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and civic interest that is a priceless gift to any citizen.
He was born in Searsport, Maine, May 26, 1873, a son of James H. and Amanda H. (Crockett) Kneeland. His father conducted a general store in Searsport, and was a farmer as well. He served in the Maine Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and was afterward elected to a seat in the State Legislature. Her- bert A. Kneeland was educated in the public schools of his native town and graduated from the high school, afterward attending Kent's Hill Seminary, and Shaw's Business College at Portland. He then came to Boston and went to work as a clerk, with the Standard Cordage Company, working for one season at the Sin- clair House, Bethlehem, New Hampshire. He entered the offices of John C. Paige & Com- pany as a clerk, and has risen to one of the senior members of this firm of insurance bro- kers and agents, with offices in Boston and New York City. He is a Mason, affiliated with Mount Lebanon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Boston. He also belongs to the Boston City Club, Algonquin Club, Norfolk Golf Club, Highland Club, Exchange Club, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Kneeland married, May 30, 1898, in Bos- ton, Annie F. Perry, of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Their only child is: Viola, a graduate of Wel- lesley College, 1920, with the Bachelor of Arts degree; and a past student of Columbia Uni- versity, which gave her the degree of Master of Arts. Subsequently she went to Boston University Law School, which gave her the degree of Bachelor of Laws. She is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts and Federal bars, and engaged in legal work with Blodgett, Jones, Burnham & Bingham, in Boston.
EDGAR STEWART HILL-Descendant of pioneer New England stock, a lover of nature, and a pomologist of wide reputation, are introductive of one of the prominent mem-
bers of the bar of Massachusetts, who has prac- ticed in Boston for many years-Edgar Ste- wart Hill. Promotion of public enterprises of great value to the people has long been one of the self-imposed duties of Mr. Hill, whose civic interests are second only to his devotion to the law and to his clients. In order to achieve results in public undertakings he has been active in local political affairs, and dur- ing the participation of the United States in the World War did much important work on committees of varying character. His general activities have redounded to his credit as a public-spirited citizen and have endeared him to the people with whom he has been for so many years in close association. No member of the local bar is more highly regarded, no citizen of this city more sound in his qualities of citizenship.
He was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, July 4, 1858, a son of Philemon E., who was a son of Major John Hill, a native of Charlton, and grandson of John Hill, who emigrated to New England from England and served in the War of the Revolution as an officer in the patriotic army. The mother of Edgar Stewart was Martha (McIntire) Hill, who died in Dudley, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy- four years. She and her husband were the parents of three children, the only survivor be- ing Edgar. He was educated in the local schools and then for the bar, to which he was admitted in Worcester County. For twelve years he served as postmaster of Webster, also was a member of the town council of Dud- ley, and moderator of that town. He served as delegate on State conventions and was ac- tive in the promotion of the Webster & Dud- ley Street Railway Company, the Worcester & Webster Street Railway Company, the Au- burn & Turner Street Railway Company in Maine, New Jersey Water and Light Company, and many other important civic projects. His legal training was at Boston University, where he also took special courses. He is a mem- ber of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, and for more than twenty years has made his
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home at the Parker House, in Boston. He now owns and operates several theatres in Massachusetts. His special recreation is look- ing after his fruit farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres at Dudley, Massachusetts, where he has established a bird sanctuary for native songsters and all other feathered crea- tures.
COLONEL EDWARD H. ELDREDGE-
In 1858 the real estate firm of James T. Eld- redge and Company was established in Boston, Massachusetts, and the business of this firm is being conducted today by Colonel Edward H. Eldredge, son of the man who inaugurated the business. The business has had a number of names during the years of its operation, and is now known as Eldredge & Keville. James T. Eldredge, the founder, died in 1889. He was the son of Oliver Eldredge, who fought in the War of 1812, and grandson of James Eldredge, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He mar- ried Ella S. Williams, and they were the par- ents of Edward H. Eldredge, of whom further.
