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STOWE, LUKE STERNS, of Springfield, jewel- ler, was born in Lancaster, August 9, 1834, son
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of Luke Stowe and Abigail (Houghton) Stowe, sister of the late Judge Houghton, of New York State. He is a grandson of Ichabod Stowe, a soldier of the Revolution. He was left an orphan at twelve years of age, his father and mother both dying the same year, and was bound out to a neighboring farmer till he was seventeen. His advantages for education were confined to the common schools of his native town. Upon reach- ing the age of seventeen he engaged in mer- cantile pursuits ; and at twenty-one, with a few hundred dollars saved from his seanty earnings and a small sum by inheritance, embarked in
L. S. STOWE.
business for himself in the town of Gardner. Having received a thorough business training and possessing native ability, he was successful from the start. He moved to Springfield in 1864, when it was a city of hardly twenty thousand in- habitants, but with enterprise and push ; and there his business steadily developed. The firm of which he is now the head is the oldest and far the largest in the city, a member of the National Jobbers' Association, in watches and jewelry doing business in every New England State. In the autumn of 1883 the greater part of the valua- ble stock of the firm was stolen by burglars; but within forty-eight hours after the robbery Mr.
Stowe had purchased an entire new stock of goods, and his business was moving on in the usual way. Mr. Stowe is also a director of the City National Bank, of the Masonic Mutual In- surance Company of Springfield, and of the Rubber Thread Company of Easthampton, be- sides holding interests in several other corpora- tions. He has never sought public office, prefer- ring to devote himself to business rather than to politics. He has, however, served as chairman of the Republican county committee several years. He is a member of the Boston Jewelry Club, which is composed of the wholesale jewellers of the New England States. He is a wide reader, and is well informed in the current literature of the day. He was married in September, 1857, to Miss Mary Howe, of Bolton. They have had two sons and one daughter, Lena Stowe. The sons died in infancy.
TAYLOR, GEORGE SYLVESTER, of Chicopee, manufacturer, first mayor of the city of Chicopee (1891), is a native of South Hadley, born March 2, 1822, son of Sylvester and Sarah (Eaton) Tay- lor. He comes of an old South Hadley family on the paternal side, and on the maternal side is of Springfield stock. His grandfather, Oliver Tay- lor, and his grandmother, Lucy (White) Taylor, were both of South Hadley. His grandfather, James Eaton, was a native of West Springfield ; and his grandmother, Eleanor Eaton, was a Chapin, of Chicopee. He has lived in Chicopee from childhood, the family moving from the farm where he was born to Chicopee Falls in IS28. He was educated in the High School of Chicopee and at the select school of Sanford Lawton in Springfield. During his early boyhood he spent his vacations on the old farm in South Hadley which his father continued to conduct in connec- tion with a market at Chicopee Falls; and from twelve to eighteen, when not at school, he worked in his father's market. The next two years he was in the dry-goods and grocery store of 1). M. Bryant. Then he engaged as a clerk in the dry- goods store of S. A. Shackford & Co., and here remained for upwards of twenty years, becoming a partner in 1843, when he had reached his ma- jority, the firm name being changed to Shackford & Taylor, and enjoying a prosperous trade. With- drawing from this business in 1863, he formed a partnership with Bildad B. Belcher, under the
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firm name of Belcher & Taylor, and embarked in the manufacture of agricultural tools. 'The fol- lowing year the firm became a corporation under the now widely known name of the Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Company, with Mr. Taylor as treasurer. Subsequently, in 1866, upon the resig- nation of Mr. Belcher, he was made agent of the company; and he has held both offices ever since. He has also been for some time president and manager of the Chicopee Falls Building Company, and a trustee of the Chicopee Falls Savings Bank from its incorporation (1875) till 1888, when he was made its president. He has been identified
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with municipal affairs since the early fifties, and has performed much and conspicuous publie ser- vice. He was for two years an assessor of the town of Chicopee ; three years a selectman ; from 1857 to 1859 special justice of the police court : in 1860 and 1861 a representative of Chicopee in the lower house of the Legislature; in 1869 a State senator : and in 1891 the first mayor of Chicopee, elected as a citizens' candidate without opposition, in the first election after the town be- came a city (1890). In politics Mr. Taylor was first a Whig, and upon the dissolution of that party became a Republican. He has served on the Republican State central committee, and been
an influential member of his party in his section of the State. He has been steadfastly devoted to Western Massachusetts interests, notably those of the farming districts. He has for many years maintained an active membership in one of the harvest clubs of the Connecticut valley, and was president of the Hampden Agricultural Society three years. In religion he is a Congregation- alist, a leading member of the Chicopee Falls Congregational Church, deacon since 1857, and superintendent of the Sunday-school for twenty- five years. He has been connected with the Ma- sonic order since 1857, and is now a member of the Springfield Commandery. He was married November 25, 1845, to Miss Asenath B. Cobb, a native of Princeton. They have had seven chil- dren : Ella Sophia (now Mrs. H. N. Lyon), Sarah Rebecca (deceased), George Emerson (deceased), William Bradford (deceased), Edward Sylvester (now in business in Springfield), William Cobb (now in business in Chicago), and Albert Eaton Taylor (now in business in Chicopee Falls).
