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TILTON, JOSIAH ODIN, M.D., of Lexington, is a native of Maine, born in Limerick, July 29, 1853, son of Jeremiah D. and Abigail S. (Freeze) Tilton. He is descended from the Tiltons early settlers in Kensington, N.H. His paternal grand- parents kept tavern in Deerfield, N.H., for a num- ber of years ; and his father was a Baptist clergy-
man. He obtained his early education in the dis- trict schools, and fitted for Dartmouth College at the Milford (N.H.) High School. But he took his collegiate course at Colby, where he graduated in 1875 with the degree of A. B., four years later re- ceiving the degree of A.M. After his graduation he taught for two years in institutions in New Jersey, and three years in the High School at Peterborough, N.H., meanwhile studying medi- cine with a preceptor at Jaffrey, N.II. Subse- quently he took the regular medical course at the University of the City of New York, and gradu- ated M.D. in March, 1882. During the re- mainder of that year and until September of the next year he practised with Dr. E. H. Stevens, of Cambridge. Then, establishing himself in Lex- ington, he opened his own office, and became at once engaged in active practice there. He also took an active interest in Lexington town matters, and has served on various committees for drain- age and water supply and some time on the School Committee. He is a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society, one of the exec- utive committee of the Old Belfry Club of Lex-
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ington, a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, a Freemason, and a member of the An- cient Order of United Workmen, serving the last
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mentioned as examining physician. In politics he is a steadfast Republican. Dr. Tilton was married first, April 30, 1884, to Miss Hattie A. French, daughter of H. K. French. of Peterbor- ough, N.H. She died October 24. 1886, leaving one child : Henry O. Tilton. He married second, October 31, 1894, Miss Florence Gardner Strat- ton, of Concord, N.H.
TOBEY, GEORGE LORING, M.D., of Lancaster. is a native of Maine, born in Machiasport, June 17, 1853, son of Samuel and Nancy B. ( Robin-
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son) Tobey. He was educated in the publie schools and at Washington Academy. East Machias. He began active life when a boy of fifteen as a elerk in the office of his brother, H. N. Tobey. Here he remained for most of the time until 1873. when he went to Boston, and en- tered the employ of Cobb Brothers, Roxbury Dis- triet, grocers. After two years there he engaged in business, on his own account, entering into part- nership with L. E. Quint, under the firm name of Quint & Tobey, grocers. Not long after, decid- ing to take up the study of medicine, he sold out his business, and entered the classical institute, Waterville, Me. He graduated from the Bowdoin
College Medical School in June, 1879, and imme- diately began practice, settled in Shrewsbury, Mass. He remained there a year and a half, and then removed to Lancaster, where he has since been established. He has been a member of the Board of Health of the town since ISS3. and for some time on the staff of the Clinton Hospital. He is one of the censors of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Worcester District, and is a member also of the American Medical Associa- tion, of the Worcester Medical Association, the ('linton Medical Association, and the Massachu- setts Association of Boards of Health. He was a member of the School Board of Lancaster from ISS9 to 1894. His club affiliations are with the Clinton and Lancaster Athletic Association. Dr. Tobey was married July 14, 1880, to Miss Abigail A. Grant, of Machiasport, Me. They have three children : George L .. Jr .. Guy Davis, and Harold Grant Tobey.
