Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 100

Author: Herndon, Richard; Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Boston : New England Magazine
Number of Pages: 1036

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DOLAN, WILLIAM ANDREW, M.I., of Fall River, was born in Shirley, July 28, 1858, son of Andrew and Jane (McBride) Dolan. His father was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and his mother of Portobello, Scotland. His parents moved to Fall River when he was an infant, and that city has since been his home. He was edu- cated in the Fall River public schools and at St. Joseph's College, St. Joseph, N.B. (affiliated with Laval University), graduating there in June, 1879. He studied medicine in the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and upon his graduation therefrom, March 15, 1882, entered St. Peter's Hospital, Albany, as house surgeon. After a year in the hospital service he began general practice in Fall River, and has since been actively engaged there. Since 1892 he has been medical examiner for the Third Bris- tol District, appointed to this position by Governor Russell, and as such was the medical official in charge of the celebrated " Borden murder case." He is now also visiting surgeon to the Fall River

Hospital and the St. Vincent Orphans' Home. and examining surgeon for several life and acci- dent insurance companies. He is a member and ex-censor and councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society, member of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society, and member and ex-presi- dent of the Fall River Medical Society. He was one of the founders and for some years treasurer and member of the executive committee of the Clover Club, the most prominent social club in Fall River : and he is a member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Catholic Knights of America. He also belongs

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to the Boston Life Underwriters' Association. In politics he is a Democrat, but not active in politi- cal work. He has been a justice of the peace for several years, by appointment of Governor Ames. Dr. Dolan was married May 29, 1883, to Miss Nellie B. Hussey. They have three children : Thomas, Nellie B., and William A. Dolan, Jr.

DOUGLASS, DARWIN DE FORREST, of Spring- field, manufacturer of artificial limbs, is a native of Connecticut, born in the town of Bloomfield, November 9, 1827, son of Francis and Fanny (Griswold) Douglass. When he was six months

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old, his parents removed to Elyria, Ohio, as pio- neers of what was then called "New Connecticut," or Western Reserve. Here he laid the founda- tion of the strong, robust health which he so much enjoys. He is of Scotch descent from the earliest Douglasses of Scotland, dating back to the year 1175, famous in the early Scottish history. He was educated in the common school. He was self- trained for active life, constantly studying every- thing pertaining to his profession, in the effort to bring his work to the highest degree of excellence. His business career was begun in January, 1849, in the invention of the " Douglass artificial leg."

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After two years' study and practical application of the work, he developed what has since been his life-work of forty-six years,- manufacturing and applying artificial limbs to patients in all parts of the world. The invention was at once a success, while the enterprise of small proportions gradually grew in magnitude. In 1873 he built the large brick building at Nos. 206 and 208 Union Street, Springfield, for residence, factory, and office, where he is doing business and "located for life." As the demand for his work increased, he found it expedient to open a branch office in Boston ; and for the last twenty-five years his place of business in that city has been at Nos. 13 and 15 Tremont

Street, with the well-known firm of Codman & Shurtleff, manufacturers of surgical appliances. Orders come for his work from France, England, Turkey, New Zealand, Cuba, South America, the Azores, Mexico, Germany, China, and the British Possessions. Mr. Douglass is commissioned by the United States government to supply officers and soldiers who have lost legs in the military service of the country. He is under a bond of ten thousand dollars, which is on file in the War Department at Washington, to guarantee good work. In filling this contract, he has in no in- stance given anything but entire satisfaction to the government and his hundreds of patrons. Dr. Douglass is not a member of societies or clubs. In politics he is the ideal Independent, voting always for the "best man," caring nothing for his politics. He was married January 1, 1850, to Miss Susan Charlotte Stickles, daughter of David and Elizabeth Stickles. She was born October 25, 1827, and died April 1, 1888. He has one daughter : Jennie Grace Douglass, who is at the head of his domestic household.

