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member of the Massachusetts Medical Society since 1872, and a member of the Malden Medical Improvement Society since its organization. In politics he is a Republican. He has served the city as a member of the School Committee for two years. He was married September 3, 1861, to Miss Hannah Balch Corey, by which union was one child : Anne Cora Wadsworth, who died at an early age. In October, 1865, he married Miss R. F. H. Willard, and the children of this union were Winnifred and James Stevenson Wadsworth.
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He married next in December, 1877, Miss Ellen Silvester, and by this union is one child : Louise Elizabeth Wadsworth.
WARREN, ALBERT CYRUS, of Boston, manu- facturer, was born in St. Louis, Mo., March IS, 1852, son of Herbert M. and Eliza C. (Copp) Warren. On the paternal side he is from an old English family, one of whom was among the ear- liest settlers in Pilgrim days ; and on the maternal side is also English, James Copp, the father of Eliza C. Copp, coming to this country about the year 1845. He was educated in the New Church School at Waltham, Mass., at the Union Hall Academy, Jamaica, L.I., and at the Newton, Mass.,
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High School, finishing with two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leaving the institute in 1871 to go into business, from July that year until 18So he was employed in the manufacture of soap, the business being owned by his father. Of this time two years were spent at the works in learning the details of soap-mak- ing, three years as salesman, and the remainder, from 1876 to 1880, in charge of the business, his father then giving his attention to asphalt paving. During the latter period the business was changed from the manufacture of laundry soaps to that of special soaps for use in silk, woollen, and cotton
ALBERT C. WARREN.
mills, and by calico printers, dye-houses, and the like. After the death of his father in June, ISSo, Mr. Warren formed a partnership with one of the salesmen and the superintendent of the works, under the style of Albert C. Warren & Co .; and this was retained for about a year, when the change was made to the Warren Soap Manufact- uring Company, which has since continued. In 1890 the business was incorporated, with Mr. Warren as treasurer, the position he still holds. Being unknown to the trade which it wished to reach,- the manufacturers of textile fabrics,- when the change in the business was made in 1876, the firm found it up-hill work at first to
establish its trade with the mills; and the kinds of soaps required for use on different kinds of fabrics and with different qualities of water had all to be learned. But by careful attention to the details of the business, and the application of the principles of chemistry to obtain the necessary elements for different uses, the works steadily developed, and the company became one of the best known in its specialty of any in the country, a result largely attributable to Mr. Warren's efforts. Mr. Warren has never held civil or political office, but has served in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia for twenty years. He first enlisted in Company L, First Regiment, October 10, 1870, and served four years as a private. Then in the latter part of 1879 he became a member of Company C, Fifth Regiment, in which he served four years as private, corporal, and sergeant. In June, 1883, he was appointed quartermaster ser- geant of the Fifth Regiment, and held that position for seven years, when he was appointed paymaster of the regiment, which position he has since held. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum (Natick Council, No. 126), of the Home Circle (Loyal Council, No. 104), and of the Newton Club. In politics he is a Republican. He was married No- vember 2, 1876, to Miss Flora E. Joy, of Welles- ley. They have one child, a daughter. Mr. War- ren resides in West Newton in a house built and for some years occupied by Horace Mann, where also Hawthorne lived for a year and where he wrote the " Blithedale Romance." Mr. Warren's father bought the place in 1862 ; and his family occupied it until a year or two after his death, when it was sold. Mr. Warren bought it back in I891.
WELLMAN, ARTHUR HOLBROOK, member of the Suffolk bar, was born in East Randolph (now Holbrook), October 30, 1855, son of the Rev. Joshua Wyman Wellman, D.D., and Ellen Maria (Holbrook) Wellman. On his father's side he is a descendant in the eighth generation of William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, and is also descended from William Brewster, of Plym- outh, and from Abraham Wellman, who perished at the siege of Louisburg, under General Pepper- ell in 1745. On his mother's side he is a de- scendant of the Hon. Thomas Durfee, of Free- town, for many years a State senator, a member of the Governor's Council, and judge of the Court of Sessions; and his maternal grandfather was
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the late Caleb S. Holbrook, of Holbrook. Arthur H. was educated in the Newton public schools and at Amherst College, where he graduated in
