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On June 2, 1891, Frederick C. Swift married Stella Nichols Hobbs, a daughter of William and Adeline (Nichols) Hobbs. The ceremony took place in Brook- line, Massachusetts. She died December 7, 1910. Judge Frederick Crosby and Stella Nichols (Hobbs) Swift were the parents of one son, Paul Munro Swift, whose biography follows that of his father.
PAUL MUNRO SWIFT-Having chosen the legal profession for a career and having followed it continuously since he was old enough to enter the business world, Mr. Swift has gained prominence in the community of Hyannis, Massachusetts, where he settled and established his practice. He is the son
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of Judge Frederick C. and Stella Nichols (Hobbs) Swift. A biography of Judge Swift, a distinguished lawyer of Barnstable, Massachusetts, precedes that of his son.
Paul Munro Swift was born at Boston, Massachu- setts, May 16, 1893. He went to the public schools of Yarmouth, later attending the Dummer Academy, at South Byfield, from which he was graduated. Pre- paratory to his study of law, he went to Trinity Col- lege, at Hartford, Connecticut, from which institution he was graduated in 1915 with a degree of Bachelor of Arts. Following his graduation from Trinity Col- lege, he matriculated at the Harvard Law School. His legal training was completed at the Boston Uni- versity Law School, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1918. During the World War, he was assistant paymaster in the United States Ship- ping Board Service, stationed at Boston, in which capacity he served for fourteen months. Mr. Swift, after opening an office in Hyannis, began a general practice of his profession and his ability was soon recognized. He was retained as attorney for the Hyannis Trust Company, the Wareham Savings Bank of Wareham, the First National Bank of Yar- mouth and the Cape Cod Co-operative Bank, at Yar- mouth. He discharged his duties as counsel for these financial institutions most satisfactorily and in 1924 was made a Special Justice of the First District Court of Barnstable, in which capacity he is now serving. Mr. Swift also gives of his time and interest as a director of the Cape Cod Collection Agency, at Barn- stable, the Cape Cod Co-operative Bank, the Falmouth Trust, Incorporated, at Falmouth and the Hyannis Auto Sales Company, the latter of which carries the Dodge Brothers Motor Car Agency. He is a mem- ber of the Barnstable County Bar Association and clerk of the Barnstable Fire District. During his col- lege life. Mr. Swift joined the Delta Phi Fraternity, of Trinity College, and he is also a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of Hyannis. He is a communicant of the Episcopal church at Barnstable.
On June 1, 1918, Paul M. Swift married Gladys Pomroy Cram, the daughter of Henry C. and Abbie (Pomroy) Cram, of Providence, Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. Swift became the parents of the following children: 1. William Pomroy, born March 28, 1920. 2. Elizabeth, born February 23, 1924. The family home is in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
CHARLES NICKERSON ROGERS-Beginning his life-work at the hardy occupation of sea fishing when he was eighteen years of age and just gradu- ated from the Provincetown High School, class of 1898, Charles Nickerson Rogers rose through difficult and honest labor and by virtue of unfailing devotion to duty, to positions of trust in the gift of his fellow- citizens.
He was born in Provincetown, March 1, 1880, son of Charles P., of Maine, and Mary (Welch) Rogers, of Boston. His father was a locomotive engineer on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, and died in 1898. Charles went to sea on a fishing vessel, later taking charge of ocean-going barges for the Lehigh Valley Railroad, for which he worked for several years. He then entered the service of the Government as a letter carrier, at which he worked for nine years, when he was appointed by Governor McCall, April 1, 1917, to be clerk of the District Court, for a five-year term. He was reappointed and at the same time served a term as chairman of the
Provincetown Board of Selectmen. He also has been superintendent of the Water Department, president of the Provincetown Board of Trade, and has served on various committees in connection with the Ter- centenary of the landing of the Pilgrims. He is a Republican in politics, a Methodist Episcopalian in religion. He is a member of King Hiram Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Provincetown; Joseph Warren Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Charity Lodge, Order of the Eastern Star; and Marine Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; the Encampment and degree of Rebekah. He is Past Master of his Lodge of Masons, District Deputy Grand Master of the Thirty- second District, Past Noble of the Grand Lodge, In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, and Past District Deputy.
