Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 18

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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B. O. FLOWER.

Flower, taking charge of the latter's extensive professional correspondence. A few years later he came to Boston, and began the publication of

a monthly literary journal, under the name of the American Spectator. In 1889 this journal, which had reached a circulation of over ten thousand, was merged in the Arena, the first number of which appeared in the December issue that year. Subsequently the Arena Publishing Company, for the publication of the magazine and of books, was established, with Mr. Flower as treasurer. His idea in founding the Arena was to provide a popular tribune for a fair hearing to radical and progressive thinkers. While conducting his mag- azine, Mr. Flower has also contributed frequently to other periodicals and to the newspaper press ; and he has published a number of volumes. Most notable among the latter are " Civilization's Inferno," " Lessons Learned from Other Lives," and "The New Time," published June, 1894. The first-mentioned work is a critical study of life in the social cellar, and has proved very popu- lar, three editions having been exhausted within twelve months from the date of its publication. Mr. Flower's religious views are pronounced and liberal, in accord with those of the so-called evolu- tionary school of Unitarians. He is a firm be- liever in a future life, and is greatly interested in psychical research, being vice-president of the American Psychical Society. He believes that through critical and scientific investigations of psychical phenomena immortality or, at least, the reality of a future life will some day be demon- strated to the satisfaction of the thinking world. He has for several years occupied a pew in Rev. M. J. Savage's church. He was married Septem- ber 10, 1886, to Miss Hattie Cloud, of Evansville, Ind. They have no children.

GAGE, ROSCOE WITHERLIE, president of the Boston Loan Company, is a native of Maine, born in Castine, September 3, 1835, son of Charles C. and Eliza (Harriman) Gage. His education was acquired in the Bangor public schools. He began business life in 1850, as a clerk with David Bugbee & Co., booksellers and stationers of Bangor. In 1857 he removed to Portland, and engaged in the flour and grain business on his own account. In 1860 he was admitted to the old established firm of Blake & Jones, as a part- ner, under the style of Blake, Jones, & Co., which was subsequently changed to Blake, Jones, & Gage, and became the largest and most promi- nent concern in that trade in the State. Ten

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years later he retired from this firm and went to Chicago, Ill., where he entered the grain commis- sion business in partnership with Charles F.

R. W. GAGE.

Davis, under the firm name of Gage & Davis. In 1875 he removed to Washington, having accepted a position in the United States Treasury Depart- ment. This office he held for nearly eight years, and resigned in 1883 to take the position of cashier in the Boston Loan Company, incor- porated in 1878, with a capital of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and now having among its directors N. B. Bryant and Charles W. Bartlett, well-known members of the Suffolk bar, and Hor- ace E. Bartlett, of Haverhill, attorney at law. He has since remained with this corporation, becom- ing its president on the first of January, 1890. Mr. Gage was married in 1855, at Portland, Me., to Miss Mary J. Blake, daughter of Charles Blake, with whom he subsequently became associated in business, as above stated. He married secondly, in 1874, Miss Nancy M. Howe, of Boston, daugh- ter of Leonard Howe. He has three sons: Edwin, Clinton, and William A. Gage. He re- sides in the suburb of Allston.

GERRISH, JAMES RICHARD, superintendent of the city institutions at Deer Island, Boston

Harbor (the houses of industry and reformation), was born in Chelsea, March 25, 1841, son of Richard and Sarah Ann ( Ellison) Gerrish, of Exe- ter, N.H. He is a descendant of Captain Will- iam Gerrish, born in England, August 17, 1620, who came to this country in 1638, and died in Boston, November 9, 1687. His great-great-great grand unele, Richard Gerrish, was one of the council of Governor Wentworth before the Revo- lution; and Colonel Timothy, Richard's brother, settled Gerrish Island, Portsmouth Harbor. His father was born in 1807 at Lebanon, Me., one of thirteen children, twelve boys and a girl, and died of consumption in 1843 at Nashua, N.H., where he went from Chelsea for his health; and his mother, born in Exeter, N.H., died at eighty-four, of old age. He was the youngest of four children. He was educated in the Chelsea public schools. Early apprenticed to a carpenter and builder, he began work at that trade when in his teens, and pursued it till the outbreak of the Civil War. Then he enlisted in the First Regiment Massachu- setts Volunteers, and served in the field for twenty months, when he was discharged for disability. After his recovery he became a clerk in a Boston

JAMES R. GERRISH.

dry-goods store, where he remained seven years. Next he engaged in the real estate and building business for himself, and from this entered the

