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JOHN LARRABEE.
dlesex District, serving both terms as chairman of the committee on engrossed bills; in 1883 as clerk of the committee on woman suffrage; and in 1887, clerk of that on public health. He is now (1895) serving as sewer commissioner for Melrose, the town having in process of construction a sy's- tem to connect with the North Metropolitan Sew- erage system. He is a member of the Wyoming Lodge, Freemasons ; of the Melrose Lodge, order of Odd Fellows; of the Bethlehem Council, Royal Arcanum; of the Garfield Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen ; of the Massachusetts Soci- ety of Sons of the American Revolution (being a great-great-grandson of Captain John Vinton) ; of
the Melrose Young Men's Christian Association ; of the Massachusetts State Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation : and of the Franklin Fraternity, a literary organization formed in 1863. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Baptist, member of the First Baptist Church of Melrose. Mr. Larra- bee was first married September 18, 1876, to Miss L. Ellen Ricker, daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Clements) Ricker. She died May 18. 1890. leaving two children : John Heber and Sarah Helen Larrabee. He married second, Decem- ber 8, 1892, Miss M. Edna Atkins, daughter of Sullivan H. and Sarah Abbie ( Ricker) Atkins. They have one child: Harold Atkins Larrabee (born August 20. 1894).
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM BADGER, of Boston and Medford, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Charlestown, November 15, 1856, son of General Samuel Crocker and Carrie R. ( Badger) Lawrence. On the maternal side he is a descendant of Giles Badger, who came from England with his two brothers, and who was at Newbury in 1643, and there died January 11, 1647. He was educated in the Boston Latin School and at Harvard C'ol- lege, where he was graduated in the class of 1879. At the Latin School he was a Franklin medal scholar, and in 1874-75 was colonel of the Bos- ton School Regiment. In college he was a mem- ber of the Phi Beta Kappa. He fitted for his pro- fession at the Harvard Law School, graduating in the class of 1882, and was admitted to the State and United States courts in the spring of 1883. Upon his return from extended travels in Europe he began practice that year in the office of the late Nathan Morse in Boston. He is now at No. 40 Water Street. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association and one of the proprietors of the Social Law Library. In Medford, where he re- sides, Mr. Lawrence has been prominent in af- fairs; and before the town became a city served on the Board of Selectmen and as Overseer of the Poor (from 1888 10 1890). In 1891 and again in 1892 he represented Medford in the lower house of the Legislature: and, in 1893 and 1894 he was senator for the First Middlesex District (com- prising the cities of Somerville and Medford and the towns of Arlington and Winchester). While in the House, he served on the committees on the judiciary, probate, and insolvency, and drainage ; and in the Senate both terms as chairman of the
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committees on the treasury and on expenditures. and a member of the committees on the judiciary and on rules. He has always taken a warm in- terest in public matters, and has been especially active in promoting progressive municipal move- ments. In the years 1885-89 he was instrumen- tal in averting the threatened division of the town of Medford, and later in securing the city charter. Ile has been for some years a trustee of the Med- ford Savings Bank. In politics Mr. Lawrence is a Republican, an active member of the party or- ganization, in 1891-92 serving on the Republican State Committee. He is prominent in the Ma-
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sonic fraternity, a past deputy district grand master of the Grand Lodge, past master of the Mt. Hermon Lodge, past high priest of Mystic Royal Arch Chapter, past thrice illustrious mas- ter of Medford Council. Royal and Select Mas- ters, past grand master of the Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters, captain-general of Bos- ton Commandery. Knights Templar, and senior warden of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection. He is a charter member of the Medford Club, and a member of the University Club of Boston. He was married October 2. 1883. to Miss Alice May Sears. daughter of J. Henry and Emily ( Nicker- son) Sears, and a lineal descendant of Richard
Sears, one of the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony in 1633. Their children are : Marjorie, Samuel Crocker. zd. and Ruth Lawrence.
