History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 26

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874-
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642

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Dr. Carr has ever found time in which to assist . in the affairs of the township in which he resides. In his political views he is a Republican, and he is noted for his support of all movements designed for the betterment or general welfare of his community. He is an active member of the Bridgewater Chamber of Commerce. He holds membership, as well, in many organizations pertaining to his profession; among the more important of these are the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts State Medical Association, the Plymouth County Medical Society, and the Brockton Medical Society. Through his service in the war, he is affiliated with the American Legion; and he is enrolled with Fellowship Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bridgewater. Dr. Carr's hobbies are gardening and fishing.

Dr. Arthur W. Carr married, December 18, 1910, Elsie Laughney, who was born in Meredosia, Illinois, and they are the parents of a son and a daughter: 1. Nancy W. Carr, born November 7, 1913. 2. John Fisher Carr, born August 4, 1921. Dr. Carr and his family maintain their residence in Bridgewater, where they attend the Congregational church.

LUKE F. KELLEY-Since 1922, Luke F. Kelley has been engaged in general legal practice in Middle- boro, where he has built up a very prosperous clien- tele, and where he is well known as a skillful attorney and a convincing advocate. He served for some years as clerk of the Fourth District Court of Plym- outh, and is one of the well-known men of his pro- fession in this section of the county.

Luke F. Kelley was born in Middleboro, Massachu- setts, October 4, 1883, son of Michael H. and Mary A. (Callan) Kelley, the first-mentioned of whom was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was engaged in business as a contracting mason, and the last- mentioned of whom is a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. His early education was received in the

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public schools of Middleboro and after completing the high school course there he became a student in the Law School of Boston University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1912. He was admitted to the bar of Plymouth County. Mean- time, he had been serving as clerk of the Fourth Dis- trict Court of Plymouth since 1912, and he continued to fill that position from 1912 to 1922, when he opened an office on Thatchers Row, Middleboro, and engaged in general practice. Since that time he has been taking care of a steadily growing clientele, which includes among its patronage some of the first fam- ilies of the county. Mr. Kelley is well known in Middleboro and vicinity, and is active in local public affairs. He is an adherent of the Republican party and for five years served as Registrar of Voters for his district. During the World War he served on the Legal Advisory Board for the Fourth Plymouth District, and aided in the various campaigns which carried forward the war work of the community. Fra- ternally, he is affiliated with the Knights of Colum- bus, and with Middleboro Lodge, No. 1274, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He is secretary of the Middleboro Commercial Club, and a member of the Middleboro Bar Association. His religious interest is with the Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart, of which he is an attendant.

Luke F. Kelley was married, in 1922, to Josephine M. Dorr, of Providence, Rhode Island, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dorr. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley reside at No. 28 Webster Street, in Middleboro.

EARL P. BLAKE-The county of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is known far and wide as a most law- abiding community. It has frequently been said that conduct of an enterprise, regardless of its char- acter, depends almost entirely upon the ability of the executive at its head. This applies with striking force to the head of law enforcement activities in Plymouth County, Sheriff Earl P. Blake. His father, Edwin H. Blake, a native of Foxboro, Massachusetts, was engaged as a partner in the firm, of H. W. Robinson Company, and died in 1914. He married Elenora Vinton Young, who was born in Blackstone, Mas- sachusetts, and who likewise died in 1914.

Earl P. Blake, sheriff of Plymouth County, a son of the late Edwin H. and Elenora Vinton (Young) Blake, was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, on Sep- tember 22, 1873, and received his education in the grammar and high schools of Brockton, and in the Bryant & Stratton Business College. On completing his education, he became employed in the Brockton offices of the New York & Boston Express Company, with which concern he remained for three years. He then accepted a position with the O. A. Miller Com- pany, also of Brockton, as private secretary to Mr. Miller, but was located in the Boston office of the latter, with whom he remained for three years. In 1901, he received the appointment of deputy sheriff for Plymouth County through the then Sheriff Henry S. Porter. A few years later Mr. Blake was made a special sheriff, in which capacity he continued to serve until the death of Sheriff Porter, which oc- curred in 1919, and on January 15 of the same year, Mr. Blake was officially appointed sheriff to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his predecessor, ex- piring in 1926. He was then elected to a full term of six years beginning January 1, 1927. His successful administration of the responsible office which he occupies, may logically be accounted for by the fact

