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and a member of the Boston Press and Athletic clubs. He was married in Boston, November 29. 1849, to Miss Caroline M. Bruce, daughter of Cyrus and Matilda (Cushing) Bruce. They had two children : Edward W. and Harry J. M'Glenen.
MEINTIRE, CHARLES JOHN, of Cambridge. judge of the Probate Court of Middlesex County. was born in Cambridge, March 26, 1842. son of Ebenezer and Amelia Augustine ( Landais) Mc- Intire. His ancestors on the paternal side came to Salem from Argyll, Scotland, about 1650, and those of a later generation, moving to Oxford (now Charlton). Worcester County, in 1733, were among the first officers of the latter town when it was incorporated in 1755 ; and on the maternal side he is a lineal descendant of John Read, a distinguished lawyer of Boston in Provincial days, and of the latter's son-in-law, Charles Morris, a native of Boston, who was for many years chief justice of Nova Scotia. His mother's father was an exiled French officer of engineers commis- sioned in the United States army; and she was born in Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S.C., when her father was in command there. Charles J. entered the Harvard Law School, and also read in the law office of ex-Mayor Dana. of Charlestown : but before he had completed his student course the Civil War broke out, and in 1862 he enlisted as a private in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. He served with his regiment in all its engagements, including the famous defence of the besieged town of Washington. N.C., and. when his term of service expired, returned to his studies. He was admitted to the bar in 1865. and began practice in Boston. From 1871 to 1874 he was assistant district attorney of Middle- sex County : and he was city solicitor of Cam- bridge continuously from March, 1886, till October 26, 1893. when he was appointed by Governor Russell judge of probate and insolvency for Middlesex County, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge George M. Brooks. In 1893. also, he was a member of the State commission, appointed by Governor Russell under an act of the Legislature, to revise and codify the election laws. He was early prominent in Cambridge municipal affairs, serving in 1866 and 1867 in the Common Council, in 1877 on the Board of Aldermen, and was three years ( 1868-70) on the School Board : and in 1883 he was the " l'eo-
ple's " candidate for mayor. He was one of the special committee which framed the new city charter of Cambridge in 1891, and, after the new charter was granted, revised the city ordinances to conform thereto. In 1869 and 1870 he was a Cambridge representative in the lower house
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of the Legislature, where he served as chairman of the committee on insurance and secretary of the committee on the judiciary. Mr. Melntire is vice-president of the Colonial Club of Cambridge. of which President Eliot, of Harvard University, is the president, a member of the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment Association (elected president in 1883), and a member of the Cam- bridge Club. At the time of his elevation to the bench, through his legal ability and by diligent de- votion to his profession, he had become one of the leading members of the justly celebrated Middle- sex bar, and a most successful practitioner and advocate in the courts of the Commonwealth. His appointment as successor to Judge Brooks was almost universally urged by the bar of his county and by leading members of the bar of Suffolk. He was married in 1865 to Miss Maria Therese Finegan. They have five children : Mary Amelia (Cornell University). Henrietta Elizabeth (Harvard Annex), Charles Ebenezer, Frederic, and Blanche Eugenie MeIntire.
