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Herbert H. Boynton was married, in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, in September, 1882, to Eldora Stone, daughter of Dexter E. W. and Sarah A. Stone, the first-mentioned of whom was connected with the Grand Trunk Railroad for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton are the parents of two children: 1. Grace Lil- lian, who was born in 1884; married George W.
Davidson, and they have three children: John Winslow, Dudley Herbert, and Philip. 2. Barbara, born in 1895; married Harrison M. MacDonald, and they have one daughter, Jean Boynton, who was born in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Boynton live at Garrison Hall, in Boston, in the winter, and at North Abington, Massa- chusetts, in the summer time.
CLARENCE A. BARNES-To the practice of law, Clarence A. Barnes has given more than a score of years of undivided and expert attention, principally at the Boston bar, where he enjoys high standing. Mr. Barnes also has the confidence of the judiciary before which he has appeared, and the general tone of his prac- tice has been in conformity to the approved code of ethics of professional advance. His clientage is drawn from among the most desir- able private and corporation sources, and as an adviser in office practice or as a pleader of causes in the courts he has exhibited a profes- sional finish which is characteristic of so many of the leading members of the Boston bar.
Clarence Alfred Barnes was born in Brook- lyn, New York, August 28, 1882, the son of a publisher. The family removed to Boston when he was yet quite young, and he attended the Mansfield High School. His preparatory training was received at the celebrated Chaun- cey Hall School, Boston, where he entered Yale University, where he concluded his aca- demic education, graduating in the class of 1904 with his baccalaureate. His course of law at Yale Law School ended in 1906 with his receipt of the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
Mr. Barnes has always made Boston the scene of his professional labors. As a mem- ber of the Boston Bar Association and the American Bar Association, he moves in the circles of the leading practitioners of his im-
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mediate jurisdiction and of the country at large. He has been made the recipient of po- litical honors from his district, which elected him to a seat in the Massachusetts Legislature for the years 1912-13. He was also made a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, which rewrote the State's code of government. In both these offices he ren- dered service distinguished for its substantial contributions, first to the achievements of the law-making body of the Commonwealth, and, again, to the proceedings of that great assembly of the people's delegates charged with the revision of its fundamental statutes. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Boston Athletic Club, and the Yale Club.
Clarence A. Barnes married (first), March 13, 1906, at Norwich, Connecticut, Helen Long, by whom he had children: 1. Clarence A., Jr., born January 9, 1907. 2. David H. 3. Jane. 4. John. Mr. Barnes married (second), Oc- tober 8, 1927, at Mansfield, Massachusetts, Doreen Kane, and they have a son, Thomas K.
ROLAND MORRIS BAKER-When Dem- ocratic and Republican administrations alike put their stamp of approval upon the service of a postmaster, it must mean that he is giving satisfaction to the community. Roland Morris Baker, postmaster of Greater Boston, was first appointed by President Woodrow Wilson and at the expiration of a four-year term was re- appointed by President Calvin Coolidge, and his friends say that his record has been such that he will succeed himself again in 1928. Be- fore becoming interested in public service Mr. Baker was president of a leather tanning con- cern, after which he retired and traveled ex- tensively. He has always taken a keen inter- est in civic affairs and lent his talents to many worthy movements for the advancement of city and section.
Roland Morris Baker was born at Dedham, April 30, 1865, at the close of the Civil War conflict between the North and the South and a few days after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln had thrown the nation into mourning. His father was Joseph E. Baker, and his mother Sarah (Wells) Baker, an artist at one time connected with the Boston Studio, both of whom were representatives of New England families which have left their impress upon many generations. He attended the pub- lic schools of Dedham and graduated from the English High School in 1883. He formed a connection with Phelps & Lombard, dealers in leather, and thoroughly mastered the details of that industry, and had applied his efforts with such judgment that in 1890 he was able to establish the Morrill Leather Company, of which he was made the president; and he soon became one of the leaders in the sheepskin tanning industry. He successfully conducted this concern until 1907, when he retired. He then traveled two years abroad. On his re- turn home he opened a summer home at North- ampton. During the World War he per- formed essential service at home. As a mem- ber of the Republican party he was appointed postmaster by President Wilson, April 1, 1920, having qualified by standing a civil service ex- amination. His record in the position was such that President Coolidge reappointed him in 1924 for four more years. These years, taken with his activities in the New England agency for the War Trade Board, constitute a record of which any man might well be proud.
