Men of progress one thousand biographical sketches and portraits of leaders in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Part 89

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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Johnson was married September 12, 1883, to Miss Catherine Adelaide Capron, of Uxbridge. They have had three children : Dora Lucille (born Jan- uary 22, 1886), Grace Capron (born July 16. 1887), and Beulah Messinger Johnson (born August 26, 1892).

KENDALL, EDWARD, of Cambridge, head of the Charles River Iron Works, was born in the town of Holden, Worcester County, December 3. 1821, son of Caleb and Dolly ( Sawyer) Kendall. His parents were of Boylston. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm, between farm work and study in the village school. When he became of age, he made his first business venture. starting out in the lumber trade. This, however, was not successful ; and in 1847, removing to Boston, he became an apprentice in the West Boston Machine Shop. Here he made rapid progress, nine months after entering being transferred to the boiler de- partment, and soon after becoming its superin- tendent. He held the latter position for eleven years, during that time paying off the debts he had

EDWARD KENDALL.

contracted in his venture in the lumber trade, and then in 1860 entered the business on his own ac- count, establishing the firm of Kendall & Davis,

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with machine shop at Cambridgeport, and giving attention principally to boiler-making. This was the beginning of the present extensive Charles River Iron Works, of which he is still the head. In 1865 the firm name was changed to Kendall & Roberts ; and subsequently, upon the admission of Mr. Kendall's sons to partnership, it became Edward Kendall & Sons. During his long suc- cessful career as a manufacturer Mr. Kendall has made numerous improvements and inventions in boiler manufacture, and has become widely known in his trade. As a leader in the temperance cause, to which he has been devoted from his youth, he has long been prominent. In 1886 and 1887 he was the Prohibitory candidate for Con- gress in the old Fifth District, and in 1893 candi- date on the Prohibitory State ticket for lieutenant governor. He has been a director of the Massa- chusetts Temperance Alliance since 1888, and was for two years president of the Cambridge Temperance Reform Association. He has served in the General Court as a representative for Cam- bridge two terms, 1875 and 1876, and three terms, 1871-72-73, in the Cambridge Board of Aldermen. Since 1890 he has been a trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank. In religious faith he is a Congregationalist, and was one of the founders and the first deacon of the Pilgrim Con- gregational Church of Cambridgeport. He is a member of the Congregational Club of Boston and of the Cambridge Club of Cambridge. Mr. Kendall was married December 16, 1847, in Pax- ton, to Miss Reliance Crocker, daughter of Solomon and Abigail (Warren) Crocker. They have had four children : Edward (deceased), Emma (deceased), George Frederick, and James Henry Kendall.

LEWIS, EDWIN CHARLES, of Boston, electri- cian, was born in the Charlestown District, April 2, 1866, son of Charles E. and Jeanette (Rogers) Lewis. He is of English descent, and his first an- cestors in America settled in Virginia early in the present century. His paternal grandfather was captain of a Mississippi steamer which was blown up in 1841 while racing on the river. He was educated in the Bunker Hill School, Charlestown, and at evening school, where he took a two years' course. After leaving school, he entered the ser- vice of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and remained with that company until it consoli-

dated with the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany. Then he continued with the latter until 1884, when he decided to study architecture, and entered the office of Cabot & Chandler, architects. After four years there he returned to the elec- trical field, and entered the employ of a large electrical company of Boston, beginning at the bottom, and working up in two years to the head of the estimating department. In 1892 he took all the contracts which that firm had on hand, also the men, and carried the work to successful com. pletion. Since that time he has had much large work, especially in the fitting of office buildings,

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EDWIN C. LEWIS.

his contracts including the buildings of the Mas- sachusetts General Hospital corporation in Bos- ton and at Waverley for the McLean Asylum, to complete the electrical installation of which has taken two years ; the Ames Building, Devonshire Building. and Jefferson Building, among the largest in the city. Mr. Lewis was married July 20, 1891, to Miss Alice G. Canterbury.

