Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 74

Author: Herndon, Richard; Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Boston : New England Magazine
Number of Pages: 1036

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in Paris; and in 1881 he exhibited in the Salon. Returning to Boston in 1883, he opened his studio here, and exhibited in the local exhibitions. His

W. W. CHURCHILL.

principal line in art has been portraiture, and he has painted many well-known Bostonians, He has also painted numerous figure pictures. Among his notable portraits are those of General Stephen M. Weld, Colonels Edmands, Holmes, and Jeffries, of the Cadets, the Rev. Dr. A. A. Miner, Samuel Little, the Hon. F. B. Hayes, Herman Curtis, and a portrait of a lady, exhibited at the World's Fair, Chicago. It is his ambition to paint pictures of a decorative character, not of a mere realistic nature. Mr. Churchill is a member of the Boston Art Club. He has been identified with the State militia for eight years as a member of the First Corps of Cadets. Although not active in politics, he is much interested in political matters, and is classed as a Nationalist. Mr. Churchill is un- married.

CLAPP, ROBERT PARKER, of Lexington, mem- ber of the Suffolk bar, was born in Montague, October 21, 1855, son of George A. and Irene Franklin (Parker) Clapp. He is a lineal descend- ant (in the ninth generation) of Captain Roger Clap, one of the founders of Dorchester in 1630.

His early education was acquired in the common schools of his native town. He fitted for college in the Montague High School and at Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1879, and from the Law School of the University in 1882. He supported himself from the day of graduating from college, working his way through the law school by tutoring, newspaper writing, and other occupa- tions. Having acquired a thorough and practical acquaintance with shorthand, he did a good deal of verbatim stenographic work, reporting speeches and sermons for newspapers, testimony, and other matters, and later, in 1882-83 and 1883-84, taught the principles of shorthand in the Boston Evening High School. He was also reporter to the Boston Daily Advertiser of the college and Cambridge news during the years of his law school course; and afterward, in the year 1884, contributed articles to the editorial page of that paper. Interested in civil service reform, he be- came in 1885 secretary of the board of managers of the Civil Service Record, and in 1886-87-88 had editorial charge of that publication. He was

ROBERT P. CLAPP.

admitted to the bar in February, 1883, and a month before became engaged in the law office of the late Bainbridge Wadleigh in Boston. He re-

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mained there until the first of January, 1886, when he began practice on his own account. He was appointed by Governor Ames an associate justice of the District Court of Central Middlesex in 1887, which position he subsequently resigned. An early client, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, absorbed a good part of his time until the summer of 1889, after which he devoted his whole time to its law department, in the capacity of office counsel. until the company was merged in the General Electric Company in 1892. There- after, throughout 1893 and until August, 1894. his time was given to the law business of the latter company. Early in 1894, upon the removal of its main office to Schenectady, N.Y., he organized and took charge of at that place a central law de- partment, having the general direction of all of the company's legal affairs outside of patent suits. In August, 1894, he resigned this position and re- sumed general practice, forming two months later, with Benjamin N. Johnson and W. Orison Under- wood, the law firm of Johnson, Clapp, & Under- wood, office at No. 50 State Street, Boston. In politics Mr. Clapp has been a Democrat since 1884, and he is now a member of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts and of the Massachusetts Reform Club. He has lived in Lexington since April, 1886, and has taken an interest in the affairs of the town. He served on the School Committee for over two years, re- signing from the board in March, 1894. He was one of the charter members of the Old Belfry Club, a social club in the town for both men and women. became its first president in 1892, and has twice been re-elected. The organization opened its large and attractive new club house in January, 1894, and has thus far achieved a pronounced social and financial success. Mr. Clapp was mar- ried October 28, 1886, to Miss Mary Lizzie Saun- ders, daughter of the Hon. Charles H. Saunders, of Cambridge. They have one child: Lilian Saun- ders Clapp.

CLARK, JULIUS STIMPSON, M. D., of Melrose, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Bristol. March 22. 1838, son of Dr. Albert S. and Ann (Herbert) Clark. His paternal grandfather was a lieutenant commissary and paymaster-general of Vermont in the war of the Revolution, and com- manded the first detachment that entered the enemy's works at Bennington ; and was previously at the siege of Quebec. At the close of the war

of 1812 he was commissary-general of Vermont, and for nineteen years was judge of probate of Rutland County. He also had two brothers in the Revolutionary War, and a son in the War of 1812. His wife was Edna Mattocks, of a family distinguished in civil life. Dr. Clark's father was an eminent physician in Maine and a surgeon in the army during the Civil War. His mother was of English birth and lineage. He was educated in the public schools, at Yarmouth and Auburn acad- emies, and at Waterville College. He studied for his profession at the Georgetown, D.C., Medical College, where he graduated in 1869. From 1870

