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BOSTON.
E "VANGELIST and reformer, of broadest sympathies, deepest insight and tireless energy, Louis Albert Banks is not only one of the most interesting figures in the Boston pulpit of to-day, but he is also one of the strong forces in the city's life. He has been here but a few years -he is still a young man - but his activity has produced lasting results in many beneficent ways. Out of his courageous exposure of the "sweating " system and the dangerous condition of neglected tene- ment house life, has grown the Anti- Tenement House League, and legisla- tion has been enacted looking toward the cure of one of the gravest evils of mod- ern times. It is im- possible here to give more than a bare outline of the fasci- nating story of his life. He was born in Corvallis, Oregon, Nov. 12, 1855, the son of Lebbæus Irwin and Mary (Hurlburt) Banks. He attended the public schools and Philomath College in Oregon, and at six- teen was licensed as a preacher of the United Brethren Church. From sev- enteen to twenty-one he taught school and studied law, being admitted to the bar in December, 1877. After a year's legal practice, he united with the Oregon Conference of the Methodist Church. He was ordained an elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church by Bishop Henry W. Warren, at Van- couver, Washington, Aug. 26, 1883. Mr. Banks has been pastor of churches in Portland, Oregon ; Boise City, Idaho; Vancouver and Seattle, Washington, and in Cincinnati. In 1886 he came to Boston as pastor of the Egleston Square Church, which had a remarkable
LOUIS A. BANKS.
growth under his ministrations, as had also St. John's Church, in South Boston, over which he was subse- quently settled. He is now pastor of the First Metho- dist Episcopal Church of Boston. While in Vancouver he edited the " Pacific Censor," the organ of the Tem- perance Alliance of the territory, and in June, 1880, was shot down on the street by an infuriated agent of the saloons. For two months he preached, reclining across three chairs, to large and enthusiastic congregations. During his pastorate at Seattle the anti- Chinese riots broke out on the Pacific coast, and on the platform and in the pulpit he defended the rights of the Chi- nese. He was re- peatedly threatened with assassination, and once his house was surrounded by an arnied mob of men who came to hang him. Fortu- nately, however, he was absent. In Bos- ton, as in the West, he has been in the foremost ranks of the reformers, and the causes of temper- ance, woman suf- frage, and labor have in him a valiant champion. His pub- lished works are : "Censor Echoes " (Portland, Oregon. ISSO ; now out of print) ; "The People's Christ " (Boston, 1891) : "White Slaves, or the Oppression of the Worthy Poor " (Boston, 1892), and "The Revival Quiver " (Boston, 1892). Mr. Banks was married Sept. 21, 1877, to Mary A. Mill- hollen, who died in ISSI, leaving him two daughters. In 1883 he married Jessie F. Ainsworth, and of this union there is one son. The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon Mr. Banks by Mt. Union College in 1890.
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F OR the past decade or more Boston has been rapidly growing in importance as one of the great finan- cial centres of the American continent, and this very enviable position is largely due to the fresh energies brought to bear, by the younger financiers of the day, upon the forces of old-time conservatism, which has held the city in thrall for so many years. Among the foremost of the financial firms who have established a wide reputation both at home and abroad for solid worth and judicious enterprise, is the house of Clark, Ward & Co., who stand upon the topmost rung of the ladder of success. Mr. J. F. A. Clark, the senior member of this firm, is a thorough Bosto- nian of the progres- sive and practical type. He was born in Boston, Nov. 6, 1862, and received his education in one of those institu- tions of which the city is justly proud. In early youth Mr. Clark showed unmis- takable signs of an ambitious, enterpris- ing nature, and at the age of twenty-one he started in the banking business. To fit himself for the exacting and intri- cate duties of this profession he had no other training than the knowledge found in the best books written upon the subject, and that unerring judg- ment which has brought to a successful culmination the many difficult undertakings in which he has since been interested. After a year of prosperity, he formed a partnership with Mr. Reginald H. Ward, under the firm name of Clark, Ward & Co., and since that date these young men have made a most remarkable record for successful enterprise. By their discretion and sound
business principles they have secured recognition among the oldest and best firms in Boston. In 1889 the firm of Clark, Ward & Co. opened an office in New York, Mr. Ward taking charge of it. Phenomenal success from the very start attended the affairs of the firm in New York, and in the short space of two years it was found necessary to establish a branch office there. In the same year a branch of the Boston house was opened in Springfield, Mass. Both branches have enjoyed a marked degree of prosperity. In 1891 Mr. George E. Arm- strong, of Boston, was admitted to the firm, and in 1892 Mr. H. H. Campbell, of Boston, became a partner. Mr. Clark's modesty forbids the enumeration here of the prominent posi- tions he occupies in some of the impor- tant railroad enter- prises of the day, or of the large financial interests which he has managed. Con- sidering the fact that the young men com- prising the firm started in business with no other capital than their own intel- ligence and personal merit, the success that has attended all their ventures is one of the conspicuous features of financial Boston. It also shows that this is an era in which the younger business men have every opportunity to develop the metal that is in them, respectful attention being given to their plans and ideas by men of a past gen- eration. Mr. Clark, who is a member of the Country, Algonquin and Athletic clubs in Boston, and of the Vaudeville and New York clubs in New York, is very prominent in the social life of both cities. He is mar- ried, and his residence is in Boston.
