Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 117

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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EDMUND H. GARRETT

edited and illustrated by him have been published by Roberts Brothers, Boston; and he has done much notable work for Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.,

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the Harpers, Cassell & Co., Dodd, Mead, & Co., the Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, and A. C. McClurg & Co .. Chicago. Mr. Garrett is a mem- ber of the Boston Society of Water Color Painters, of the New York Water Color Club, of the Boston Art Club, the Paint and Clay Club, the Caxton Club of Chicago, and the Duodecimos, a society of literary men and book-lovers residing in differ- ent cities. He was married in Boston, October 24, 1877, to Miss Marietta Goldsmith. Their first child died in infancy. Their other children are : Edmund Anthony and Julian Garrett.

RAYMOND R. GILMAN.

GILMAN, RAYMOND RAND, of Boston, mem- ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Shelburne Falls, July 28, 1859. son of Ambrose and Eunice (Wilcox) Gilman. He is of the old Gilman fam- ily, tracing its lineage back to the earliest days of England. The name of one of his ancestors (Moses Gilman) is among the signatures to the Constitution of the United States. He is directly descended from the Gilmans of New Hampshire, known so many years in the government of that State in its earliest days. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his native town ; and he finished at the Shelburne Falls Academy, and with law lectures at the Boston

University. He began his law studies in the office of the Hon. S. T. Field, formerly district attorney of Franklin County, and graduated from the office of the Hon. Frederick D). Ely, now judge of the Municipal Court of Boston, Septem- ber, 1879. He was admitted to the bar Septem- ber 28, ISSo, at Dedham, the youngest man ever admitted in Norfolk County. He began practice in his native town, but early moved to Boston, where he has since been actively engaged. His advance in his profession has been rapid, espe- cially from the opening of his Boston office, his business having steadily increased and his suc- cess with his cases being marked. Mr. Gilman is a prominent Odd Fellow, being past grand and past chief patriarch and member of the Grand Lodge. He has taken an active interest in poli- tics, having been president of the Republican Club of Melrose, where he resides; but he has held no public office. His club affiliations are with the Melrose Social and the Melrose Athletic clubs. He was married June 16, ISS2, to Miss Kate A. Tuttle, of Jefferson, N.H. They have one child : Alice K. Gilman (aged eleven years).

GORDON, REV. ADONIRAM JUDSON, of Boston, pastor of the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, was born in New Hampton, N. H., April 18, 1836; died in Boston, February 1, 1895. He was a son of John Calvin and Sallie (Robinson) Gordon of Scotch ancestry. His great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He received his primary education in the town school, and in 1853 entered the New London (N.H.) Academy, with the distinct purpose of fitting himself for the ministry. Graduating from this school with honor, he entered Brown University, and upon his gradu- ation therefrom, in the class of 18Go, went imme- diately to Newton Theological Seminary, where he took the regular course, finishing in 1863. Before the completion of his studies at the theo- logical school he had become a settled pastor, having accepted the pastorate of the Jamaica Plain Baptist church. He was ordained to the ministry June 29. 1863 ; and his service at Ja- maica Plain covered six years. Receiving then a call to the Clarendon Street Baptist Church, Boston, and most reluctantly accepting it, he began the work in that city to which he devoted the best years of his life. He was installed De- cember 26, 1869, the day of the death of his dis-

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tinguished predecessor in the pastorate, the Rev. Dr. Baron Stow. At the time of the resignation of Dr. Stow the church, which had been most prosperous under his ministry, was in a state of decline, owing to the shifting of the population in its neighborhood. and Dr. Gordon addressed himself earnestly and vigorously to the work of upbuilding it with early and most gratifying re- sults. The church building, then new, and dedi- cated the year of his settlement, was soon filled with worshippers, and within a few years the mem- bership was doubled. At various times revivals beginning with the church brought a large num-

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ber of converts, and during the latter years of his long pastorate the communicants numbered upwards of a thousand. While a zealous pastor, performing faithfully all his pastoral duties. Dr. Gordon was also an earnest worker in missions, home and foreign, an aggressive temperance advo- cate, a prolific writer, and an editor of missionary periodicals. He was chairman of the executive board of the American Baptist Missionary Union, chosen to that position in 1888, having previously been a member of the board for seventeen years. In 1888 he represented the Union at the World's Missionary Conference in London, after the close of the conference making, in company with Rev.