JULIUS S. CLARK.

to 1878 he was respectively health officer, police surgeon, and city physician of New Orleans, also visiting physician to the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, and resident quarantine physician of Louisiana ; and here he demonstrated that yellow fever could be kept from our shores. He had previously served throughout the Civil War, hav- ing entered the service as an enlisted man in 1861. and continuing in it until 1867. First attaining the rank of captain, he was subsequently bre- vetted major for meritorious service. While in New Orleans, he was some time a member of the School Committee, and vice-president of the board. In Melrose he has also served on the

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School Committee for several years. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; of the East Middlesex Medical Society, of which he was president from 1891 to 1893 ; of the Loyal Legion ; and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has contributed to Grand Army meetings and on other occasions numerous verses on war and patriotic subjects. From 1878 to 1882 he was United States district medical examiner for pen- sions. Dr. Clark was married November 19, 1873. to Miss Eliza Isabel Vennard, daughter of the late Judge H. T. Vennard, of New Orleans, They have three children : Anita B., Julius V., and E. Greely Clark.

CLARKE, AUGUSTUS PECK, M.D., of Cam-

bridge, was born in Pawtucket, R.I., Sep- tember 24, 1833, son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke. His father was of the eighth generation in descent from Joseph Clarke (Seth," Edward,7 Ichabod,6 Joseph,5 Joseph,4 Jo- seph,3 Joseph," Joseph1), who with his wife, Alice (Pepper) Clarke, came with the first settlers com- prising the Dorchester Company that embarked at Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, in the "Mary and John." This Joseph Clarke was born in Suffolk County, England, where the family had been one of great antiquity. A direct ancestor, Thomas Clarke, of Bury St. Edmunds, gentleman, mentioned in his will of 1506 "a Seynt Antony crosse, a tau crosse of gold weyng iij li," which was borne in an armorial coat, and was assumed as an augmentation in consequence of having been worn by his maternal great-grandsire, Nich- olas Drury, in the expedition to Spain with John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, in 1386. Dr. Clarke's great-grandfather, Ichabod Clarke, was a captain in the War of the Revolution ; and his grandfather, Edward Clarke, served in the War of IS12. His mother, Fanny Peck Clarke, was of the sixth generation in descent from Joseph Peck, who came in the ship " Diligent " from old Hing- ham, England, to Hingham, Mass., in 1638. She was also of the twenty-sixth generation in descent from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire, knight. Her father, Joel Peck, was with General Washing- ton, and participated in the battle of Rhode Island, August 27, 1778. Dr. Clarke completed his preparatory course in the University Grammar School, Providence, entered Brown University in September, 1856, and received the degree of

A.M. in the class of 1860. Before leaving col- lege, he began the study of medicine under the direction of Lewis L. Miller, M. D., of Provi- dence, who at that time was by far the most emi- nent surgeon of Rhode Island ; and, entering the Harvard Medical School, he graduated there with the degree of M.1). in the class of 1862. In August, 1861, after an examination as to his pro- fessional qualifications by a medical board, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Sixth New York Cavalry, and immediately entered the ser- vice. He served in the Peninsular campaign con- ducted by General Mcclellan in 1862, was at the siege of Yorktown, and in subsequent engage- ments, including those at Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, and Peach Orchard in the seven days' battle. At the battle of Savage's Station, Va., June 29, 1862, he was made a prisoner, but was allowed to continue his professional service; and he remained with the wounded until all were ex- changed. On May 5, 1863, he was promoted to the rank of surgeon of the same regiment, and served with the cavalry corps in the Rappahan- nock campaign and in other operations of the Army of the Potomac undertaken by General Meade during that year. At the opening of the campaign of General Grant in the spring of 1864, he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the Second Brigade of the First Cavalry Division, and was present with his command, and took an active part in the movements conducted by General Sheridan. During the campaign of 1864-65 he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of all the First Cavalry Division, and accompanied General Sher- idan in his colossal raid from Winchester to Petersburg, and was in the battle of Five Forks, and in other engagements until the surrender at Appomattox. His arduous labors were continued until the division was disbanded, July 1, 1865. During this service of four years he participated in upwards of eighty-two battles and engagements, was frequently complimented in orders and re- ports made by his superior officers, who united also in recommending him for brevet appointment as lieutenant colonel and as colonel "for faithful and meritorious conduct during the eventful term of his service." After the completion of his mili- tary service, in 1865, Dr. Clarke travelled abroad, and spent much time in the various medical schools and hospitals in London, Paris, Leipzig, and in other great medical centres, for the pur- pose of fitting himself more particularly for obstet-

