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C HARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, lawyer, second son of Charles Francis Adams, diplomatist, was born in Boston, May 27, 1835. He was graduated at Harvard in 1856 and admitted to the bar in 1858. He served in the army throughout the Civil War, entering it as first lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry, under Colonel Williams. He was promoted to a captaincy in the same regiment, and was afterward transferred as lieutenant-colonel to the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry, with Colonel Henry S. Russell. On the retirement of Colonel Russell, Lieutenant- Colonel Adams was his successor as colonel, and re- signed in the August following the close of the hostilities with the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers, his regi- ment afterward being transferred to the Mexican border to watch the result of the French invasion and the Maximilian episode. He has since devoted his attention chiefly to railroad matters, and in 1869 was ap- pointed a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts. In 1871, in connection with his brother, Henry Adams, he published "Chapters on Erie and other Essays." He has since published an instruction book on railway accidents. He was elected in 1882 a member of the board of overseers of Harvard College, and in 1884, was chosen president of the Union Pacific Railway. He is second vice-president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Mr. Adams has frequently been a contributor to the "North American" and other reviews on railroad and kindred matters. In 1883, he delivered addresses
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.
on "The College Fetich," before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of Harvard ; on " The Double Anniversary, '76 and '63," at Quincy, July 4 ; and an argument on the federation of the railroad system before the Committee on Commerce of the United States House of Represen- tatives, Feb. 27, 1880. His other contributions to rail- road literature are important and interesting. He is also the author of "The Genesis of the Massachusetts Town, and the Development of Town Meeting Govern- ment " (Cambridge, 1892). His contri- butions to history, public and personal, to political, educa- tional, and other subjects of general interest, are volumi- nous. Mr. Adams's latest published work is, "Three Episodes of Massachusetts History" (two vol- umes, Boston, 1892 ). The divisions of the work are: I. The Settlement of Boston Bay. II. The An- tinomian Contro - versy. III. A Study of Church and Town Government. This work clears up many disputed points in early provincial his- tory, the author hav- ing spent years in research to fathom what he has proved to be misconcep- tions. Mr. Adams's
biography of Richard Henry Dana, the author of " Two Years Before the Mast," in two volumes, is probably the most popular and absorbing of his literary works. Mr. Adams has always been averse to being nominated for office where election was dependent upon the popular vote ; not, however, from fear of defeat. He inherits untrammelled independence of character from his ances- tors, Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. and from his father, the diplomat, Charles Francis Adams.
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A' N indigenous, patriotic American of the best type, with sympathies broad enough to include the whole world, esteemed by his fellow-citizens and beloved by thousands whom his philanthropy has aided, - that describes Ex-Mayor Samuel Abbott Green and the place he holds in the life of Boston. Humanita- rian, historian, and physician, he is one of those altruis- tic men whose purpose in life is to serve others, and who accomplish that purpose. He comes of an old New England family, in whose veins the blood of the stern Puritan flows. Born in Groton, Mass., March 16, 1830, his father was Dr. Joshua Green, who married Eliza Lawrence, a sister of Amos and Abbott Law- rence. He studied at Lawrence Acad- emy, Groton, and graduated at Har- vard College in 1851. A course at the Harvard Medi- cal School followed, after which he studied medicine in London and in Paris. Returning to Boston, he began practice there, and became one of the district physicians in the City Dispensary. At the beginning of the Civil War he was commissioned assist- ant surgeon of the First Massachusetts Regiment, and soon afterward was promoted to the surgeoncy of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. For gallant services on the fieldl in 1864, he was brevetted lieutenant- colonel of volunteers. He planned and organized, in February, 1862, while in charge of the hospital of the First Brigade, on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, the Roanoke cemetery, the first regular burial-ground for the Union dead in the war. After his return from the army,
he was for seven years superintendent of the Boston Dis- pensary. Dr. Green was a member of the Boston School Committee in 1860, and again from 1866 to 1872 ; trus- tee of the Public Library from 1868 to 1878, and acting librarian one year. From 1871 till 1881, when he was elected mayor, he was city physician of Boston. He was elected mayor as the candidate of the Citizens party and the Republicans. His administration, lasting one year, was thoroughly unpartisan and not marked by any notable events, but the best interests of the city were well cared for. In 1883 he was elected a trustee of the Pea- body Education Fund, as well as sec- retary of the Board, and from 1885 to ISSS was the acting general agent. Since 1868 Dr. Green has been librarian of the Massachusetts His- torical Society. His historical researches have been extensive, and his knowledge of New England's past and present is broad and accurate. He has been a vol- uminous writer, among his publica- tions being a "His- tory of Medicine in Massachusetts," "The Story of a Fa- mous Book," a trans- lation of Count de Deux Ponts's " My Campaigns in America," and many works relating to his native town. Dr. Green is a mem- ber of various historical societies, and is one of the overseers of Harvard College. He kept up his practice as a physician for years, and the poor knew him, not as the grasping doctor who demanded his fee in advance, but as one who was more likely to return half of the proffered money to purchase luxuries for the invalid. Dr. Green is unmarried.
SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN.
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E X-CONGRESSMAN JOHN WILSON CANDLER was born in Boston, Feb. 10, 1828, the son of John and Susan (Wheelwright) Candler. The family is of Saxon origin, and its two branches in Suffolk and Essex were noted in the church and in the army. Captain John Candler, the grandfather of John W., emigrated from Essex to Marblehead, and married Abigail Helen Russell about the close of the Revolu- tionary War. She was the descendant of a Huguenot family and the widow of Lieutenant Thomas Russell, who was next in com- mand of Captain Mugford's privateer when he captured the British armed ship which supplied Washington's army about Boston with am- munition. Mugford was killed. Captain John Candler, Jr., the father of John W., was an officer on board the frigate "Constitution," and was with Commodore Stewart in the same vessel on his famous cruise through the British channel. Mr. Candler was born while his father was in active business as ship-builder and merchant in Boston, and was educated at Marblehead Acad- emy and Dummer Academy, finishing his course under the tuition of Rev. A. Briggs, a Baptist minister of Schoharie Academy, New York. After the death of his father, he became clerk in a Boston house, the family removing, in 1849, to Brookline, where he has since resided. For thirty- two years he has been engaged in foreign trade as a member of several firms of ship-owners, the present style being John W. Candler & Co. The East and West Indies and South Africa have been their field.
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Mr. Candler's experience in foreign trade, and his studious watchfulness of State and national politics have made his services valuable in many ways. A warm friend of Governor Andrew, he became one of his strongest supporters during the Civil War. He was a member of the Legislature of 1866, but declined to serve a second term. He advocated a board of prison commissioners from 1869 to 1873, and served many years as its chairman. It was a philanthropic commis- sion, without com- pensation or emolu- ments. Mr. Candler was prominent in the National Board of Trade, and was presi- dent of the Boston Board of Trade two years. He was presi- dent of the Commer- cial Club four years. A liberal Republican, he has advocated a change of navigation laws, a judicious re- vision of the tariff and modification of many commercial treaties. In 1880 he was elected to the Forty- seventh Congress from the eighth Mas- sachusetts district, and in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress from the ninth dis- trict, by a large ma- jority over Hon. Edward Burnett, the previous representa- tive. In this Con- gress Mr. Candler was the chairman of the World's Fair Committee that reported favorably upon the act giving national encouragement to the Columbian Expo- sition. That committee championed the passage of the bill. If they had not done so with wisdom and ability. there might not have been a quadricentennial fair in Chicago in 1893. Mr. Candler opened and closed the debate, and as chairman of the committee had charge of the parliamentary proceedings.
