Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 114

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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ALBERT C. BURRAGE.

Citizens' Association of Boston. He is a mem- ber of the Union Club, the Roxbury Club, and of the Massachusetts Club, in which he was sec-

retary for three years. He was married Novem- ber ro, 1885, to Miss Alice Hathaway Haskell, daughter of Francis H. and Elizabeth (Russell) Haskell. Their children are: Albert C., Jr .. Francis H. Russell, and Elizabeth Alice Burrage.

A. P. CALDER.

CALDER, Accesres PEABODY. of Boston, forist, was born in Roxbury (now of Boston ), where he has always resided. April 30, 1837. son of Nathaniel Harris and Ethelinda Tristam (Clark) Calder. He is of Scotch descent. He was reared on a good farm on Warren Street, and obtained his education at the old Roxbury public schools, graduating from the Roxbury Eng- lish High School in the class of 1855. His inter- est in floriculture began as a youth. when his father gave him and his brother a piece of land to work for their own profit. Later on an Englishman giving him some violet plants, he began the culti- vation of that plant, and shortly after slightly ex- tended his work, in course of time finding himself seriously engaged as a florist. For many years he has been among the foremost of his calling in the city. He is a life member of the Massachu- setts Horticultural Society. and a past president of the Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club, hold- ing that position in 1890 at the time of the meet-

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ing in Boston of the National Society of American Florists. He has been connected with military affairs continuously since 1861, the first year of the Civil War, when he enlisted on the second day of August. He is a past commander of the Roxbury Horse Guards, Troop D, First Battalion Cavalry Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, member of the Old Guard, and past president of the Horse Guards' Veteran Club. Mr. Calder is also promi- nent in fraternal organizations, being a thirty- second degree Mason, member of the Washington Lodge, Mt. Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Joseph Warren Commandery, Roxbury Council, and a foremost member of the Improved Order of Red Men, a past great sachem of the Great Council of Massachusetts, a great representative of the United States Great Council, and member of the past sachems' association of Massachusetts. In politics he is a Republican, taking an active interest in party affairs. He was a charter mem- ber of the Boston Marketmen's Republican Club, and held the office of vice-president in 1889- 90-91. Mr. Calder was married December 27, 1870, to Miss Etta Augusta Upton, of Boston. They have six children : Lillian Anna, Etta Mande, Augustus Peabody, Edith May, Nathaniel Harris, and Alice Ethelinda Calder.

CANDAGE, RUFUS GEORGE FREDERICK, of Brookline and Boston, marine surveyor, was born in Blue Hill, Maine, July 28, 1826, son of Samuel Roundy and Phoebe Ware (Parker) Candage. His great-grandfather, James Candage, went from Massachusetts to Blue Hill and settled there with his family in 1766, the town having been settled by Joseph Wood and John Roundy from Beverly. in 1762, but three years before. His grandfather, James Candage, Jr., born in Massachusetts May 9, 1753, went to Blue Hill with his father's fam- ily, and there in 1775 married Hannah Roundy, daughter of John Roundy, the first settler. She died March 12, 1851, in her ninety-eighth year. From James and Hannah sprang Samuel Roundy Candage, born January 15, 1781, died December 23. 1852, the father of the subject of this sketch. The family name is an old and honored one in England, and has been spelled Cavendish, Can- dish, and Candage, custom in this country settling upon the latter. Mr. Candage's early education was obtained in the public schools of his native town and at the Blue Hill Academy. He passed

his boyhood upon his father's farm and in the saw-mill near by, in attendance at the district school and at the academy, with occasionally a trip in a coaster or fishing vessel. At eighteen years of age he gained the consent of his parents to take up a sea life ; and, with a light heart and a determination to master the business and reach the highest point attainable in it, his sea-faring life began. His early experience was coasting : then followed voyages to Southern ports, the West Indies, Mediterranean, and Europe. He was a strong, hardy youth, in love with his calling as a sailor, and, becoming proficient as a seaman,

R. G. F. CANDAGE.

soon passed from the forecastle to the quarter- deck. In 1850 he became master of the brig " Equator," and made the voyage in her from Boston to Valparaiso, Chili. Later he com- manded the ships " Jamestown " of New York, the " Electric Spark " and the " National Eagle " of Boston, on voyages to the principal ports of Europe, Asia, Australia, and America. He has doubled Cape Horn thirteen times, and in all has sailed over more than five hundred thousand miles of salt water. Captain Candage gave up his sea life in 1867. and became a resident of Brookline with an office in Boston. In January, 1868, he was appointed marine surveyor by the American

