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ALVIN ADAMS.
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F OR twenty-eight years - from 1860 to 1888- Frederick Octavius Prince was a conspicuous figure in every national Democratic convention, and for a still longer period he has been actively identified with many important public interests of Boston and of the Commonwealth. He was born in Boston, Jan. 18, 1818, the son of Thomas and Caroline Prince. Enter- ing the Boston Latin School in 1827, he was graduated in 1832, receiving the Franklin medal and two other medals for scholar-
ship. He then ma- triculated at Har- vard, from which he graduated in 1836, being the class poet and secretary. The following year he began the study of law in the office of Franklin Dexter and William H. Gardiner, Boston, and was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in 1840. He soon began to take part in active politi- cal life and allied himself with the Whig party. In 1848 he established his residence in Winchester, and in 1851, 1852 and 1853 represented that dis- trict in the Massa- chusetts House of Representatives, where his stirring appeals for political reform soon estab- lished his reputation. He was a member of the Con- stitutional Convention in 1853, and in the same year was elected to the State Senate. In 1860, upon the disruption of the Whig party, Mr. Prince transferred his allegiance to the Democracy, and was sent as a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in Charleston. When the convention broke up, without agreeing upon a presidential candidate, Mr. Prince adhered to the Douglas wing of the party and at the
FREDERICK O. PRINCE.
Baltimore convention was chosen secretary of the National Democratic Committee, a position which he continued to hold until 1888. Although unanimously elected in that year, he resigned, receiving a resolution of thanks for the "unflagging zeal and distinguished ability" with which he had served. In 1876 he was nominated for mayor by the Democrats of Boston, and although his party was in the minority, he was elected. Renominated the following year, he was only defeated after a hotly con- tested election. In 1 878 he was re- elected mayor, and in the three follow- ing years was re- turned to the same office. He declined a renomination in 1882. His adminis- tration of the city government was notable in many respects. He was unwearied in his efforts to reform municipal expendi- tures, and during his first term of office succeeded in reduc- ing expenses more than half a million dollars. He was energetic in his efforts to secure a system of public parks for the city, and its final adop- tion and subsequent layout are largely due to him. He contrib- uted not a little to the successful completion of Boston's improved sewerage system. The handsome buildings of the high and Latin schools were also erected through his influence. In 1885 he was nominated for governor, but was defeated on a strictly party vote. Mr. Prince has long been a trustee of the Boston Public Library, and in 1888 was appointed to the board that had exclu- sive control of the construction of the new library. To this great work he is now giving his whole attention.
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PROBABLY no practitioner of medicine and sur- gery has a wider acquaintance, locally, than Medical Examiner Francis Augustine Harris, of the northern district of Suffolk County, which includes the West and North Ends of Boston, Charlestown, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop. He was born in Ashland, Mass., March 5, 1845. His early education was obtained there and at Rindge, N. H., where he for a time lived with his grandparents. He afterwards resided with his father, a practitioner of medicine at Ar- lington (formerly West Cambridge), Mass. Hefitted for college at the Boston Latin School and matriculated in 1862 and was grad- uated from Harvard
in 1866. He studied medicine in the Harvard Med- ical School, receiving his degree in 1872. While engaged in the study of medicine he served as a master in the Boston Latin School three years, and in 1871 was sur- gical house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He afterward passed a year in the study of his profession in the hospital at Vienna. He was demonstrator of medico-legal exami- nations in the Harvard Medical School for a number of years. At Harvard he was a member of the Univer- sity ball nine, the first one at the college. Among his classmates were William Blaikie, the noted athlete who stroked the University boat to victory and subse- quently wrote a treatise on college athletics; Dr. Charles Brigham, of San Francisco ; Moorfield Storey, of Boston, and others who have achieved prominence. Dr. Harris was also for a number of years professor
FRANCIS A. HARRIS.