A. H. WELLMAN.
the class of 1878, delivering the valedietory. He studied law in the Harvard Law School (1879-So and ISSo-SI), in the Boston University Law School (1881-82), graduating from the latter summa cum laude in 1882, and in the office of the late Lyman Mason. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1882, and has since practised his profession in Boston. He served for three years as city solicitor of Malden, 1889-90-91. Since ISgt he has been professor of equity jurispru- dence and equity pleading in the Boston Univer- sity Law School, succeeding the late Elias Mer- win, having previously (from 1886) been an instructor in that institution. In politics he is Republican. He has served three terms in the lower house of the Legislature (1892-93-94),- the first year a member of the committee on the judiciary ; the second, House chairman of the committee on cities ; the third, again House chair- man of the committee on cities, also House chair- man of a special committee on the unemployed, and a member of the committee on taxation, --- and is a member of the Senate of 1895, being chairman of the committee on railroads. In Mal-
den, where he has resided a number of years, he was a member of the Common Council in 1885, and is now a trustee of the Malden Hospital and of the Malden Public Library. He is connected with the Masonie order, as a member of the Con- verse Lodge of Malden. He is a member also of the Boston Congregational Club, of the Boston Bar Association, of the American Bar Association, and of the Malden Historical Society. Mr. Well- man was married October 11, 1887, to Miss Jen- nie L. Faulkner. They have two children : Sar- gent Holbrook and Katharine Faulkner Wellman.
WETMORE, STEPHEN ALBERT, of Boston, of the Boston Herald editorial staff, is a native of St. John, N.B., born February 25, 1862, son of Edwin J. and Margaret A. (Drake) Wetmore. The family originally belonged in New York, and moved to New Brunswick, all the members of it being engaged in lumbering and lumber manufact- ure before there was a realization of the fact that the forests could be exhausted. He was educated in the Advanced School at St. John. Before
S. A. WETMORE.
coming of age, he engaged in newspaper work, and has since had experience in nearly all branches of the profession. He has been con-
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nected with the Boston Herald for nearly twelve years, serving as "assignment reporter," city editor, and special article writer, treating a great variety of subjects, and having been identified with the leading news undertakings of the paper during a good part of this period. He was one of those who represented the paper at the national conventions which nominated Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Harrison for the presidency; he managed the reporting of the international yacht race of October, 1893,- a great work, necessitating the employment of special wires along the New Jersey and Long Island coasts, besides despatch boats for artists and the carrying ashore of reports,- and throughout the contest the Boston service was ahead of the New York newspaper service, not- withstanding that the New York newspaper men were on their own ground; and, among various local enterprises, he at one time secured a com- plete canvass of the property owners and ten- ants of Washington and Tremont Streets, which, upon its publication, led the Legislature to amend the rapid transit act of 1894, exempting these streets within the "congested district " of the city from overhead structure. He has en- deavored to make his newspaper work useful ; and "if it has been useful," he says, "it has usually been the thoughtfulness of the chief editor, and always the enterprise of the paper, which has made it so." Mr. Wetmore was elected a member of the Boston School Committee in 1893 for the years 1894-95-96, and has taken a deep interest in that work, striving whenever occasion offered to awaken a better public interest in the public schools. Early in 1895 he prepared a statement of the pressing needs of the schools, which was accepted as the basis of an appeal to the Legislat- ure then in session. He is a member of the Mu- nicipal League. He was married in 1883 to Miss Jeannette Blair Elder, of Boston.
WHITCHER, WILLIAM FREDERICK, of Bos- ton, literary editor of the Boston Advertiser, is a native of New Hampshire, born in the town of Benton, August 10, 1845, son of Ira and Lucy (Royce) Whitcher. His ancestry is traced to Thomas Whittier, born 1622, and settled in New- bury, Mass., coming from England in 1638, the names of whose descendants have been variously spelled Whittier, Whitcher, and Whicher. He is descended from Thomas through Nathaniel, born
August 11, 1658; Reuben, born May 17, 1686 ; Joseph, born May 2, 1721 ; Chase, born October 6, 1753 ; William, born May 23, 1783 ; and Ira, born December 2, 1815. He acquired his educa- tion in the district schools of his native town, at the Haverhill Academy, the New Hampshire Con- ference Seminary, Tilton, N.H., and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., graduating from the latter in the class of 1871. Then he took up the study of theology in the Boston University School of Theology, spending there the years 1871-73, and upon graduation entered the minis- try of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was