that Mr. Blake has had long experience in military circles, which so eminently fits a law enforcement executive for the discharge of his duties. Prior to the entrance of the United States into the World War, there was formed in that city the Brockton Business and Professional Men's Military Company, which was drilled in the Brockton Armory. A few weeks after the organization of this company, Sheriff Blake was selected for the rank of second duty ser- geant thereof, and was subsequently elected to the captaincy of the unit. In the early part of the year 1917, this company joined with the National Rifle Association to enable its members to utilize the ad- vantages of identity with the Rifle Association, chief among which was the availability of rifles and am- munition obtainable through that source. A number of similar companies having been formed throughout the State of Massachusetts, these companies were subsequently gathered at a meeting in the South Armory at Boston, and Sheriff Blake was thereat elected president of the combined preparedness com- panies for the State, which were duly incorporated under the name of the Massachusetts School of Mili- tary Instruction. At this time the members thereof began to benefit by the receipt of instructions from the National Guard, and were also supplied with equipment by the State. A short time later these combined companies actually formed the nucleus for the Massachusetts State Guard. . Mr. Blake received a commission as captain of Company I, of Brockton, and shortly afterward his company was assigned to the Fourteenth Infantry, Massachusetts State Guard, at which time Captain Blake was commissioned major, and assigned to the Third Battalion of that Regiment, serving during the entire period of the World War. In 1919 and 1920 he served on the military staff of Governor Calvin Coolidge. While serving with the State Militia, he established a field hospital of two hundred beds in Brockton, which was completed in the record time of about thirty hours. He also served in the Boston police strike in 1919, for eleven weeks, during the latter part of which period he was assigned to the Brighton and the Hyde Park districts. (While commenting on the military career of Mr. Blake, it should be stated that he comes from a family of fighters, particularly on the maternal side of the house. Henry Harrison Young, an outstanding in- stance, and a brother of Mr. Blake's mother, served throughout the Civil War with rank of lieutenant- colonel, having been on the staffs of General Sheridan and General Edwards. There is now a statue of himn in City Hall Park, Providence, Rhode Island. Colonel Young took an active part in the capture of General Barringer of the Confederate Army.)

Sheriff Blake is a member of Paul Revere Masonic Lodge, Satucket Royal Arch Chapter; Massasoit Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Plym- outh Lodge, No. 1476, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he served as Exalted Ruler in 1927. He also holds membership in the Old Col- ony Club; Chamber of Commerce; Army and Navy Club of Boston; Old Guard of Boston; Massachusetts State Guards Veterans Association; Pilgrims' Society; Company L, 101st Infantry, National Guard of Mas- sachusetts (honorary member). He is an honorary member of the Old Bridgewater Historical Society. He is a Republican in political belief, and member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

On October 12, 1898, Earl P. Blake married Laura Louise Porter, a native of Brockton.

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ELROY SHERMAN THOMPSON-The career of Elroy S. Thompson is one spent almost entirely in journalistic and publicity work, for even when business called him for a time from his chosen field he retained all of his old interest and connections therein, and eventually returned to the familiar en- vironment of copy and lay-out desk and printing office. As publicity representative and city office manager of the Brockton Agricultural Society (Brockton Fair) he is widely known, and his repu- tation for accurate and comprehensive knowledge of the region he has made home is attested by his choice as author of the present history of Plymouth, Barn- stable and Norfolk counties.

Mr. Thompson was born in Halifax, Massachusetts, February 19, 1874, son of John Thomas and Irene LaRue (Sturtevant) Thompson. John Thomas Thompson was engaged in the painting and interior decorating business and served for many years as a member of the school committee of Kingston. During the Civil War, he was a soldier in the Twen- ty-fourth Unattached Company, Massachusetts Vol- unteers.