of surgery in the Boston Dental College. He is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Medico-Legal Society. He was one of the earliest members of the celebrated Papyrus Club, a social organ- ization of editorial and other writers, a distinguished coterie, which included Dr. Francis H. Underwood, Henry M. Rogers, John Boyle O'Reilly, Dr. Robert D. Joyce, Alexander Young and George M. Towle. He was president of the club in 1882 and is still a member, taking an active part in its meetings. He is a member of the St. Botolph Club, another organization of artists and littera- teurs, and he was also one of the found- ers of the Univer- sity Club. A lover of the drama, he has devoted some of his leisure hours to play- writing. Among his productions are " Chums," "Class- day," " A Majority of One," " The Ameri- can Claimant," and " My Son," the latter having an extensive run at the Boston Museum and at Wal- lack's in New York, and being played through the country by the late John Ray- mond. The leading rôle of this play, "Herr Weigel,"' afforded the la- mented William Warren the opportunity for one of the finest efforts of his later years. Dr. Harris has contributed very much to the periodical literature of the day. In addition to his official duties, which are arduous and dangerous, so much so that in 1880 he nearly lost his life in the discharge of his duty, he has a not inconsiderable private practice. With an extensive knowledge of the many canses of death, his services are often sought as expert in the courts of law.
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W TILLIAM H. HILL, one of the leading financiers of Boston, lias made his own fortune and has secured an honorable name among the enterprising, successful and reliable men of affairs in the city of his birth. He was born in Boston July 14, 1838, and was the only son of William H. and Abby F. (Remich) Hill. His father was a well-known merchant, who for many years maintained a high standing in the business com- munity of Boston, and was widely honored for his sagacity and integ- rity. Mr. Hill at - tended public and private schools in Boston and Roxbury, and graduated from the Roxbury High School. He early entered business life, taking a position as clerk in the publish- ing house of Sanborn, Carter & Bazin, and continuing with their successors, Brown, Taggard & Chase. At the age of twenty- one Mr. Hill became a partner in the firm of Chase, Nichols & Hill, publishers. Two years later he retired from this firm, con- tinuing, however, in the book and pub lishing business, under his own name for a period of six 1 years, until the spring of 1869. On the first of November in that year, the present banking house of Richardson, Hill & Co. was established, and has ever since occupied a place in the foremost rank of Boston's private banking institu- tions. Its offices are now located in the Simmons Building on Water Street. Besides attending to the duties of his large and growing business, Mr. Hill is also a trustee of several estates, and is interested, as presi- dent or director, in many important corporations. He is president and general manager of the Boston & Ban-
gor Steamship Company ; is a director of the Boston Merchants' Association ; a member of the Boston Cham- ber of Commerce, the Boston Stock Exchange, the Bostonian Society and the Bunker Hill Monument Asso- ciation. As president or as director, he is prominently identified with the following corporations : the United States Rubber Company, the Boston Marine Insurance Company, the First National Bank of Boston, the First National Bank of Adams, Mass., the Assabet Manufactur- ing Company, the Windsor Mills, the International Steam- ship Company, the 1 Brookline Gas Light
WILLIAM H. HILL.
Company, the Citi- zens' Gas Light Company, of Quincy, Mass., and numerous other corporations. His time and atten- tion are thus wholly employed. Mr. Hill does not, however, allow the cares of an active business ca- reer to interfere with the amenities of so- cial and family life. He is a member of many clubs, includ- ing the Algonquin, the Boston Athletic Association, the Brookline, the Coun- try, the Colonial. the Exchange, the Tar- ratine, the Oasis and various others. Mr. Hill has been singu- larly fortunate in his business ventures, and his success is wholly due to him- self. He was married in Boston, Jan. 8, 1863, to Sarah E., daughter of William B. and Susan J. (Warren) May. Their children are : Warren May, Harold St. James, Marion, Clarence Harvey, Spencer Richardson. Ernest Lawrence, William Henry Reginald, Donald Mackay, Barbara, Philip Sanford and Kenneth Amory Hill, of whom Harold, Barbara and Philip are deceased. Mr. Hill's residence is in Brookline, Mass.
