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BOSTON.
B OSTON has always held a high place in the cordage industry of America. Ropewalks were estab- lished there in the early days of the colonies, and at the outbreak of the Revolution there were many in and around Boston. Even in comparatively recent years they were numerous on the spot now occupied by the Public Garden. Machinery, except of a very crude kind, was unknown in those days, the preparation of the fibre and the spinning being done by men, who, after placing a proper amount of the pre- pared fibre around their waists, and attaching a portion of it to the revolving whirl of a spinning- wheel (turned by a boy or girl), walked backwards, spinning the yarn as they went. Modern ma- chinery has done away with all that, and New England has not only kept fully abreast with all improvements in methods, but has generally led. Its products are cele- brated the world over on account of their good manufacture, and the unadul- terated fibre used. The invention of the self-binding har- vester gave a great impetus to the cord- age business, the only reliable binding twine being made of the harsh fibres (Manila, Sisal, and New Zealand). To bind the small grain crop of the country, not far from fifty-five thousand tons of binder twine are required, an average of about two and one half pounds per acre. Charles H. Pearson has been in the cordage business for over twenty-five years, having held every position from that of the boy learning in the mill to that of treasurer and general manager of one of the State's largest cordage
CHARLES H. PEARSON.
companies, of which he owned a majority of the stock. Holding to the principle of sticking to one line of busi- ness, Mr. Pearson has always been a firm and enthusi- astic believer in the cordage industry, and is one of Boston's most successful manufacturers and men of affairs. While remaining in the one general field of work, Mr. Pearson has had a varied experience with cordage firms and corporations, not hesitating to shift his services and capital to new cordage companies, or consolidate with others, when he saw profit by so doing. At present he occu- pies the most prom- inent position in the cordage business in New England, being general manager of the New England department of the National Cordage Company. Mr. Pear- son's father, the late Samuel Pearson, was, at the time of his death, the president of the highly success- ful Pearson Cordage Company, which is now chiefly engaged in the manufacture of binding twine, and is one of the largest cordage companies in the world ; and Mr. Pearson's grand- father owned and operated a rope-walk in Portland, Me. Always a great worker and organizer, the heavy load of cares and re- sponsibilities never worries Mr. Pearson, as he has the happy faculty of quitting work when he leaves the office. He was born at Portland, Me., Jan. 7, 1849, was edu- cated in the public schools, and went immediately into a cordage mill to learn the business. That he learned it thoroughly is shown by his subsequent success. Mr. Pearson was married in 1872, and with his wife and family occupy their beautiful home in Brookline.
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T THE Home Market Club has been made, largely through the efforts of Colonel Albert Clarke, one of the most effective means in the country for the dis- semination of protective principles. He was born in Granville, Vt., Oct. 13, 1840. He is a twin, and his mate, Almon, who closely resembles him, is a prominent physician in Wisconsin. Both served in the Civil War, Albert as private in the Thirteenth Vermont Infantry, and his brother as assistant surgeon of the Tenth Ver- mont, and surgeon of the First Vermont Cavalry. Promoted to first lieutenant, Albert commanded his company at Get- tysburg, and bore a brave part in the ter- rific charges upon the enemy's lines. Resuming the prac- tice of law, which had been interrupted by the war, he was ap- pointed colonel on Governor Dilling - ham's staff, and for four years was first assistant clerk in the Vermont House of Representatives. In 1870 he purchased the St. Albans Daily Messenger, and for ten years he opposed, almost alone among the Vermont press, the power of the Ver- mont Central Rail- road in politics. After a severe con- test, in which the whole strength of the railroad manage- ment was arrayed against him, he was elected to the Vermont Senate, which he found almost wholly against him on railroad questions ; but he made a speech in sup- port of his bill to limit the free-pass abuse, and in favor of the right of a State to control railroads, which has since been of service in other States in promoting the reform that failed there. He was State commissioner to build a house of correction at Rutland, a project which he
ALBERT CLARKE.
