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William Henry Armstrong was married, September 26, 1923, to Helen Louise McDermied, who was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Arm- strong are the parents of one daughter, Constance Mary.
CHARLES H. GELPKE, the present president of the well-known fabric finishing concern known as the Springdale Finishing Company, of Canton, Massa- chusetts, and a man who has long been identified with this industry, was born January 17, 1889, at Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Gelpke is a son of William and Lorrie E. (Addes) Gelpke, the former of whom is now deceased. William Gelpke, the father, was born in the city of Philadelphia; and he died during the year 1923. He was a cigar manufacturer, and a man of note in this field of endeavor. The mother, Lor- rie E. (Addes) Gelpke, was born in Boston.
Charles H. Gelpke received his early education in the public and high schools of the community in
which he was born and reared, and he later attended and graduated from the Burdett Business College. After completing his studies he became associated for more than thirteen years with the Boston Molas- ses Company, and during the last five years of this service he filled the office of secretary of the organi- zation. In the year 1918 he resigned to accept a like position with the Springvale Furniture Company, and .such is the success with which he has met in this organization that he was appointed, in 1925, president and chief executive of the company. The founder of this company, Mr. John H. Meyer, purchased the present property in 1903, starting in business in the dyeing and finishing of mineral and sulphur khakis. During the period of the World War, the business and all of its facilities were called into service by the various Allied governments in need of these products, and vast quantities of work was produced for their benefit. In the year 1922 the business was reorgan- ized under the name of the Springdale Finishing Company, and Mr. Meyer continued as the active head right up until a few days prior to his death. The available floor-space now in use in the plants of this organization totals more than one hundred and sixty thousand square feet, and has machinery capable of producing more than sixteen hundred horsepower. The capacity output of the entire plant has reached some seven hundred and fifty thousand yards of dyed cloth per week. Approxi- mately one hundred and ten employees are kept upon a constant payroll totalling more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually. Under the able direction of Mr. Gelpke the business has already shown an increase until, today, it is one of the most important organizations of its kind in this part of the State.
Despite the many varied and often exacting duties of the work in which he has been engaged, Mr. Gelpke has nevertheless found time in which to take a keen interest in the civic and general affairs of his community. In his political views he is a staunch supporter of the Republican party, and as such he is noted for the excellent manner in which he stands behind any movement designed for the welfare or advancement of Canton. He now holds active mem- bership in all local clubs and civic organizations, and he is fraternally affiliated, as well, with the Knights of Pythias.
Charles H. Gelpke married (first), during the year 1913, Harriet L. Estey of Canton, Massachusetts, a daughter of Adelbert Estey of that city. By this union two children were born: Karl A. and Paul F. Mr. Gelpke married (second), during the year 1920, Julia S. Hall, a daughter of Franklin Hall of Stoughton, Massachusetts. By this union there are three chil- dren: Celeste L., Robert C., and Roy F., twins. Mr. Gelpke and his family maintain their residence in Canton, in which community they attend the Congre- gational church.
JAMES JOSEPH HAYDEN-Local communities are always proud of their native sons who seek fame behind the footlights, and James Joseph Hayden, of Brockton, comes in this category. Mr. Hayden was filling an interesting but rather unremunerative posi- tion in a department store when he received a call to entertain large numbers of people, and now he has interests in theatres in four States.
James Joseph Hayden was born November 10, 1889, at Boston, the son of Nicholas J., a master
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mechanic, and Mary A. (Byrnes) Hayden. Mr. Hay- den was educated in the Boston public schools. His first employment was with James M. Cadman, chair- man of the selectmen of Boston, for one year. He next went with the John R. Ainsley Department Store, where he served faithfully for a year and a half, when an ambition of his life-to go on the stage- was gratified. He went all over the country. In 1921 he returned to Brockton as manager and half owner of the City Theatre and the Casey-Hayden Com- pany, better known as the Brockton Players; he con- tinues in this position. He is financially interested in theatres at New Bedford and Malden, Massachusetts; Duluth, Minnesota; Omaha, Nebraska; and Kansas City. Mr. Hayden is independent in politics. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church.