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employment of the city as receiver at the Deer Island institutions. Three years after, in 1881, he was appointed superintendent of the Charles- town District almshouse. His services covered eight years. Then, in 1889, he was appointed to the superintendency of the Deer Island institu- tions, which he has held from that date. He is connected with the Masonic order and the Grand Army of the Republic: a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council, and Knights Templar, and of Abraham Lincoln Post 11. He is also a member of the Union Veterans' Union, Camp No. 1, General Hancock, and of the United Order of Workmen. He was married in Chelsea, Septem- ber 23, 1863, to Miss Amelia M. Getchell, of Wis- casset, Me. They have had four children : Emma Louise, Fred Leander, Amelia Annette, and Mabel Florence Gerrish, the last-mentioned the only one now living. .

GINN, EDWIN, publisher of school and college text-books, Boston, is a native of Maine, born in Orland, February 14, 1838, son of James and Sarah (Blood) Ginn. His early boyhood was spent on the farm, with plenty of outdoor life, picking up rocks, milking cows, and doing the or- dinary work of a farmer's boy, attending the dis- triet school four months in the year. At the age of twelve he was in a logging swamp, and cook- ing for a crew of men. At fourteen he was fishing on the Grand Banks. From the Grand Banks he went to the seminary at Westbrook, Me. At this period he walked back and forth four miles from the farm to the seminary daily, and did all the farm "chores." At seventeen he began teaching the district school to obtain funds to continue his education at Westbrook. At twenty he graduated from the seminary (1858), and entered Tufts Col- lege. While in college, his eyes failed him, and he was obliged thereafter to depend upon class- mates for reading his lessons to him. He gradu- ated in regular course in 1862. During his col- lege life he taught winters, and part of the time boarded himself because of lack of funds. His business carcer has been wholly in the book trade. Six months after leaving college he went upon the road, travelling as a commission agent, and about the year 1867 engaged in publishing on his own account. A little later Fred B. Ginn was ad- mitted to the business, and the firm became Ginn Brothers. In 1876 1). C. Heath, now of D. C. Heath & Co., entered the house; and in 1881 the

firm name was made Ginn, Heath, & Co. This partnership was dissolved in 1885, when Mr. Heath went into business for himself ; and since that time the firm has been Ginn & Co. Among the earlier publications of the house are the Rev. Henry N. Hudson's editions of Shakspere, Good- win's Greek Grammar, and the National Music Course by Luther Whiting Mason, which have been followed by a series of mathematics by Pro- fessor G. A. Wentworth, For many years professor of mathematics at Phillips (Exeter) Academy ; Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar, Casar

EDWIN GINN.

and Cicero ; Greenough's Virgil ; " Essentials of English," by Professor W. D). Whitney, of Yale College; college series of " Latin and Greek Au- thors," edited, respectively, by Clement L. Smith, professor of Latin in Harvard University, and Tracy Peck, professor of the Latin language and literature in Yale University, and Professor John Williams White, professor of Greek in Harvard University, and Thomas 1). Seymour, Hillhouse professor of the Greek language and literature in Yale University ; Goodwin and White's Anabasis and White's "Beginner's Greek Book "; Mont- gomery's English, French, and American His- tories ; General and Mediaval and Modern His- tories, by P. V. N. Meyers, professor of history,

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University of Cincinnati ; "Elements of Physics," by Professor A. P. Gage, of the English High School, Boston ; "Beginner's Latin Book," by W. C. Collar, head-master of the Roxbury Latin School, and M. Grant Daniell, of Chauncy Hall School ; Eysenbach's German Lessons edited by W. C. Collar : Lessons in Astronomy, " Elements of Astronomy and College Astronomy," by Pro- fessor C. A. Young, of Princeton College ; a full line of Sanskrit and Old English books ; the Atheneum Press Series of English Litera- ture ; Political Science Quarterly, Classical Review, Journal of Morphology, Philosophical Review, etc. In politics Mr. Ginn is Independent. He is a member of the University, Twentieth Century, and Unitarian clubs, and of the Municipal League, all of Boston ; and of the Calumet Club, of Winchester, where he resides. He was mar- ried in 1869 to Miss Clara Glover, who died in 1890, leaving three children : Jessie, Maurice, and Clara Ginn. He married in 1893 Miss Francesca Grebe.