TOWER, LEVI LINCOLN, of Boston, merchant. was born in Cummington, Hampshire County, October 15, 1826, son of David and .Alcey (Dean) Tower. He is descended in the eighth generation from John Tower, born in the parish of Hingham. Norfolk. England, who came to New England, and settled in New Hingham in 1637, and in 1638-39 married Margaret Ilbrook in Charlestown, who was also born in England, and came to Hingham with her father. His mother was a daughter of Dr. John Dean, of North Adams. He was educated in the common school, which he attended three months in the year. and at Drewey Academy, North Adams, studying there two terms, meanwhile working at Alpheus Smith's Tavern in North Adams for his board. This was supplemented by excellent home train- ing, and diligent reading of the Pittsfield Sun, published once a week. He remained on the farm with his parents, seven brothers, and one sister. till his twentieth year. Then he took a situation as a teacher in a distriet school at Shel- burne Falls: but, before the term opened. his brother Stephen A., at that time at work in Bos- ton, found a place for him there, and accordingly he procured a substitute, and came to the city. From that time Boston has been his home, and he has been an active Boston business man during the entire period of half a century. Ilc began business with the firm of Cutter. Tower,
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& Co., stationers, of which he is now the only surviving partner, his associates in the firm - James M. Cutter. Stephen .\. Tower (his brother), and Isaac L. Kidder -having all died some years ago. As early as 1849 a branch house was estab- lished in New York, and during the Civil War and some time after the firm also had branch houses in Chicago and in Providence, R.I. The latter, however, were closed out some time ago; but the New York and Boston houses have been steadily maintained since their establishment, the Boston house being the principal one. Mr. Tower's brother, Stephen A., was in charge of the New York house from its opening in 1849 till his death, February 13, 1883: and since that time it has been conducted under the name of the Tower Manufacturing and Novelty Company, of which Mr. Tower is the president. This company was organized under the laws of New York, and is managed by D. A. Tower, son of Mr. Tower's brother, David Tower, who was taken into the New York house direct from his father's farm, when a lad of fifteen, in about the year 18Go, and there received his business train-
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ing under the direction of his uncles, Stephen A. and 1 .. L. Tower. Upon the death of S. A. Tower he was made treasurer and manager, his present
position. The Boston house is now conducted under the name of the Cutter-Tower Company, the old firm having been incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in 1878, with L. L. Tower as president, which office he has held ever since. This house has charge of the manufacturing of the patented goods and specialties of the two companies, which they own and control, some of which are known and used all over the world, notably the rubber head pencil, patented by Mr. Tower in 1852; the barometer inkstand, sold largely during the Civil War, and adopted by the government in its principal offices : the bank pen- holder of cork and wood (patented by L. L. Tower, February 21, 1888); Tower's multiplex rubber ; the compressed, rounded, pointed, and polished wood tooth-picks, made after twenty years' experimenting ; and various other popular articles, all of which rank the highest of their class. Mr. Tower has been prominent for many years in the Methodist Episcopal Church, holding numerous positions. From 1862 to 1869 he was superintendent of the Sunday-school of the Har- vard Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Cam- bridge, and also trustee, steward, and class leader of the same society till he moved to Somerville. In the latter place he was superintendent of the Webster Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (now the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Union Square) for about six years, and presi- cent of the board of trustees and steward of the church till his removal in 1892 to Mit. Ida, Newton, his present place of residence. In New- ton he is now connected with the Newton Cor- ner Methodist Episcopal church, in which he also holds the office of steward. The presidency of the board of trustees, which was offered and pressed upon him, he was obliged to decline on account of advancing years and his many business responsibilities. He has been attached to the church since his childhood, when he was of the Sunday-school infant class taught by a sister of the llon. Henry L. Dawes, in the old meeting- house on Meeting-house Ilill in Cummington, near the home of the poet Bryant. Mr. Tower was married September 15, 1852, to Miss Sophronia M. Thayer, daughter of Timothy and Morandy Thayer, of Windsor, a descendant, through her mother, of Peregrine White. They have had seven children : Emma Thayer, Ann Adella, Ada Eliza, George Martin, Lillian Estella, Walter Lin- coln, and Edith Mabel Tower.
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TRAIN. SAMUEL PUTNAM, of Boston, manu- facturer, was born in Boston, May 23, 1848, son of Samuel F. and Frances G. (Glover) Train. He
SAMUEL P. TRAIN.
was educated in the Roxbury schools. finishing at the Roxbury Latin School in 1864. He began business with Grant, Warren, & Co .. paper manu- facturers and importers of paper-makers' supplies, immediately after leaving the Latin School. and has been connected with the house through the various changes of the firm up to the present time; namely. H. M. Clark & Co., Thompson, Twombly, & Co., Twombly & Co .. Train, Hos- ford, & Co., and last (in 1880), as now, Train, Smith, & Co. Colonel Train was a member of the staff of Governor John D. Long for three years as quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel. He is a member of the Union, the Eastern Yacht, the Country, and the Athletic clubs. In politics he has always been a Repub- lican. Mr. Train is unmarried.