W. F. WHITCHER.
pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Newport, R.I., for three years, 1874-77 ; next of the County Street Church, New Bedford, from 1877 to 1879; and of the Matthenson Street Church, Providence, R.I., in 1879-81. The latter year he engaged in journalism, becoming an edito- rial writer on the Boston Evening Traveller. Four years later he was made editor-in-chief of that paper, and, after service some time in this capac- ity, became in 1891 literary editor and editorial writer. His connection with the Boston Advertiser as literary editor, the position he now holds, was begun in 1893. During his newspaper life Mr. Whitcher has taken pastorates for a few months
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each time, in 1891 at Malden, where he resides, and in 1892-93 at Everett, to fill vacancies that have occurred. He has been a member of the Malden School Committee since 1888, and was chairman of the board through 1891-94, declining longer service. In politics he was a Democrat with strong protectionist views till 1886, when he joined the Republican party. He has taken great interest in American political history and biog- raphy, and has a library of upward of five thou- sand volumes and six thousand pamphlets, largely devoted to these and cognate subjects. He has published several articles in periodicals on genca- logical and biographical subjects, and has nearly completed a work on American political history. Mr. Whitcher is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa : of several other college and literary associations and clubs ; and of the Masonic fraternity, the Royal Arcanum, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was married December 4, 1872, to Miss Jeannette Maria Burr. She died Septem- ber 25, 1894, leaving one child: Burr Royce Whitcher (born November 6, 1878).
WHITE, HORACE CARR, M.D., of Somerville, is a native of Maine, born in Bowdoin, January 26, 1836, son of Gideon and Rhoda (Springer) White. His great-grandfather was one of the first settlers of Bath, Me. : and the house which he built, of hewed timber walls, and port-holes for defence against the Indians, stood until about a quarter of a century ago. This ancestor came from Essex, Mass., and was said to be a descend- ant of Peregrine White. Dr. White was educated at the Litchfield Liberal Institute, and fitted for his profession at the medical department of Bowdoin College, graduating in 1859. He was obliged to leave school temporarily, when he was seventeen years old, on account of trouble with his eyes; and for about three years he was engaged in business occupations, first as a clerk in a bookstore in Gardiner, Me., and after- ward in a ship-broker's office in Boston. He was in Boston most of this period, and improved his leisure time while there by attending the Lowell Institute and other lectures. He returned to school in 1855. For about a third of the time between the latter date and 1860 he taught school. In January, 1860, he settled in Lisbon Falls, Me., and began practice. In March of the following year he entered the army for service in the Civil
War, as assistant surgeon of the Eighth Maine Regiment. Sixteen months later, in July, 1863, he returned to Lisbon Falls, broken down in health. There he remained until October, 1874, when he removed to Somerville, where he has since been engaged in the enjoyment of a large practice. Dr. White has been active and influential in edu- cational matters for a number of years. At Lisbon he was supervisor of schools for four years, and in Somerville he has been a member of the School Board for twelve years. While a resi- dent of Lisbon, he was also a member of the Board of Selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the
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poor, for three years ; and postmaster of the town from 1869 to 1874. In Somerville he has been a trustee of the Somerville Hospital since its organ- ization, a member of the medical board and of the medical and surgical staff. He is a member and ex-president of the Boston Gynacological Society, member and ex-president of the Somer- ville Medical Society, fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Association, member of the Maine Medi- cal Association, and of the American Medical Association ; and was a member of the Ninth International Medical Congress. He belongs to the Masonic order, a member of the De Molay Commandery, Knights Templar, of the Soley
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Lodge, and of Orient Council. He is con- nected with the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, is ex-president of the Sons of Maine of Somerville, and a member of the Mystic Valley and other clubs. In politics Dr. White is a steadfast Republican, always taking an active interest in party matters ; but he has held no political office. He was married June 4, 1860, to Miss Mary Lithgow Randall, daughter of Captain Paul and Nancy Randall, of Harpswell, Me. They have two daughters and one son : Lucy Francis, Bessie Randall. and William Horace White.