J. F. A. CLARK.
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BOSTON.
JAMES RUSSELL SOLEY was born at Roxbury, Mass. (now Boston Highlands), Oct. 1, 1850. He received his early education at the Roxbury Latin School, and graduated at Harvard College in the class of 1870. Assistant Secretary of State Wharton and Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott were members of the same class. During the year following graduation he was tutor at St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass., and in 1871 he was appointed assistant professor of English at the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis, where, in 1873, he was placed at the head of the depart- ment of English studies, history and law, his appointment to both of these places being the re- sult of competitive examination. In 1876 he was com- missioned a profes- sor in the United States Navy with the relative rank of lieu- tenant commander. In this year he pub- lished the " History of the Naval Acad- emy." In 1878 he was assistant superin- tendent of the de- partment of educa- tion at the Paris Exposition. While in Europe he was charged by the Navy Department with the special duty of examining the systems of education in European naval colleges, and on his return made an extensive report, entitled "Foreign Systems of Naval Education," which was published in 1880. In 1882, having attained the relative rank of commander, he was transferred to Washington, where he collected and arranged the library of the Navy Department, the most complete and valuable collection of naval works in this country, if not in the world. He was lecturer on inter-
national law, in addition to his duties in this position, at the Naval War College at Newport from 1885 to 1889, and he also delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute of Boston, on "American Naval History," in 1885, and a second course on "European Neutrality during the Civil War," in 1888. He has published : "Campaigns of the Navy in the Civil War ; The Blockade and the Cruisers " (1883) ; "The Rescue of Greely," under the joint authorship of himself and Commodore Win - field S. Schley (1885) ; "The Boys of 1812" (1887), and "Sailor Boys of 1861" (1888). He edited the "Auto- biography of Com- modore Morris," and made large contribu- tions to the " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," and to Justin Winsor's "Narrative and Critical History of America." By invi- tation of the city of Boston he delivered in May, 1891, a eulogy upon Admiral Porter at the memo- rial services held in Tremont Temple, and he is now en- gaged upon "The Life of Admiral Por- ter." His last work, on the " Maritime Industries of Amer- ica," deals with the history, present condition, and future prospects of the merchant marine. In July, 1890, he resigned his com- mission and was appointed assistant secretary of the navy, which office he has held since that time. In this capacity he has taken a large part in the detailed administration of the naval establishment, and has been particularly connected with the important measures of navy-yard reform. Mr. Soley graduated at the Law School of Columbian University.
JAMES R. SOLEY.