TURNER, ROSS STERLING, of Boston and Salem, artist, was born in New York, at Westport, Essex County, June 29. 1847. son of David and Eliza J. (Cameron) Turner. On the paternal side he is of English descent, his ancestors in
America coming from Hull, England. and on the maternal side of Scotch. The family settled in Canada. His grandfather on his mother's side bore the good Scotch name of Duncan Cameron, and his grandmother was Jane Conroy, of St. John's. He was educated in public and private schools ; and his training for active life was in the printing-office, his father being a publisher and job printer. In 1868, when he had attained his majority. he began the study of mechanical draughting, and for several years after practised it in Washington, D.C., where he was for a time one of the head draughtsmen in the United States Patent Office. In 1876 he resigned this position. and went to Europe to study painting, having de- termined to follow the painter's life. He remained abroad seven years, studying and painting in Munich, Venice, Florence. and Rome, and upon his return in 1882 settled in Boston, and opened a studio in West Street. Three years later, upon his marriage, he made his home in Salem, where he has since resided. He has, however, continued his main studio in Boston, being now established in the Grundmann Studio Building, Back Bay.
ROSS TURNER.
During the winter months he teaches in his Bos- ton studio, and he is also an instructor in water colors in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
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nology. Mr. Turner's paintings cover a consider- able range of subjects, - marine, landscape, archi- tectural, and ideal work, the latter embracing some important studies in ancient marine archi- tecture, almost all of these in water colors, although he uses oils as well. A large marine moonlight done in oils was at the Chicago Expo- sition. At present Mr. Turner is engaged upon some large water-color marine subjects, embracing the picturesque era of ship-building from 1492 to 1700, a field as yet little explored and painted. In the municipal election of December, 1894, he was elected a member of the Board of Al- dermen of Salem. He is a member of the Bos- ton Art Club, the Salem Club, the Manchester Yacht Club, and one of the board of government of the Art Club and of the Boston Art Students' Association. He was married May 28. 1884, to Miss Emma Louise Blaney, of Boston. They have three children: Sterling (born in Salem, August 3, 1885), Cameron (born in Salem, Febru- ary 22, 1893), and Ruth Turner (born in Salem, November 10, 1894).
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UNDERWOOD, WILLIAM ORISON, of Lynn, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Newton, May 5, 1861, son of General Adin B. Underwood
and Jane Lydia (Walker) Underwood. He is a direct descendant of Joseph Underwood, who came to llingham in 1637. His grandfather, General Orison Underwood, was appointed briga- dier-general of Massachusetts militia by Gover- nor John Davis in 1841. His father, General A. B. Underwood, distinguished through his nota- ble service in the Civil War, practised law before going to the war, first as a partner of Henry P. Staples, afterward Judge Staples, and then in partnership with the late Charles R. Train. Mr. Underwood was educated in the Newton public schools, fitting for college in the High School, and at Harvard, where he was graduated in the class of 1884. He prepared for his profession at the Harvard Law School, and later at the Boston University Law School, reading also as a student in the law office of Hyde, Dickinson, & Howe. He was admitted to the bar in July, 1886, and began practice the following autumn in partner- ship with his father, under the firm name of Underwood & Underwood. Upon the death of his father in January, 1888, he gave up his office, and associated himself with Benjamin N. John- son, subsequently forming the firm of Johnson & Underwood. This partnership continued in- changed till the autumn of 1894 when Robert P. Clapp was admitted, and the name changed to Johnson, Clapp, & Underwood. Mr. Underwood has always conducted a general practice, doing more or less court work. He has been connected with a number of cases of more than ordinary in- terest, notably several concerning shore rights and early beach titles. He is a member of the Union and Exchange clubs, Boston, of the Loyal Legion, and of the Oxford Club of Lynn, where he resides. Mr. Underwood was married December 18, 1886, to Miss Bessie V. Shoemaker, of Phila- delphia.
WATERMAN, FRANK STURTEVANT, of Boston, undertaker, was born in Roxbury, September IS, 1862, son of Joseph Samson and Sarah Patten ( Huse) Waterman. ( For ancestry, see Waterman, George Huse.) He was educated in the public schools, graduating from the Washington Gram- mar School and at Bryant & Stratton's Commer- cial College. He entered his father's business immediately upon leaving school, and has steadily been engaged in this business since, having been admitted to partnership in 1879, when the firm was composed of his father and brother George
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11. After his father's death in 1893 the business was continued by the brothers without change of firm name. Mr. Waterman was a member of the
FRANK S. WATERMAN.
