Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 81

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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A. J. STEVENS.

STEVENS, ANDREW JACKSON, M.1)., of Mal- den, is a native of New Hampshire, born in War- ren, April 24, 1846, son of Robert Burns and Charity (Sly) Stevens. His ancestors on both sides were among the first settlers of New Eng- land. On the paternal side, beginning with Han- nah Dustin, of Haverhill, Mass., they have sus- tained every important general movement for liberty and the uplifting of the race; were at the battle of Bunker Hill and through the Revo- lution. On the maternal side the earliest record is of George Abbott, from the vicinity of York- shire, England, who was one of the first settlers in Andover. The descendants number many who have been eminent as scholars and members of the professions. Dr. Stevens was educated in the grammar and high schools of Haverhill,

Mass., and by private tutor; and was fitted for his profession at the Harvard Medical School, from which he received his diploma March 10, 1869. More than twenty years of his professional life have been spent in Holliston and in Malden. Thirteen years of active country practice gave him a wide experience and training, which contributed much toward developing the elements of profes- sional success. Taking up the profession both as a duty and a privilege, the claims of the unfort- unate have always been heeded by him; and the question of poverty or riches has never affected the careful attention given to cases coming under his treatment. In the spring of 1889, being called to care for and superintend the transporting to the Boston hospitals, under great difficulties, of several workmen who had been severely injured in Malden, he determined not to cease working for a Malden hospital until one was built. As a result of this resolve, the leading citizens of the city were interested. The Malden Hospital was erected, and its doors opened to the public in a little more than three years. Dr. Stevens is now consulting physician and surgeon to this hospital, and a member of the medical board. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of the Malden Medical Improvement So- ciety, and of the Harvard Medical School Associ- ation. He has never sought office ; but in the earlier years of his practice, when in Holliston, he served several terms on the Board of Health and on the School Committee of that town. He has also filled a number of official positions in medical societies to which he belongs, but of late years has declined all such places. Although born with a love of music, art, and nature, and a student of a wide range of literature and history, the especial bent and effort of his life has been in his profession ; and the success which he has at- tained is attributed to the entire thoroughness of the work done, and an unfailing energy and hope which have often turned an impending defeat into victory. Upon political questions and principles Dr. Stevens has decided opinions, and always votes ; but he does not participate further in politics. He was married November 1, 1871, to Mrs. Jennie (Stone) Powers. They have one son : Edward Stone Stevens.

STEVENS, OLIVER CROCKER, of Boston, mem- ber of the Suffolk bar, is a native of Boston, born

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June 3, 1855, son of Calvin Stevens, M.D., and Sophia Toppan (Crocker) Stevens. Ilis ancestry is in all its branches l'ilgrim and Puritan, and

OLIVER C. STEVENS.

notably from the following: Richard Stevens of Ipswich and Marlborough, Abraham Toppan of Newbury, James Hosmer and George Hayward of Concord, Kenelm Winslow of Plymouth, Henry Sewall of Newbury, Roger Conant of Salem, Ed- ward Bangs of Eastham, John Stow of Roxbury, John Poore of Newbury, Edward Wigglesworth of Charlestown and New Haven, William Hartwell of Concord, and William Crocker of Scituate. His preparatory education was attained in the Bos- ton public schools, finishing at the Public Latin School; and his collegiate training was at Bow- doin College, where he graduated A.B. in the class of 1876, his commencement part being a " philo- sophical disquisition " on "Electoral Rights," and received in 1884 the degree of A.M. He studied law at the Boston University Law School, graduating in 1879, and delivering on commence- ment day one of the two commencement parts, the other being by William E. Russell, afterward Governor Russell, taking for his subject "Legal Ethics." He also read law in the office of the Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury, ex-attorney-general of the State. He was admitted to the bar in the

Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth July 8, 1879. to practice in the United States Cir- cuit Court July 26, ISSO, and to the United States Supreme Court March 4, 1884. He was elected a member of the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin College in 1891. He is a member of the Univer- sity Club, Boston, and in college was a member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity and the Phi Beta Kappa. In politics he is Republican. Mr. Stevens was married June 10, 1885, at St. Albans, Vt., to Miss Julia Burnett Smith, daughter of the Hon. J. Gregory Smith and Ann Eliza (Brainerd) Smith.