Colonel Edward H. Eldredge was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, September 13, 1866. He was educated in the Latin School and the English High School of Boston, and immedi- ately after finishing his schooling, he went out to the State of Texas, where for two years he lived on a ranch and took active part in herd- ing and driving cattle. In 1887, he returned to Boston and entered the real estate business with his father, who was one of the pioneer realtors in this city. At the time of his father's death the firm became Sargent and Eldredge, and continued under that name until the death of Mr. Sargent, when the name was again changed and became Edward H. Eldredge and Company. In 1925, Colonel William Keville became a partner and up to this time (1928) has continued active in the business. This company deals in mortgages, and insurance,
and acts as trustee of estates. Colonel El- dredge is a director of the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange and was a director of the Boston Real Estate Exchange. He is a for- mer member of the Board of Appeals of the city of Boston, and has a record of interesting military duties in two wars. He was a major of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment during the Spanish-American War, and after the war he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of his reg- iment; during the World War he was made a colonel of the 15th Infantry, Massachusetts State Guard. Colonel Keville, his partner, was commanding officer of the 101st Ammuni- tion Train; he is a United States marshal, dis- trict of Massachusetts. Colonel Eldredge is a member of Winslow Lewis Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Boston; a member of the Sons of the Revolution; the Spanish War Vet- erans; a past commander of the Massachusetts Military and Naval Order, Spanish-American War; Somerset Club of Boston; Army and Navy Club of New York; Army and Navy Club of Boston; charter member of the Boston Ath- letic Club; Boston City Club, and a member of the First Unitarian Church.
In 1900, Colonel Edward H. Eldredge married Marchesa Cressida Paruzzi de Medici, of Flor- ence, Italy, daughter of Marchese Simone Paruzzi de Medici, master of ceremonies to King Humbert, and Edith Marion Story, daughter of W. W. Story, noted sculptor of Salem, Massachusetts, and of Rome, Italy, who was a son of Judge Story, the celebrated jurist. Colonel and Mrs. Eldredge have no children.
JOHN D. COWARD-Having served an apprenticeship of seven years in an English machine shop, John D. Coward came to Bos- ton in 1893, when he was twenty-five years of age. Well equipped with a trade, he applied his knowledge to invention and met with such success that his achievements were made use
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of in great volume. Giving his attention to the motor vehicle industry during its early days, he advanced with it, and today maintains a position of importance in that field, having been well and favorably known in this dis- trict for the last twenty years. He is a man of industrious nature, bearing a reputation for the highest integrity, with a comprehensive knowledge of the profession to which he has devoted his life.
He was born in Preston, Lancashire, Eng- land, in 1868, a son of John, a retired hair- dresser, still living at the age of eighty-six years, and Elizabeth (Downham) Coward. His scholastic education was acquired in the pub- lic schools of his native city, and his profes- sional training there in the machine shops of Howard & Bulloughs, where he remained for seven years. Coming to Boston in 1893, he went to Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts, where he went to work in the Petteo Machine Shops, now the Saco Lowell Shops, where he remained for nine years, being general fore- man during the last few years of his stay there. In 1903 he went to the De Laval Steam Turbine Company, of Trenton, New Jersey, as designer of tools and jigs. He designed machinery for determining distances run and speed attained by the earlier types of auto- mobiles, the instrument being manufactured by the Motor Supply Company, of Trenton, with its inventor in charge. He came to Boston in 1906 as New England agent for that concern and in 1908 gave it up and organized the Cow- ard Auto Supply Company, with himself as president and treasurer, dealing in auto sup- plies, radios and a general line of sporting goods. He attends the Copley Methodist Episcopal Church of Boston.
John D. Coward married, in Waban, Massa- chusetts, September 30, 1896, Minnie L. Locke, daughter of William B. and Ellen (Butter- worth) Locke. Their children are: 1. Mrs. Beulah Elizabeth (Coward) Bresee, born February 26, 1900. 2. John Vincent, born March 28, 1901, died in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1904.
JOHN J. CORNISH-Identified in suc- cessful measure with the insurance business of Boston, John J. Cornish, partner in the house of Field & Cowles, of No. 40 Broad Street, has made a conspicuous personal mark in the field of his labors.