Elroy Sherman Thompson was educated in the public schools of Kingston, and graduated from the high school there with the class of 1891, since which time he has taken special extension courses in com- mercial law, real estate and insurance, public speak- ing, business psychology and other branches. In 1889, while at high school, he inaugurated the "King- ston News," a weekly paper which later became the "Kingston Press," while he was also engaged as dis- trict correspondent for the "Boston Journal," "Brock- ton Times," Associated Press, the "Old Colony Mem- orial" of Plymouth, and other publications until 1895. In that year, Mr. Thompson became a member of the staff of the "Brockton Daily Enterprise," and after serving five years as reporter, was made city editor of that paper, which post he held for five more years, during which time he compiled and wrote a "History of Brockton." In 1905, he purchased the "Randolph Register," a weekly newspaper, but after operating it for a few weeks as editor and publisher, sold it, con- tinuing his press activities as district correspondent for the "Boston Globe" and the Associated Press for several years. Relinquishing his connection with the newspaper world, Mr. Thompson devoted his in- terests to civic progress and commercial affairs, and for nine years acted as city collector of Brockton. He later resigned his office as city collector to be- come associate general agent of the Berkshire Life Insurance Company in Boston with which organiza- tion he was affiliated until the outbreak of the World War. For several years he was secretary of the Brockton Board of Trade and later was elected ex- ecutive secretary of the Brockton Chamber of Com- merce. In April, 1919, he accepted the post of pub- licity representative and city office manager of the Brockton Agricultural Society, under whose auspices the annual Brockton Fair is held. He is associated with the Plymouth County Extension Service as town director, and is keenly interested in the Boys' and Girls' Club movement.

Mr. Thompson has always maintained his deep interest in public welfare and for seven years served as sewerage construction commissioner of Brockton, and at the present time (1928) is trustee of the Brock- ton Public Library. In fraternal circles, he is a mem- ber of Paul Revere Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-

sons; Satucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Brock- ton Council, Royal and Select Masters; Damocles Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and the Brockton Ki- wanis Club. In civic and social organizations, he is active in the Brockton Chamber of Commerce; New England Kiwanis District Publicity Committee; International Association of Fairs and Expositions; Massachusetts Agricultural Fairs Association; the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Brock- ton Audubon Society. Mr. Thompson is a devoted member of the Friendly Relations Committee, which sponsors the "Brockton Plan" of dealing with the foreign born-a plan destined to spread throughout the country and promote a better mutual understand- ing with new comers from all countries. He is also a member of the Ter-centenary Committee organized to observe, suitably, in 1930, the Three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He is a former secretary and an hon- orary member of the Massachusetts Tax Collectors' Association. In his religious affiliation, he is a mem- ber of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston. At different times he has served as first and second reader of the Brock- ton First Church of Christ, Scientist, a branch of the Mother Church in Boston. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, he volunteered his serv- ices but was rejected on account of eye-sight de- ficiency. During the recent World War, Mr. Thomp- son had charge of publicity for the Brockton War Chest campaign, the United War Work campaign in Plymouth County, besides the various Liberty Loan drives and war saving stamps campaigns. He also had charge of the welfare department of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Company during that period.

Immediately following the war, Mr. Thompson was after-care representative of the Brockton Chapter American Red Cross, and his work was especially ad- vising returned soldiers in the matter of World War life insurance. He also conducted, in connection with the Brockton Chamber of Commerce, a free employment bureau sponsored by the United States Government for World War Veterans.

Elroy Sherman Thompson married (first), Octo- ber 19, 1899, at Brockton, Gertrude Louise Tilden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tilden, of Hyde Park, who is deceased. He married (second) Edna Helen Risch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Risch, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on January 20, 1924, at Elizabeth, New Jersey.

They have a very pleasant home at No. 55 High- land Terrace, Brockton.

G. LESTER GAY-Editor of the "Stoughton News Sentinel" and special correspondent of metro- politan newspapers, G. Lester Gay, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, has rendered wide public service to his community and established a record that re- dounds to his honor and marks a great personal suc- cess. His wide knowledge of local affairs is always utilized to advance the general welfare. His extensive influence is always on the side of the right. Mr. Gay was born at Sharon, Massachusetts, January 22, 1885, son of George F. and Harriet E. (Pond) Gay, the father from Sharon, the mother from Men- don. The father, who died November 8, 1893, was tax collector and keeper of a general store. The mother died in 1917.

