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Arthur William Clark was married, in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, in 1906, to Sadie J. Black, daughter of John E., who is employed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, and Margaret (McGugken) Black. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of six chil- dren: 1. Arthur G., born in 1907. 2. Dorothy Irene, born in 1912. 3. Willis J., born in 1915. 4. Mildred Jean, born in 1918. 5. Charles H., born in 1923. 6. Ernest E., born in 1926.
GEORGE MARSTON CUSHING-De-
scended from Matthew Cushing, who came in 1630 from England aboard the ship "Diligent" to the Colonies and settled at Hingham, George Marston Cushing was born at No. 49 Chest- nut Street, Boston, September 13, 1872, son of George Shattuck and Ellen (Baldwin) Cush- ing, his father having been a merchant for many years in Boston. He secured his pre- paratory instruction in Hopkinson's School, of Boston, matriculated in Harvard College, took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1894, and set about preparation for the profession of law. He took the degree of Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1897, at the age of twenty-four years, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar without delay. Since then, for more than thirty years, he has practiced continuously, specializing in real estate law, and
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trusts. He is one of Boston's foremost mem- bers of the profession of law.
Although Mr. Cushing has applied himself diligently to affairs of practice, he has interested himself diversely in matters of general con- cern to the people. From 1892 until 1895, he belonged to the Boston Corps of Cadets, and in 1898 served with Battery A, National Guard. He is active in the Harvard Club of Boston, Somerset Club, Massachusetts Auto Club, Brookline Country Club, and Norfolk Hunt Club, the Milton Club and Hoosic Whisick Club. In religious adherence he is a communicant of the Episcopal church, St. Michael's Parish, of Milton, where he has a fine country residence. At Milton he indulges his taste for country life, finding there pleasant relaxation from his obligations as barrister.
Mr. Cushing married, November 15, 1900, at No. 1929 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, Grace Littleton, daughter of William E. and Annie (Semple) Littleton, and their children are: 1. Alice Littleton, who was born November 29, 1901. 2. George Marston, Jr., born April 15, 1905. 3. Grace born July 27, 1906. 4. Ellen, born June 11, 1911. The family residence, in Milton, is at No. 483 Canton Avenue.
WILLIAM HERBERT SANGER-As an
old-time newspaper man who has made quite a success in political life, attaining the position of clerk of the Massachusetts Senate, which he has held forty years, William Herbert Sanger, of No. 6 Selkirk Road, Brighton, enjoys merited distinction. He started his career with a posi- tion on the Boston "Journal" while still at- tending high school at Hyde Park, then for eleven years served as a valued member of "The Journal" staff, and in 1889 was appointed assistant clerk of the Senate, which place, with advancement to clerk, he has occupied ever
since. As a journalist he was a special cor- respondent of the New York "Sun." He is popular in fraternal order circles and probably knows more public officials than any man in Massachusetts.
William Herbert Sanger was born at Louis- ville, Kentucky, in 1862, while the Civil War was at its height, and during a sojourn there of his parents, Charles Kittredge Sanger and Eliza Ann (Bullard) Sanger. His father, a mine superintendent, was identified with Tem- pleton, Massachusetts; he removed to Kentucky for a time, but at the close of the Civil War returned to this State and settled at Jamaica Plain; his mother was of Franklin, this State. Mr. Sanger attended the Jamaica Plain gram- mar schools, after which he entered the Hyde Park High School, which institution he finished in 1880. As early as 1878 his talent as a writer asserted itself, for he was engaged as a reporter on the "Journal" as early as 1878, and thus worked two years while finishing his high school education. Until 1889 he labored with his pen, shears and paste, during part of which time he represented the old New York "Sun," that journalistic marvel of sacred mem- ory, destroyed by modern combinationists, as Boston correspondent. Henry D. Coolidge ap- pointed him assistant clerk of the Senate in 1889, and he continued in this position until 1922, when the death of Mr. Coolidge left a vacancy in the clerkship, and he was promoted to the vacancy. He had filled this position a's a Republican, but, be it said, in complete satisfaction to the Democrats as well as the members of his own party.