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S TUDYING the history of the printing trade, a stranger to this State soon acquires an admiring knowledge of a firm name which is familiar to Massa- chusetts men, -- Alfred Mudge & Son. This firm was founded in 1830. Alfred Mudge established a small printing-office on School Street, Boston, in that year, and, being a man of brain and enterprise, he broke away from the conservative rut of the printers of those days. He speedily found success, limited at first, to be sure, but destined to assume propor- tions of amazingly large size. It was in 1850 that the present firm name was adopted, in that year the founder of the house taking into partnership his son, Alfred A. Mudge. The latter lived but three years after the death of the senior partner, and then, in 1885, Frank H. Mudge, son of Alfred A., became sole pro- prietor of this great business house, and has continued in this position ever since. To illustrate the strides made by this firm since its incep- tion, when a small room on School Street was sufficient for the proper transaction of its business, it need only be said that it now occupies three complete floors of the great mercan- tile building, No. 24 Franklin Street, Boston. Its plant contains the best possible equipments, inchiding twenty large cylinder presses. On its salary list are the names of two hundred employees. From these facts an idea may be gained of the character and size of the business which Frank H. Mudge now governs and guides. This gen- tleman was born in Boston, Feb. 10, 1859. Early in life he developed an unmistakable aptitude, undoubtedly
FRANK H. MUDGE.
inherited, for the printing business, and at the end of his school-days he entered the employ of Alfred Mudge & Son for the purpose of obtaining something far deeper than a superficial knowledge of the printing art. By hard and earnest work he became such a master of the different branches that in 1880 he was honored by a well-earned invitation to become a partner in the enter- prise. These early years of business training fitted Mr. Mudge for the burden of proprietorship which fell to his lot upon the death of his father, -a bur- den which seldom falls upon the shoul- ders of such a young man. But that which Mr. Mudge lacked in age was amply bal- anced by his posses- sion of practical ex- perience, and so he accepted the position of head of the house of Alfred Mudge & Son, and be it said in just credit, the business of his able forefathers has con- tinued to prosper in his hands. Mr. Mudge is president of the Master Print- ers' Club, vice-presi- dent of the National Typothetæ of Amer- ica. He began his military career in the ranks of D company, First Regiment, M. V. M. ; has been sec- ond lientenant of light battery A, and is an ex-adjutant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and past commander of the Roxbury Artillery Veteran Association. Mr. Mndge holds membership in many other organizations, includ- ing the Franklin 'Typographical Society, the Roxbury Club, the Boston Athletic Association, the Hull, Win- throp and Massachusetts Yacht clubs, and also Masonic societies, in the Odd Fellows, the Red Men, the Elks and the Knights of Pythias.
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BOSTON.
TH THERE is not a more enthusiastic Democrat and tariff reformer in Massachusetts than Bushrod Morse. A man of deep convictions and high character, a thorough student of economic questions, he has wielded great influence, directly and indirectly, upon the political opinions of his fellow-citizens. Descended from a long line of New England ancestors, - among whom were Benjamin Franklin, Professor Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and Chief Justice Kent, - Mr. Morse was born in Sharon, Mass., the son of Willard and Eliza (Glover) Morse. After attending the public schools of his native town, he fitted for college at the Providence Confer- ence Seminary and at Pierce Academy, Middleboro, and en- tered Amherst in I 856. Ill-health, however, prevented him from completing his college course. He studied law in North Easton and in Boston, and in Octo- ber, 1864, was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar. Though he has practised in Boston ever since, he has always retained his residence in Sharon, on the old Morse 1 homestead, a pic- turesque estate, near Lake Massapoag, which descended to him and his brothers from their great-grandfather, Gilead Morse, an English soldier under General Wolfe, who purchased it on his return from the French war in 1764. Mr. Morse has been for years prominent and influential in the political life of his town and State. He has been chairman of the Sharon School Board; member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1870, 1883 and 1884, when he served on important committees, being chairman of
the Committee on Probate and Chancery in 1884 ; mem- ber of the Democratic State Central Committee ; candi- date for presidential elector in 1884 and 1888; delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati in 1880; candidate for Congress in the second district, against Ex-Governor John D. Long, in 1886, and carry- ing Norfolk County by 233 majority, and being defeated in the strong Republican district by less than 2,000 votes ; again a candidate for Congress in 1890, when he received the highest vote ever cast for a Democratic candi- date for Congress in his district. In 1864 Mr. Morse was appointed justice of the peace by Gover- nor Andrew, and has held that office ever since. On May 13, 1891, Governor Rus- sell appointed him the first special jus- tice of the District Court for Southern Norfolk. In 1892, much against his in- clinations, he was unanimously nomi- nated by the Demo- crats for the Second Norfolk District for the State Senate. The workingmen of the State have had a staunch friend in Mr. Morse. His able and intelligent advo- cacy of legislative measures calculated to advance their interests, gained for him a wide popu- larity. His addresses on tariff reform, embodying the results of his careful investigations and set forth in vigorous English, have attracted general attention and been published in leading journals throughout the country. Though engrossed in his legal profession, in which he has a high standing, Mr. Morse still finds time to preach the gospel of tariff reform. He is an excel- lent type of man and citizen.