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M ASSACHUSETTS is rich in men who have distin- guished themselves in their youth. In the cate- gory of her bright young manhood she numbers Charles Sumner Hamlin. The Hamlin family has long been honorably identified with the public life of New Eng- land. The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin was Vice-President of the United States in the hour of the Nation's greatest peril, and his name in history is indissolubly connected with that of the great Lincoln. Living to see the coun- try reconstructed,
happy, united and prosperous, his ca- reer as a public man, well rounded and honorable, has but recently drawn to a close. This unique and rugged New England statesman was a cousin of Ed- ward Sumner Ham- lin (the father of Charles S. Hamlin), a direct descendant of Major Eleazer Hamlin, of Harwich, who commanded a regiment in the War of the Revolution. Edward Sumner Hamlin was num- bered among Bos- ton's most promi- nent merchants. His son, Charles Sumner Hamlin, was born in Boston, Aug. 30, 1861. He re- ceived his early edu- cation in the public schools of Boston, and afterwards attended the Rox- bury Latin School, from which institution he graduated in 1879. Ile entered Harvard University, graduating in the class of 1883, receiving the degree of bachelor of arts ; he next entered the Harvard Law School and re- ceived the degree of bachelor of laws in 1886. In the same year he received the degree of master of arts. Mr. Hamlin devotes himself to the practice of law as a profession, and his large practice continues to make
CHARLES S. HAMLIN.
increasing demands upon his time. He has entered into partnership with Mr. Marcus Morton, the law firm being Morton & Hamlin, with offices in the Equitable Building, Boston. Mr. Hamlin is a member of the Suffolk bar. He has devoted much time to public ques- tions and has written and published much upon political and financial subjects, the question of tariff legislation being one to which he has devoted much time and study. He is a prolific as well as lucid writer, and pos- sesses the power of putting a seemingly dry subject in a sim- ple, attractive light. At the Massachu- setts Democratic State Convention held at Boston, 1892, Mr. Hamlin was nominated by ac- clamation for the office of Secretary of State. Mr. Hamlin is a member of many public bodies. He is secretary of the New England Tariff Re- form League ; chair- man of the finance committee of the Massachusetts Dem- ocratic State Com- mittee : a member of the executive com- mittee of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachu- setts ; a member of the Massachusetts Reform Club; a member of the Civil Service League, and of the New York Reform Club. In addition to his political affiliations Mr. Hamlin gives some attention to the social side of life. He is a mem- ber of the executive committee of the University Club. In addition to this he has a membership in the Puritan, Longwood and Exchange clubs ; is an active member of that famous musical society, the Apollo Club, and many other social and charitable organizations. Mr. Hamlin's public career has been launched with exceptional vigor.
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T CHE John P. Lovell Arms Company of Boston is known wherever sporting goods and bicycles are sold and used. Colonel Benjamin S. Lovell, the treas- urer of the corporation, is in the front rank of Boston's business men. He was born in East Weymouth, Mass., July 10, 1844, and was the son of John P. and Lydia (Dyer) Lovell. He was educated in the public schools of Weymouth. Imbued with the patriotic spirit of his sires, he enlisted in Company A, Forty-second Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteers, at the early age of eighteen. His services under "Old Glory ," during the darkest period of the great civil con- flict, is a matter of special pride to Colo- nel Lovell, and there is a particularly warm spot in his heart for all who wore the blue. He has been an ac- tive and persistent worker for the vet- erans, in pressing their claims for pen- sions, and has been signally successful in securing them. His services are always at the command of his comrades, and he
has spent time and money without stint in their behalf. He joined Reynolds Post 58, G. A. R., in 1870, was elected senior vice-commander till 1876, when he was elected commander and held the position for fourteen consecutive years, positively de- clining longer to accept the office, on account of the growing demand of his business upon his time. Not- withstanding this, he was re-elected for the fifteenth term, and only the most persistent efforts on his part induced his comrades to accept his declination for the reasons stated. He was junior vice-commander in 1880, senior-vice in 1881, and declined the nomination for
BENJAMIN S. LOVELL.
department commander in 1882. He was aide-de-camp to General John C. Robinson, commander-in-chief of the National Encampment of 1877 and 1878. He was also a delegate to the National Encampment of 1886 ; a member of the Council of Administration of 1887 ; served on the staff of General Alger in 1889, and was a member of General Palmer's staff in 1892. During the administrations of Governor John D. Long, in 1880, 1881 and 1882, Colonel Lovell was a member of His Excel- lency's staff. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1880, 1884, 1888 and 1892. He was also a Re- publican presidential elector from Massa- chusetts in 1892. He was for several years the chairman of the Weymouth Town Committee. He was in the Legislature of 1877, 1878, 1886 and 1887. He served on the Committee on Mercantile Affairs and on the Railroad and Redistricting committees In the session of 1886 he loyally devoted his time and influence to advocating the Soldiers' Exemption Bill, which was then being agitated. In 1883 he was elected to the State Senate and served on the following committees : Harbor and Public Lands, Mili- tary Affairs, Hoosac Tunnel, and Troy & Greenfield Railroad. He is prominent in Masonic and Odd Fel- lows' circles. His home is a particularly happy one. He married in Weymouth, Nov. 13, 1867. Miss M. Anna, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy Holmes. They have two children, L. Charlotte and Helen Isabel Lovell. His public career has been in many respects singularly active and useful.
