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Citizenship Committee for more than ten years, president of the Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society since 1882, some time chairman of the finance committee of the Massa- chusetts Home Missionary Society, a director of the American Congregational Association, a mem- ber of the Pilgrim Association, of which he is now (1894) president, and of the Congregational Club, of which he was president in 1882. His most notable work of late years has been in connection with the establishment of the Boston Municipal League in 1893-94, an organization to advance
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municipal reform in various ways, having its be- ginnings in the Pilgrim Association, of which he was the chief promoter and is the present presi- dent. The objects of the league, as stated in its constitution, are " to keep before citizens the ne- cessity of their interest in public affairs, to discuss and shape public opinion upon all questions which relate to the proper government of the city, to separate municipal politics from State and na- tional politics, to secure the nomination and elec- tion of municipal officers solely on account of their fitness for the office, to federate for these pur- poses the various moral forces of the city," repre- sented in the denominational and other clubs, and " to encourage every wise project for the pro-
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motion of the good order, prosperity, and honor of Boston." It is in line with movements in other cities in the interest of municipal reform, though differing from them in detail. Upon the occasion of his election as president at the per- manent organization in February, 1894, Mr. Capen delivered a practical address, which was printed as tract No. I in the Publications of the League. Two years before, in April, 1892, the project of the Municipal League was outlined in a more general manner in his address before the Congregational Club, which also has been published in part under the title of " A Revival of Good Citizenship." Mr. Capen is second vice- president also of the National Municipal League organized in the spring of 1894, of which James C. Carter, of New York, is president. He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution. The de- gree of A.M. was given him by Dartmouth Col- lege in 1893. He was married December 8, 1869, to Miss Helen Maria Warren, daughter of the late Dr. John W. Warren, of Boston. They have two children : Edward Warren and Mary Warren Capen.
CHAMBERLAIN, LOVED ELLIS, of Brockton, justice of the Police Court, was born in Plympton, January 30, 1857, son of Robert M. and Eliza A. (Wright) Chamberlain. His paternal ancestors first settled in Hanson, and subsequently moved to Maine, where his father was born, in Auburn. His mother was a native of Plympton, and a de- scendant, through the Coopers and the Sampsons, from the Bradfords who came over in the " May- flower." His education was acquired in the com- mon and high schools of North Bridgewater, now Brockton, from which he graduated in 1875. He studied law in the office of White & Sumner, Brockton, and in the Boston University Law School, graduating in 1879. While a student with White & Sumner, he also pursued general studies beyond the High School course for two years, and later took the Chautauqua four years' course. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and began practice in ISSI. From 1882 to Novem- ber, IS84, he was a member of the law firm of Packard & Chamberlain, after which he practised alone. He was appointed to the justiceship of the Police Court upon its establishment in 1885, and he has been city solicitor of Brockton since 1891 through repeated elections. fn politics he is a Republican, and performs fully the duties of
the citizen, believing that politics are to be puri- fied at the caucus; but he has had no time to de- vote to public life. He is especially interested in municipal affairs and in movements for good government for cities and towns. He has been president of the Brockton High School Alumni
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Association for several years, president of the Alpha Bicycle Club of Brockton since its organi- zation in 1892, some time president of the Young Men's Christian Association Congress, president of the Young Men's Republican Club for many years, and is secretary of the Plymouth County Club (a Republican and social organization). He is connected also with the Masons, the Odd Fel- lows, and the Good Templars. In the latter society he has represented Massachusetts at sessions in Toronto, Can., Saratoga, Richmond, and Edinburgh, Scotland (1891); and he was treasurer for four years up to 1894. Judge Chamberlain was married August 26, 1890, to Miss Mina C. Miller, of Camden, Me. They have one child : Leslie C. Chamberlain (born July 11, 1891).
CHOATE, CHARLES FRANCIS, JR., of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Cam- bridge, born October 23, 1866, youngest son of
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Charles F. and Elizabeth W. (Carlisle) Choate. [For ancestry see Choate, Charles F.] His carly education was obtained in private schools in Cam- bridge ; and in 1879 he went to St. Mark's School at Southborough, where he was fitted for college. Entering Harvard, he was graduated there in due
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course in the class of 1888. After graduation he attended the Harvard Law School for two years, and in the spring of 1890 was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County. The following autumn he en- tered the office of Josiah H. Benton, Jr., and has since been there engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Union Club. He was married June 15, 1892, to Miss Louise Burnett, daughter of Joseph Burnett, of Boston. They have two children : Joseph B. and Charles F. Choate, 3d, twins, born May 3, 1893.