Mr. Baker's chief social and civic endeavors center in the Chamber of Commerce, the City Club and the Exchange Club. In religious affairs he is a member of the Unitarian church.
Roland M. Baker married, at Boston, Sep- tember 27, 1893, Edith Kimball, of Concord, New Hampshire, daughter of Willis G. and Lois (Gove) Kimball, and they have four children: 1. Roland M. Baker, Jr., married Mary Royce, and they have: Evelyn, Sarah, and Mary Baker. 2. Richard K. Baker, mar- ried Barbara White. 3. Philip Morrill. 4.
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Susan Revere Baker, married Robert Winson, Jr., and they have: Robert, Jr., Edith Baker, and Elizabeth Ware.
WILLIAM LEWIS TERHUNE-Well known as a journalist and publisher, William Lewis Terhune founded the "Boot and Shoe Recorder," of Boston, which grew under his direction to the largest weekly trade paper in the world. He has been prominent in many phases of Massachusetts life, and especially active in the Republican party, and Masonic or- ganizations.
Mr. Terhune was born at Newark, New Jersey, October 30, 1851, a son of Daniel John- son and Maria Louisa (Wood) Terhune, of that city. His father was a shoe manufac- turer, and was appointed captain in the North- ern Army during the Civil War, although he did not serve because of the immediate con- clusion of hostilities.
William Lewis Terhune received his educa- tion in the public and private schools of New- ark, and began his career as a clerk, but at the age of nineteen he established an independent enterprise at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1869 he founded and became president of the first National Amateur Press Association, while in the following year he was manager of "Merry's Museum," a youth's magazine. In 1872 he was publisher of the "New Hampshire Independent," and in 1877, editor of the "Au- burn Daily Herald," in Maine. From 1878 un- til 1882, he was a writer on the staff of the "Boston Globe," and in the latter year he estab- lished the "Boot and Shoe Recorder," of which he remained the publisher for many years. Mr. Terhune also published the "Apparel Retailer" and the "Southern Retailer" until his retire- ment from active business in 1912. He was a
director of the Mechanics National Bank, for- merly the Mechanics Trust Company, and a trustee of the First Peoples Trust Company.
In politics a consistent Republican, Mr. Ter- hune has been high in party councils through- out the State for many years. He was a dele- gate to the national convention that nominated Roosevelt in 1904, and for five years was chair- man of the Republican Committee of Dorches- ter (Boston), Massachusetts. A candidate for the State Senate when this district was nor- mally Democratic by a majority of about two thousand, Mr. Terhune lost his campaign by only five hundred and fifty-two votes, a merited tribute to his candidacy, and an indication of the confidence reposed in him by the electorate. Fraternally, Mr. Terhune is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, and in this great order he is a member of all the bodies of the York and Scottish Rites, including the thirty- second degree of the Consistory, a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the Order of the East- ern Star, and the White Shrine. He is also a member of a number of Masonic clubs, and of other organizations too numerous to mention. Since 1921 he has been president of the Boston Square and Compass Club, the largest Ma- sonic club in the world. In 1913-14 he was president of the Fossil Club of New York, while he was also a founder, and president for four years, of the Colonial Club.
On January 7, 1873, at Dover, New Hamp- shire, William Lewis Terhune married Nellie E. Littlefield, a daugher of Daniel and Harriet (Boardman) Littlefield, of that place. Mrs. Terhune died March 13, 1927. Mr. and Mrs. Terhune were the parents of three children: 1. Everit Bogart, born November 5, 1876; mar- ried Ella Phillips, of Swampscott. 2. Inez May, now Mrs. Edward N. Carpenter, wife of the
well-known Boston attorney. 3. Lillian Haven, born October 3, 1885; married Captain John N. Jordan, of the United States Navy. Mr. Ter- hune's Boston business address is No. 448 Beacon Street, while his residence in this city is the Hotel Somerset.
