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Governor Fuller's administration has been charac- terized as "honest and courageous.'' The incident
here related is convincing proof of the extent to which he went in upholding his record.
. . Presumably they' (the checks he received for services as Lieutenant-Governor and Governor) arc carefully stowed away as souvenirs of service by the Governor.
So far as is known, Governor Fuller is the only high official in the long history of Massachusetts who has declined to accept a salary from the Common- wealth. .
Governor Fuller is a highly-placed fraternity man, having been elected to the thirty-third degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and he also belongs to all the other bodies of the Masonic Order, affiliating as well with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and the Be- nevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His social organizations are the Boston City, the Boston Athletic, the Engineers', the Algonquin, the University, and the Union Boat clubs, of Boston; and the Chevy Chase Club, of Washing- ton, District of Columbia. His religious affili- ation is with the Baptist denomination.
Some five years before his star began to rise in the political firmament, Governor Fuller married, at Paris, France, July 12, 1910, Viola Davenport, of Medford, Massachusetts. They are the parents of four children: Lydia, Mary, . Alvan Tufts (2), and Peter Davenport. The town house of the Fuller family is attractively situated in Malden, that fine residential suburb of the metropolis.
ARTHUR H. THOMAS-One of the most active lines of business in New England since the early days of the Pilgrims, has been the shoe and leather business, and its many phases have given occupation and livelihood to many persons who have grown up in this line of merchandise and industry. Arthur H. Thomas, former vice-president of the Shoe and Leather Mercantile Agency, Incorporated, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, was one who had spent practi- cally all of his business life in this particular
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business and mostly with this particular com- pany. He was the son of Charles E. and Cora Thomas, both natives of the city of Boston, Massachusetts. His father was a merchant.
Arthur H. Thomas was born in Boston, Mass- achusetts, on July 17, 1884. He was educated in the grammar and high schools of Wrentham and Boston, and then, during the terms of 1902 and 1903, he took a business course at the Bryant & Stratton School in Boston. After finishing his school work, he started in business. His first work was with the Shoe and Leather Mercantile Agency, Incorporated, of Wrentham, where he began as an office boy. Being dili- gent, alert, ready to learn and ambitious, Mr. Thomas was soon promoted and his promotions continued and resulted in his holding the po- sitions of assistant manager, manager, assistant treasurer, and vice-president. The last-named position he held at the time of his death, with the responsibility of the whole collection de- partment of the business. Mr. Thomas was also a director of the Wrentham Co-operative Bank and at one time he held the office of town auditor. He was a Republican in his political activities, and attended the Protestant Episcopal church.
At Wrentham, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1926, Arthur H. Thomas married Rosamond Berry, of Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Thomas' death occurred February 13, 1929.
CLIFFORD H. RICE-Entering the insur- ance business when he was seventeen years of age, Clifford H. Rice, of Boston, has consis- tently pursued that vocation, until today he occupies a conspicuously successful position among the great number of active agents in that occupation. There is no sinecure in a task that has for its achievement the topmost rung of a ladder which is well filled with other persons of ambition, industry and determination. Many fall where one reaches the heights, yet even to the fallen must be accorded the tribute of work
well done where the competition is unusually keen. Clifford H. Rice happens to have been one of those gifted with that indefinable quality which knows no such word as fail. His talents, his industry, his alert mind, his pleasing person- ality have taken him toward his goal, if he has not reached its absolute apex.
Clifford H. Rice was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, June 10, 1869, a son of Charles and Ellen M. (Hartwell) Rice. His father was born in Newton and lived as a country gentleman until his death. His mother, also deceased, was a native of Framingham. Charles Rice, grandfather of Clifford, was a soldier in the War of 1812, his son, Charles, was a nephew of former Governor Rice of Massa- chusetts.
Clifford H. Rice was educated in the public schools in Wellesley and was graduated from the high school there. He then entered the insurance field, beginning, in 1886, with asso- ciation in the agency of Charles T. Powell, in Boston. There he remained for two years, when he secured employment with the Niagara Fire Insurance Company and in 1891 was made a special agent of that corporation. Five years later he was made general agent of the com- pany for New England, as well as general man- ager for that territory. He has since served the company in those capacities, with offices at No. 17 Pearl Street, Boston. He is a member of the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters, the Insur- ance Society, and has been vice-president of the New England Insurance Exchange. He belongs to the Protestant Episcopal church, and is inde- pendent in politics. He is a great collector of antiques.
