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FULLER, GRANVILLE AUSTIN, of Boston, lum- ber merchant, was born in Brighton (now Brighton District, Boston), March 13, 1837, son of Gran- ville and Rebecca (Bullard) Fuller, both originally of Wellesley. He is a direct descendant of Thomas Fuller, who came from England and set- tled in Salem in 1633. He was educated in the Brighton public schools, and at the age of fifteen entered into the lumber business with his father, in which he has ever since been successfully en- gaged, from 1860 a member of the firm of G. Fuller & Son. He was early attached to the fire department, at twenty-one entering the old Brighton organization. He served as engineer, captain and member of the " board of engineers" before the town was annexed to Boston, and after annexation as captain of Ladder No. 11, and as district chief, holding the latter position till 1890, when he resigned, his entire service having cov- ered a period of thirty-two years. In Brighton District affairs he has long been prominent, and he is identified with several of its institutions. He is a director of the National Market Bank, of the Citizens' Mutual Insurance Company, a trus- tee of the Brighton Five Cents Savings Bank, and
member of its investment committee, and a large holder of Brighton real estate. He is also presi- dent of the New England Investment Company of Denver, Col. In politics he is an earnest Repub- lican, always upholding the principles of his party; and in State and municipal affairs it is his custom to consider questions as they arise from a business man's point of view. In the autumn campaign of 1892 he was nominated by the Re- publicans of the Twenty-fifth Suffolk District for the House of Representatives, and was elected by a good vote, although the district is strongly
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Democratic. In his first term (Legislature of 1893) he served on the committees on finance and on expenditures, and won a reputation as a working member. Returned to the Legislature of 1894 by a largely increased vote, the Speaker complimented him with the same assignments that he had had the previous year,-on the finance and expenditures committees,- and made him also a member of the important committee on taxation. Not a debater, his service was most valuable and influential in the committee rooms, where much of the most important work is done and measures are formulated. In the agitation for rapid transit between Boston and its surround- ing suburbs he has been untiring in his efforts
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to obtain recognition for the Brighton District in the several schemes before the Legislature ; and solely through his exertion provision for a line to this district was inserted in the so-called Meigs Elevated Railroad bill which passed the Legisla- ture in 1894. In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Fuller is prominent in connection with Bethesda Lodge of the Brighton District ; and in religious matters he is identified with the Brighton Con- gregational church. He was married on the Ist of January, 1860, to Miss Roselle S. Henderson, of St. George, Me. They have had five children, four of whom are now living : Herbert A., Will S., Ethel L., and Granville Norton Fuller.
GAUSS, JOHN DENNIS HAMMOND, of Salem, editor of the Observer, is a native of Salem, born January 4, 1861, son of Stephen and Rebecca Gray (Cross) Gauss. He was educated in the Salem public schools. When fourteen years of age, in November, 1875, he entered the office of the Salem Observer (founded in 1823) as boy ; and he has since spent every day of his working
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life there, advancing through the several grades to editor and proprietor of the paper. He is now a member of the firm of Newcomb & Gauss, pub-
lishers of the Observer, and conductors of the largest job printing-office in Essex County. He is president of the Salem Press Club. In politics Mr. Gauss is a Republican, treasurer of the Re- publican city committee of Salem, and president of the Young Men's Republican Club. He was a member for Salem in the lower house of the Legislature in 1894, and member of the Salem School Committee in 1892, 1893, and 1894. He is connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders, member of the Starr King Lodge of the former, and a past grand of Fraternity Lodge and past high priest of Salem Encampment of the latter. He is a member also of Naumkeag Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Gauss has been twice married : first, October 28, 1886, to Miss Jennie I. Sinclair, of Marblehead; and second, September 3, 1888, to Miss Nellie Grace Whitcher, of Bath, N.H. He has four children : Stephen S., John W., Katherine F., and Grace J. Gauss.
