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CHANDLER, PARKER CLEAVELAND, of Bos- ton, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, December 7. 1848, son of Peleg W. and Martha Ann (Cleaveland) Chandler. On the paternal side he is a lineal descendant of Edmund Chandler, who came from England in 1633, and settled in Duxbury. His maternal grandmother on his father's side was a Parsons, of the Chief Justice Parsons linc. He is from three genera- tions of lawyers, - his paternal grandfather, a graduate of Brown University, his maternal grand- father, a graduate of Harvard, and his father, a graduate of Bowdoin. His mother was a
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daughter of Professor Parker Cleaveland, H.C. 1799, and for years the leading geologist of the United States at Bowdoin College. Mr. Chand- ler was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, and graduated from Williams in the class of 1872. Hle studied law at the Harvard Law School, graduating in 1874, and in the office of his father, who had long been one of the fore- most counsellors-at-law in Massachusetts, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He has since practised in Boston and New York, almost ex- clusively engaged in corporation matters. was managing counsel in the famous contest, covering seven years, of the Drawbaugh Tele-
phone Company as. the American Bell Telephone Company : was the representative of Cyrus W. Field, in the New York & New England Railroad litigation of 1888; and he has for some years been counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, the five Boston gas companies, and of several electrical corporations. Mr. Chandler has followed in his father's footsteps as an adviser in affairs of State as well as of law, keeping in touch with politics and social life. He was one of the originators of the Bristow movement within the Republican party in 1876, which was the earliest to advance civil service reform. Later, in the campaign for the Republican presidential nomina- tion, in 1880, he was manager for Senator John Sherman : and during the hot Butler campaigns in Massachusetts he had charge of the Citizens' reform movement in Boston, and at that time drew the original drafts for the present registra- tion laws of the State. He has also given much time to the study of the science of municipal government, and has written for the press on political questions. With all his activity in poli- tics, he has never aspired to public office. Mr. Chandler is a member of numerous clubs in Bos- ton and New York, among them the University clubs of both cities, and the Union. Algonquin, and Athletic clubs of Boston. He is unmarried.
CHAPIN, NAHUM, of Boston, distiller, is a na- tive of Vermont, born in the town of Jamaica, Windham County, July 16, 1820, son of Harvey and Matte (Rossa) Chapin. His parents re- moved to Massachusetts, settling in Waltham, when he was a child of four years. He was edu- cated in the public schools and at Smith's Acad- emy, Waltham, which he attended four years. After leaving the academy, he was apprenticed to learn the machinist's trade in the works of the Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, and four years later he became overseer of the shops. After three years in that position he removed to Charlestown, and established there a provision and produce business, in which he was success- fully engaged for twenty years. In 1860, forming the firm of Richardson & Chapin, he entered the distilling business, which he has since followed, building up extensive works in the Charlestown District, with headquarters in the city proper. In 1877 the firm name was changed to Chapin, Trull, & Co., as at present. Mr. Chapin early became
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identified with Charlestown local affairs and an influential citizen. He served in the Common Council from 1856 to 1860; in the Board of
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Aldermen in 1861 and 1872 ; as an assessor from 1867 to 1874, when Charlestown was annexed to Boston, continuing on the Boston board till 1879, and as one of the commissioners to carry into effect the act providing for annexation ; and for nearly a quarter of a century he was in active service on the Charlestown and Boston school boards. He also served in the State Legislature as a representative for the Charlestown District in
1877-78. During his long service on the school Committee he accomplished a number of notable reforms. He was influential in changing the sys- tem of furnishing materials for the several school departments, the establishment of the important committee of supplies was upon his order, and his experience and practical knowledge rendered him a valuable member in various ways. Besides his regular business, Mr. Chapin is interested in local banking institutions, being a director of the Bun- ker Hill National Bank and a trustee of the War- ren Institution for Savings : and he was for many years a director of the Middlesex Horse Railroad Company, subsequently of the Boston Consoli- dated Street Railway, and of other corporations.
He is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fel- lows orders, and is an active member of the old City Guard of Charlestown. In religious faith he is a Universalist, a member of the standing com- mittee of the First Universalist Church of Charles- town. He was married in Waltham in 1841, to Miss Lucy Farwell, daughter of Zaccheus and Harriet Farwell. They have had four children, of whom two, George Francis and Lucy E. F. Chapin, only are now living. Of the other two, John Henry and Nahum Harvey Chapin, the elder, Nahum H .. died at the age of thirty-nine years.
