Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 78

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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ROBERT KRAUS.

breast a slave's child,-are characteristic of his tendencies. Then followed the " Boston Massa- cre " monument (now on Boston Common) ; the Iowa State soldiers' monument, which received the second prize, with forty-seven competitors; a statue of "Grief" and that of " Eternal Rest " on the Randidge tomb (both in Forest Hills Ceme- tery) ; portraits of Governor Ames and family and of others ; and statues for the buildings of the World's Fair. Mr. Kraus was married, as above stated, in London, January 5, ISSo, to Miss Annie Cullimore. They have five children : three boys, Wilfrid, Herbert, and Alfred ; and two girls, Nellie and Roberta Kraus.

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KRESS, GEORGE, of Westfield, member of the bar, was born in the village of Broad Brook, in the town of East Windsor, Conn., December 24, 1848, son of George and Mary Kress. His early life was spent on the farm, attending the public schools of the town during the regular school sea- sons, and subsequently teaching several winters in the same schools. He fitted for college at Wes- leyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., and, entering Amherst, graduated there in the class of 1877. While at college, during the latter part of the course he began reading law in the office of E. E. Webster, then in Amherst, and continued his

GEO. KRESS.

studies after graduation in the office of the Hon. E. H. Lathrop in Springfield, from which he was admitted to the bar of Hampden County in June, 1878. He began practice the following month, established himself in the town of Huntington, Hampshire County, and remained there until May 22, 1893, when he opened an office in West- field, at first going back and forth on the trains, but in the following November removing his fam- ily to Westfield. While living in Huntington, he was prominent in local affairs, serving for several years as chairman of the School Committee and chairman of the Republican town committee, re- signing the latter position just before his removal

from the place. He was also for some years chairman of the trustees of the Second Congrega- tional Society; and at the time of his removal was clerk of the society and superintendent of the Sunday-school. In his law business at Hunting- ton he was associated from April 14, 1885, to November 11, 1893, when he moved to Westfield, with Schuyler Clark, under the firm name of Kress & Clark, which became well known in the county. Mr. Kress is a hard worker in his pro- fession. His favorite recreation in its season is that of trout fishing, which he considers superior to any other for relaxation of body and mind from the pressure of care and business. In poli- tics he is always a Republican. He was married January 21, 1879, at Broad Brook, Conn., to Georgetta Adams, of that place. They have one child : Eva J. Kress (born April 5, 1881).

LANCASTER, SHERMAN RUSSELL, M.D., of Cambridge, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Newport, October 14, 1861, son of Icha- bod Russell and M. Ellen (Ireland) Lancaster. He is of English descent on the paternal side, and on the maternal side of Scotch. His pater- nal great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary War. He was brought up on a farm, and edu- cated in the town schools of Newport, at the Co- rinna Union Academy, and at the Maine Central Institute, where he graduated in ISSI. After leaving the academy, and while at the institute, he taught winters to earn money to defray his ex- penses at the latter institution. Always having a desire to follow the medical profession, he began medical studies, immediately after his graduation from the institute, in the office of the late Dr. O. H. Merrill, of Corinna, Me., and sub- sequently attended lectures at the Medical Col- lege of the University of the City of New York. Graduating therefrom March 7, 1887, he estab- lished himself in Cambridge, and began regular practice the following June. A stranger in the city, without even acquaintances, he was obliged to depend entirely on his own efforts for success ; and the result has been a gradual and healthy growth of his practice from the first year, quite exceeding his expectations when he selected Cambridge for his field. He counts his success as due in a great measure to his close application to business, improving in a legitimate way every opportunity that has presented itself, and his con-

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scientious care of every case that falls to him for treatment. From the beginning of his academie and professional training he has depended on his

S. R. LANCASTER.

own efforts and resources, meeting every expense from his own earnings. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the County Medical Society, and of the Cambridge Society for Medical Improvement. He is also connected with the order of Odd Fellows, a member of Dunster Lodge ; with the Knights of Pythias, a member of St. Omer's Lodge; and he is a mem- ber of the Citizens' Trade Association of Cam- bridge and of the Cambridge Real Estate Asso- ciates. He is unmarried.