BUSHROD MORSE.
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T `HE private secretary of Postmaster-General Wana- maker, Marshall Cushing, is a Hingham boy through and through. His ancestors were among the little band that first settled the town. The people of Hingham well remember him, a barefoot boy driving the cows, or a high school pupil driving the milk wagon. They recall that he worked his way through college, and they hold in high regard his father and mother. Mar- shall Cushing was born in 1860. His early education was gained in the public schools, and he graduated from the high school in 1878. At Exeter he was an editor of the Exonian, the leader of the glee club, and the class poet of '79. Mr. Cushing grad- uated from Harvard in 1883. He was freshman editor of the Harvard Daily Echo, secretary of the board of editors of the Advocate, a member of the glee club, and a leader in the musical and the- atrical performances of the Pi Eta Society. Mr. Cushing in- tended to study law, but he was attracted towards newspaper work, and obtained employment on the Cambridge Tribune, as city editor, and on the Boston Globe, as Harvard correspondent. He became successively news editor on the "night desk " of the Globe, and night editor in charge. After two years he became State House reporter and staff correspondent, finding valuable political friends in all directions. Mr. Cushing next became private secretary to Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, a post which he relinquished a few months later for a position on the New York Press. There for about a year he was political writer and travelling correspondent.
After this term of service for the Press Mr. Cushing returned to Washington as correspondent of the Boston Advertiser and Record, and the New York Graphic. He also did special work for the Sun, the Philadelphia Press and other journals. To the position of private secretary to the postmaster-general Mr. Cushing has brought tact, industry and originality. He may be said to be the first outside the White House to give to a private secretaryship a national repute. His industry is phenomenal. In addition to his ex- acting daily work at the elbow of the postmaster - general, he has written "The Story of Our Post- Office," a one thou- sand page book, and he has collected ma- terial for an even larger volume upon the history of the American post-office, which is shortly to be published. Mr. Cushing's home life is ideal. He was married on Christ- mas Day, 1891, in San Francisco, to Mrs. Isabel McBride Palmer, the gifted daughter of Hon. John R. McBride, late member of Con- gress from Oregon, and chief justice of Idaho, who was for years the leading Gentile in Utah. The literary and musical tastes of Mrs. Cushing are a thorough complement to those of her husband. Mr. Cushing is a member of the famous Gridiron Club of Washington correspondents, and the monthly "roast " is considered incomplete without the presence of the cheery private secretary and his banjo. His literary style is original, crisp and witty, many of his articles and letters contributed to the press of Boston and New York being masterpieces of their kind.
MARSHALL CUSHING.
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BOSTON.