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MINER, REV. ALONZO AMES, senior pastor of the Second Universalist Society of Boston (Co- lumbus Avenue), and distinguished in reform and educational work, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Lempster, August 17, 1814, son of Bena- jah Ames and Amanda (Carey) Miner. He is a descendant of Thomas Miner, who came to Bos- ton with the elder Winthrop in 1630, and who was a descendant of Henry Bullman, Somerset- shire, England, distinguished by Edward III. for loyal service, who changed his name in honor of his profession as a miner. On the maternal side his ancestry is traced to English stock, which lo-
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cated in this country a century and a half ago. He was educated in public schools and acade- mies, and prepared for active life by private study and school-teaching. From his sixteenth to his twentieth year he taught in public schools, and the following four years in academies, from 1834 to 1835 being associated with James Garvin, a graduate of Dartmouth College, in the conduct of the Cavendish (Vt.) Academy, and from 1835 to 1839 at the head of the Unity (N.H.) Scientific and Military Academy. In 1838 he was received into the fellowship of the Universalist church, and the following year ordained to its ministry. He was first settled in Methuen, where he remained
three years. Thereafter he was for six years pas- tor of a Universalist church in Lowell, and then (in 1848) came to Boston, called to the Second Universalist Society as colleague of the eminent Hosea Ballou, one of the fathers of Universal- ism, succeeding in this position the Rev. Edwin H. Chapin, who afterwards became famous as preacher and lecturer. Upon the death of " Father " Ballou in 1852, Dr. Miner became sole pastor of the society; and he so remained till 1867, when, on account of his college connection, he was given a colleague who was continued but a few months. Since that time he has had but two other colleagues ; and between the withdrawal of the second and the coming of the third, a pe- riod of seventeen years, he performed without assistance all the duties of the pastorate, while engaged in much educational work and a leader in numerous reform movements. From 1862 to 1875 he was president of Tufts College, preach- ing regularly during that time to his Boston parish at each Sunday morning service, and in the col- lege chapel on College Hill in the afternoon. From 1869 to 1893 he was a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and for nearly twenty years chairman of the Board of Vis- itors of the State Normal Art School in Boston, which he was largely influential in establishing. In 1863 he was elected by the Legislature an over- seer of Harvard College. He has had long expe- rienee on school committees, having served on the boards of Methuen, Lowell, and Boston. In 1864 he was chaplain of the State Senate; in 1855 he was the Fourth of July municipal orator; and in 1884 he was the preacher of the last elec- tion sermon before the governor and the General Court, the custom which had prevailed since 1712, broken only by the Revolution, being abol- ished by the next Legislature. He has been pres- ident of the Universalist Publishing House in Boston since its foundation, of which he was the originator ; is president of the Board of Trus- tees of Dean Academy at Franklin and of the Bromfield School at Harvard; chairman of the executive committee of T'ufts College ; member of the executive committee of the American Peace Society ; and chairman of the Committee of One Hundred of Boston. He is also a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sei- ence, of the National Reform Association, and of the Universalist Club of Boston. Dr. Miner's work as a temperance reformer and his advocacy
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of Prohibition have brought him into national prominence. To this cause he has devoted a large share of his active life, speaking, writing, and working for it with great vigor and persist- ence. He was the Prohibition candidate for gov- ernor of the State in 1878, and for mayor of Bos- ton in 1893; and he has been long the most conspicuous leader of his party in New England. For twenty years he was president of the Massa- chusetts Temperance Alliance. He has been a frequent contributor to the denominational and secular press, and was at one time editor of The Star of Bethlehem, a weekly paper published in the city of Lowell. His publications in book and pamphlet form include "Old Forts Taken," " Bible Exercises," election, baccalaureate, con- vention, dedication, and various occasional ser- mons, " Right and Duty of Prohibition," and nu- merous others. Dr. Miner received the degree of .A.M. from Tufts in IS6t, that of S.T.D. from Harvard in 1863, and that of LL. D. from Tufts in 1875. His interest in Tufts College began with the beginning of the institution in 1854. lle delivered the address at the laying of the corner- stone of the first college building. He has been a generous contributor to its funds, giving among other gifts forty thousand dollars for a theological hall. Dr. Miner married. August 24, 1836, Miss Maria S. Perley, daughter of Captain Edmund and Sarah Perley. They have no children.