LIBBEY, HOSEA WAITE, M.D., of Boston, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Lebanon, June 28, 1835, son of Moses and Huldah Jane (Langton) Libbey. Hle is of English descent on both sides. On the paternal side he traces back to 1574, the earliest mention of the name being found in Oxfordshire, England, and to early settlers of that part of Massachusetts which after- wards became Maine ; and on the maternal side he descends from Sir John Langton, of London, England. His father was a skilful mechanic, and

did good work in Boston, to which city he early moved his family. He helped to build the first fence around Boston Common ; and he put the venerable "Old Elm," which long stood near the Frog Pond, in condition,-binding it with iron bands and fixing rods to support its droop- ing branches,-so that it was kept intact for twenty-eight years. Hosea Waite was educated in the public schools of Boston. Early determin- ing to become a physician, he attended two courses of lectures, and, being too poor to grad- uate, struck out in independent studies, espe- cially of natural laws, and of nature's remedies found in flowers, leaves, barks, roots, and gums of the wild woods. He began practice in 1854. and has continued without interruption from that time, steadily increasing his field. Being independent of the "regulars," he met many obstacles ; but these have been one by one overcome through the exercise of an indomitable will, perseverance. and his faith in his theories. In 1880 he estab- lished two Hygienetariums, one in Boston, on Rutland Square, and the other in Cleveland, Ohio. Besides his professional work he has in-

HOSEA W. LIBBEY.

dulged in invention ; and he has produced a great variety of ingenious devices, from a meat-boiler to a steam and electric bicycle. As early as 1871

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he invented the " no-horse-to-feed buggy." pro- pelled by the feet with an endless chain, from which the bicycle of to-day developed. He was the first to spring a rubber tire into a periphery of a wheel, the first also to use the sprocket wheel and endless chain and tension wheel. His steam and electric bicycles are designed to run at a speed of from fifteen to twenty miles an hour, with a supply of steam for a journey of twelve hours. and a constant supply of electricity from a primary battery of his own invention. Fully fitted, they will weigh each but a little more than one hundred pounds. The number of his inventions for which he has obtained patents had reached eighty in 1893. Among the latest are an automatic aerial railroad, a two-story street car, and an electric locomotive. In politics and in religion Dr. Lib- bey classes himself as a liberal, having " never been creed-bound to anything." He was a Re- publican until the failure of the party to follow the leadership of Blaine, since which time he has been an Independent. He has published a num- ber of journals, and has for thirty-five years issued Boston Hygienia. He was married November S. 1856, to Lavinia R. Hollister, of Marblehead, Ohio. They have had one daughter, Vinnietta June Libbey, a graduate of Wellesley College in the class of 1892.

LIBBY, CHARLES ADELBERT, M.D., of Arling- ton, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Lim- ington, August 15, 1851, son of Shirley and Mary (Sinclare) Libby. He was educated in the com- mon school and at the Limington Academy. After leaving the academy, he began the study of medicine in Melrose, Mass., with J. Heber Smith, M.D., who was then physician of that town, and subsequently entered the Homeopathic Medical College of New York, where he graduated in March, 1873. Upon leaving college, he took charge of the practice of Dr. J. A. Burpee, of Malden, for a few weeks, and then in May settled in Arlington, where he has been in active prac- tice ever since, his field extending into adjoining towns. He has won a reputation for ability and conscientious devotion to the interests of his pa- tients. He is a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, a member of Hiram Lodge, and of the Boston Commandery, Knights Templar; and his club associations are with the

Arlington Boat Club. He is a strong advocate of physical training for young men, and, as a mem- ber of the boat club, takes great pleasure in its

C. A. LIBBY.

athletic sports and practice. Dr. Libby was married December 16, 1874, to Miss Maria S. Small, of Scarborough Me., daughter of Captain James and Susan ( Parker) Small.

LOCKWOOD, REV. JOHN HOYT, of Westfield, pastor of the First Congregational Church, is a native of New York, born in Troy, January 17, 1848, son of Charles N. and Mary Elizabeth (Fry) Lockwood. The first of his ancestors on the pa- ternal side, in the country, came from Northamp- tonshire, England, and settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1630 ; and he is in the sixth generation from Ephraim Lockwood, who came from Watertown to Norwalk, Conn., in 1650. His paternal great- grandfather, Isaac Lockwood, was a soldier of the Revolution through the entire war. His grandparents, Hanford N. and Rachael (Wildman) Lockwood, went from Danbury, Conn., to Troy, N.Y., in ISio, where the former was a leading merchant for many years, and for a time mayor of the city. His mother's parents were Deacon John Fry and Eliza Wildman Fry, of Danbury,