Clifford H. Rice married, in 1896, Mabelle Haskins, of Springfield, Massachusetts.
CHARLES FAIRBANK PAINTER, M. D. -For many years, Charles Fairbank Painter has engaged in the practice of his profession in Boston, specializing in orthopædic surgery.
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During this period his thorough training, and his active sympathy with his work, have brought him a large practice.
Dr. Painter was born in Grand Haven, Mich- igan, May 19, 1869, a son of Charles C. Paint- er, who was born in Drapers Valley, Virginia, and of Martha (Gibson) Painter, who was born in New Marlboro, Massachusetts. His father was a Congregationalist minister. The mother is still living at the age of eighty-nine (1928).
Charles Fairbank Painter attended the public schools and the high school of Great Barring- ton, Massachusetts, and later entered Williams College, where he remained for only one year, transferring at the end of this time to Johns Hopkins College, from which he was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered Harvard Medical School and was graduated from this institution in 1895 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For one year thereafter he served as interne in the Boston Children's Hospital, and sixteen months he devoted to surgical study in the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1896 he began the general practice of medicine and surgery in Boston, and since 1898 has devoted himself to specialization in orthopædic surgery, with offices at No. 520 Commonwealth Avenue. In addition to his independent practice, Dr. Painter is consulting surgeon at the Brockton General Hospital, and a member of the staff of Sturdy Memorial Hospital, at Attleboro, Massachusetts, and he is professor of the His- tory of Medicine at Tufts Medical School, which school he served for eight years as dean. Prior to this, he was orthopedic surgeon-in- chief at the Carney Hospital in Boston for seventeen years; was orthopædic surgeon to the Robert Brigham Hospital for five years, re- signing to enter the naval service during the World War. He was also professor of ortho- pædic surgery in Tufts Medical School, and instructor in the same subject in the Graduate School of Medicine at Harvard College. Dr. Painter is librarian of Boston Medical Library; a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, the American Medical Association, the
American Orthopedic Association, of which he is past president, and a Fellow of the Ameri- can College of Surgeons.
During the World War, he served as lieuten- ant in the United States Navy Medical Corps, stationed at the Naval Hospital, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Politically an independent vo- ter, he has always been interested in civic wel- fare and progress. He is a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity, and a member and liberal sup- porter of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, at Newton, Massachusetts, of which he is also a vestryman. His favorite recreations are ten- nis and golf.
In 1900, Charles Fairbank Painter married Alice Angier, born in Newton, Massachusetts, and of this marriage there are two children: Whitfield; and Eleanor.
ARTHUR K. POPE, born July 9, 1879, is a native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and the son of Arthur W. and Fannie (Kendrick) Pope, both parents born in Dorchester, and the mother living at time of this writing. Arthur W. Pope, the father, received his academic training in Dorchester, and at the outbreak of the Civil War made haste to enlist in the cause of the North, against secession, and served in that cause valorously, with the Massachusetts Volunteers. At the conclusion of the war he came to Boston and here engaged in the in- surance business, becoming a partner in the firm of Cyrus Brewer & Company, with which well-known and old-established organization he continued in association until the time of his death, in 1905. He was a man of presence and fine character, sincerely esteemed by con- freres in the insurance business and by those elsewhere with whom he came in contact. His passing was uniformly regretted in the circles in which he had been wont to move.