LINCOLN, LEONTINE, of Fall River, manu- facturer, is a native of Fall River, born December 26, 1846, son of Jonathan Thayer and Abby (Luscomb) Lincoln. He is a descendant of

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Thomas Lincoln, who settled in Taunton in 1652, having previously settled in Hingham. He was educated in the public schools of Fall River

LEONTINE LINCOLN.

and at a private school in Providence, R.I. He began business life at the age of nineteen, enter- ing the counting-room of Kilburn, Lincoln, & Co .. a concern of which his father was one of the founders. In 1872 he became treasurer of the company, succeeding E. C. Kilburn, who then retired From the business, which position he has since held. This company is now among the largest loom-builders in the country. Mr. Lin- coln is also connected with numerous other im- portant interests. He is president of the Sea- connet Mills ; director of the Tecumseh Mills, the King Philip Mills, the Hargraves Mills, the Bar- nard Manufacturing Company, and the Crystal Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Company; presi- dent of the Second National Bank, and vice- president of the Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank. He has served for many years in various public positions in Fall River, and since February, 1894, has been a member of the State Board of Lunacy and Charity by appointment of Governor Greenhalge. He has been a member of the School Committee of Fall River since 1879, and chairman of the board since iSSS; a trustee of

the Public Library since 1878, secretary and treasurer of the board since 1879 ; a member and the secretary of the Board of Trustees of the B. M. C. Durfee High School since 1887, and a trustee of the Home for Aged People for some time. He has taken a warm interest in popular education, and has written and spoken much on educational subjects. His politics are Repub- lican, and he has contributed to the discussion of political and economic questions in articles in the periodical press and in occasional addresses. He is a member of the Old Colony Historical Society. In 1889 he received the honorary degree of A.M. From Brown University. Mr. Lincoln was mar- ried May 12, 1868, to Miss Amelia Sanford Dun- can, daughter of the Rev. John and Mary A. Duncan. They have two sons : Jonathan Thayer (born November 6, 1869) and Leontine Lincoln, Jr. (born .August 6, 1872).

LOVELL, CHARLES EDWARD, M.D., of Whit- man, is a native of Vermont, born in Woodstock, April 13, 1861, son of Edward Sparrow and

C. E. LOVELL.

Mary A. (Taft) Lovell. He is descended from Robert Lovell, who was admitted freeman in 1635. His mother was of the branch of the Taft family

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which settled Taftsville, Vt., and built up the scythe industry in that place. He was educated in schools in his native place and at the High School in Middleborough, Mass., where he gradu- ated in the English and Latin course in 1881. Subsequently he studied medicine at Dartmouth College, and graduated there in 1884. Upon leaving college, he obtained a position in the Massachusetts State Almshouse Hospital at Tewksbury, where he remained two and a half years. Then, on August, 1887, he began general practice, settled in Whitman, where he has since been actively engaged. He has served the town on the Board of Health, occupying the position of secretary of the board of 1893, and those of chairman and secretary of the present board. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Whitman Club. In politics he is a Re- publican, favoring radical reforms in all branches of the government. He has taken an active in- terest in political affairs of late years, and in 1893 served as president of the Republican Club of Whitman. Dr. Lovell was married September 11, 1889, to Miss Eugenia F. Bartlett, of Middle- borough. They have one child : Lathrop Bartlett Lovell.

MARION, HORACE EUGENE, M.D., of the Brighton District, Boston, was born in Burling- ton, August 3, 1843, son of Abner and Sarah (Prescott) Marion. He is a grandson of John C. Marion of Woburn, great-grandson of Isaac Ma- rion, and great-great-grandson of Isaac Marion, both of Boston ; and, on the maternal side, grand- son of Samuel P'. Prescott, great-grandson of John Prescott, eldest brother of Dr. Samuel Prescott who joined and rode with Paul Revere, and great- great-grandson of Dr. Abel Prescott, all of Con- cord. Dr. Marion received his education at the Warren Academy, Woburn, the Howe School, Bil- lerica, the Atkinson Academy, Atkinson, N.H., and at Dartmouth College, graduating from the college in 1866, with the degree of M.D. in 1869. Dur- ing the Civil War period he served as a private in the Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, through its nine months' campaign of 1862-63, and as sergeant in the same regiment for a three months' campaign in 1864. He began the regular practice of his profession at Brighton in 1870, and has remained there ever since with the exception of about fifteen months in Europe. He served as coroner the last two years before the adoption of

the present system, and was physician to the over- seers of the poor of Boston for twenty years, re- signing that post in 1895. He has served also in the State militia, as assistant surgeon of the Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Militia in 1876, surgeon of the Fourth Battalion in 1877, and as the medi- cal director of the First Brigade from 1879 to 1881. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, is now president of the Middlesex South District Medical Society, and member of the Cam- bridge Medical Improvement Society; member of the University and Art clubs of Boston, of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, and

H. E. MARION.

of the Sons of the Revolution. Dr. Marion was married January 14, 1880, to Miss Catherine Louise Sparhawk. Their children are : Eva Pres- cott, Gardner Sparhawk, and Benjamin Cobb Marion.