LORD. LUCIEN, of Athol, real estate investor and builder, proprietor of the Athol Academy of Music and owner of the Pequoig House, is a native of Athol, born October 11, 1840, son of Ethan and Thankful ( Richardson) Lord. His father, grandfather. and great-grandfather were also natives of Athol: and the latter was one of the first five men who came from Hatfield in 1735 to settle in " l'equoig." which subsequently be- came Athol. He was educated in the common and high schools of the town. After leaving school, he was associated with his father for a while in the lumber and grain business, then served some time as clerk in a dry-goods store. with Walter Thorpe, and in 1866 entered business on his own account, forming a partnership with Howard B. Hunt, and opening an insurance ageney and stationery store. After two years suc- cessful trade he was appointed postmaster of Athol ( April 21, 1869) by President Grant, which office he held through the administrations of Presidents Hayes, Arthur, and Garfield. until 1889. Since that time he has been actively en- gaged in real estate and building, to which he had given much attention during the previous ten and more years, erecting in 1874 the Masonic Building. In 1891 he built the Athol Academy of Music, and he is now (1895) rebuilding the Pequoig House, a large and fine hotel of modern design and finish, and is developing four large tracts for residences : " Lake Park." " South Park." " Inter- vale." and .. Pleasant Valley." He has from youth up been closely identified with all praise- worthy movements for the benefit of local institu- tions. taking an active part in musical and dra- matie affairs, and serving his town in various capacities. He represented Athol in the General Court in 1891, and is now a member of the Athol School Committee and of the Library Committee. lle is a trustee of the Athol Savings Bank, direc- tor of the Athol and Orange Electric Railroad Company. and manager as well as owner of the Academy of Music. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, member of the Athol Commandery. of which he was eminent commander in 1881-82-83. and is a member of the Board of Trade and of the Pequoig" Club. He was largely instrumental
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in founding the Second Unitarian Society in . Athol, was several years its clerk, and for the past eigh- teen years has been superintendent of the Sunday-
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school. In politics he has regularly voted with the Republican party, but has never been a poli- tician. Mr. Lord was married September 1, 1868, to Miss Delia Maria Pierce. of Royalston. They have one daughter : Elizabeth Lord, born Febru- ary 9, 1878. Their home is a fine residence re- cently erected by themselves on Chestnut Hill Avenue, Athol.
MCDONNELL, THOMAS HENRY, of Quincy, one of the leaders in the granite industry of the United States, and president of the Quincy Quarry Railroad Company, is a native of Quincy, born August 18, 1848, son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) McDonnell. He acquired his educa- tion in the Quincy public schools, finishing with a thorough business course at Comer's Commercial College, Boston, and at an early age was actively engaged in the granite business, associated with his father and his brother, John Q. McDonnell, under the firm name of McDonnell & Sons. This relation has since continued, and the firm of which he has become the active head has acquired a
national reputation for the extent and excellence of its work and for its fair dealing in all transac- tions. From a modest beginning it steadily ex- panded its works and operations in various direc- tions until now it has, in addition to its large plant in Quincy, extensive works in Barre, Vt., where it owns a large quarry of fine, light granite ; three large yards at Buffalo, N.Y .; and offices at Albany, N.Y., and at Indianapolis, Ind. In Quincy the firm owns ten acres of the best quarry land in the city, and thirty-one aeres in East Mil- ton. Its works are thoroughly equipped with ma- chinery of every description required for large operations, some of it especially constructed for the firm's use. One derrick alone is capable of removing a one hundred ton block of stone at a single lift. Thirty thousand feet of lumber are an- nually consumed in boxing the firm's finished work for shipment. It was the first concern in Quincy to introduce the apparatus of the American Pneu- matic Tool Company for carving and cutting stone, superseding hand labor, Mr. McDonnell being a stockholder in the company. Examples of the work of the firm are seen in various parts
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of the country: in the monument of General George B. Mcclellan at Trenton, N.J., the C. W. Mackey family monument at Franklin, Penna., the
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Seventy-seventh Regiment monument at Saratoga. N. Y., the Blocher canopy at Buffalo. N. Y., cost- ing twenty-five thousand dollars; the Shoemaker monument at Spring Grove, Cincinnati ; and many monuments of fine finish in cemeteries of the larger cities East and West. One of its most nota- ble pieces of work was the reconstruction of the Soldiers' Monument at Buffalo, which was highly complimented by the committee having the matter in charge. Mr. MeDonnell was an active pro- moter of the Quincy Quarry Railroad, - a contin- uation of the ancient " Granite Railway," the first railroad built in the country, - connecting the quarries on the hills with the main railroad, one of the most important enterprises of Quincy, com- pleted and formally opened in October, 1894; and he was elected its first president. He was also a promoter of the Quincy and Boston Electric Rail- way, and has been a director of it since its incor- poration. Besides his quarry business and his Quincy interests, Mr. McDonnell is interested in the Security Live Stock Insurance Company of Boston, of which he was one of the originators, and the president until May. 1894, when he de- clined a re-election on account of the pressure of other business, but remained in the directory. He also owns a dairy farm of five hundred acres in Springville, N.Y. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus. In the year 1892 Mr. McDonnell, accompanied by his friend Rev. T. J. Donahy. of Newton Upper Falls, enjoyed a European trip ; and, while in Rome, they were accorded the rare privilege of a private audience with Pope Leo