COBB, HENRY EDDY, of Boston, banker and broker, is a native of Connecticut, born in Hart- ford, June 21, 1839, son of Andrew B. and Lydia M. (Eddy) Cobb. He is descended on the pater- nal side from John Cobb of Romney, England, born in 1324, whose first descendant in this coun- try was Elder Henry Cobb, settling at Barnstable in 1634. On the maternal side he is also of old Pilgrim stock, from Samuel Eddy, of Middle- borough in 1624. His great-grandfather, Captain
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Joshua Eddy, served with Washington through the Revolution. He was educated in public schools, finishing in the Newton lligh School. He left
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school at the age of fourteen to take the place of boy in the Newton Bank. Two years later he entered the employ of Potter, Nute, White, & Bag- ley, wholesale boot and shoe dealers in Boston, and continued there for twelve years. Then, in 1867, he formed a copartnership with R. L. Day, under the firm name of R. L. Day & Cobb, bankers and brokers and stock auctioneers, and became the auctioneer of the firm, holding semi- weekly sales in the old Mechanics' Exchange on State Street. In 1874 he entered the firm of Brewster, Bassett, & Co., successors of the old banking house of Brewster. Sweet, & Co .; and later the present house of Brewster, Cobb, & Esta- brook, of which he is now the head, was formed. For several years he represented the house on the Hoor of the Stock Exchange; and he was for some time vice-president of that body, presiding at the afternoon sessions. In Newton, where he still resides, Mr. Cobb has served in the Board of Aldermen two years and for a longer period on the School Committee. He is interested in church matters, as a member of the Eliot Congre- gational Church of Newton, and is one of the officers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He is a Freemason, mem- ber of the Winslow Lewis Lodge, and of the Royal Arch Chapter at Newton. He is president of the Claflin Guard Veteran Association, and a trustee of the New England Conservatory of Music ; and a member of the Sons of the Revolu- tion, of the Congregational Club, and of the New- ton Club, an ex-president of the latter, having held that position for four years. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Cobb was married May 11, 1864, to Miss Hattie M. Cooley, of Norwich. C'onn., a lineal descendant of Elder Brewster, of Plymouth. Their children are : Morton E., Lucy Ely, and Helen Minerva Cobb.
COOK. CHARLES SYDNEY, of Boston, jeweller, senior partner of A. Stowell & Co., was born in New Bedford, March 14, 1848, son of Abijah Doane and Esther Luther (Baker) Cook. On the paternal side his first ancestor in this country, Josias Cook, came over in the " May- flower " in 1620. Coming to Boston in 1864 at the age of fifteen, Mr. Cook entered the employ of Alexander Stowell, the first years working for his board only. At the age of twenty-two he was admitted as a partner in the firm. This associa-
tion continued for twenty years, or from 1870 till 1890, when Mr. Stowell retired, and Mr. Cook purchased the business in connection with his
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present partner, A. T. Maynard. Business of the house takes him frequently to Europe, and he has been abroad twelve times during the past sixteen years. He is also president of the D. S. Mc- Donald Company, of Boston. In politics Mr. Cook was by birth and education a Republican, and is an Independent by conviction, classed as a " Mugwump." He voted for Cleveland in the election of 1892. He is a Freemason, member of Bethesda Blue Lodge of Boston, Brighton District, and a member of the Boston Art and Athletic clubs. He was married January 12, 1874. to Miss Helen Frances Clark, of Boston. They have two sons : Charles Sydney, Jr., and Arthur Doane Cook.
