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In 1877 he added to his list of publications a work on the " Marriage and Divorce Laws of Mas- sachusetts," and brought out a second edition in ISS2. For the past three years he has been en- gaged in compiling a general genealogy of the Fairbanks family, for publication. Mr. Fairbanks was married in New York in 1856 to Sarah Eliza- beth Heath, daughter of Samuel S. and Rebecca (Pearl) Heath, of Bradford. They had three daughters, two of whom are living, one of them married and having three children.
FLYNN, EDWARD JAMES, of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, June 16, 1859, son of Maurice and Mary ( MeSweeny) Flynn. lle is of Irish ancestry. He was educated in the Boston public schools, attending the Eliot Gram- mar and English High, and at Boston College, graduating from the latter, valedictorian of the class, in 1881, with the regular degree of A. B., and receiving the degree of A.M. three years later. In college he was president of two leading societies. He studied law in the Boston Univer- sity Law School, and after graduation there, in 1884. with the degree of LL.B., took a special course in the Harvard Law School. In January the same year he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, and began practice in Boston, early building up an extensive and lucrative business. He became interested in political matters when a law student. and in the autumn following his graduation was elected to the lower house of the Legislature for the Sixth Suffolk District. Twice returned. he served in the legislatures of 1885. 1886, and 1888, a leading member on the Democratic side from the start, active in debate and prominent in committee work, serving on the committees on pro- bate and insolvency, election laws, the judiciary. and constitutional amendments. He was an elo- quent speaker and identified with numerous im- portant measures. He was an earnest advocate of annual elections and of the abolition of the poll tax ; led the opposition to the passage of the Metropolitan Police Bill for the city of Boston, and was recognized as an able and fearless leader. During the years 1886, 1887, and 1888 he was also a director of the East Boston ferries ; and he was fire marshal of the city of Boston till the abolition of that office by the Legislature, filling the position with marked ability. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Executive Council, and
through repeated re-elections served in that body in 1889 (with Governor Ames), 1890 (with Gover- nor Brackett), and 1891 (with Governor Russell). the only Democratic member, and the youngest man who ever sat in the Governor's Council. He was also the youngest man who has ever served as an East Boston Ferry director. In the election of 1895 he was a candidate on the Democratic State ticket for secretary of state. He was for a num- ber of years connected with the Boston Demo- cratic city committee, and is now vice-president of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachu- setts. He served as president of the Boston
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College Alumni Association for two years, July. 1890-92. He is now president of the Charitable Irish Society, the oldest organization of its kind in this part of the country; and is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Boston Catholic Union. Mr. Flynn was married October 18. 1893. to Miss Mary 1. Harvey, of Waltham. They have one child : Edward J. Flynn. Jr.
FRENCH. As, of Braintree and Boston, mem- ber of the bar, is a native of Braintree, born October 21, 1829, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Brackett) French. His ancestors lived in Brain-
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tree from its early settlement. He received his early education in the public schools, fitted for college at Leicester Academy, and graduated at Yale in the class of 1851. He studied law in the Albany and Harvard Law schools, graduating from the latter with the regular degree in 1853. He was admitted to the New York bar that year ; and soon after, coming to Boston, and further reading in the offices of David A. Simmons and Harvey Jewell. he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, April 26, 1854. Although practising in Bos- ton with a large clientage, he has been especially identified with the bar of Norfolk County, the
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place of his residence. In 1870 he was appointed district attorney for the South-eastern District of Massachusetts, consisting of the counties of Nor- folk and Plymouth ; and he held this office by suc- cessive elections till 1882, when he resigned. Previous to his resignation he was offered by Gov- ernor Long a seat on the bench of the Superior Court, which he declined. In 1882, under the act of Congress of June 5. that year, re-establish- ing the "Court of Commissioners of Alabama ('laims," he was appointed one of the judges of that court. He was for many years a member of the State Board of Commissioners on Inland Fisheries. He has served one term (1886) as
a representative in the State Legislature. In 1883 he was appointed by President Arthur one of the visitors to West Point for that year. In Braintree he has held numerous positions of trust. He is now president of the Board of Trustees of the Thayer Public Library and the Thayer Acad- emy, institutions established through the gener- osity of the late General Sylvanus Thayer, the former endowed by him in 1870, and the latter provided by his will, and having now an invested fund of about 5300,000 bequeathed by him to trustees for the establishment of a school free to all citizens of the original town of Braintree, com- prising the present city of Quincy and the towns of Braintree. Randolph, and Holbrook, for the education of their children. Mr. French is a member of the Boston and Norfolk Bar associa- tions and the Harvard Law Association; also of the University Club of Boston. Mr. French was married in June, 1855, to Miss Ellen ('lizbe, of Amsterdam, N.Y., who died in September of the same year. He married, second, in October, 1858, Miss Sophia B. Palmer, daughter of the late Simeon Palmer, of Boston. She died December 25, 1891. To this union were born five children : Asa Palmer, Emmelyn L., Saban Hayward (de- ceased ), Harriet C., and Mary Sophia Palmer.