MACKINTIRE, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, of Salem, bookseller, is a native of Rhode Island, born in Providence, January 24. 1851, son of John and Clarissa (Craig) Mackintire. His father was of a family of sea-faring men in Salem, with the ex- ception of Samuel Mackintire, who was a noted carver and architect of Salem during the first decade of the present century. His mother was of Scotch descent. He received a good grammar school education, and at thirteen years of age was at work in the book and stationery store of Henry P. Ives in Salem. Here he learned the business, and remained until 1878, when in February he formed a partnership with W. Harvey Merrill. under the firm name of Merrill & Mackintire, and opened a book, stationery, and wall paper store of his own. In July, 1894. he purchased
his partner's interest, and continued the busi- ness as sole proprietor. Mr. Mackintire has al- ways taken a deep interest in the welfare and
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growth of Salem, and has by his influence pro- moted many important improvements. He has been for some years an active member of the Salem Board of Trade, and its president since AApril. 1893. He was the founder and first vice- president of the Salem Co-operative Bank. which position he has held since its establishment in 1888 ; and he was for two years a director of the Association of Massachusetts Co-operative Banks. He has also been long connected with the Salem Mutual Benefit Association, a director of the or- ganization for fifteen years. He is a member of the Essex Institute, of the Salem Charitable Me- chanic Association. of the Salem Veteran Cadets. of the Enterprise Fire Club, and of numerous fra- ternal organizations : connected with Essex Lodge. No. 26, and Naumkeag Encampment of Odd Fel- lows, the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Honor. the Pilgrim Fathers, and the United Workmen. In politics he is Republican. interested in the party organization. but never holding office, al- though many times urged to take nominations. He was an early member of the Salem Repub- lican Flambeau Club, and its treasurer for nine
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years. He was married March 9. 1880. to Miss Alice Williams Glover, a descendant of General John Glover, of Marblehead, the famous hero of the Revolution, whose statue stands in Common- wealth Avenue, Boston. They have had four children : Bessie Glover. Richard Craig, Alice, and George Augustus Mackintire (deceased).
MARTIN, GREGORY ARVIDE, M.D., of Frank- lin, was born in Bedford, P.Q., December 22. 1842, son of Abram and Sarah (Spruston) Mar- tin. His father's grandfather came from Holland, and settled in the Hoosac Valley of Massachu- setts, where his grandfather was born. His father was born in Bedford, P.Q. His maternal grand- father was born and lived in Lancaster, England. which was his mother's native place. She re- ceived her education in London, England. lle attended the common and high schools of his native town. and at eighteen was apprenticed for three years to a civil engineer and general mill- builder. After serving his time, he worked at mill building, civil and hydraulic engineering, through-
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out New England, in the Province of Quebec. and on the Pacific Coast. Among other works he superintended the large saw-mill on the shore of
Commencement Bay, where Tacoma City now stands. He began the study of medicine on the first of January, 1873, and, subsequently attending the medical department of the University of Ver- mont, graduated there in June, 1879. He was first established as a physician in the town of China, Me., where he spent seven years. He had a large and pleasant practice there ; but, desiring a more compact field of labor, he decided to set- tle near some large city. Accordingly, in 1886 he came to Franklin. He has devoted himself entirely to his profession, and has attained sub- stantial success in it. The only offices he has held have been those of examining physician for several insurance companies, and chairman of the Board of Health of Franklin, which position he has occupied for several years. He is a member of the Thurber Medical Association, of the Maine State Medical Society, and of the American Med- ical Association. He is connected with numerous fraternal organizations, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of the Royal Societies of Good Fellows. of Central Lodge, No. 45, Free- masons, Dunlap Royal Arch Chapter, No. 12, Mount Lebanon Council, St. Omer Commandery, No. 13, Knights Templar, Providence Grand Con- sistory. American Association Scottish Rites, United States Jurisdiction ; and of King David Lodge. No. 71, Odd Fellows. In politics he has been always a Republican. Dr. Martin is an ardent huntsman, and every year finds him in the woods of Maine hunting deer and bear. He was married February 23, 1886. to Miss Rachel .1. Bumpus, of China. Me.