Dr. A. T. Pierson, a tour through Scotland and Northern England, delivering many missionary addresses. In IS89 he founded the Boston Missionary Training School, an institution hold- ing daily and evening sessions in the lecture-room of his church, designed for young men and women desiring to engage in mission work and unable to pursue an academic course, which has graduated a number of home and foreign missionaries and pas- tors' assistants. He was himself president of the school, and instructor in special Biblical and mis- sionary studies. He was also prominent among the founders of the Boston Industrial Home on Davis Street. He was a close friend of the evan- gelist D. C. Moody, and a portion of his time was given each year to assistance in Dr. Moody's con- ferences at Northfield. His first book, " In Christ," was brought out in 1872, and is now in its seventh edition. Then followed "Congregational Wor- ship." also written in 1872. The next volume. " Grace and Glory," a collection of sermons, ap- peared in 1881. Then came the " Ministry of Healing, or Miracles of Cure in All Ages," in 1882. now in its fourth edition ; " Twofold Life " in 1884, now in its third edition : " The Holy Spirit in Missions," six lectures delivered April, 1892, to the Dutch Reformed divinity students at New Brunswick, N.J., in 1893; the " Coronation Hymnal," collaborated with Dr. A. T. Pierson, in 1894; and numerous published sermons, special articles, and sixteen lyrics at various times. His last work, "The Ministry of the Spirit," was issued the week of his death. "In Christ." " 'Twofold Life." " The Ministry of Healing," and " Fece Venit " have been rendered into Swedish ; and a German translation of "Ecce Venit" is under way. His editorial work was as editor of the Watchwoord, a religious monthly magazine, and as assistant editor of the Missionary Review of the World. He was for many years a member of the Board of Trustees of Brown University, and in 1877 received from that institution the honorary degree of D.D. Dr. Gordon was married Octo- ber 13. 1863. to Miss Maria Hale, of Providence, R.I .. daughter of Isaac and Harriet (Johnson) Ilale. They had eight children, six of whom are now living : Harriet Hale (now wife of the Rev. F. M. Poteat, of New Haven, Conn. ). Ernest B .. Elsie, Arthur H .. Helen M., and Theodora Living- stone Gordon. Both of the sons are graduates of Harvard, and the daughter Helen M. is a stu- dent at Wellesley College. Mrs. Gordon was for

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fifteen years the president of the Boston Woman's Christian Temperance Union, declining further to serve : and is a most acceptable public speaker.

GORDON, JAMES LOGAN, of Boston, president of the Lyceum League of America, was born in Philadelphia, Penna .. March 28, 1858, son of John Robert and Margaret (Logan) Gordon. He is of Scotch-Irish parentage, his father being a Scotch- man and his mother of the north of Ireland. His education was limited to a few years of school- ing, due to his restless desire to be carning some- thing : and at twelve he was at work as an errand boy, turning over three dollars a week to the slen- der family treasury. Inheriting from his father a fondness for solid literature, what he lacked in academic training he made up through wide and careful reading of good books; and, while an in- dustrious worker. he early gained a name among his associates for breadth of culture and original- ity of thought. Steadily advancing in business, at the age of twenty-two he was in charge of the foreign invoice department of John Wanamaker's extensive establishment in Philadelphia. He was thus brought into contact with the heads of depart- ments, and with Mr. Wanamaker's financial man- ager, the late John F. Hillman, occasionally also with Mr. Wanamaker himself, and so obtained an insight into financial management for which he later developed peculiar fitness as an executive officer in Young Men's Christian Associations of the foremost Eastern cities. In the many-sided work of these organizations he soon became known as a popular leader among young men. His first field was Easton, Penna., with a popula- tion of twelve thousand ; and in the brief period of nine years he had passed from his modest office there, through a succession of promotions. to the general secretaryship of the Boston .Isso- ciation, the oldest and perhaps the largest Young Men's Christian Association in the United States. During this period he had served, after Easton, in Erie. Penna .. with a population of forty thousand. as business manager of the Brooklyn, N.Y., Asso- ciation, and as State secretary of the associations in Connecticut, of the executive committee of which Charles AA. Jewell of Hartford was the chair- man. He had been in Connecticut scarcely two years when the call from the Boston Association came, and inducements were held out which could not be resisted. In all his work he has shown not