McKENNEY, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, of Boston, merchant, is a native of Boston, born October 9, 1855, son of Charles H. and Susan A. McKenney. He was educated in the Boston public schools. He began active life soon after leaving school, and since his twenty-second year, 1877, has been connected with a single line of business, that of the manufacture and sale of gas fixtures and

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lamps, engaged in it on his own account since September, 1888, when the present house of McKenney & Waterbury was established, For

WM. A. McKENNEY.

fifteen years he was a commercial traveller, his field being New England ; and subsequently he made frequent trips abroad for information re- garding the business, becoming thoroughly ac- quainted with the foreign market and the develop- ment of his special branch of trade. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Commercial Travellers' Association, and of the Algonquin, Boston Art, and Roxbury clubs. He has avoided official positions of all kinds, devoting himself ex- clusively to his business, and in politics is unpar- tisan. Mr. McKenney is unmarried.

MOORE, BEVERLY KENNAN, of Boston, presi- dent of the Mercantile Law Company, is a native of Maine, born in Biddeford, November 25, 1847, son of Jeremiah and Juliet (Kendal) Moore. He is a descendant on his father's side of Captain Samuel Moore, who settled in Kittery, Me., in 1690, and a direct descendant of William Black- stone, the first settler of Boston; and on his mother's side of Francis Kendal, who settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 1640, and of Captain George

Rogers, one of the early settlers of Georgetown, Me. He was educated in the public schools. After reading law in Boston for about two years, in 1869 and 1870, he accepted a responsible posi- tion with a leading mercantile agency in New York, to establish and promote a law and collec- tion department. For the next five years he trav- elled in its interest through the West and South, and afterward in 1876 established a branch in Boston, of which he was manager for about two years. Then he went to Louisville, Ky., as super- intendent of the branch in that city of Brad- street's Agency, and continued in that capacity for two years. Returning again to Boston in 1881, he established a law and collection business, which rapidly expanded to large proportions, and developed into the present Mercantile Law Com- pany, incorporated in 1889, with associate offices in all the large cities of the country, of which he is, as president, the head. The company has entire charge of the law and collection department of the Boston Merchants' Association, which department was established by Mr. Moore in 1883, when he first became secretary of that or-

BEVERLY K. MOORE.

ganization, the office he still holds. He is a member of the law firm of Kendall, Moore, & Burbank, president of the Associated Law and

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Collection Offices, elected to that position in June, 1891, treasurer of the Home Market Club, and officially connected with other organizations. Mr. Moore has been and is an earnest worker in endeavoring to secure the enactment of a proper national bankruptcy law, and is always interested in matters of public concern. Mr. Moore was married January 5, 1876, to Miss Annie T. Hooper, daughter of Colonel E. H. C. Hooper, of Bidde- ford. They have five children.

GEO. H. MORRILL, Jr.

MORRILL, GEORGE HENRY, JR., of Norwood, manufacturer, was born in Woburn, October IS, 1855, son of George Henry and Sarah Bond (Tidd) Morrill. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at the English and Classical School at West Newton, which he entered at the age of fourteen, and attended for four years. Then, being cighteen years old, he began to learn the printing-ink business with his father at Norwood ; and he has continued in this business from that time, becoming in 1888 a member of the firm of George H. Morrill & Co., established by his grandfather in 1845, and now ranking first among the printing-ink manufacturers of the United States. Mr. Morrill belongs to the Norwood Business Men's Association, and is in-

terested in all movements for the welfare of his town. He is prominent in the Masonic fraternity, being a thirty-second degree Mason, and meni- ber of the Boston Commandery, Knights Templar, and of Aleppo Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also an active member of the Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Company, of the Boston Athletic Association, and of the Boston Club. He was married May 9, 1878, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Gilbert. They have one child living : Leon G. Morrill, aged twelve years. Mr. Morrill's resi- dence in Norwood is one of the finest in Norfolk County, and is much admired for its architectural beauty.