CLIFFORD, CHARLES WARREN, of New Bed- ford, member of the Bristol county bar, and iden- tified with numerous important interests, was born in New Bedford, August 19, 1844. He is the eldest son of John H. Clifford and Sarah Parker (Allen) Clifford, daughter of William Howland Allen. On the paternal side he is a direct de- scendant of Governor Mayhew, of Martha's Vine-
yard, and, on the maternal side, of Captain Myles Standish, of Plymouth. His father was one of the foremost lawyers of Eastern Massachusetts, from 1840 to 1849 district attorney for the southern district of the State, attorney-general from 1849 to 1853 and 1854 to 1858, and governor of the Commonwealth in 1853. Charles Warren Clifford was fitted for college at T. Prentiss Allen's pri- vate school in New Bedford,-the old Friends' Academy, -- entered Harvard at the age of seven- teen, and graduated with full honors in the class of 1865. His law studies, begun immediately after his graduation from the college, were pur- sued under the Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, of Taunton, the Hon. John C. Dodge, of Boston, and at the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar in New Bedford at the June term, 1868, and began practice there in the office formerly oc- cupied by his father. He was alone until Febru- ary, 1869, when he became a member of the firm of Marston & Crapo (Hon. George Marston and Hon. William W. Crapo). This relation contin- ued till the dissolution of the firm of Marston & Crapo in 1878; and since that time he has been associated with Mr. Crapo and his brother, the Hon. Walter Clifford, under the firm name of Crapo, Clifford, & Clifford. While in asso- ciation with Mr. Marston, he acted as junior counsel in many important cases, the prepara- tion of which was intrusted to him, and subse- quently became largely employed as attorney for leading business men and numerous corpora- tions. In 1876 he was appointed one of the commissioners to revise the judiciary system of the Commonwealth. In I891 he received the almost unanimous support of the bar of Massa- chusetts for appointment as a justice of the Cir- cuit Court of the United States. In 1893 he was appointed by the Supreme Judicial Court a com- missioner to determine the value of the Quincy Water-works, and in 1894 he was appointed by the same court a commissioner to distribute the expense of the Metropolitan Park System. Hc has been a commissioner of the United States Circuit Court since 1867, and for many years one of the standing examiners of applicants for admis- sion to the bar of Bristol County. In politics a steadfast Republican, Mr. Clifford has for many years been foremost among the active supporters and advocates of the principles of that party. He has repeatedly served as chairman of the Repub- lican city committee of New Bedford ; has served
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as a member of the State Committee and chair- man of its executive committee ; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1880 and assistant secretary of that body; was prominent as the manager of the campaign of the Hon. William W. Crapo for the gubernatorial nom- ination in 1882, which, though unsuccessful, was conducted with ability, good judgment, and dig- nity ; and in later years has rendered his party good service in various ways. He was one of the original board of civil service commissioners of Massachusetts which devised and established the
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present system, his term covering about four years, from November, 1884, to July, 1888. In New Bedford he holds many positions of trust, and is officially connected with numerous financial and manufacturing concerns. He is president of the Southern Massachusetts Telephone Company, pres- ident of the Masonic Building Association, chair- man of the Board of Assessors, of the First Con- gregational Society ; vice-president of St. Luke's Hospital and the National Bank of Commerce; trustee of the Swain Free School, of the New Bedford Institution for Savings, and of several es- tates ; director of the New Bedford Manufacturing Company, of the Howland Mills, the New Bedford Copper Company, the Rotch Spinning Company,
the Potomeka Mills, the Oneko Woollen Mills, the Davis Coast Wrecking Company; and one of the advisory committee of the Association for the Relief of Aged Women, and of the Ladies' Branch of the New Bedford Port Society. He was in- strumental in the establishment of the New Bed- ford Opera House, and the first president of the Opera House Association. The professional and social organizations to which he belongs include the American Bar Association, in which he is a member of the standing committee on commercial law; the New Bedford Bar Association, of which he is vice-president ; the Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the Wamsutta, Dartmouth, Unity, Snark, and Harvard clubs of New Bedford (being a trustee of the Wamsutta and vice-president of the Harvard) ; the Union, University, and Algon- quin clubs, Boston, the University Club, New York, and the Eastern and New Bedford Yacht clubs. He was the orator at New Bedford on the occasion of the celebration of the centennial of the inauguration of Washington as President of the United States, April 30, 1889 ; and among other notable discourses which he has delivered should be mentioned an eloquent address at the meeting of the Bristol County bar on the death of the Hon. George Marston, Sept. 7, 1883. He has also read papers before the Unity Club of New Bedford on the " Mckinley Tariff " and on " Reciprocity," and before the National Civil Ser- vice League on " Registration of Laborers." Mr. Clifford married, first, May 5, 1869, Miss Frances Lothrop Wood, daughter of Charles L. and Eliza- beth T. Wood, of New Bedford. She died April 28, 1872. He married, second, March 15, 1876, Welhelmina Helena Crapo, daughter of the late Governor Crapo, of Michigan, and a sister of his partner, the Hon. William W. Crapo. They have no children.