only a genius in planning great undertakings in connection with organizations for which he is re- sponsible, but a mastery of details down to the smallest. Mr. Gordon has also become widely known in evangelical church circles as a pulpit and platform speaker of striking originality and personal power. With a remarkable memory, a vocabulary enriched by hours among his books, a faculty for analysis and close-fitting logic, it is said of him that he always " stands before his au- dience, large or small, master of himself, his sub- ject, and his hearers. On the platform as off he is a man of many moods. Flashes of wit enliven

JAMES LOGAN GORDON.

every address : but every public effort is closed in exactly the same manner .-- the speaker gives his audience some solid thought or idea, which leaves it in a sober, reflective mood." Mr. Gordon has written a number of books, among them " 1 My- self," a book on individuality, " \ rather Fast Young Man. " " Phillips Brooks." " Five Thousand Young"; and he is now writing a volume on present problems, which will bear the general title of " Under Discussion." He was elected to his present position of president of the Lyceum League of America - an organization having a constituency of forty thousand young men and women - in 1895. Mr. Gordon was married in

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1887, to Miss Lillian Hoffman James, of Read- ing, Penna.

GEORGE GRIME.

GRIME, GEORGE, of Fall River, city solicitor, is a native of Fall River, born September 7, 1859, son of William E. and Ruth (Mellor) Grime. He attended the public schools, including a three years' course in the Fall River High School, and was graduated from Brown University in the class of 1886, with the degree of A.B. Subsequently, in 1890, he received the degree of A.M. from his alma mater. After graduation he studied in an office for one year, then in the autumn of 1887 entered the Harvard Law School, and was gradu- ated there with the degree of LL. B. in 1890. In the spring of that year he was admitted to the bar in Bristol County. He began practice in Fall River in the following autumn. Upon the acces- sion of the Hon. Henry K. Braley, of Braley & Swift, to the bench of the Superior Court, he formed a copartnership with the Hon. Marcus G. B. Swift, under the firm name of Swift & Grime, which relation still exists. He was first elected city solicitor of Fall River in 1893, and re-elected in 1894 and 1895. His law firm is attorney for the Fall River Savings Bank, the Citizens' Say- ings Bank, the Troy Co-operative Bank, the Po- casset National Bank, the National Union Bank,

the Globe Street Railway Company, and of nu- merous other large corporations in Fall River and in South-eastern Massachusetts. Mr. Grime is a member of the local alumni association of Brown University and the Harvard Law School Association, of Quequechan and Commercial elubs of Fall River, of the Masons, Commandery Godfred de Boillon, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and of various athletic clubs.

HACKETT, ORLANDO JACOB, of Boston, gen- eral secretary of the Lyceum League of America, was born in Maine, on a farm near Auburn, No- vember 28, 1869, son of Jacob Hackett and Elsie (Maxwell) Hackett. He moved into the city when a boy, and was educated in the public schools of Auburn, where he lived until he came to Boston, early in 1895. His professional career was begun as a teacher, and he was for some time professor of music in the Auburn public schools. Subsequently he became a public singer and reader, and was brought into professional connec- tion in various ways with public men. In June,

O. J. HACKETT.

1895, he became general secretary of the Lyceum League of America and of the Parliament of Man. an auxiliary association for older members of the

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former organization, the objects of both being " the promotion of intelligent patriotism and the development of practical good citizenship in the young men and women of America." The League issues a monthly magazine, the New Century, which is devoted to its interests. As general secretary, Mr. Hackett visits many of the fifteen hundred lyceums of the League which are scat- tered through all the States and Territories, for the purpose of stimulating the Lyceum work, organiz- ing new lyceums, and interesting public and pri- vate citizens in the work. Mr. Hackett is un- married.

