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W. Newton Harlow was born in Charles- town, Massachusetts, July 24, 1868, a son of Thomas and Emily Ruth (Foster) Harlow, both deceased. His father served throughout the Civil War in the Third Massachusetts Vol-
unteer Cavalry, having the rank of sergeant; was a prisoner of war, confined at Tyler, Texas, for eleven months, and at the time of his death, in Boston, was manager of the stereotype department of the "Boston Globe." He was a member of Milton Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and charter member of Mace- donian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He and his wife were both natives of Massachu- setts, he having been born in Boston. Their son received his early education in the public school of Milton and was graduated from the high school there, after which he attended Burdett's Business College in Boston. For the following seven years he worked as a book- keeper, and in 1895 established himself in the insurance business in Boston, in which he oper- ated for ten years. In 1905 he became associa- ted with the Hartford Fire Insurance Com- pany of Boston, working as an independent broker until 1919, when he entered the firm of Kimball, Gilman & Company, in which he since has been associated. His religious affiliation is with the Congregational church.
In politics, Mr. Harlow is a Republican, with, which party he has served five years as auditor of the town of Milton, three years as a member of the Milton Warrant Committee, during two years of which he was its secre- tary. In addition, he was for several years a member of the Republican Town Committee, and for several years agent for the Industrial Accident Board of the town of Milton. He is a trustee of the Dorchester Savings Bank, and treasurer of the Suffolk-Norfolk Associates; also treasurer of the Milton Masonic Building Corporation. He is Past Master of the Mace- donian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and Dorchester Chapter, Scottish Rite Masons. He has also served in the Masonic Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and at the present time is District Deputy Grand Master of the Dorches- ter Fourth Masonic District.
W. Newton Harlow married, in 1893, Alice A. Whaley, of New Canaan, Connecticut. Their children are: 1. Foster C., who served in the World War with the rank of first lieutenant
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in the Coast Artillery, United States Army, and was attached to the American Expedi- tionary Forces in France for thirteen months. 2. Alice M. 3. Lillian N., twin of Alice M.
THOMAS W. INGALLS-Thirty years in the leather business in Boston have made Thomas W. Ingalls, president of the firm of Ingalls and Yozell, Incorporated, one of the well-known men of this field in the city. He was one of the organizers of the concern which he heads, and during the twelve years of the life of the enterprise he has developed its in- terests greatly and placed the business upon a firm foundation. The establishment is lo- cated at Nos. 34-36 South Street, in Boston, where each year it handles an increasingly large volume of business.
Thomas W. Ingalls was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, December 14, 1878, son of Thomas Ingalls, a native of Marblehead, Mass- achusetts, who was a successful banker to the time of his death, and of Elmina (Sweet) Ingalls, who was born in Marblehead, Mass- achusetts. Mr. Ingalls received a good education in the public schools of his birth- place, and after finishing his course in the high school, in 1896, began what has proved to be his lifelong connection with the leather in- dustry by entering the employ of the Morrill Leather Company of Boston, with whom he remained until 1908. He then associated him- self with the Winslow Brothers & Smith Com- pany, and in that connection he remained until he formed the organization of which he is now president, in 1916. In that year Mr. Ingalls, in association with Maurice Yozell and Charles L. Ryan, established a leather business at No. 79 South Street, here in Boston. In 1918, the business was removed to No. 170 Es- sex Street, and there it continued its devel- opment until 1920, when it was again re-
moved, this time to its present location at Nos. 34-36 South Street. The business is oper- ated under the name of Ingalls & Yozell, In- corporated, and the official personnel is as fol- lows: President, Thomas W. Ingalls; treasur- er, Maurice Yozell. The concern specializes in sheep-skin leather and ranks among the fore- most in its special field here in the city of Boston, handling about two hundred dozen skins daily. Mr. Ingalls gives his support to the principles and the candidates of the Re- publican party, and he is a public-spirited citi- zen, though he prefers to serve as a private citizen, rather than in public office. He finds his favorite recreation in automobiling, and his religious affiliations are with the Con- gregational church.