Massachusetts militia from 1883 to 1889, serving in Company D, First Regiment, Roxbury City Guard. During this period he acted as clerk and treasurer of the company, and was also sergeant at the time of the expiration of his service. He be- longs to the various Masonic societies, including the Knights Templar, and is a thirty-second de- gree Mason. He is also an Odd Fellow, a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias. the Royal Arcanum, and the Ancient Order of United Work- men. member of the Dudley Association (of which he was vice-president in 1895), member of the Undertakers' Associations of New England and Massachusetts, and of the Roxbury Club. In politics he is a Republican. He was married September 10, 1888, to Miss Hattie S. Torrey. They have two children : Frank S., Jr., and Lucy Waterman. The daughter was named for her great-grandmother, who lived to be one hundred and two years old, and died the year the former was born.
WATERMAN. GEORGE HUSE, of Boston, un- dertaker, was born in Roxbury, June 27. 1855,
son of Joseph Samson and Sarah Patten (Huse) Waterman. He is a descendant from old New England families settling in this country in 1629. His great-great-grandfather, Dependence Sturte- vant Waterman, was an officer in the Revolution- ary War, and served at the battle of Bunker Hill. Ilis grandmother, Lucy Waterman, died at Hali- fax. Mass .. November 15, 1891, aged one hundred and one years and seven months. lle was edu- cated in the Roxbury public schools, graduating from the Washington Grammar School in 1870, and spending one year in the High School. After leaving school, he went to work for his father, who established the business, still carried on, in 1859. and in 1876 became a member of the firm of Joseph S. Waterman & Son. In 1879 his brother Frank was admitted, and the firm name was changed to Joseph S. Waterman & Sons. Since the death of the father, February 2, 1893, the two brothers have continued the business under the old firm name. They now do the largest un- dertaking business in New England, and own by far the most extensive retail plant. Mr. Water- man was president of the Massachusetts Under-
GEORGE H. WATERMAN.
takers' Association in I891 and 1892, and remains a leading member of that organization. He is prominent in the Masonic order and a Knight Tem-
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plar, having reached the thirty-second degree, and in the order of Odd Fellows; and belongs also to the Knights of Honor, the Royal Areanum, the United Workmen, and the Red Men. He has served in the State militia, as member of Company D, First Regiment, from 1876 to 1879, and subse- quently as a member of the National Lancers. His club affiliations are with the Boston Athletic, the Roxbury, and the Dorchester clubs. In poli- ties he is a Republican. He was married April 2, 1884, to Miss Pamelia A. Cutter. They have four children : Joseph Samson, Charles Cutter, Alice Antoinette, and George H. Waterman, Jr.
WATERMAN, THOMAS, M.D., of Boston, was born in Boston, December 17, 1842, son of Thomas and Joanna (Towle) Waterman. He is in the eighth generation from Robert Waterman, one of two brothers (Robert and Thomas) who emigrated from England to this country in 1636. The former settled in Roxbury. One of the de- seendants of Robert was one of the thirty original founders of Norwich, Conn. His great-grand- father, Silas Waterman, with others, went up the Connecticut River, and founded the town of Lebanon, N.H., in 1761. His grandfather, Colonel Thomas Waterman, was an influential man in his section. His father, Thomas Water- man, born in Lebanon, N.H., in September, 1791, died in Boston, February 27, 1875, came to Bos- ton in 1817, was in mercantile business, and later a bank official for many years, and was prominent in the Masonic order as an efficient secretary of several organizations for nearly fifty years. Dr. Waterman received his early education in the Brimmer Grammar School, and prepared for college at the Boston Latin School. He gradu- ated at Harvard College in 1864, and received the degree of A.M. in 1868. He studied medieine under Professor Jeffries Wyman at Cambridge, and took four courses of lectures at the Harvard Medical School, graduating as M.D. in 1868. While in the medical school, he held the office of vice-president of the Boylston Medical Society during the year 1867-68. He spent the summer of 1864, after his graduation from the college, in Virginia at City Point and at the front as relief agent of the United States Sanitary Commission. For three months during 1866 he was acting house officer at the Boston City Hospital ; and from 1867 to 1868 he was house surgeon in the
Massachusetts General Hospital. He began the regular practice of medicine in Boston, immedi- ately after his graduation from the medical school in 1868, and has since been actively engaged, holding numerous positions in various institutions. In March, 1869, he was appointed to the staff of physicians of the Dearborn Branch of the Boston Dispensary, and held that position until the clos- ing of this branch. In August, 1870, he was ap- pointed surgeon to St. Joseph's Home; in Janu- ary, 1871, physician to the central office of the Boston Dispensary, and in 1874 surgeon to the Boston Dispensary, which position he held for ten years, at the end of that period declining a reap- pointment. In July, ISSI, he was elected examin- ing physician to the Board of Directors of Public Institutions of the City of Boston; and he has since continued in that