GOODRICH, JOHN BENTON, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Fitchburg, January 7, 1836, son of John and Mary Ann (Blake) Good- rich. His ancestry is traced to William Goodrich, settled in Watertown in 1634, a member of Sir Richard Saltonstall's colony, whose descendants were the earliest settlers in Fitchburg and Lunen- burg. One of them, Deacon David Goodrich, was a member of the Provincial Congress at Water- town, and commanded a company in the battle of Bunker Hill. His son John was engaged in the same battle, and from him the name of John con- tinued in direct line to the present. John B. was educated in the public schools of Fitchburg, fitting for college in the High School, and at Dartmouth, from which he was graduated in the class of 1857. He studied law, beginning immediately after his graduation from college, with Norcross & Snow, of Fitchburg, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. That year he opened his office in Boston, and has been engaged there since in general practice. He has met with peculiar success in jury trials, and has gained distinction in several notable capital cases. From the time of his admission to the bar to 1865 he was a resident of Watertown, and since then he has resided in Newton, in both places taking an active part in local affairs. In the former he was a member of the School Com-

mittee from 1862 to 1865, and in the latter served several terms on the School Board, chairman of the board in 1868 and 1869. He also repre-

JOHN B. GOODRICH.

sented Newton in the lower house of the Legis- lature two terms (1869-70), serving both years on the committee on the judiciary. From 1872 to 1875 he was district attorney for Middlesex County. In politics he is a strong Republican ; has always taken an active part in political mat- ters, and is an effective political speaker. He is a past master of Pequossette Lodge, Masons, of Watertown, and prominent in various Masonic organizations. Mr. Goodrich was married April 25, 1865, to Miss Anna Louisa Woodward, daugh- ter of Ebenezer Woodward, of Newton. They have one son, their only child: John Wallace Goodrich, well known in musical circles as an accomplished organist and musical scholar.

GOODSPEED, JOSEPH HORACE, treasurer of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, is a native of Connecticut, born in East Haddam, January 14, 1845, son of George E. and Nancy Green (Hayden) Goodspeed. He is a direct de- scendant of Roger Goodspeed, who came to Barn- stable in 1639 ; and on his mother's side of James Green, of Barnstable (died in 1731, aged ninety),

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who was the son of James Green of Charlestown. The families of Nathaniel Goodspeed and James Green, son of James Green of Barnstable, moved from the Cape to East Haddam, Conn., about the year 1758. His early education was acquired in the Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn., the Chesh- ire Academy, Cheshire, Conn., and the Hartford High School, and in 1862 he entered Trinity Col- lege, Hartford. He was obliged, however, to leave college before graduating on account of the death of his father, and turn his attention directly to busi- ness matters. His father's business was that of ship-building and country store, and having as a youth, when not in school, acted as clerk and assistant in the store, he had already acquired a knowledge of business methods. After closing up the estate of his father, he went to Denver, Col., in 1865, to take a position in a banking house there of Kountze Brothers; and for eleven years he lived west of the Mississippi River. In 1866 he was vice-president of the Colorado Na- tional Bank of Denver, in 1867-68 cashier of the Rocky Mountain National Bank of Central City : and in 1869-70 treasurer of Gilpin County, Colo-

J. H. GOODSPEED.

rado. Then in 1870 he went to St. Joseph, Mo., to engage in the railroad business, having ac- cepted the position of cashier and paymaster of

the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company. This position he held until 1874, when he was appointed general auditor of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs. the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston the Atchison & Nebraska, Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf, Chicago & West Michigan, and De- troit, Lansing & Michigan Railroad companies, which companies were then known as the "Joy Roads of the West," and was established at Kan- sas City, Mo. Two years later, in 1876, he re- turned to the East, having received, through Charles Francis Adams, then chairman of the Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners, the ap- pointment of "supervisor of railroad accounts" for the State of Massachusetts. He was con- nected with the board in that position until 1881, and then retired to take the position of general auditor of the Mexican Central, Atlantic & Paci- fic, and California Southern railroads, under Mr. Thomas Nickerson. Here he remained until No- vember, 188;, when he was appointed treasurer of the West End Street Railroad Company, which position he has held since. Mr. Goodspeed is a member of the J. w. Fraternity (college society), also a Knights Templar Mason ; and he belongs to the following societies and clubs of Boston : the Algonquin, Suffolk, and Boston Whist clubs, the Society of Arts, and the Beacon Society, of which he is secretary. In politics he is Repub- lican. He was married January 27, 1887, to Miss Arabel Morton, daughter of John D. Morton. They have no children.

