History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 61

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

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Mr. Haines was endowed with those warming qual- ities of character and nature which endear men to their associates, and in friendship he was wealthy indeed. His works will live after him, and in the hearts of the many who knew and loved him he can- not be forgotten.

CHARLES DANIEL-Member, with his brother Robert, in the firm of Daniel Brothers, contractors and builders, who do an annual business comparable with that of the largest firms of this category on Cape Cod, Charles Daniel is a prominent figure in Barnstable County. His residence is in Osterville, while his office is located in Wianno.

Charles Daniel was born in Boston, September 25, 1875, a son of Charles and Catherine (Morris) Daniel. Charles Daniel, Sr., was born in Scotland, was by trade a ship's carpenter, most skilled in the craft, and for thirty years sailed the seas out of Liverpool, England, covering in his voyages all of the oceans and seas of consequence and touching upon all of the five principal parts of the world save Australia. He began his training in carpentry when a mere boy in the shipyards of Glasgow, Scotland, where he served his apprenticeship. When he was forty years of age he took passage on a last voyage, this time with the intention of making his career on land and building for the future in the United States. He made his residence in Boston, Massachusetts, where he married in 1874, and where he continued to ply his trade. In 1879, Charles Daniel, Sr., moved to Wi- anno, Barnstable Township, here to erect a house for William Lloyd Garrison, as by that time his trade had become a contracting business. He remained in Osterville until the time of his death, at the age of seventy-six, always taking a keen interest in civic affairs. He is buried in the cemetery at Hyannis near Wianno. His two sons, Charles and Robert, continue to carry on the business which their re-

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spected father. founded, bringing to their work the same high ideals of workmanship held by the father.

Charles Daniel, Jr., removed with his parents when he was four years old, to Osterville, on Cape Cod,. near Hyannis and Wianno, and in Osterville he attended the public schools. He learned the trade of carpentry under the skilled tuition of his father, and also under Chester Bearse, of Centerville. He continued in association with Mr. Bearse for twenty years, leaving him upon the death of his father in 1913, when he located in Osterville once more, assuming control, with his brother, of the contracting and building enterprise founded by the elder Mr. Daniel, who had operated in the several adjacent commun- ities. Under their able management the concern has enjoyed increasing volume of business and they now employ an average of eighty-five men a year. Their operations extend all along the Cape, and many of the finer residences thereon are of their contracts. They also deal in real estate and take care of the large estates of the non-residents or summer people.

While Mr. Daniel's interests have naturally cen- tered in his profession, he has given generously of his time and thought to civic affairs and public serv- ice. He serves as a director and treasurer of the Osterville Public Library, and is an active member of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce. In his re- ligious affiliations he is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church.

GEORGE F. CLEMENTS-Although compara- tively a young man, George F. Clements heads most ably an efficient, modern engineering organization with offices in Hyannis and Bridgewater, Massachu- setts, where he is successfully undertaking contracts for work of civil, topographical, municipal and struc- tural character. Listed among his clients are the towns of Barnstable, Bridgewater, Yarmouth, and Truro. He was given charge by two towns of im- portant engineering problems, namely, in Bridge- water for the making of an assessor's survey of the entire town; and in Hyannis, Barnstable, for the sur- veys of a prospective sewer system for the village. He is now specializing in airport surveys and had charge of the port built at Hyannis.

In connection with his interest in real estate, he has studied some of the largest developments in the country-in New York City, Washington, District of Columbia, New Orleans, Louisiana, Dallas, Texas; and the newer centers in Florida. On Cape Cod alone he has surveyed more than twenty thousand acres of land, and his work has extended to Oak Hill Village, Newton Centre; Chilton Hundreds, Wellesley and Weston; extensive surveys in Vermont and New Hampshire; Warrendale, Waltham, Engle- wood Shores, Yarmouth; Poponesset, Mashpee; In- dian Neck Heights, Wellfleet. Oyster Harbors, Os- terville; Nobscussett Shores. Dennis; Chequaquet, Centerville: and Bass River Park, Bass River.

