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Harry B. Davis was married, in 1906, to Julia H. Edson, who was born in Whitman, Massachusetts. Mrs. Davis is also active in civic and philanthropic affairs, serving as president of the Plymouth Women's Club, as Girl Scout Commissioner for the Plymouth
District, and as a member of the Plymouth Anti- quarian Society. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are the parents of four children: 1. John Edson. 2. Mary. 3. Robert Searle. 4. Katherine.
GEORGE L. GOODING-The entire active career of George L. Gooding has been associated with the Old Colony National Bank of Plymouth, Massachusetts, of which he is now (1928) president. He has been chief executive of this institution for the past thirteen years, and is known as a banker of wide experience and sound knowledge.
George L. Gooding was born in Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, May 27, 1879, son of George Gooding, also a native of Plymouth, who was engaged in business as a jeweler to the time of his death, and of Carrie F. (Weston) Gooding, who was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and who is also deceased. Mr. Good- ing attended the public schools of Plymouth, includ- ing the high school, and then, in 1897, when he was eighteen years of age, became associated with the Old Colony National Bank of Plymouth in the capa- city of clerk. Able and faithful, his close attention to business and his reliability, as well as his abil- ity brought reward in the form of promotion, and in 1901, four years after he had entered the employ of the bank, he was made cashier, which important office he filled until 1914, when he was elected presi- dent of the bank. During the thirteen years which have passed since his election to the office of chief executive Mr. Gooding has fully justified the confi- dence of his associates, and both stockholders and directors, as well as the depositors of the institution feel that their financial welfare, as represented by their interest in the Old Colony National Bank, is in expert and thoroughly reliable hands. Successful as he has been in his connection with the Old Colony National Bank, however, the duties of his executive office do not absorb all of Mr. Gooding's time. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Plymouth Savings Bank, which he also serves as a member of the board of investment; and a director of the George Mabbett and Sons Company. His political affiliation is with the Republican party, and he is a member of the City Planning Board of the Plymouth Welfare Board and he is well known in fraternal cir- cles, being a member of Plymouth Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past Master; Sam- oset Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Abington Council, Royal and Select Masters; Old Colony Commandery, Knights Templar; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Ara- bic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Plymouth Lodge, No. 1476, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and a member of its board of governors. He is a member of the Old Colony Club; of the Plymouth Country Club, of which he is a director; of the Pilgrim Society, which he serves as a member of its board of trustees; and he is also a past president of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce.
George L. Gooding was married, in Plymouth. Massachusetts, to Mary Drew, who was born in Plymouth.
WILLIAM H. SAVAGE-Among the business men of Brockton, Massachusetts, who have long ago passed on to another life is William H. Savage, who spent the greater part of his life in this city, and for many years was engaged in the embalming and fun- eral directing, and also furniture business here. He
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died very suddenly in 1903 at the age of fifty-seven years, leaving behind him a record of honest business activity and of efficient public service.
William H. Savage was born in England, July 27, 1846, son of John, a landscape gardener and farmer in England, and of Elizabeth Savage. As a small boy he came to this country and located in North Bridge- water, now Brockton, Massachusetts, where the re- mainder of his life was spent. He learned the trade of cabinetmaker, which he followed for a number of years, and later engaged in the embalming and funeral directing business, in connection with which he also conducted a retail furniture business. He was the first undertaker to locate in Brockton, and in this line of business activity he was successfully en- gaged to the time of his death, which occurred Febru- ary 19, 1903. At the time of his death he was presi- dent and a member of the board of directors of the Plymouth County Trust Company, of Brockton, also Massasoit Lodge of Odd Fellows, Paul Revere Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Satucket Royal Arch Chapter; Brockton Council, Royal and Select Masters; and Bay State Commandery, Knights Templar; and he was well known as a dependable business man and a financier of more than ordinary ability. In his political affiliations he was a Republican, and he was a member of the first board of councilmen of the city of Brockton. A man of generous impulses and of generally helpful habits of life, he had a host of friends in Brockton and all through this district, a man of genial disposition whom to know was to admire and respect and even at the present time (1928) after twenty-five years, his memory is still cherished by those who knew him best. It is fit- ting that a record of the local history of this region should include a memorial of appreciation for those who have made possible the prosperity of the present. Mr. Savage was one of the builders of economic suc- cess for the city of Brockton and upon foundations which he helped to lay, the present generation is building surely and well.