had done more than any other man to promote. A paper which he read before the National Prison Asso- ciation, of which he was a director, led to his being chosen an honorary member of La Société des Prisons in France. In 1880 he came to Boston, and engaged in railroad matters and journalism. He was president of the Vermont & Canada Railroad when it was sold to the Central Vermont. Being on the Daily Advertiser staff when that paper bolted Mr. Blaine's nomination in 1884, but not bolting personally, he re- signed, and after serving as assistant to the president of the Boston & Lowell Railroad, he took the editorial and busi- ness management of the Rutland (Vt.) Herald, and ren- dered conspicuous service in bringing about the re-election of Senator Edmunds. In 1889 he returned to Boston, where he was soon sought and elected secretary and executive officer of the Home Market Club, and has been unanimously re- elected each year since. He was a member of the Re- publican National Convention in 1892, and a strong sup- porter of President Harrison. Under his management the Home Market Bulletin (monthly) has been quintupled in size, and has attained a circula- tion that is among the largest of the economic journals of the world. Colonel Clarke is a master of English style and a keen logician. His articles, orations and speeches have won for him a national reputation. He lives at Wellesley Hills, and is president of the Welles- ley Club. In 1864 he married Miss Josephine Briggs, who, with one daughter, constitutes his family.
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BOSTON.
E 'DWARD ATKINSON, who has been for many years identified in various ways with the public life of Massachusetts, is a recognized authority on economic questions. He was born at Brookline, Mass., Feb. 10, 1827. He received his education at private schools, and was always an apt scholar. For over thirty years he has been contributing to the economic and political literature of America, dealing with a wide range of subjects, and in all of them showing excep- tional knowledge and ability. Mr. Atkin- son has delivered a large number of addresses before representative men, and has published many important doc- uments. His first pamphlet, entitled " Cheap Cotton by Free Labor," issued in the first year of the Civil War, 1861, was then regarded as a forecast of utterly improbable, if not impossible, events ; yet so closely had the logic of the case been considered that every prediction in it has been more than fulfilled. Some of Mr. Atkinson's most important papers are : " Bank- ing," delivered be- fore the American Bankers' Association at Saratoga (1880) ; " Insufficiency of Economic Legis- lation," delivered before the American Social Science Association ; " What Makes the Rate of Wages?" be- fore the British Association for the Advancement of Science ; " Address to the Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics," at the Massachusetts convention in Boston (1885) ; address given as chairman of the Economic section on the " Application of Science to the Produc- tion and Consumption of Food," before the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (1885) ; address on the " Prevention of Loss by Fire," before the Millers of the West (1885) ; " The Influence of Boston Capital upon Manufactures," in the " Memorial History of Boston" (1882) ; "The Distribution of Products " (1885) ; "The Industrial Progress of the Nation" (1889) ; "The Science of Nutrition " (1892). A series of monographs on economic subjects was begun by Mr. Atkinson in 1886, and published periodically. As an inventor, Mr. Atkinson has been very successful, the " Aladdin oven," an improved cooking stove of exceptional merit, having been invented by him. He has also devoted a good deal of time and study to the sub- ject of fire insurance, and his ideas have been remarkable for their striking origi- nality. The Boston Manufacturers' Mu- tual Fire Insurance Company, which consists of a num- ber of manufacturers associated for mutual protection, has been under his charge for many years, and he has been the leading spirit in its affairs yet longer. The company has a far-
EDWARD ATKINSON.
reaching influence upon the business of its members ; rules and regulations having been adopted for the economical and judicious construction and man- agement of their plants. The plans and methods of building, known as the system of "slow-burning con- struction, are now being adopted throughout the coun- try." Mr. Atkinson was one of the stanch abolitionists before the war, and he therefore greatly values the degree of LL. D., which the State University of South Carolina conferred upon him.