George F. Clements is a native of the Bay State, born in Cambridge, May 2, 1899, son of Bernard and Mary L. (Seys) Clements, of Somerville. His parents are living, and today Bernard Clements is known as a maker of surgical instruments, in Boston. After graduation from Somerville High School, Mr. Clem- ents entered Northeastern University, in Boston, where he studied engineering. He left Northeastern University for a time to take up work at Tufts Col- lege, and studied the LaSalle University Law Course, returning to Northeastern to be graduated in the

class of 1921, with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering. In 1922, he was the applicant selected from Northeastern for the Rhodes scholarship. In 1920, during his senior year, and for three years fol- lowing, Mr. Clements was associated with Elmer N. Morang, as partners in the Cape Cod Supply Com- pany of Orleans, an automobile supplies and sales business which was liquidated the latter part of 1923.

It was in 1924 that Mr. Clements came to Hyannis, believing it more adapted as a center for widespread engineering work along the Cape; and he has been there since, well established in the community.

As early as 1921, Mr. Clements began the writing of articles for the newspapers, pointing out the pos- sibilities for development along all lines on Cape Cod. He backed his writings with his personal aid, assisting a number of centers in their own peculiar and particular problems.

Mr. Clements is vice-president of the Oil Sta- tistics Company, Incorporated, of Babson Park, Wel- lesley, Massachusetts, and in Hyannis takes a keen interest in general business progress. He is a meni- ber of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, the Hy- annis Board of Trade, the Cape Cod Real Estate Board, and secretary of the Hyannis Rotary Club. In college, he became a member of Alpha Kappa Sigma, and is now a trustee of the fraternity's trust organization, of Boston and Brookline, which handles and invests the fund used for loans to deserving students. He is also identified with the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers, and Northeastern University Alumni Association.

From the foregoing it would seem that Mr. Clem- ents had crowded more than was possible into a comparatively few years. But even so there was more. Soon after the United States entered the World War, he offered his services to the cause, and was stationed with the Naval Reserve, in Boston. He received his honorable discharge in 1918, at the conclusion of the war, and resumed the current of his career in civil life where he had left it.

On September 7, 1923, at Tyler, Texas, Mr. Clem- ents married Florence Pinkerton, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Clements have one child, a son, George F., Jr., born September 24, 1925.

ARTHUR I. BURGESS-Among the younger members of the legal profession in this section of the State is Arthur I. Burgess, who is engaged in general practice in Boston and in Quincy, his Boston offices being located at No. 514 Old South Building, and his Quincy office in the Adams Building. Mr. Burgess is a graduate of Suffolk Law School.

William D. Burgess, father of Mr. Burgess, was born in New York State, where he was engaged in shipbuilding to the time of his death in 1907. He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving with Com- pany I, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, New York State Volunteer Infantry, and was several times wounded in action. He was a member of Kingston Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and was held in very high esteem among his many associates. He married Harriet M. Decker, who was born in New York State, and who died in 1919.

Arthur I. Burgess, son of William D. and Harriet M. (Decker) Burgess, was born in Kingston, New York, October 13, 1894, and received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Kingston, later be- coming a student in one of the high schools of New York City. He had early decided to enter the legal

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profession, and when his preparatory work was con- pleted began professional study in Suffolk Law School, from which he was graduated with the class of 1921, receiving at that time the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar that same year, and since that time has been success- fully engaged in general practice in Boston and in Quincy. He has been admitted to practice in all the State and Federal courts, and during the years in which he has been engaged in practice has laid the foundation of what promises to be an unusually successful career. He is a Republican in his po- litical sympathies. During the World War he en- listed, in July, 1917, in the United States Infantry, and was sent to Fort Omaha, Nebraska, where in January, 1918, he was commissioned second lieuten- ant in the Air Service of the United States Army. In April, 1918, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and made commanding officer of a company in the Sixtieth Battalion. He was discharged in March, 1919, with the rank of first lieutenant. Fraternally, Mr. Burgess is identified with Wollaston Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and with Taleb Grotto, Mys- tic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm. He is past president and present secretary of the Quincy Kiwanis Club, and a member of the board of directors of the Quincy Young Men's Christian As- sociation. His religious affiliation is with the Baptist church. Mr. Burgess is of a very old family, and a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson Burgess, who came to this country at a very early date and settled in Kingston, Massachusetts.