William H. Savage was married, January 3, 1869, to Abbie S. Vinal, daughter of Zeth H., a shoemaker, and trunkmaker, and Farriot L. Vinal. Mrs. Savage survived her husband and made her home at No. 103 Green Street, in Brockton, until January 14, 1928, when she passed away, a victim of that dread disease, pneumonia.
LEE C. ABBOTT-With the exception of the period during which the United States was participa- ting in the World War, Lee C. Abbott has been en- gaged in general legal practice since 1905. Since 1921 he has been successfully engaged in practice in Franklin, Massachusetts, with an office on Main Street. He is active in the work of various civic organizations in Franklin, and is clerk of the West- ern Norfolk District Court.
Lee C. Abbott was born in Rumney, New Hamp- shire, June 11, 1876, son of Joseph, a native of Haverhill, New Hampshire, who was engaged in business as a merchant to the time of his death in 1912, and of Sarah (Clark) Abbott, a native of Land- aff, New Hampshire, who survived her husband four- teen years, her death occurring in 1926. He received his early and preparatory education in the public schools, and after completing his high school course matriculated in the University of Vermont, at Bur- lington, Vermont, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895, receiving at that time the degree of
Bachelor of Philosophy. He then studied law in the office of Judge David Cross, in Manchester, New Hampshire, with whom he was associated until 1905, when he successfully passed the required examin- ations and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar. For a time after his admission he was engaged in practice under his own name, but later he became a member of the law firm of Thorpe and Abbott, with offices at Manchester, New Hampshire. This con- nection he maintained until 1918, when he partici- pated in the World War as secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, in which capacity he served overseas to the end of the war, and then went with the Near East Relief Commission, serving until 1921. In that year he returned to this country and located in Franklin, Massachusetts, where he has since been engaged in general legal practice on his own account. In addition to the care of his private legal practice Mr. Abbott is also clerk of the Western Norfolk District Court, and he is also active in local public affairs. At the present time (1928), he is secre- tary of the school committee, and he is also a leader in civic organizations, taking an active part in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, which he serves as a member of the board of trus- tees. Fraternally, he is identified with Excelsior Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; with the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a trus- tee; and with the Improved Order of Red Men. He is a member of the Business Men's Association, and his religious affiliation is with the Methodist church, which he serves as a member of the official board.
Lee C. Abbott was married, in 1906, to Jennie D. Hutchinson, of Franklin, Massachusetts, daughter of Joseph T. and Mary (Davey) Hutchinson. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott are the parents of six children: Esther M., Joseph R., Edith S., all three graduates of Frank- lin High School and the last a student at the Univer- sity of Vermont; Dorothy L., Howard C., and W. Lee. The family home is located at No. 26 West Street, in Franklin.
GEORGE ALBERT BILLINGS, D. D. S., D. M. D .- Few men of the dental profession have been better known in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, than was Dr. George Albert Billings, and none more skill- ful than he. A graduate of Boston Dental College, he added to his preparation for the usual dental de- gree the special work at Tufts College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine. For forty years he had been engaged in practice in Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, and during those years had taken care of a very large number of patients.
George Albert Billings was born in Fitchburg, Mas- sachusetts, June 9, 1868, son of George R., a native of Pembroke, Massachusetts, whose death occurred in 1916, and who was engaged as a machinist to the time of his death, and of Emmeline M. (Dickinson) Bil- lings, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in 1911. Dr. Billings received his early and preparatory education in the public schools of Canton, and then, having chosen the dental profession as his future field of service, became a student in Boston Dental College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1887, receiving at that time the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He then continued study in Tufts Medical College, from which he was gradu- ated with the degree of Doctor of Medical Dentistry. Meantime, in 1887, after graduation from Boston
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Dental College, he had begun practice in Canton, Massachusetts, and there he had been continuously and successfully engaged until his death. He had made for himself an enviable reputation in his profes- sion and held the confidence and esteem of his pa- trons and other associates in a high degree. His religious affiliation was with the Unitaran church.
Dr. George Albert Billings was married, in 1902, to Mary F. Clarke, of Sharon, Massachusetts, daughter of Dr. Edwin R. Clarke, who was the manu- facturer of Mirror stove polish. Mr. and Mrs. Bil- lings were the parents of five children: 1. Frank C. 2. Charles H., who is a graduate of Tufts Col- lege. 3. Walter J., also a graduate of Tufts College. 4. Marion L., a graduate of Bridgewater Normal School and of Smith College. 5. Doris A., a graduate of Walnut Hill School, and of Wellesley College. Dr. Billings died June 18, 1928.
