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BOSTON.
JOHN CUMMINGS HAYNES, son of John Dear- born and Eliza W. (Stevens) Haynes, was born in Brighton (now a part of Boston), Sept. 9, 1829. He left the English High School at the age of fifteen, and in 1845 went as a boy into the service of the late Oliver Ditson, the music publisher. In 1851 he received an interest in the business, and in 1857 was admitted to partnership, the firm becoming Oliver Ditson & Co. After the death of the senior partner, in December, 1888, the Oliver Dit-
son Company was incorporated, with Mr. Haynes as presi- dent. The head- quarters of the busi- ness are in the large building Nos. 453 to 463 Washington Street, and the branch houses are as follows : John C. Haynes & Co., Boston ; Charles H. Ditson & Co., New York, and J. E. Ditson & Co., Phila- delphia. The growth of this great music publishing house has kept pace with the growth of musical taste and culture in the United States, and its influence as an educational agent can scarcely be esti- mated. Mr. Haynes has also been inter- ested in large and successful real estate ventures, that have materially added to the assessed valuation of the city of Boston. In early life, after having been for many years a scholar in a Baptist Sunday school, he became inter- ested, in 1848, in the preaching of Theodore Parker and in the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, which was organized "to give Theodore Parker a chance to be heard in Boston," and was for many years chairman of its standing committee. Mr. Haynes was active in the construction of the Parker Memorial Building and
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instrumental in its recent transfer to the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He was also one of the organ- izers of the Parker Fraternity of Boston. Of late years he has been connected with the Church of the Unity, of which Rev. M. J. Savage is the minister. While still a young man, he helped to organize the Franklin Library Association, and his long connection with it was of great advantage to him. He is a life member of the Mercan- tile Library Association, the Young Men's Christian Union, the Woman's Industrial Union, and the Aged Couples' Home Society ; a trustee of the Frank- lin Savings Bank ; director of the Mass- achusetts Title Insur- ance Company, and of the Prudential Fire Insurance Company ; treasurer of the Free Religious Associa- tion ; member of the Massachusetts and Home Market clubs and of the Boston Merchants' Associa- tion ; president of the Parker Memorial Science Class. From 1862 to 1865, inclu- sive, he was a mem- ber of the Boston Common Council. Mr. Haynes was mar- ried in Boston by Theodore Parker, May 1, 1855, to Fanny, daughter of Rev. Charles and Frances (Seabury) Spear. Of this union were seven children : Alice Fanny (Mrs. M. Morton Holmes) ; Theodore Parker (deceased) ; Lizzie Gray (Mrs. O. Gordon Rankine) ; Jennie Eliza (Mrs. Fred O. Hurd) : Cora Mary (Mrs. E. Harte Day) ; Mabel Stevens and Edith Margaret Haynes. Mr. Haynes joined the Free- soil party when he was a young man, and went with it into the Republican party, with which he has since been identified.
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A STRIKING instance of the value of industry, courage, and fortitude was manifest in the good work wrought by E. W. Dennison, the chief corner- stone in the structure of the house of the Dennison Manufacturing Company, which has its headquarters in Boston, its branches in all the leading cities of the Union, and its goods, wares, and merchandise in almost every manufactory, counting-room, workshop, and dwell- ing. E. W. Dennison was born at Topsham, then Ken- nebec, now Sagada- hoc County, Me., Nov. 23, 1819, every year and day even of the intermediate time from his birth to his death having been those of active boy- hood, doubly active manhood, and vigor- ous age. He was one of ten children, three sons and seven daughters, of Colonel Andrew Dennison, one of the early pio- neers of the Andros- coggin region of Maine frontier life. When he was five years of age the fam- ily removed across the river to Bruns- wick, with which vil- lage he had all his life close and cordial family and business relations. At the age of sixteen, Mr. Den- nison went to Boston as clerk in a shoe store, where he remained six months, at the end of which time he took a situation in the wholesale dry goods store of Sargent, Stanfield & Chapin, remaining with that house three years. At the expiration of his term of service here he went to his brother, Aaron L. Dennison, then a watchmaker and jewcler on Washington Street, Boston, to learn the trade of watchmaking. After remaining a year in this position, he was sent to Bath, Me., with a stock of goods to establish a jewelry store
in Bath. The enterprise, however, was not a success. While waiting for something to turn up, he found that his father's place in Brunswick was much in need of a well, and he turned to at once, dug the well with his own hands, and made a good and successful job of it. Mr. E. W. Dennison again started out, in the year 1839, and engaged as salesman in the watchmaking business on Washington Street, Boston, where he remained only a short time, going soon to Bangor, Me., to engage in the watchmaking and jewelry business in that place. After re- maining there eight years, he left, the en- terprise proving, as did the one at Bath, unprofitable. His next business engage- ment was in Boston as salesman for his brother in the jewelry trade, but he soon took the agency for the sale of jewelers' paper boxes, then being made by ma- chinery by his father in Brunswick, Me., and the first to be cut by machinery in the world. To ac- company these jewel boxes Mr. Dennison soon saw the neces- sity for small tags which had, up to this time, been made only in Paris. Here was laid the foundation of the Dennison Man- ufacturing Company, which is now employing one mil- lion dollars' capital. This result has been reached simply by Mr. Dennison's devotion to his favorite industry, which was really of his own creation, and by the energy with which he inspired his helpers until his death, which occurred Sept. 22, 1886. The present business of the company is one of the most striking instances in modern commercial life of the growth of a great and successful industry from the smallest beginning.