Arthur K. Pope received his schooling in the
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town of his birth, Dorchester, and after this preparation matriculated in the Boston Latin School, and later in Harvard University, whence he was graduated in 1902, at the age of twenty-three years, with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts. Immediately he became connec- ted with Cyrus Brewer & Company, with which organization his father was then associated as partner, and in June, 1905, following his fa- ther's death, was elevated from the position of clerk to that of a partner. Thus, since the late Arthur W. Pope first formed a connection with the Brewer company, the family of Pope has been represented in it continuously. Arthur K. Pope at the present time is senior member of the firm, and in this dignified responsibility functions wisely and well. He is a member of the Insurance Society and the Boston Board of the Fire Underwriters' Association, and is a director of the Boston Protective Department of the association. Politically, his affiliation is with the Republican party, and in the party circles of Boston he takes a part, ever exerting his influence for the welfare of the metropoli- tan area as a whole. His relaxations are hunt- ing and golf, and he is a member of the Co- hasset Golf Club, the Crown Point Club, the Harvard, Algonquin and Wompatuck clubs. Mr. Pope attends the New North Unitarian Church.
In 1908, Mr. Pope was united in marriage with Mildred Ellis, native of Chicago, Illinois, who died in 1925, leaving one child, a son, Steven.
FRED ROLAND HAYWARD-As presi- dent of the New England Confectionery Com- pany, one of the largest of its kind in the East, Fred Roland Hayward heads an or- ganization which was originally established through consolidation.
Mr. Hayward was born in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the year
1873, a son of Albert F. and Julia (Stearns) Hayward. His father was one of the incor- porators of Fobes, Hayward & Company, confectionery manufacturers, which company was combined in 1901 with other well-known concerns to form the present New England Confectionery Company. Politically a Repub- lican, and active in all civic affairs, Albert F. Hayward, who died in 1899, was a man be- loved by those who knew him well and re- spected by all with whom he came in con- tact.
Fred Roland Hayward, of this record, re- ceived his early education in the Newton pub- lic schools, and later attended Chauncey Hall School, from which he was graduated in 1892. With the completion of his educational train- ing in 1893, he began the business of life in as- sociation with Fobes, Hayward & Company, of which his father was president. In 1901 the New England Confectionery Company was formed by consolidating the three old- established concerns, Fobes, Hayward & Company, Chase & Company, and Wright & Moody. Mr. Hayward became factory man- ager of the newly organized firm, subse- quently being chosen vice-president, and since 1923 has been serving as its president. Two years ago the organization removed from its old quarters in Summer Street, Boston, to a splendid new building at No. 254 Massachu- setts Avenue, Cambridge, where factory, sales rooms, and offices are all combined.
In spite of the many demands of his busi- ness upon him, Mr. Hayward has found time for other activities. He is a director of the Newton Trust Company and the Central Trust Company of Cambridge; trustee of the Newton Cemetery Corporation, the Stone Institute, and of the Newton Home for Aged People. He is interested in all move- ments for the welfare of his city, whether civic or benevolent in nature, and, as was his father, is a strong supporter of the principles and candidates of the Republican party. Mr. Hay- ward has been equally active in club and social life. He is affiliated, fraternally, with Dal-
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housie Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and holds membership also in the Boston Athletic Association, the Brae Burn Country Club, and the Charles River Country Club.
On June 12, 1907, at Hyde Park, Massachu- setts, Fred Roland Hayward married Eliza- beth Hurter, daughter of John C. and Jennie F. (Swanberg) Hurter, of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Hayward maintain their residence at No. 1547 Center Street, Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. They worship in the faith of the Congregational church.
HARRY CARVER ACHORN-As one of the vice-presidents of the New England Con- fectionery Company, Harry Carver Achorn is identified with one of the big concerns of its kind in this part of the State. He resides in West Newton, Massachusetts, but his business is in Cambridge, where the big confectionery enterprise has its offices and plant at No. 254 Massachusetts Avenue.