THAYER, JOHN R., of Worcester, member of the bar, is a native of Douglass, Worcester County, born March 9, 1845, son of Mowry and Harriet (Morse) Thayer. His grandfather, John Thayer. was a farmer in Douglass, as was his father, John Thayer. He was educated in the common schools of Douglass, at Nichols Academy in Dudley, where he was fitted for college, and at Vale, graduating in the class of 1869. He read law with the late Judge Henry Chapin, and was admitted to the bar at Worcester in June, 1871. He at once began practice in the office of Judge Chapin. Afterwards he was some time with the late Judge Hartley Williams; then he became a partner of Colonel William A. Williams, which relation con- tinued for six years; then formed a partnership with Charles S. Chapin, under the firm name of Thayer & Chapin ; and in 1885 formed the pres- ent partnership with Arthur R. Rugg, under the name of Thayer & Rugg. His achievements in his profession have been notable, early in his career bringing him into prominence as a coun- sellor and advocate. He has had five capital cases, and the present year (1894) his firm has as many cases on the docket in the Superior and Supreme courts as any firm in Worcester. Mr. Thayer has also been prominent for a number of years in local and State affairs, and has taken a
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very prominent part for many years in presiden- tial and congressional campaigns. He has served four years in the Common Council and the same
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period in the Board of Aldermen of Worcester. In 1880 and 1882 he was a representative in the lower house of the Legislature, serving both terms on the committee on the judiciary; and in 1890 and 1891 a State senator. In 1886 he was the Democratic candidate for mayor of Worcester. polling the largest vote ever cast in Worcester for a Democrat for this position. In 1892 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress against the Hon. Joseph .1. Walker, making a spirited canvass throughout the district, and being de- feated by less than one thousand votes, while the presidential electors on his ticket were defeated by more than three thousand. He has been a trustee of the Worcester City Hospital for eight years, and a trustee of Nichols Academy since 1875. Mr. Thayer was married January 30, 1872, in Worcester, to Miss Charlotte D. Holmes, daughter of Pitt and Diana (Perrin) Holmes of that city. They have six children : Henry Holmes, John Mowry, Charlotte Diana, Margue- rite Elizabeth, Mary Perrin, and Edward Carring- ton Thayer.
TRASK, REV. JOHN LOW ROGERS, D.D., of Springfield, pastor of the Memorial Church, is a native of Maine, born in Hampden, Penobscot County, December 19, 1842, son of Judge Joshua P. and Mary E. (Rogers) Trask. He is a descend- ant of Osmond Trask, one of the first settlers of Beverly. Mass. His grandfather, great -grand- father, and great-great-grandfather were born in the same house in North Beverly. The house which was standing in 1692 (vide map in Upham's " History of the Salem Witchcraft ") is still in the possession of a descendant of John Trask (a son of Osmond), who owned it and the farm at the time of his death, in 1720. His mother was a grand-daughter of the Rev. John Rogers ( H.C. 1739), first minister of the Fourth Church of Gloucester, and through him was descended from the Rev. John Rogers (H.C. 1649), fifth president of Harvard College. It has always been a family tradition, never in the judgment of many conclu- sively disproved, that this John, through the Rev. Nathaniel, of Ipswich, and his father, the Rev. John of Dedham, England, was great-grandson of the Rev. John Rogers who was burned at the
JOHN L. R. TRASK.