FRIES, WULF CHRISTIAN JULIU'S, of Boston, musician, is a native of Germany, born in Garbeck- Holstein, January 10, 1825, son of Johann Carl Ludolph and Anna (Stuhr) Fries. His father was a teacher and an amateur musician. and gave him his first instruction on the violoncello when he was so small that he was obliged to stand and play the instrument in the bass fashion. He at- tended his father's school, receiving there his early general education, until he was eleven years old. when he went to Ploen, in Holstein, to receive systematic instruction in music. There he was tried at various instruments, and learned to play acceptably the French horn, the violin, the viola, bass-viol, and the trombone. After several years at P'loen, he went with his brother August, a good violinist, to Bergen, Norway, in 1842, under engagement to a Mr. Schlossbauer, a fine violinist, who furnished the city with music. Not being treated well by their master, they were soon released through process of law, and found places in the only theatre in the town, August to play the violin, and Wulf the 'cello. While here en-
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gaged, they gave occasional concerts together, and helped musicians coming to Bergen to concertize. In this way they came in contact with such artists as Ole Bull and Kellerman, the famous 'cellist ; and from hearing them Wulf became decided as to his special instrument, wisely selecting the 'cello. The brothers came to America in 1847 : and Wulf chose Boston as his home, where he has ever since lived. He carly became famous as a 'cellist, and in course of time did much to raise the standard of orchestration. His first engage- ment in Boston was as 'cellist at the old National Theatre on Portland Street. Soon after he also
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joined the Germania, playing the trombone, and was an original member of the Germania Serenade Band. In 1849 his brother, who had remained in New York, joined him in Boston, and formed the Mendelssohn Quintette Club, composed of August Fries, Gerloff, Eduard Lehmann, Oscar Greiner, and Wulf Fries, which during its long career achieved a great fame through its tours in this country. At about this time Mr. Fries also joined the old Musical Fund Society, an outgrowth of the Boston AAcademy of Music, which had Hour- ished from 1833 to 1847 ; and he became a regu- lar performer in the concerts of the Harvard Musical Association and the Handel and Haydn
Society. He has since appeared in many chamber concerts in Boston, and has also taken part in a large number of special concerts. In 1873, after twenty-three years with the Mendels- sohn Quintette Club, becoming tired of travelling, he joined the Beethoven Quintette Club, then formed for concerts near his home. When Rubinstein came to Boston, in 1873, he was called upon to play trios with him and Wieniawski: and in later years he has taken part in concerts with Dr. Hans von Bülow, and with his friend Ernst l'erabo he has played all the Beethoven sonatas, trios, etc. In religious faith Mr. Fries is of the Lutheran Church. He was married first in Bos- ton, July 7, 1851, to Miss Louisa Ann Mary Gann. daughter of James P. and Mary M. G. H. ( Ryder) Gann, of England, and of this union were two children : James Christian Charles and Wulf Fries, Jr. (deceased). His second marriage was near Bergen, Norway, September 16, 1857, to Miss Magdalene Greve, daughter of Johan Fritzner and Henriette (Neven) Greve, of Norway. The chil- dren by this union are: Louisa Henriette and Anna Magdalene Fries. Mr. Fries has resided for many years in the Roxbury District, Boston.