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Conn. His education was begun in the public schools of Troy, which he attended till 1860. Then he was a student at the Troy Academy for four years, where he fitted for college ; and, enter- ing Williams at the age of sixteen, graduated there in the class of 1868 with the degree of A. B., to which was added in 1871 that of A.M. for a three years' course of literary study. Meanwhile he took the full course at the Princeton Theolog- ical Seminary, graduating in the class of 1871. He was licensed to preach in the spring of 1870 by the Presbytery of New York in New York City, and in the following summer, at the end of his second year in the seminary, was in Southern Minnesota, doing home missionary work, also or- ganizing a Presbyterian church at Wells. The fol- lowing year, on November 15, he was ordained to the ministry, and installed pastor of the Reformed Church of Canastota, N.Y., by the Classis of Ca- yuga. His pastorate there closed on April 28, 1873 ; and he was soon afterward installed pastor of the New England Congregational Church of Brooklyn, N.Y. Resigning that position December 31, 1878, on the first of April, 1879, he assumed the

JOHN H. LOCKWOOD.

duties of the pastorate of the First Congregational Church of Westfield, his present charge, and was formally installed May 14 following. The same

year the church celebrated its bicentennial ; and he preached the historical sermon, which was sub- sequently printed in book form. During his ad- ministration the membership of the church has steadily increased, and it has become one of the leading organizations of its denomination in the western part of the State. Mr. Lockwood is es- pecially interested in the Sunday-school, of which he is the superintendent, and has so increased its numbers that it is now considerably larger than the church membership. In 1894 a chapel cost- ing about $20,000 was added to the church build- ing, which was largely the result of his efforts. He is a fluent and forcible preacher and a model pastor. Outside of his parochial duties Mr. Lock- wood is much concerned in educational, mission- ary, and benevolent matters, and in the various activities of the town, in which he is counted a foremost citizen. He has been a member of the Westfield School Committee for five years, the last two years chairman of the board ; has served for a long period as a director of the Westfield Athenaum (the public library); and has been, since early in his pastorate, on the Board of Trustees of the Westfield Academy Fund. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Society at Will- iams, the oldest Greek letter society in the United States : a charter member of the Connecticut Val- ley Congregational Club, an organization com- posed of leading Congregational clergymen and laymen of the valley, of which he was president in 1888; and a member of the Connecticut River Valley Theological Club, to which he was elected 1882. He has served a three years' term as alumni visitor at Williams College, and is one of the nom- inees for alumni trustees to be voted for at the next commencement (1895). In politics he is an Independent Republican. Mr. Lockwood was married July 19, 1871, to Miss Sarah L. Bennett, daughter of Dr. Ezra P. and Sarah M. Bennett, of Danbury, Conn. They have three children liv- ing : William A. (class of '96, Williams), Annie E., and Lucy B. Lockwood (in school at Westfield).

LUND, RODNEY, of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Vermont, born in Cor- inth, Orange County, April 28, 1830, son of Thomas and Anna (Marks) Lund. His grand- father, Noah Lund, was one of the first settlers of Corinth, going there from Dunstable, now Nashua, N.H. He was educated in the common schools

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and at the Corinth and Bradford academies. After two years in a printing-office he entered the law office of Judge Spencer, of Corinth, to prepare

RODNEY LUND.

for his profession, meanwhile pursuing studies in the classics and in other branches evenings, as he had done from the time of leaving the academy. He subsequently read with Robert McOrmsby, of Bradford. He was admitted to the bar at the December term of the Orange County (Vt.) court in 1851, and began practice in December of the following year at White River Junction, Vt., in association with Lewis R. Morris, under the firm name of Lund & Morris. In the autumn of 1860 he moved to Montpelier, Vt., and there formed a partnership with Joseph A. Wing, which continued until the autumn of 1867, when he removed to Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. Very soon after his establishment in the latter city he became a partner of Judge Robert I. Bur- bank, and this relation continued for about fif- teen years. Then he entered into partnership with Charles H. Welch, under the firm name of Lund & Welch, which has since continued. Their business has been a general law practice and patent cases. While residing in Vermont, Mr. Lund held the office of deputy secretary of State for three years, ending in 1867. He entered pol-

itics as a Republican, in the Fremont campaign, and for several years after was quite active; but, finding that politics and law did not work well together, he finally gave up the former. He was married September 13, 1854, to Miss Myra M. Chubb, of Hardwick, Vt. They have no children.