GODDARD, WARREN, of Brockton, member of the bar, was born in North Bridgewater (now Brockton), October 10, 1849, son of Warren and Sarah (Eldridge) Goddard. His father was a clergyman settled in Brockton fifty years as pas- tor of the New Church (Swedenborgian, so called); and his grandfather was Dr. John Goddard, of Portsmouth, N.H., who was elected United States senator before the nomination was tendered to Daniel Webster, but declined the honor. His mother's father and brothers were all master mariners, and one of them was for many years agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Line. His early education was acquired in the private and public schools of his native place, and he gradu- ated from the first class ever graduating from its High School, as valedictorian. He was in the class of 1871 at Darmouth College, but, owing to illness, did not there complete his course. In consequence of private studies, however, he was accorded the degree of A. M. at or soon after the time his class graduated. Subsequently he grad- uated from the New Church Theological School, and preached acceptably in Brookline and in Providence, R.I. ; but, having always preferred the law as a vocation and being only temporarily turned aside therefrom by prejudices of friends, he soon took up legal studies with city solicitor Nicholas Van Slyck, of Providence, and thereby returned to the profession of his first love. While
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a student in the law office of Colonel Van Slyck, he prepared the material for a complete Index- digest of the Rhode Island Reports, which he
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left with Colonel Van Slyck on his removal to Massachusetts, which took place on the death of his father, he being executor of the latter's will. He was admitted to the Rhode Island bar March 9, 1889, and to the Plymouth County bar in May, 1890. In the latter year he formed a law copart- nership with the Hon. Jonathan White, of Brock- ton, and has since enjoyed a good and steadily increasing business. For two years and a half he served as clerk of the Police Court of Brockton, and then resigned the office to devote his whole time to his law business. During his term as clerk the controller of accounts pronounced his office one of the best in the Commonwealth. Mr. Goddard was a member of the School Committee in Brookline from 1874 to 1882, and during that time was secretary of the board and chairman of the committees on evening school and on teachers. In Brockton he is now a member of the School Committee and chairman of its commit- tec on salaries. In politics he is a Republican. He was the Republican candidate for mayor of Brockton in December, 1893, but was defeated. He is a member of the Commercial Club of
Brockton, of the Knights Templar in Free Masonry, and of various social and religious clubs. He was married October 9, 1873, in Brookline, to Miss Alice Clark Wellington. Their children are : Langdon, Edith, Arthur E., Mary E., Margaret, Warren, Alice W., and Miriam L. Goddard.
GOODRICH, HENRY AUGUSTUS, of Fitch- burg, merchant, is a native of Fitchburg, born November 22, 1830, son of John and Mary A. (Blake) Goodrich. He is a descendant of Will- iam Goodrich, who came from England and settled in Watertown in 1634. He was educated in the public schools of Fitchburg, including the High School, and at the Fitchburg Academy. In 1855 he started in business for himself, opening a men's furnishing store in the Fitchburg Hotel Block. Some years after he established a large clothing store in Belding & Dickinson's Block, and another in Brattleboro, Vt .; and in 1886 leased the extensive store in Dickinson's Block which he has since occupied, now one of the largest and best equipped establishments of the kind in New England. He has been interested also in numerous other enterprises, and has been prominent in movements for the benefit of his native city. At one time he owned a half-interest in the fine block Nos. 150 to 156 Main Street. In 1886 he purchased the American House prop- erty, which he owned for about six years, and sub- scquently erected two large business blocks on Day Street, one of which is known as the "Good- rich Block." He afterwards became interested in the Haskins Steam Engine Company, which proved an unfortunate investment. He was prominent in the establishment of the Fitchburg Board of Trade, and is still one of its vice-presi- dents; was at one time president of the Mer- chants' Association : has been president of the Wachusett Mutual Fire Insurance Company since its incorporation ; was president of the American Printing Company; and is now a trustee of the Worcester North Savings Institution. He has been president also of the Massachusetts Mutual Aid Society, and many years a trustec of the Fitchburg Public Library. During the Civil War he was treasurer of the Fitchburg bounty fund. and was subsequently sent by the town to look after the disabled soldiers in the hospitals at Washington and Fredericksburg. In 1870 and
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1871 he represented Fitchburg in the Legislature, an active and influential member in both sessions. In politics he is an ardent Republican, but always
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courteous to those differing from him politically. He was chosen elector for the Fourth District in the presidential election of 1892, running largely ahead of the party ticket: and was the Republican candidate for mayor of Fitchburg at the municipal election of 1893, but was defeated through a di- vision in the party. In addition to his active business career Mr. Goodrich has given consider- able attention to literary pursuits. He is a clear and forcible writer and an entertaining after- dinner speaker. He was married in December, 1856, to Miss Harriet Stebbins, of Vernon, Vt. They have a daughter living, now Mrs. W. L. Humes. Their only son, William Henry, a young man of great promise, died on the 24th of March, 1894. He was in his senior year at Tufts, where he was greatly esteemed by his college associates. In its notice of his death the college paper, the Tuftonian, referred to him as "in the forefront of leaders ... directing the activities of college life" at many points, adding that "he held many im- portant offices with honor," and " his conduct was always true to the highest ideals of college gov- ernment."