STURTEVANT, CHARLES, M.D., of Hyde Park, was born in Wrentham, Norfolk County, July 28, 1839, son of Captain William and Emily Frances (Fisk) Sturtevant. He is a direct descend- ant of Samuel Sturtevant, born in 1622 in Roches- ter, Kent, England, came to Plymouth Colony about the year 1640, was drafted and bore arms in 1643, the line running as follows: Samuel Stur- tevant. Jr., born April 19, 1654, at Plymouth ; Josiah Sturtevant, seventh child of Samuel Stur-

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tevant. Jr., born in 1690, married Hannah, sister of Captain Church who captured King Philip; Charles Sturtevant, born 1721 ; Charles Stur-

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tevant, Jr., born 1755, responded to the " Lexing- ton alarm call," April 19, 1775 (as corporal in the Second Company of Rochester Militia), died 1816; and William Sturtevant, son of Charles, Jr., born September 1802, died 1881. Dr. Sturtevant is also descended on the Sturtevant side from Richard Bourne, born in England 1609, came to Sandwich, Mass., in 1637, was instructor to the Mashpee Indians in 1658, was ordained by Eliot and Cotton in 1670, and died 1682; also from Samuel Arnold, born in England 1623, bore arms in Sandwich, Mass., in 1643, was representative in 1654-55-56, ordained minister at Marshfield, 1693; and from Samuel Arnold, Jr., born in Sandwich in 1653, ordained as minister in 1684, began preaching in Rochester in 1687, and was settled over the First Congregational Church in Rochester in 1703, and died in 1709. On his mother's side Dr. Sturtevant is descended from the Sheppards of Bristol, England, and the Fisks, who are of Welsh descent. He was educated in the primary school. at Day's Academy, Wren- tham, and at a private school in Newton Centre. His professional training was at the Harvard Medical School, where he graduated March 12, 1862. Entering the United States Navy imme- diately after graduation, he served therein until the close of the Civil War. He began the practice of medicine in the village of Marion, where he re- mained until 1871, when he removed his residence and practice to Hyde Park. In 1875 he was ap- pointed coroner, and held this office until the sys- tem was abolished. Then he was made medical ex- aminer for the Second Norfolk District, embracing the towns of Milton and Hyde Park, which position he still holds, having been twice reappointed, the date of his latest commission being June 30, 1891. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the Boston Homeopathic Medical Society. He is a member and surgeon of Timothy Ingraham Post, No. 121, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and member also of the Hyde Park Lodge of Freemasons, of the Norfolk Royal Arch Chapter, of the Hyde Park Council, Royal and Select Masters, of the Cyprus Com- mandery, Knights Templar, and of the Kearsarge Association of Naval Veterans. Dr. Sturtevant was married June 15, 1871, to Miss Bethiah Hadley Delano, of Marion, daughter of Captain Obed and Verona (Hadley) Delano. They have two daughters : Emily Frances Sturtevant (born

October 17, 1872) and Verona Hadley Sturtevant (born November 9, 1878).

J. LANGDON SULLIVAN.

SULLIVAN, JOHN LANGDON, M.D., of Mal- den, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Keene, March 8, 1827, son of Thomas Russell and Charlotte Caldwell (Blake) Sullivan. He is of distinguished Massachusetts ancestry, on the pa- ternal side third in descent from James Sullivan, governor of the State in 1807, and on the mater- nal side grandson of Francis Blake, an eminent Bay State jurist. His education was acquired in the Boston Latin School and at the Cambridge Scientific School, and his training for his profes- sion was at the Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in July, 1847, supplemented, after some years practice, by European study. He has practised medicine in Malden and vicinity for nearly forty-six years as a general practitioner. During the Civil War he served as surgeon of the Board of Enrolment, Sixth Congressional Dis- trict ; and after the close of the war he became United States examining surgeon for pensions, and later, by appointment of Governor Rice, medi- cal examiner for Middlesex County, which office he held for eight years. Dr. Sullivan is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, an honor-

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ary member of the Canadian Medical Association, a member of the American Medical Association, a member of the Massachusetts Medico-legal So- ciety, and honorary member of the Gynacological Society of Boston. He was married first, April 2, 1850, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Lynde (eldest child of J. S. Lynde, of New York), who died in 1856, and two years later to his present wife, Helen, second daughter of the aforesaid Lynde. He had two children by his first wife, one of whom, Mrs. Alexander Cochrane (No. 257 Com- monwealth Avenue, Boston), is still living: the other died in early boyhood. By his second wife he has had four children, three of whom are living.