stake by order of Bloody Mary, 1555. John L. R. Trask was educated at the High School in Gloucester, where he spent his youth ; at Dummer
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Academy, Byfield, and Atkinson Academy, N.H., and at Williams College, graduating in the class of 1864. From college he went to the Princeton Theological Seminary, and subsequently to An- dover, spending two years at the former (1864- 66) and two at the latter, graduating in 1867. He was first ordained and installed pastor of the Sec- ond Congregational Church, Holyoke, in Decem- ber, 1867, and continued in that relation till May, 1883, when he was dismissed on account of ill- health. After a period of rest he resumed pas- toral work in Lawrence as minister of Trinity Church, and resigned there in June, 1888, to ac- cept a call to the Memorial Church in Springfield, of which he is now the pastor. During his pas- torate at Holyoke, Dr. Trask, with the co-opera- tion of his friend, the Hon. William Whiting, founded the Holyoke Public Library. He called the meeting of the citizens to consider the project, and by his efforts in public and private secured gifts from citizens and an appropriation of money from the town; and he was a member of the board of government of the institution until he ceased to be a citizen there. In 1892 he was the orator, by invitation of the citizens of Gloucester, on the oc- casion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of that town, which was the birth and burial place of his father and mother. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, of the Connecticut Valley Historical Society, of the Connecticut Valley Theological Club, of the Win- throp Club of Springfield, and of the Sons of the Revolution. He received his honorary degree of D).I)., from Williams College in 1879. Dr. Trask was married August 1, 1871, to Miss Abby J. Parker, of Dunbarton. They have three children : Frederic Parker, Elizabeth Rogers, and Mary El- lery Trask.
UPHAM, ROGER FREEMAN, of Worcester, secre- tary and treasurer of the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, is a native of Worcester, born September 13, 1848, son of Freeman and Elizabeth (Livermore) Upham. He is a descend- ant on the paternal side of John Upham, who came to Weymouth from England with the " Hull " colony in March, 1635 ; and, on the maternal side, of Oliver Watson, one of the Revolutionary patri- ots who met in convention at Watertown in 1775. delegate from the towns of Spencer and Leices- ter, the British holding the town of Boston. His
father was a Worcester carpenter and builder. He was educated in the public schools of Worces- ter, full course, graduating from the High School on the 3d of May, 1866, with the rank of saluta- torian in the English department. Immediately following graduation he entered business life, beginning as entry clerk in the People's Fire Insurance Company of Worcester, which carried on an extensive business in the northern and west- ern portions of the United States. He was shortly after advanced to the position of book-keeper, and again, within a few years, to the office of assistant secretary of the company. The Boston fire of 1872 terminating the career of the People's Company, he accepted an engagement with the Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company, one of the oldest (incorporated February, 1823) and strongest mutual fire insurance companies in the Commonwealth. The same year he was elected assistant secretary of the company; on December 8, 1880, he was elected secretary ; and on May 4, 1887, he was made secretary and treasurer, which position he has since occupied. Mr. Upham is also a trustee of the Worcester Five Cents Savings
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Bank. He is connected with several philan- thropic organizations, secretary of the Home for Aged Men of Worcester and trustee of the
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Worcester Homeopathic Hospital and Dispen- sary ; and he is a trustee of the Worcester Rural Cemetery Corporation. Mr. Upham was married June 16, 1873, to Miss Clara Story, of Worcester. They have one child : Edith Story Upham.
A. B. WALLACE.
WALLACE, ANDREW B., of Springfield, mer- chant, is a native of Scotland, born in Newburgh- on-Tay, March 27. 1842, son of David and Chris- tine (Brabner) Wallace. He was educated in the local schools, and at fifteen entered a dry-goods store as an apprentice, where he served four years. Afterward he was a clerk in stores in Sterling and in Glasgow, and in 1867 came to this country, land- ing in Boston. There he spent three years in the dry-goods house of Hogg. Brown, & Taylor, and then, forming a partnership with John M. Smith of Springfield, at that time of the firm of Forbes & Smith, opened a store in Pittsfield. In 1874 he removed to Springfield, having purchased Mr. Smith's interest in the business of Forbes & Smith, which thereupon became Forbes & Wal- lace. He is also a director of the Springfield Knitting Company, of the Warwick Bicycle Com- pany, of the Denholm & Mckay Dry Goods Company of Worcester, of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, Indianapolis, Ind., of the Springfield
Safe Deposit & Trust Company, and of the Springfield Electric Light Company. He is con- nected with the First Congregational Church, a member of the prudential committee; and is a director of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion. He was first married in Glasgow in 1867 to Miss Janet Miller, who died in 1881, leaving one son : Robert Wallace. He married second, in 1883. Miss Madora Vaille, daughter of Dr. Henry R. and Sarah (Lewis) Vaille, of Springfield. They have five children : Andrew B., Douglas V .. Madora, Ruth, and Norman Wallace.