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rical, gynecological, and surgical work. Upon his return in 1866 he removed to Cambridge, where he soon established a reputation in the general practice of his profession, in which he has since continued. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and has been one of its council- lors; a member of the American Academy of Medicine, of the American Medical Association, of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ; was president of the Gynacological Society of Boston, 1891 and 1892 ; a vice-presi- dent of the Pan-American Medical Congress, 1893 ; member of the Ninth International Med-

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ical Congress, Washington, I).C., and of the Tenth, at Berlin, before each of which he read papers ; a delegate to the British Medical Association in IS90, and to medical societies at Paris in the same year. He was one of the founders of the Cambridge Society for Medical Improvement in 1868, and was its secretary from 1870 to 1875; and a member of the American Public Health Association. He is also a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and of its board of officers, 1894-95. Dr. Clarke still enjoys a high reputation in general practice. though he has for a long time been especially en- gaged in the practice of the more important

branches of surgery and of gynecology. After the close of the congress in Berlin he again visited the leading cities of Europe, including London, Edinburgh, Paris, and Vienna, and devoted him- self to the study of their hospital service. While pursuing in 1865-66 his medical studies under Messieurs Lemaire of Paris, Crede of Leipzig, and Sir James T. Simpson, he became impressed with the importance of adopting antiseptic meas- ures for carrying on successful surgical work, and thus became one of the earliest advocates of this method of procedure. Dr. Clarke is noted for his scholarly productions and for his facile pen. In the midst of the multitudinous duties of his pro- fessional work he has been able to make impor- tant researches relating to gynecology and to abdominal surgery. He has frequently contrib- uted articles to the public press and to different medical societies and journals. Following are the titles of some of his many papers : "Perforating Ulcer of the Duodenum," Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, ISSI; "Removal of Intra- uterine Fibroids," ibid., 1882 ; " Cerebral Erysip- elas," ibid., 1883 ; " Hemiplegia," Journal of the American Medical Association, 1884 ; "Uterine Displacements," ibid., 1884; " Obstinate Vomit- ing of Pregnancy," ibid., 1885 ; " Induced Pre- mature Labor," ibid., 1885 ; "Pelvic Cellulitis," ibid., 1886; "Early and Repeated Tapping in Ascites," ibid., 1886 : " Abortion for Uncontrol- lable Vomiting of Pregnancy," ibid., 1888 ; " Ante- partum Hour-glass Constriction of the Uterus," ibid., ISSS ; "Chronic Cystitis in the Female," ibid., 1889; " Management of the Perineum dur- ing Labor," ibid., 1889 ; " On the Tenth Interna- tional Medical Congress at Berlin," ibid., 1890 ; " The Influence of the Position of the Patient in Labor, in causing Uterine Inertia and Pelvic Dis- turbances," ibid., 1891; "Some of the Lesions induced by Typhoid Fever," ibid., 1891 ; " A Cer- tain Class of Obstetric Cases in which the Use of the Forceps is imperatively demanded," ibid., 1891 ; "Some Points in the Surgical Treatment for the Radical Cure of Hernia," ibid., 1891 ; "Origin and Development of Modern Gynecol- ogy," ibid., 1892 ; "On the Importance of Surgical Treatment for Laceration of the Cervix Uteri," ibid., 1892; "Diet in its Relation to the Treat- ment and Prevention of Disease," ibid., 1892; " Vesico-vaginal Fistula : Its Etiology and Surgi- cal Treatment," ibid., 1893; "\ Consideration of Some of the Operative Measures employed in