SWAN. WILLIAM DONNISON, M.D., of Cam- bridge, was born in Kennebunk, Me., January 1, 1859, son of Rev. Joshua A. Swan, Unitarian minister at Kennebunk for eighteen years, and Sarah, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Richard M. Hodges, Unitarian minister at Bridgewater, Mass. His mother's maternal grandfather, William Donnison, was an officer in the Revolution, and

WILLIAM D. SWAN.

afterwards adjutant-general to Governor Han- cock and judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He was fitted for college at the Cambridge High

School, entered Harvard, and graduated in the class of 1881. His professional training followed at the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated M.D. in 1885. After two years of study in the hospitals of Boston and one year in Vienna and Frankfort-on-the-Main, he began practice in Cambridge in 1888. Three years later he was appointed medical examiner for the First District of Middlesex County (Cambridge, Belmont, and Arlington) by Governor Brackett. He is now also visiting physician to the Cam- bridge Hospital and to the Avon Home of Cam- bridge. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society. His club connections are with the Union and University clubs of Boston and the Colonial Club of Cambridge. Dr. Swan was married April 30, 1890, to Miss Mary Winthrop Hubbard, daughter of Samuel Hubbard, of Oakland, Cal. They have two children : Marian Hubbard (born February 22, 1891) and William Donnison Swan, Jr. (born October 9, 1894).

TAYLOR, REV. EDWARD MATTHEW, of Bos- ton, pastor of the Winthrop Street Methodist Church, was born in Washington, Penna., Febru- ary 25. 1852, son of William H. and Jane Eliza- beth (Jones) Taylor. His ancestors on his father's side came from England early in the his- tory of the country, and his great-grandfather was the first judge of Washington County, Pennsylva- nia. On the maternal side he is also of English descent, the family appearing in this country early in the present century. His maternal great-grand- father was an officer in the British army, and was in several engagements against Napoleon. He was educated in Pennsylvania public schools, and at the Washington and Jefferson College, graduating therefrom in July, 1873. Subsequently he took the course of the Boston University School of Theology, and graduated in 1877 with the degree of S.T.B. He entered the ministry of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church immediately upon gradua- tion from the theological school, and was first assigned to South Braintree. He was there settled three years : then at Norwich, Conn., over the East Main Street Church, three years ; next at St. Paul's, Fall River, Mass., three years ; then at Stafford Springs, Conn., three years ; at Flint Street, East Somerville, Mass., one year ; at Trinity, Charlestown District, Boston, the length-

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ened term of five years ; and next at the Winthrop Street, Boston, his present settlement. He was appointed presiding elder of the Lynn District in 1892, and president of the first General Confer- ence District of the Epworth League in 1894. Zion's Herald, the Methodist newspaper of New England, in speaking of Mr. Taylor's appointment to the latter position, says : " Mr. Taylor is one of the most popular and promising men in our patronizing conferences, a man of unusual pul- pit power and particularly eloquent and impres- sive upon the platform, in hearty sympathy with the movements of the time, and peculiarly quali-

E. M. TAYLOR.

fied to fill with marked credit and success the position to which he has been elected." In poli- tics he is a Republican, and cast his first vote for General Grant for President. Dr. Taylor was married June 13, 1882, to Miss Mary E. Bradford, of South Braintree. They have two children : Frank Bradford (aged eleven years) and Mar- guerite L. Taylor (aged nine years.)

TUTTLE, ALBERT HENRY, M.D., S. B., of Bos- ton, was born in South Boston, August 14, 1861, son of Joel White and Adelia Melissa (Palmer) Tuttle. He is on both sides of English ancestry,