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N State Street, the Wall Street of Boston, no name is more familiar than that of E. Rollins Morse. This gentleman entered State Street in the modest capacity of clerk in 1862, now he is the president of the Boston Stock Exchange. Mr. Morse was born in Boston in 1845, and from his childhood has shown a talent for affairs financial. His first employment was with Rob- ert M. Pratt, who, in the sixties, conducted a promi- nent brokerage house in State Street. After serving about six years at a clerk's desk, Mr. Morse, in 1868, es- tablished a stock commission business for himself at No. 27 State Street, and a year later formed the present firm of E. Rollins Morse & Brother, whose head- quarters are now a splendid suite of of- fices on the ground floor of the building No. 38 State Street, corner of Exchange Street. In 1870, Mr. Morse purchased a seat in the Board. Then his business grew amazingly, and in a few years he be- came a prominent factor in State Street affairs. When the Stock Exchange was in its old rooms, Mr. Morse gave much of his time to its inter- ests, serving terms on the standing and governing committees, and soon after the removal to its present magnificent quarters in the Exchange Building he was made its president. Ile was elected to that office in 1891, and re-elected in 1892, his immediate predecessor being A. W. Spencer. A few years ago Mr. Morse's firm developed from a strictly stock commission business, and became financiers in the full sense of the term. This change was primarily due to the fact that the firm was selected to
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manage Drexel, Morgan & Co.'s bond business in Bos- ton, a trust which was a fine tribute to the integrity and the ability of E. Rollins Morse & Brother. Thirty years in State Street have made Mr. Morse a broad- minded, sagacious, yet prudent, financier, and he stands as the type of the successful men of State Street in this generation. As president of the Stock Exchange, he has given great satisfaction to the members, and has materially helped to develop the business of the Ex- change and to strengthen its inter- ests along many lines. He has never held public elective office, his time hav- ing been strictly de- voted to his business. He is in touch, however, with public affairs, and is looked upon as an authority on questions of na- tional finance. Like most brainy men of money, Mr. Morse is modestly, although extensively, identi- fied with local chari- ties, and has done more in this direc- tion than his friends are aware of. He is a very approachable man, and to this fact is due much of his unquestioned popu- larity among his fel- low financial men, both in this city and in New York, for his business affairs bring him in constant contact with the great financial men of the last-named city. He is a prominent member of the Eastern Yacht Club and an ardent yachtsman. In the pursuit of this his favorite recreation he manages to recuperate his energies after the close attention that is necessitated by the large financial transactions that require his watchful care. He is regarded as a safe and conservative man by those interested in the doings of the financial workl.
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G EORGE GLOVER CROCKER, the son of Uriel and Sarah Kidder (Haskell) Crocker, was born in Boston, Dec. 15, 1843. Graduating from the Boston Latin School as a Franklin medal scholar, in 1860, and from Harvard, in 1864, he studied at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1867. From that time to the present he has continued in the practice of the law in Boston in company with his elder brother, Uriel H. Crocker. He assisted his brother in editing "Notes on the General Statutes of Massachusetts " (1869). From 1868 to 1879, he was a director of the Bos- ton Young Men's Christian Union, of which he is a life member. In 1873 and 1874, he was in the House of Repre- sentatives, serving the latter year on the Committee on the Liquor Law. Fore- seeing the pernicious effects of other meth- ods of distribution, he drafted a bill, the first ever offered in Massachusetts, per- mitting cities and towns, after limiting the number of li- censes, to sell them at public auction. In 1877, he was chosen secretary of the Republican State Committee, and served for two years. In 1880, '81, '82, and '83, Mr. Crocker was a member of the State Senate, and its president in the last-named year. He compiled the " Digest of the Rulings of the Presiding Officers of the Senate and of the House from the Year 1833," which forms a part of the annual "Manual for the General Court." He is also the author of " Principles of Proced- ure in Deliberative Assemblies " (1889). In February, 1887, he was appointed a member of the State Board
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of Railroad Commissioners, and served as chairman of the board until January, 1892, when he resigned. During his service the board took an active part in effecting the abolition of grade crossings and of the car stove, and otherwise did much to promote the com- fort and safety of passengers and of employés. At the time of his resignation, Mr. Crocker, as chairman of a committee of railroad commissioners, was engaged in an effort to secure the passage by Congress of an act to compel the equip- ment of freight cars with automatic coup- lers and continuous brakes, and of loco- motives with driving- wheel brakes. In 1889, he was ap- pointed by Mayor Hart as chairman of a commission of three to examine into the operation of the Massachusetts laws relating to taxa- tion. The chief con- clusions reached by this commission were : that the at- tempt to tax muni- cipal bonds results in a loss rather than a gain to the cities and towns issuing such bonds ; and that all forms of double tax- ation ought to be abolished. Mr. Crocker has served as an officer of many business corpora- tions, and is a member of several charitable organiza- tions, of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and of sundry Boston social clubs. On June 19, 1875, he was mar- ried by the Rev. Phillips Brooks to Annie B., daughter of the late Nathan C. Keep, of Boston. They have five children. Mr. Crocker has always shown a great capacity for exhaustive and arduous labor in a field that he makes interesting by the amount of original thought that he puts into his work.