E 'DWARD AUGUSTUS MOSELEY, secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, has labored zealously for years to secure uniform safety couplers for railway cars, and is the recognized authority on that subject in this country, his efforts having attracted the attention of presidents, senators and congressmen, magazine writers, and especially the organizations of railway employees. He was born in Newburyport, March 23, 1846, his father being an East India merchant and well-known banker. After attending the public schools, he shipped, at the age of sixteen, before the mast of an East In- diaman and made a long voyage. He afterwards entered the service of Wells, Edmunds & Co., East India merchants and later was asso- ciated with N. & B. Goddard, a firm whose predecessors were the pioneers in the trade, dating back to the begin- ning of the present century. Mr. Mose- ley was subsequently in partnership with his father. Imme- diately after the Boston fire of 1872, the firm of Moseley, Wheelwright & Co. was formed, and for years did an immense business in Southern pine, Mr. Moseley travelling through the Southern States, the West Indies, South America and Europe, making sales and furthering the interests of his house. In June, 1880, the firm of Stetson, Moseley & Co., lumber dealers, was organized, succeeding to the busi- ness of one of the oldest firms in the United States, and Mr. Moseley was a member of that firm at the time of his appointment to the position he now occupies. He was commissioner of the Newburyport Sinking Fund
for fifteen years after its organization ; was a member of the Common Council and an alderman ; was twice elected to the General Court of Massachusetts, and during his term of office was a member of the Commit- tee on Railroads. He was president of the Mechanics' Exchange of Boston when he was appointed secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Since going to Washington he has been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and of the Court of Claims. Mr. Moseley is a thirty-second degree Mason in both the Northern and South- ern jurisdictions ; a noble of the Mystic Shrine; a Knight Templar ; an hono- rary member of A. W. Bartlett Post, G. A. R .; and for several years was master workman of Mt. Washington As- sembly, No. 3478, Knights of Labor. He is one of the most expert swim- mers and canoeists in America, and years ago was an amateur boxer of great note. His life has been full of adventure. Few men have such a number of loyal friends. When, in 1891, there were ru- mors of a change in the secretaryship of the Interstate Commerce Commission a spontaneous and emphatic protest immediately came from many men of national prominence, including James G. Blaine, United States Senators Dawes, Chandler and Blair, Congressmen Milliken and Crapo, the railroad commis- sioners of several States, P. M. Arthur, of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, and many railroad cor- porations and organizations of railroad employees, all expressing the hope that his services might be retained.
EDWARD A. MOSELEY.
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R AILROAD corporations, which in many States with impunity infringe the rights and disregard the convenience of the people, are in Massachusetts closely watched by a railroad commission, which since its estab- lishment has made a most enviable record in the correc- tion of existing abuses and wrongs, and in showing what improvements were most needed and how to secure them. The youngest member of this commission is William J. Dale, Jr., who was appointed in December, 1891. He had pre- viously shown what manner of man he was by his energetic performance of the duties of assistant postmaster of Bos- ton under General Corse, by his con- duct of large manu- facturing interests, and by his manage- ment of a political campaign. Mr. Dale was born in Boston April 15, 1850. He is the son of Dr. W. J. Dale, a distin- guished physician, who was surgeon- general of Massa- chusetts, having been appointed by Governor Andrew, and holding the office for nearly twenty years after the close of the War of the Rebellion. Removing to his ancestral homestead in North Andover, Mass., at the close of the war, Sur- geon-General Dale and his son, William J., have resided there for most of the time since. The farm, which con- tains several hundred acres, has been in the possession of the Dale family since 1636. Mr. Dale was educated in the public schools of Boston, and at Phillips Academy, Andover. He was for a number of years a member of the School Committee of Andover, and for several terms was its chairman. He was also chairman of the Board
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WILLIAM J. DALE, JR.
of Selectmen of the town. In December, 1886, on ac- count of his well-known executive abilities, Mr. Dale was appointed assistant postmaster of Boston, under Post- master Corse, assuming the duties of that office on Jan. 1, 1887, and continuing in the position until the change of administration and the incoming of Postmaster Hart. During his term of office Mr. Dale rendered most valua- ble assistance to General Corse in the many radical reforms which the latter carried out, and which con- tributed greatly to the efficiency of the postal service in Boston. During the political campaign of 1891 Mr. Dale was secretary of the Democratic State Committee, and en- joyed the confidence and esteem of all the party leaders. In December of that year Governor Rus- sell appointed him to the Board of Railroad Commis- sioners, to succeed the late Edward W. Kinsley. It has proved to be one of the wisest of the many wise appoint- ments made by Gov- ernor Russell. Mr. Dale for a number of years was president of the Exeter Manu- facturing Company, Exeter, N. H., manu- facturers of cotton goods. He is a member of the First Corps of Cadets, of which his maternal grandfather, Colonel Joseph H. Adams, was at one time commander. Mr. Dale has been one of the directors of the Music Hall Association of Boston, and is a member of the Somerset Chib, the Boston Athletic Association, and various social organ- izations. He was married, in 1891, to Miss Elise M. Ballon, daughter of Murray R. Ballon, chairman of the Boston Stock Exchange.
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