Thomas W. Ingalls was married, in 1914, to Julia Barry, who was born in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, and they are the parents of three children: T. Kenneth, D. Robert, and Helen.
HOWARD COONLEY-Throughout the entire United States the name of Howard Coon- ley, of Boston, is well known as that of one of this country's foremost, outstanding men in the world of business. A leader in the great industrial expansion during the past few dec- ades, Mr. Coonley is particularly prominent as the president of the Walworth Company, a country-wide concern engaged in the manufac- ture of valves, fittings, and tools for steam, gas, water, oil and air, having plants in various localities, and distributing branches in every city of importance in the world. Mr. Coonley is a remarkable example of a man who did not wait for opportunities to come to him, but went forward with his great enterprising spirit to meet and to search for the opportunities which have brought him to a premier position in the commercial life of the United States; and his career is an inspiration to the youth of today showing how a man with the desire and de-
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termination to succeed can find real pleasure in fighting and overcoming the obstacles which be- set his path.
Mr. Coonley was born in Chicago, Illinois, November 22, 1876, son of John Clark and Lydia Arms (Avery) Coonley. On his ma- ternal side, he is a direct descendant of Chris- topher Avery, who settled in Salem, Massachu- setts, probably in 1630, later moving to Groton, Connecticut, where the family has since had its headquarters.
Many of the descendants of this illustrious progenitor have added to the lustre of the fam- ily name by their accomplishments in the realm of civic and commercial development in New England and the United States.
Howard Coonley was educated in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois, after which he at- tended the University School and was graduated from this institution, which has since ceased to exist; he then entered Harvard University, Cambridge, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1899. The following year he entered upon his business career and became associated with the firm of Walter Baker & Company, chocolate manufac- turers, in their Chicago branch sales office. In 1900, he was transferred to the New York office of the company and shortly thereafter was ap- pointed assistant manager of the New York branch. In 1902 he resigned his position and returned to his home city, Chicago, where, with his two brothers, he organized the Coonley Manufacturing Company, producing enamel cooking utensils, utilizing a process of steel and glass which was comparatively new in the United States at that time. At the outset there were many difficult technical problems to be solved, but Mr. Coonley overrode these and the business proceeded with great success; he served as vice-president until 1908,' when he became president of the concern, which office he con- tinues to hold.
In 1913, Mr. Coonley was elected president of the Walworth Company, a nationally known in- stitution, and since his occupancy of the execu- tive clair, the business has grown from two and a half million to thirty million dollars annually;
the concern operates four immense manufac- turing plants, one of which is located in South Boston, employing more than 5,000 men, the company being the second largest of its kind in the world, supplying the finest grade of steel, brass and iron valves, pipe and tools.
Several years ago, with his brothers, he pur- chased 100,000 acres of land in Texas, for which he has developed splendid plans in the way of roadbuilding and modernization. In the civic life of Boston, Mr. Coonley takes an active and constructive part, having served two terms as president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1923 to 1925, and now acts as a director of the Community Health Association, while every- thing that concerns the welfare of this great municipality and its citizens finds him ready and willing to take the lead in its support and assistance. He is chairman of the Governor's Permanent Committee on Street and Highway Safety, being appointed by the State; was also president from 1921 to 1928 of the Massachu- setts Safety Council; since September, 1925, has been chief of the First Chemical Warfare Procurement District; member of War Depart- ment Business Council, and vice-president of the Boys' Club of Boston. He is a leading member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His business interests embrace many wide and varied activities. He is a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts; chairman and di- rector of Holton, Richards & Company, In- corporated, New York City; director in the Second National Bank of Boston; the Advance Rumely Company, La Porte, Indiana; Universal Winding Company, Boston; John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, Na- tional Malleable Steel Casting Company, Cleve- land, Ohio; Link Belt Company, Chicago, Illi- nois; trustee of the Home Savings Bank of Boston; director of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Colonial Air Systems, and Air In- vestors, Incorporated. His clubs are the Uni- versity, Union, and Harvard, all of Boston; the Harvard Club of New York; the Brookline Country Club; the University Club of Chicago,
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and he is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Coonley is deeply interested in education, and serves as a member of the advisory committee of Harvard Business School, having held that position since 1917, while since 1922 he has been a special lecturer in that school. He is a trustee of Boston University and also of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
During the World War, Mr. Coonley served from April 30, 1918, to April 30, 1919, as vice- president of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation under Charles Schwab, the steel magnate, the offices being located at first in Washington, District of Co- lumbia, and later transferred to Philadelphia, the great center of ship construction, busy in building "the great American bridge to Europe," which was one of the great, fundamental factors in winning the war. Before entering upon his duties in the national shipping program, he served during 1917 and until April, 1918, as a member of the Emergency Industrial Commis- sion of Massachusetts with ex-United States Senator Butler, both representing the employing manufacturer. There were two other members representing the labor side, the purpose of the commission being to readjust the working hours to a war basis when such hours were in con- flict with the Massachusetts labor statutes.