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R OGER WOLCOTT, lieutenant-governor elect of Massachusetts, was born in Boston forty-five years ago. Receiving his preliminary education, he entered Harvard, where he ranked among the most advanced students. He was chosen class orator. The graduating class of 1870 included such men as Senator Henry Parkman, Assistant Secretary of State Wharton, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Soley ; and Roger Wol- cott, who graduated in that year, was looked upon as one of the most promising. At Har- vard he received the degrees of A. B. and LL. B., and during 1871-2 was a tutor in that insti- tution. He took up the study of law, but his duties as trustee of various estates, and the management of financial matters, have occupied the greater part of his time. Mr. Wolcott began his public career as a member of the Boston Com- mon Council, serv- ing as a member of that body for three years. In 1882 he was elected to the lower branch of the Legislature, and was re-elected in 1883 and 1884, winning much distinction as a hard worker, and as one who was instrumental in passing many important measures. Although a Republican by virtue of train- ing, Mr. Wolcott has at times shown a spirit of inde- pendence rarely seen in men of his position. One of the most noteworthy instances of this was in 1884, when he voted for Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candi- date for President ; but in 1885 he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention at Springfield. In 1891 he was unanimously chosen president of the New
Republican Club, but after serving one year ill-health compelled him to decline a re-election. He has been an active worker in many public movements and has frequently represented his constituents at municipal and State conventions ; and, being a pleasing speaker, is frequently called upon to address political and other public meetings. He is an overseer of Harvard Col- lege, and a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital. Mr. Wolcott is also a prominent figure at the annual Unitarian festivals, and is a regular attendant at King's Chapel. He married Miss Pres- cott, a great-great- granddaughter of the Colonel Pres - cott who com- manded the provin- cial troops at Bunker Hill, and a grand- daughter of the his- torian, W. H. Pres- cott. Mr. Wolcott, himself comes from an old military family, his father being the late J. Huntington Wolcott, descendant of Roger Wolcott, who, in 1725, was second in command in the ex- pedition under Sir William Pepperell against Cape Breton, which resulted in the capture of Louis- burg. Another an- cestor was Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, who fought in the Revolutionary Army against Burgoyne, and was a brigadier-general on the battle-field at Saratoga. Both of these men were gov- ernors of Connecticut. In the election of Nov. 8, 1892, Mr. Wolcott was elected lieutenant-governor of the State, as successor to Lientenant-Governor Haile. By reason of his natural gifts enhanced by study, Mr. Wolcott is peculiarly fitted for the duties of public life.
ROGER WOLCOTT.