E. W. DENNISON.
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PROMINENT among the leading lawyers of Boston is George Otis Shattuck. For over thirty years he has been adding to a professional reputation which was conspicuous within five years of his admission to the bar. He was born in Andover, Mass., May 2, 1829, the son of Joseph and Hannah (Bailey) Shattuck, and is a descendant of William Shattuck, who was born in Eng- land about the year 1621, who came to Massachusetts and died Aug. 14, 1672, at Watertown, Mass. Mr. Shattuck's grand- fathers were both soldiers in the Revo- lutionary War, and his maternal great- grandfather, Samuel Bailey, was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. After taking a preparatory course at Phillips Andover Academy, Mr. Shat- tuck entered Harvard College and grad- uated in the class of 1851. Among his classmates were Ex- Mayor Green, of Boston, the late Gen- eral Francis W. Pal- frey, and three who are now professors at Harvard: W. W. Goodwin, professor of Greek; C. C. Langdell, dean of the Law School, and Charles F. Dunbar, professor of political economy. Beginning the study of law with Charles G. Loring, Mr. Shattuck attended the Harvard Law School two years and graduated in 1854. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, and began practice with J. Randolph Coolidge. In 1856 he formed a partnership with Peleg W. Chandler, which continued until Feb- ruary, 1870. Mr. Shattuck then became associated with William A. Munroe, and later Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was admitted to the firm and remained a member until his appointment to the Supreme Bench, in 1882. The
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firm is now Shattuck & Munroe. Mr. Shattuck has been connected as counsel with a great number of corporation and commercial cases, his advice being often sought in suits growing out of the pollution of rivers and involving the value of water privileges. He was counsel in the Sudbury River water cases, and in the Sayles Bleachery case, one of the most important suits that has been brought in Rhode Island for many years. In the cele- brated Andover heresy case he was counsel for the trustees of the cor- poration, and in the suit involving the preservation of the Old South Meeting House he was coun- sel for some of the pewholders. Among the qualities that have made him a leader at the bar may be mentioned, in ad- dition to professional learning and skill, a great knowledge of men, sagacity in dealing with practical questions and a pe- culiar power of sym- pathy that made the interests of his client his own, gave ardor to all his exertions and enlisted in the client's behalf, in their full force, great intellectual gifts, and an energy, ingenuity and persistence rarely equalled. The only political office which he ever held was a seat in the Boston Common Council in 1862. He has been a leading director and adviser in railroad and other large business enterprises. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of various clubs. He was married in 1857 to Emily, daughter of Charles and Susan (Sprague) Copeland, of Roxbury. They have one, daughter, Susan, the wife of Dr. Arthur Tracy Cabot.