Howard Coonley married, on April 18, 1901, Leslie W. May, of Boston, daughter of George P. and Alice (Walworth) May, her father hav- ing been an executive with the Walworth Com- pany. To this union have been born five chil- dren: 1. Howard, Jr., now with the Walworth Company. 2. John Clark. 3. Dudley Avery. 4. Lester. 5. Cynthia.
HARRY E. MOORE-A man of brilliant and unusual talents in many varied lines, Harry E. Moore has specialized in the insurance busi- ness in which he is one of the leaders in Bos- ton today, and as one of the most prominent
citizens of this city takes an active part in all its leading organizations and affairs. In the early part of his career, Mr. Moore was en- gaged in commercial business, later entering the theatrical profession, where he displayed great ability, after which he became a teacher of singing, from which profession he made the step into the insurance business in which he has made a pronounced success.
Mr. Moore was born in Butler County, Kan- sas, March 2, 1879, son of Frank G. Moore, born in Geneva, New York, and Martha J. (DeCamp) Moore, born in Dixon, Illinois, both of whom are living. Frank G. Moore has had an interesting career, having been early in life engaged as a teacher of mechanics, after which he engaged in agriculture, later serving in the employ of the government as a mechanic on the construction of the Rock Island Arsenal. In 1912, he became a Doctor of Chiropractic, and he is a member of the National Board of Examiners in that profession.
Harry E. Moore was educated in the public schools of Davenport, Iowa, also receiving private tutoring in music. Upon the comple- tion of his formal education, he was employed for six months as presser in a tailoring estab- lishment, after which he became a salesman for a custom tailoring house for a year. In 1899, he accepted a position in Chicago as ship- ping clerk for the National Co-op Supply Com- pany, remaining there until 1900, when he be- came connected with the Quaker Oats Com- pany of Chicago, in whose employ he spent three years. Having a great talent and apti- tude for stage work, he abandoned his com- mercial career and entered the ranks of the Thespians, playing in the musical comedy, "Peggy from Paris." He continued in this pro- duction for a year, achieving great success in his rôle, after which he was associated with Raymond Hitchcock for a short time. He then left the stage and opened a music studio, teaching for five years, and it was during this period that he first became interested in the insurance business and commenced writing business as a side line in 1907. Continuing in
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this line until 1911, he then acted as special agent for the New England Casualty Company for about a year and then entered the employ of the Ocean Guarantee and Accident Corpora- tion, Limited, for whom he was accident and health manager of their Boston branch office for a year. Mr. Moore was then appointed to the position of assistant general manager of the New England Registry Bureau and, after a year's service in this work, accepted a situation as manager of the commercial accident depart- ment of the Massachusetts Bonding and In- surance Company for a period of two years, after which he was promoted to the rank of New England manager and, in 1915, was made New England manager and agency supervisor for both the industrial and commercial lines of this company, in which capacity he continued until 1923. At that time, owing to his suc- cessful achievements in the various branches of insurance, his value was recognized by the various companies and his services were in great demand. He accepted the position of- fered by the Zurich General Accident and Liability Corporation, Limited, as their New England manager and he continued with this organization until 1925, when he became man- ager of the Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company's Boston office. In 1927, he was re- quested by the Constitution Indemnity Com- pany of Philadelphia to become their New England manager and he accepted this position which he now fills to the highest degree of satisfaction. Prominent in everything con- nected with this great branch of industry, Mr. Moore served as chairman of the organization committee of the Insurance Federation of Mass- achusetts and then became its vice-president; he organized the Accident Underwriters' Asso- ciation of Boston and was its first secretary and is one of the past presidents, and is a mem- ber of the Insurance Society of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Casualty Underwriters' Association. In civic affairs he is deeply inter- ested and for years has taken an active part in membership work and general affairs of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; it was through