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A BORN leader of men, Patrick A. Collins has cer- tainly contributed his share to keep the State of his adoption well in the van of progressive, liberal and intelligent life. His ability, both at the bar and in public life, has attracted the attention of all classes of citizens throughout the United States. A brilliant debater, a forcible and eloquent speaker, gifted with a thoroughly equipped and well-balanced mind, he stands a conspicuous example of what a fine graft can be made of Irish and Ameri- can stock. He exerts probably a stronger influence upon the men of his race in America than any other living man, as the part he took in the campaign of 1 884 amply demonstrated. Not alone in America is his influence felt, for he has devoted much of his time and talents to the cause of Ireland. His con- nection with the Fe- nian Brotherhood from 1862 to 1870, as secretary of the Philadelphia conven- tion and chairman of a subsequent one, and the distinction of being the first president of the Irish National Land League of Amer- ica, -all bespeak his loyalty to his na- tive land. Parnell repeatedly thanked him for assistance rendered to the Irish cause, and at the League headquarters in Dublin his picture hangs beside that of the dead leader. Mr. Collins was born in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, March 12, 1844, the year in which John Boyle O'Reilly was born. He was the youngest of a large family, and was only three years old when his father died. His mother came to the United States in 1848 and settled in Chelsea, Mass., where he received a common school
PATRICK A. COLLINS.
education. He met many vicissitudes in his early years, first as errand boy in the office of a Boston lawyer, then as clerk in a Chelsea store, then as coal miner in Ohio, then working at the upholstery trade in Boston and giving his leisure hours to study. Graduating with hon- ors from the Harvard Law School in 1871, he was admitted to the bar in that year, and has continued in the practice of his profession ever since, with the inter- ruptions which public office has occasioned. He has been a member of both branches of the Massachusetts Legis- lature, judge-advo- cate general of the State, and member of Congress for three terms. He was on the Judiciary Com- mittee during his whole service at Washington and was prominently engaged with many important measures, including the Bankruptcy Bill. In 1888 he peremp- torily refused the use of his name for fur- ther congressional honors. Mr. Collins was permanent chair- man of the National Democratic Conven- tion, held at St. Louis in 1888, and was delegate to the Chi- cago convention in 1892, when his cele- brated speech, sec- onding the nomina- tion of Mr. Cleveland, was made. He was chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee fron 1884 till 1891. In the councils of his party Mr. Col- lins is regarded as a factor of weight and influence, and his opinions are always accorded the most respectful attention on account of their soundness and lucidity. Mr. Collins was married in 1873 to Miss Mary E. Carey, of Boston. They have three children, two danghters and a son. Their home is at Mt. Ida, Dorchester.
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BOSTON.
A LBERT AUGUSTUS POPE, the founder of the bicycle industries in the United States, was born in Boston, May 20, 1843. He traces his genealogy through many well-known New England families. When he was nine years of age his father met with business reverses, and Albert began his life-work by riding a horse to plow for a neighboring farmer in Brookline. Three years later he commenced buying fruit and veg- etables and selling them to neighbors. He soon had many customers, and in one season made a profit of one hun- dred dollars. Dur- ing this time he re- ceived a fair public school education, which was all the training he ever had from schools, though by careful reading and application he has obtained an ex- ceptional fund of gen- eral knowledge. At the age of fifteen he secured employment in the Quincy Mar- ket, and later took a position with a firm dealing in shoe find- ings. At nineteen years of age he joined the volunteer forces of the Union Army, and went to the front as second lieutenant of the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts In- fantry, Aug. 22, 1862. His promotion to
ALBERT A. POPE.
first lieutenant, March 23, 1863, and to captain, April I, 1864, are evidences of his ability and valor. He served in the principal Virginia campaigns, was with Burnside in Tennessee, with Grant at Vicksburg and with Sherman at Jackson, Miss. He commanded Fort Hell before Petersburg, and in the last attack led his regiment into the city. He was then but twenty-one years of age. He was brevetted major "for gallant conduct at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va.," and
lieutenant-colonel "for gallant conduct in the battles of Knoxville, Poplar Springs Church and front of Petersburg." After the war Colonel Pope went into business for himself, in shoe manufacturers' supplies. In 1877 he became enthusiastic over the bicycle, and determined to go into its manufacture. This was done under the name of the Pope Manufacturing Company, a corporation for which he furnished the capital, and of which he became, and has since continued, the presi- dent and active man- ager. There was no demand for wheels at that time, and in many places the prejudice against them was intense. This opposition had to be overcome and a market created. Colonel Pope exer- cised great diplo- macy in treating this phase of the busi- ness. Through the influence and en- couragement of the Pope Manufactur- ing Company was brought about the production of Mr. Pratt's book, "The American Bicycler," and the founding of the illustrated maga- zine, "The Wheel- man." The educa- tional process was followed by the open- ing of the highways and parks for the use of wheelmen, the company expending thousands of dollars in settling the park cases in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. The prosperous growth of this in- dustry bears a well-deserved tribute to Colonel Pope as a business man and financier. He was the pioneer in the great movement for highway improvement. He married, Sept. 20, 1871, Abbie, daughter of George and Matilda (Smallwood) Linder, of Newton, Mass., and they have four sons and one daughter.