MEAD, JUMAX AUGUSTUS, M. D., of Watertown, was born in West Acton, April 15, 1856. son of Oliver Warren and Mary Elizabeth ( Hartwell) Mead. His father was a native of Boxborough, where the Mead family had been settled for many years, and his mother of Harvard. She belonged to the Littleton branch of the Hartwell family. He was educated in the public schools of West Acton, the Concord High School, Phillips ( Exeter) \cad- emy, and at Harvard, graduating A.B. in 1878; and fitted for his profession at the Harvard Medi- cal School, graduating M.D. in 1881, and in Europe, at the universities of Leipzig, Vienna, and Paris, where he spent two years. In Novem- ber, 1883, he settled in Watertown, and then began practice, in which he has since been
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steadily engaged. Since 1884 he has been medi- cal examiner of Middlesex County, first appointed by Governor Robinson, and reappointed in 1891
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by Governor Russell. He served for three years as assistant surgeon ; and two years as surgeon of the Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, under Colonel Bancroft ; and is now post surgeon at the United States Arsenal at Watertown. He established the first Board of Health in Water- town, and was chairman of the board in 1886. He has served the town in other capacities,-as a member of the School Committee since 1884. and chairman since 1885 : and as a trustee of the Watertown Public Library since 1891, for three years also secretary of the board. He is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Medico-Legal Society; member of the Union and Unitarian clubs, Boston ; of the Watertown Unitarian (lub, three years its president : and of the Village Club, Watertown. of which he is the present president. He has contributed numerous articles to the medical journals. Dr. Mead was married December 12. 1889. to Miss Mary Dear- born Emerson, of Newton.
MERRILL, JOHN FLINT, of Quincy, grocer and real estate owner, is a native of Maine, born
in Brownfield, January 16, 1849, son of Samuel K. and Clarissa ( Flint) Merrill. His ancestors were Massachusetts folk on both sides. The Merrills went from Newbury, Essex County, and were among the first settlers in Fryeburg and Brown- field. Me .. and in Conway, N.H. His mother was born in North Reading, and went to Maine early in life. He was educated in the public schools of Norway, whither his parents moved when he was a boy of eight years. He came to Boston in 1870, and entered the grocery business. Six years later he removed to Lewiston, Me .. where he continued in the same business : and in 1878 established himself in Quincy, Mass., as a grocer and real estate owner. In 1887 he built the Durgin and Merrill Block, the first business block in Quincy. He has represented his city and senatorial district in both branches of the Legislature, serving in the House of Representa- tives in 1888 and ISS9, and in the Senate in 1893 and 1894. During both terms in the House he served on the committee on water supply. The first year as a senator he was chairman of the committee on constitutional amendments. and a
JOHN F. MERRILL.
member of the committees on mercantile affairs and on towns ; and the second year he was chair- man of the committee on mercantile affairs, and
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member of those on bills in the third reading and libraries. In politics he is a Republican. He is prominent in the Masonic order, - a member of the Rural Lodge of Quincy, for several years secre- tary of St. Stephen's Chapter, and member of the South Shore Commandery of Knights Templar,- and is also connected with the order of Red Men and the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Merrill was married November 10, 1894, to Miss Elizabeth Upton Waters, of New York.