Arthur I. Burgess was married, in 1917, to Mar- guerite W. Baker, who was born in Randolph, Mas- sachusetts.

HENRY P. MILLER-Few names of men in the granite industry have been longer associated with the progress of that business in Quincy, great center of granite-working, than that of Miller, and the name as continued in the title of J. L. Miller Company, of which Henry P. Miller is the sole owner, is re- ferred to by all in any way interested in this in- dustry as holding a leading place. Mr. Miller may be said to have inherited his business abilities in the particular lines in which he is active, and his pres- ent-day enterprise and foresight have furthered the up-to-date methods in use at the Quincy plant, and secured its permanent place in the retailing of gran- ite memorials.

Henry P. Miller is a son of John L. Miller, who died in October, 1914, and Elizabeth A. (Leaman) Miller, who died February 23, 1925. The career of John L. Miller, both in its business and civic activities, has a vital interest in the industrial and political history of Quincy. John L. Miller was a native of Truro, Nova Scotia, and came to Quincy in 1870, where he thoroughly mastered the trade of granite cutter, and became affiliated with the Granite Cut- ters' Union in the early years of its organization. In 1878, Mr. Miller was elected president of the Union, and he held that office at the time of the famous lockout when for seven months the granite cutters of this city were deprived of employment at their trade. As a direct result of the lockout, was brought about the organization of the Merrymount Granite Company, the work of Mr. Miller. This was in 1879, and as all the stockholders had been locked out by former employers, this firm was able to con-

tinue business. With W. H. Thomas, Mr. Miller es- tablished the firm of Thomas and Miller in 1885, and an extensive and country-wide business was done, Mr. Thomas retiring from the firm in 1900, and Mr. Miller continuing the business.

In 1893, John L. Miller was elected as a delegate to the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois, by the Gran- ite Manufacturers' Association, when he assisted in the satisfactory settlement of a controversy with the judges. Mr. Miller became president of the Granite Manufacturers' Association in 1900, and served in that office four years. His first public office was that of member of the School Committee, his three- year term election taking place in 1902; and he served continuously until the close of 1913, four years as chairman of the board. In that year also, Mr. Miller was chairman of the bureau that had charge of the plans for the National Granite Dealers' Con- vention, that was held at Boston, in August. In 1912, Mr. Miller was the Progressive party's candidate for mayor of Quincy, but he received defeat at the polls by Eugene R. Stone. Mr. Miller was a candi- date at the convention held in Wollaston but was defeated for the nomination by William G. Shaw. Upon leaving the convention hall, steps were im- mediately taken to have Mr. Miller become an Inde- pendent candidate, and under this title he was elected, after a campaign that was most unique. He was ill throughout the entire campaign, being unable to attend the rallies or take part to any great extent. When election was over and the count taken, it was found that he had been chosen by a good plurality. He was unable to be about until inauguration day, and he broke all precedents by not preparing an ad- dress for the inauguration, but delivered an extempor- aneous speech that was unique as well as character- istic. He was a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Quincy Young Men's Christian As- sociation, and of Wollaston Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons. His religious faith was that of the Baptist church.

Henry P. Miller was born February 5, 1879, in Quincy, where he attended the public and high schools. He then became associated with his father in the granite business, so continuing for nine years, when he accepted the position of New England man- ager for the Pittsburgh White Metal Company, of New York. He continued with this firm until 1914, when upon the death of his father, he took over the management of his father's business, for his mother, and at her death in 1925, became sole owner of the J. L. Miller Company. The plant and offices of the company, including the cutting sheds, have always been located at No. 47 Liberty Street, South Quincy. This firm is one of the oldest manufacturers of granite products, its work including a complete list of granite for monumental purposes. The J. L. Miller Company is strictly a retailer, and has placed monu- ments in all the States of this country, as well as in foreign countries, the granite used being of the New England type.