GRAY, ROBERT SMITH, of Walpole, manufact- urer, is a native of Walpole, born September 28, 1847, son of Smith and Eleanor Mackay (Kearns) Gray. His father was born in Beverly, Yorkshire, England, and his mother in Walpole. He was educated in the common schools of Walpole, at the West Newton English and Classical School, and at the Friends' Academy in New Bedford, with a special course in laboratory at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology in chemistry. Soon after leaving school, he entered the bleach- ery and dye-works of his father in Walpole, then, as now, under the firm name of S. Gray & Co. Subsequently he became a partner, and is now owner of the business, which has been established over fifty years. He has for a long period been prominent in town affairs, and has served in numerous offices. He is the present chairman of the School Board, of which he has been an effi- cient member for ten years. He has been a trus- tee of the Walpole Public Library for ten years, identified with its development, and has repre- sented the town in the lower house of the Legis- lature two terms (1889-90). In 1894 he was a
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member of the Senate for the Second Norfolk District, which includes Walpole. When a mem- ber of the House of Representatives, he served
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both terms on the committee on manufactures; and in the Senate of 1894 he was chairman of the committee on woman suffrage and member of the committees on manufactures, taxation, and expen- ditures. He was also a member of the special committee on the unemployed. In politics he has always been a Republican. He has served for many years as chairman of the Republican town committee of Walpole, and was some time a member of the executive committee of the Home Market Club, of which he has been a member from its establishment. He is a Mason, member of the Lodge of Eleusis, Boston, and belongs to various social clubs ; and he has been an active member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Boston, since 1878, some time an officer in that organization. Mr. Gray was married June 23. 1880, to Miss Harriet Frances Robinson, of Walpole. They have three chil- dren : John Merrick, Eleanor, and Barbara Gray.
HATCH, WILLIAM EDWIN, of New Bedford, superintendent of the public schools, is a native of Georgia, born in Jeffersonville, Twiggs County, June 8, 1852, son of Samuel W. and Melinda M. (Decker) Hatch. He is of English-Scotch de- scent. On the paternal side he is descended from the Hatches of Cape Cod, among the early settlers of that region who came from England, and on the maternal side from the Maxwells of Scotland, a branch of which settled in Maine. His father's ancestors emigrated from Cape Cod to Maine, purchasing large tracts of land there, at a very early period in the history of Maine. He was educated until thirteen years of age in academies in Georgia. Then, coming North in 1865, he attended the High School at Brunswick, Me., and fitted for college there. He graduated from Bowdoin in the class of 1875, and took his degree of A.M. at the same institution in 1878. Before entering college, he attended a commercial school; and during the whole of his college course he was connected with the civil engineering de- partment of the Maine Central Railroad. He began teaching the year of his graduation. After an experience of one term as a teacher in the Milton Mills High School, he was made principal of the High School at Branford, Conn., and super- intendent of the elementary schools. Here he remained from 1876 to 1882, two years of this time also reading law in New Haven. While
at Branford, in 1881, he was elected principal of the High School in Leavenworth, Kan., but de- clined the place. In September, 1882, he became
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superintendent of the public schools of Milford, Mass., and served in that office till July, 1885, when he was called to Haverhill in the same capacity. He was called from Haverhill to New Bedford in 1888, beginning his service as super- intendent of its public schools in February of that year. Mr. Hatch was president of the New Eng- land Association of School Superintendents in 1887 and chairman of the executive committee in 1894; has been vice-president of the American Institute of Instruction since 1885; and was as- sistant secretary of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association in 1894. He is a member of the Dartmouth and Wamsutta clubs of New Bedford, of the University Club, Boston, and of numerous literary, professional, and charitable organiza- tions, in many of which he is also an officer. He was married December 28, 1882, to Mrs. Emily N. Mabbatt. They have one child : Frank Norton Hatch.