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A MID the rush of business activity and the roar of commercial competition, it is pleasant to find a man who is making the main work of his life the intelli- gent observation and the scientific study of nature. To be entitled to a place of recognition as a naturalist requires in a man not only a love of his work and an intellectual capacity of high order, but perseverance, patience, knowledge of the value of time, exceptional powers of application, and strength for protracted labor. That all these ele- ments of success in his chosen field are combined in Charles B. Cory, of Boston, naturalist and travel- ler, his written works amply prove. In ornithology, that special branch of zoology to which he has devoted his re- searches, Mr. Cory's published works of recent years have given him a world- wide reputation. Among these works (prepared in all parts of the world during his travels, but all published by Estes & Lauriat, of Boston) are "The Birds of the West Indies," " The Birds of Hayti and San Domingo," " The Beautiful and Curious Birds of the World," "The Birds of the Bahama Islands," and " A Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands." The universal recognition of Mr. Cory's worth is best shown by the ever-growing list of scientific organizations that claim his attention.
CHARLES B. CORY.
He is curator of birds in the Boston Society of Natural History, fellow of the Linnaan and Zoological societies of London, member of the American Ornithologists' Union, of the British Ornithol- ogists' Union, of the Societe Zoologique de France, honorary member of the California Academy of Sciences,
corresponding member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Mr. Cory was born in Boston, Jan. 31, 1857, and was prepared for his vocation by a natural history course in Harvard Scientific School in the years 1876, 1877, and 1878. Inheriting a large property from his father, he was enabled to prosecute his life work freely, but devotion to science has not prevented him from fos- tering with successful care the material interests intrusted to him. By successful investments in real estate in the West, he has considerably enhanced the value of the possessions left him, and besides his natural history work, Mr. Cory finds time to devote to the presidency of two large corporations in the West. His city house is at No. 8 Arlington Street, Boston, his country house is on Great Island, near Hyan- nis, Mass., which island he owns en- tire, and he also owns a winter home in Florida. He was for several years chairman of the Com- mittee on Hypnotism in the American Society for Psychical Research. Mr. Cory was married in 1883, and has a son and a daughter. Yet a young man, with a mind trained for effort and stored with technical knowledge, with physique robust, and opportunities unencumbered by pecuniary worry, Mr. Cory has every right to hope for even greater achievements in the realm of science in the future. The course that he has mapped out for himself, lying, as it does, through the rich fields of natural history, he pursues with the happy candor of a man who has found his natural vocation.
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BOSTON.
H ARVEY DEMING HADLOCK, jurist, who has attained conspicuous success in his profession, was born at Cranberry Isles, Me., Oct. 7, 1843, and is the son of Mary Ann Stanwood and Edwin Hadlock. Mr. Hadlock traces his American ancestry to Nathaniel Hadlock, who was born at Charlestown, Mass., April 5, 1643, and whose father, Nathaniel, came from Wapping, England, and purchased an estate in Charlestown in 1638, and in 1653 was one of the founders of the town of Lancaster, Mass. Mr. Hadlock re- ceived his early tu- ition from private teachers and in the. . schools of his native town. To give their son all the advan- tages within their power, his parents, when he was in his thirteenth year, re- moved to Bucksport, Me., where, at the East Maine Confer- ence Seminary, and under private in- structors, he pursued an advanced course of classical study, which he supple- mented with a par- tial scientific course in Dartmouth Col- lege. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar, at Bangor, Me., hav- ing mastered the intricacies of law in the office of Samuel F. Humphrey. In 1865 he went to New Orleans, and there pursued the study of civil and maritime law under the direction of the late eminent jurist, Christian Ro- selius. The next year he returned to Bucksport and engaged in practice. In October, 1868, at Boston, he was admitted an attorney and counsellor by the Su- preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and commenced practice in this city. In the spring of 1869 he was called to New York on business in the United States
HARVEY D. HADLOCK.
