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CHAS. A. WEST.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. He was married July 1, 1873, to Miss Anna D. Piper, of Concord, N.H.
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WITTE, FRANCIS EVERETT, of Brockton, shoe manufacturer, was born in South Weymouth. August 8. 1837, son of Captain George W. and
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Betsy ( Burrell) White. On the paternal side he is a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born on New England soil, in Plym- outh. December 20, 1620, and on his mother's side is from the earliest settlers in Massachusetts. He was educated in the common schools and in the first high school established in Weymouth, which he attended for a year. From the age of sixteen to twenty-one he was employed in a ship- ping and importing house in Boston, and then for two or more years was in similar business in New York City. In September of the first year of the Civil War he enlisted as a private in Company G. Fourth New York Cavalry, and served in the Army of the Potomac continuously until October. 1864. promoted through the different grades to the first lieutenancy. At the close of the war he came to North Bridgewater (now Brockton ), and engaged in manufacturing, first as salesman and then partner with Daniel S. Howard & Co., one of the most suc- cessful concerns in the boot and shoe trade. It the dissolution of that firm in 1879 he began manu- facturing boots and shoes alone, and has so con- tinued to this time. He is also a director of the
Brockton National Bank and of the Boylston Na- tional Bank of Boston. Mr. White has served two terms in the Board of Aldermen of Brockton (1887-88), and in 1889 as commissioner of the sinking fund. In politics he has been a steadfast Republican from the casting of his first vote in the second election of Lincoln. He is a member of the Masonic order. of the Grand Army of the Re- public, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the Brockton Commercial Club, and of the Al- gonquin and Art clubs of Boston. He was mar- ried May 2, 1866, to Miss Adaline F. Hauthaway, only daughter of Charles L. Hauthaway, of Brock- ton. They have three children : Walter Hautha- way. Francis Burrell, and Henry Preston White.
WILLIAMS, GEORGE FRED, of Dedham and Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Dedham, July 10, 1852. son of George W. and Henrietta (Rice) Williams. He is on the paternal side of German and French ancestry, and on the maternal side of New England from the early set- tlement. His early education was acquired at pri- vate schools, and he was fitted for college at the Dedham High School. He entered Dartmouth in 1868; but at the end of his freshman year went to Germany, where he studied in Hamburg for six months, and spent the year following at the Heidelberg and Berlin universities. Returning early in 1871. he made up the studies of the sophomore and junior years at Dartmouth in the spring and summer months, and, re-entering with his class, was duly graduated in 1871. Through the winter of 1872 and 1873 he taught school in the Cape Cod town of West Brewster, and during the spring and summer of 1873 he was engaged in newspaper work as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Then he began his law studies at the Boston Uni- versity Law School, and, graduating in 1875, was in October following admitted to the Suffolk bar. He has since practised in Boston, doing a general law business, in later years engaged in a number of notable causes. Mr. Williams became early in- terested in political affairs, and, starting as a Re- publican, began an active participation in party politics a few years after his admission to the bar. In 1883 he organized the Norfolk Republican ('lub, a political Saturday dining club, composed of Norfolk County men, and was its first secretary. Upon the nomination of James G. Blaine for the Presidency in 1884 he joined the Independent
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movement, and, parting company with his Repub- lican associates, gave his hearty support to Grover Cleveland. He was a member of the Indepen- dent Convention held in New York soon after the nomination, and served on the committee on reso- lutions : and upon the organization of the Mas- sachusetts Committee of One Hundred he was made a member of its executive committee, in whose hands was placed the conduct of the " Mug- wump " campaign in this State. Subsequently, in August, he was made chairman of that committee, and as such took a leading part in that memora- ble canvass. In 1890 he was a member of the
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lower house of the Legislature, and in that body was among the leaders on the Democratic side. In 1890 he was nominated for Congress by Dem- ocrats and Independents in the Ninth Congres- sional District, and after a spirited canvass, in which the then foremost national issues were fear- lessly and aggressively discussed by him in fre- quent speeches on the stump, was elected over the Hon. John W. Chandler, the Republican candi- date, renominated. He served in the Fifty-second Congress, 1891-93, recognized as among the ablest of the younger members, capable and thorough in committee work, and commanding the attention of the House in frequent participation in its most
important debates. During his term he served on the committees on coinage, weights and measures, and led the debate upon the Democratic side on the Bland free coinage bill. In 1892 he was re- nominated for a second term, and again made an aggressive canvass, taking also a leading part as a campaign speaker in the State at large for the Democratic State and national ticket ; but, owing in part to the re-formation of his district in the redistricting of the State by the Legislature of 1892, he was defeated. In the State campaign next following he bore his part as a public speaker, presenting the issues, State and national, of his party, with frankness and candor, and fearlessly attacking the platforms and policies of his oppo- nents ; and in 1895 he was made the Democratic candidate for governor, being nominated by ac- clamation at the State convention in October. Mr. Williams has delivered a number of formal addresses, notably the Fourth of July oration in 1886 by invitation of the Boston city government, and an address before the faculty and students of Dartmouth College on the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of Washington in 1889. Soon after his admission to the bar he published a vol- ume of " Massachusetts Citations " ( Boston : Little, Brown, & Co.), and subsequently edited volumes ten to seventeen of the "Annual United States Digest." He is a member of the Massachu- setts Reform Club, for several years serving on its executive committee, and has served as sec- retary and member of the executive committee of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. In Dedham, where he still resides, he was for three years a member of the school committee, and has participated in other ways in town affairs. Mr. Williams is unmarried.