Mr. Rogers married, August 1, 1904, in Province- town, Joanna F. Moore, born in Provincetown, daughter of John B., born in the Danish West Indies, and Catherine (McIsaac) Moore, of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia. Their children are: 1. William N., born March 31, 1907. 2. Irving S., born May 4, 1910. 3. Charles N., Jr., born September 21, 1912.
DON GLEASON HILL, Jr .- A native of Ded- ham, Don Gleason Hill, Jr., has confined his legal practice to his home town since being admitted to the bar, and here he has followed the footsteps of his late father, who also was an attorney of note in Dedham and highly regarded in financial circles. The son, since the beginning of his career, has made steady progress in his profession, and he, too, now (1928) is affiliated with finance in an advisory capacity, and has material influence in public affairs.
Mr. Gleason is the son of the late Don Gleason and his wife, Carrie L. (Luce) Hill. Don Gleason, Sr., bore the unusual distinction of having served for thirty-two years as town clerk of Dedham, from 1880 to 1912. He was also an attorney, well versed in the law, and intimately associated with financial and insurance concerns here. A director of the Dedham Institution for Savings, he also had an interest in the Dedham Insurance Company.
Don Gleason Hill, Jr., was born August 26, 1884, at Dedham, and here he gained the preparatory school- ing that later was to be enhanced in higher institu- tions of learning. After being graduated from Ded- ham High School, Mr. Hill matriculated at Hotch- kiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut, where he took the customary courses provided by that school. He com- pleted his legal education by taking the law course in the Young Men's Christian Association Law School and was granted his degree. Admitted to the Massa- chusetts State bar, Mr. Hill opened his law offices here in the Dedham Savings Bank Building, and has continued to maintain his headquarters in this loca- tion. Through devotion to the interests of his clients, continued research into law works, and a natural tal- ent for the profession, Mr. Hill has built up a large clientele in Dedham, where he carries on a general practice and also is attorney for the Dedham Institu- tion for Savings, a post once filled by his father. In another way, too, Mr. Hill is treading the path of his forebear-he is town clerk of Dedham, and has occu- pied that office since 1914, taking it over two years after the senior Mr. Hill relinquished the post. He is a Republican in political convictions, and usually is found in hearty support of this party's issues and candidates. Many outside spheres have found his association a decided stimulus to their efforts, his fraternal connections including membership in Con-
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stellation Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Hill and his family are attendants of the Congrega- tional church, and enjoy a large circle of friends in this town.
Don Gleason Hill, Jr., married (first), September, 1914, at Canton, Ruth Bruns. She died in June, 1923, and Mr. Hill married (second), June 16, 1924, at West Roxbury, Helen Low, of Dedham. Two children were born to the first marriage: Don Glea- son (3), and David I., while one child has been born to the second marriage: Elizabeth S.
JEROME R. HOLWAY, for more than twenty years, was engaged in the livery, teaming and wood business in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Some fourteen years ago, he added to this business grain and feed, and at the present time (1928) he is continuing suc- cessfully in the latter two lines of business activity. He is located on Main Street in Sandwich, and is well known in this part of the county.
Jerome R. Holway was born in Sandwich, Massa- chusetts, January 26, 1865, son of Augustus Holway, a veteran of the Civil War who served in Company D, Forty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, and who has been engaged in many lines of business activity, including that of retail grocer, farmer, clerk in a furni- ture store, and janitor of the Lynn (Massachusetts) schools for nine years, died and was buried in West Sandwich in 1898, and of Helen F. (Nye) Holway.
Jerome R. Holway received his education in the public schools of Lynn, Massachusetts, to which place his parents removed when he was six years of age. When he was about fourteen years of age his parents returned to East Sandwich, Massachusetts, and the boy did not return to school. He worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-two years of age and then, after his marriage purchased a farm and continued as a farmer until about 1900. In that year he sold his farm and engaged in the livery stable and teaming business at Sandwich, Massachusetts. Dur- ing the more than twenty-seven years which have passed since that time he has been continuously and successfully conducting a very prosperous business, and about 1914 he enlarged the scope of his activities by installing a line of grain and feed. This de- partment of his business has prospered also, and for the past thirteen years Mr. Holway has continued in this line of business. Along with his other busi- ness responsibilities, Mr. Holway is president and a member of the board of directors of the Sandwich Cooperative Bank, and chairman of the security com- mittee. He has always been interested in local public affairs. For twenty-five years he served as road surveyor for the town of Sandwich, and he has also served as fire warden for nine years. Fraternally, he is identified with DeWitt Clinton Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Sandwich, which he has served as treasurer for ten or twelve years. His re- ligious affiliation is with the Federated Church.