DRESSER, GEORGE, M.D., of Chicopee, is a native of New Hampshire, born in the town of Antrim, May 9, 1838, son of Daniel and Sarah (McAllister) Dresser. His father was of English descent, and his mother of Scotch-Irish, her ances- tors being among the first settlers of Londonderry, N.H. Her maternal grandfather was a captain in the army during the Revolutionary War. Dr. Dresser received his general education in the common schools and at different academies. He studied medicine first at the Albany Medical College, and afterward at the Harvard Medical School, graduating from the latter in July, 1862. During 1872 he spent the winter months in further study in New York colleges. He began practice immediately after his graduation in 1862, in the town of Grafton, Vt., and remained there nearly eleven years. Then he removed to Chico- pee, where he has since been actively engaged. While practising in Vermont, he was a member of the Connecticut River Medical Society, and he is now a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In politics he is a Republican. He has held no public office, confining himself exclusively to his professional duties. He was first married in July, 1862, to Miss Marcella E. White, who died the following year. He married second, in Febru-

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ary, 1865, Miss Lucy A. Eaton. She died in 1888. He married third, in October, 1890, Miss Lillie H. King. By his second marriage he had

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two daughters : Inez F. and L. Alice Dresser, both of whom are dead ; and by his third wife he has one daughter : Louise H. Dresser.

DUDLEY, HENRY WATSON, M.D., of Abing- ton, was born in Gilmanton, N.H., November 30, 1831, son of John Kimball Dudley, now (1895) living in his ninety-first year, and Betsey Harvey (Gilman) Dudley. He is of the ninth genera- tion from the old colonial governor, Thomas Dudley, through his son, the Rev. Samuel Dudley, who resided, preached, and died in Exeter, N.H., between 1650 and 1683. Stephen, a great-grand- son of the Rev. Samuel, who was an early settler of Gilmanton, N.H., and well known as Deacon Stephen Dudley, was Dr. Dudley's great-great- grandfather. Dr. Dudley was educated in the schools of his native town, fitting for college at Gilmanton Academy in the class of 1851 ; and he was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in March, 1864. Ten years before studying medi- cine he taught school, one year principal of the Rochester (N.H.) High School, and two years

teacher of mathematics in the Pittsfield (N.H.) Academy ; and he was teaching in Culpeper, Va., at the time of the famous John Brown raid in the autumn of 1859. He settled in Abington April 6, 1864, and has since resided and been engaged there in active practice. From 1882 to 1893 he held the chair of pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, and in 1893 was elected professor of pathology in the Tufts College Medical School, where he is still engaged. While residing in New Hampshire, Dr. Dudley was school commissioner of Belknap County, and member of the State Board of Education by ap- pointment of Governor Berry in 1861, and reap- pointed in 1862 and 1863. Since 1890 he has been one of the medical examiners of Plymouth County. He was president of the Plymouth District Medical Society in 1878 and 1879. has been one of the councillors of the Massachusetts Medical Society since 1883, and is also a member of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society. He has been connected with the Masonic fraternity since 1859. In politics Dr. Dudley has been a Republican since the birth of that party. and has

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neither held nor sought public office. He was married March 20, 1854, to Miss Mary Ann Lougee (deceased). They had five children':

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Bayard, Georgie May (deceased), Frank (de- ceased), Charles, now a student in medicine, and Mary Dudley. Dr. Dudley was married June 11, 1876, to Priscilla Rogers Ellis (deceased), and was married May 9, 1888, to S. Florence Marchant (deceased ).

DURELL, THOMAS MOULTON, M.D., of Somer- ville, is a native of Maine, born in Calais, Oc- tober 2, 1858, son of Rev. George Wells and Jane Berry (Moulton) Durell. He is of the Durell family which came from the island of Jersey in 1678, and settled in Arundel, now Ken-

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nebunkport, Me., where his father was born. His parents moved to Somerville when he was a child; and he was educated in the Somerville public schools, graduating from the High School. He entered the Harvard Medical School at the age of eighteen, and graduated in 1879. Subse- quently he spent six months in further study in Europe, and one year in the Connecticut General Hospital in New Haven. He began general practice in Somerville early in 1881, and in 1882 was appointed city physician, which office he held until 1889. Meanwhile, in 1887 he was ap- pointed by Governor Robinson medical examiner for the Second District, Middlesex County, and

was reappointed in 1893 by Governor Russell. He is now also professor of legal medicine in the Medical School of Tufts College, one of the visit- ing surgeons to the Somerville Hospital, member and chairman of the Somerville Board of Health. From 1884 to 1888 he was surgeon of the First Battalion of Cavalry, Massachusetts Militia. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety and of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society. Dr. Durell is prominent in the Masonic order, being a member of the John Abbot Lodge (past master) ; of Somerville Royal Arch Chapter, the Orient Council Royal and Select Masters, the Cœur de Lion Commandery, Knights Templar ; and a past district deputy grand master of the Sixth Masonic District ; and he is a member of the Oasis Lodge of Odd Fellows. His club affil- iations are with the Central Club of Somerville, and the University Club of Boston. He is in- terested in city affairs, and has served some time as a member of the Somerville School Board. He was married June 3, 1886, to Miss Alma L. Brintnall. Their children are : Thomas and Ralph Brintnall Durell.

