed the duties of the office most efficiently. In social circles Mr. Lake is also well known, being an active supporter of the Newtowne club, where he is on one of the bowling teams. In addition he takes a most active interest in the Harvard Square Business Men's Association and the Citizens' Trade Association.
Mr. Lake is treasurer and manager of the Cambridge Coach Co., which was incorporated in 1902, being originally established in 1835, by Royal Simpson. Its headquarters are at 35 and 38 Church Street. The Company has for many years enjoyed a most select boarding patronage, horse owners from all parts of the
City and suburbs quartering their horses and fine carriages here, certain that they will secure the best possible attention. In keeping pace with modern changes and conditions, Mr. Lake not long ago installed a service of touring cars and auto cabs, which today is one of the appre- ciated features of the social and business life of Cambridge. Of course, Mr. Lake also main- tains the same high standard in his carriage
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and coach service. Carriages or touring cars, of large or small seating capacity, may be hired at any hour of the day or night at most reason- able rates. Furthermore, the concern's corps · of drivers and chauffeurs are the most gentle- manly, careful and thoroughly experienced of any to be procured. They are familiar with all parts of the country which they are likely to cover. Vehicles may be rented for balls, parties, weddings, for shopping, for funerals, or for pleasure driving, and a prompt and efficient service is assured.
ERASMUS DARWIN LEAVITT
LEAVITT, ERASMUS DARWIN, of Cambridge, son of Erasmus Darwin and Almira (Fay)
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Leavitt, was born in Lowell, Mass., October 27, 1836. He was educated in the Lowell public schools and entered the machine shop of the Lowell Manufacturing Company in April, 1852, where he served three years as an apprentice, at the close of which time he worked under instruction for a year at the works of Corliss & Nightingale, Providence, R.I., the birthplace of the Corliss engine. From 1856 to 1858 he was engaged in developing some inventions in steam engineering, for which a patent had been granted to him in 1855. In 1858 and 1859 he was assistant foreman at the City Point Works, South Boston, and had charge of building the engines for the flagship Hart- ford. From 1859 to 1861 he was chief draughts- man for Thurston, Gardner & Company, of Providence, R.I., leaving there to enter the United States navy in the summer of 1861 as third assistant engineer. He served through the war of the rebellion, and during his term of service was detailed to the Naval Academy at Annapolis as instructor in steam engineer- ing. Resigning in 1867, he resumed the prac- tice of mechanical engineering, making a specialty of pumping and mining machinery.
In 1872 Mr. Leavitt designed and patented a novel pumping engine which was first used at Lynn, Mass .; and on account of its ręmark- able performance it became celebrated in Europe as well as in this country; similar engines were subsequently erected at Lawrence Mass., Louisville, Ky., and at the sewage station of the city of Boston.
In 1874 he became connected with the famous Calumet and Hecla Copper Mine as an adviser of mechanical matters, and was consulting engineer of the company until 1904, when he retired from active practice. During his term of service with the company, he furnished the designs and plans for its huge equipment, which so materially reduced the cost of mining. He has also acted as consulting engineer to the cities of Boston and Louisville, and to the firm of Henry R. Worthington, of New York, the celebrated builders of pumps. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers, Ameri- can Society of Mechanical Engineers (and past president of same), Boston Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Naval Engi-
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