Jerome R. Holway was married, in Sagamore, Mas- sachusetts (first), in 1886, to Ella F. Ellis, who died and is buried in East Sandwich, daughter of George E. S., of North Sandwich, and of Sarah P. (Storey) Ellis, who was born in New Hampshire; (second), in 1915, to Estella A. Howland, daughter of Edward and Ellen F. (Fuller) Howland. Mr. Holway has four children: 1. George A., who died in 1901, at the age of fourteen years. 2. Alvah S., a graduate of Dartmouth College and of Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, who is a sanitary engineer; is
married and has four children. 3. William R., who attended Dartmouth College and then became a stu- dent in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated, and who three years ago had charge of the largest water engineering job ever put through in the State of Oklahoma and in the Southwest; is married and has three children. 4. Amy R., a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Col- lege, who is engaged in missionary work in Shanghai, China. The family home is located on Tupper Road, in Sandwich, Massachusetts.
CLIFFORD L. HUBBARD, well known in the business life of Falmouth, is equally prominent in social and civic affairs. He is engaged in the real estate business, and is vice-president and director of the Falmouth Cooperative Bank, but he has not hesi- tated to put his wide experience at the disposal of the community. He is a selectman for Falmouth, and a member of several official boards and associations.
Joseph William Hubbard, his father, was born at Chelsea, Massachusetts. While still a boy he moved to Nova Scotia and began work on a farm, which was owned by his mother. He has remained there since that time in complete charge of the farm, and he has specialized in raising fruit and potatoes. He has been a member of the Municipal Council of King's County, Nova Scotia. He married Wilhelmina Killiam, and Clifford L. Hubbard, of this review, is their son.
Clifford L. Hubbard was born on May 2, 1876, at Canning, King's County, Nova Scotia. He entered the Canning public schools, and later attended Kerr's Business College at St. Johns, New Brunswick. For a time he assisted his father on the farm and also did some clerical work. At the age of eighteen he came to the United States, and was employed as foreman by a Boston construction company for about four years. At the end of that time he worked in a gro- cery store at Boston, and some time later, took the position of farm superintendent at the Foxboro and Norfolk State Hospital, remaining there until 1919. Thereafter, he was connected for one year with the Department of Agriculture at the State House, Bos- ton, and for four years he acted as assistant manager of the Coonamessett Company at Falmouth. He re- signed to enter the real estate business at Falmouth, and he has remained there since that time.
In 1923, Mr. Hubbard was elected a selectman of Falmouth, for a term of three years, and in 1926 he was reelected for a second three-year term. He is a member of the local Board of Assessors and of the Public Welfare Board. At the primaries, in April, 1928, he was elected a delegate to the Republican Con- vention at Kansas City, where he cast his vote for the nomination of Herbert Hoover for President. In the fall of the same year he was elected to the State Re- publican Committee for the Sixteenth Senatorial Dis- trict, which takes in Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket and Plymouth counties. He is also president of the Barnstable County Assessors' Association, and is vice-president and a director of the Falmouth Coop- erative Bank. For four years he served as president of the Falmouth Board of Trade, and he is now a director of that organization. Fraternally, Mr. Hub- bard is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, being a member of the Marine Lodge, of Falmouth. He is Past Master of Megansett Grange, and a mem- ber of the Congregational church.
Clifford L. Hubbard, on June 16, 1913, at Norfolk,
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Massachusetts, married Edna Thompson, the daugh- ter of Joseph and Emma (Perry) Thompson.