and descended from early settlers of New Eng- land. On the paternal side he is of the ninth generation from William and Elizabeth Tuttle, the line running as follows : Joel White Tuttle, his father, eighth generation, born in Dummers- ton, Vt., 1830 ; Joel, seventh, born in Winchester, N.H., died in Boston; Joseph, sixth, born in Hebron, Conn., August 17, 1762, died in Dum- merston, Vt., a veteran of the War of 1812, who married Annie White, a lineal descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child born in New England ; Joseph, fifth, born in Connecticut, died in Winchester, N.H., December, 1820; Nathan, fourth, born in New Haven, January 20, 1694 ; John, third, born September 15, 1657 ; John, sec- ond, born in England, 1631. His mother, Adelia Melissa, third, is a daughter of Lemnel, second, and grand-daughter of Lemuel Palmer. His early education was acquired in a grammar school in Boston, at the English High School, where he spent a year, and through private tutoring for a year. Then he was for a year at the Bussey In- stitute, and two years at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, graduating with the degree of S.B. in 1883. A portion of the summer of 1883 was spent in the Marine Labora- tory of Professor Alexander Agassiz at Newport, in the study of marine fauna, especially some of the pelagic forms of life. The following season he entered the Harvard Medical School; and, after graduating with the regular degree in 1886, he went abroad, spending the winter following, 1886-87, at the University of Vienna in advanced medical study. Upon his return from Europe Dr. Tuttle settled in Cambridge in the spring of 1887, and engaged in general practice. At the same time he took up painting in oils as an avoca- tion, and developed further an ability in illustra- tion that had already been manifest while in college, and which was destined to aid him mate- rially in after life. During the academic seasons of 1889-90 and 1890-91 he was instructor of en- tomology at the Bussey Institute. By this time he had shown a strong tendency toward surgery, and had begun the development of his surgical career. The universal success that followed his work gave him great confidence in his own ability ; and he did not hesitate to undertake any surgical problem that was presented, first carefully weigh- ing the chances for successful operation. In the early part of 1894 he was enabled to throw off general practice, and follow exclusively the spe-

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cialty of surgery. Realizing the necessity, in the development of a special business, of having his office in a railroad centre. he removed to Boston in the spring of 1892. In the autumn of 1893 he accepted a position in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, as didactic lecturer on theory and practice of surgery; but after some twelve or fourteen lectures he resigned, feeling clissatisfied with the management of the institu- tion. Ile then became an incorporator and sur- geon of the St. Omer Hospital, Boston, which, by his invariably good operative results, he rapidly

ALBERT H. TUTTLE.

developed into one of the most prominent institu- tions of its kind. Dr. Tuttle has been a frequent contributor to medical and surgical publications and to scientific associations, among his many papers being the following : " The Relation of the External Meatus, Tympanum, and Eustachian Tube to the First Visceral Cleft " (Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, 1883): " Life History of Lunatia Heros" (unpublished) (first Walker Prize, 1884) ; " A Case of Dermatitis lodoformi " (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, October, 1891); "A New Use of an Old Remedy" (same, April, 1892) ; " Animal Ligatures and Sutures, their Variety, Preparation, and Uses " (Journal of the American Medical As-

sociation, July, 1892); "A Rapidly Fatal Case of Appendicitis " (Boston Medical and Surgical Jour- nal, November, 1892); "The Surgical Anatomy and Surgery of the Ear," one hundred and nine pages, twenty-seven original illustrations, drawn by the author from nature (George S. Davis, pub- lisher, Detroit, Mich.) ; " Some Observations bear- ing on the Treatment of Nasal and Middle Ear Affections " (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, April. 1893): "A Study of the Radical Cure of Hernia by Marey's Method" (Journal of the American Medical Association, August, 1893) : "Chronic Disease of the Middle Ear, its Prognosis and Surgical Treatment " (Transactions, First Pan- American Congress, held at Washington, D.C .. September. 1893); " An Unusual Accident " (In- ternational Journal of Surgery, January, 1894) : "Total Extirpation of the Uterus by a New Method " (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. October, 1894), eight illustrations ; "A Case of Concealed Uterine Hemorrhage " (Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, January 10, 1894). Besides the above are the reports of the Gynæcological Society of Boston and the Cambridge Society of Medical Improvement, of which he was secretary (of the former, 1893-94; of the latter, 1892 to October, 1894), including over thirty papers, with discussions, in a period of two years, many of which have been quoted. His studies and plates on the anatomy of the ear are extensively referred to, and his work on the removal of the uterus is especially noteworthy. He is a member also of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Medicine, the Boston Medical Library Association, the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, the Lawrence Scientific School Association, and of other social and literary societies. He was married June 5, 1889, to Miss Margaret Priscilla Davis, daughter of Edward A. and grand-daughter of Thomas Davis. They have one daughter : Elsa Davis Tuttle.