him that the Civitan Club of Boston was first organized. During its first three years he acted as treasurer and member of the board of direc- tors. For four years he has represented Inter- national Civitan on its Citizens' Military Train- ing Camp Committee for the First Corps Area. Mr. Moore is active in the Apollo Club of Bos- ton and is a member of the board of governors of the Boston Automobile Club. In politics he has always followed the principles of the Re- publican party and his religious affiliations are with the Congregational church. He has sev- eral hobbies in which he finds great relaxation from active business cares-golf, music, the ac- tivities of the Civitan Club and the work at- tached to the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Commonwealth Country Club of Chestnut Hill.
Harry E. Moore married (first), in 1915, Grace Cabot, who was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, who died in 1925.
Mr. Moore married (second) Marion E. Bur- rage, of West Newton, daughter of Francis J. and Lenora (Mullins) Burrage, her father sec- retary of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Mr. Moore resides at No. 128 War- ren Street, Newton Center.
HENRY WILLIAMSON BEAL-Devoting his principal activities to the practice of bank- ruptcy and business law, Henry Williamson Beal, of the Boston bar, holds a position of prominence and respect, made for himself through a legal career in the State metropolis for nearly thirty years. His clientele is large, and a valuable asset, his circle of friends as numerous as his acquaintance. Very active in civic affairs, as well as educational, he has been by these brought into contact with lead- ers in both, by all of whom he is held in high professional and social esteem.
Henry Williamson Beal was born in Dan- vers, Massachusetts, February 25, 1875, a son of Abram S. and Margaret Elizabeth (Hay)
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Beal. His father died May 31, 1928, and his mother died in 1906. Abram Beal was a suc- cessful merchant of Danvers for many years. Henry Williamson Beal was educated in the public schools, was graduated from high school, and from Phillips Academy in 1893. He was admitted to the bar in 1900, following his graduation from Harvard University, and a course at the Boston University School of Law. For fifteen years he has lectured on law at this institution. He was largely instrumental in ob- taining the location of the Institute of Tech- nology in Cambridge. Mr. Beal has appeared frequently before committees of Massachusetts Legislature, relative to investment matters, in behalf of leading firms of the city; he has also given especial attention to the legal phases in- cident to development of industrial freight rail- ways in and about Boston. He is a director in the Metropolitan Trust Company, and a mem- ber of the Algonquin Club, the Brae Burn Country Club, and the Harvard Club of Bos- ton. He also belongs to the Bostonian So- ciety, and to the Natural History Club. He is one of the best squash players at the Harvard Club, plays a good game of golf, and indulges in horseback riding for other exercise. He is also a director in the Exeter Manufacturing Company, of New Hampshire.
Henry W. Beal married, in 1902, Betsy Hil- ton Roper, of Brookline, Massachusetts. Their son, Bruce Beal, was born November 17, 1907.
GEORGE CARPENTER MORTON, a
very prominent manufacturer of Boston, and the present president of the world-famous Carpenter, Morton Company, Incorporated, of Boston, the manufacturers of "Colorite" and numerous other patented paints, stains and varnishes, was born during the year 1868, at Boston. He is a son of John Dwight and Maria Elizabeth (Wesson) Morton, the former
deceased, the latter still living in Boston. John Dwight Morton started his business life in the office of Banker and Carpenter, prede- cessors of the present firm of Carpenter, Mor- ton Company. A more detailed mention of this man, and the interesting history of this concern, follows later.