MORSE, ROBERT MCNEIL, member of the Suf- folk bar, is a native of Boston, born August 11, 1837, son of the late Robert M. Morse, for many years a respected merchant in that city, and of his wife, Sarah M. (Clark). He was educated in private schools, at the Eliot High School, Jamaica Plain, and at Harvard, where he graduated in the class of 1857. This class, though small, was dis- tinguished for the number of men who afterwards attained prominence in various walks, among them being John C. Ropes, John D. Long, J. Lewis Stackpole, Robert D. Smith, General Charles F. Wolcott, and the Rev. Joseph May. of Philadelphia. Mr. Morse studied law in the Har- vard Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. Since that time he has been in practice in Boston, and has long held a foremost position as a general counsellor and advocate. He has been engaged in many notable causes before the courts of the State, and also in the United States courts,
such as the famous Moen case, and the Arm- strong and Codman will contests, and has been retained in much important litigation relating to the water-supply of cities and towns, insurance, and other contracts, and in a great variety of tort cases, including actions of libel and claims for personal injury. His public service has been confined to two terms in the State Senate ( 1856-67), and one in the lower house of the Leg- islature ( 18So). When in the Senate. he drafted and introduced the bill for the repeal of the usury laws, and passed it through in the face of strong opposition ; served on important standing commit-
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tees ; was chairman of the special committee on the subject of the prohibitory law then on the statute book, before which John A. Andrew, then ex-governor, made his famous argument in behalf of the license system : and subsequently he drew the report of the committee in favor of the repeal of the prohibitory law. In the House he was chairman of the committee on the judiciary. and was prominent in securing the enactment of the laws authorizing the last revision of the general laws known as the Public Statutes, the grant to the city of Boston of the land on which the Pub- lic Library is now in process of erection, and the capitalization of the American Bell Telephone
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Company. Mr. Morse is a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College, of the Union, University, and Country clubs, and of other social, professional, and business organizations. He was married in 1863 to Miss Anna E. Gorham, daugh- ter of James L. Gorham, and has had seven chil- dren, of whom five are living, the eldest, Mabel, being the wife of Dr. Daniel D. Lee.
NEEDHAM, DANIEL, of Groton, member of the bar for nearly half a century, and long active in various public interests, was born in Salem, May 24, 1822, son of James and Lydia (Breed) Needham. The branch of the Needham family to which he belongs settled in Lynn, in 1836, and adhered to the doctrine and usages of the Society of Friends. In this atmosphere his boyhood developed. After a few years spent in local schools and graduating from the Salem High School, he entered the Friends' Boarding-school of Providence, R. J., and there his academic edu- cation was acquired. He studied law in Salem with David Roberts, and was admitted to the Middlesex bar in 1847. Forming a law partner- ship with Mr. Roberts and Edmund Burke, under the firm name of Burke, Needham & Roberts, he began practice in Boston. Early taking an active part in politics, he had an influential hand in shaping political moves. He organized the coali- tion movement which resulted in the election of George S. Boutwell to the governorship in 1851, and in 1853-54 was chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee. During Governor Boutwell's two terms he was a member of the governor's staff. Removing to Vermont in the fifties, he was elected to the Legislature of that State, first to the lower house, where he served two terms ( 1857-58), and then to the Senate, serving in the latter body five terms (1859-63) ; and in 1863 was Vermont commissioner to the Hamburg International Exposition. Returning to Massachusetts, and re-establishing his home in Groton, he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature of this State in 1867 and to the Sen- ate in 1868-69. In 1871 he was appointed na- tional bank examiner for Massachusetts, and held that office until 1876, performing its important and often arduous duties with thoroughness and promptitude. There were in his charge one hun- dred and eighty-five banks, all of them, with few exceptions, in Massachusetts ; and during his term
of office more official defaleations were brought to light than in the united terms of all the other national bank examiners for the Commonwealth. Colonel Needham has long been devoted to agri- culture, and connected with organizations to pro-
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mote farming interests. He was secretary of the New England Agricultural Society for twenty- seven years, and is now its president ; and his zeal and abilities have been among the principal factors of its success. It has held agricultural fairs in all of the New England States, with full share of public patronage and exceptional pecun- iary success; and, at times responsible for the expenses incurred, Mr. Needham has so skill- fully conducted affairs as to escape financial loss. He has been president of many county and town organizations, and trustee of the Massachusetts Agricultural College from its organization. In the early railroad days he was some time managing director of the Peterborough & Shirley Railroad, and in 1847, in connection with the associate directors, made himself liable for the debts of the corporation, turning over all his property to the banks holding the indorsed paper. Ultimately, he paid every obligation, and perfected arrange- ments whereby he was in time reimbursed by the corporation. At a later period he was for ten