MILLER, EDWIN CHILD, of Wakefield, assist- ant superintendent of the Henry F. Miller & Son Piano Company, was born in Melrose, December 1, 1857, fourth son of Henry F. and Frances V. (Child) Miller. He is a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, and of the Hon. Joseph Jenckes, and is connected with the Ogdens, Beverleys, Hitchcocks, and many of the early Rhode Island families. During his boyhood his parents re- moved to Boston, and he was educated there in the public schools. Ile entered the English High School in 1872, from the sub-master' class of the Dwight School ; and he was one of eighteen pupils in the class of one hundred who at the close of the course won the Franklin medal, and a Law- rence prize in declamation, in general scholarship, and for an essay. He was also captain of the prize company, English High School Battalion, of the Boston School Regiment. Graduating in 1875, he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and there was graduated in 1879 with the degree of Bachelor of Science in the me- chanical engineering department. After leaving the institute, he was first employed as draughts- man by the inventors of the Woodbury Merrill Patten hot-air engine. Then he entered the office of his father, the founder of the Henry F. Miller & Son Piano Company, as book-keeper, and in 1884, having become a member of the company, was appointed as assistant superintendent, which position he has since held. He removed to Wakefield in 1887, six years after the company had established the manufacturing department of its business there, and at once became identified with the interests of the town. He was one of the first members of the Wakefield Board of Trade, and an early president of the organiza- tion : in 1890 he became president of the Wake- feld Horticultural and Agricultural Society; in 1893 he was appointed by the town a member of
the committee to purchase the water-works ; and in 1893 94 represented the town in the lower house of the Legislature. He was chairman also of the executive committee having charge of the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of the settlement of the towns of Reading, North Reading, and Wakefield. Since 1889 he has been a member of the Wakefield Savings Bank corporation. In politics he is a Republi- can, and an active member of the party organiza- tion, serving as delegate in district and State con- ventions. In the Legislature he has served on important committees, among them those on pub-
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lic service, of which he was House chairman for both 1893 and 1894, and on transit (in 1894), of the latter committee being the member bay- ing charge on the floor of the house of the Boston Elevated Railroad bill passed that year. He has been a vice-president of the Middlesex (political dining) Club, Boston ; a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sci- ence, of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Golden Rule Lodge, Wakefield, Freemasons, of the Mbion Lodge, Wakefield, New England Order of Protection, and of the Quannapowitt Club, Wakefield ; a fine member of the Richard- son Light Guards ; and a contributing member of
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H. M. Warren Post, No 12, of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Miller was married Janu- ary 30, 1884. to Miss Ida Louise Farr, daughter of the late Hon. Evaris W. Farr. of Littleton. N.JI. They have two children : Barbara (born August 30. 1885. in Boston ) and Henry Franklin Miller. ed (born November 18, 1887, in Melrose).
MILLS, HIRAM FRANCIS, of Lowell, civil engineer, is a native of Maine, born in Bangor. November 1, 1836, son of Preserved Brayton and Jane ( Lunt) Mills. His early education was ac- quired in the public schools of Bangor; and he was graduated as civil engineer at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.V .. in 1856. Before entering upon independent professional life, he concluded to have ten years' experience with the ablest engineers in the country ; and dur- ing this period he was associated with James P. Kirkwood, William E. Worthen, James B. Francis, Charles S. Storrow, and others. In 1863 he made a design for and constructed the State Dam on Deerfield River. Three years later he de- signed a stone dam for the Penobscot River at Bangor, and in 1882 one for the Merrimac River at Sewall's Falls. He has been consulted upon many of the important hydraulic questions that have arisen in different States of the Union. He was appointed engineer of the Essex Com- pany in 1869, and has since that time continued in charge of this company's affairs at Lawrence, in- cluding the laying out and management of the lands and the management of the water power of the Merrimac River, with its daily distribution among the several manufacturing companies in the city. He has also acted as consulting engineer for these companies, and the three tall chimneys of Law- rence were designed by him and built under his direction. He has made very extensive experi- ments upon the flow of water in pipes, conduits. canals, and rivers, and in the discharge of water wheels ; and his formulas upon the flow of water, though not yet published, have been used, with his consent, by several of the leading engineers in designing their works. In 1893 he was appointed consulting engineer of the Proprietors of Locks and Canals on Merrimac River, at Lowell, and in 1894 engineer, having charge of the management of the water power there and of making improve- ments therein by enlarging the capacity of the canals and directing the daily distribution of the
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