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JOHN SULLIVAN DWIGHT is known throughout
America as an authority on the history and inter- pretation of music. His father was Mr. John Dwight, who was graduated from Harvard University in 1800, and his mother was Mary (Corey) Dwight. Mr. Dwight was born in Boston, May 13, 1813, and most of his long and remarkable life has been spent in the city of his nativity or near to it. In his own home, and in a pri- vate school near by, he received his early education. He later entered the grammar and Latin schools in Boston. where for five years he was the pupil of B. A. Gould and F. P. Leverett, then famous pedagogues. In 1828 he entered Harvard University and was graduated in the class of 1832. He immediately matriculated in the Harvard Divinity School and was grad- uated in 1836. For six years he was an active Unitarian preacher; in 1840 he settled in North- ampton, Mass., but remained there only one year. He then joined the famous Brook Farm Associa- tion at Roxbury, Mass., an association which, rightly or wrongly, is believed to have had a great formative influence upon nearly all of its members. In this association Mr. Dwight was a teacher of classics and music, and dipped a little into farming and gardening ; he was also one of the editors of the " Harbinger," a somewhat noted periodical of the association. As a member of this association Mr. Dwight was brought into contact with many then young men who afterward became famous, among them George Ripley, its founder, George P. Bradford, the late George William Curtis,
and Charles A. Dana. The Rev. William Ellery Chan- ning, James Kay of Philadelphia, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and A. Bronson Alcott were sometimes visitors. The Curtis brothers, Quincy A. Shaw, and James Sturgis were there as sympathizers and pupils. Curious as was this experiment, it is inter- esting to note that hardly one of its members failed to become more or less famous. In April, 1853, Mr. Dwight established "Dwight's Journal of Music," and this capable paper he owned and edited until September, 1881. Long pre- vious to this, indeed as early as 1839, he had published a vol- ume of translations of the smaller and shorter poems of Goethe and Schiller. His tastes were always of a musical and literary charac- ter, and in his home he did much literary and critical work. Mr. Dwight was mar- ried in 1851 to Mary, daughter of Silas and Mary (Barrett) Bullard, and she died in 1860, leav- ing no children. Mr. Dwight is now trus- tee of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. In
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1874 Mr. Dwight was made president of the Harvard Musical Association, and he has held that office continuously since. All musicians in the city of Boston, a congenial home of culture, delight to say that to no one more than to Mr. Dwight is the advance- ment of the musical standing and taste of the city dne. He has written much on the subject of music, critical and otherwise, and his opinions are accepted without question by lesser lights in the musical world, where he is regarded as an honored master.
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F OR over two centuries the Modern Athens has been one of the leading centres of religious and theo- logical activity in the United States, and is the birth- place of American Congregationalism. The most influ- ential advocate in New England of the doctrines of that large body is the Congregationalist, whose able editor is Rev. Dr. Albert E. Dunning. He was born Jan. 5, 1844, in Brookfield, Conn. His ancestors on both his father's and his mother's side were resident in Connecticut since colonial times. He
inherited member- ship in the Society of the Cincinnati by direct descent from Captain David Beach, a member of that society and an officer in the Revo- lutionary War. There are only thirty- five members of the society now living in Connecticut. In 1850 Mr. Dunning's parents removed from Brookfield to Bridgewater, in Litchfield County, and here he attended the public schools. He fitted himself for college without at- tending any prepara- tory school, and entering Yale gradu- ated in the class of 1867. During the last year of his col- lege course he was editor-in-chief of the "Yale Literary Magazine." Upon the completion of his collegiate course he began the study of theology at Andover, and was graduated from that institution in 1870. He was immediately called to the pastorate of the Highland Congregational Church, Roxbury, and remained there until Jan. 1, 1881, when he resigned to accept the position of secretary of the Congrega- tional Sunday-school and Publishing Society, and greatly increased the efficiency and influence of that organiza-
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tion. He has been for nine years a member of the International Lesson Committee to select Sunday-school lessons for the whole Christian world. Dr. Dunning has published two books, " The Sunday-school Library " and " Bible Studies," the latter of which has been exten- sively used as a text-book in schools and colleges in this country, and has been republished in England. Dr. Dunning's labors have by no means been confined to theological and doctrinal fields. He has taken a lively interest in Chautau- qua work, and has been superintendent of instruction for a number of Chautau- qua assemblies, in- cluding Lake View in Massachusetts, Ocean Park, and Fryeburg, Me., Crete, Neb., and Albany, Ga. He has also had charge of the Normal Department at Chautauqua, N. Y. In addition to this he has lectured and taught at various other assemblies, so that his name is widely known throughout the coun- try. In 1889 Dr. Dunning became editor-in -chief of the Congregationalist, which position he now occupies. He is a forcible and graceful writer, and has sustained the reputation of the Congregationalist for ability and fair- ness in its treatment both of religious and secular topics. In 1887 Beloit College (Wisconsin) conferred upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. He was a delegate to the first International Congregational Council in London in 1891, and took an active part in the proceedings of that important convention. Dr. Dunning was mar- ried in 1870 to Miss Harriet W. Westbrook, of Peekskill, N. Y. They have four children.