G. Lester Gay was educated in the public schools .

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and has devoted all his mature years to the printing and newspaper industry. He was connected with the fire department for twenty-three years, of which eleven years he was driver. He edits the Stoughton "News Sentinel," a weekly paper, in so vigorous and effective a way that its circulation has greatly grown under his management as a testimonial to its popular- ity. The paper fulfills a real community need by enlisting the interest and cooperation of the people in all progressive movements, like the Liberty Loan drives, in which the editor was a leader. He is a Re- publican, and for ten years has been a member of the town committee. He is Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and an enthusiastic member of the Musical Society in Stoughton. He is also clerk of the Historical Society of Stoughton. With equal zeal he has entered into religious activities and has served the Sunday school of his church, the Con- gregational. He is also active in the choir, of which he has been a member since he was nine years of age. He has been superintendent of the church school for many years. His kindliness, his public spirit, and his high ideals have won him the confi- dence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.

On August 11, 1915, G. Lester Gay married Mary A. Comstock, of Pereaux, Nova Scotia, daughter of William S. and Drusilla (Heaton) Comstock.

COLLEN CARROLL CAMPBELL-To Judge Campbell belongs the distinction of being the young- est Judge of the Probate Court in Massachusetts, and indicates the change which is coming in the legal profession with entrance of the younger at- torneys into the offices of responsibility by the vol- untary recognition of those who have been carrying on in the name of the time-honored profession of law. Judge Campbell is a very popular choice for the new office to which he has been appointed and has the heartiest indorsement of the members of the lo- cal bar and the laymen of the community. His work before the courts has always been marked by the strongest qualities of sincerity, integrity and probity which have received the commendations of all those with whom he has been associated. He is the son of Captain Archibald and Margaret (MacDonald) Campbell of Nova Scotia, the former of whom during his life had been a captain of a coastwise schooner and engaged in salt-water fishing off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. He settled at Provincetown, Mas- sachusetts, about 1875. Both parents are deceased.

Collen Carroll Campbell was born at Provincetown, Massachusetts, August 2, 1883. He attended the local public schools of the district and was graduated from the Provincetown High School. He then went to the University of Maine Law School, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1915. Returning to Massachusetts, he took the Bar exam- inations which he passed, qualifying him to practice, and he started in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He continued in his native town for many years and built up a reputation as an able and successful law- yer. In 1918, he was brought into State prominence when Governor McCall appointed him Register of the Probate for Barnstable County. He had been Special Justice of the First District Court of Barn- stable County from 1913 to 1924. He moved to Hy- annis with his family in 1918 and made his residence on South Street. Efficiently discharging the duties within his scope of authority, he was appointed

Judge of the Probate and Insolvency Court of Barn- stable and has been serving on the bench therein since 1924. He served on the Legal Advisory Board of Barnstable County during the World War. He is a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Judge Campbell is a member of the Marine Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Provincetown, the Provincetown Board of Trade, and the Barnstable County Bar Association. With his family he is a member of the Methodist church of Provincetown, and is now attending the Baptist church in Hyannis, and is president of the Layman's League.

Judge Campbell married Margaret A. Wolfe, a daughter of Captain William A. and Jessie (Mac- Leod) Wolfe, of Nova Scotia, at Provincetown, May 9, 1917. They are the parents of a son, Peter Archi- bald Campbell, born April 9, 1918.

SAMUEL W. GODDARD, M. D., who is prob- ably the leading surgeon of Brockton, Massachusetts, was born in that city February 5, 1881, a son of Henry E. and Mary Elizabeth (Outcalt) Goddard, of Brockton. Dr. Henry E. Goddard, now deceased, was also a prominent physician of Brockton, and founder of the Goddard Hospital, of which his son is now the chief surgeon.