CROSBY, WILLIAM LINCOLN of Boston, is a native of Maine, born in Calais in 1859, son of William and Sarah (Persons) Crosby. He is de- scended from one of the early New England families, branches of which are settled in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York. His ancestry is traced back in England to 1310,
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and, in this country dates from the settlement of Simon Crosby in Cambridge in 1635. Mr. Crosby was educated in the public schools, and, graduating from the Bangor High School at the age of sixteen, successfully passed the examina- tions for Harvard College, but, choosing to start at once upon a business career, entered an insur- ance office. He remained in the insurance business about three years, and then became corresponding clerk for the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, R.I., one of the leading manufacturing concerns of the world in its special lines. In the latter position
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he gained an experience that was invaluable to him ; but, not satisfied that he had yet found the particular vocation for which he was best adapted, he tried newspaper work for a year, and then book-keeping. For some time he was chief book- keeper for Parker & Wood. Boston, one of the largest agricultural goods houses in New England. The duties of this position, requiring a thorough comprehension of the details of a large and diver- sified business, brought to the front his natural abilities as an executive and manager, and in 1886 he became the business manager of Lew- ando's French dyeing and cleansing establishment. Under his management the business of this old-
time house, fifty years established, more than doubled in proportions ; and " Lewando's " has become the largest and foremost institution of its kind in the United States, with extensive works at Watertown and in New York City, main offices in Boston and New York, sub-offices in the various sections and suburbs of those cities, and branches in Cambridge. Lynn, Providence, Newport, Phila- delphia, Baltimore, and other cities. It now has a thousand agents and more throughout the coun- try, and employs hundreds of persons in its works and offices, including skilled workers from France, England, Germany, and Sweden. Mr. Crosby exercises direct control over all branches of the business ; and its development to the present pro- portions and wide-reaching extent is due wholly to his qualities as a man of modern business ideas, with the executive force and ability to carry them out. He is a member of the Athletic Club. Mr. Crosby is unmarried.
CUMMINGS, JOHN, of Woburn and Boston, banker, was born in Woburn, October 19, 1812. He is of Scotch descent, and his ancestors were early settlers of Watertown. His great-grand- father, a native of Andover, moved to Woburn in 1756, and bought the estate on which Mr. Cum- mings now lives. He acquired his education in part at the Warren Academy of Woburn and at a school at South Reading, but largely through self- teaching. Entering business at an early age, he engaged in the tanning and currying industry. be- coming one of the leading tanners in his section. He was associated at different periods with John B. Alley, Charles Choate, Leonard B. Harrington, and Leonard Harrington, well known in the trade. In 1868 he became president of the Shawmut National Bank of Boston, and has held that posi- tion continuously to the present time, making him now one of the oldest bank presidents in Boston. During the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, in 1876, he was a member of the Centennial Board of Finance, which redeemed that enterprise from failure, and carried it through to triumphant success. He has served in both branches of the State Legislature as representative for Woburn, and senator for the Sixth Middlesex District : and has proved a useful and influential citizen in other walks. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology since the establishment of that committee,
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and was treasurer of the corporation for seventeen years ; and, upon his retirement from the latter position in 1889, his name, by formal vote of the
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corporation, was applied in perpetuity to the laboratories of mining, engineering, and metal- lurgy, in recognition of his services. Mr. Cum- mings has had somewhat similar public relations for many years with the Boston Society of Na- tional History and the State Agricultural College at Amherst ; and he has served some time also as a director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind and of the Massachusetts Institution for Feeble- minded Youth. His scientific tastes, notably in the development of natural history, were displayed early in life, and have been closely cultivated through his long and active business career, while he has always been devoted to agriculture, in later years especially interested in the application of scientific principles to the working of the soil.
CUNNIFE, MICHAEL MATTHEWS, of Boston, banker and broker, was born in Boscommon, Ireland, in 1850, son of Michael and Ellen ( Ken- nedy) Cunniff. His parents came to America when he was an infant of three months, and set- tled in Boston, which city has since been his
home. He was educated in the Boston public schools, with a supplementary course at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. His business career was begun when he was still in his teens, with his brother Bernard, then engaged in the wine and spirits trade. After a number of years spent in that business, in which he prospered, he retired, and engaged in banking and brokerage, which he has since successfully followed, operat- ing principally in gas securities and real estate. He has also been identified with the West End Land Company, the Charles River Embankment Company, and other land improvements in Boston and its immediate neighborhood ; and he is an owner of valuable real estate. He is a director of the Mechanics' National Bank of Boston, in the reorganization of which, some years ago, he took part ; and a director of the Bay State Gas Company. He was prominent in the organization of the Bos- ton Gas Syndicate which acquired the leading gas companies in the city in 1886, and he has since been largely interested in the gas business. In politics Mr. Cunniff is a Democrat, and for many years was an active force in city and State politi-
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cal matters. He held the chairmanship of the Democratic city committee for several terms, was later chairman of the executive committee of the
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Democratic State Committee ; and he has been a member of the State Committee for seventeen years. In i888 he was a member of the Gover- nor's Council, for the Fourth Suffolk District, and, renominated for a second term, declined to stand. He is prominent in the Independent Order of Foresters, having held the office of chief ranger ; is a leading member also of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ; an honorary member of the Kearsarge Veterans ; member of the Charita- ble Irish Society of Boston, and of the Suffolk, Eastern, and Massachusetts yacht clubs. Mr. Cunniff was married in Boston, June 30, 1890, to Miss Josephine MeLaughlin, daughter of the late Francis MeLaughlin, a Boston merchant and man- ufacturer. They have two children : Michael M., Jr., and Josephine Cunniff.