James Joseph Hayden married Maria S. Trask, August 16, 1916.
EDWARD A. PERRIN, D. D. S .- Well known among the professional men of Stoughton, Massachu- setts, is Dr. Edward A. Perrin, who has been engaged in dental practice here since 1884, a period of more than forty years. He has been engaged in practice here longer than any other dentist, and is still taking care of a very large patronage.
Dr. Edward A. Perrin was born in Westboro, Mas- sachusetts, March 6, 1856, son of Payson H., who was engaged in farming in Westboro, and of Jane G. (Mitchell) Perrin, who was also a native of Mas- sachusetts. He received his early and preparatory education in the public schools of his birthplace, and then began professional study in the Old Boston Dental College, which later became Tufts College, graduating with the class of 1884, and receiving at that time the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. After the completion of his professional training he engaged in practice in Stoughton, in 1884, and during the forty-three years which have passed since that time he has been continuously and successfully engaged in taking care of a clientele which steadily grew. He is known throughout Stoughton and in a wide section surrounding that community as a skilled dentist, and in some cases he has given dental service to three generations of patrons. Dr. Perrin gives his support to the Republican party, and in earlier years served as a member of the Board of Health. Frater- nally he is identified with Rising Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and he is also a member of the Chickataubut Club. His religious affiliation is with the Unitarian church.
Dr. Edward A. Perrin was married, in 1887, to Isabel Louise Lunt, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of two children: Hobart F. and Philip M. Both are agents for the Buick Automobile Company, at Hartford, Connecticut.
FREDERICK SNOW CANEDY, M. D .- In the intervals between his strenuous occupation as a prac- titioner of medicine in Wellfleet, Frederick S. Can- edy has found time to indulge his love for the culti- vation of flowers, the collecting of rare butterflies and fishing with rod and reel. For thirty years Dr. Can- edy has lived his active life among the people of this town, who have come to regard him as one of its ablest citizens and physicians. His activities in civic affairs have been pronounced and for the general good
of the community, his answers to physical distress ever prompt and effective.
Frederick Snow Canedy was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, October 24, 1868, a son of Salmon Snow and Caroline (Hathaway) Canedy, of Lakeville and Rochester, Massachusetts, respectively. His father was a manufacturer of neckwear in Boston, in which he spent his entire life. Frederick was edu- cated in the public schools of Taunton and afterward took the course at the Boston University Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1891. He is a Republican in politics and for twenty-two years was a member of the school commission of Wellfleet. He is a director in the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce and in the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. At the conclusion of his education, ele- mentary and medical, he spent five years as assistant to Dr. Benjamin T. Church, in Winchester, Massa- chusetts, and three with Dr. Waldo H. Stone, of Providence, Rhode Island. He came to Wellfleet in 1898, established a practice and has since been active here. One of his hobbies is the collection of rare butterflies, of which he obtained a great number and presented them to Haverford University. He is a member of William Parkman Lodge, of Winchester, Order of Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Barnstable Medical Society, the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Society, the Boston Athletic Associa- tion and the University Club of Boston.
Mr. Canedy married, in Fall River, Massachusetts, February 9, 1903, Edna S. Negus, who died March 2, 1926. She was a daughter of Robert and Ann (Stevens) Negus, both natives of England.
ADOLPH F. SEABURG-A native of Sweden, Adolph F. Seaburg came to the United States thirty- five years ago as a poor emigrant boy from Sweden and secured employment in the industries of Brock- ton. Today he is the head of a prosperous business of his own and a prominent citizen of his community.
Johannes and Charlotte Seaburg, now deceased, were natives of Sweden; the father was a painter by trade. Adolph, their son, was in his eighteenth year at the time of removal to this country. He sought and obtained a humble position in one of the large shoe factories of Brockton, in which industry he con- tinued to work for many years, at the same time tak- ing pains to acquire a thorough knowledge of the people and the town which was henceforth to be his abiding place and the site of his successful career. In 1924, he established a small laundry business named the Blue Ribbon Laundry. At its inception he adopted the policy of consideration, courtesy and maximum service to his patrons, and upon that basis has built up the business from a net-profit average of fifty dol- lars weekly to an eight hundred dollars profit for the same period. Thirty workers within the plant are now required to attend to the needs of customers, and six drivers and trucks are employed in the distribution of laundry to the homes.