HAYES, NORMAN PARIS, of New Bedford, hardware merchant, is a native of New Hamp- shire, born in Rochester, July 9, 1849, son of
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Watson and Joanna (Winckley) Hayes. His par- ents were also natives of New Hampshire, his father born in Rochester, and his mother in Bar-
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rington. His education was acquired in the Rochester public schools and at Phillips (An- dover) Academy; and his business training was begun in his father's country and general mer- chandise store in Rochester. After some time spent here as clerk, he was employed in a whole- sale house in Boston, and from there went to Dover, N.H., where he was for seven years en- gaged in the general hardware business. He came to New Bedford in 1880, and bought out an old established hardware, iron, and cutlery busi- ness, which was the foundation of his present ex- tensive establishment, now the leading one of its kind in New Bedford, fully occupying the large, three-story brick structure known as the Andrews Building, on the corner of William Street and Acushnet Avenue, and carrying a large and me- thodically arranged stock of general hardware, cut- lery, iron, steel, mill supplies, and farm tools. In May, 1894, Mr. Hayes caused the United States flag formally to be raised as a permanent fixture over his building by the local Grand Army posts, with fitting ceremonies, including a street parade of veterans, and public meetings, with an oration
and addresses, which was described in the local press as "the most successful patriotic demon- stration of a public character ever made under private auspices " in the city. This was the first raising in the country of a flag on private property for a private citizen by the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics Mr. Hayes is an Indepen- dent Republican. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Wamsutta and Dartmouth clubs of New Bedford. He was married in 1871 to Miss Rebecca 1. Thompson, of Boston, and their children are: Grenville H., Orrill H., Bessie, and Clinton N. Hayes.
HOLDEN, JOSHUA BENNETT, of Boston, is a native of Woburn, born March 5, 1850, son of George and Ellen (Bennett) Holden. He is a grandson of Joshua Bennett, formerly an active, energetic, and influential business man of Middle- sex County, well known in financial and real es- tate circles, and an extensive real estate owner in Boston and Lowell. He was educated in the Chauncy Hall School, Boston, the Pierce Acad-
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emy, Middleborough, and Tufts College; and studied law at the Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1870. After graduation
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he was some time in the law office of Judge Will- iam A. Richardson and Judge George White, and subsequently entered the office of his father as an associate with him in the care of his real estate and that belonging to the estate of Joshua Ben- nett. He is now attorney for the estates of Joshua Bennett and of George Holden, and a member of the Boston Real Estate Exchange. In politics he is a Republican, and has represented the Back Bay ward in the Boston Common Coun- cil two terms (1893-94). He is a fine member of the First Corps of Cadets, a member of the Art, Athletic, Middlesex, and Episcopalian clubs of Boston, of the Beacon Society, and of the Bos- ton Young Men's Christian Union. He was mar- ried November 2, 1870, to Miss Ida L. Moulton. They have six children : Joshua Bennett, Jr., Annie E., Mary B., Natalie F., Gladys E., and Gwendolyn M. Holden. Mr. Holden resides on the Back Bay, Boston, and has an extensive place in Billerica,- the Joshua Bennett homestead, - which he has recently improved, remodelling and enlarging the house, adding new outbuildings and beautifying the grounds. In Billerica he is trus- tee of the Bennett Library and of the Unitarian church fund.
HOOD, GILBERT EDWIN, of Lawrence, mem- ber of the bar, is a native of Vermont, born in the town of Chelsea, November 21, 1824, son of Har- vey and Rebecca (Smith) Hood. His education was acquired in the district and private schools of his native town, at Randolph Academy (one term), Thetford Academy (one year), and Dart- mouth College, graduating from the latter in the class of 1851. From his eighteenth year till his graduation from college he taught school winters. For three years he was associate principal at Thetford Academy, and principal for four years. He was admitted to the bar at Boston in 1855, and began practice in Lawrence in 1859. From that time Lawrence has been his home, and he has been identified during his entire residence there with its best interests. For twelve years, from 1865 to 1877, he was superintendent of the public schools. From 1881 to 1891 he was presi- dent of the Lawrence Young Men's Christian As- sociation ; and he has been president of the Law- rence City Mission since 1866. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Massa- chusetts Home Missionary Society. He belongs to the Congregational church, and has been one
of the deacons of the church since he first came to Lawrence. He has been treasurer of the Broadway Savings Bank of Lawrence since 1877.