He was born in Camden, New Jersey, March 31, 1871, and was brought to Massachusetts when an infant, his parents settling in Centre- ville, on Cape Cod. His father, John B. Cor- nish, was employed in the Custom House at Barnstable for twenty-five years, then removed to Newton, where he became associated with the Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Com- pany, with which he was identified until his death, in 1919. His mother, the wife of John B., was Amelia (Gregory) Cornish. Their son acquired his education in the public schools, and in a course of one year at Amherst College. He then became associated with A. M. Bullard, insurance broker, of Boston, where he worked as a clerk for two years, when he became special agent for the Home Insurance Company of New York, with Boston offices. This post he maintained for five years, when he took over the special agency of the Magdeberg Insurance Company, of Germany, continuing with it for four years. He then successively undertook the special agency of the Phoenix Insurance Com- pany of Hartford, Connecticut, which he held for twelve years, when he became a partner in the firm of Field & Cowles, of Boston. He is a member of the Masonic Order, affiliated with the Dalhousie Lodge, Newtonville; Newton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templar, of Newton. He also belongs to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Insurance Exchange, the Brae Burn Country Club, of Newton; the University Club, of Boston. He attends Trinity Church of Boston.
John J. Cornish married, July 15, 1895, in Fall River, Massachusetts, Maude B. Macom- ber, daughter of Charles E. Macomber. Their children are: 1. Dorothy, born April 13, 1904; educated at Bennett School, Millbrook, New
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York. 2. Priscilla, born December 11, 1905; graduate of Miss Winsor's School, of Boston. 3. John Gregory, born October 2, 1910; edu- cated at Middlesex School, Concord, and at Harvard University.
WILLIAM J. CONNELL-Growing up as a practical machinist, which trade he began to learn when he was but sixteen years of age, William J. Connell, of Boston and Braintree, Massachusetts, has in twenty-five years de- ·veloped a successful business in motor car ac- cessories and special parts and become one of the outstanding business men in his line in this district. He has done much for the community at large in the development of business prop- erty in Boston and proven himself a citizen of commanding worth, with a high reputation for integrity, industry, and fair dealing that is one of the secrets of his success.
William J. Connell was born in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, the son of Peter H. and Rosa (Her- ring) Connell, of Norwood, Massachusetts. His father was a machinist and was for years asso- ciated with Browne & Sharpe, of Providence, Rhode Island, and for twenty years with the United States Arsenal at Watertown, Massachu- setts. His death occurred in 1921, the interment being in Dedham. The son was educated in the public schools of Dedham and graduated from the grammar school, after which he went to work in the Fort Hill Square machine shops in Boston. He became associated with the Elastic Tip Company, of Boston, and after a year was sent on the road as a salesman, which occupa- tion he successfully pursued for six years, then transferred his allegiance to the Equitable Dis- tributing Company, of Boston, where he con- tinued as salesman for two years. In January, 1903, he established himself independently, opening an establishment at No. 36 Columbus Avenue, Boston, where he carried a line of
tire cases, spark plugs and other accessories. His business grew and he added to his list, gradually developing an extensive line of everything in the motor field; he now has four branch establishments in this district. He is president of the Connell & McKane Company, of Boston, and the owner of the Quincy Motor Company, of Braintree, Massachusetts. Aside from his work in his special field he has been active in building and other developments in business blocks. His recreations include hunt- ing, fishing, golf, and traveling. He is a mem- ber of the Boston Athletic Association, and the Cochato Club of Braintree. His church is the Congregational.
William J. Connell married, in Quincy, Massachusetts, November 8, 1900, Frances M. Whall, daughter of William H. H. Whall. Their children are: 1. Nattalie N., born No- vember 23, 1904. 2. Dorothy M., born August 20, 1907. 3. William J., Jr., born November 20, 1910.
GEORGE B. CHAPMAN-Beginning as a chemist for a rubber company and progressing through a number of promotions in the indus- trial world, George B. Chapman is now sales manager for the International Harvester Com- pany of America, with headquarters at Boston, Massachusetts. He is the son of Willis D. and Ella (Marriner) Chapman, of Akron, Ohio, where for many years his father, who is now retired, was a railroad builder and consulting engineer, specializing in electric and steam machinery; he was at one time city engineer of Akron.