In his political views, Mr. Miller is a Republican, and with his vote and influence supports the prin- ciples of that party. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Rural Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Ste- phen's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Quincy Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Granite City Club, past president of the Old Colony Driving Club, member of the Quincy Cham-

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ber of Commerce, Granite Manufacturers' Associa- tion, National Granite Manufacturers' Association, and a past president of the Greater Boston Memorial Art Club. Horses are his great hobby.

Henry P. Miller married, June 6, 1903, Alice Ger- trude Packard, who was born in Quincy. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of the following children: Clare Louis, Gertrude Packard, Robert Earl, Roger Haskell, and Eleanor Dorothy.

GEORGE W. ARBUCKLE, a noted lawyer of Quincy and Boston, Massachusetts, was born Feb- ruary 22, 1889, in Quincy, a son of Robert and Rose (McAloon) Arbuckle, the father a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Robert Arbuckle was engaged in gran- ite quarrying until the time of his death, which oc- curred in 1920. Rose (McAloon) Arbuckle was born in Milton, Massachusetts.

George W. Arbuckle received his early education in the public schools of Auburn and Portland, Maine. He later graduated from Portland High School. Upon the completion of these courses of study Mr. Ar- buckle journeyed to Boston, where he became em- ployed in the leather industry. He continued this work for a period of five years, and, in 1916, resigned to fill his appointment on the metropolitan police force. Not satisfied with this type of occupation, and ambitious for greater knowledge and a higher posi- tion, he took up his studies once more. When not engaged in his official duties he attended the North- eastern University Law School. During the year 1924 he was made a sergeant of the metropolitan police force. The following year, 1925, he graduated from Northeastern University Law School, when he received his degree as Bachelor of Laws. White attending Northeastern University, he was made marshal of his class. When he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, Mr. Arbuckle resigned from his position on the police force and began the practice of his profession in Quincy, Massachusetts. Al- though he has been practicing for a comparatively short time, Mr. Arbuckle has met with marked suc- cess. To further his knowledge and ability in his chosen career, he has taken many special courses of study and is a graduate of the Emerson College of Oratory. He now maintains his offices at No. 1372 Hancock Street, in Quincy. In addition to this work, in 1926, he became a member of the law firm of Allen Abbott & Packer, of Boston, Massachusetts.

During the period of the World War, Mr. Ar- buckle served in the Intelligence Department of the United States Navy. At one time he was placed in charge of the Naval Provost Guard at Boston, a unit that comprised some two hundred and fifty men. Despite the many exacting duties which his profes- sion entails, Mr. Arbuckle finds time in which to take a keen and active interest in the civic and general affairs of his community. In his political preferences, he is a supporter of the Republican party. . He has been active in social life, and among those organiza- tion which pertain to his profession in which he holds membership, the most important is the Massachu- setts Bar Association. He is, fraternally, affiliated with Quincy Lodge, No. 943, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, and Quincy Council, Knights of Columbus. He is also a member of the North- eastern Alumni Association, and the Quincy Post of the American Legion. Mr. Arbuckle finds recrea-' tion in the sports of boxing, wrestling and swimming.

He maintains his residence in Quincy, in which com- munity he attends St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

HENRY O. DAVIS occupies a prominent place in the business and industry of Brockton, Massachu- setts, as a prosperous manufacturer and a part of the general progress of the community. He is pro- prietor of the firm of E. S. Morton and Company, manufacturers of last-makers' supplies, and widely known through the excellent qualities of such special- ties as the Morton and Davis Patent Last Thimbles. During his three decades of association with this enterprise, Mr. Davis has played a leading part in its upbuilding and progress.