LYMAN, GEORGE HINCKLEY, of Boston, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in Boston, December 13, 1850, son of George H. and Maria C. R. (Austin) Lyman. He is a great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry. He was educated in the Boston Latin School, at the St. Paul's School, Concord, at Harvard, graduating A.B. in 1873. Subse- N.H., where he spent four and a half years, and quently he entered the Harvard Law School, and graduated LL.B. in 1877, and was further fitted for his profession by eighteen months' study in

Germany, one year in the law office of Ropes & Gray, Boston, and one year in the office of Thorn- ton K. Lothrop, Boston. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the spring of 1878, and has since been engaged in general practice in Boston and

GEO. H. LYMAN.

in the care of private trusts. He also holds a number of directorships. In politics Mr. Lyman has always been a Republican, and has for some

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time been prominently connected with the party organization. He was treasurer of the Republican city committee of Boston one year ( 1892), chair- man of the finance committee of the Republican State Committee two years (1893 and 1894), and is now chairman of the State Committee, having been elected to the headship in January, 1895. He is a member of the Somerset. Country, and St. Botolph clubs. He was married April 26. ISSI, to Miss Caroline B. Amory, daughter of William Amory, of Boston. Their children are : Ellen B., Maria C., and George H. Lyman, Jr.

MCDONOUGH, JOHN JAMES, of Fall River, judge of the Second District Court of Bristol, is a native of Fall River, born March 15, 1857, son of Michael and Ellen (Hayes) McDonough. lle is of Irish descent, his ancestors of Sligo and Clare counties. His early education was acquired in the Fall River public schools, and after grad- uating therefrom he entered Holy Cross College, Worcester, where he took a six years' course, and graduated second in a class of twenty-six, with the degree of A.B., in June, 18So. Hle next studied a year and a half at the Grand Seminary in Mon- treal, P.Q., taking a course in philosophy and moral and dogmatic theology ; and then entered the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated with the regular degree of LL. B. in the class of 1884. Admitted to the Bristol bar in September following, he early en- tered upon a lucrative practice in Bristol and Barnstable counties. He was appointed to his present position as judge of the Second District Court of Bristol in 1893, first nominated in March that year a special justice, by Governor Russell, and on May 13 following nominated and unani- mously confirmed as justice. Upon becoming judge, he discontinued the practice of law in ac- cordance with his sense of propriety. In politics Judge McDonough is a Democrat, and in 1890-91 was a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. He served in the lower house of the Legislature as representative for the Eighth Bris- tol District in 1889-90. During his first term he was a member of the committees on taxation and on probate and insolvency, clerk of the former, and during his second term of the committee on the judiciary, acting as its clerk. In the session of 1890 he championed the cause of George Fred Williams in the latter's advocacy of the famous

West End Street Railway investigation. He has frequently been mentioned for senator for the Second Bristol District and for mayor of Fall

JNO. J. MCDONOUGH.

River. Mr. McDonough has also given some attention to journalism, having been for a time editor of the Fall River Herald and of the Catho- lic Advocate of Fall River. He is not a society or club man. He was married November 4, 1890, to Miss Elizabeth Frances McCarthy, of Province- town. They have one daughter : Mary Eustelle McDonough.

MOORE, IRA LORISTON, M.D., of Boston, for more than twenty years one of the largest opera- tors in vacant land in Boston, and prominent in a number of improvements. is a native of New Hampshire, born in Raymond, November 24, 1824. eldest son of Ira and Mary Gorden ( Brown) Moore. On his father's side he is descended from General Moore, one of Washington's generals : and on his mother's side he traces his lineage back to the Browns, London linen mer- chants, who came to this country in 1635, and settled at Hampton, N.H. When he was a lad of sixteen, his family moved to Lowell. After attend- ing the public schools there for a few terms, he fitted for college under the late Harvey Jewell and

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the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Mann, and entered Amherst in the class of 1847. Completing the college course, he began the study of medicine with Dr. John Wheelock Graves, of Lowell, shortly after entering the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. There he was graduated at the head of his class of two hundred and twenty-seven members. Re- turning to Lowell, he went into copartnership with Dr. Graves, which relation was continued for a year or more. Then pursuing his profession alone, in which he displayed remarkable skill, he soon attained a practice equal to that of any phy- sician in his city. He was particularly successful