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He has held various other offices for short pe- riods, but has never sought place. His object in life has been to render service, not to seek ser- vice from others. Mr. Hood was married May 13, 1852, to Miss Frances Elizabeth Herrick, of Peabody. They have no children.
HUTCHINSON, GEORGE, of Boston, boot and shoe merchant, is a native of Worcester, born September 16, 1852, son of Andrew and Harriet W. (Fales) Hutchinson. He attended the public schools of Worcester and Groton only until he was thirteen years old ; but he has acquired a liberal education through observation, commercial study, and hard work. His entrance into business life was in September, 1865, as a cash boy in the store of Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston. He re- mained in that establishment four years, working up to the position of salesman. In 1869 he en- tered the shoe business, and began travelling on the road as a shoe salesman. In this occupation he was engaged very successfully for eleven years, representing during this period the Boston firms
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of E. L. Sprague & Co. and B. N. Bradt & Co., and James Phelan of Lynn. From 1891 to 1892 he was salesman and buyer in the extensive shoe
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jobbing house of Batchelder & Lincoln, Boston ; and in 1892 he joined in the establishment of the new and highly successful wholesale boot, shoe, and rubber house of the Clark-Hutchinson Com- pany, Nos. 111 to 115 Federal Street, Boston, of which he has since been treasurer. At the World's Fair of 1893 in Chicago he was the only judge in the department of rubber boots and shoes. Mr. Hutchinson is a member of the Bos- ton Boot and Shoe Club, and is always active in movements for the benefit of the trade in which he is engaged. In religious faith he is a Unita- rian, and is connected with local Unitarian organ- izations. He is a director of the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, a member and past treas- urer of the Channing Club, and member of the Unitarian Club. He was married in Boston July 5, 1881, to Miss Eliza Maynard Clark, of Boston. They have one child : Maynard Clark Hutchinson.
JAYNES, CHARLES PORTER, of Boston, drug- gist, is a native of Connecticut, born Novem- ber 13, 1845, son of William C. and Adelpha
(Fuller) Janes. His parents were Western Mas- sachusetts folk, his father born in Brimfield, and his mother in Wales. The first Janes (as the name was originally spelled) known in America came in 1647 in the ship "Hector," landing in Boston, and afterwards joined the colonists who first settled New Haven, C'onn. He was edu- cated in the public schools, graduating from the Eaton School, the first public school in New Haven. He first entered the drug business in New Haven, serving an apprenticeship of two years, from 1860, with Alfred Daggett, Jr. Then he was a year with C. B. Whittlesy, also of New Haven, and another year in the wholesale trade in New York with James S. Aspinwall. After this training in both retail and wholesale branches, he took up travelling, and for twenty- one years was engaged in selling to the drug trade all over the country. For two years previ- ous to leaving the road he was also in business for himself, having purchased a drug store in Boston in 1882, at the corner of Washington and Warrenton Streets. After his retirement from travelling he increased this business, and pur-
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chased the store on the corner of Harrison Ave- nue and Beach Street. Subsequently, in July, 1887, he bought out the store on the corner of
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Washington and Hanover Streets, and added that to his business. In March, 1892, he bought out the store of I. Bartlett Patten at the corner of Beach Street and Harrison Avenue, and merged it into his Beach Street store. He still continues his interest in the three establishments, conduct- ing one of the most extensive businesses in his line in this country. He is a member of the Ma- sonic and Odd Fellows orders, of the Knights of Honor, of the Boston Athletic Club, and of the Old Dorchester Club, Dorchester District, where
he resides. In politics he is a Republican. He was married November 27, 1867, to Miss Ella F. Janes, of Boston. They have had four children, of whom two only are now living: H. Amy and Charles W. Jaynes.
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