COLLINS, LEWIS PETER, of Lawrence, manu- facturer, mayor of the city in 1891, is a native of New Brunswick, born in the town of Sheffield, June 14, 1850, son of Peter and Sarah (Gallaway) Collins. He is of English and Irish ancestry. He was educated in the common and grammar schools of his native town. After leaving school, he served an apprenticeship to a carpenter and builder, and, finishing at the age of nineteen, then went into a factory to learn the ways of man- ufacturing door sashes and blinds, in which busi-
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ness he has continued from that time to the pres- ent. He came to Lawrence in 1869, and entered the employ of Briggs & Allyn, makers of all kinds
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of house finish, as general workman. Subse- quently he was made foreman ; and in 1885, when the corporation known as the Briggs & Allyn Manufacturing Company was formed to carry on the business of the old firm, he was elected super- intendent of the works. In 1892 he was made treasurer and manager, the position he now holds. He is also a director of the Lawrence National Bank and trustee of the Broadway Savings Bank. He has served in both branches of the city gov- ernment, member of the Common Council in 1889, and of the Board of Aldermen in 1890 ; and was mayor in 1891, elected by a majority of six hundred and fifty-two over his opponent. He is now a member of the Lawrence Water Board, which has purified the Merrimac River water by filtering. He belongs to a number of fraternal or- ganizations,- the Knights of Honor, the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and the United Friends, and is a member of the Lawrence Canoe Club. He is prominent in the Lawrence Board of Trade, and is the present vice-president of that organiza- tion. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Col- lins married December 26, 1869, Miss Lovina E.
Hawes, of Belfast, Me. They have one child liv- ing, Fred Lewis Collins, twelve years old.
COOK, CHARLES EMERSON, editor-in-chief of the Boston Budget, is a native of Maine, born in Parsonsfield, July 22, 1869, son of James W. and Sarah (Emerson) Cook. His paternal grandpar- ents were Nathaniel and Frances (Chamberlain) Cook; and his maternal grandparents, Joseph Parsons Emerson and Sarah (Dunfield) Emerson. He is descended directly from the English branch of the Kochs of Germany, begun by barons of the family driven to England during the Thirty Years' War, and is closely connected with the Parsons family, of which Thomas Parsons, who settled the town of Parsonsfield, was prominent in the early history of Maine. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Boston, graduated from the Dwight Grammar in 1884, and the English High in 1887, and at Harvard, where he was graduated in the class of 1893. For a year after graduating from the English High and before entering college he was in the office of his father, where he received
CHARLES EMERSON COOK.
a careful business training. While in college, he wrote two plays,-a Spanish comedy, " The War- path of Love," and "The Tie that Binds" (the
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latter in collaboration with David D. Wells), which were successfully produced by the Harvard Delta Upsilon ; and later he wrote a new college play, "A Sorry Spectre," which was given in the spring of 1894, also by Delta Upsilon. Disliking business, Mr. Cook turned toward literature and newspaper work while yet an undergraduate, pub- lishing several short stories, poems, clever humor- ous verse, and serving the Budget as a reporter. In October, 1889, he became the Harvard reporter for that paper; in January, 1892, its dramatic editor ; in June, 1892, president of the reorgan- ized Budget Company; in September following, writer of " The Saunterer " humorous paragraphs ; and in August, 1893, editor-in-chief of the jour- nal. His specialty is dramatic work, notably dramatic criticism. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and the Pi Eta Society of Harvard; of the Gridiron Club (elected a director in 1894) and the Press Club of Boston ; and of the Republican Club of Massachusetts. He was married October 17, 1893, to Miss Margaret Quincy Greene, daughter of the late James Lloyd Greene, of Norwich, Conn.