Circuit Court, and while residing there was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts. The next fall he returned to Boston and resumed practice. To advo- cate the construction of a railroad from Bangor via Bucksport to eastern points, in 1871, he went to the latter town, and when its construction was assured, re- sumed practice there until January, 1881. During his residence in Bucksport he was engaged as counsel in the most important cases tried in Maine, in which he established his repu- tation as an eloquent advocate and accom- plished jurist, and earned for himself a leading position among the ablest men at the bar of Maine. His opin- ions during that pe- riod were frequently sought, and pub- lished, on important questions of corpora- tion and constitu- tional law. From 1881 to 1887 he resided in Portland, Me., maintaining at the Cumberland bar, in cases which involved important questions of railroad, corporation, patent and maritime law, as well as in homicide and other criminal cases, his leading position . previously earned as a success- ful practitioner. In 1887 he returned to Boston, where he now resides. He also has an office in the city of New York, but the range of his practice extends beyond the limits of the State and Federal Courts of New England and New York, embracing cases in the courts of other States, and in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Hadlock was married Jan. 26, 1865, to Miss Alexine L. Goodell, of Searsport, Me., and has two children living.
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A LFRED DUPONT CHANDLER is one of the prominent lawyers of Boston, where he was born May 18, 1847, the son of Theophilus Parsons and Eliza- beth Julia (Schlatter) Chandler. In 1848 Mr. Chandler removed to Brookline, Mass., where he now resides. He was educated at the public schools, was graduated at Harvard University in 1868, and immediately com- menced the study of law with his father, then with Abbot & Jones, later with Hon. Richard H. Dana, in Boston, and then with Porter, Lowrey & Soren, in New 1 York City. He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, Dec. 13, 1869, and to the Supreme Court of the United States at Washing- ton, April 17, 1877. He has practised law steadily, having had an office in the Equitable Building, Boston, for eighteen years. His prefer- ence is for chamber practice, and his attention is given mainly to corpora- tion law, private and municipal, though he has appeared in many cases. Corpo- ration receivership questions in the United States courts, and duties as treas- urer and counsel for several corporations have required most of his time in the last ten years. He drafted the bill for national savings banks, known as the Windom Bill, and offered by Mr. Windom in the United States Senate, March 1, 1880. His published arguments before the Senate Finance Committee, at Washington, May 4, 1880, on national savings banks, and also before committees of the Massachusetts Legis- lature on the annexation question (Brookline to Boston) in 1880 ; also on creating a tribunal to decide that a
public necessity for a railroad exists before property can be taken for its construction, in 1882, resulting in Chapter 265 of the Acts of 1882 ; also on nationalism and the municipal control of public lighting, in 1889, are leading contributions upon these subjects. His chief arguments before the higher State courts have been on questions of eminent domain and of constitu- tional law. While not a politician, Mr. Chandler has given close study to matters of municipal administra- tion. As a resident of Brookline he has been one of its most active and progres- sive citizens. He has been either the prompter of, or had an influential hand in directing, the largest public im - provements of late years in that beauti- ful town. The con- struction of the Riverdale Park be- tween Brookline and Boston, which is to be one of the finest pro- ductions of that type on the continent, is due mainly to Mr. Chandler's energy and skill in sur- mounting legal and practical difficulties. He was three times elected chairman of the Selectmen, of the Surveyors of High- ways, of the Board of Health, and of the Overseers of the Poor, in Brookline, and was a trustee of the Brookline Public Library three years. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, the University Club, and the Exchange Club, of Boston. He has held no political office, but in February, 1892, was elected president of the Brook- line Republican Club. Mr. Chandler was married in Brookline, Dec. 27, 1882, to Mary Merrill Poor, and has four children.
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