EDWARDS, FRANKLIN WALLACE, M.D., of Southbridge, is a native of West Virginia, born in Wheeling. December 31, 1855, son of Dr. Ed- ward William Edwards and Catherine Rosalba (Diffenderffer) Edwards. He is of Welsh descent on the paternal side, and originally German, but Baltimorean for two centuries, on the maternal side. The Diffenderffer family is very old, and is well known to this day in Baltimore; and there have been a number of leading physicians of that name. Dr. Edwards was educated in private schools, which he attended until he reached the age of seventeen, and at Hellmuth College, Lon- don, Ontario. He did not graduate from college, having two weeks prior to graduation left with twenty other American boys, owing to strife on national grounds. His training for his profession was mostly under the supervision of his father, who was engaged in active practice in Chicago from 1860 to 1889; and, having always intended to become a physician, he entered into it with pleasurable zeal. He graduated from Rush Medi- cal College February 15, 1876, and began prac- tice the following year, after experience in Cook County Hospital, in partnership with his father. He remained in Chicago in active practice for

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about ten years, and then was obliged to leave the city on account of the illness of his wife. After travelling in the South and South-east for some months, he settled early in 1888 at Wilmot Flat, N.H., and there resumed practice. In 1890 he removed to Meriden, N.H., and from there, two years later, removed to Southbridge, his pres- ent location. While practising in Meriden, he changed from allopathy to homeopathy, which he has since followed. He has been town physician for three years, and is now examining physician in Southbridge for a number of insurance companies, among them the New England Mutual Accident

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Association, the Mutual Life Association of Mas- sachusetts, the New York Life, and the New England Life. He devotes much time to surgery, and has performed most of the difficult operations successfully ; and he is trying to keep as near to a surgical practice as possible. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the Mas- sachusetts Homeopathic Society, and the Worces- ter County Homeopathic Society. He is an active member of the Southbridge Lodge of Free- masons, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the latter also examining surgeon. In politics he has always been Democratic, but not prejudiced or an active partisan. He has served on the

School Board of Southbridge. In religious faith he is a Baptist, and he is on all of the local Bap- tist church committees. Dr. Edwards was mar- ried January 18, 1882, to Miss Helen Mary Kingsland, daughter of A. W. Kingsland, of Chicago. They have no children.

EMERY, FRANCIS FAULKNER, of Boston, mer- chant and manufacturer, was born in Roxbury (now of Boston), March 26, 1830, son of Francis Welch Roberts and Sophronia (Faulkner) Emery. He is of sterling English ancestry, and on both sides descended from early comers to New Eng- land. On the paternal side he is in the eighth generation from John Emery, born in Romsey, in Hampshire (Hants), England, in 1598, who came over in the ship "James," arriving at Charles- town in 1635, and settled with his wife and two children at Newbury, where he became a man of importance, and died in 1683. Mr. Emery is in the direct line from John Emery's son Jonathan by his second wife. Jonathan was engaged in King Philip's War, and was wounded in the Nar- ragansett fight in December, 1675. Joshua, grandfather of Mr. Emery, born in 1774 at At- kinson, N.H., but for the larger part of his life living in Newburyport, was a house-builder and contractor, and subsequently steward of the An- dover Theological Seminary for nineteen years. Francis W. R., Mr. Emery's father, was the sec- ond of six sons of Joshua, born in Newburyport. came to Boston in 1824, where he was appren- ticed to a builder and contractor, was engaged in rubber manufacture in Roxbury from 1832 to 1836, when the financial crash of that period swept away his means, then for a few years was on a farm in Bedford, and, returning to Boston in 1843. became a builder and contractor, soon taking a leading position in the trade, building Music Hall and numerous other public structures, large stores, and blocks of dwellings. He died in Glas- gow, Scotland, in 1860. On the maternal side Mr. Emery is a descendant in the seventh genera- tion from Edmond Faulkner, whose name is ninth in the list of first settlers of Andover in 1634, and in the eighth generation from Ezekiel Rich- ardson, settled in Charlestown in 1630, one of the first board of selectmen, a deputy in the Gen- eral Court, and one of those who founded the First Church in Boston. Mr. Emery was edu- cated at Phillips (Andover) Academy and at the