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Ship Masters' Association of New York, for the Record of American and Foreign Shipping ; and the same year he was made marine surveyor for the Boston Board of Underwriters. In 1882 he was appointed surveyor for Bureau Veritas of Paris, France. For twenty years or more he had an office in the old Merchants' Exchange Building. He had an extensive acquaintance with men in insurance and shipping cireles, - equalled by few. When the Shipmasters' Association of New York was formed in 1861, Captain C'andage was elected its thirteenth member ; and in 1867 he was elected a member of the Boston Marine Society. Of the latter he has been secretary one year, vice-presi- dent two years, president two years, and a mem- ber of the Board of Trustees for a dozen years or more. He is also a member of the New York Marine Society ; a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; of the Bostonian Society ; Sons of the Revolution ; Bunker Hill Monument Association : the Assessors' Associa- tion of Massachusetts (vice-president) ; the Pine Tree State Club (an ex-president), Brookline Thursday Club, Norfolk Club, Massachusetts Re- publican Club, Massachusetts Library Club ; the Baptist Social Union ; the Masonie order,-mem- ber of the Beth-horon Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, Brookline; the Royal Areanum, and other organizations. In Brookline he has served as a member of the School Committee five years, three as chairman ; has been a trustee of the Pub- lic Library from 1871 ; was a selectman from 1880 to 1883 ; and has been a member of the Board of Assessors since 1883, chairman of the board the past five years. In 1882-83 he was representa- tive of the town in the General Court, serving in that body on the committees on harbors and pub- lic lands and on rules. He has been president of the Boston Fire Brick and Clay Retort Manu- facturing Company since 1873. His nautical training made him a prompt, self-reliant, and sturdy man ; and his many years of travel and ex- tensive reading made him a well-informed man. He has contributed many articles to the press on various subjects ; and his historical writings have won for him honorary membership in the Maine Historical Society and in the Dedham Historical Society. Captain Candage was first married in Boston on May 1, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth Au- gusta Corey, daughter of Elijah Corey. Jr., of Brookline. She died in 1871. His second mar- riage occurred May 23, 1873, with Miss Ella

Maria White, of Revere, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah K. ( Hall) White. By the latter mar- riage there were five children : George Frederick, Ella Augusta, Phoebe Theresa, Robert Brooks, and Sarah Caroline Candage.

CALLENDER, HENRY BELCHER, of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Dorchester (now of Boston), January 17, 1864, son of Henry and Adeline ( Jones) Callender. He was educated in the public schools of Boston, graduating from the Harris School in 1878, and at the Roxbury

HENRY B. CALLENDER.

Latin School, where he was graduated in 1883. His law studies were pursued in the Boston Uni- versity Law School, where he spent one year, and in the office of Lewis S. Dabney ; and he was ad- mitted to the bar in February. 1887. He has since been actively engaged in general practice in Boston. He is interested in politics as a Repub- lican, and was an active member of the Republican ward and city committee in 1891-92-93. His club affiliations are with the Massachusetts Vacht Club. Mr. Callender is unmarried.

CARMICHAEL, HENRY, of Boston, analyti- cal and consulting chemist, is a native of New

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York, born in Brooklyn, March 5. 1846, son of Daniel and Eliza (Otis) Carmichael. On the paternal side he is of Scotch descent, and on the maternal side of English. His mother came of New England stock,-a branch of the Otis family which has been famous in the annals of Massachusetts for inventive talent and patriot- ism. His father, an eminent inventor and rail- road builder, died when the subject of this sketch was only three years old. He received his early education in the old academy of Amherst, Mass .. and prepared for college in the High School of the same place. He graduated at Amherst College

HENRY CARMICHAEL.