WHITTIER, DANIEL BRAINARD, M.D., of Fitchburg, member of the State Board of Regis- tration in Medicine, was born in Goffstown, N. H., October 21, 1834, son of Isaac and Fanny Parker (McQuestion) Whittier. His father was of English descent and of the fifth generation from Thomas Whittier, who was the first of the family in this country; his mother, of Scotch descent, daughter of William and Sally (Potter) McQues- tion and grand-daughter of Captain David Potter. He was educated in the New Hampshire Confer- ence Seminary, Tilton, N.H., and studied for his profession in the office of Dr. William B. Cham- berlain, late of Worcester, Mass., at the Harvard Medical School, and at the New York Homwo- pathic College and Hospital, graduating from the latter in March, 1863. Establishing himself in Fitchburg immediately upon graduation, he has practised there steadily since, in a wide field and with much success, attaining a prominent place in the profession. In 1895 he became a member of the board of consulting physicians and sur- geons of the Westborough Insane Hospital. He was appointed to the Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts in 1894, for the term of five years, as one of the representatives on this board of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medi- cal Society, by which he was unanimously in- dorsed. He is a senior member, by virtue of a continuous membership of upward of twenty-five years, of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; was president in 1881 of the Massachusetts Sur- gical and Gynæcological Society; president in 1873-74 of the Worcester County Homeopathic Medical Society; and has long been prominent in the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, serving in 1877 as vice-president, and in 1878 as
president and orator, the subject of his oration being " The Value of Objective Symptoms in the Treatment of Disease." His contributions to medical literature have been frequent and varied, the list including papers on " Neglect of Injuries in Growing Girls," "Chronic Cellulitis," "Chronic Peritonitis and Complications," "Psychical Ad- juvants in Neurasthenia," " Tubercular Menin- gitis," and "Immunities in Contagion." Dr. Whittier has been a member of the School Board of Fitchburg, serving three years, 1877 to 1880, and has in other ways shown his interest in edu- cational matters. In politics he is a Republican.
D. B. WHITTIER.
He was married October 14, 1858, to Miss Mary Chamberlain, of Tilton, N.H. They have had three children : Ida E., Lucius B., and Walter C. Whittier. The latter two have died.
WHITTINGTON, HIRAM, of Boston, mer- chant, was born in Cohasset, November 5, 1843, son of Alfred and Ruth (Delano) Whittington. He is a descendant of Sir Richard Whittington, "thrice lord mayor of London." He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, graduating from the High School. He entered the business in which he is still engaged, that of
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saddlery and carriage-wares, as a boy, and estab- lished the present house of Hiram Whittington & Co., for the importation, manufacture, and sale of
HIRAM WHITTINGTON.
horse blankets and carriage robes, saddlery and carriage hardware, and harness and carriage leather, in 1871, on Kilby Street. The firm was burned out in the great fire of 1872, and received light insurance ; but it immediately found tem- porary quarters, and by hard struggle paid its creditors in full. It has been established in its present quarters on Federal and Congress Streets since the first of January, 1874. Though not the oldest house in years, it is the oldest con- cern now in its special line of business in Boston ; and by living up to the times, promptly changing the styles as demanded by the market, it continues to be a leader. In 1891, at the close of twenty years of the firm's life, Mr. Whittington thought of retiring altogether from this business; but he finally concluded to continue, associating with him Francis M. Morgan and Robert J. Bond, and giving up to them the details of the business. Since that time the concern has continued to prosper, and has enjoyed the good will of the trade. Mr. Whittington was also one of the organizers of the Beacon Trust Company, and has since been a member of its executive board ; and
he is interested to a considerable extent in real estate. He served in the Civil War, in the naval branch of the service, entering in 1862, as a boy. He was under Farragut at Mobile and on the ship "Montgomery," Lieutenant Hunter com- manding. Having been something of an oarsman, he rowed stroke oar of the gig, and was afterward coxswain. His ship cruised about the Gulf, mak- ing Pensacola its coaling station, and captured a number of prizes. He served his full time, and was honorably discharged in 1863. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Ed- ward Kinsley Post, No. 113; of the Algonquin and Athletic clubs, Boston, of the Bostonian So- ciety, and of other organizations. In politics he usually takes an independent course, voting as his judgment dictates, and inclined toward Democ- racy. He was married November 5. 1872, to Miss Alice Parker Streeter, daughter of the late Nathan H. Streeter and niece of the late Harvey D. Parker, of the Parker House, Boston. He was called home from his wedding trip by the great fire of 1872, and upon his arrival found the building occupied by his business entirely destroyed.