HARLOW, LOUIS KINNEY, of Boston, artist, was born in Wareham, March 28, 1850, son of Ivory H. and Mary ( Kinney) Harlow. On the paternal side he is of English descent, and on the maternal side of Scotch. He was educated in the public schools and at Phillips (Andover) Academy. His artistic bent was displayed in childhood, and at school he did good work in blackboard sketching. At the age of twelve he began the study of pencil drawing from an Eng- lish artist resident in his native place, and to this instruction he accords whatever of skill he has in the use of the point. After graduating from the academy, he entered mercantile life ; but for this he had little liking, and finally aban- doned it for a professional career, to which he had all along been inclined. In 1880 he opened his first studio in the Studio Building, Boston, and applied himself largely to water-color paint- ing. The merits of his work were recognized first in the West: and in 1882, receiving a call from a class of about thirty art students in De- troit, Mich., he went to that city. He also taught in other Western places, and through his success as an art teacher he enlarged the market for the productions from his brush. His first important exhibition in the East, of about fifty water colors, was given in Boston during January, 1886, and was a pronounced success, the best critics speak- ing warmly in its praise, and the picture-buying public responding with commissions. In this exhibition the delicacy of his work, notably in atmospheric effects and the sentiment expressed in it, were especially remarked. The success that followed enabled him shortly after to go abroad, and he spent some time in Holland in further study and work from Dutch subjects. In later years he visited England and France, and

also repeatedly revisited Holland, which is his favorite field. Mr. Harlow has done much also in book illustration and in work for reproduction by lithographers. His subjects are most varied, including flowers and figures, landscapes and marines, pastoral views, illustrations of the poets. His work is popular on both sides of the Atlantic, art publishers in England and Germany having used with success his drawings for publication. His recent commissions have taken him into nearly every country for sketches. His best- known pictures include " Etchings of Daybreak," "Sketches in Dutchland." " Snow-Bound," " Home

LOUIS K. HARLOW.

of Evangeline," "Green Pastures," " Still Waters," many marine studies, " Off Rockland Light," " The Old Powder House," " The Old Manse." Mr. Harlow now resides at Waban (in Newton), main- taining his studio, as at the outset of his profes- sional career, in Boston. He was married April 23, 1873. to Miss Julia A. Coombs, of Middle- borough. They have three children : Arthur B., Ralph Leroy, and Marjorie K. Harlow.

HEATH, DANIEL COLLAMORE, of Boston, pub- lisher, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Salem, October 26, 1843, son of Daniel and Mila

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Ann (Record) Heath. His early education was acquired in the common schools of his native town, after which he attended the academy at Farmington, Me., and spent a year at the Nichols Latin School in Lewiston, Me., fitting for college. He graduated at Amherst in the class of 1868. After leaving college, he was principal of the High School in Southborough, Mass., for two years, and then spent two years at the Bangor Theological Seminary (Maine). The next year he was travelling abroad on account of ill-health. Upon his return he became supervisor of schools at Farmington, Me., in which position he con- tinued for a year. At the end of that service, in 1874. he engaged in the book trade, representing Ginn Brothers, publishers, at Rochester, N.Y. After a year in Rochester he opened a branch house for that firm in New York City, and re- mained there for a year. Then he became a member of the firm of Ginn & Heath, Boston, and so continued until 1886, when he sold his in- terest in the business, and established the house of D. C. Heath & Co., of which he is still the senior partner. The firm's list of authors

D. C. HEATH.

includes professors in the leading universities, colleges, and technical schools of this country, besides text-book writers of established reputation