in 1867. After graduation he studied chemistry, mineralogy, and geology for four years at the Uni- versity of Göttingen, Germany, where he received the highest rank and the degree of doctor of phi- losophy. He returned from Germany in 1872 to accept a chair of chemistry in lowa College, Grin- nell, la., and a year later was called to Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me .. where for fourteen years he taught chemistry and allied sciences. During this period he taught chemistry also in the Maine Medical School, and was assayer for the State of Maine. While at Bowdoin Dr. Carmichael intro- duced the laboratory methods of instruction as practised in European universities. In addition

to his educational and scientific work he became known, while in Brunswick, for practical inven- tions relating to the manufacture of fibre ware. " Indurated fibre," discovered by him, is manu- factured in the form of pails, tubs, etc., on a most extensive scale. In 1886 Professor Carmichael opened an office in Boston, where he has since practised his profession as an analytical chemist and chemical engineer. Among his more recent inventions are a method and apparatus for elec- trically converting common salt into caustic soda and bleaching powder, or chlorine. So compli- cated and expensive have been the means hitherto employed for producing these heavy chemicals that their manufacture has been confined almost exclusively to England. The new process, which has already been tested on a commercial scale, is likely to revolutionize the industry, and estab- lish it in this country. In politics Dr. Carmichael is an Independent. He is a member of various learned and scientific societies. He was married while connected with Bowdoin College to Miss Annie D. Cole, of Portland, Me., daughter of Charles O. Cole, the well-known artist. His beautiful home is upon a picturesque eminence in Malden near the edge of the Middlesex Fells, from which the fair environs of Boston may be seen as far as the Blue Hills of Milton.

CHENEY, BENJAMIN PIERCE, of Boston, a pioneer in the express business and transcon- tinental railway development, was born in Hills- borough, N.II .. August 12, 1$15 : died in Boston. July 23. 1895. His parents were Jesse and Alice (Steele) Cheney, of early New England ancestry. llis great-grandfather. Deacon Tristram Cheney, was born in Dedham, Mass., was one of the early settlers of Antrim, N.H., having moved from Rindge, N.H., after living some time in Sudbury, Mass .. and previously in Framingham ; and his grandfather, Elias Cheney, served four years in the Revolutionary War, two of the four for Elias's father, and one for his brother. Benjamin P. was educated in the common schools, and at the age of ten, the family being poor, was out of school and at work in his father's blacksmith's shop. Before he was twelve he gravitated toward Francistown, and was there employed in a tavern and store. At sixteen he had purchased his time from his father, and was driving a stage on the line between Nashua and Exeter, N.H., and

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at seventeen was stage-driving between Keene and Nashua, a distance of fifty miles a day, which oc- cupation he followed for six consecutive years. In 1836, at the age of twenty-two, he was sent down to Boston to serve as agent, at No. 11 Elm Street, an old-time stage centre, for the Northern stages routes. In 1842, when he was but twenty- seven, he ventured in the express business, in con- nection with Nathaniel White, of Nashua, and William Walker, establishing Cheney & Co.'s Ex- press, running between Boston and Montreal. Originally, this express ran over the Boston & Lowell Railroad as far as it was then built, to

B. P. CHENEY

Concord. N. H., and thence by a four-horse team to Montpelier, Vt., thence by messengers on the stage to Burlington, and thence by boat to Montreal. A few years later Fisk & Rice's Ex- press from Boston, by way of the Fitchburg Rail- road to Burlington, was established. and in 1852 he bought out its business; and this process of consolidation was continued by his company as other lines arose, until finally he formed the United States and Canada Express Company. covering the Northern New England States with many branches. After being conducted under his name for nearly thirty-seven years, the great busi- ness which he had founded was merged into the

American Express Company, in which he became the largest owner and a director and treasurer. which positions he held until his practical retire- ment from active affairs. Before the consolida- tion of his line with the American Express Com- pany he had become interested in the "Overland Mail" to San Francisco, and in Wells, Fargo, & Co.'s Express, and also in the Vermont Central Railroad : and these interests led to his connec- tion with early transcontinental railroad enter- prises. He was among the pioneers in the North- ern Pacific Railroad ; later embarked largely in the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad; and became also prominently interested in the San Diego Land and Town Company. He was for many years a director of these companies. He was for a long period a director of the Market National Bank of Boston, and of the American Loan & Trust Company from its foundation. Mr. Cheney amassed a large fortune in his enterprises, and attained a foremost place in the business world through his shrewdness and ability. His leading characteristics were great tenacity and positiveness of conviction. It was said of him that " he spoke his mind freely in all matters, and was ever frank and loyal to the enterprises in which he embarked and into which he induced others to enter : in nothing was this more apparent than in his sincerity in standing by the great transcontinental lines in their prosperity and in their declines." In 1886 he presented to his native State a bronze statue of Daniel Webster. designed by Thomas Ball, which now stands in the State House Park in Concord. He belonged to few societies, and the only club of which he was a member was the Boston Art C'lub. Mr. Cheney was married, June 6, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth Stickney Clapp, of Boston. They had five chil- dren : Benjamin P .. Jr., Alice, Charles P., Mary, and Elizabeth Cheney. His town house was on Marlborough Street, Back Bay, Boston, and his country seat at Wellesley, a beautiful estate, ex- tending for about a mile along the banks of the Charles River.