TUTTLE, LUCIUs, of Boston, president of the Boston & Maine Railroad, was born in Hartford. Conn., March 11, 1846, son of George and Mary Gaylord (Loomis) Tuttle. He is a descendant of William Tuttle, who came to Boston in the ship " Planter" in 1635, and who in 1636 removed to Charlestown, and again. about 1639. as one of the earliest settlers, to New Haven, Conn. His homestead of ten acres in the latter place was a

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part of the ground now occupied by Osborn Hall and other Yale College buildings. On the mater- nal side Mr. Tuttle's ancestors were among the

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settlers of Windsor, Conn., in 1635. He was edu- eated in the common schools and at the Public High School of Hartford. After leaving school, ticket department at the general office of the Providence, & Fishkill Railroad as clerk in the

he was for one year, 1865-66, clerk of the P'ro- bate Court for the District of Hartford. Then, in July, 1866, he entered the service of the Hartford, company at Hartford. Soon after he was pro- moted to the office of general ticket agent, and continued in that position until 1878, when the road was consolidated with the New York & New

England Railroad; and he was made assistant

general passenger agent of that company at Bos-

until December, 1884, and the lease of the road to Railroad, with office in Boston, and so remained pointed general passenger agent of the Eastern ton. On the ist of February, 1879, he was ap- the Boston & Maine Railroad. He was then ap-

accept (February 1) the general passenger agency latter company, but resigned January, 1885, to pointed assistant to the general manager of the

1887, he was appointed passenger traffic manager of the Boston & Lowell Railroad. In January,

of the Canadian Pacific Railway, with office at Montreal. On the ist of May, 1889, he was made commissioner of the Trunk Lines Associa- tion, passenger department, New York City. One year later, May 1, 1890, he became general man- ager of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, with office at New Haven. In February, 1892, he was elected director and vice-president of that company. In 1893 he resigned these positions to accept the presidency of the Boston & Maine Railroad, which office he assumed on October 11, that year, and has since held. Mr. Tuttle is a member of the Commercial Club, of the Algonquin Club, and of the Beacon Society, all of Boston ; and he is connected with the Ma- sonic order, member of Soley Lodge of Somer- ville. In polities he is Republican. He married in Springfield, July 11, 1867, Miss Etta F. Mar- tin, who died at Hartford in 1873. He was again married to Miss Estelle H. Martin at Norwich, Conn., October 14, 1875. He has three children : Jennie D., Etta M, and Effie E. Tuttle.

CHARLES H. VEO.

VEO, CHARLES HENRY, D.M.D., of Boston, is a native of Lowell, born August 27, 1861, son of Peter and Almira (Tetreau) Veo. He is of French descent, the family name in France being

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Viaux. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell, and prepared for his profession at the Harvard Dental School, where he graduated with the degree of doctor of dental medicine in 1887. After leaving the High School at Lowell in 1879, he went West, and was some time book-keeper for the contractor building the Leadville, Col., division of the Denver, South Park, & Pacific Railroad. Then, returning to Lowell in 1880, he was there en- gaged as book-keeper for the firm of T. R. Garity & Co., plumbers, steam and gas fitters, until 1883, when he began the study of dentistry. Upon graduation from the Dental School in 1887 he went to England, and studied the latest methods in crown and bridge work. He remained abroad about four years, practising in London while pur- suing his studies ; and upon his return in 1891 he established himself in Boston, opening his dental office in the Hotel Pelham. Dr. Veo was mar- ried in 1887 to Miss Margaret M. View, of Wood- stock, Vt.

WADSWORTH, PELEG, M.D., of Malden, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Hiram, October 10, 1834, son of Peleg and Lusanna (Wadsworth) Wadsworth. He is a grandson of General Peleg Wadsworth of Revolutionary dis- tinction, who was also a member of Congress in Philadelphia ; a lineal descendant, fourth gen- eration, of Christopher Wadsworth, who came from England to Duxbury, Mass., in the year 1632. His great-grandfather was also named Peleg Wadsworth. He was fitted for college at Gilmanton, N.H., and at Phillips (Andover) Acad- emy, spending two years at each place ; entered Dartmouth, and graduated in 1859. For a year after graduation he was teacher of the McIndoe's Falls (Vt.) Academy. Then he studied med- icine at the Dartmouth Medical School and at the National Medical College in Washington, D.C., graduating from the latter in 1863. Service in the army followed, in 1863 as acting assistant surgeon (contract) at Frederick City, Md., and at Annapolis, and in 1863-65, one and a half years, as resident surgeon at the Quartermaster's Hos- pital, Washington, D.C .; and in 1865 service in the navy, also acting assistant surgeon. After the war Dr. Wadsworth entered general practice at Portland, Me., and after a year in that city re- moved to Malden, where he has been established since. For twelve years, from 1876 to 1888, he was town and city physician. He has been a

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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 81

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