IRA L. MOORE.

in the treatment of typhoid fever, cholera, and cholera infantum. In 1860 he removed to Boston, where for nearly ten years he continued in prac- tice. Then he retired with a competence, and de- voted himself to speculation in real estate on a large scale. Dr. Moore was a member of the Legislature, representing Lowell in 1857, and from Boston in 1866-67, 1871-72. When elected from Lowell, he was the first Republican elected in Middlesex County who had not been a member of the American party. During his first term he was the chief advocate of the filling of the Back Bay District of the city of Boston. In 1858 he received the nomination for State senator, but

was defeated in the election by General B. F. Butler by a small vote. While a resident of Lowell he was twice elected director of the Lowell Public Library ; and the year after his removal to Boston he was elected a member of the Boston School Committee for the term of three years. In 1889 he was a member of the Common Council. For thirty years Dr. Moore has been an active member of the order of Odd Fellows, and has filled all the high offices, both in the lodge and the encampment. Dr. Moore was first married on January 1, 1873, to Charlotte Maria, daughter of the late Daniel Chamberlin, long proprietor of the first Adams House; and the issue of this marriage were two children : Charlotte Lillian and Daniel Loriston Moore, the latter living but two years. Mrs. Moore died September 9, 1887. Upon the death of her father, which occurred in 1879, Dr. Moore was appointed, under the will, chairman of the exec- utors and trustees of the Chamberlin estate ; and with other trustees he soon decided to demolish the old Adams House and to build the present fine hotel on its site. Dr. Moore's second wife, to whom he was married on October 4. 1893, was Mrs. Harriet N. Warner, widlow of the late Hon. Oliver Warner, secretary of the Commonwealth from 1858 to 1876.

MORRIS, MICHAEL AUGUSTINE, M.D., of Charlestown District, Boston, is a native of New Brunswick, born in St. John, December 13, 1850, son of Hugh and Margaret Morris. His parents were also natives of St. John. He received a thorough education in the Mill's Training School of St. John, the Lancaster Superior School at Lancaster, N.B., and from private tutor; and began the study of medicine just before his eighteenth year, in October, 1868, under Dr. John Berryman, of St. John. At the end of that year he came to Boston, and entered the Harvard Med- ical School. While a student, he was appointed, after a competitive examination, house surgeon at the Boston City Hospital, and was there from May 5, 1872, to May 5, 1873. He was graduated from the Medical School the following June, and in October established himself in Charlestown, where he has since remained engaged in general practice. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Boston Society for Medi- cal Observation, of the Massachusetts Medical

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Benevolent Society, of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, and of the Boston City Hospital Medical Club. He belongs also to the

M. A. MORRIS.

University Club of Boston and the Charlestown Club of Charlestown District. He has prepared papers on various medical and surgical topics, which have appeared in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. He has never married.

MORSE, FRED HARRIS, M.D., of Melrose and Boston, is a native of Maine, born in Wilton, May 4, 1857, son of Russell S. and Susan A. (Frost) Morse. His father was well known throughout Maine, and New England generally, by his numer- ous patents and inventions. His early education was acquired through the usual attendance at country schools two terms a year, then two years were spent at the Wilton Academy ; and he finished at the Lewiston (Me.) High School, from which he graduated in 1876. After leaving the High School, he taught for a while in different parts of Maine, at one time being principal of a school in Lewiston. In 1877, going to Ravenna, Ohio, to assist his father in the latter's business, he was a student in a dentist's office there for a year. Then, returning, he became a student at Lewiston

of Dr. Alonzo Garcelon, at that time governor of the State, and subsequently attended the medical department of the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated March S, 1881. He began practice, soon after graduation and a short time spent in Bellevue Hospital, New York, in Lisbon, Me .; but, that being a factory town with a transient population, he early sought a more settled field, and in 1883 removed to Newton, N.H. There he at once began a busy life, his practice extending into several towns and villages. It was, however, a hard country practice with long drives ; and in March, 1885, while convalescing from an attack of pneumonia, he decided to withdraw from it, although he had been very successful, had built a house in the town, was superintendent of schools, and generally well established. As he was the only physician in the place, he found no difficulty in selling both house and practice ; and this being accomplished, the purchaser being a doctor from Vermont, in September, 1885, he removed to Mel- rose, Mass., where he has since been engaged in active practice. In 1888 he became interested, through the writings of prominent medical men at

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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 78

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