Mr. Sanger is Past Master of Faith Lodge Free and Accepted Masons; member of St. An- drew's Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Boston Commandery, Knights Templar; Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and Past Monarch of Omar Grotto. He is a member of the Colonial Club of Dorchester, past director of the "Square and Compass" Club, Boston Press Club; and member of the Wellington Hills Golf Club. In religious circles he is a member of the Mt. Vernon Congregational Church.
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Mr. Sanger married, at Hyde Park, in 1887, Ellen Sands Bridgman, daughter of Joseph C. and Anna (Bliss) Bridgman, her father hav- ing been in the publishing business and both parents members of an old New England family. Mrs. Sanger died in November, 1926. Their union was blessed with five children: 1. Mar- guerite, a teacher. 2. Major Donald B., of the United States Army, on general staff duty at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, married (first) Vivian Nolen, who died in 1924; and they had a daughter: Vivian Grace; Major Sanger married (second) Margaret Miller. 3. Dorothy, a teacher. 4. Alan B., mining engineer, married Margaret Wilde, and they have two daughters: Barbara and Marcia. 5. Helen Sanger, deceased.
EVERETT BYRON HORN-Twenty-three years of legal practice in Boston have placed Everett Byron Horn among the well known and successful attorneys of this city. His offices are located at Barristers' Hall, in Boston, and as the years have passed he has built up a very large and important practice.
Edwin Bartholomew Horn, father of Mr. Horn, was born in Boston, November 25, 1845, son of Edwin Bartholomew Horn, who founded, in 1839, the jewelry business on Washington Street, which is now (1928) conducted by Fred- erick A. Horn, grandson of the founder. He succeeded to the jewelry business founded by his father and continued to operate it to the time of his death, which occurred April 13, 1901. He married Florence Hannah Towle, who was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, March 29, 1848 (a descendant of Philip Towle, born in 1616, died in 1696, who came to this country from England in 1657), and they became the parents of five children, of whom four are now living (1928): Mrs. Lillian H. Codman, Fred-
erick A., who is conducting the jewelry business at. No. 429 Washington Street, founded by his grandfather and later operated by his father; Mrs. Frances H. Morgan, who is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and Everett Byron, of further mention. All these are, on the paternal side, descendants of John Horn, born in England in 1603, who came to New England in 1630.
Everett Byron Horn was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 24, 1881. After graduation from the Boston Latin School with the class of 1898, he matriculated in Harvard College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in 1901. He then began his professional preparation in Harvard Law School, where he finished his course, grad- uating with the class of 1905 and receiving at that time the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar that same year, and since that time has been continuously engaged in general practice. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association, also of the American Bar Association, and has for many years been recognized as an able attorney, a man of keen perception and of more than average ability. He is a member of the Harvard Club and of the Bostonian Society, and in the town in which he resides is active in local affairs, being a member of the Newton Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Union church, of Waban. As a professional man and as a citizen he is highly esteemed among his associates, and both in Waban and in Boston, also in Hyannisport, where his summer home is located, he has a host of friends. His chief recreations are found in clearing timber from the wooded acres of his summer home, at Hyannisport, on the Cape, and in fishing.
Everett Byron Horn was married, in Boston, October 6, 1926, to Ella F. Doody, daughter of Edward F. and Ellen (McAuliffe) Doody, residents of Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Horn have two children: 1. Everett B., Jr., born August 18, 1927. 2. Frederick A., born September 10, 1928. The family home in Waban is located at No. 1746 Beacon Street.
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GEORGE HARRISON WYMAN-En-
gaged in both the practice of law and finance in Boston, George Harrison Wyman is one of the successful exponents of his profession at the bar of Massachusetts, as well as finan- cial administrator of ability. His work has been carried on in this city for thirty years, during which he has come to be appreciated for his application of practical experience, coupled with a thorough preparation prior to his admission to practice in this State. His offices, at No. 73 Tremont Street, in this city, illustrate, by the clientele that visits them, the popularity he has attained as a legal ad- viser and practitioner.