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years owner and manager of the Montello Woollen and Grain Mills, Montello, Wis,, the woollen mill having been built originally by him. He has been for eleven years a director of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company and of the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. Other organi- zations in which he holds official positions are : the Institute of Heredity (president since its organi- zation ). the Middlesex (North) Unitarian Associa- tion (president), the Middlesex political dining club (president and founder), and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (trustee). Of his town of Groton he has been town treasurer for many years, and a member of the School Board. Ile has been a Republican since soon after the formation of that party. Colonel Need- ham was commissioned by Governor Russell to represent the State of Massachusetts at the Na- tional Agricultural Congress at Sedalia, Mo., in 1891, also at Lincoln, Neb., in 1892, and at Savannah, Ga., in 1893. At each of these con- gresses he delivered addresses which were exten- sively published, and received much attention at home and elsewhere. His reports are published in the volumes of the State Board of Agri- culture of the years 1892-93-94. By invita- tion of the Legislature of Ohio he delivered an address in the Senate Chamber, at Columbus. upon his Hamburg mission in January, 1864; by invitation of the Legislature of Wisconsin he de- livered an address upon deepening and improv- ing the navigation of the Mississippi River at Madison, Wis., in 1865 ; and by invitation of the Board of Agriculture of the State of Kansas. an address on the " Relation of the East to the West in its Trade Connections," in the Senate Cham- ber at Topeka in January, 1894. These addresses were published by the several State governments. He was sent a commissioner to Mexico by the New England Society, and in 1890 was received by President Diaz with great hospitality. . \ large number of Colonel Needham's addresses have been published in pamphlet form : and the one delivered at Saratoga, before the National Bankers' Association, in the early days of the national banks, was regarded as a text-book upon the subject, and had a wide-spread circulation, more than twenty-five thousand copies having been sent out. Colonel Needham was first mar- ried in Groton, July 15, 1842, to Miss Caroline A. Hall, daughter of Benjamin and Caroline Hall, of Boston ; and by this union were four children :
Eleanor M .. William C. H., James Ernest, and Effie Marion Needham. His first wife died June 30, 1878. Ilis second marriage was on Octo- ber 6. ISSo, with Miss Ellen M. Brigham, daughter of George D. and Mary J. Brigham, of Groton. By this union have been three children : Marion Brigham. Alice Emily, and Daniel Needham, Jr. The son William C. H. died while a member of the Senate of Ohio in 1881.
O'MEARA. STEPHEN, editor and general man- ager of the Boston Journal, was born in Charlotte- town, Prince Edward Island, July 26, 1854. His parents moved to the United States when he was about ten years old ; and, after a short residence in Braintree. the home was established in Charles- town. Here he obtained his general education in the local schools, graduating from the Harvard Grammar School in 1868 and from the Charles- town High School in 1872. The day after his graduation from the High School he became the
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Charlestown reporter for the Boston Globe, that year started : and in October following he was given a position as reporter on the regular staff. He was an expert shorthand writer, a quick news- gatherer. and early distinguished himself by the
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excellence of his work. In December, 1874, he resigned his position on the Globe to take that of shorthand reporter for the Journal. This was the beginning of his service on that paper, and his advance to the chief place has been through various grades of service. In May, 1879, after an experience of five years in legislative, city hall, news, law, and political reporting, he was pro- moted to the office of city editor ; two years later, upon the death of the veteran journalist, Stephen N. Stockwell, he became news editor, - a position corresponding to that of managing editor in most newspaper offices; and in June, 1891, upon the retirement of the late William W. Clapp, who had been long the manager and responsible head of the paper, the chief direction of affairs was placed in his hands, his title being editor and general manager. Under Mr. O'Meara's management the Journal has been transformed from the folio to the quarto form, and its facilities have been extended and improved. Mr. O'Meara was long the auditor of the New England Associated Press, and is now its treasurer and a member of the ex- ecutive committee. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Boston Daily Newspaper Asso- ciation, a business organization of the Boston daily newspapers. He is a member of the St. Botolph, Algonquin, and Press clubs of Boston (president of the latter from 1886 to 1888, bis election each year being unanimous.) He was the first instructor in phonography in the Boston Evening High School, occupying that position for four years from 1880. Since 1890 he has served as trustee of the Massachusetts State Li- brary. In 1888 the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Dartmouth Col- lege. Mr. O'Meara was married August 5, 1878, to Miss Isabella M. Squire, of Charlestown. They have three children : Frances Isabel, Alice, and Lucy O'Meara.