Mr. Seaburg is a member of the Brockton Cham- ber of Commerce, the Swedish Lutheran Church, the Brockton Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, the Damno- cles Lodge, Knights of Pythias, the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, and the Vasa Orden.
Adolph F. Seaburg was married, March 5, 1903, to Josephine -. To Mr. and Mrs. Seaburg have been born seven children: Oscar A., Harold F., Gladys, Evelyn. Florence, Bernice, and Beatrice. His wife, and sons Oscar A. and Harold F. have taken
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an active part in assisting in the building up of the business, and to them Mr. Seaburg gladly gives all due credit.
HON. CHARLES L. GIFFORD-Faithful serv- ice to the community in which he has lived almost his entire life has been rewarded in the case of Hon. Charles L. Gifford, of Cotuit, Representative in Con- gress for the Sixteenth Massachusetts District. A man of sound judgment, keen insight, and a well-bal- anced soundness of reasoning, his work has been of vital importance to his community, and he will al- ways be especially remembered for his share in crea- ting the legislation that brought about the purchase by the Federal Government and the completion of the Cape Cod Canal. He takes an active interest in the well-being of the young people of his community, and has assisted many of them to acquire an educa- tion. He began his career as a school teacher, a call- ing which he followed for many years, but finally abandoned it to engage in real estate activities. In turn, to the real estate business was added that of proprietorship of three summer hotels, which he suc- cessfully conducted for many years. In all his as- sociations with men of affairs he has found a wel- come as a fair and honorable associate or competitor and an able participant in each line of labor in which he is. engaged.
Charles L. Gifford was born in Cotuit, Massachu- setts, March 15, 1871, his parents being William C. and Mary (Baker) Gifford. His father was a car- penter and served throughout the Civil War in the Union Army, and is still living at an advanced age. His education was received in the public schools of his native place and his entry into active business life began at an early age. He first taught in the schools of Chester, Connecticut, where he remained three years, then for six years taught in the schools of Barnstable, serving part of that time as principal of the Cotuit High School. Believing that the edu- cational field was not his true calling, he engaged in the real estate business in Barnstable, from which the road to hotel keeping was natural. In this his pop- ularity grew as he widened the field of his efforts, bringing his name and pleasing personality prominent- ly before the citizens of the community with such strong appeal that they sent him, successively, to the State House of Representatives and to the State Sen- ate, on the Republican ticket. He served.in the State Senate for six years, following which he was elected to Congress from the Sixteenth Massachusetts Dis- trict, and still represents his constituents in that body. Mr. Gifford is also serving on the Congressional Com- mittee as chairman of the Election Committee No. 3; ranking member on Committee on Elections of President, Vice-President, and member of Congress; member of the Committee, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and is a member of the committees of Pub- lic Lands and Mines and Mining. In 1916 Congress- man Gifford served as a delegate to the Republican Convention.