He was born in Skowhegan, Maine, August 19, 1873, a son of George and Mary (Cleve- land) Wyman. George Wyman was also a native of Skowhegan, but came to Boston when a young man. He was associated with the Boston Elevated Railway for twenty-odd years and died in this city in 1922 at the age of seventy-seven years. Mrs. Wyman is a native of Somerset, Massachusetts, and is living, the mother of seven children, all of whom are living. Those besides George are: Joseph G., Edward, Margaret, Eva, Mabel A., and Wilbur F.
The education of George H. Wyman was acquired in the public schools of Skowhegan, where he remained until he was sixteen years of age, when his family moved to Hyde Park, Massachusetts, where he entered and finished the course in its high school, graduating in 1891. For the following four years he was engaged with his father in the retail milk business, which he abandoned in order to take the law course at the Boston University. He was graduated from this institution, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1898, and was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in the same year. He then established himself in prac- tice and soon became associated with Frank L. Brier of Boston, as Wyman and Brier, and later became treasurer of the Trimount Co- operative Bank, a position which he still ad- ministers. He maintains his residence in Dorchester, where he is a ward committeeman
and belongs to the Order of Free and Accepted Masons. His church is the Congregational.
George Harrison Wyman married, in Man- chester, Vermont, July 14, 1900, Grace M. Hubbard, of that city, daughter of William H. and Angelina (Johnson) Hubbard, both de- ceased.
FREDERICK ARTHUR THAYER- Every generation brings to the profession of law increased numbers of barristers; and since the turn of the century, it is said, the legal plane of training has become more elevated. Certain it is that in Boston the profession of law contains figures of admirable talent, and one of these, whose period of practice has been comparatively brief but whose progress has been in excess of the years compassed, is Fred- erick Arthur Thayer. Mr. Thayer has his of- fices at No. 11 Beacon Street, Boston, and makes his residence at Cohasset, where he resides on Pleasant Street.
The family of which Frederick Arthur Thayer is a member has behind it a long and honorable history. It is one of the oldest in the United States, the progenitor having come to the Colonies from England. This founder of the house in America was A. Thayer. His descendants were many, and today undoubtedly number in the hundreds, throughout the United States, though in New England the family has always been well rep- resented. Two uncles of Frederick Arthur Thayer, it may be noted, fought under North- ern colors in the Civil War, one of them, Ansel Thayer, having met his death at the battle of Antietam. His father, Arthur Henry Thayer, was born at Braintree, and died at Cohasset, in September, 1909, at the age of fifty-two years. Arthur Henry Thayer was for an extended period engaged in business as operator in provisions and groceries. His market, which was established by Frederick
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Arthur Thayer's grandfather, William Franklin Thayer, was known as the Cohasset Market. William Franklin Thayer lived to the age of one hundred and two years. He was the first in Cohasset to volunteer for military service at the time of the Civil War. Frederick Arthur Thayer's mother, Leora Imogene (Young) Thayer, is a native of Boston, and continues to make her home at Cohasset. In the family were three children: 1. Frederick Arthur, of whom follows. 2. Hazel I., wife of George F. Purrington, of Winchester. 3. Rosilla W., wife of Lloyd C. Trott, of Cohasset.
Frederick Arthur Thayer, eldest child and only son of Arthur Henry and Leora Imogene (Young) Thayer, was born June 13, 1894, at the family seat in Cohasset. He took his elementary academic instruction in Osgood Grammar School, which course he completed in 1908, and graduated, 1912, from high school, after which he matriculated in Tilton Seminary, there studied one year, and became a student in Northeastern Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1920, at the age of twenty-four years. Later he took further legal work in Boston Univer- sity Law School, and also completed the re- quirements for a Master's degree. Admitted to the bar in 1921, he began in the practice of his profession without delay, and has built up an extensive clientele. He is counted among the most able and progressive lawyers of Boston.