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IN the multiplicity of public and private offices which he has held during many years in Massachusetts, Samuel N. Aldrich has never been so situated that he was unable to acquit himself with honor and credit. That he is a citizen of varied attainments, is attested by the fact that he is equally at home in the office of the lawyer, the chair of the bank president, the presidency of a railroad, or the assistant-treasurership of the United States. Samuel Nelson Aldrich, son of Sylvanus Bucklin and Lucy Jane (Stod- dard) Aldrich, was born in Upton, Wor- cester County, Feb. 3, 1838. His educa- tion was obtained at the Worcester and Southington, Conn., academies, and at Brown University, Providence, R. I. Subsequently he taught schools at Upton, Holliston and Worcester, Mass. He entered upon the study of law with Hon. Isaac Davis and E. B. Stoddard, at Worcester, and completed the same at the Harvard Law School. In 1863 Mr. Aldrich was ad- mitted to the bar, and then com- menced practice at Marlborough. Since 1874 he has kept an office in Boston, though retaining his residence in Marlborough and living in Boston during the winter. In the public affairs of Marlborough Mr. Aldrich has been prominent. He was for nine years on the School Committee, and four years on the Board of Selectmen, officiating as chairman of both. He has been a director of the People's National Bank of Marl- borough, president of the Marlborough Board of Trade ; president of the Framingham & Lowell Railroad (now a portion of the Old Colony system), and president
SAMUEL N. ALDRICH.
of the Central Massachusetts Railroad. In 1879 Mr. Aldrich was elected to the State Senate, where he served as chairman of the Committee on Taxation, and was also a member of the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading, and on Constitutional Amendments. In 1880 he was again a member of the State Senate, serving on the Judiciary Committee. In 1883 he was a member of the House, and served on the Judiciary Committee. In 1880 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress from the seventh Massachusetts dis- trict. In March, 1887, Mr. Aldrich was appointed by President Cleveland assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, which posi- tion he resigned in December, 1890, to accept the presi- dency of the State National Bank, No. 40 State Street, Bos- ton, which position he now holds. Be- sides this, he is a member of the Suf- folk bar, is in the practice of his pro- fession, and is still president of the Central Massachu- setts Railroad. Mr. Aldrich married in 1865, at Upton, Mary J., daughter of J. T. and Eliza A. McFarland. They have a son, Harry M. Aldrich, now in the Harvard Law School. In Marl- borough, his place of residence, he is respected as a public-spirited citizen, ever ready to devote his time freely to the aid of his town and townsmen. As a legislator, his work has been appreciated throughout the State. As a financier he is considered one of the ablest and safest men of the time. As a lawyer he has a high standing at the Massachusetts bar. His winter residence is in Boston.
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T HE commanding position which the Boston Herald has held for over twenty-five years as a leader of the political thought of the nation was won and main- tained largely by the ability of its editor-in- chief, Edwin B .· Haskell. His excellent judgment and his brilliant editorial talents enabled him to guide the Herald between partisan extremes, and make it a widely recognized conservative power and authority. His graceful diction, terse, direct and keen, combined with
the virile power of argumentation, and a strong sense of humor, made his editorials extensively quoted and com- mented upon from Maine to California during his active journalistic career. Mr. Haskell was born in Livermore, Me., Aug. 24, 1837. His father was Moses Greenleaf Haskell, and his mother Ro- silla Haines, daugh- ter of Captain Peter Haines, who emi- grated from New Hampshire to Maine in 1795. Mr. Has- kell was educated in the district school, and at Kent's Hill Seminary, and was prepared for college at the age of sixteen. Circumstances, how- ever, prevented him from going to col- lege, and when he was seventeen years old he entered the office of the Portland Advertiser, then edited by Henry Carter. After staying in the Advertiser office for one year, and learning the trade of type-setting, he went to New Orleans and worked there and at Baton Rouge as a journeyman printer, until June, 1856. He then returned to Boston and took a situation on the Saturday Evening Gazette, then published by the late William W. Clapp, who was subsequently editor of the Boston Four-
EDWIN B. HASKELL.