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MILTON R. SPRANSY-Manager of the Boston branch of the Goodyear Tire and Rub- ber Company, No. 61 Brookline Avenue, Bos- ton, Milton R. Spransy has been identified with the commercial movements of the capital city since 1923, and is today accounted among the foremost of Boston's business executives. His experiences have been broad, centered in this city, at Akron, Ohio, and elsewhere.
Mr. Spransy is a native of Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia. He was born February 10, 1891, son of Wilbur and Martha E. (Jones) Spransy, his father having been active in the business life of Washington for a number of years, as operator in real estate. He died, in Washington, in 1915, and is there interred. Martha E. (Jones) Spransy survives her hus- band (1928), and continues to make her home in Washington.
In the public schools of Washington, District of Columbia, Mr. Spransy secured a sound academic education, graduating from Central High School with the class of 1910. Thereafter he matriculated at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, from which institution he took the degree of Bachelor of Science, 1915, at the age of twenty-four years. His first position follow- ing the completion of his studies at Cornell was as mechanic and engineer, in the employ of the Southern Railroad, for which company he worked twelve months. At the close of the year he secured a place with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 1917, as clerk in the truck tire department of the company's plant at Akron. With that department, having charge of the solid and cushion truck tires manufactured, he continued until 1923, when he was transferred to Boston as manager of the Boston branch. Here his work has been to the complete satisfaction of the corporation, and has more than justified their choice of a man for the position.
Mr. Spransy married, in V Washington, in 1917, Anna E. Pennebaker, of Washington, daughter of Charles D. and Lucinda (Harris) Pennebaker. The family residence is at New- ton, No. 4 Hunnewell Circle. Mr. Spransy's
chief out-of-door diversion is golf. Genial, of a pleasant nature, thoughtful, he has many friends.
RALPH H. GOODWIN-Specializing in automobile insurance, Ralph H. Goodwin, of Boston, has made such a close study of that business that he is held to be an authority and is constantly called upon for advice. He is well known on the lecture platforms as a lucid speaker on this subject, is a hard worker and industrious member of the community. His business ethics are of that high standard that commends him to a large circle of patronage, making him one of the very successful writers of this class of insurance in Eastern Massachu- setts. His fraternal affiliations bring him into contact with a high class of business men, who unanimously regard him as a citizen of great value to the body politic, as well as a social companion of engaging quality.
He was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, De- cember 12, 1885, a son of George W. Good- win, a native of Phillips, Maine, who was a provision merchant, and Etta (Dearborn) Good- win, of Hudson, Massachusetts, both now de- ceased. His education was acquired in the ele- mentary public schools of Clinton, where he was graduated from high school, then entering the drug business, which he continued for sev- en years. In 1910 he went into insurance, be- coming associated with the German-American Insurance Company as a clerk in the New York office, where he remained until 1916, when he was enlisted in the service of the Scottish" Union and National Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, as superintendent of the automobile department of that organization. After two years of this occupation he returned to New York as secretary of the Eastern Au- tomobile Underwriters' Conference, a position which was soon augmented by his appointment
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as assistant manager of the National Automo- bile Underwriters' Conference, both of which offices he administered until 1921, in which year he became manager of the automobile division of the eastern department of the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company. Five years later he was appointed an assistant manager of the entire eastern department of this company and in 1928 was again promoted to the position he now holds as the assistant manager. His offices are at No. 10 Post Office Square. He is a member of the Permanent Committee on Street and Highway Safety, a Republican in politics, and attends the Harvard Church of Brookline. He is a member of Beth Horem Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; St. Paul's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; DeMolay Com- mandery, Knights Templar; Boston Council, Royal and Select Masters, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Drug & Chem- ical Club of New York, Exchange Club of Bos- ton, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Insurance Society of Massachusetts, Insurance Library Association, Insurance Society of New York and the Automotive Council of Underwriters' Laboratories. He is also a director of the Na- tional Union Building & Loan Association, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His other busi- ness affiliations include the chairmanship of the executive committee of the Eastern Automobile Conference, which organization he represents on the National Conference of Automobile In- surance.