Samuel W. Goddard received his early education in the public and high schools of the community in which he was born and graduated from the Medical School of Harvard University with the class of 1904, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Goddard served an interneship of four years in the Carney Hospital, Boston. Immediately after, in 1908, he began his practice as a surgeon of the Goddard Hospital of Brockton, a position which he has re- tained up until the present time, although he is now chief surgeon of this institution, and president of its board of directors. From 1917 to 1921 he served as surgeon-in-chief of the Brockton Hospital, and he is also consulting surgeon of the Bridgewater State Hospital. Dr. Goddard has been particularly active as a member of many societies pertaining to his pro- fession, among the more important of these being the American College of Surgeons, of which he is a Fellow; the American Medical Association; the Mas- sachusetts Medical Society, and the Brockton Medi- cal Society. He has also devoted much time to civic and commercial affairs of his community. He is a member of the Brockton Chamber of Commerce and served for two years as chairman of its health com,- mittee, also a member of the Brockton Commercial Club, and past president of the Rotary Club. He is affiliated, fraternally, with the Blue Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons. During the war, he was appointed and served as chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of this section.

Dr. Samuel W. Goddard married, November 29, 1910, Alice W. Goddard. Dr. and Mrs. Goddard have one child, a son, Philip, who was born in 1919. Dr. Goddard and his family reside at No. 50 Fairview Avenue, Brockton, where they attend the Church of the New Jerusalem.

LEON M. ORCUTT-To become the principal of a high school at twenty-eight years of age is an honor of which any young man should be proud, and it is the identical accomplishment of Professor Leon

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M. Orcutt, of Hanover, who, in 1922 was elected to the leadership of the Hanover High School and has held that position with great credit to himself and the Board of Education since. Mr. Orcutt filled the position of principal in several high and grammar schools in Maine and Massachusetts before settling at Hanover, so that he probably holds the record in that respect, as well as in thoroughness of method and general results. He found time from his duties to serve his country during the World War, and holds high position in a number of teachers' organizations, which keep him in touch with educational movements in various parts of the country.

Mr. Orcutt was born at Gouldsboro, Maine, May 21, 1894, the son of Leonard M. Orcutt, a farmer greatly respected in his community, and of Martha (Rolfe) Orcutt, now deceased, an estimable lady devoted to her home and family and charitable works. He proved an apt scholar at the public schools of Gouldsboro, and finished with one of the best records in the graduating class, at Sullivan High School, after which he entered the University of Maine at Orono, and continued his good scholarship work. He graduated in the class of 1920 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was twenty-three years of age when his country was drawn into the World War, and he was among the first volunteers for that struggle. Although his unit was in a state of readi- ness to embark for France, it did not receive a call before the Armistice of November 11, 1918, put an end to hopes of glory on the battlefield. He entered the army camps and qualified for the commission of second lieutenant, and did valuable home duty. On being mustered out, he went back to his studies at the University of Maine, and graduated, as stated above. After teaching a while in the schools of Massachusetts and New Hampshire he decided to cast his lot with the residents of Hanover, and here he found a warm welcome. His prominence in his pro- fession is also emphasized by the fact that he was president of the Carroll Teachers' Association, pres- ident of the Parent-Teachers' Association, and president of the Men's Club of North Conway, New Hampshire. He is a member of the National Asso- ciation of School Principals, and of the Plymouth County Teachers' Association. He is very fond of sports and fully appreciates the value of healthy bodies, directed by intelligent, quick-acting minds, so that he has worked hard for city budgets large enough to extend the school buildings and provide adequate playgrounds and parks for the children. In the line of outdoor things, he is president of the South Shore Athletic Association. In religious affairs he gives allegiance to the Congregational church, and in politics to the Republican party, although he is more concerned with choosing the best man for office than he is over voting under party labels. In the secret order world he is a thirty-second degree member of the Free and Accepted Masons, both the York and Scottish Rites, and enjoys a deserved popularity with his lodge brethren. Other affiliations are: Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, the Scabbard and Blade, and Pi Gamma Mu (the last two honorary).

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History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 26

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874- Publication date: 1928 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 642

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874-
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642