While the course of his professional activi- ties have claimed the major share of Mr. Thayer's endeavor, he has not failed to in- terest himself in general affairs as they per- tain to Boston and the community of Cohas- set. In the latter he is at present town counsel, having served in that capacity since 1925. For many years he was active in athle- tics, and became a semi-professional at base- ball, still being much interested in the game. He is fond, also, of boating, and, owner of a craft, has taken a number of cruises along the coast of Massachusetts, to Nantucket, and Bar Harbor. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, and is a mem-
ber of the Algonquin (bowling) Club of Hing- ham, and the Bridge Whist Club. He is a communicant of St.
Stephen's Episcopal Church, Cohasset. Mr. Thayer is unmarried (1928).
WARD FLOWERS PORTER-The fam- ily of the surname Porter is among the oldest in the United States, and its members have attained to prominence in diverse walks of life. Its progenitor in America came from England and settled in Connecticut prior to the Revolution. From him are descended several hundred of the name, and they are scattered throughout the United States, though New England has continued to be the principal seat through the years to the present time (1929).
Daniel Rupert Porter is directly descended from the Porter above mentioned, is the father of Ward Flowers Porter, and now, at the age of eighty-six years, makes his home in retirement at Everett. For a number of years he was in trade as a blacksmith and wheel- wright. Of an inventive talent, he also per- fected several devices of mechanical im- portance, and became a manufacturer of car- riages at Revere and Chelsea, on a large scale. Since his retirement he has contributed lib- erally to the general welfare of Everett, and is accounted one of the best-known and beloved citizens of that community. Daniel Rupurt Por- ter married Emma Jane Peach, who died in Ev- erett, at the age of seventy-nine years. To them were born eleven children, of whom seven survive: 1. Ernest R., of Everett. 2. Mary E., wife of Thomas Hyndman, of Bos- ton. 3. Henry P., of Malden. 4. Forrest E., of Watertown. 5. Ward Flowers, of whom further. 6. Archibald G., of Pepperell. 7. Mrs. Bertha S. Wells, of Everett.
Ward Flowers Porter, fifth child and fourth son of Daniel Rupert and Emma Jane (Peach)
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Porter, was born in Cambridge, November 10, 1877. When he was six years old the family re- moved from that community, and he secured his early academic instruction in Chelsea and in Winchester, completing classes in Wadleigh Grammar School of the latter community in 1893. Thereafter, he attended the evening school conducted by the Boston Young Men's Chris- tian Association. This continued through a number of years, and in 1902 Mr. Porter en- tered Boston University Law School, from which he graduated with cum laude honors in 1905, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, meanwhile, 1904, having been admitted to the bar of Massachusetts. He has engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. In 1910, he was admitted to practice in the Federal Court; in 1915, to the United States Circuit Court of Nebraska; and during the period of America's participation in the World War served as government appeals agent. He further served the common cause of our coun- try at that time in the campaigns of the Lib- erty Loan, War Savings Stamps, and Red Cross, assisting also in the charges of com- mittees and boards of war work wherever pos- sible. His offices at law are located at No. 6 Beacon Street, Boston; his residence, No. 85 Rockland Avenue, in Malden. In 1917, he be- came a member of the city government of Mal- den. He is a member of the Boston City Club, the Deliberative Assembly of Malden, and a communicant of the Center Methodist Episco- pal Church, of Malden. In business pursuits he is rather active, being a director of the Ox- ford Print, also T. J. Edwards, Incorporated, of Boston, and having other financial connec- tions not here cited. His relaxations are two -- politics and farming. For years he has been a close student of the national political situa- tions, and at Sandown, New Hampshire, has a farm, where he spends the summer periods whenever possible.
Ward Flowers Porter married, at Malden, September 17, 1912, Alberta French Hall, native of Chelsea, daughter of John Calvin and Lu- cina D. (Frost) Hall, both of whom are de-
ceased, Mrs. Hall having died in 1922. Of this union were born three children: 1. Richard Hall, who died at the age of nine years and four months. 2. Ward Flowers, Jr., born June 11, 1917. 3. Edward Chandler, born April 11, 1921.