WILLIAMS. HENRY DUDLEY, of Boston, of the art firm of Williams & Everett, was born in Roxbury (now of Boston), June 26, 1833, son of Dudley and Isabel ( Everett) Williams. He is a descendant, in the sixth generation, of Robert Williams, from Norwich, England, who settled in Roxbury in 1638. In the annals of old Roxbury the name of Williams figures largely, and many of the name still cling to its soil. Mr. Williams received his early education in the Roxbury public schools, and was a pupil of the old Wash- ington School in the time of Masters Hyde and Reed. He was fitted for college at Lawrence
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Academy, Groton, and graduated from Brown University in 1855, receiving the degree of A.M. After leaving college, he entered his father's art store in Boston, one of the oldest in the city, then as now conducted under the name of Williams & Everett, with which he has since been identified. He was carly admitted to partnership. and for several years the firm consisted only of father and son ; and since the death of the senior, in 1886. Mr. Williams has been the sole member of the firm. The firm name. however, first adopted in 1853, and under which the house has long been well known for its honorable connec- tion with the growth and development of art in Boston. has been retained throughout unchanged. Since the Doggett Brothers and S. S. Williams began business in 1810 there have been but five changes in organization, and five in location. The present store on Boylston Street. opposite the Public Garden, with its suite of picture gal- leries, has been occupied since 1885. It was built for the firm, the interior design in the English Renaissance by the architect George .V. Clough, and the decorations by the artist Frank Hill Smith. The firm has introduced the work of many of the most famous of American artists,- Ilunt, Rimmer, Healey, Fuller, Hinckley, Inness. and others in the notable list; and it was the first to bring French paintings into the Boston market. It was among the earliest, also, to es- tablish direct relations with leading European artists, dealers, and experts. It has always made a specialty of picture and mirror frames, and for this work has a fully organized factory, employ- ing from thirty to fifty workmen. In his business experiences Mr. Williams has been a diligent stu- dent of art, especially of painting. By travel and by study in European galleries he has made him- self familiar with the works of the masters of all schools. By frequent visits to studios and exhi- bitions he has become thoroughly acquainted with modern art in all its fancies and phases. and has kept in touch with all its latest development : and he is recognized at home and abroad as a most intelligent expert. It has always been a princi- ple of the house to sell only genuine pictures. and its guarantee is known as thoroughly trust- worthy,- an important point in these days of questionable art and bogus masters, old and mod- ern. During all his business career Mr. Williams has been much interested in education. Elected soon after his graduation to a membership on the
Board of Trustees of Tufts College. he was early placed upon the executive committee, and has ever since been an active and progressive mem- ber of that board, earnestly interested in all the changes of organizations and systems which within the past twenty years have lifted this young institution from obscurity to a prominent place among the colleges of New England. For a while, also, he served as a trustee of Dean Acad- emy, Franklin, but finally resigned that office, that he might give more time to the college. Mr. Williams has given much time and thought to various religious and philanthropic matters, and
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has held many positions of trust and responsi- bility in that branch of the Christian church with which he has been connected. In politics he has always been a Republican ; but he has not been prominent in political affairs, preferring private life to public office. He is a member of the Art and University clubs of Boston.