MORSE, CHARLES ELLSWORTH, M.D., of Ware- ham, is a native of Wareham, born January 1, 1867, son of Seth Chatham and Mary Savery (Swift) Morse. He is of French descent ; and his ancestors first in America came about the middle of the seventeenth century. Several of them took part in the early wars. He was edu- cated in the common and high schools of Ware- ham and at the Adams Academy, Quincy. His

CHAS. E. MORSE.

medical studies were pursued at the Harvard Medical School, where he graduated in 1889. That year he became assistant physician to the

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Adams Nervine Asylum, Jamaica Plain, Boston, and continued in that position till IS92, when he engaged in private practice in Jamaica Plain. In December, 1894. he removed to Wareham to enter into partnership with the late Frederic A. Sawyer, M.D., and subsequently succeeded to the latter's practice. Dr. Morse is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Boston Medical Library Association. He is con- nected with the Masonic fraternity, a member of Eliot Lodge of Jamaica Plain, Boston, and with the order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Quinobe- quin Lodge, Jamaica Plain. He is unmarried.

HENRY C. MORSE.

MORSE, HENRY CURTIS, of Boston, treasurer and manager of the Revere Rubber Company, was born in South Dedham, now Norwood, July 31, 1838, son of Curtis G. and Fanny (Boyden) Morse. He is of the tenth generation from Samuel Morse, born in England in 1585, died in Medfield 1654, the line running : Samuel Morse 1; John Morse," born 1611, died 1657 ; Ezra Morse," 1643-1697; Ezra Morse,4 1671-1760; Ezra Morse," 1694 -; Ezra Morse," 1718-1755 ; Oliver Morse, 1748-1802 ; Oliver Morse," 1769-1832 ; Curtis Morse," 1805-1874; Henry C. Morse, 1" 1838. He was educated in the public school of

his native town and at Pierce Academy, Middle- borough, where he finished in 1856. He first en- tered business in 1858 as clerk in his father's furni- ture manufacturing establishment, under the firm name of Morse & Webb, South Dedham, and fol- lowed this line of business for twenty-three years as a partner in the firms of Haley, Morse, & Boy- den, Morse & Boyden, and Henry C. Morse & Co. Then in 1881 he engaged in rubber manufacture, and three years later was elected treasurer and manager of the Revere Rubber Company, which position he has since held. Mr. Morse is also a director of the Rubber Manufacturers' Mutual In- surance Company, of the Cotton and Woollen Mutual Insurance Company, and of the Industrial Mutual Insurance Company, and also a director of the Eliot National Bank and a trustee of the Home Savings Bank. He was married January 6, 1869, to Miss Kate Millicent Stetson, of New York. They have no children.

MUNSELL, GEORGE NELSON, M.D., of Har- wich, is a native of Maine, born in the town of Burlington, December 14, 1835, son of the Rev. Joseph R. and Louisa (Rider) Munsell. His gen- eral education was acquired in the Hampden and Belfast academies ; and he fitted for his profes- sion at the Harvard Medical School, graduating in April, 1860. He first practised for a year in Bradford, Me., and then in 1861 came to Har- wich. In 1862 he entered the Civil War, being commissioned in July that year first assistant sur- geon of the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. He served till April, 1863, when he resigned on account of ill-health, and returned to Harwich. Since that time he has steadily en- gaged there in active practice. For seventeen years he has served as medical examiner for Barn- stable County. He has long been interested in educational matters, and has served his town as chairman of the School Board for twenty-seven years. In 1889, also, he was elected representa- tive for the Second Barnstable District in the Gen- eral Court. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and has served one year as its vice-president. He is prominently connected with the Grand Army of the Republic, having served seven years as commander of F. D. Hammond Post, No. 141, and on the staff of the National Department. For a year he has been medical di- rector of the State department of the organization.

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His politics are Republican. Dr. Munsell was mar- ried in June, 1860, to Miss Elizabeth K. Nicker- son, of South Dennis. They have two daughters :

GEO. N. MUNSELL.

Louise H., now the wife of Charles W. Megathlin, residing in Hyannis, and Lizzie T. Munsell.