GALLOUPE, CHARLES WILLIAM, of Boston and Swampscott, was born in Beverly, September 5, 1825, son of Isaac and Annis (Allen) Galloupe. He is a direct descendant on both sides of the first settlers of Massachusetts Bay, and in his line of descent the intermarriages have been made al- ways with descendants only of the original Puri- tan immigrants. His earliest paternal ancestor in New England was John Gallop, for whom Gal- lop's Island in Boston Harbor was named, who came from England, with his four children, John, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Joan, in the ship " Mary and John," which reached Natascott (now Hull) on May 30, 1630. John Gallop descended from John Gallop, who "came out of the North in 1465." and settled in County Dorset, England, where his descendants still reside upon the estate which has been owned and occupied by the family for more than four centuries. The first marriage which took place in the family after their arrival in America was that of Mr. Galloupe's ancestor, Captain John Gallop, 2d (who was killed in the Narragansett Swamp fight in 1675), who married Hannah Lake, daughter of Madame Margaret (Reed) Lake, a sister of the wife of Governor
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John Winthrop, Jr., and a step-daughter of the famous Rev. Hugh Peters. the private chaplain of Oliver Cromwell. John Gallop probably first settled at Natascott on the hill which still bears his name: and, when Winthrop came, he joined him, and removed to Boston, where he established himself permanently. He built his house upon the " Sea bancke," now North Street (on the map of the " Book of Possessions " num- bered 34); and to the territory extending from the "Creek," now Blackstone Street, to the Chelsea Ferry was given the name of " Gallop's l'oint." He built and commanded one of the first vessels built here, which in 1632 was chartered by Gov- ernor Winthrop, with Gallop in charge, to " pur- sne and capture the notorious pirate, Dixey Bull." In 1633 he brought the ship "Griffin " of three hundred tons into the harbor at low water. as Winthrop relates in his "Diary," " a new way by Lovell's Island, now called Griffin's Gap. She brought about two hundred passengers," of which Gallop's wife, it is said, was one. Three years later he had an encounter with the Indians in Narragansett Bay, an interesting account of which was written by Increase Mather in 1677, and which is called in Cooper's " Naval History of the United States" " the first naval battle in Amer- ica." He died in 1649, and his will is among the earliest in the colony on record. Mr. Galloupe's first maternal ancestor in America was William Allen, born in Manchester, England, in 1602. who came over with Roger Conant about 1622, and accompanied Conant to Cape Ann in 1625. In 1626 he was first connected with what is now known as Manchester-by-the-sea. In 1636 fifty acres of land were granted him by the colony ; and in 1640 he, with others, petitioned the " Honorable Court" for " Power to erect a Villiage there," which was granted, and the "Villiage " was named Manchester, probably in commemoration of their home in England. Jacob Allen, the ma- terna! great-grandfather of Mr. Galloupe, was one of the minute-men who marched from Manchester on the day of the battle of Lexington ; and both his grandfather, Isaac Allen, and his great-grand- father, were in the battle of Bunker Hill, and served in the first army under General Washing- ton. Enos Gallop, his paternal grandfather, en- listed in the army of the Revolution when but seventeen years of age, and served during the war. Both of the grandfathers were granted pensions by Congress. Mr. Galloupe received the usual
educational training afforded boys of his position in his day, beginning at the " mistress school," passing through the district or " master's " school, and taking a course at the academy; and at the age of fifteen he was regarded as amply equipped for business life. Accordingly, he then entered the local dry-goods store of Elbridge Fisk, on Cabot Street. Beverly, and began work as a clerk. After two years' experience in that place, and finding his native town too limited a field for his ambition, he armed himself with letters of recom- mendation from the minister and the selectmen of the town, and set out for Boston. "There, ob-
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taining a situation as a salesman with Carney & Sleeper, then one of the wealthiest and most prominent firms of wholesale clothiers, he so ap- plied himself to the business that he gained the approbation of both partners ; and, after a clerk- ship of slightly more than two years, was, when but twenty years old, upon the retirement of Carney & Sleeper from the business, made an equal partner with Joseph J. Whiting and M. Kehoe, Jr., in the firm which succeeded them, Messrs. Carney and Sleeper forming a special co- partnership of five years, and contributing an ample amount of capital for its successful continu- ation. At the end of the five years, in 1851,