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Gynecology," ibid., 1893: "The Pan-American Medical Congress," ibid., 1893; "' Vascular Growths of the Female Meatus Urinarius," Med- ical Press and Circular, London, England, 1887, also published in Transactions of the Ninth In- ternational Medical Congress, 1887 ; " Dilatation of the Cervix Uteri," Transactions of the Gyna- cological Society of Boston, 1889 ; " Faradism in the Practice of Gynecology," ibid., 1889; "The Treatment of Placenta Pravia," Medical Times and Register, 1890; "Adherent Placenta: Its Causes and Management," Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gyne- cologists, 1890; "Post-partum Hemorrhage : Its Etiology and Management," ibid., 1891 ; "Ueber die Wichtigkeit der frühzeitigen Erkenntniss des Pyosalpin als Ursache der eitrigen Beckenent- zündung," Centralblatt für Gynekologie, Leipzig, 1890, also in Deutschen Medicinischen Wochen- schrift, Berlin, 1891 ; " Parametritis : Its Etiology and Pathology," Journal of Gynecology, 1891; " The Advantages of Version in a Certain Class of Obstetric Cases," American Journal of Obstetrics, 1892 ; " Puerperal Eclampsia : Its Causation and Treatment," American Gynecological Journal, 1893 ; " Some Observations respecting Tubo-Overian Disease," ibid., 1893 ; "Some Points in the Sur- gical Treatment of Appendicitis," The Canada Medical Record, 1893; " On the Value of Certain Methods of Surgical Treatment for Chronic Pro- cidentia Uteri," Annals of Gynecology and Pedia- try, 1893 ; "On the Relation of Pelvic Suppura- tion to Uterine Disease," Transactions of the Eleventh International Medical Congress, Rome, Italy, 1894, also published in Gazette Hebdoma- daire ct Mercredi, Paris, France, 1894, and Annali di Ostetricia e Ginecologia, Milan, Italy, 1894; " Recto-vaginal Fistula : Its Etiology and Surgi- cal Treatment," Journal of the American Medical Association, 1894: " The Relation of Hysteria to Structural Changes in the Uterus and its Adnexa," American Journal of Obstetrics, 1894. Dr. Clarke has been consulting physician to the Middlesex Hospital and Dispensary since 1892, and profes- sor of gynecology and abdominal surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston since 1893, and dean of the faculty since 1894. He was president of the Cambridge Art Circle in 1890 and in 1891, and member of Cambridge City Council 1871-73-74, for the last year an alderman ; and, during his service in the City Council, chairman of the health department and

member of the finance and of other important committees. Among other societies to which he belongs are the Cambridge Club, the Grand Army of the Republic, several fraternal and Masonic bodies, including the Boston Commandery of Knights Templar, the Boston Brown Alumni Association, and the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. His political affiliations have always been with the Republican party ; and he is a mem- ber of the standing committee of the First Baptist Church of Cambridge, where he holds his church connection. Dr. Clarke was married October 23, 1861, to Miss Mary H. Gray, author and poet, daughter of the late Gideon and Hannah Orne (Metcalf) Gray, and of the seventh generation in descent from Edward Gray, who settled in Plym- outh in 1643. They have two daughters: Inez Louise, A.B. of Harvard Annex (now Radcliffe College) 1891, and Genevieve Clarke, also a mem- ber of Radcliffe.

CLEVELAND, LEONIDAS SIDNEY, of Boston, merchant, was born in West Camden, Me., Au-

L. SIDNEY CLEVELAND.

gust 12, 1848, son of Samuel S. and Caroline Rachael (Pottle) Cleveland. He is a descendant of the first Clevelands in the country, early settled

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in Woburn, Mass., and of the branch of the fam- ily founded in what is now Maine by one of five brothers who went from Woburn there. He was educated in the town grammar school. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in the Civil War, and was mustered in on the 22d of February, 1864, as a private in Company E, Thirty-second Maine Volunteers. The regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps ; and he was with it in active service from the battle of the Wilderness to the surrender at Appomattox. Mustered out in July, 1865, he fin- ished his education at Eastman's Business Col- lege in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and then began busi- ness life as a clerk in Leavenworth. In 1866 he secured a clerkship in Bangor, Maine, where he remained through 1867. The next year he was in a similar position in Portland. Then in January, 1869, he came to Boston, and secured a position as a commercial traveller. He was principally in the employ of Damon, Temple, & Co. till January, 1882, when he formed the firm of Cleveland, Brown, & Co., and engaged in the business of im- porting silks and manufacturing men's neckwear. The house is now established in Otis Street, Win- throp Square. Mr. Cleveland has lived in Water- town for nearly twenty years, and has been active in all movements for the benefit and progress of the town. He originated and organized the Young Men's Assembly of Watertown, with a Board of Trade department, in October, 1888, which now has a membership of one hundred and fifty, and was elected its president for five terms. He is also president of the Union Market Na- tional Bank, succeeding the late Hon. Oliver Shaw. He is interested in politics, on the Re- publican side, and has served on important town committees, but has invariably declined political office. He is a trustee of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, and chairman of its new church build- ing committee. Mr. Cleveland was married No- vember 17, 1871, to Miss Mary Alice Roberts, of Portland, Me. They have three children : Alice Mabel, Lulu Blanche, and Edith May Cleveland. They occupy a substantial colonial house, which Mr. Cleveland recently built on Russell Avenue, on elevated ground, commanding one of the finest views to be found in any inland town.