MURDOCK, WILLIAM EDWARDS, of Boston, publisher of directories, is a native of New Hamp- shire, born in Candia, September 15, 1844, son of the Rev. William and Mary J. ( Read) Murdock. He is of Scotch descent. His great-grandfather, William Murdock, was of Westminster, Mass., and his grandfather, Artemas Murdock, of West Boyl- ston. He was educated in Massachusetts, attend- ing the Howe Academy in Billerica and the Lancaster Institute, Lancaster. He entered the army the first year of the Civil War as a member of the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteers, and served throughout the contest, his term extending from September 17, 1861, to Au- gust 1, 1865. Part of this time he was on de- tached service at headquarters, Department of North Carolina, and headquarters, Army of the James, and the remainder in the field, Eighteenth Army Corps, taking part in the battles of Roa- noke Island, Newbern, Kingston, Whitehall,

Goldsborough, and others. He entered the print- ing business, upon his return from the war, in Providence, R.l. The next year, 1866, he be- came connected with the firm of Sampson, Daven- port, & Co. in Boston, and ten years later was admitted to partnership. In 1885 the firm name was changed to Sampson. Murdock, & Co., the present style. Mr. Murdock is prominent in the Masonic fraternity, being past master of Joseph Webb Lodge, and member of the St. Paul's Royal Arch Chapter and of De Molay Command- ery, Knights Templar. He is a member also of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post 68 ; treas- urer of the Pilgrim Association, member of the Municipal League of Boston, and of the Master Printers', Boston Art, and Congregational clubs. In politics he is a Republican. He takes a deep interest in matters of public welfare, but has never entered public life, his preference being for the quietness of his home in the Dorchester District of Boston. Mr. Murdock was married November

WM. E. MURDOCK.

29, 1877, to Miss Hattie E. Marcy, of Boston. They have no children living.

MYERS, JAMES JEFFERSON, of Cambridge, member of the Suffolk bar, practising law in Bos-

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ton, was born in Frewsburg in the western part of the State of New York, November 20, 1842, son of Robert and Sabra (Stevens) Myers. He is

J. J. MYERS.

on the paternal side of the Mohawk Dutch stock of Myers and Van Valkenburg, and on the mater- nal side of the New England families of Tracy and Stevens. His grandparents on both sides were among the pioneer settlers in Western New York; and he still owns the farm where he was born, and which was bought by his grandfather of the Holland Land Company early in this century. He received his early education in the public school of Frewsburg, and at Fredonia and at Ran- dolph academies, both in Western New York, where he fitted for college. He entered Harvard in 1865, and was graduated in the class of 1869. While preparing for college, he spent a portion of the time each year in lumbering on the Alleghany and Ohio rivers, making one or two long trips on a raft each year, thus building up a strong physique and acquiring a personal knowledge of the lives and hardships of the Western lumbermen. In college, while doing good work as a student and winning Boylston prizes for speaking for two suc- cessive years, he rowed in his class crews and took an active interest in all college sports. From college he entered the Harvard Law School,

from which he was graduated in 1872, having spent one year in Europe in the mean time and taught mathematics one year at the university while prosecuting his law studies. He was ad- mitted to the Suffolk bar in the summer of 1872, but before beginning practice here he passed a year in a law office in New York City. In the autumn of 1874 he established himself in Boston, forming a partnership with J. B. Warner, under the firm name of Myers & Warner; and since that time he has been constantly in active practice in Boston. In Cambridge, where he has resided for the past twenty years, he has for many years been a member of the executive committee of the Cam- bridge Civil Service Reform Association, treasurer for a number of years of the Cambridge Branch of the Indian Rights Association, treasurer of the Citizens' Committee for raising funds for the Pub- lic Library ; was president of the Library Hall As- sociation in 1892, has been an officer of various clubs at different times, and at the present time (1895) is president of the Colonial Club of Cam- bridge. In 1892 he was elected to the Legislature for the First Middlesex Representative District, and has been twice re-elected, each time by a un- animous nomination. During his first term (1893) he served on the committees on rules, on elections, and on probate and insolvency, and became a recognized leader in committee-room and on the floor of the House. He took a conspicuous part in some of the most notable debates of the session, and was instrumental in securing much important legislation. He was the chief champion of the bill creating a commission to inquire into the Nor- wegian liquor system, and was one of the most effective supporters of the Metropolitan Parks bill ; spoke for the measure to protect the interest of the State in the Fitchburg Railroad, and for the bill to abolish double taxation, and was one of the active members in the Bay State gas investiga- tion, one of the most striking features of the session. He also assisted in securing the appoint- ment of a special committee on revision of the corporation laws, to sit during the recess, and as a member of this committee took a leading hand in its work and in preparing its able report. In the Legislature of 1894 he was House chairman of the special committee on revision of corpora- tion laws and a member of the committees on the judiciary and on rules ; and was especially identi- fied with the several measures for the prevention of stock-watering by quasi-public corporations,-

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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 89

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