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when the special partnership terminated by limita- tion, a new firm was formed under the name of Whiting, Kehoe, & Galloupe. Up to 1856 the house was established on North, formerly Ann Street. That year removal was made to a new granite building, completed especially for the firm, on Federal Street, near Milk Street, which had become the centre of the dry-goods jobbing and commission trade; and here a most success- ful business was carried on till another change of locality and larger facilities were deemed neces- sary, when a new granite building, also especially fitted up for the firm by its owners, on Franklin Street was occupied. The partnership formed in 1851 expired in 1859 ; and, Mr. Kehoe then with- drawing, Joseph W. Bliss, Albert T. Whiting, Otis H. Pierce, and James McKenna were admitted, and the firm name became Whiting. Galloupe, Bliss, & Co. Under this organization a prosper- ous business was done with all parts of the coun- try, and also, after the opening of the Civil War, with the United States government, through the supply of the army and navy and the Indian de- partments with clothing by contract. In 1862 Mr. Galloupe and Mr. Joseph J. Whiting in their turn withdrew from the active conduct of affairs, establishing by a special partnership, as Messrs. Carney and Sleeper had done sixteen years be- fore, their former partners as their successors, under the firm name of Bliss, Whiting, Pierce, & McKenna, contributing an abundance of capital for the prosecution of the large business which had developed. After their retirement Mr. Gal- loupe and Mr. Whiting, associating themselves with Charles A. Putnam, cashier of the Washing- ton Bank, established a banking house on State Street, under the firm name of Whiting, Galloupe. & Putnam, and were soon engaged in a large and successful business. In 1863 the firm was ap- pointed by the United States government one of the agents of the five-twenty loan, and through its extensive connections with the leading banks and bankers in all of the large cities of the country, it attained a prominent and respected position. Mr. Whiting died suddenly in 1864, and, deprived of the companionship of his warm friend and partner of twenty years, Mr. Galloupe found busi- ness no longer attractive ; and, continuing a short time under the firm name of Galloupe & Putnam. he retired, establishing in his place his brother-in- law, Edward L. Giddings, who formed a partner- ship with William H. Tower under the firm name
of Tower, Giddings, & Co. In his comparatively short business career Mr. Galloupe had been asso- ciated with an unusual number of men who at- tained public prominence : Andrew Carney, the founder of that beneficent institution, the Car- ney Hospital, South Boston, and distinguished throughout his active life for his many charitable contributions ; Jacob Sleeper, the munificent phil- anthropist, whose generous gifts and personal sup- port advanced the quick development of Boston University : Albert T. Whiting, for a long term chairman of the State Board of Police in Boston ; Alanson W. Beard, ex-collector of the port of Bos- ton, who was for some time in Mr. Galloupe's employ ; as was also Sydney Cushing, ex-alder- man of Boston. During the Civil War, Mr. Galloupe, having offered his services to the gov- ernment in connection with the War Depart- ment, in Boston, after his retirement from the clothing trade, was appointed to take charge of the clothing and equipment contracts ; and in this capacity he served without compensation for more than a year, being honorably retired when there was no longer any occasion for his services, with the thanks of the War Department in writing, through the officer in command in Boston. In May, 1866, accompanied by his family, he sailed for England, and for the next fifteen months trav- elled extensively through Europe. In 1872 he joined the old Trinity parish, then in Summer Street, and in April of that year he was appointed a member of the general building committee cre- ated the previous March, charged with the build- ing of the new Trinity Church on Copley Square. The entire management was placed by the gen- eral committee in the hands of an executive com- mittee of three, of whom he was one (Charles H. Parker, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., and Charles W. Galloupe), with full powers; and from that time to the completion of the church and its consecra- tion February 9, 1877, a period of five years, his time and attention were entirely devoted to this work. He also became a warm and intimate friend of Phillips Brooks, and the closest personal relations existed between them from the time of his connection with the parish to the death of the beloved bishop. In 1880 he sailed again with his family for Europe, and spent a year in Vienna. Mr. Galloupe was married April 13, 1848, to Miss Sarah Augusta Kittredge, eldest daughter of Dr. Ingalls and Augusta Kittredge, a descendant of Roger Conant. Their living children are : Sarah
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Kittredge and Wilhelmina. The eldest daughter, Sarah, married March 21. 1866, the Hon. Ellis W. Morton, for some time assistant United States district attorney, and afterward member of the Legislature, serving in both branches, who died September 24, 1874, leaving one son, Galloupe Morton ; in 1892 she married F. F. Hunt of New York, where she now resides. Wilhelmina married in 1879 Dr. Samuel J. Mixter, of Boston. Mr. Galloupe's winter residence is in Boston, and his summer seat in Swampscott is well known as "Galloupe's Point."