George B. Chapman was born in Akron, Ohio, October 12, 1884. He attended the pub- lic school, and Akron High School, and from there went to the Akron University, from which he graduated in 1905, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, having majored in chem-
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istry. His first position was that of chemist with the Pennsylvania Rubber Company, at Jeannette, Pennsylvania, and he continued in that position for four years. He then went to Omaha, Nebraska, and was there until 1911 in a managerial position. In 1912 he accepted the position of district sales manager of the State of Illinois for the Federal Motor Truck Company, his territory extending to Wisconsin, Indiana, and part of Ohio, and in this he con- tinued until 1916. He was then transferred to Boston by the Federal Motor Truck Com- pany as adjuster, but later became manager of the Boston branch of that company, continu- ing with them until 1918, when he was made branch manager of the Garford Motor Truck Company, at Boston. He remained with this company until 1922, when he made connection with the International Harvester Company of America, with which company he is still asso- ciated. Mr. Chapman is a member of the Phi Delta Theta College Fraternity and the Com- monwealth Country Club. His hobby is golf and he frequently indulges in it.
George B. Chapman married, at Akron, Ohio, August 22, 1906, Elizabeth Griffing, daughter of Herbert and Ada (Johnson) Griffing. They have one child, George G., who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, September 16, 1908, grad- uated from the Brooklyn High School in 1925, and is now associated with his father in busi- ness.
FRANCIS JUGGINS-An able, thorough- going and conscientious attorney-at-law, throughout his active career in the courts of Boston for more than a quarter of a century, Francis Juggins has rendered a service to his profession that has been marked with that high degree of efficiency that is the result of ex- perience and native ability. Mr. Juggins is
respected and esteemed in his professional ac- tivities, and he has a patronage in practice that covers a wide range of legal interests.
Francis Juggins was born September 14, 1877, at Arlington, Massachusetts, a son of William Francis Juggins, who was born May 29, 1847, in The Bronx, New York, and now resides in Boston, and Annie (Bradhurst) Juggins, who was born October 14, 1847, in Digby, Nova Scotia. William Francis Juggins, who was in the employ of the Chickering Piano Manufacturing Company throughout his active career, was a foreman with that concern upon his retirement. He is a veteran of the Civil War, and took part in numerous engagements of the war, having also been under General Butler at Mobile; he served in the regular . army at the close of the war. William Fran- cis and Annie (Bradhurst) Juggins had four children: 1. A child that died in infancy. 2. Annie Elizabeth, who married Albert J. Camp- bell, of Boston. 3. Francis, of whom further. 4. George, who is engaged in the insurance business at Springfield, Massachusetts. The grandfather of these children emigrated from England to New York City, where he died.
Francis Juggins, upon the removal of his parents to Brookline when he was a child, at- tended the Sherwin Grammar School at Rox- bury in 1892, and was graduated at the English High School in Boston in 1896. Preparing for his profession at the Law School of Bos- ton University, he was graduated there in 1901, and has since continued in practice in Boston under his own name. A Republican in his political views, he was a candidate for the office of district attorney in 1918. Fraternally, Mr. Juggins is affiliated with the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows; the Free and Accepted Masons; the Sons of Veterans; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and his recrea- tions include golf and hunting of all kinds of game. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church at Winthrop.
Francis Juggins married, December 31, 1906, at Boston, Rubie Sophia Tracy, daughter of Daniel Tracy, deceased, and Sarah H. Tracy,
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also deceased. Their children: Francis Wil- liam, born October 30, 1907; Rubie Sarah, born February 8, 1913.
CHESTER I. CAMPBELL-Versatility is the word that best characterizes the work of Chester I. Campbell, of Boston, whose unique industry of organizing and conducting exposi- tions of all kinds has come to be favorably known from one end of the continent to the other. He has been an industrious and in- defatigable worker in this city and district for upward of thirty years, has brought pros- perity to his enterprises and has been selected for public office of honor and trust by an ad- miring electorate. A man of original ideas and comprehensive grasp of business detail, he has succeeded where others would have failed. Yet he has had time to indulge in some financial occupations, in numerous affili- ations and in sound political affairs, ever with the most sincere regard for the welfare of the community he has served.