L. J. YOUNG.
YOUNG, LEYANDER JOIN, M.D., of Haverhill, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Barnstead,
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February 9, 1850, son of Oliver H. P. and Emily J. (Tuttle) Young. He is of sterling New Eng- land stock. Three of his great-grandfathers were in the war of the Revolution, one of them, Lieu- tenant Samuel Pitman, with Stark at the battle of Bennington. His father served in the Civil War as a member of the Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment. Ile was educated in the public schools of his native town, at the Pittsfield (N.H.) Academy, and the Northwood (N.H.) Seminary, and studied medicine under the direc- tion of Dr. John Wheeler of Pittsfield, N.H., and at the Dartmouth and University of Vermont Medical Schools, graduating from the latter in 1877. His medical studies were begun in 1869, but were interrupted after one course of lectures at Dartmouth by sickness and the necessity of earning money to pay his way. Some time was then spent in school-teaching, also in working at shoemaking ; and in 1876 he resumed his studies, beginning at the point where he had left off. He took the lectures at the University of Vermont School in the spring of that year, attended the Dartmouth school through the fall term, and in
the spring of 1877 returned to the University of Vermont, and there completed his course. He began regular practice in Candia, N.H., in Jan- uary, 1878, and remained there until October, 1883, when he removed to Haverhill, where he has since been established. During 1888 and 1889 he was one of the attending physicians and surgeons to the Haverhill City Hospital, and was subsequently reappointed for a term of five years, beginning on January 1, 1895. From 1889 to 1892 he was a member of the Haverhill School Board. He is a member of the New Hampshire and Massachusetts State Medical Societies and of the Medical Club of Haverhill. He belongs to the Masonic order, a Knight Templar of the Ha- verhill Commandery ; also to the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and other fraternal organiza- tions ; and is a member of the Pentucket Club of Haverhill. He was married August 29, 1877, to Miss Abbie A. Ring, of Pittsfield, N.H. Two of their children, Velma M. and Lester R., died in infancy, and the others are: Viva N., Lestie 1., and Merton P. Young.
PART VIII.
ALLEN, LOUIS EDMUND, M.D., of Arlington, was born in New York City, AApril 22, 1852, son of William C. and Charlotte E. (Blood) Allen.
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He is great-grandson of Dr. Charles Whitman, son of Dr. Charles Whitman, senior, son of Squire John Whitman who received grants of land direct from the crown, and great-great-great-great-grand- son of the Rev. John and Mary Gardner, married in 1720. Their wedding ring, bearing this quaint inscription, is still kept in the family :-
" As God decreed So Wee agreed."
Their son, Henry Gardner, was treasurer of the colonial moneys; and his slave, York, guarded the treasure buried during the Revolution in the swamps near Concord, Mass. Henry Gardner
was a member of the First Continental Congress, and had two sons, both of them physicians in Boston. Dr. AAllen is descended also from the old Virginian family founded by Thomas Rolfe, son of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. On his mother's side he descends from Colonel Blood, who was famous in the reign of Charles Il., and whose descendants had immense grants of land in Chelmsford and Concord, which are called the "Blood Farms " to this day. And he is a direct descendant of the Rev. John Fiske, who came to this country in 1632, bringing provisions for three years. Some of the household goods they brought over still remain in the family. Dr. Allen's early education was acquired through tutors and at a preparatory school in Pittsfield, Mass. He graduated from Williams College in the class of 1874. He studied medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and graduated there in 1883. A year was next spent in the out-patient department of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital. Meanwhile he began general practice. established on Temple Street in the old West End, Boston. After leaving the General Hos- pital, he became physician to the out-patient de- partment of the West End Nursery, and so served for ten years. He continued practice in Boston for seven years, and then removed to Arlington. where he has been actively engaged for five years. Dr. Allen is a member of the Massachusetts Medi- cal Society and of the Arlington Boat Club. He is unmarried.
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