CUSHING, JOSIAH STEARNS, of Norwood, president of the Norwood Press Company, was

born in Bedford. May 3, 1854, son of William and Margaret Louisa (Wiley) Cushing. His father was a Unitarian clergyman, a brother of the

J. S. CUSHING.

author of Cushing's " Manual," and of Edmund L. Cushing, a judge of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. He was educated in the public schools of Clinton and at the Clinton and Medford high schools. He began to learn the printer's trade when a boy of fourteen, taking a case at the University Press in Cambridge. Later he worked at type-setting in the offices of Rock- well & Churchill, Rand, Avery, & Co., and Alfred Mudge & Son in Boston, and at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, following the trade for several years, becoming an expert workman. Then in 1878, with a very modest capital saved from his earnings, he ventured into business on his own account, establishing his book-printing office in a small room on the corner of Milk and Federal Streets, Boston. He began with a single book given him as a trial, with a promise of more if the work were satisfactory. Its excellence promptly brought in other orders, and he was early obliged to enlarge his quarters. In 1889, when he had been in business but a little over ten years, he took a floor in the Estes Press Building on Sum- mer Street, and increased his force to about one

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hundred and twenty-five compositors ; and in 1895 he occupied the newly erected Norwood Press Building, Norwood, in association with Berwick & Smith, printers, and George C. Scott & Sons, elec- trotypers, one of the largest and best equipped book printing houses in the country. Mr. Cushing is the designer of several styles of type now in general use by book-makers. His special line of work is college text-books and standard educa- tional books in various languages ; and his fonts of Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French, Spanish, and other alphabets, and of mathematical formula: (made under his immediate supervision), are of the best. His house also prints the reports of the United States Supreme Court and of the United States Courts of Appeal. He is at pres- ent the sole member of the firm of J. S. Cushing & Co. : but at one time, for a period of four years, he had as partner George A. Wentworth, professor of Phillips (Exeter) Academy, well known as author of a series of mathematical text- books. Mr. Cushing is president of the Boston Master Printers' Club, vice-president of the United Typotheta of America, and president of the Norwood Business Association. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman, and his yachts "Owl" and " Nimbus " have won for him a wide reputa- tion in the yachting world. He is ex-commodore of the Winthrop Yacht Club, and until recently was a member of the Massachusetts, Hull, Jeffries, Corinthian, and Atlantic Yacht clubs ; is now a member of the Boston Athletic Association and of the Aldine Club of New York City; lieutenant in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ; and a thirty-second degree Mason. He was mar- ried March 30, 1876, to Miss Lilias Jean Ross, of Cambridge. They have one child living : Lilias Stearns Cushing, born February 9, 1891.

DAVIS, MAJOR CHARLES GRIFFIN, of Boston, of the sergeant-at-arms department, State House, is a native of New York, born in New York City, November 25, 1839, son of John William and Martha (Dewland) Davis. His father was born in Boston in 1807, son of John Davies, a native of Wales, and of Elizabeth (Little) Davis, of New- buryport ; and his mother was born in London, England, in 1810, daughter of John Dewland and Martha (Bond) Dewland, both of England. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell,

to which city his family removed when he was a child, graduating in 1852. The next year, remov- ing to Boston, he went to work, first finding

CHAS. G. DAVIS.

employment from Benjamin P'. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) as newsboy on the Lowell Railroad, and afterward selling papers on the Fitchburg Railroad. In 1854 he obtained a place in the Quincy Market, and thereafter, with the excep- tion of the Civil War period, when he served in the field, he was continuously for twenty-seven years in the wholesale and retail provision busi- ness. In 1883-84 he was inspector of provisions for the city of Boston, under Mayors Palmer and Martin ; and he has held his present position, as first clerk in the department of the sergeant-at- arms, State House, for ten successive years. Major Davis's war record began with the opening year of the Civil War, and continued to the end of the contest. He enlisted September 4, 1861, being then a member of the National Lancers of Boston, in Company C, First Massachusetts Cavalry, and was mustered in on September 16. He was made first sergeant the next day, commissioned second lieutenant February 4, 1862, first lieutenant Janu- ary 3, 1863, captain January 6, 1864, and major September 30, 1864. He was wounded in the

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Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 74

Author: Herndon, Richard; Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916 Publication date: 1896 Publisher: Boston : New England Magazine Number of Pages: 1036

Author: Herndon, Richard; Bacon, Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe), 1844-1916
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: Boston : New England Magazine
Number of Pages: 1036