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A MAN who has done his part to flood the world with beauty is Samuel J. Kitson. Though a resi- dent of Boston, Mr. Kitson is an artist of the pure Greek school ; his art life has been a most prolific one, and has left a decided impression upon the age ; his studio is properly situated in the very heart of Modern Athens. And it is here that he has pitched his artistic tent. Samuel James Kitson was born in England, Jan. 1, 1848. His early education was received in the national and private schools of "old Yorkshire." Hedevoted two years to the study of art at the Royal Academy of St. Luke's, at Rome, Italy, during which novitiate he secured the principal prizes offered. Mr. Kitson was the first foreigner who was awarded the gold medal prize for a statue from life. His first work at St. Luke's was an exqui- site bust of Apollo. His torso of the " Barberini Fawn" captured the first prize, while the sec- ond was awarded him for natural drap- ery in bas-relief. In the second year Mr. Kitson was awarded the three first prizes. Among his tutors in Rome were the emi- nent painter, Podesti, and Professor Jacometi, who gave the young sculptor the entrée to the Vatican Museum. In 1873 Mr. Kitson opened a studio in Rome and devoted himself to ideal statues and portrait busts, producing among others in Carrara marble, " The Greek Spinning Girl," " Abel Waiting for the Blessing," and " David," which attracted much favorable comment at the Royal Academy, Lon- don. Among Mr. Kitson's other chief works are " Rebecca," " Nydia," "Young Ambition," "Miriam,"
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"Isaac," "Group of Hagar and Ishmael," and " Diana." His first visit to America was made in 1879, when he received a commission to execute a bust of his friend, Ole Bull. While here he modelled, in an improvised studio, a bust of Longfellow, at the poet's residence. He also made busts of Bishop Potter and Senator Haw- ley. After one year's residence in America he returned to Rome. On his second visit to America, Mr. Kitson was commissioned to execute the sculptured interior of W. K. Vanderbilt's New York house, which contains some of his bestwork. He also made a bust of the late Samuel J. Tilden. The inte- rior of the "com- pany's room " of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany is ornamented with elaborate clas- sical works of Mr. Kitson. Henry G. Marquand's house in New York contains many beautiful crea- tions of his brain and chisel. The striking frieze in terra-cotta on the north side of the Hartford Soldiers and Sailors Monu- ment was modelled by him in 1885. The beautiful monument over the grave of General Sheridan at Arlington is the work of Mr. Kitson. It would take much time and space to enumerate the works of this prolific artist. Among them is a bronze bust of the eminent publisher, Daniel Lothrop, and also of Hon. Elisha S. Converse ; a striking group in bronze, "The American Buffalo Hunt," "Figure of History," busts of Archbishop Williams, Bishop O'Reilly, Cardinal Gibbons, John Boyle O'Reilly, and General Devens. Mr. Kitson numbers among his treasures letters of apprecia- tion from some of the most eminent men now living.