Henry O. Davis was born in Plymouth, Massachu- setts, March 5, 1872, son of Oswin and Delia M. (Newhall) Davis, both still living (1928), the father a farmer. The son was educated in the Plymouth schools. His first position in industry was with the Edes Manufacturing Company, where he remained in various capacities until 1896. He then entered the employ of the E. S. Morton and Company enterprise, with which he has since been associated. When Mr. Morton died in 1910, Mr. Davis, his right-hand man, bought the business and has since greatly improved and expanded it. He employs eight workers and oc- cupies four thousand square feet of floor space. The factory produces men's, youth's and women's heel- plates, toe-plates, thimbles, and last nails, as well as other supplies. The business, established in 1887, is well housed and provided with ail modern equip- ment and run according to the most enlightened of modern methods. Mr. Davis, its busy executive, is a member of the Republican party, and of the Metho- dist church. His fraternal affiliations are with the Free and Accepted Masons and the Knights Temp- lar; his social, with the Commercial and the Old Colony clubs of Plymouth.

In 1907, Henry O. Davis married Julia M. Allen, and they are the parents of a son, Warren O. Davis.

CHARLES H. McKENNEY, Jr .- For the past two years Charles H. McKenney, Jr., has been en- gaged in the real estate and insurance business in Brockton, where his offices are located in the Home Bank Building, at No. 106 Main Street. Mr. McKenney is a native of Brockton, and has spent practically his entire life, to the present time, in his native town. For a period of six years prior to en- gaging in the insurance and real estate business, Mr. McKenney was in the employ of the New England Telephone Company, located in Brockton.

Charles H. McKenney, Jr., was born in Brockton, January 17, 1901, son of Charles H. McKenney, a shoe worker of Brockton, and of Mary H. (Mahon) McKenney, who died in November, 1926. He re- ceived a practical education in the public schools of this town, and then, from 1918 to 1925, was em- ployed as a cable splicer for the New England Tel- ephone Company. In 1925 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business for himself, in Brock- ton, where he has since been building up a successful enterprise. He has the agency for this district for the Travelers' Insurance, the Maryland Casualty Company, the American Motors Company, and the Berkshire Mutual, and is taking care of a steadily growing business in this line. Politically, Mr. McKenney gives his support to the principles and

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the candidates of the Republican party, but he pre- fers to devote his attention to his business, rather than to the affairs of public office. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. His religious affiliation is with St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church.

Charles H. McKenney, Jr., was married, January 29, 1924, to Ethel Higgins, and they are the parents of one child, Mary Eleanore. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Kenney make their home at No. 267 Green Street, Brockton.

CHARLES GARDNER MILES, M. D., one of the leading physicians of Brockton, Massachusetts, has gained a well-deserved standing in his community by virtue of his marked courage, great strength of character, and his deep-seated integrity. He has become well known, not only because of his pro- fessional standing and his political activities, but by his wonderful humanitarian deeds. Left father- less at the age of three and a half years, from early childhood, he was obliged to seek his own livelihood, and with grim determination, aided by an endless amount of energy, Dr. Miles has attained an enviable degree of success.

He is a native of Maine, born December 2, 1879, son of Moncena and Helen Augusta (Condon) Miles. His father died when Charles G. was but three and a half years old. When twelve years of age he sold newspapers on the streets of Brockton, and when only thirteen and a half he left school to go to work in the shoe factories of Brockton, being employed at various times by the George E. Keith Company, E. E. Taylor Company, M. A. Pack- ard Company, W. L. Douglas Shoe Company, Em- erson Shoe Company, and the L. C. Bliss Company. His first employment was with the firm of Niles & Wilbur where he was engaged in the task of sticking nails, later serving as an apprentice in the cutting room, and when only sixteen years of age was elected secretary of the Cutters' Union, being re- elected the following year. At the age of eighteen the union elected him vice-president and a delegate to the Joint Shoe Council. By this time he had gained valuable experience in the shoe-making in- dustry and the following year was advanced to the position of vamp and whole shoe cutter. Realiz- ing the need for further education, Charles G. Miles, with his characteristic perseverance, set about to ob- tain that end. He entered Williston Seminary, East- hampton, Massachusetts, for his preparatory instruc- tion, in the meantime continuing his work in the shoe factory during the summer months. After a three-year course in that institution he entered a medical college, from which he graduated magna cum laude. Locating in Brockton he very quickly estab- lished a lucrative practice which he continues to the present date (1928). He has three times been elected as city physician.

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History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 61

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