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IN all measures pertaining to the right of suffrage and calculated to make elections in practice what they are in theory, - an accurate expression of the will of the majority, - Massachusetts has not lagged behind her sister commonwealths, as the Australian ballot law, the corrupt practices act and the law to compel the publication of election expenses demonstrate. With the last of these measures Samuel W. McCall, member elect of the Fifty-third Congress, from the eighth Massa- chusetts district, is identified. He was born in East Provi- dence, Penn., Feb. 28, 1851. His fam- ily on both sides have been prominent in Pennsylvania from its earliest history. He is the son of Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall. Having fitted for college at the New Hampton (N. H.) Academy, he entered Dartmouth and was graduated in the class of 1874. Mr. McCall then came to Massachusetts and studied law in the office of Staples & Goulding in Worces- ter, where he was subsequently ad- mitted to the bar. He began the prac- tice of law in Boston in January, 1876, and has ever since continued in his profession except during the period from May 1, 1888, to Jan. 1, 1889, when he was the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Mr. McCall was elected to represent Winchester in the lower House of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1888 and 1889, the latter year serving as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary. He was again returned to the House in 1891, when, as chairman of the Committee on Election Laws, and of the Special Committee on Administrative Boards
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and Commissions, he became one of the Republican leaders of the House. For several years Mr. McCall had been actively interested in the legislative movement to provide for a compulsory publication of election expenses. At last, largely through his efforts, the bill passed the Legislature of 1892, and became law. It is impossible to determine now just how effective the law will be in purifying political methods, but its results in the campaign of 1892 were conceded by all to have been most salutary. Mr. McCall was also more or less closely identified with many other important measures, and was regarded as one of the ablest debaters in the House. He enjoyed great per- sonal popularity with his fellow-legislators. Having made a study of the theory of poli- tics, and particularly of the suffrage ques- tion, Mr. McCall is considered an authority upon the subject. He was a delegate from the old sixth district to the National Repub- lican Convention at Chicago in 1888, when his speech, seconding the nomi- nation of General Graham to the presi- dency, won him fame as an orator. He was also a delegate to the Minneapolis convention in 1892. In the same year he was nominated for Con- gress by the Republicans of the eighth district, and was elected over John F. Andrew, the present incumbent. Mr. McCall was married in Lyndonville, Vt., May 23, 1881, to Ella Esther, daughter of Sumner S. and Harriet (Wiley) Thompson. They have five children : Sumner Thompson, Ruth, Henry, Katherine and Margaret Mc- Call. Mr. McCall resides in Winchester.
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F FREDERIC WALKER LINCOLN, seven times mayor of Boston, is a representative of the old school of business men who have kept pace with the world. His father was Louis Lincoln, son of Amos Lincoln, a member of the " Boston Tea Party," and who married a daughter of Paul Revere. His mother was Mary (Knight) Lincoln. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to Gedney King, maker of nautical instruments. When twenty-two years old he com- menced the manu- facture of these for himself and contin- ued in the business until 1882, when he assumed charge of the Boston Storage Warehouse Com- pany, which he still manages. In 1847 he was elected to the State Legislature ; re- elected in 1848, and in 1872 and 1874; was a member of the Constitutional Con- vention of 1853, and from 1854 to 1856 was president of the Charitable Mechanic Association. When it was proposed in 1880 to erect the present building he was earnestly re- quested to and did accept the office of treasurer. In 1868 he was appointed to the State Board of Harbor Commis- sioners ; for several years he was chairman. For eleven years he was president of the Boston Board of Overseers of the Poor, and in April, 1878, became treasurer, which position he still holls. Mr. Lincoln was one of the orig inal directors of the Continental Bank ; is a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; vice-president of the Boston Safe Deposit Company ; has been treasurer of the Young Men's Benevolent Society for more than forty years ; is president of the Franklin Savings Bank ; was
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president of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, the constituted term, a Fellow of the American Academy, and one of the founders of the Young Men's Christian Union, and its second president. He was a member of the Boston Light Infantry, and ranks now upon its honorary roll of veterans. In 1854 he became a director of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, and for ten years, up to 1890, was one of its vice-presidents. In that year he was made president. For nearly forty years he has been treasurer of the Sec- ond Church in Bos- ton. His terms as mayor of Boston were: 1858-60, 1863-66. Notable among the public deeds of Mayor Lin- coln was the quelling of the draft riots. The Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion has complimented him for this and similar services by making him a member. He delivered the presen- tation address as chairman at the un- veiling of the first out-door statue in Boston, that of Ben- jamin Franklin in front of the City Hall ; and both Har- vard and Dartmouth have conferred upon him the degree of master of arts. The Lincoln School in South Boston is named for him. In May, 1848, Mr. Lincoln married Emeline, daughter of Hon. Jacob Hall. She died the following year, leaving a daughter, Harriet A., now the wife of George A. Coolidge. June 20, 1854, he married Emily C., daughter of Noah Lincoln ; their children are : Frederic W., Jr., of the firm of Henry W. Peabody & Co., Mary K. and Louis Revere Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln is a man of wide sympathies and generous impulses.
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