Harry Carver Achorn was born in Waldo- boro, Maine, December 4, 1882, son of Eben T. and Sylvania (Miller) Achorn. His father was a ship carpenter on the coast of Maine, and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted in the navy, where he served for three years. In 1886, when Harry Carver Achorn was four years of age, the family removed to Ellsworth, Maine, and in the public schools of that place he received his education. In 1900, desiring a commercial training, he associated himself with a shoe concern in Haverhill, Massachu- setts, but two years later, in 1902, he became associated with Fobes, Hayward & Company, manufacturers of candy. With this concern he remained, eventually becoming one of its vice-presidents. The concern is a thoroughly well-established one, and each year that passes brings marked increase in the volume of its production. Mr. Achorn gives his support to Bos.i-2
the principles and the candidates of the Re- publican party, but he has never sought the honors and the preferments of public office. During the period of the participation of the United States in the World War he was ac- tive in forwarding the various home activities. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Beth-Horon Blue Lodge, and is a member of all the Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic Order, in which he holds the thirty-second degree. He is well known in club circles, being a member of Corinthian Yacht Club, Brae Burn Country Club, and the New England Confectioners' Club, of which he is an ex-committeeman. He is also treasurer of the New England Manu- facturers Confectioners' Association; a mem- ber of the Newton Chamber of Commerce, and actively interested in the advancement of the general welfare of that community. His re- ligious affiliation is with the Second Church of West Newton.
Harry Carver Achorn was married, at Ells- worth, Maine, in 1913, to Bernice Giles, of Ellsworth, daughter of Jeremiah T. and Julia (Rowe) Giles. Mr. and Mrs. Achorn are the parents of two children: 1. Harry C., Jr., born in 1913. 2. Robert G., born in 1916. The fam- ily resides at No. 133 Fuller Street, West New- ton, Massachusetts.
J. KARL MASON-After being actively engaged in industrial work for some years, J. Karl Mason, of Wellesley Hills, Massachu- setts, became interested in the big confec- tionery manufacturing concern known as the New England Confectionery Company, and he is now treasurer of that enterprise. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Dr. Herbert B. Mason, father of Mr. Mason, was born in Hampden, Maine, and after re- ceiving his early and preparatory education in the local schools, matriculated at Bowdoin
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College, at Bowdoin, Maine, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Having chosen the medical profession as his future field of activity and achievement, he then began professional study in the Medi- cal School of Boston University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He stood high in his profession, and for some years served as president or sec- retary of the Maine Medical Association. He married Charlotte A. Smith, and among their children was J. Karl, of this review.
J. Karl Mason, son of Dr. Herbert B. and Charlotte A. (Smith) Mason, was born in Calais, Maine, August 7, 1883, and received his early education in the public schools of his birthplace, graduating from the Calais High School in 1901. The following fall he began study in a business college, remaining through the term 1901-1902, and then, in 1903, secured a position with the Washington County Rail- road Company, at Calais. That connection he maintained for a period of two years, but at the end of that time, in 1905, he matriculated at Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1912 he became identified with the Emerson Company of New York City. In 1916 he accepted a position with the Harri- son Radiator Corporation, which later became a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, at Lockport, New York. In 1922 he became comptroller of the New England Confectionery Company, of Boston, and the following year he was elected treasurer of the concern. That official position he holds at the present time. The concern is one of the well-known and thor- oughly established concerns in this part of the State, and it is also one of the growing enter- prises of this section. The offices and plant are located at No. 254 Massachusetts Avenue, in Cambridge. Mr. Mason is a member of the University Club of Boston, and of the Charles River Country Club.
J. Karl Mason was married, in Brooklyn, New York, October 21, 1914, to Ethel Gene- vieve Bulkley, daughter of Frederick George
and Georgiana Virginia (Zender) Bulkley. Mr. and Mrs. Mason are the parents of two chil- dren: 1. Richard Karl, born in 1916. 2. John Bulkley, born in 1920.
HON. GEORGE BARKER FARRING-
TON-Prominent among the business men of Greater Boston is George Barker Farrington, assistant treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the New England Confectionery Company, with which concern he has been identified since 1874, when it was known as Fobes, Hayward & Company. Mr. Farrington resides in Salem, and is well known in fra- ternal and club circles, both in Salem and in Boston. He was a member of the State Sen- ate, 1927-1928.