WILLIAMS. MOST REV. JOHN J .. of Boston. fourth Roman Catholic bishop and first arch- bishop of Boston, was born in Boston, April 27, 1822, son of Michael and Ann ( Egan) Williams. His education was begun in a kindergarten school.
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and he was fitted for college by Father James Fitton. He entered St. Sulpice College, Mon- treal, when a lad of eleven, and studied there about eight years. Then he went to Paris, and while there studied in the Seminary of St. Sulpice. At the completion of these studies, in 1845, and ordained in Paris, he returned to Boston. Sta- tioned at the old cathedral, then on Franklin Street where the Cathedral Building now stands, he officiated there until 1852, when he was placed in charge of the chapel then on Beach Street, from which has grown the present large church of St. James on Harrison Avenue. He served
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in the latter office for three years, during which period the congregation so increased in numbers and importance that the chapel was early out- grown, and plans were made for the building of a church, the first St. James, on the corner of Albany and Harvard streets, the site of which is now covered by the Boston & Albany Railroad. In January, 1855, he was appointed rector of the cathedral, and remained in that station until 1857. when he was made rector of the new Church of St. James, which he had been instrumental in founding. The same year he was made vicar- general, and during the last years of the episco- pate of Bishop Fitzpatrick, when the latter was
abroad in search of health, he administered the diocese. On January 19, 1866, he was appointed coadjutor of the bishop with the right of succes- sion, being named Bishop of Tripoli in partibus in- fidelium. Bishop Fitzpatrick dying the following February, he was formally consecrated bishop of Boston on the 11th of March. Soon after his elevation he assisted at the Plenary Council at Baltimore, and in 1869-70 he was at the (Ecu- menical Council held in Rome. In 1875, when Boston was raised to a metropolitan see, he was made the first archbishop, appointed on the 12th of February. The ceremony of conferring the pal- lium of an archbishop upon him was performed on the 2d of May in the then unfinished new cathedral at the junction of Washington and Union Park streets, which was temporarily fitted for the occasion. This brilliant and solemn ser- vice was in the presence of all the bishops of the ecclesiastical province of New York, the clergy of Boston and neighboring dioceses, and a great congregation of six thousand persons. Bishop McNeirney, of Albany, celebrated the high mass, Bishop Goesbriand, of Burlington, preached the sermon, and the pallium, which had been brought from Rome by an ablegate of the pope. Mons. ('asar Roncetti, accompanied by his secretary. Dr. Ubalbi, and by a nobleman of the Papal Guard, Count Marefoschi, was conferred by the late Cardinal McCloskey, of New York. While zealously performing all the duties of his various offices, Archbishop Williams has done much for the advancement of numerous good works in Bos- ton. He was instrumental in the establishment of the House of the Good Shepherd, the Redemp- torist and Oblate Fathers, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the Infant Asylum. He also reorgan- ized and enlarged the Home for Destitute Chil- dren, founded the Catholic Union, led the move- ment for the building of the present great cathe- dral, which was begun April 27, 1866, on his forty-fourth birthday, and dedicated December 8, 1875, the year of his elevation to the archbishop- ric, and was one of the founders of the St. John Diocesan Seminary in the Brighton District of Boston, conducted by the Sulpician Fathers for fitting candidates for the priesthood.
WINSLOW, JOSEPH WINSLOW, M.D., of East- hampton, is a native of Vermont, born in the town of Barnard, March 8, 1820, son of George Rex
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and Lucy (Clark) Winslow. He is a descendant of Edward Winslow of Droitwich, England ; and his first American ancestor was Kenelin Winslow,
J. W. WINSLOW.
brother of Governor Edward Winslow, who landed in Plymouth in 1621. After receiving a thorough preliminary education, he began the study of med- icine with the late Professor Gilman Kimball of Lowell, Mass., and for whom he became demon- strator of anatomy. Subsequently, he spent some time at the United States Marine Hospital, acting a part of the time as house surgeon, and gradu- ated at the Berkshire Medical College, with high- est honors, in 1845. He began practice in New Hartford, Conn., but soon after removed to En- field, Mass., where he was established for fourteen years. Then. removing to Easthampton, he has since continued there in an active and extensive practice. He was county coroner for many years. and upon the abolition of that office was made the medical examiner for his district, which position he still holds. In politics he is a Republican. Doctor Winslow was married May 13. 1857. to Miss Emily Bement Smith. of Enfield. They C. E. L. WINGATE. have had one son and one daughter: Dr. Edward Smith Winslow, who is now connected with his (1884) for his paper, and met Lieutenant Greely's father in practice : and Susie Ellen (now Mrs. arctic expedition on its return from the North. In 1880 he was made dramatic editor of the E. H. Sawyer. of Easthampton ).