G. FRED DAHLBORG-Few men ever took a more important part in the affairs of Brockton, Massachusetts, than did G. Fred Dahlborg, who, up to the time of his death, was active in several differ- ent business enterprises and in matters of civic im- portance as well. He was widely known and highly esteemed by all who knew him, not only for his qualities of character which made for his success in life, but for his personal traits of helpfulness, thor- ough integrity in all his relationships, and eagerness to aid a friend in need. Mr. Dahlborg's fellow-citi- zens thought most highly of him, and were sorely grieved to hear of his passing from the scene of his life's endeavors, realizing that a most valuable man had gone from their midst.
Mr. Dahlborg was born in Brockton, Massachu- setts, on December 31, 1888, son of Charles F. and Laura M. Dahlborg. He was educated in the local schools, and received his early business training in his father's plumbing, heating and roofing establish- ment, one of the oldest and most substantial mercan- tile enterprises in that part of the State. The son continued to work with his father, growing in experi- ence and proving more and more effective in busi- ness, both in the managerial and in the subordinate departments. Ambitious, thrifty, hard-working, ever loyal to the traditions of his father's business, he joined his brothers, Carl and Edward, in 1926, in purchasing the firm which also consists of an under- taking establishment. All branches of the Dahlborg business activities proved a valuable contribution to the needs of the community.
While progressing thus in his private affairs, Mr. Dahlborg was prominent in muncipal matters, a close student of political developments, and a man inter- ested ever in the advancement of his city's and com- munity's welfare. He was affiliated with the Re- publican party, whose policies and candidates he regularly supported. From the term of 1919-1920, he served as a member of the Board of Aldermen, and from 1922 onward was chairman of the Highway Commission. He was a member of the St. George Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons, in which Order he went through all the bodies and took the thirty-second degree. He also belonged to the Knights of Pythias, the Vasa Order, the Vega Club, Liberty Lodge and the Chamber of Commerce of Brockton. His religious affiliation was with the Lutheran church.
On June 30, 1913, G. Fred Dahlborg married Hazel Wilmot, daughter of Louis and Emma Wilmot. They
became the parents of two daughters: 1. Emily, born March 19, 1915. 2. Dorothy, born September 3, 1923.
Mr. Dahlborg's untimely death occurred on May 13, 1928, at Moosehead Lake, Maine, where he and eight of his friends from Brockton were drowned while on a fishing trip. When the news of the tragedy reached Brockton, great was the sorrow of Mr. Dahl- borg's fellow-townsmen, who knew that with his passing the city had lost a business man of the high- est character and a most honorable and substantial citizen, and his family a splendid husband and father.
EDDY C. YOUNG-Poultrymen throughout the United States have a practical acquaintanceship with the name of E. C. Young, as it is associated with the business title of one of the leading manufacturers of poultry houses in this country, Eddy C. Young hav- ing won deserved recognition for the excellence and the utility of the product of his fine plant at Ran- dolph. Mr. Young has very ably distinguished him- self in his manufacturing specialty, has proven the value of his poultry houses to his clients everywhere, and established himself in the good will of all with whom his business is concerned.
Within more recent years, Mr. Young entered upon the larger field in which he is now engaged, that of the manufacture of portable houses, garages, and camps, and his business has increased to re- markable proportions, the product of the firm in this line being quite as well known and as reliable as the poultry houses continue to be.
Eddy C. Young was born in New Hampshire, where he attended the public schools. For a number of years he was associated with mercantile activities, and iin 1896 he entered into business on his own ac- count. In 1909, Mr. Young began the manufacture of wooden shoe cases at Randolph, and he also con- ceived the idea of building a portable poultry house, with immediately popular results. The pioneer in this specialty of poultry house manufacture, Mr. Young has received merited praise for his work from all over the United States; and with the expansion of his building plans, he has made hundreds of port- able houses, garages, and camps, which are in use throughout New England and beyond the bounds of this section of the country. The plant at Randolph is suited to all the present-hour uses of the concern, with private railroad siding, and with 1,000,000 feet of the finest lumber constantly in stock. The com- pany employs upwards of sixty people.