CHENEY. BENJAMIN PIERCE, JR., of Boston, director of railroads and corporations, was born in Boston, April 8, 1866. son of Benjamin Pierce and Elizabeth Stickney (Clapp) Cheney. His grandparents on the paternal side were Jesse and Alice (Steele) Cheney, and on the maternal side Ashal and Elizabeth (Stickney) Clapp. He was

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educated in the Boston grammar and High schools and at Harvard College, graduating in the class of 1890. Upon leaving college, he entered the Mar- ket National Bank of Boston as a clerk, and also became engaged in the office of his father, where he was trained for the conduct of the large inter- ests which ultimately came into his hands. He is now a director of a number of financial, manu- facturing, and railroad companies, the list includ- ing the Market National Bank, the Old Colony Trust Company, the Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company, the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe, Mexican Central, Kansas City, Fort Scott

B. P. CHENEY, Jr.

& Memphis Railroad companies ; the Northern Railroad of New Hampshire; the San Diego Land & Town Company, California ; and the Manchester Mills. Mr. Cheney is a member of the Algonquin, Athletic, and Art clubs of Boston and of the Lawyer and the Players' clubs of New York. Mr. Cheney is unmarried.

CHURCH, WALTER, Of Boston, member of the bar, and editor of the New Century, was born in Lexington, Ky., son of Samuel Sanford Church, . deceased, and Julia Lenoir Church. His father, a clergyman, pastor of the Christian church,

St. Louis, Mo., was a son of Thomas Benjamin Church of Virginia, descended from Captain Ben- jamin Church, of King Philip's War in New Eng- land. His mother is the daughter of Walter Raleigh Lenoir, of North Carolina, son of General William Lenoir, who owned and commanded Fort Defiance in Wilkes County, North Carolina, during the Revolutionary War. Fort Defiance is still the old family homestead. General William Lenoir was descended from the Huguenot captain, John Lenoir, who brought a shipload of refugees from Paris to Charleston, S.C., just after the massacre of St. Bartholomew. Walter Church studied at home under the tuition of his mother (his father being dead) until he was twelve years of age, when he entered the district school in Boone County, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri three years, spent the junior year at Ken- tucky University, and the next year returned to Missouri University, from which he was graduated to the degree of .I.B. at the age of nineteen, and three years later received the degree of A.M. from the same institution. He read law in the office of Judge Thomas A. Russell, St. Louis. In three years he was admitted to the St. Louis bar on ex- amination, and soon after was graduated from the law school of Washington University in St. Louis. While in St. Louis, he wrote occa- sionally for local magazines, religious and daily papers. In 1876 Mr. Church moved to Cincin- nati, Ohio, and organized and was counsel for the commercial agency of Snow, Church, & Co., which has since established branches in all the principal cities of the United States. Leaving this business in charge of his younger brother, Samuel S. Church, he went to Leadville. Col., in ISSo, and became a stockholder and manager of the Terrible Mining Company, which was controlled by Wall Street bankers, who were also the principal owners of the Morning and Evening Star mines in Lead- ville. The Terrible Mining Company owned the well-known Adelaide Mine in Stray Horse Gulch, Leadville, which was the mine referred to in Mary Hallock Foote's story, " The Led Horse Claim," published in the Century in 1883. Mr. Church was also interested in several mining leases in Leadville, including the Catalpa, the Duncan, and the Chrysalite, and numerous other mining claims in Colorado, New Mexico, Old Mexico, and Nevada. Mining business called him to San Francisco, Cal., where he and his family lived during 1884 and 1885. About four months of this time was spent