connected with the London University, the Uni- versity of Toronto, St. Andrew's, Scotland, the University of Sweden, and other educational in- stitutions of Europe. Its list of publications em- brace books for use in universities, colleges, normal schools, academies, public and private schools, including text-books for nearly all depart- ments of instruction. The house stands for mod- ern ideas in educational works, and its books are in the direct line of educational progress. It believes in the laboratory method in history and literature, as well as in the sciences ; and its pub- lications on these lines and made in this direction have done much toward leading up to better methods. The English books of the house are edited on the theory that it is more important to impress the student with the literary aspect of the work or author in hand rather than to use the author's material for study of philology or gram- mar; and it is now issuing a valuable series of Shakspere Plays by Cambridge and Oxford men, based on this plan. In reading, it is the theory of the house that children should be made ac- quainted as early as possible with the best litera- ture ; and, accordingly, it has published a series entitled the "Heart of Oak Books," edited by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, of Harvard. In 1892 the firm entered into contract with the Uni- versity of Chicago to take charge of the publica- tions in the important department of the Univer- sity Press (one of the three great departments into which that institution is divided), through which are to be issued works in Sanskrit, He- brew, Greek, German, and other languages, as well as in English, and regular series of papers or periodicals from each school of the graduate department. Among its many notable general works are: Corson's " Introductions to Shake- speare and Browning," Moulton's " Literary Study of the Bible," Boutwell's "Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century," Dole's " The American Citizen," Gide's . Prin- ciples of Political Economy," and Wilson's " The State." The house has a long list of all books on science, mathematics, history and civics, over twenty-five books on education, a series of books on drawing and music, and about one hundred and fifty modern language texts in Heath's " Mod- ern Language Series," which have received the highest commendation from representative profes- sors of languages here and abroad. The firm has in press for early publication a text-book on " In-

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ternational Law, " by Professor Lawrence, formerly of Cambridge University, England, more recently of Chicago University. Mr. Heath is a member of the University, Twentieth Century, and Congre- gational clubs of Boston, of the Newton Club of Newton, and of the Aldine (publishers) Club of New York. He was married in January, 1881, to Mrs. Nelly Lloyd (Jones) Knox, of Colorado Springs, and a native of Tennessee. The chil- dren are: James Lloyd Knox, Stanley D., Arnold (., Daniel C., Jr., and Warren Heath.

HEATH, NEWTON EMMER, M.D., of Stock- bridge, was born in Monterey, Berkshire County, May 14, 1861, son of Charles Edmund and Lydia Carey (De Vol) Heath. His father was a physi- cian and assistant surgeon of the Fifty-seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the Civil War, and his paternal grandfather was a sturdy New England farmer. . His mother was a Qua- keress. He was educated in the public schools, graduating from the High School of the town of Lee. At the age of eighteen he entered the Albany Medical College and at the same time the surgical dispensary of Dr. John Swinburne. After his graduation from the college, in 1883, he continued for a year with Dr. Swinburne, the lat- ter giving him the position of first assistant. In this association he gained a practical knowledge of the surgery of accidents and injuries which has been invaluable in his life-work. While with Dr. Swinburne he was appointed assistant overseer of the poor of Albany, and in this capacity had the investigation of all applications for charity and the charge of admissions to the hospitals throughout the State. In 1884, after his mar- riage, he began regular practice in Stockbridge, meeting with early success and doing a good work, especially in accidents and injuries. In 1891 a flattering offer came to him from Troy, N. Y., where the work was mainly the treatment of accidents,- work for which his training had fitted him and which he most enjoyed. Accord- ingly, he moved to that city, but, it proving un- healthy there for his wife and boy, he returned to Stockbridge two years later. His practice is steadily increasing ; and, with health and strength. he hopes to leave a few less cripples in the world. He has directly or indirectly been in sixteen thou- sand accident cases, in which there have been but two amputations ; and he has personally treated

at least eight thousand without amputation, lock- jaw, gangrene. blood poisoning, or bad result. In 1895 he was appointed health inspector to take

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charge of and investigate contagious diseases, and to enforce the quarantine ordered in such cases. In politics Dr. Heath is what is called a Mugwump, voting for the men who, in his judg- ment, are best fitted to fill office. He was married February 26, 1884, to Miss Oldfield, of Cornwall, Conn. They have two children : Leslie Oldfield (aged five years) and Frederick Selden Heath (one year).

HENDERSON, JOHN D., of Everett, builder and developer of suburban property, is a native of Scotland, born in the little town of Gatehouse, October 27, 1849, son of John and Jennie ( John- son) Henderson. He was educated in a pri- vate school, and at the age of fourteen was ap- prenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. After serving his time of five years, he left home, and came to this country, landing in Boston. He at once found lucrative employment, and was soon engaged on important work. In less than a year after his arrival he was employed as foreman for Henry F. Durant, in the construction of the Wellesley College buildings. While superintend-

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ing this work, which covered some time, he also had the oversight of the building of other large structures. In 1872, forming a partnership with

JOHN D. HENDERSON.

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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 117

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