WARREN, JOHN KELSO, M.D., of Worcester, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Manches- ter, March 1, 1846, son of Joseph H. and Mary .I. (Kelso) Warren. He was educated in the common schools and at the Mount Vernon and Frances- town academies ; and fitted for his profession at the New York Homeopathic Medical College. graduating on his twenty-fourth birthday. Start- ing in life poor, he earned his way through school and college, first by working vacations, and later
J. K. WARREN.
by teaching. Immediately after his graduation he established himself in Palmer, and for some time was the only physician practising homce-
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opathy between Springfield and Worcester. In April, 1879, he went to Europe for the purpose of making a special study of surgery, and spent some months in the hospitals of London, Paris, Heidelberg, and Edinburgh. Returning in ISSo, he resumed his practice in Palmer. In December, ISS2, he removed to Worcester, where he has been in active practice ever since. In December, 1893, he established a private surgical hospital, the first institution of its kind in Worcester, which con- tinues in a satisfactory condition. Dr. Warren is a member of the American Institute of Home- opathy, of the Massachusetts State Medical Society, the Massachusetts Surgical Society, and of numer- ous local societies. He was married November 24. 1873, to Miss Augusta A. Davis, of Newport, N.H. They have two children : Alice B. and Bertha M. Warren.
WARRINER, COLONEL STEPHEN CADY, of Springfield, insurance agent, was born in Monson, August 25, 1839, son of Stephen O. and Saphiria ( Flagg) Warriner. He is a descendant in the direct line of William Warriner, settled in Spring- field in 1640. His great-great-great-great-grand- father was Deacon James Warriner, born in 1640 ; his great-great-great-grandfather, Lieu- tenant James Warriner, born in 1668; his great- great-grandfather, Ensign James Warriner, born 1692 ; great-grandfather, Captain James Warriner, Jr., who commanded a company of minutemen who marched to Lexington ; and his grandfather, Stephen Warriner, born 1760. He was educated in the common schools and at Monson Academy, lle worked on his father's farm until he was eighteen years of age, and while a student at the academy taught school during the vacation seasons, - in 1858-59 in Huntington County, Penna., and in 1860 in Monson. He attended the academy for four years, and was a member of the graduating class of 1861. On the 28th of April that year he enlisted, and was mustered in as a private in Company E, Tenth Regiment. Massachusetts Volunteers, June 21. He was early made sergeant of his company, which rank he held till August 9, 1862, when he was com- missioned as captain of Company E, Thirty-sixtli Regiment, and so served till his honorable dis- charge, April 28, 1864. He was never absent from his regiment when it was on duty, and he took part in the following engagements : Williams- burg, Fair Oaks, Glendale, Charles City Cross
Roads, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Jackson, Campbell Station, Blue Springs, the siege of Yorktown, Vicksburg, and Knoxville, Tenn. Establishing himself in Springfield in 1866, he began business as a fire insurance agent, which has been his occupation ever since. In politics he is a Republican, and since the early seventies has been prominent in party affairs. From 1875 to 1878 he was chairman of the Republican city committee of Springfield. He has served in the Springfield city government, the State Legislature, and on the staff of Governor Talbot. He was first elected a member of the Common Council of Springfield for the term of 1877 ; was an alder- man in ISSo; on the governor's staff through 1879 as colonel and aide-de-camp; and a member of the House of Representatives of 1893-94-95. During his first term in the Legislature he served on the committees on printing and on engrossed bills; and through his second term he was on the committee on elections. He has served as commander of Clara Barton Post, No. 65, Grand Army, for two terms, and of E. K. Wilcox Post, No. 16, also two terms. He is connected with
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the Masonic order, a member of the Roswell Lee Lodge of Springfield, and of the Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. Other organiza-
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tions to which he belongs are the Springfield Improvement Company and the Middlesex Club of Boston. Mr. Warriner first married September 19, 1865, Miss Mary Warren Lincoln (died July 28, 1877), and second, October 4, ISS2, Miss Ida Marion Lincoln. He has one son, William Stephen Warriner, born July 15. 1866, who is now first lieutenant Company K, Second Regi- ment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and man- ager of his father's business interests.