Mr. Young, sole owner of the E. C. Young Com- pany, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Randolph Trust Company, and in his political views he is a Republican. He is a member of Thorny Lea Golf Club; and a member of the Standing Com- mittee of the First Congregational Church.
Eddy C. Young married Lydia Maria Corliss, of Randolph, who is now deceased. They had one son, Martin E. Young, a graduate of Bryant & Strat- ton Business College, and who is now in business with his father, and whose biography follows.
MARTIN E. YOUNG-With his entire business career devoted to the manufacture of portable houses by the E. C. Young Company, of which he is the manager, at Randolph, Martin E. Young has won his prominent place in industry through inherent ability associated with high standards of business pur- poses and enterprse. He is a son of Eddy C. Young, a native of New Hampshire and founder of the busi-
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ness that bears his name, and Lydia M. (Corliss) Young.
Martin E. Young was born January 5, 1896, at Randolph, where he attended the public and high schools. He was afterwards graduated at Bryant & Stratton Business College, when he became as- sociated with his father in the manufacture of portable poultry houses, residences, camps and garages, and he is a factor of great value to the advancement of the activities of that plant. Mr. Young is a member of the board of directors of the Randolph Trust Company. Non-partisan in political matters, his vote and influence are exerted in the interests of good government.
During the World War, Mr. Young served with K Company, Three Hundred and Second Regiment, Seventy-Sixth Division in the American Expedition- ary Forces overseas, and with the rating of sergeant, he received his discharge September 22, 1919. Fra- ternally, he is affiliated with Norfolk Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and with the Royal Arch Chapter of Masonry; and he is a member of the American Legion and of Thorny Lea Golf Club. His religious faith is that of the Congregational church.
Martin E. Young married, February 22, 1924, Lucy M. Sillitoe, of Morristown, Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Dorothy M., born January 8, 1925, and one son, Eddy C. Young (2), born Febru- ary 25, 1928.
FRED L. PACKARD-Fred L. Packard, the own- er and operator of the S. E. Packard and Son Com- pany, one of the oldest paper box manufacturing companies in the Campello district of Brockton, was born on August 26, 1866, at Springfield, Massachu- setts. Mr. Packard was a son of Sidney E. and Helen M. (Keith) Packard, both of whom are now deceased. Sidney E. Packard, the father, was the founder of the concern. He died during the month of April, 1926. Helen M. (Keith) Packard, the mother, was a native of Brockton, Massachusetts; and she died there during the year 1894.
Fred L. Packard received his early education in the public schools of the community in which he was reared; and immediately after the completion of these courses of study he at once branched out for him- self, receiving his first real contact with the world of commerce when he became associated with the George E. Keith Shoe Company, a firm with which he remained for a period of about two years. At the end of this time he resigned to become a part of his father's concern which was then known as the S. E. Packard Company, in the manufacture of paper boxes and cartons. This company was founded dur- ing the year 1885 by the elder Mr. Packard; but during the year 1900, taking his son into partnership with him, the firm name was changed to S. E. Pack- ard and Son. In 1900 the business was expanded by the purchase of a competing company, the F. E. Nesmith Company of Rockland, and the Packards have since maintained a factory at that place. In April, 1926, upon the death of Mr. S. E. Packard, the father, Fred L. Packard became sole owner of the S. E. Packard and Son Company, although he had been in full charge of all management for a considerable period prior to this. The company, now the oldest of its kind in the Campello district of Brockton, now employs about one hundred hands, for the products of these two factories are shipped all over the United States.
Despite the many varied and exacting duties of the type of work in which he had been engaged, Mr. Packard still found time in which to take a keen and active interest in the affairs of Brockton. In his politi- cal views he was a strong adherent to the principles of the Republican party, and as such he served for a con- siderable number of years as a member of the Town Board of Brockton. He was a member of the Brock- ton Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Club of Brockton, and the Brockton Rotary Club. He had been almost equally active in his club and social life, for he was affiliated, fraternally, with the Blue Lodge and the St. George Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Fred L. Packard married, during the year 1889, Jennie E. Lord, a daughter of Charles H. and Ellen J. (Reynolds) Lord. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were the parents of two children, both of whom are sons: 1. Cedric L., who was born on May 24, 1890. 2. Sidney R., who was born on September 7, 1893, and who is now a Professor of History at Smith College. Mr. Packard was a member of the Executive committee of the South Congregational Church of Brockton until his death, March 20, 1928.