GILMAN, EDWIN C., of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, August 29, 1851, son of Samuel and Jeanette (Rae) Gilman. He was educated in the public schools, and studied law in the offices of Moses Williams and Clement K. Fay. Admitted to the Suffolk bar June 10, 1878, he opened his office in Boston. He was successfully engaged in general practice until 1885, when he became the attorney of the Lamson Consolidated Store Service Company ; and since
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that time he has been devoted almost exclusively to the management of its legal business. Mr. Gilman married Miss Anna B. Hunt, of Salem.
GRAVES, ABBOTT FULLER, of Boston, artist, was born in Weymouth, April 15, 1859, son of James Griswold and Eliza Nichols (Fuller) Graves.
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On the paternal side he is of an old English family, directly descended from early settlers in New Eng- land, coming from England ; and on the maternal side he is a descendant of Dr. Samuel Fuller, first physician of the Plymouth Colony. His mother was of Hingham. His maternal great-grand- mother, Sally DeCarteret, was born in old North Square, Boston, then the "court end." He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating from the School of Design. His talent for drawing was displayed in his boy- hood, and he early determined upon art as his profession. After his graduation from the In- stitute he went to Europe, and studied under George Jeannin, the celebrated flower painter, in 1884-85 ; and upon his return he was engaged as an instructor in the Cowles Art School. In 1887 he again went abroad, and spent the follow- ing three years under Ferdinand Cormon, in paint- ing the figure. His progress was rapid and marked, his first medal being awarded him in 1887. He was an exhibitor in the Paris Salon of 1888-89, showing "Poppies and Rose Fields of Perigny," and later was represented in some of
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the most notable American exhibitions, receiving medals in 1890 and in 1892, two the latter year. He attained distinction first in flower painting, and subsequently broadened his field, including notable figure work. Among his best known paintings are " Rose Fields of Perigny." now in the Marlboro, New York City; "Flowers of Venice," in the Southern Hotel, St. Louis: "The Chrysanthemum Show," owned by John Shepard, of Boston ; "The Silent Partner," owned by Fran- cis Wilson, the comedian ; " Making Things Shine," owned by Eugene Tompkins, of the Bos- ton Theatre : and " Making Friends," owned by A. M. Palmer, of New York. Mr. Graves di- vides his time between Boston and Maine, his winter studio being in the Studio Building in the city, and his summer studio in the old Herrick homestead, a pleasant, old-fashioned house in picturesque Kennebunkport. During the winter season he has classes in both oil and water color, his pupils having a separate studio from his own. In the summer he does much outdoor painting. He is an indefatigable worker, and his work is thorough. He is a member of the Paint and Clay Chib, of the Boston Society of Water-color Painters, of the Boston Art Student's Associ- ation, and of the Kennebunk River Club. He is also connected with the Masonic order, a member of Wyoming Lodge. He was married September 30, 1886, to Miss Montie Mayo .Adrich, daughter of Louis Aldrich, the actor. They have a daughter: Enid Graves, born in Paris, France.
HALLETT, ALBERT, of Boston, printer, was born in Yarmouthport, August 3, 1851, son of ('alvin and Elizabeth (Lewis) Hallett. He was educated in the public schools of his native place. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice in the printing-office of the Yarmouth Register, and remained there for about eight years, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the business. Then he came to Boston to enter a broader field. Shortly after he removed to Fall River, where he continued at his trade for about two years. Thence he went to New Bedford, and was there employed for a similar period. Then, returning to Boston, he en- gaged with the Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers. Beginning as a compositor on their finest grade of work, he was soon promoted to the foremanship of the job department, which position
he held until 1883, when he started in business for himself. Becoming associated with A. A. Blair, he established the printing house of Blair & Hallett, at No. 85 Water Street, which soon became well known in the community. Early outgrowing the Water Street quarters, the firm removed to No. 197 Devonshire Street. with largely increased facil- ities. In February, 1889, the partnership was dis- solved ; and Mr. Hallett established a new printing- office, fitted with new and improved machinery, at No. 111 Arch Street. Within a short time these rooms were outgrown, his business steadily in- creasing ; and in October, 1892, removal was made
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