EDWARD THOMAS RICHARDSON-
Widely known in the rubber trade of New Eng- land, Edward Thomas Richardson, sales man- ager for the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Com- pany, with offices at No. 37 Lansdown Street, Boston, was born at Newton Center, Massa-
chusetts, November 3, 1890. His father, George Frost Richardson, has been proprietor of a provision market at Newton Center for at least fifty years (1928), and is one of the foremost citizens of the community. Formerly he served the municipality as postmaster, and also, for- merly, was a member of the Board of Alder- men. Fraternally, he is active, being affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons. Edward Thomas Richardson's mother, Emma (Kyle) Richardson, is a popular member of the social life of Newton Center.
Having graduated from Newton High School, in 1909, Mr. Richardson matriculated at Cor- nell University, Ithaca, New York. In Sep- tember, 1911, he secured a position with the United States Tire Company, in Boston, as clerk; shortly following this was made credit manager of the Boston district. He continued in this capacity until 1915, in which year he opened up branches for the company at Port- land and Bangor, Maine. He managed these branches, much to the benefit of the United States Tire Company, until 1920, and later went to Providence, Rhode Island, as branch man- ager of the company's interests there. In 1922 he went with the Hewitt Rubber Com- pany, of Buffalo, New York, and in 1923, when the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company opened its first Boston branch, returned to Boston to assume his duties as New England manager of sales for the Dunlop people. Largely through his vision, practical ability and effort, the company's business volume has been large, and has increased most satisfactorily from year to year.
Mr. Richardson is affiliated, fraternally, with the Free and Accepted Masons, as member of Deering Lodge, in Maine. He belongs to the University Club of Boston, and is a com- municant of the Methodist church. 1 all movements designed for the general welfare of Boston and the metropolitan area he gives liberally of his support.
On September 25, 1915, at Brookline, Mr. Richardson was united in marriage with Fay Tucker, and their children are: 1. Edward
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Thomas, Jr., born in Portland, Maine, June 24, 1916. 2. William Tucker, born in Port- land, November 23, 1922. The family resi- dence is at No. 44 Walker Street, Newtonville.
EDGAR A. McCOY-In order to learn a business which he desired to follow, Edgar A. McCoy, now the manager of the Kelly-Spring- field Tire Company's office in Boston, Massa- chusetts, was willing to apply himself night and day to study and practice until he became proficient, and then, as he progressed in the business world, he did not hesitate to go wher- ever he could learn more, and by so doing constantly advanced himself until he has now the responsible position which is evidence of his proven ability. He is the son of James E. and Anna (Lippincott) McCoy. His father when very small was a newspaper boy, and at the age of ten years went to sea. He after- wards learned the trade of a mason, and then became a well-known contractor and builder, of Boston, Massachusetts. Among his works are the Brunswick Hotel of Boston; and the Belmont estate at Newport, Rhode Island. He was in this business for over forty years.
Edgar A. McCoy was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was educated in the Robert G. Shaw Grammar School of West Roxbury, and the Boston English High School, from which he graduated in 1908. He began his business career as a young boy by clerking in a drygoods store of the firm of Brown-Dur- rell, of Boston, and remained there for several years. He then traveled through the West and South for the Howe Comb Company of Leominster, Massachusetts. Mr. Howe was a relative, and for two years Mr. McCoy had a most pleasant association with him, and dur- ing that time he gained much by his travels throughout the greater part of the country.