PAINE, GENERAL CHARLES JACKSON, yachts- man, projector of the " Puritan," the " Mayflower," and the " Volunteer," is a native of Boston, born August 26, 1833, son of Charles Cushing and Fannie Cabot (Jackson) Paine, and great-grand- son of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declara- tion of Independence. His mother, Fanny Cabot Jackson, was a daughter of Judge Charles Jack- son, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. He was educated in the Boston Latin School and at Harvard with Charles W. Eliot, Justin Winsor,
Robert S. Rantoul, and others whose names have become widely known, as classmates, graduating in 1853. He studied law with Rufus Choate, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1856. He practised, however, but a comparatively short time, becoming interested in large railroad enterprises.
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He has been a director at different times of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Mexican Cen- tral, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- roads. He served in the Union army during nearly the entire period of the Civil War, entering the service on October 8, 1861, as captain of Company I, Twenty-second Regiment, Massachu- setts Volunteers. On January 14, 1862, he was commissioned major of the Thirtieth Massachu- setts. On the 2d of October of the same year he was promoted to the colonelcy of the Second Louisiana (white) Regiment and in the summer of 1863, during the siege of Port Hudson, com- manded a brigade. On March 4, 1864, he re- signed the latter command, and joined General Butler in Virginia, the following month taking part in the battle of Drury's Bluff. Three months later, on July 4, he was appointed brigadier-gen- eral of volunteers, and in September, on the 29th, led a division of colored troops in the attack of New Market, Va. In January, 1865, he partici-
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pated in the capture of Fort Fisher, and for his service here was subsequently brevetted major- general of volunteers. In the early part of 1864 he served under Sherman in North Carolina, and after the surrender of Lee commanded the dis- trict of Newbern until November, 1865. On January 15, 1866, he was mustered out of the service. General Paine's interest in yachting began with his boyhood, and long before the ap- pearance of the famous "crack " boats he had become a master in yacht designing and sailing. In 1877 he purchased the " Halcyon," and so improved her that she ranked among the fastest yachts then on the water. The "Puritan " was built in 1885 by a syndicate formed by him, and he was at the head of the committee which had charge of her during the races of that season. Later he became sole owner, but soon sold her to Commodore Forbes. The next year he brought out the " Mayflower," which defeated the " Gala- tea "; and the next. 1887, the " Volunteer," which outsailed the "Thistle." These yachts were all designed by the late Edward Burgess, General Paine following their construction with great care. He is a member of the New York Yacht Club, which in February, 1888. presented him a silver cup in recognition of his triple successful defence of the America's cup, member of the Eastern Yacht Club, the Somerset, Union, and Country clubs. General Paine was married on March 26, 1867, to Miss Julia Bryant, daughter of John, Jr .. and Mary Anna Lee Bryant. They have seven children : Sumner, John Bryant, Mary Anna Lee, Charles Jackson, Helen, Georgina, and Frank C'abot Paine. Their town house is an old colonial mansion house on Beacon Hill, Boston, and their country place is in Weston. Their midsummer residence is at Nahant.
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, distinguished as a philanthropist, was born in Boston, October 28. 1835, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) l'aine, and grandson of the Robert Treat Paine whose signature was among those appended to the Declaration of Independence. His educa- tion was acquired in Boston private and public schools, and at Harvard. He entered the Latin School at ten years of age, and graduated at fifteen : and at twenty he graduated from the col- lege with honors. Among his college classmates (class of 1855) were Phillips Brooks, Alexander
Agassiz, Francis C. Barlow, Theodore Lyman, and Frank B. Sanborn. After a year's study in the Harvard Law School he devoted two years to travel in Europe. Then, returning to Boston. he further pursued his law studies in the offices of Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker, and in 1859 was admitted to the Suffolk bar. Eleven years after (in 1870), having invested his carnings from the practice of his profession in profitable real estate, railroad, and mining enterprises, he retired with a competence, and since that time he has devoted himself mainly to humanitarian work. From 1872 to 1876 much of his time was given to the building of Trinity Church, he being one of the sub-committee of three who had charge of the work. In 1878 he was prominent in the or- ganization of the Associated Charities of Boston, and was made its president, which position he still holds. The next year he organized the Wells Memorial Institute (in memory of the Rev. E. M. P. Wells, who served for thirty years.
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