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at Virginia City, Nev., in litigation concerning the Delaware mine on the Comstock Lode, of which he was a stockholder and manager. In 1886 he returned to Cincinnati, and resumed the practice of law with his brother, Samuel S. Church. In ISSO he came to Boston to live, was admitted to all the courts, and is now engaged in practice. making a specialty of settling estates. For several years he has been the occasional Boston corre- spondent for the Rocky Mountain News of Den- ver, and is known as a frequent contributor to Boston papers, also as author of numerous pub- lished poems and stories. In October, 1894. he was made editor of the New Century, the official monthly publication of the Lyceum League of America, a federation of debating lyceums organ- ized by the Youthi's Companion in 1891 for the promotion of good citizenship among the youth of America. The business management of the league was transferred to Mr. Church and others by the Youth's Companion at the Old South Church, Boston, October 22, 1894. The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president of the league. and was succeeded by the Rev. . A. . \. Berle, of Boston, 4th of July orator for the city of Boston in 1895. The president is now the Hon. James Logan Gordon, who resigned the general secretary- ship of the Boston Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation to devote his whole time to the work of the league. Its general secretary is Orlando J. Hackett, formerly of Auburn, Me. The league consists of about sixteen hundred clubs, scattered through every State in the Union, with a member- ship now of over forty thousand young men and women, and rapidly increasing. Its headquarters are at No. I Beacon Street, Boston. Mr. Gordon, Mr. Hackett, and Mr. Church visit the principal cities and hold public meetings in the interest of the league, and also form State organizations, with a view to holding a national convention in 1896. In furtherance of the Lyceum League work. it is designed to found a Lyceum League College, in which will be taught the duties and privileges of American citizenship, with practical demonstra- tion of the different departments of the civic gov- ernment. It is expected to be a training school for civic officials. It will also include practical training in mechanical arts, leading up from the preparatory to the perfected and remunerative. The aim of the New Century, to which Mr. Church is now devoting most of his time. is to be unpar- tisan, unsectarian, and unsectional in its efforts to

promote intelligent patriotism, good citizenship. and pure government. While devoted primarily to the wants of the Lyceum League, it endeavors to interest all friends of patriotic education for the youth of America. Mr. Church was appointed by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Associa- tion to take general charge of the exhibit of me- chanical work in New England schools at the Centennial Exposition of the association in Boston during October and November, 1895. The design of this exhibit was to give an extensive practical demonstration of mechanical educational work by school pupils, as well as to show the progress of

WALTER CHURCH.

such work from its inception in New England. He was also appointed editor of the Mechanics' Fair News, a paper issued daily, Sundays excepted, during the fair. Mr. Church is a member of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society of Boston, of the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Odd Fellows and Masonic orders, belonging to Beth- esda Lodge at Brighton, Boston, and the Boston Commandery of Knights Templar. He has been engaged in church and Sunday-school work since boyhood. In politics he has always voted the Democratic national ticket : but in local elections he believes it a principle of good citizenship to

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vote for good men, regardless of party. He has never held nor applied for any public office. Mr. Church married Miss Susie Alexine Campbell, daughter of the Rev. Enos Campbell, nephew of the Rev. Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Va., founder and president of Bethany College. They have three children : Lenoir Campbell, Marie Ernest, and Walter Enos Church. They reside in the Brighton District of Boston.

F. E. CLARK.

CLARK, FREDERICK EMERSON, of Lawrence, agent of the Pemberton Mills, was born in Water- town. December 13, 1834, son of William E. and Sybilann ( Bridges) Clark. He is of English an- cestry. His early education was acquired in Marshall S. Rice's School for Boys at Newton C'entre : and he subsequently attended the Law- rence High School, from which he graduated in 1852. After leaving school, he entered the Law- rence Machine Shop to learn the machinist's trade, and from there went into the employ of the Pacific Manufacturing Company, first as assistant to the mechanical director during the construction and starting of the mills, and afterward in the office in charge of the pay-rolls and cost figures. In March, 1858, he was appointed paymaster of the Pemberton Company, and three years later,

in June, 1861, was made agent, which position he has held continuously from that time to the pres- ent. He is now in charge of the Pemberton and Methuen companies. He is president also of the Boston & Lowell Railroad Company. Mr. Clark is a member of the American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers, of the New England Manufacturers' Association, of the Home Market Club and the Textile Club of Boston, and of the Boston Art Club. In politics he has always been a Republi- can. He was married October 20, 1858, to Miss Harriet A. Porter, of Lawrence. Their only child, a daughter, born August 23, 1864, died .April 3. 1883.

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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 114

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