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Boston English High School, from which he grad- uated in 1848. That year, at the age of eighteen, he began his business career, entering the hide and leather house of James P. Thorndike in Bos- ton as a clerk. In September of the following year, 1849, he sailed for San Francisco, Cal., as supercargo on the ship "Carthage," carrying out a cargo of materials for house-building there. He remained in San Francisco for nearly two years, superintending the erection of forty houses, from which enterprise, in which he had a third interest, he realized the sum of seventeen thousand dol- lars. Returning to Boston in 1851, in the spring

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of 1852 he entered the employ of Frederick Jones, a boot and shoe manufacturer of Athol, whose business was at that time one of the largest in New England, with factory in Athol and store in Boston ; and in the following year became a partner with Mr. Jones, under the firm name of Frederick Jones & Co., which relation continued for nearly thirty years. The firm was the first in New England to manufacture boots and shoes entirely by machinery. It was also among the earliest to make army shoes, in anticipation of the Civil War; and throughout the war great quan- tities of these shoes were produced at its fac- tories, which not infrequently were run night and

day to meet large orders at short notice. From 1882, the firm of Frederick Jones & Co. being then dissolved, Mr. Emery continued the busi- ness alone until 1891, when it was discon- tinued ; and he retired. During his active career Mr. Emery was prominent and influential in many movements for the benefit of the boot and shoe industry. He was one of the projectors and al- ways an active supporter of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, a pioneer trade organization ; and an early member and one of the presidents of the Boot and Shoe Club. In early life he was identified with the Boston Board of Trade, at one time a vice-president of that or- ganization, and was prominent in its work. He was among the first in New England to join ener- getically, after the close of the war, in the move- ment for the repeal of the internal revenue tax upon manufactured goods ; was a leader in the reform resulting in the removal of the import duty on hides ; and was foremost in the contest against unjust discrimination in freight rates from Bos- ton to the West, setting in motion forces to which, it has been said, the equitable condition of freight rates to-day is in great measure due. Mr. Emery has always taken an active part in politics, but has never suffered his name to be nominated for a political office. Upon his return from Califor- nia, in 1851, he was instrumental in the organiza- tion of a committee composed of representatives of churches of different denominations in Boston, dissatisfied with the condition of local politics, who nominated Jacob Sleeper as a third candi- date for mayor, the result of which was a division of the parties and three elections before a choice was made in the Whig candidate, J. V. C. Smith. The organization was continued for about a year, and out of it grew the Boston Young Men's Chris- tian Association and the Young Men's Christian Union, the latter resulting from a split in the committee. In the presidential campaign of 1860 Mr. Emery supported the Bell and Everett ticket, but he has since been a steadfast Repub- lican. He was one of the early members and active supporters of the Massachusetts Rifle Club, a semi-military organization formed at the out- break of the Civil War, which sent to the war as officers two hundred and fifty-six thoroughly drilled men, and which for a week served as a military force to protect Boston at the time of the so-called Draft Riot. He has been a member of the Commercial Club for a long period ; is also a

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member of the Art and Algonquin clubs, and is identified with the order of Freemasons, belong- ing to the Lodge of Eleusis, St. Paul's Chapter, and the St. Bernard Commandery. He was mar- ried September 18, 1855, to Miss Caroline Sweet- ser Jones, daughter of Frederick Jones, his early partner. They have had four children : Maria S., Francis F., Jr., Edward Stanley, and Frederick Jones Emery. Mrs. Emery died in 1890.