GEO. COOK.
COOK, GEORGE, of Boston, president of the Hallet & Davis Piano Company, is a native of
Ohio, born in Chillicothe, July 11, ISIS, son of Leander and Ester (Smith) Cook. He is a de- scendant of Captain Joel Cook, of Revolutionary fame. His grandfather was the Captain Cook who saved the life of General William Henry Harrison from the Indians at the battle of 'Tippe- canoe. He was educated in the district school, and when a youth came East to begin active life. After learning the carriage trimming trade in the factory of Isaac Mix & Son, New Haven, Conn., he established the firm of G. & D. Cook & Co. of New Haven, carriage-makers, and followed this business for eighteen years (from 1847 to 1865). Afterwards he was engaged a number of years in the manufacture of musical instruments in New Haven, and in 1880 became connected with the Hallet & Davis Piano Company of Boston. He has been president of that corporation since 1880. He is connected with the Masonic order, a mem- ber of Hiram Lodge, New Haven, and belongs to numerous other organizations, business and so- cial. He was married January 8, 1837, to Miss Phoebe Merwin, of Milford, Conn. They have had eight children : George L., Mary E., Wilber D)., Emma T., James B., Hattie M., Minnie, and Lucy Cook.
CRAIG, WILLIAM FAIRFIELD, of Lynn, phar- macist, is a native of Nova Scotia, born September 15, 1865, son of Leslie M. and Amanda (Aymar) Craig. His father's parents, Alexander and Eliz- abeth (Harding) Craig, were born in Scotland ; and his mother's parents, William and Kaziah (Warne) Aymar, were natives of France. He was educated in the public schools of Nova Scotia, and fitted for his profession at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, taking the four years' course, and graduating in 1890. After leaving school, in the spring of 1884, he came to Lynn, and entered the employ of F. H. Broad & Co., pharmacists, with whom he remained as a clerk until 1892. Then he purchased the interest of Mr. Broad, and, forming a partnership with the junior partner, the Hon. Eugene A. Bessom, con- tinued and developed the business under the firm name of Wm. Craig & Co. Since 1890 he has been instructor in chemistry and pharmacy in the Lynn Hospital, and chemist for the Lynn Board of Health since 1892. He is an active member of various professional organizations,- the American Chemical Society, the Massachu-
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setts State Pharmaceutical Association, the Lynn Druggists' Association (secretary and treasurer of
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the latter), - a trustee of the College of Pharmacy (elected in 1893 for four years), and president of the Association of the Alumni of the College of Pharmacy (elected in 1894). He belongs also to the order of Odd Fellows, a member of Richard W. Drawn Lodge and of the Lynn Encampment. In politics he is a Republican, and is enrolled as a member of the Ward Three Lynn Republican Club. He is unmarried.