Congressman Gifford is given credit by the people of Barnstable for an important share in creating the legislation that brought about the purchase of land and the completion of the Cape Cod Canal, which is in the district he represents in Congress. More pow- erful as an educating medium than oratory, in which he seldom indulges, is the vast fund of information on topics of interest and value to his fellowmen which he possesses. It was this that had a far-reaching effect in Congress during the debates on the Cape
Cod Canal question. He made comparatively few and very brief speeches on the subject, but, although others spoke at great length, Congressman Gifford had to be and was at all times ready to satisfac- torily answer the multitude of arguments, objections and questions which dealt with every possible phase of the canal's history, its physical aspects, the value of the property, past, present and potential future; the topography, population, industries of the section which it was supposed primarily to serve, and a mul- titude of other inquiries, both pertinent and extrane- ous to the subject, in all of which Congressman Gif- ford proved himself a master of the situation. Not the least of his difficulties at this time was the neces- sity of avoiding charges of sectionalism and of mak- ing the matter one of national benefit, importance and honor. The value of his labors in this instance is recorded in type in an article appearing in the "Cape Cod Life," published at Hyannis under date of April, 1927, which follows:
To the casual observer it may seem that opinions are formed and swayed hy the eloquence of legislators on the floor of the House or Senate. The truth, however, is rather that of far greater importance is the less ostentatious lahor in the committee room, the private office and the lobby of legislative chamher and hotel. These are the school rooms where subjects are taught and learned and minds made up. It is in this sort of work that the Cape Cod Congressman especially excels through a well-balanced soundness of rea- soning and persuasion and the almost endless talks he had with, and appeals he made to, his colleagues in the House were in no small measure responsible for the favorable ac- tion which that hody took on the canal hill. The debates in hoth the Senate and House were not only heated, they were acrimonious. In the final House debate, Congressman Gif- ford was given the place of honor as final speaker on behalf of the measure, and his earnest, moving appeal unquestionably served as a fitting climax to the debate. When the measure came before the Senate, Congressman Gifford was continuously present in that chamher, not merely as an interested specta- tor, whose own lahors were concluded, hut ready to aid Sena- tors Gillett and Walsh with suggestions and replies to ques- tions or arguments.
Congressman Gifford followed the measure after its passage into law to the War Department, the di- rector of the Budget Bureau and to the Committee on Appropriations, in order to expedite the allotment of money to complete the task he had set for himself and in which he was finally successful and for which he has received the grateful acknowledgements of not only the locality in which he is directly interested but of the whole body of citizens whose interest is na- tional rather than sectional.
Congressman Gifford's interest are many in num- ber and varied in scope. but to each he brings a like ability, energy and enthusiasm that makes him a power in community circles. He is interested in the cranberry and oyster activities, serving as treasurer and manager of the Cotuit Oyster Company, but his main interests are still centered in the real estate business. He was a member of the School Com- mittee of Barnstable and was chairman of the Board of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Pocasset. Dur- ing the period of the World War Congressman Gif- ford was chairman of the State Senate Committee on Ways and Means, a post he filled with ability of a high order. He is a director of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Cape Cod Real Estate Board, director-at-large of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, a member of the Boston City Club, and Wamsutta Club of New Bed- ford. In his fraternal affiliations, Congressman Gif- ford is a member of De Witt Clinton Lodge, of Sandwich, Free and Accepted Masons; Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
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and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of the congregation of the Federated Church of Cotuit, and served for a number of years as organist. Congressman Gifford is master of a number of musical instruments, and is very kind in sharing his talents with others.
Hon. Charles L. Gifford married Fannie H. Handy, daughter of Captain Richard S. and Abbie G. (Rob- bins) Handy, of Cotuit, and they are the parents of a daughter, Florence S., who married Howard P. Claussen, of Dedham.
ROLAND B. SNOW is in the real estate business in Chatham, Massachusetts, but his career before entering that business was more picturesque. Follow- ing in his father's footsteps he went sailing the seas, then he became a steward on private yachts, and then he became attached to life-saving stations. His father is a Civil War veteran, the only one that is now left in his native town.
Roland B. Snow was born at Chatham, Massachu- setts, February 22, 1878, son of Albert E. and Emma (Dill) Snow. The father, Albert E. Snow, followed the sea as a fisherman, and was in the Civil War. He still resides at Chatham at the age of eighty-two, and is the only Civil War veteran now living in Chat- ham. Roland B. Snow received the usual education in the public schools of Chatham, and left school at the age of fourteen to follow his father's trade. He was then a steward of private yachts for a period of three years at the Monomoy Life Saving Station, and after that was seven years at the Chatham Life Saving Station. In 1917 he went into the real estate and insurance business and has since that time built up a valuable business. Apart from his personal real estate and insurance he has connection with numerous other properties in Chatham. He is director of the Massachusetts State Association of Real Estate Boards, director of the Cape Cod Real Estate Board, and he is on the finance committee of that board. He is a Mason and belongs to the St. Martin's Lodge of Chatham, and he belongs also to the Sons of Vet- erans. He is a member also of the Board of Trade of Chatham. In church affiliations he is a Methodist.