He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, May 16, 1869, a son of Henry J. and Sarah (Salsteen) Campbell, the father having been in the mill supply business in Providence for many years, now deceased. Chester I. Camp- bell was educated in the Providence public schools and went to work as an office boy for the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency there, where he continued for seven years. He followed this by a clerkship in a bicycle house, an oc- cupation that lasted only until the motor car began to take a conspicuous place in industry. The Milwaukee steam automobile company established an office in Providence and Mr. Campbell became associated with that enter- prise. The development of the internal com- bustion engine soon relegated the steam car to oblivion, but not until the young man had become associated with the Mobile Company of America. He was sent by that concern to
Boston in 1901 to sell their steam cars, and it was during this period that he founded the idea upon which he has since been engaged. He had a large share in the development of the first automobile show ever held in Boston. This was successful and, in 1904, he resigned from his position in order to devote his entire time to the organization of expositions of all kinds. He makes his home in Quincy, Massa- chusetts. He is now (1928) serving as mem- ber of the Governor's Council. He is vice- president of the Quincy Trust Company, and in 1915 was elected mayor of the city. During the participation of the United States in the World War he served in Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia, as the director of the Bu- reau of Expositions. He is a thirty-second degree member of the Order of Free and Ac- cepted Masons, being affiliated with Wollas- ton Lodge; also with St. Stephen's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Wollaston Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Quincy Commandery, Knights Templar; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His other fraternal memberships
are in the Knights of Pythias, and the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows. He also belongs to the Boston City Club, the Engineers' Club, and the Chamber of Commerce. He attends the Wollaston Congregational Church.
He married, in Providence, Rhode Island, September 12, 1893, Alice L. Little, daughter of H. W. and Mary Little. They are the parents of the following children: 1. Mrs. Joseph Dixon (Campbell) White. 2. Mar- garet, a graduate of the House of Pines, Nor- ton, Massachusetts, and Columbia University, New York City. 3. Alice W., at college.
ARTHUR WILLIAM CLARK-Since 1916, Arthur William Clark has been identified with the Wayne Tank and Pump Company, and the eleven years of his connection with that
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concern have been years of rapid progress. Beginning as salesman, ability and close appli- cation brought substantial reward in the form of promotions, and at the present time (1929), he is manager for the New England district. Mr. Clark is active in local public affairs, and is well-known in fraternal and club circles.
Arthur William Clark was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1884, son of William M., who is engaged in the transportation business, and of Catherine (McNeil) Clark. His parents re- moved to Boston, when he was an infant two weeks old, and he received his education in the public schools of that city. When his school training was completed he found em- ployment in a retail grocery store with the idea of learning the business, but in 1910 he made a change and entered the employ of the Texas Company, with whom he remained as salesman until 1915. In 1916 he became iden- tified with the Wayne Tank and Pump Com- pany as salesman, and his connection with that concern has been continuous to the present time. At the end of a year he was made manager of the Boston office, and that promo- tion was but one of a series. In 1917 he was made district manager of Boston and New England. Two years later, in 1919, he was sent to Denver, Colorado, as Western manager, in 1921 to Toronto, Canada, as general man- ager, and in 1923 he was brought back to Bos- ton as general manager of the New England district, eventually becoming manager.
Mr. Clark gives his support to the principles and the candidates of the Republican party, and takes an active part in its affairs. He has served as a member of the Republican City Committee of Dorchester, and was treasurer of both the first and the second Curley cam- paigns. During the World War he served at various army bases as an expert on gas equip- ment, and he also served as one of the "four- minute" speakers. Fraternally, he is identified with Charity Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons; Dorchester Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons; Boston Commandery, Knights Templar; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Lodge No. 10, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks; the Massachusetts Re- serve Officers' Association; the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; and the Kiwanis Club, which he served as treasurer in 1925, vice- president in 1926, and president in 1927. His religious affiliation is with St. Luke's Church. His office is located at No. 154 Cambridge Street, Boston, and his home is at No. 4 Hammond Terrace, Allston, Massachusetts.
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