nal. In the spring of 1857 Mr. Haskell was employed on the Fournal as compositor and reporter, and went to the Boston Herald as reporter in the spring of 1860. The Herald was then owned and managed by Colonel E. C. Bailey, who quickly discovered Mr. Haskell's newspaper abilities, and added him to his staff of edito- rial writers. In that position he remained until 1865, when he and four other employees of the Herald pur- chased the paper of Colonel Bailey. Mr. Haskell was then installed as edi- tor-in-chief, a posi- tion which, with the exception of a year's absence in Europe, he held uninterrupt- edly until October, 1887, when he sold a large share of his third proprietary in- terest in the Herald. Since then he has had nothing to do with the manage- ment of the paper save as one of the directory of the Boston Herald Com- pany, which suc- ceeded the partner- ship under the firm name of R. M. Pul- sifer & Co. Mr. Haskell is chief owner of the Minne- apolis Fournal, of which his son, Wil- liam E., is associate editor. Mr. Haskell was married in August, 1861, to Celia, daughter of Jonas and Joanna (Hubbard) Hill, of Fayette, Me. Of this union were seven children, of whom four are living. In 1877-78, accompanied by his family and a small number of invited friends, Mr. Has- kell visited Europe, and wrote a unique descriptive serial sketch in the Herald of the "Adventures of the Scrib- bler Family Abroad." His fortunate professional career has been happily matched by his social and domestic life at his home in Auburndale.
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N Boston's Italian population of many thousand, Dr. Joseph Pagani holds a prominent and honored place. He is known by almost every one of his com- patriots in the city, among whom he has built up an extensive practice, and he also occupies an enviable position in the medical world. Dr. Pagani was born in Borgomanero, Italy, Feb. 13, 1836, and is the son of the Hon. John Baptiste and Paolina Bolchini. Dr. Pagani's father was a noted professor of chemistry, and the family traces its an- cestry, of which nearly all the male members were pro- fessional men, back fully two hundred and fifty years. Dr. Pagani's mother was a daughter of the Hon. Joseph Bol- chini, who was lieu- tenant-governor un- der the first kingdom of Italy. Captain Constantino Pagani, a brother of the doc- tor, was an officer in the famous "One Thousand," who, under the command of General Garibaldi, freed and took pos- session of the Sicil- ian province. He was killed in action, and to commemo- rate his bravery a marble monument has been erected at the gate of the City Hall in Borgomanero. Dr. Pagani was educated in the schools of his native town, and early evinced a liking for the study of medi- cine. In fact, it was a sort of family understanding from his infancy that he would become either a chemist or a physician. After the completion of his prepara- tory studies he entered the University of Pavaic, and upon his graduation received his diploma as a regular physician. He then pursued his medical studies and was graduated with high honors from the Emulazione 1
JOSEPH PAGANI.
Medicale Societá of Rome. the University of Palermo, the Instituto Accademico Umberto I. at Livorno, and the Sodalizio Margherita at Naples. His practice in his native country was a large and remunerative one, but, like many other young Italians, he determined to come to America, and in 1868 he arrived in New York. Not liking the metropolis, however, he did not settle there, but soon after came to Boston. Here he took the offices at No. 356 Hanover Street, which he still occupies, his large practice at the North End making it im- possible for him to remove to any other quarter of the city. His residence, how- ever, is at No. 50 Marlborough Street. Ten years ago, dur- ing the visit of Dom Pedro to the United States, the latter con- ferred upon Dr. Pagani the title of Chevalier de Buenos Ayres. This is not the only title with which the doctor has been honored, for in June, 1892, he learned that he had been made Cazique and Baron Roxley in the Aryan peerage, from the noted Aryan Order of Russia. Dr. Pagani is a mem- ber of various medi- cal societies, includ- ing the Académie de Medicine in Paris, and the Societá Medicale di Roma. In 1868 he was married to Miss Fanny Jeaneret, of New York, a most accomplished Swiss lady. They have three children, the eldest daughter, who is a famous Boston beanty, being now a student of music in Rome. Dr. Pagani is prominent in all movements for the wel- fare of his fellow-countrymen who have made their home in America, and is justly very popular with them as well as with native born Americans.
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