office, under the Board of Commissioners which succeeded the Board of Di- rectors. His duties as examining physician have included the examination of most of the insane of Suffolk County, and he has served for a number of years as medical expert in such cases before the courts. In 1869 he was made medical examiner of the North-western Life Insurance Company, and later became medical examiner in Boston for the Home Life Insurance Company of New York. At the organization of the Masonic Equitable Accident Association of Boston, in January, 1892, he was elected medical director, and has continued in that office to the present time. He is also medical director of the Boston Masonic Mutual Benefit Association and of the North-western Masonic Aid Association of Chicago. He was in- struetor in comparative anatomy and physiology in Harvard University for the academic year of 1873-74, and assistant in anatomy in the Harvard Medical School for three years, from 1879. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society (elected a councillor in May, 1881), of the Suffolk District Medical Society (elected one of the censors in 1874), of the Boston Society of Medical Sciences (one of the original members), and of the Boston Society for Medical Improve- ment. He has been a member of the committee on mammals of the Boston Society of Natural History since 1870, having previously served for a short time as curator of mammals and compara- tive anatomy, which office was subsequently abolished. Dr. Waterman has held high place in the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in 1864, and ranks with its most prominent members. He
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is especially noted as a correct ritualist and a powerful actor in the more dramatic Masonic grades. After holding the various subordinate positions, he has served as worshipful master of Zetland Lodge, high priest of St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter, most excellent grand high priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Massachusetts, grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts, and commander-in-chief of Massa- chusetts Consistory, thirty-second degree, and a sovereign grand inspector-general of the thirty- third and last degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, being so crowned at Cincinnati,
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Ohio, in 1883. He was an original member of Meppo Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (chartered June 6, 1883, an order limited in membership to Knights Templar and thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Masons), and, after serving as second officer, was elected to the office of potentate in December, 1890. He held this office for three years, during which time the membership doubled, from twelve hundred to twenty-four hundred, the largest temple in the United States. While potentate, he was presented by the members with the most elegant emblematic jewel ever given, --- a crescent suspended from a scimitar, and encrusted with
more than two hundred diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. He has also been the recipient of emblematic jewels from the lodge, chapter, grand chapter, and consistory on retiring from the prin- cipal office in the various orders. He is one of the four representatives of Aleppo Temple to the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Dr. Waterman was also one of the founders of the Home Circle, and is the supreme medical examiner of this order. He has published occasional articles on medical subjects in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, and is the author of Masonic addresses to the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Massachusetts in 1879, 1880, and 1881. Of late years he has been in- terested in the investigation of pseudo-Spiritual- ism, and has a reputation among his friends as an amateur conjurer of much skill. In politics Dr. Waterman is a Republican, and first voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1864. He has always voted every year since, but has never aspired to political office. He was married December 4, 1872, to Miss Harriet Henchman Howard, daughter of Edward Howard (of the E. Howard Watch & Clock Company, and inventor of the American system of watch-making). They have two daugh- ters : Lilian (married to William B. Jackson, December 12, 1893) and Marion Waterman.
WENTWORTH, GEORGE LITTLEFIELD, of Bos- ton and Weymouth, member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Maine, born in Ellsworth, May 24. 1852, son of Stacy Hall and Rebecca Littlefield (Getchell) Wentworth. He is seventh in genera- tion from Elder William Wentworth, who emi- grated from England to America between 1636 and 1638, landing in Boston. Elder William was a close friend of the Rev. John Wheelwright, and connected with him by marriage, and a second cousin to Anne Hutchinson, both of whom were banished from Massachusetts in November, 1637. He accompanied John Wheelwright to Exeter, N.H., and was one of the thirty-five signers (Wheelwright being the first) who entered into a combination for government at Exeter, July 4, 1639. This original and interesting document is still preserved at Exeter. The descendants of Elder William were closely identified with the history of New Hampshire. His grandson John was justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 1713 to 1718, and was appointed lieutenant gov-
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