Mr. Snow married, October 18 1905, at Chatham, Betsey Seabury Eldridge, daughter of Enos and Ruth (Doane) Eldridge. There have been no children to the marriage, but Mr. Snow has three sisters and one brother, all resident at Chatham.
MERTON EDWARD SAWTELL, D. D. S., practicing dental surgeon of Brockton, was born Sep- tember 14, 1889, the son of Arthur W. and Fannie (Sherman) Sawtell, deceased. He attended the local public schools, studied in 1908 and 1909 at Williston Seminary, and in 1914 received his dental degree at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. He returned to his birthplace and started a practice which has grown with gratifying rapidity. Dr. Sawtell is a past president of the Brockton Dental Society, a member of the American Dental Association, the Massachusetts State and Metropolitan District Den- tal societies, the Commercial and Lions clubs, and the Central Methodist Church. He holds that place in the community to which professional prominence and public-spirited interest in its affairs entitles him.
Merton Edward Sawtell was married, May 28, 1915, to Ruth A. Dickerson, and their children have been five: 1. Richard. 2. Rhoda, died in 1922. 3. Elinor. 4. Junior. 5. Marylyn.
GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE-For more than three decades George Lyman Kittredge, profes- sor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachu- setts, has ranked as one of the foremost scholars of the United States. He is an authority on early Eng- lish literature and Shakespeare. As a writer and editor he has contributed studies of permanent value to scholarly lore in his field, and as a teacher of intel- lectually ambitious young men and women has inspired thousands to a desire for real and basic cul- ture.
George Lyman Kittredge was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 28, 1860, and graduated at Harvard College in 1882, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws and Literature were conferred on Dr. Kittredge by the University of Chicago, in 1901. Johns Hopkins, 1915, and McGill University, in 1921, and by Har- vard, which bestowed the second-named degree in 1907. Thus is indicated the academic recognition of his scholarship and cultural attainments. Professor Kittredge was instructor in English at Harvard from 1888 to 1890, assistant professor during the next four years, and has been professor since 1894. Dur- ing those years, likewise, he has been associated with the faculty of Radcliffe College and that interesting development of an ideal of education for mature women of high intelligence. To its ideal of solid intellectual attainments he has materially contributed, inspiring in some young women habits of genuine scholarly study and research and an abiding love for the fountain of English literature.
Membership in many learned societies is his by right of achievement. Dr. Kittredge is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a mem- ber of the American Philosophical Society, and the American Philological Association. He is a corre- sponding Fellow of the British Academy and hon- orary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Among his published works are: "The Language of Chaucer's Troilus," 1894; "The Mother Tongue," in collaboration with Sarah Louise Arnold, 1900; "Words and Their Ways in English Speech," with the late James B. Greenough, 1901; "Old Farmer and His Almanac," 1905; "English Witchcraft and James I," 1912; "Advanced English Grammar," with F. E. Far- ley, 1913; "Chaucer and His Poetry," 1915; "Gawain and the Green Knight," 1916; "Shakespeare," 1916; "Concise English Grammar," with F. E. Farley, 1918; and "Dr. Robert Child, the Remonstrant," 1919. He is the editor of the Athenaeum Press Series of Eng- lish Classics, in collaboration with C. T. Winchester, which comprises twenty-nine volumes, published between 1890 and 1905; the Albion Series of Anglo- Saxon and Middle English Poetry, with J. W. Bright, comprising five volumes, 1900 to 1907; and English and Scottish Popular Ballads, with H. C. Sargent, published in 1904.
In 1886 Professor Kittredge married Frances Gor- don, of Exeter, New Hampshire, and they reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
HEMAN ANDREW HARDING-A leading member of the bar, an exponent of everything that has to do with the advancement of his native city, county and State, prominent in political affairs where he has held many offices of note and now serving as a Special Justice of the Second District Court, Hon. Heman A. Harding may well be placed in the cate- gory of a leading citizen. He was born in Chatham,
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