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TO the harmonizing of science and religion Minot J. Savage has devoted the last twenty odd years of his life, and he is, without question, the most eminent disciple of Darwin and Spencer, of Jesus and Paul, in the American pulpit to-day. Mr. Savage was born in Norridgewock, Me., June 10, 1841, the son of Joseph L. and Ann S. Savage. His father was a farmer, and the boy studied with the intention of entering college and fitting himself for the ministry. He had been a student from the time he was first able to read. Having been brought up in the Orthodox faith, he entered the Ban- gor Theological Seminary, and was graduated in 1864. His ambition was to engage in missionary work, and, taking a commission from the American Home Missionary Society, he sailed for Califor- nia in September, 1864, three days after his marriage to Ella A., the daughter of John and Ann S. Dodge. He preached for eighteen months in a school-house at San Mateo, twenty miles south of San Francisco, and then for a time in Grass Valley, among the foot-hills of the Sier- ras. Returning to Massachusetts, he accepted a call from the Congre- gational Church in Framingham. Two years later he went to Hannibal, Mo., where he remained three years and a half. It was at Hannibal that his theological views underwent a radical change, and he became con- vinced that he must leave the Orthodox faith for a freer field. He resigned his pastorate and was called to the Third Unitarian Church in Chicago. In 1874 the Church of the Unity in Boston invited him to settle as
its pastor, and here he has remained ever since, estab- lishing a reputation as one of the prominent theologica teachers of the day. His name as pulpit orator is known wherever the English language is spoken, his published sermons having a very wide circulation in India, South Africa, Australia and Japan. As an author, Mr. Sav- age's name figures conspicuously in the religious and critical literature of America, and several of his books have been republished in London. He is an evolution- ist, and the influence of the great leaders of modern scientific thought is very ap- parent in most of his sermons. The rare combination of a poetic faculty with a sturdy and logical mind is his chief characteristic. His published poems are admired by thou- sands who never saw the man. Mr. Sav- age is an earnest investigator in the realm of psychical research, being an active member of the American branch of the English society. His articles in the " Arena " and else- where on mediumis- tic phenomena have attracted the widest attention. Mr. Sav- age's congregation is eminently an intelli- gent one, and though a radical of the radicals, his chief work is in the line of reconstruction, so that he has come to enjoy the esteem of his ministerial contemporaries, who have learned to respect his earnestness, as well as the loyal attachment of his parishioners. His congregation has recently voted to sell its church on West Newton Street and move to the Back Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Savage have four children, two boys and two girls. The eldest son is in the senior class at Harvard.
MINOT J. SAVAGE.
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E' DWARD T. HARRINGTON, who is a pioneer in the real estate business of Boston and its suburbs, has made his own and his firm's name well known among his contemporaries in the city. He was born in Bolton, Worcester County, Mass., on Dec. 14, 1842, being the eldest son of Tyler and Caroline (Atherton) Harrington. His early education was received in the public schools of Worcester and vicinity. In 1873 he came to Boston, the scene of his later successes, and almost at once en- tered the real estate business. In 1876 he formed a partner- ship with Benjamin C. Putnam, who was himself a pioneer in his line. Together they continued the then prosperous and growing business un- til 1882, when Mr. Harrington sold out his interest, with the intention of retiring. But the hold upon his ambition and de- sire in the successful line of enterprise in which he had been engaged, drew him back again to the active walks of life, and in 1885 he bought the business to continue it. He admitted his book- keeper, Charles A. Gleason, into part- nership, and Jan. 1, 1890, he established the present well-known firm of Edward T. Harrington & Co., which occupies a large and handsome suite of offices in the comparatively new building, No. 35 Con- gress Street. In the real estate circles of Boston no firm is better known than that of which Mr. Harrington is the senior partner. The firm has spent fortunes in ad- vertising, and that these have been well spent, is ap- parent when the volume of business done annually is known. Much of the energy of the firm has been de-
voted to the work of enriching and building up the suburbs of Boston, and in this department the results shown are most gratifying. The selling of real property is a specialty with the firm, and in this work it employs fifteen skilled salesmen, each one of whom has a district or territory exclusively his own. This is a feature of the business introduced by Mr. Harrington, and its success is attested by the success of the house. Farm property also enters largely into the business of the firm, and one may see in many direc- tions the evidences of the enterprise of the house. It has been a theory, which has often been proved true by Mr. Harrington, that the building of half a dozen good houses in some sightly sub- urb enriched sur- rounding property, and led others to erect handsome dwellings. Mr. Har- rington is a member of Simon W. Robin- son Lodge, F. and A. M., of Lexington ; Menotomy Chapter of Arlington ; Bean- sant Commandery, K. T., of Malden ; Oriental Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and'of Suffolk Council, R. A. In May, 1882, Mr. Harrington was married to Miss Miriam A., eldest daughter of Luther and Rozan Temple, at Worcester, Mass. Their home is in Lexington (East), a suburb of Boston, where Mr. Harrington is interested in every- thing that pertains to the benefit of the town or its citizens. The suburbs of Boston have acquired world- wide fame for their beauty, taste of arrangement, and the artistic elegance of the residences that make them what they are. In this work of improvement and enterprise, Mr. Harrington has been, and is, a conspicuous figure.
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