George Carpenter Morton received his early education in the public schools of the city of his birth, and he later attended the English High School, graduating from there with the class of 1886. His first real contact with the world of commerce was obtained in the con- cern of which he was later destined to become the president, the company of which his father was then a member of the firm. A very good idea of the excellent work that was performed not only by Mr. Morton but by other members of the company as well, will be found in the following quotation from the "National" Maga- zine, published during the year 1926:
In one of the large private dining rooms of Young's Hotel, in Boston, on the evening of New Year's Day, 1890, the fiftieth anniversary dinner of the House of Carpenter, Woodward & Morton was celebrated. The Carpenter, Morton Company, its successor today, is in its eighty-sixth year (1929). Back in 1840, Eleazer F. Pratt started a little paint shop on Broad Street. Grinding of paints was done in a handmill. Boston was then the big port for ocean-going vessels. There was much marine painting to be done, and the little shop prospered. The next year larger quarters on State Street were taken, where the concern remained for thirty years. From time to time changes in per- sonnel occurred, and in 1849 a young man named George O. Carpenter became a partner in the concern, which was now called Banker and Carpenter. About 1860, another young man, John D. Morton, was em- ployed as a bookkeeper. In 1863 he, too, became one of its members. Occasional changes in personnel oc- curred until 1892, and in that year it was organized as a Massachusetts corporation under its present name, Carpenter-Morton Company. At the time of the anniversary dinner, in 1890, a Boston newspaper carried the following comment: "Over thirty bright looking men, fully representative of the merchantmen of Boston, congregated about the table, at one end of which sat the familiar and genial figure of Mr. George O. Carpenter, and at the other the compactly built, nervously constituted form of Mr. John D. Morton, who of late years has been prominently identified with many of the business reform movements which have occupied general public attention. The house is in-
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teresting, not only because it is an old one, but also because its members have been actively interested in many progressive matters connected with the mer- cantile development of the city."
To continue quoting from the "National":
Many of the group of men at that anniversary dinner are with the company today. George C. Morton, son of the man who sat at the head of the table, is the presi- dent. His own services started in 1886. The vice- president, Mr. M. Elton Vose, has been associated with the house for twenty-two years, while the service of William E. Gilmour, treasurer and office manager, started thirty-nine years ago. Mr. Morton ascribes the success of the business to the intelligent effort and fine spirit of cooperation existing among the de- partment heads. A. Irving McLauthlin, vice-president, director and manager of the wholesale department, has been with the institution for thirty-seven years; John W. Campbell, director and city sales manager, forty years; R. B. Bennett, factory manager, thirty- four years; Sylvanus Smith, director and sales man- ager, twenty years; Clifford D. Carroll, manager of the transportation department, twenty-six years; Wil- liam M. Wade, assistant sales manager, seventeen years; Walter G. Ambrose, cashier, twenty years; Eben W. Smith, New England sales manager, twelve years; Eu- gene E. Morton, specialty sales manager, five years; and I. Murray McDonald, export manager, five years. Small wonder that an institution with a foundation of such rugged maturity should prosper. In the year 1885 the house began to manufacture varnish stains, a novel product at that time, designed for staining and varnishing with one operation, furniture, woodwork or floors.
In the year 1892 the manufacture of "Color- ite" was begun, and through various ways and careful attention to an ever-increasing market, this has met with a world-wide success. As a coloring matter for straw hats it is unique, for it is simple, economic and sure in its opera- tion. No need to describe it in too great de- tail here. It is well known to every man, woman and child in the civilized world and beyond. In the year 1920, George Carpenter Morton became the president of this thriving business, after having served over the pre- ceding seventeen years as the treasurer. He succeeded F. H. Newton to the office of presi- dent. He is a trustee and member of invest- ment committee of the Boston Penny Savings Bank. In the year 1918 he was elected presi- dent of the National Paint, Oil and Varnish Bos.i-7
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