CRAPO, WILLIAM WALLACE, of New Bedford, member of the Bristol bar, concerned in large manufacturing and railroad interests, and long prominent in public life, was born in Dartmouth, May 16, 1830, son of Henry Howland and Mary A. (Slocum) Crapo. His father, also a native of Dartmouth, born in 1804, moving to Michigan in 1857, became one of the largest owners of wood- lands and most extensive manufacturers of lumber there, served as mayor of the city of Flint in 1862, as a State senator for two years, and as governor of the State four,- 1864-65-66-67. Hc was the only son in a family of ten children. His education was acquired in the public schools of New Bedford, at the Friends' Academy, at Phillips
(Andover) Academy, and at Vale College, where he graduated in the class of 1852. He began his law studies immediately after leaving college in the office of the Hon., afterward Governor John H. Clifford, of New Bedford, and subsequently at- tended the Harvard Law School; and was ad- mitted to the bar in February, 1855. Entering upon practice in New Bedford, he almost immedi- ately took a position of prominence. In less than three months after his admission to the bar - in April - he was appointed city solicitor, which office he held for ten years. The following year, 1856, his public career was begun with speeches on the stump for John C. Fremont, the first candi- date of the Republican party for President, and with his election in November to the lower house of the Legislature. He was then but twenty-six years of age, one of the youngest members of that body. The next year he was urged to take the Republican nomination for State senator for his district ; but he declined, his professional work, which had become important and was steadily increasing, demanding his undivided attention. During the Civil War period he was among the most active and zealous supporters of the govern- ment, and gave freely from his time and means to the cause. Subsequently he was elected to fill a vacancy in the Forty-fourth Congress, and then began a notable career, which covered the Forty- fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses, to each of which he was returned by large votes. From the first his place was with the leading members of the House. In the Forty-fifth Con- gress he was a member of the committee on foreign affairs; in the Forty-sixth, a member of the committee on banking and currency; in the Forty-seventh, chairman of the banking and cur- rency committee. Under his admirable leader- ship, and against strong opposition, the bill ex- tending the charters of the national banks was carried through ; and he took an influential part in advancing to enactment other important legis- lation. He early won the reputation of an able and trustworthy legislator of high standard and purity of motives. With the close of the Forty- seventh Congress, having declined a renomination for a fifth term, he returned to the practice of his profession. Soon, however, his name was brought before the Republican party in the State in con- nection with the governorship; but refusing to enter a contest, being firm in his belief that the office should seek the man, or to allow the em-
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ployment in behalf of his candidacy of what are known in politics as machine methods. he failed to receive the nomination. In professional and business life Mr. Crapo has long held numerous responsible positions. He has been guardian or trustee for the management of large estates ; pres- ident of the Mechanics' National Bank of New Bedford since 1870; president of the Wamsutta Mills for many years; director of the Potomska Mills, of the Acushnet Mills, and of a number of other industrial corporations: and president of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad since 1883.
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He is pre-eminently a business lawyer ; and, in causes where the exercise of business sagacity and good judgment are demanded, he has been especially successful. In his practice he was long associated with the Hon. George Marston, under the firm name of Marston & Crapo; and since 1878 he has been in association with Charles W. and Walter Clifford, under the firm name of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford. In the affairs of his city he has always taken a warm interest, and has advanced many local improvements. He was actively concerned in the establishment of the New Bedford Water Works, and from 1865 to 1875 held the chairmanship of the Board of Water Commissioners. In 1882 the honorary degree of
LL. D. was conferred upon him by Yale College. Mr. Crapo was married January 22, 1857, to Miss Sarah A. Tappan, daughter of George and Serena (Davis) Tappan. of New Bedford. They have two sons: Henry Howland (now in the office of Crapo, Clifford & Clifford) and Stanford Tappan Crapo (Y.C., 1886).
DAME, CHARLES C'HASE, of Newburyport, member of the bar, was born June 5, 1819, in Kittery, then the district of Maine, Common- wealth of Massachusetts, son of Joseph and Statira (Chase) Dame. He is of English ances- try, and descends from first settlers in New Eng- land. The Dames settled in what is now Dover, N.H., in 1633, and the Chases about the same period in Newbury. He is in the eighth genera- tion from John Dame, one of the first deacons of the First Church of Dover and prominent in pub- lic affairs, and on the maternal side from Aquilla Chase, master mariner, the first pilot of the " Mer- rimack." His maternal grandfather, Joshua T. Chase, of Kittery Point, was a man of note. For seven years before the separation of Maine from Massachusetts he was a member of the General Court, and nine years next after the separation, a member of the Maine House of Representatives. His father, born in Wakefield, N.H., was the first man in that town to enlist in the War of 1812, and was stationed at Fort McCleary, Kittery l'oint. After this service he settled there, marrying Statira Chase. He was a schoolmaster by pro- fession, and taught several years at Newcastle, N.H. Charles C. first attended the common schools, and at the age of eleven began work. Before he had reached seventeen, he was teaching school at Kittery . Foreside." At eighteen he entered the academy at South Newmarket, N. H., where he received a good academic training. Upon graduation he returned to school-teaching, and pursued this profession upwards of twenty years. Beginning at Brentwood Hill, in June, 1839, he was called to Newbury to take charge of a school at " Upper Green," where he remained two years. Then he became principal of a gram- mar school in Lynn, afterward of the South Male Grammar School of Newburyport, and next of the Brown High School there. In February, 1849, he temporarily retired, and made a voyage to the Pacific coast, stopping some time in South Amer- ica. Returning in 1851, he took charge of the
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