FRITZ JOHN BITTINGER-For over a century the "Old Colony Memorial" has been published con- tinuously in Plymouth, and it thus has the distinc- tion of being one of the oldest newspapers in the United States. Fritz John Bittinger, one of Plym- outh's foremost citizens, is treasurer and business manager of the Memorial Press and business man- ager of the paper published by that concern, and to his business ability and acumen is due a great deal of the success of publication.
Mr. Bittinger was born in Woodsville, New Hamp- shire, October 25, 1891, the son of Frederick William and Lillian (Ayer) Bittinger, the former a well-known printer and publisher. His early education was ob- tained in the public and high schools of Plymouth, graduating from the latter institution in 1910. He then took a course of two years in the Massachusetts Agricultural College, after which he entered upon his business career. From 1915 to 1920 he was man- ager of the Samoset Garage, after which, for two years, he was Government Sales Representative for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in the New England District. It was in the latter year that he took the post of business manager of the "Old Colony Memorial," which position he continues to hold. He is also assistant to the president of the Engineering Economics Foundation, at No. 3 Joy Street, Boston. Mr. Bittinger is an active member of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, and his religious affiliations are with the Episcopal church. His college fraterni- ties are the Gamma Delta Chapter of Kappa Sigma, and the Boston Alumni Chapter of the same.
On December 1, 1913, Mr. Bittinger married, at Plymouth, Eunice Alden Whiting, daughter of Fred and Emma J. (Eddy) Whiting. Mr. and Mrs. Bit- tinger are the parents of two children, as follows: 1. Jane, born February 22, 1915. 2. Ann Whiting, born March 10, 1921.
CARL L. STURGIS-A pioneer in the manufac- ture of shoe lasts, Mr. Sturgis has been identified in the trade for nearly a quarter of a century, during which time he has gained vast experience in the work, and is the present head of one of the foremost con- cerns producing shoe lasts in this part of the country.
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With the personal contact he has maintained with the business, Mr. Sturgis has won the high esteem and a position of importance among the industrialists of his community, and holds various offices of commer- cial and financial responsibility. He is the son of a well known and eminent professor, deceased, Alex- ander D. Sturgis and of Mary V. (Pettit) Sturgis of Virginia and Maryland, respectively.
Carl L. Sturgis was born October 12, 1879, in Dela- ware, and received his education in the public schools of his native district. After school days were over he began working for the B. F. Sturtevant Com- pany, with whom he learned the trade of machinist, which he mastered rapidly and thoroughly. After five years of employment with this company he came to East Bridgewater, where he became associated as a salesman with the Woodard and Wright Last Company. Continuing a number of years in this capacity he became well-known and popular with the merchants in the trade, and learned the condition and demand of the market. In 1913 in company with Paul S. Jones he established the firm of Sturgis and Jones, manufacturers of shoe lasts at Montello, Mas- sachusetts. The company grew to prosperous pro- portions, and, in 1916, it was merged with the United Last Company. Two years later Mr. Jones with- drew from the active conduct of the business, and since this time Mr. Sturgis has managed the affairs of the concern, which has not lost its identity with the assumption of control by the United Last Com- pany, being still operated under the name of Sturgis and Jones. The former company has a world-wide reputation, and is considered one of the largest oper- ators in its line, having an international scope for the marketing of their goods. There are branches of the United Last Company in many of the large cities throughout the United States and it is represented in more than forty foreign countries. Mr. Sturgis has devoted his energies to the development of the com- pany, and under his supervision it has reached a volume of trade which amply evidences the successful manner in which he has shaped the policies of the company. The healthy condition of the business is indicated by its continual growth-at the time of writing (1928) it has a capacity of fifteen hundred pairs production, and has a freight-car siding for fif- teen cars at a time. Mr. Sturgis is a member of the board of directors of the United Last Company and also of the East Bridgewater Savings Bank. In his fra- ternal affiliations he is a member of Satucket Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, holding all of the degrees of the Scottish Rite, up to and including the thirty- second. He is likewise a member of Aleppo Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Actively interested in community affairs and the promotion of good will and a better understand- ing among the business men of the community, he is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Commercial Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His political beliefs are in favor of the Republican party, and his religious faith is with the Unitarian church of his community, in which he has served on various boards and committees during his long membership.
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