WINGATE, CHARLES EDGAR LEWIS, of Boston. managing editor of the Boston Journal, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Exeter, February 14. 1861, son of S. Dana and Oriana (Mitchell) Win- gate. His great-grandfather, the Hon. Paine Wingate, was a New Hampshire statesman, repre- senting that province in the Colonial Confedera- tion, and serving as senator in the first con- gresses of the United States. He was educated in Phillips ( Exeter) Academy, graduating there- from in 1879, and at Harvard College, where he graduated in the class of 1883. It was his inten- tion, as soon as his studies were completed. to enter newspaper life: and, when a student in the academy, he helped his brother during the summer vacations in editing the Exeter Gasette. At Har- vard he helped found the Harvard Echo (later Crimson), the first daily paper ever started at the college, and remained its news editor until he graduated. He also acted during his senior year as Harvard reporter of the Boston Journal. After graduating, he was at once engaged on the Boston Journal staff. Among other journalistie duties he " covered " the World's Fair at New Orleans
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Journal, and in 1892 promoted to his present posi- tion of managing editor. While filling these re- sponsible positions, he has written the regular weekly Boston letter to the Critic of New York for several years, and has been an occasional con- tributor to the magazines. He has written a novel "Can Such Things Be?" first published in a magazine and then in book form (1888) ; a num- ber of historical articles, and some fiction for the Cosmopolitan, Lippincott's, and other periodicals ; a " History of the Wingate Family " and " The Playgoers' Year Book." He belongs to but one club, - the Newspaper Club, of which he was one of the founders (1884), the first vice-president, and afterward president (1893). In politics he is Republican. He was married September 9, 1885, to Miss Mabel Nickerson, of Boston. They have three children : Mabel, Josephine, and Dana J. P'. Wingate. Mr. Wingate resides in Cambridge.
YOUNG, MAJOR CHARLES ALBERT, of Boston, deputy superintendent of the Street Department. Sanitary Division of the city, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Barrington, September 22, 1842, son of William Hale and Sarah (Daniels) Young. He received his education in public and private schools in his native town, and remained at home on the farm until he was twenty years of age. Then he came to Boston, and entered busi- ness, in which he was successful from the begin- ning. He has been for a long period superin- tendent of the Odorless Excavating Company (established in 1859), manufacturers of sanitary pumps and apparatus for odorless excavation of vaults and cesspools, with shops at South Boston. He was appointed to his present position by Mayor Curtis in January, 1895. Major Voung has long been prominently identified with military
affairs. He was commander of the Roxbury Horse Guards for three years, commander of the First Battalion of Cavalry for a similar term, and
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of the old Guard of Massachusetts for some years. He belongs to many organizations, social and political, and maintains a warm interest in all of them. In the Dorchester District, where he resides, he was the originator and first president of the Harvard Improvement Association of Dor- chester. In politics he is a steadfast Republican. Major Voung was married in 1868 to Miss Hannah Merrell Cooke, of Boston. They have two sons: Frederick Hale (now twenty-three years of age) and Clifford Harrison (aged twenty years ).
PART XI.
ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, 2d, of Quincy and Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, mayor of Quincy for 1896, was born in Quincy, August 2. 1866, son of John Quincy and Fanny (Crownin- shield) Adams. He is of the distinguished American Adams family, - great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of President John Quincy Adams, and grandson of Charles Francis Adams. He was educated in the Adams Academy, Quincy, the Hopkinton School. Boston, and at Harvard College, graduating in the class of ISS8, and fitted for his profession at the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1892. In college he was president
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of his class, and first marshal on Class Day: and was also president of the Hasty Pudding Club. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February,
1893, and was first engaged in the Boston office of Sigourney Butler. Later he became a partner of Judge Everett C. Bumpus, and in 1894 opened an office by himself, engaging in general practice and making a specialty of the management of trust estates. He also became interested in banking and business corporations, and he is at the present time a director of the American Loan and Trust Company, of the Electric Corporation, and of the American Electric Heating Company : a trustee of the Quincy Savings Bank, of the Bos- ton Ground Rent Trust, and of the Adams Real Estate Trust : and trustee for various individuals. He is connected with the management of the National Sailors' Home as a trustee. In politics he is a Democrat. He has taken an active inter- est in Quincy municipal affairs, serving three terms in the City Council, and was elected mayor of the city for 1896 by a decisive vote. Mr. Adams is an enthusiastic yachtsman, and con- nected with the leading clubs, being commodore of the Quincy Yacht Club, vice commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club, and member of the Hull and Corinthian Yacht clubs. He is a member also of the Somerset Club, Boston. He is unmarried.
ADAMS, MELVIN OHIO, of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Ashburnham, November 7. 1850. son of Joseph and Dolly (Whitney) Adams. His parents were also natives of Ashburnham, and connected with old Massa- chusetts families. His early education was ac- quired in the public schools of his native town, after which he attended Appleton Academy. New Ipswich, N.H., where he fitted for college. He entered Dartmouth, and graduated in the class of 1871. After graduation he taught school for some time at Fitchburg, and while teaching also began the study of law with the Hon. Amasa Nor- cross, ex-Congressman of that city. In 1874 he came to Boston, and entered the Boston Univer-
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sity Law School. Graduating there in the class of 1875, he was at once admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice. Soon after he was ap- pointed assistant district attorney, and held that position until 1886, a period of ten years, acquir- ing a familiarity with the methods of the govern- ment in dealing with criminal cases and an expe- rience which brought him early into a leading position among the younger members of the bar. After resigning the assistant district attorneyship he returned to general practice, associated with Augustus Russ. This relation continued until the death of Mr. Russ in 1892, since which time
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he has practised alone. He has been connected with many important cases, among the number being the famous Borden murder case of Fall River, in which, as associate counsel in the de- fence of Miss Borden, he increased his reputation as an able and skilful jury lawyer. In politics he is a Republican, and during the administration of Governor Brackett, in 1890, served on the gov- ernor's staff, with the rank of colonel. He has been for some years connected with the man- agement of the Boston, Revere Beach, & Lynn Railroad, and is now president of that corpora- tion. He is president of the Dartmouth Club of Boston, and member of the Unitarian. University.
Union, and numerous other clubs of Boston. Mr. Adams was married in Fitchburg in 1875 to Miss Mary Colony. They have one son : Kane Adams.
ALLEN, FRANK DEWEY, of Boston and Lynn, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Worces- ter, August 16, 1850, son of Charles Francis and Olive (Dewey) Allen. He was educated in the Worcester public schools, and at Yale, graduat- ing in the class of 1873. While at college, he was a member of the university erew, and belonged to the several college societies, including the famous "Scroll and Key." Ile began his law studies in Worcester in the office of Peter C. Bacon. Then, coming to Boston, he took the reg- ular course of the Boston University Law School. graduating LL. B. in 1875, and spent three years in further study in the office of Hillard, Hyde, & Dickinson, the last year acting as managing clerk for the firm. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar on January 8, 1878, and at once engaged in ac- tive practice, establishing his office in Boston. In April. 1890, he was appointed by President Harrison United States district attorney for the District of Massachusetts, which position he ably filled until 1894. In the discharge of the duties of this office he was alert, zealous, indefatigable in his attention to details, and at the close of the term of Attorney-general Miller was especially complimented by that official for his work. Among the numerous notable causes which he conducted while in the district attorneyship were cases under the anti-trust statute and the famous Maverick National Bank cases. In the latter he personally investigated and marshalled the facts alleged as violations of the law, and himself drafted the greater part of the elaborate indiet- ments ; and the verdict which he secured won him the praise of the entire press of the city. One of his earliest triumphs, soon after his ap- pointment, was in a perjury case in the matter of a pension claim, in which General Benjamin F. Butler was counsel for the defence. After his retirement from the district attorneyship he re- turned to general practice, in which he is at pres- ent actively and successfully engaged. Mr. Allen has served two terms in the Massachusetts Leg- islature, 1881-82. as a representative for Lynn, of which city he became a resident upon his mar- riage, the day after his admission to the bar ; and
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