HARRY V. LAWRENCE, a prominent figure in the progress and development of Cape Cod, is one of Falmouth's leading business men, heading the large florist and landscape gardening organization which bears his name, and in addition, taking a sincere and constructive interest in all affairs which tend to the advancement and welfare of his community. Mr. Lawrence founded his present splendid enterprise in 1886, beginning in the most modest manner, but the demand for his products caused his business to expand and increase, necessitating larger greenhouses and more spacious nurseries, until today it is the most complete in detail and the largest of its kind on Cape Cod. His conservatories and gardens are an artistic addition to the town, while industrially, his company is a great factor in the life of the town, giving employment to more than fifty persons.
The family of which Mr. Lawrence is a member is one of the oldest and most prominent in New Eng- land. The paternal grandfather, Solomon Lawrence, was a master shipbuilder and engaged in his trade at Woods Hole. He married Polly Robinson, of the eighth generation removed from Rev. John Robinson, of Leyden. They were the parents of John R. Law- rence, born in Falmouth, who followed the sea for forty years as a whaling master. During his brief sojourns ashore, he remained in the vicinity of Fal- mouth, where he died, in 1896. John R. Lawrence married Harriett Clark, a native of Nantucket, daugh- ter of Alex Clark, who established the first woolen mill at East Falmouth.
Harry V. Lawrence, son of John R. and Harriett (Clark) Lawrence, was born in Falmouth, September 12, 1861. He attended the local public schools and his entire life, since boyhood, has been dedicated to the growth of beautiful flowers, plants and trees. More than forty years ago (1928), he opened his independent business which has since become known throughout New England for the superior quality and the absolute dependability of its products. Suc- cessful from the start, Mr. Lawrence soon added a seed department, and still later, a landscape depart- ment, the function of the latter being to act in advis- ory and service capacities to the many people who desire to beautify the grounds of their town homes and country places through the service of experts in this profession. Four expert landscape artists are retained by this concern to plan and supervise the designing and laying-out of estates, this department being called upon for service in an even greater radius than the limitations of the Cape. At a subsequent period, Mr. Lawrence inaugurated another step towards increased success and efficiency by the addi- tion of a department for the growth of nursery stock, much of which is used in their landscape operations, while the balance, with seeds and other products, is shipped to the various States of the Union. While every department is all-important for the service to its certain clientele, the average lover of the beautiful in nature would probably be most interested in the charming flower shop, together with the adjacent offices and showrooms, all being constructed in a manner possible only to a person of great artistic appreciation, furnishing a fitting background for the beautiful blooms seen on every hand. Ever interested in the progress of agriculture, not only from a pro- fessional point of view, but also as concerning the welfare of his commonwealth and community, Mr.
Lawrence serves as trustee of the County Aid to Agriculture for Barnstable. He is a member of the New England Nurserymen's Association, a director of the Falmouth National Bank, and chairman of the town planning board, and in connection with his efforts as a member of the latter organization, the fol- lowing quotation of Mr. Lawrence, himself, is quite appropriate:
For more than a quarter of a century I have been seeking to do a very simple thing-help beautify homes and com- munities, help keep beautiful the surrounding country, assist in encouraging the adoption of fitting standards of good taste for the natural settings in which we live, and to call to the minds of citizens of our communities, the major problems by which they are confronted, and which, by proper attention, are readily solvable.
He is a member of the Falmouth Rotary Club and the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, and for twenty- five years, has served as clerk of St. Barnabas' Pro- testant Episcopal Church. During the recent World War, he served as assistant food administrator for Barnstable County.
Harry V. Lawrence married, November 28, 1889, Alice Forbes Grinnell, a native of Falmouth, and to this union has been born a son, Milford Robinson, 1896, who was educated in the local schools and at Massachusetts Agricultural College, from which he graduated with the class of 1917; served in the United States Navy during the World War, assigned to the position of chief of the radio station at Newport, and is now associated with his father in business. He married, July 19, 1922, Lucille E. Grosskopf, a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and they have one son, John R.
THOMAS F. McANARNEY, one of the leading lawyers of Massachusetts, has been for many years identified with the notable cases tried in the courts of his native State. His name has been especially promi- nent in Norfolk County, owing to the fact that he has resided in Quincy since his admission to the bar and for some years maintained a law office in the city of Quincy.