DRIVER, WILLIAM RAYMOND, of Beverly, treasurer of the American Bell Telephone Com- pany, was born in Beverly, January 2, 1839. son of David and Emma Elizabeth (Raymond) Driver. He is of English ancestry, his first ancestor in
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America coming in 1630. His later ancestors were chiefly seafaring men. He was educated in the public schools of his native place. His busi-
ness career was begun in a retail dry-goods and drug store. Subsequently he was employed in a wholesale woollens store in Boston, and at a later period in the Suffolk Savings Bank. He was chosen treasurer of the American Bell Tele- phone Company in ISSo, upon its organization, and has held this position from that time to the present. Colonel Driver served in the Civil War, from the opening of hostilities in 1861 -enlist- ing on the 18th of April of that year -to the close, being discharged September 19, 1865, and passed through the several grades in the volun- teer service to brevet lieutenant colonel. He was present at all of the battles of the army of the Poto- mac except that of Ball's Bluff. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, of the Grand Army of the Re- public ; and of the Union and Algonquin clubs, Boston. In Beverly, where he still resides, he is a trustee of the Public Library and a commis- sioner of sinking funds. In politics Colonel Driver is an Independent. He was married Jan- uary 14, 1869, to Miss Ellen Salisbury Brown, of Beverly. Their children are : Eleanor Salisbury, now wife of William G. Rantoul, and William Raymond Driver, Jr.
EVANS, BRICE SHEPHERD. of Boston, real estate dealer and broker, was born in Allenstown, N. H., September 11, 1821, son of Robert and Sarah R. (Goss) Evans, died in Boston, Decem- ber 6, 1895. He was reared on a farm, and edu- cated in the country schools. Coming to Boston at the age of sixteen to seek his fortune, he began as a clerk in a dry-goods store, became a successful retail merchant, and later, entering the real estate field, became one of the most prominent of real estate dealers and brokers in Boston, extending his operations and investments into other parts of New England and the West. His first employ- ment was with a dry-goods dealer having a shop on Cambridge Street, and he remained there for five years. He started in business for himself when he reached his majority, opening a shop on Court Street, near Sudbury Street. Subsequently he moved to Hanover Street, at that time the centre of retail trade, and there did a flourishing business for several years. As a real estate dealer, he was a shrewd operator and far-seeing investor from the start. He watched with much
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interest the growth of the city in various direc- tions, and, carefully noting the earliest indications of changes in the business sections, directed his
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investments accordingly, so in time becoming a large owner of valuable realty in the best parts of Boston. His name was well known in Boston real estate circles for half a century, and in con- nection especially with large transactions. He bought sagaciously. and was an authority on all matters pertaining to investments in realty, his judgment being relied on as accurate and trust- worthy. He did a large business as a real estate auctioneer, and much valuable residential and business property was sold by him in this way. lle was one of the earliest members of the Real Estate Exchange. Mr. Evans was actively inter- ested in temperance and other reforms. lle ar- ranged the mass meeting at Faneuil Hall upon the "Travis incident," engaged the speakers, and was the temporary chairman of the committee of ten (five at Faneuil Hall and five at Tremont Temple) which afterward became the Committee of One Hundred ; and he carried on for many years the famous Allenstown August Grove Meetings, when thousands from the surrounding places listened to noted preachers from other parts of the country. In these annual religious gatherings he was
greatly interested, and he contributed much the larger part of the funds to meet the expense in- volved. It was through his influence, also, that clergymen of distinction were cach year brought to take part in the work. He retained the ances- tral home where he was born, in Allenstown, as his country seat, and by a generous outlay made it one of the most delightful places in central New Hampshire. Here the ministers attending the August grove meetings were hospitably en- tertained. and his neighbors were always wel- come. He never lost his interest in his native State. and he was held in high esteem by the people of Allenstown and the Suncook Valley. In religious faith Mr. Evans was a Baptist, connected with the First Baptist Church on Commonwealth Avenue. He was a member of the Boston Baptist Social Union, one of the founders of the Boston Industrial Temporary Home. and interested in various other charitable or philanthropical insti- tutions. Mr. Evans was married in Boston. Janu- ary 1, 1845, to Miss Sarah M. Cummings, daugh- ter of Charles Cummings, a contractor and builder of Boston. They had a family of five sons and four daughters. Three of the sons are associated with the firm of Brice S. Evans & Co .. - Edgar B., Charles R., and Herbert S. : another. Percival A., is an architect ; and the other, Arthur W., is in the shoe business. The daugh- ters were Estelle M., now the wife of William G. Preston, the architect; Isadore, widow of Lieu- tenant Frank W. Nichols, United States navy : Minerva S., residing at home, and Gertrude Ware Evans (deceased). Mrs. Evans died in 1886.