He had taken advantage of spare moments, studied telegraphy, and after becoming profi- cient in it obtained a position as night operator at Bellevue, Massachusetts, for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. At that time, the automobile was just coming into gen- eral use and Mr. McCoy saw the possibilities of that business, so with his characteristic pluck and ambition, he set about to learn something about it and worked in a local garage at Belle- vue without compensation while he still held the night job of telegraph operator. Naturally he had little sleep, but as youth and ambition need little rest, he had no bad effects from this strenuous life and profited in later years for the wise seed sown in youth. His next step was to go to Providence, Rhode Island, where he secured employment as a mechanic with the Alco Motor Car (now obsolete), and remained there for two years. From there he went with the E. R. Thomas Motor Car Company of Buffalo, New York. This was in 1912 and he was in the position of stock clerk. He was there only a short time when he had a chance to better his condition by going to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in charge of the stockroom of the Mack Motor Truck Company, and filled that place for three years. In the latter part of 1914, he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in charge of the solid tire department. In 1918, he transferred to the Kelly-Springfield Com- pany, of Boston, in charge of the solid tire de- partment there, and in 1919 he was made man- ager for New England of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, with headquarters at No. 698 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. McCoy makes his home at Quincy, Massachu- setts, near Boston, where he is a member of the Lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Stony Brae Country Club, and the Union Congregational Church.
At Quincy, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1912, Edgar A. McCoy married Maude B. Bartlett, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Edwards) Bartlett. Mr. and Mrs. McCoy have one child: Donald, born December 23, 1923.
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JOHN MacDONALD-After a quarter of a century of experience as an apprentice, a car- penter in the employ of others, and as super- visor in the employ of various contractors, John MacDonald engaged in business for him- self as a general contractor. He builds roads, bridges, water and sewerage systems, and has built up a business which requires the services of about two hundred men. His offices are at No. 100 Arlington Street, in Boston, and he lives in Newtonville, Massachusetts.
August MacDonald, father of Mr. MacDon- ald, was a descendant of August MacDonald, who served as a general in the British army about 1620. He was a ship carpenter in In- verness County, Nova Scotia, and was promi- nent in local public affairs there, serving as county councillor, as tax collector, and as elec- tion commissioner. He died in 1913, and is buried in Inverness County, Nova Scotia, where his life was spent. He married Florence (MacDonald) MacDonald, and both were highly esteemed in the county.
John MacDonald, son of August and Flor- ence (MacDonald) MacDonald, was born in the Lake Ainslie district, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 17, 1871, and re- ceived his education in the local public schools. Later, he took up the study of architecture in the evening classes of the Architectural School in Boston, but in the meantime, as a boy of thirteen years, he became an apprentice to Hugh McLellen, a coal contractor and builder of Lake Ainslie, Inverness County, Nova Scotia. As a young man he came to Boston and en- tered the employ of John Quin, a Cambridge contractor, with whom he remained as a car- penter for nine years. Following that period he was superintendent for various Boston con- tractors until 1909, when, having gained thor- ough experience and accumulated some capital, he engaged in the general contracting business for himself, building roads and bridges, and also contracting for the construction of water systems and for sewerage systems. He has developed a very large and successful business, requiring the services of about two hundred Bos.i-13
men. As a contractor he has gained the repu- tation of always making every possible effort to fulfill to the letter the terms of his contracts, and steady reliability has won for him many new patrons.
During the World War Mr. MacDonald was a member of the Massachusetts Home Guard, and during the Boston police strike he served for six weeks on active duty. Fraternally, he is well known, being a member of Newton Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Cryptic Council, Royal and Select Masters, of New- ton; Newton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Elks Club. His religious affiliation is with the Meth- odist church.
John MacDonald was married, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1897, to Jennie S. Mabey, daughter of Conroy and Effie (Sentner) Ma- bey. Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald are the parents of three children: 1. Russell James, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July, 1898, is a graduate of Newton High School. 2. Edmund John, born in Cambridge, in September, 1899, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the class of 1921, and during the World War was a member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. 3. Florence, born in Cambridge, in 1903, attended Katharine Gibbs School for Girls, in Boston. The family home is located at No. 156 Mt. Vernon Street, in Newtonville, Massachusetts.
HERBERT A. KNEELAND-Beginning as a bookkeeper in business houses and sum- mer hotels, Herbert A. Kneeland, of Boston, has shown the value of industry and unflagging attention to business by his rise to the top of the ladder in his chosen occupation. He has achieved a position of commanding importance in the commercial field of Metropolitan Bos- ton as well as a reputation for ability, honesty,
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