WELLS, GIDEON, of Springfield, member of the bar, and connected with various corporations, is a native of Connecticut, born in Wethersfield, August 16, 1835, son of Romanta and Mary Ann (Morgan) Wells. He was educated in the East Windsor Hill School of Easthampton, and at Yale, graduating in the class of 1858, and read law in the office of Chapman & Chamberlin, Springfield. Admitted to the Hampden County bar in 1860, he began practice with Messrs Chapman & Chamberlin. The same year this partnership being dissolved, Mr. Chapman having been appointed to the Supreme Bench and Mr. Chamberlin removing to Hartford, he became a member of the firm which succeeded to the busi- ness, his associates being N. A. Leonard and, nominally, ex-Congressman George Ashmun, the close friend of Webster, and in later life of Lincoln, chairman of the convention which nomi- nated him for the presidency, who had been asso- ciated with Mr. Chapman since 1834. The firm of Leonard & Wells continued for twenty-five years, and was concerned in many important cases. During the Civil War Mr. Wells served in the Forty-sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteers, as first lieutenant of Company A of Springfield, and subsequently in the same capacity in Company A of the Eighth Regiment. From 1869 to 1876 he was register of bankruptcy, and from 1876 to ISgo judge of the Police Court of Springfield, in the latter position making a reputa- tion especially for his clear rulings on perplexing points. Since 1877 he has been a director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, and attorney for the corporation ; and since 1890 he has been president of the Holyoke Water Power Company, having for many years acted as its attorney. He has also been for a long time attorney for the Springfield Street Railway Com- pany, for the Connecticut River Railroad Com-
pany, and for other corporations. In addition to these interests he is concerned as director in several Southern and Western irrigation and
GIDEON WELLS.
electric companies in which the Massachusetts Mutual Life is interested ; is a director and vice- president of the John Hancock National Bank. and a director of the Third National Bank of Springfield. Early in life he served in the Spring- field Common Council two terms ( 1865-66). He was married October 1, 1875. to Miss Marietta Gilbert, daughter of Merrit S. and Esther (Jones) Gilbert. They have one son : Gilbert Wells.
WHITCOMB, MARCIENE HAMILTON, mayor of Holyoke 1894, is a native of Vermont, born in Reading, October 25, 1838, son of James H. and Louisa M. (Philbrick) Whitcomb. He is of Eng- lish ancestry on the paternal side, and of Scotch on the maternal; and ancestors on both sides fought in the Revolution. He was educated in Vermont common schools. He began active life as spooler boy in a woollen factory, and from that modest position worked his way through the vari- ous departments of woollen manufacture. He continued in this business as an employee for six- teen years, with the exception of two years spent
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in the army during the Civil War, -one year as a member of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regi- ment in which he enlisted in 1862, and the other
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as musician in the Second Brigade, Second Divi- sion, Ninth Corps Band, ending with the close of the war. He was superintendent of the Eagle Mills of Athol, Mass., also of the Otter River Company's mills at Otter River, Templeton, for five years for Rufus S. Frost & Co., Boston ; came to Holyoke in 1876 as superintendent of the Springfield Blanket Company's mills, and held that position for ten years ; was then, in January, 1886, appointed chief of police of Holyoke, which office he held continuously for five years ; and was elected mayor of the city in December, 1893. He is the proprietor of " Whitcomb Build- ing " in Holyoke, renting room and power for dif- ferent industries, and has other real estate invest- ments in the city. In politics he is a Republican, a firm believer in the protection theory. He is connected with the Masonic order, a member of the Springfield Commandery Knights Templar; is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of Kil- patrick Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Whiteomb was married December 25, 1857, to Jane H. Webber, of Newport, N.H. They have one son : Eugene H. Whitcomb.
WILDER, HARVEY BRADISH, of Worcester, register of deeds, is a native of Worcester, born October 12, 1836, son of Alexander H. and Har- riet (Eaton) Wilder. His education was acquired in the Worcester public schools, the Thetford (Vt.) Academy, and the Leicester (Mass.) Acad- emy. With the exception of about fifteen months (from April, 1855, to August, 1856), when he was a elerk in Boston in the book-store of the old firm of Tieknor & Fields, he has been connected with the Worcester Registry of Deeds during his entire business career. From September, 1856, to No- vember, 1874, he was chief clerk in the registry ; then, upon the death of his father, who had been register for twenty-eight years, he was appointed by the county commissioners register for the year 1875. He was first elected register in November, 1876, and has been regularly returned since. He has been a member of the Ancient and Honora- ble Artillery Company since 1873, second lieuten- ant in ISS1 ; is a charter member of the Quin- sigamond Lodge of Masons, Worcester; and a member of the Commonwealth Club of Worces- ter. In polities he is Republican. He was mar-
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