GRAY, ORIN TINKHAM, member of the Suf- folk bar, is a native of Norridgwock, Me., born June 2, 1839, son of Robert 1). and Lurana (Tink- ham) Gray. He comes of Puritan stock. His paternal grandfather, Captain Joshua Gray, was a prominent and influential citizen of his town and county; and his maternal grandfather, Deacon Orin Tinkham, after whom he was named, exer- cised, during a residence of forty years in Nor- ridgewock, an influence in town and church affairs second to that of no man in the township. Both of his grandfathers were officers in the war of 1812. His great-grandfather, the Hon. John Tinkham, was born and lived in Middleboro, this State, in a house which had been consecu- tively occupied by four generations of his family. He held town and county offices for many years,

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and served in both branches of the General Court. Mr. Gray's father was a thrifty farmer and lumber-

ORIN T. GRAY.

man, who managed the farm during the summer months, and in the winter conducted an extensive lumbering business on the Kennebec and Dead Rivers ; and his mother won more than a local reputation as a writer. His education was begun in private schools and under private instructors, and he was fitted for college in the Anson and Bloomfield academies. At seventeen he success- fully passed his examination for admission to the sophomore class. After pursuing his collegiate studies for two years, during part of the time also engaged in teaching, he was prostrated by a serious illness brought on by overwork. Upon recovering, he took up the study of law in the office of Josiah H. Drummond, of Waterville, then the attorney-general of Maine; and, in 1860, when he had completed his twenty-first year, he was ad- mitted to the bar at Augusta. He began practice in Waterville, but in the autumn of 1862 removed to Boston, where he has since been established. He early took an interest in politics, affiliating with the Republican party. He has been a mem- ber of several national conventions, and was chair- man of the committee on resolutions in that of the National League in 1889; and he has fre-

quently spoken on the stump. He has also ac- ceptably delivered many lyceum lectures. Long a supporter of the temperance cause, he has made many addresses on this topic; and he has re- peatedly served as candidate of the Prohibition party for attorney-general. In Hyde Park, where he resides, he has held a number of local official positions, among them that of chairman of the School Committee for several years, and has been moderator of nearly all the town meetings for more than twenty years. He is connected with the management of several corporations, and is the president and managing director of one of the largest and most successful business enterprises in the Southern States. He has been one of the trustees of the Hyde Park Savings Bank since its incorporation, and its attorney. Mr. Gray was married in 1860 to Miss Louise Bradford Holmes, a direct descendant of Governor Bradford.

GROZIER, EDWIN ATKINS, editor and pub- lisher of the Boston Post, is a native of California, born in San Francisco, September 12, 1859, son of Joshua F. and Mary L. (Given) Grozier. On

E. A. GROZIER.

both sides he is of New England ancestry, his father a native of Provincetown, and his mother

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of Bowdoinham, Maine. His education was ac- quired in the High School of Provincetown, at Chauncey Hall, Boston, at Brown University, and at Boston University, graduating from the latter in 1881. His journalistic work was begun in the capacity of " press agent " for the New England Institute Fair held in Boston during the autumn of 1881. The next two years he was a general reporter, first on the staff of the Boston Globe, and then on that of the Herald. From 1884 to 1885 he was private secretary to Governor George D. Robinson, and resigned that position to take the place of private secretary to Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World. He remained with the World from 1885 to 1891, occupying numerous positions of responsibility, including those of city editor of the daily, Sunday editor, managing edi- tor of the Evening World, and business manager of the Evening World. In October, 1891, he purchased the controlling interest in the Boston Post, and since that time he has conducted that paper as chief editor and publisher. He early in- troduced new and novel features, reduced the price and increased the circulation. In 1893 he added a Sunday edition. In politics he was orig- inally a Republican, but since 1886 has been a Democrat. He is a member of the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Fellowcraft of New York, the Belfry of Lexington, and numerous other organi- zations. Mr. Grozier was married November 26. 1885, to Alice G. Goodell, of an old Salem family. They have two children : Richard, born in 1887 ; and Helen Grozier, born in 1889.

HADLOCK, HARVEY DEMING, of Boston, ju- rist and advocate, is a native of Maine, born at Cranberry Isles, October 7, 1843, youngest son of Edwin and Mary Ann (Stanwood) Hadlock. He is descended in the seventh generation from Na- thaniel Hadlock, who came from Wapping, Eng- land, in 1638, settled first in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts Colony, and subsequently was one of the founders of Lancaster, whose son, Nathaniel of Gloucester, married a Quakeress, and who is men- tioned in Felt's History of Salem as having been fined and punished for declaring "that he could receive no profit from Mr. Higginson's preaching, and that in persecuting the Quakers the government was guilty of innocent blood "; and through his paternal grandmother he is de- scended from Thomas Manchester, one of the

earliest settlers (1642) of Portsmouth, R.I. On his mother's side he is a descendant of Philip Stanwood, one of the earliest settlers (1653) of Gloucester, and, in the fifth generation, of Job Stanwood, the soldier mentioned in history, and Martha Bradstreet, his second wife ; and, through his maternal grandmother, of Captain John Gilley. an eminent shipmaster of his time, son of Will- iam Gilley, who came to America in 1763. Two of the sons of the first Nathaniel Hadlock were in King Phillip's War; three Hadloeks were in the battle of Lexington ; others of the family name, including the great-grandfather of Harvey 1) ..