He was born at Abington, Massachusetts, Novem- ber 1, 1871, the son of Thomas M. and Bridget (Mc- Cormack) McAnarney, both of whom, now deceased, were born in Ireland. Thomas M. McAnarney, the father, was engaged as a shoe manufacturer in this country until his death. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served with the Massachusetts Vol- unteers and received wounds while engaged with that unit. He later was one of the well-beloved members of the Abington Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
Thomas F. McAnarney received his early education in the public grammar and high schools of Abington, and lated attended the Boston University Law School, graduating as an honor man with the class of 1894, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Judge Mc- Anarney, after his admission to the bar in 1894, started to practice law in Quincy, where he became increasingly successful. As early as 1901 he also es- tablished a law office in Boston, and has maintained an office there since that time. When Calvin Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts, recognizing his ability and character, he appointed him a Justice of the District Court of East Norfolk, which has juris- diction over Cohasset, Weymouth, Braintree, Ran- dolph, Quincy, Holbrook and Milton.
Despite the many varied and often exacting duties the profession entails, Judge McAnarney has never- theless found time to take a great interest in the
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general affairs of his community. In his political views he is liberal, and he is noted for the excellent manner in which he stands behind any movement designed for the welfare or advancement of Quincy. During the period of the World War, he served as a member of the Legal Advisory Board for Norfolk County.
He has also been active in club and social life, and he not only holds membership in the leading or- ganizations which pertain to his profession, such as the Massachusetts Bar Association, Norfolk County Bar Association and the District Court Judges' Asso- ciation, but is also a member of the Rockport Country Club, Quincy Council, Knights of Columbus, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston City Club, Charitable Irish Society, and the Ancient Order United Work- men. His hobby, it is interesting to note, is golf.
During the year 1921, Judge McAnarney married Agnes M. Murphy, of Boston. Judge and Mrs. Mc- Anarney now maintain their home in Wollaston, the residential section of Quincy.
WALTER E. R. NYE, of Sagamore, Massachu- setts, has never strayed far from the place in which he was born. He still lives and works there, and the homestead purchased by his grandfather more than a century ago is still in the possession of his son, the great-grandson of the purchaser. Mr. Nye has also been closely identified with the affairs of his native town. He has been selectman, overseer of the poor, and assessor; and he has built up there a great busi- ness and a great property. He has worked hard with success at several trades, and he has raised a family of children, and also has grandchildren. His own work and career, linked with the work and career of his father, and other members of his family, form a chronicle which is typical of so many New England families, who find happiness in hard work and a modest prosperity, and who have that family instinct that has a memory for the accomplishments of differ- ent generations and that brings them back to the old homestead from the ends of the earth.
Walter E. R. Nye was born on March 27, 1856, in the village of Sagamore, now town of Bourne, son of Nathan and Ellen S. (Richards) Nye, of whom the father died in 1894, and was buried in Sagamore Cemetery, and of whom the mother was born at Rox -. bury, Massachusetts. Nathan Nye, the father, was a whaleman, sailing out of New Bedford, Massachu- setts. Later he engaged in farming and in the mean- time he held public offices in the town, like those of selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor. He was one of the organizers of the Sagamore Cemetery Association. The grandfather of W. E. R. Nve, Dan- iel B. Nye, followed the sea in his younger days and was a shipmaster going to France. In 1813 he bought the Nye homestead, and this is still held by his great- grandson, Nathan Nye.
Walter E. R. Nye received his education in the public schools of Sandwich. He then learned the blacksmith and wheelwright trade at Wareham, Mas- sachusetts. He carried that trade to Dorchester, Massachusetts, and he had a blacksmith and wheel- wright shop there for twenty-four years. He returned to Sagamore in 1900, and there built his new home. He also purchased the interests of Dr. L. V. Morri- son in a farm for the growing of cranberries. The property at the time of the purchase had an area of twenty-one acres, but Mr. Nye gradually increased it to sixty acres. Mr. Nye is a director of the New
England Cranberry Sales Company. He is also treas- urer of the Harwich Lumber Company, of Harwich, Massachusetts, and is vice-president of the Sagamore Lumber & Coal Company. He is a director of the Sandwich Cooperative Bank, vice-president of the Sagamore Cemetery Association, and he has been selectman, overseer, and assessor of the town of Bourne for the past ten years. He is a Republican in politics and attends the Methodist church.
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