George Barker Farrington was born in Salem, Massachusetts, August 4, 1867, son of George P., Jr., who was engaged in business as a pharmacist and who was also a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the United States Navy. under Admiral Farragut, and of Henrietta H. (Barker) Farrington. He re- ceived his education in the local public schools, and as a boy entered the employ of the Fobes-Hayward Confectionery Company. He planned to learn the business and began in the clerical department, giving to his work there the close attention and the interest which, coupled with ability, brought promo- tion from one department to another until he had thoroughly mastered the business in all its processes as well as in all the departments of its business management. Finally, he was made assistant treasurer and a member of the board of directors, which official positions he is now (1929) most efficiently filling. In ad- dition to his responsibilities in this connection he is vice-president and a member of the board of directors of the Salem Storage Warehouse Company, and a member of the board of direc- tors of the Roger Conant Co-Operative Bank
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of Salem; also treasurer and director of the Salem Masonic Temple Association. As a busi- ness man and a financier he has demonstrated his ability and has won the confidence of a very large following. He is secretary of the New England Confectioners' Club and is a recognized expert in the confectionery manu- facturing and marketing field. Along with his business interests, Mr. Farrington has found time for considerable civic and political serv- ice. He gives his support to the principles and the candidates of the Republican party, and for a period of four years served as coun- cillor for the city of Salem. In 1926 he was chosen by his associates to serve in the State Senate, from the Second Essex District, and he is filling that office of trust with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. During the period of the participation of the United States in the World War he was active in all the local campaigns and "drives" and contributed liberally to the work of carrying his community "over the top." Fraternally, he is identified with Starr King Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Salem, of which he
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Royal Arch Masons; Salem Council, Royal and Select Masters; Past Commander of Winslow Lewis Commandery, Knights Tem- plar; and Past District Deputy Grand Master of the Eighth Masonic District. He is a mem- ber of all the Scottish Rite bodies as well as of all the York Rite bodies, and of the Con- sistory, in which he holds the thirty-second degree. He is well known in club circles, be- ing a member of Salem Club, Salem Country Club, and Boston City Club, and his religious affiliation is with the Universalist Church of Salem, which he serves as a member of the board of trustees.
George B. Farrington was married, in Salem, Massachusetts, October 7, 1897, to Flora G. Peterson, daughter of ex-Mayor Jo- seph N. and Anna M. (Eason) Peterson. Mr. Farrington's business address is No. 254 Mass- achusetts Avenue, Cambridge, while his family residençe is located in Salem.
JOHN WESTON ALLEN-Three decades of the practice of law characterized by un- usual scope and vision, together with dis- tinguished public service, have brought into national prominence John Weston Allen, law- yer, of Boston, Massachusetts. He is the senior member of the firm of Allen, Abbot & Packer and in 1920-22 was attorney-general of Massa- chusetts. His activities have been conspicuous not only in connection with important private and public litigation, but also in cooperation with various organizations.
John W. (J. Weston) Allen was born in New- ton Highlands, Massachusetts, April 19, 1872, son of Walter and Grace Mason (Weston) Allen, and descendant of Richard Warren and George Soule, who came to New England on the "Mayflower." He is thus, by his own ac- complishments in his chosen profession and in public affairs continuing the traditions of a family long notable in the making of American history. Mr. Allen graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and from Harvard three years later with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1922 Har- vard conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, for distinguished public service. He began to practice law at Boston in 1896 in association with former Governor John D. Long, and after his retirement from the office of attorney-general in 1923, organized his present law firm, which is well known throughout the State. Prior to his service as attorney-general he was a member of the Mass- achusetts House of Representatives from 1915 to 1918.
His interest in the legal profession has caused him to become an active member of the American Bar Association. He served as vice- president of the criminal law section and for the past three years has been a member of the executive committee. He was also a member of the committee in charge of the Semi-Cen- tennial meeting and is now chairman of the Committee for the Award of the American Bar Association Medal. He is active in the Amer-
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ican Law Institute, of which he is a charter member. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Crime Commission and chairman of the Committee on the De- tection and Prosecution of Crime. He has represented the commission in hearings before Congress on matters relating to criminal law. He is a trustee of the American Indian In- stitute, a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and the Sons of Veterans. His political views are those of the Republican party. He attends the Congregational church. Mr. Allen's clubs are the Yale of Boston, the Republican of Massachusetts, the Middle- sex, and the Roosevelt, the Old Boston (hon- orary), and the Cosmos (Washington).
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