HARVEY D. HADLOCK.

were soldiers of the Revolution ; his uncle, Cap- tain Samuel Hadlock, Jr., was in the War of 18 12, and his brother, Colonel William E. Hadlock, was in the Civil War. His grandfather, Captain Samuel Hadlock, acquired by purchase the greater part of "Little Cranberry Island " early in the present century, and, settling there, engaged in shipping and merchandise, to which business his father, a master mariner in early life, suc- ceeded. Harvey D. received his early education under the supervision of his mother, a woman of superior culture, and in the schools of his native town. At thirteen, the family having removed to Bueksport, Me., he became a student in the East

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Maine Conference Seminary, in which institution and under private instructors, he pursued an ad- vanced course of classical studies, which he sup- plemented by a partial course in the scientific department of Dartmouth. His legal studies were pursued in the law office of the Hon. Samuel F. Humphrey at Bangor, Me., under the friendly supervision of ex-Governor Edward Kent, then one of the justices of the Maine Supreme Court. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar of that court, and later to the Federal courts of the district ; and he began practice in Bucksport. Business drawing him to New Or- leans, La., he spent the winter of 1865-66 there, devoting much of the time to the study of civil and maritime law, under the direction of the emi- nent jurist, Christian Roselius. Within the next three years he was admitted to practice in the courts, State and Federal, of Nebraska, Massa- chusetts, and New York, establishing his main of- fice in Boston in the autumn of 1868. He was there engaged largely in criminal cases, in the de- fence of which he met with marked success. In 1871 he returned to Bucksport to engage in pro- moting the railroad from Bangor to eastern points by way of Bucksport ; and in the spring of 1873, the construction of the road being assured, he re- sumed general practice at Bucksport. He be- came one of the directors of the Bucksport & Bangor Railroad, and counsel for the corporation ; and his practice extended to nearly every county of the State, embracing some of the most impor- tant cases tried in Maine, in the conduct of which his reputation as an able advocate and jurist was firmly established. In 1881 he removed from Bucksport to Portland, and there during a resi- dence of six years maintained a leading place among the ablest lawyers of the Cumberland bar, as a successful practitioner in causes involving important interests of railroad corporations, valu- able patents, and maritime affairs, besides notable criminal cases. It has been said that during this period he tried more causes than any other lawyer in Portland, and performed a prodigious amount of work. Returning to Boston in 1887, he has since resided and practised there, maintaining an office also in New York City, the range of his practice extending beyond the limits of the State and Federal courts of New England and New York, and embracing cases of great importance before the United States Supreme Court. Among the large number of notable cases which he has

successfully conducted is that of Campbell 7. the mayor, aldermen, and commonality of the city of New York, involving the validity of the steam fire-engine patent, for many years before the courts, and of national importance, affecting every city which used steam fire-engines from 1864 to 1881. Other cases of note were the l'e- tition of Frederic Spofford for Certiorari 7. The Railroad Commissioners of Maine and the Bucks- port & Bangor Railroad; the Treat & Co. bank- rupt case, pending in the United States District Court of Maine from 1868 to 1889 ; that of Cod- man 7. Brooks, involving the construction of acts of Congress in relation to French Spoliation Claims now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States ; numerous great trade-mark cases ; maritime, railroad, consular, conspiracy, and will cases, conspicuous among the latter the Jenness will case, Concord, N.H., in 1892. He was mar- ried January 26, 1865, to Miss Alexene L. Good- ell, eldest daughter of Captain Daniel S. Goodell, of Searsport, a prominent shipmaster, and later in life a successful ship-builder. They have two children living: Inez and Webster Hadlock. Their eldest son, Harvey D. Hadlock, Jr., born December 4. 1870, died January 22, 1886, from accidental shooting while handling a revolver. Mr. Hadlock's summer residence is in Bucksport, occupying a picturesque site on the banks of the Penobscot.

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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 18

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