FAIRBANKS, LORENZO SAYLES, of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Pepperell, March 16, 1825, son of Joel and Abigail (Tufts) Fairbanks. He is a descendant in the eighth generation of Jonathan Fairbanks, who came from Yorkshire, England, about the year 1633. and in 1636 settled in Dedham, where he built the house still standing, a cherished landmark in Dedham, and one of the oldest houses in New England. In this house John Fairbanks, the great-grand- father of Lorenzo S., was born. His father was also a native of Dedham, born in 1797. and thence moved to Pepperell in 1822, where he lived till 1825, when he moved a second time, to New Boston, N.H. The mother of Lorenzo S. was a daughter of Ebenezer Tufts, of Roxbury.
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N. H., an intellectual woman, of strong character, of great energy and executive ability. His edu- cation was begun in the district schools in New Boston ; and, attracting attention there as a scholar, he was stimulated to push for higher attain- ments. Half a dozen of his schoolmates preparing for college, he was ambitious to follow in their steps ; and, knowing that he must himself meet the cost of a collegiate training, for it was beyond the means of his father, - an industrious manufacturer of doors, blinds, window sashes, and clock cases, but moderately prosperous,- he set about clearing the way. Entering a country store in New Bos-
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ton as a clerk, he spent three years there acquir- ing means for beginning a course of preparatory study, and then attended Hancock AAcademy for a term. Continuing his studies in the Townsend (Vt.) Academy, and later at the Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vt., he was finally fitted for college ; but, instead of then entering, he further studied at home without a teacher, mastering the course of the freshman year, and in the autumn of 1849 entered Dartmouth in the sophomore class. While in college, he was president of the Alpha Delta Phi Society and of the Social Friends, a public literary society ; and at graduation was ad- mitted to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He grad-
uated in 1852 with high rank, and in the com- mencement exercises delivered the closing oration. His law studies were pursued in New York City, and he was admitted to the New York bar in the autumn of 1853. He at once began practice there, and during his first two years was retained in a number of notable cases, among them being the celebrated Chemical Bank forgery cases, and the so-called " Martha Washington false pretence case," which grew out of the burning of the steamer " Martha Washington " on the Mississippi River in 1852, twelve persons being indicted for obtaining money under false pretences from New York insurance companies on, pretended ship- ments of merchandise on the steamer, it being alleged that no goods were shipped and that the vessel was burned to obtain the insurance. In the latter case Mr. Fairbanks was counsel for eleven of the twelve defendants, and succeeded in having the indictments quashed. After four years of practice in New York he decided to move to the West ; but, the financial condition of the country at the time making the outlook there un- promising, he went to Philadelphia, where he took charge of a commercial school which was in a languishing condition. Entering upon this new business with zeal and energy, within six months the institution was freed from debt ; and at the end of three years, during a large part of which time he was a partner in the enterprise, it was fixed on a firm foundation and steadily prosperous. Sub- sequently he started a commercial school of his own ; and during his conduct of it, for a period of five years, it was, with one exception, the largest school of its kind in the country. While in charge of this school, he published an elaborate treatise on book-keeping, which is still in the market, and subsequently a practical work on commercial arithmetic, embodying new features. Mr. Fairbanks came to Boston in 1874, and re- sumed his regular profession, engaging in a general practice. He has the reputation of being a safe and conservative counsellor, and in the cases he has tried has been eminently successful. Some years ago he gave considerable attention to the study of electrical science, and invented several interesting electrical devices, including telephones, for the manufacture of which he organized a company ; but, upon the decision of the United States Supreme Court in support of the Bell patent, his company suspended operations to await the expiration of the fundamental patents.
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