ENNEKING, JOHN JOSEPH, of Boston, artist, is a native of Ohio, born in Minster, Auglaize County, October 4, 1841, son of Joseph J. and Mary M. (Bramlage) Enneking. He is of Ger- man descent. He was educated in the local schools, and at Mount St. Mary's College, in Cin- cinnati, and while a school-boy displayed his de- cided talent for drawing in picture-making on his slate and in charcoal work at home. This ten- dency was not welcomed by his father, who hoped to make a man of business of him; but he had the sympathy of his mother, who had artistic tastes and was herself something of an artist. At St. Mary's, in addition to the regular studies, he devoted several hours each week to drawing and music lessons, and was fortunate in receiving en- couragement and helpful advice in the pursuit of these branches from the principal, President Rosecrans, a brother of General Rosecrans. The outbreak of the Civil War cut short his collegiate work ; and, joining the army, he served the cause in various capacities. Being severely wounded in Western Virginia, he was confined to hospital and sick-room for several months. When con- valescent, he visited an exhibition of oil paintings in Cincinnati, which impressed him with a strong desire to become a professional artist. Accord- ingly, he came East, and began his studies and practice in New York. Shortly after he removed to Boston, and there engaged in drawing on stone under Professor Richardson. He was soon, how- ever, compelled to abandon this work on account of trouble with his eyes. Then he entered a mer- cantile enterprise ; but for business he had neither training nor fancy, and, when this proved profit- less, he returned to art and took up his palette. His efforts were mainly directed to pastels and oil painting, in which he did good work. In 1873 he went abroad for study and observation in the foreign art centres. Ile first travelled through England, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria,

Italy, and France; then spent six months in Munich, studying landscape and figure drawing ; and, after a three months' sketching tour in Ven- ice, settled down in Paris, entering Bonnat's studio. He remained there three winters, study- ing the figure and landscape painting under Dau- bigny, meanwhile spending much time in the galleries, studying the masters. Returning to America in 1876, he opened a studio in Boston, and took up his residence in Hyde Park, which has since been his home. In the spring of 1878 he made his first important exhibition on a large scale, showing a hundred canvases, which estab-

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lished his reputation. The entire collection was sold at auction, bringing five thousand dollars, the highest price being received for a cattle piece. The following summer he again went abroad ; and, after visiting the Paris Exposition, spent three months in Holland, studying the Dutch mas- ters in its famous galleries. Since ISSo he has been regularly represented in all the important ex- hibitions of the art seasons in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia : and he has received several gold and silver medal awards. His works are in many of the best collections in the country. Mr. Enneking was chairman of the art advisory com- mittee of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in

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1893 and of the art jury of New England. He has been prominently connected with movements for the preservation of beautiful places, and is now chairman of the Park Commission of Hyde Park. He is a member of the Boston Art and the Paint and Clay clubs. He was married in 1864 to Miss Mary E. Elliott, of Corinna, Me. They have five children : John Joseph, Florence May, Mary Emily, Gracie Clara, and Joseph Elliott Enneking.

ESTES, ABRAM STORY NEWELL, civil and hydraulic engineer, was born in Fall River, April

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25, 1867, son of Thomas G. and Josephine E. (Newell) Estes. He is of ancient lineage, the line of ancestry being traced back to the early house of Este, town of Este, province of Padua, Italy. He was educated in the public schools of Fall River and at the Friends' Boarding School of Providence, R.I. Then he took a special scientific course at Brown University, finishing in 1889. He had, however, become acquainted with scientific studies at a much earlier period, having in his youth been tutored in various scientific directions by his father, who was a man of decidedly scientific attainments. He had also studied with a class, composed mostly of civil and

mechanical engineers, the higher branches of geometry, trigonometry, and electricity. After spending some time in the employ of various firms, he began professional work on his own ac- count in 1890, and since that time has had a varied experience in almost every line of his pro- fession. Being established as he is in the Sears Building, in the very heart of the business section of Boston, he is in a position to attend promptly to any line of his business within a radius of one hundred miles from the city, and has extended his operations into all the New England States. Having always held in view the maxim that, " if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well," he has worked into a line of business which requires great accuracy. He has computed and adopted a table of expansion and contraction for a correction of steel tapes for changes in temperature which has proved to be of much value in his work. He is constantly on the lookout for new methods which may be of advantage over the old ones, and is quick to investigate all that appear, to ascertain their true value. Mr. Estes is a member of the Boston Society for Civil Engineers. He resides in Newton.

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Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 100

Author: Herndon, Richard; Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916 Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Boston : New England Magazine Number of Pages: 1036

Author: Herndon, Richard; Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Boston : New England Magazine
Number of Pages: 1036