GEORGE W. SWEET-Still less than fifty years of age, George W. Sweet, of Boston, has been actively engaged for nearly thirty years in the automobile business, beginning with the old electric trucks and, advancing with every advance of the industry, today holding the commanding position of president of the Studebaker Automobile Company here, dis- tributors of that vehicle for all New England. Aside from his business abilities he is an enterprising citizen of the Commonwealth in which he now abides, interested in all civic matters of importance and allied with fra- ternal organizations that bring him into pleas- ant contact with a host of fellow-members and a growing clientele. Elsewhere than in Bos- ton he has held public elective office of honor and trust and has a good military record of World War service. His sound citizenship is unquestioned, his genial personality and conduct of his business affairs meeting the approbation of all with whom he has been associated, a decided addition of value to the community in commercial and social circles.
He was born in Owego, Tioga County, New York State, October 30, 1882, a son of John R., a shoe manufacturer, deceased, and Anna (Carter) Sweet. He was educated in the public schools of Owego, graduating from higlı school, and at the age of twenty years en- tered the service in Owego of the Champion Wagon Company, manufacturers of electric trucks. As a mechanical engineer he remained at that post for twelve years, becoming general manager of the company. For reasons of his own he resigned this position in 1914, went
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to New York City and there organized the Union Truck Company, of which he was the head until April, 1917, when the United States entered the World War and he enlisted in the artillery division. He was transferred to the Ordnance Department, in which he rose, successively, to lieutenant and captain, being honorably discharged with the last-named rank, November, 1918. He then returned to the auto- mobile business in association with the Stude- baker Corporation at South Bend, Indiana, where he became sales manager and finally reached his present position with the corpo- ration. While living in Owego, he was elected city treasurer and councilman, and served as a member of the New York State Republican Committee. His church is the Trinity Protest- ant Episcopal, of Newton. He is a member of the Masonic Order, affiliated with Friend- ship Lodge, No. 153, of Owego, and New Jerusalem Chapter, Royal Arch Mason's; and he is also a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Owego.
Mr. Sweet married, in Owego, New York, June 20, 1905, Florence B. Steele, daughter of Aaron and Anna (Camp) Steele. They are the parents of Polly, born in Owego, New York, October 5, 1912, now attending school in Brookline, Massachusetts.
GERALD M. SULLIVAN-Unusual activ- ity has marked the comparatively brief business career of Gerald M. Sullivan, of Boston, who, since 1925, has been vice-president and gen- eral sales manager here of the Studebaker Automobile Sales Company, with offices and salesrooms at No. 900 Commonwealth Avenue. Beginning his work in the invigorating at- mosphere and sparkling sunshine of Southern California, he immediately showed an ability that earned for him the admiration of com- petitors and employers and brought to his house a valuable clientele. Recognition of
this brought about his promotion, eventually bringing him to this city, where he has made. himself a substantial place in the field which he selected for his labors. He is ever an earnest worker, with a clean-cut code of busi- ness ethics that appeals to all, is possessed of an attractive personality and a keen in- terest in civic and commercial affairs, all of which make him a citizen of commanding value to the community.
He was born in Sedalia, Missouri, October 9, 1890, a son of John and Mary Ann (Fitz- gerald) Sullivan, both deceased and buried at Hollywood, California. His father was a railroad man and had worked his way up- ward in the service of the Missouri, Kansas . & Texas Railroad from water boy to chief dispatcher. His own father, John Sullivan, was killed in action in Northern Missouri dur- ing the Civil War while serving in the Union Army. Gerald M. acquired his education in the public schools of Denison, Texas, where his family made their home during the railroad work of the father, and was graduated from high school. He then matriculated at the Uni- versity of Southern California and entered the law department but did not finish the course. In 1916 he became associated with the Stude- baker Corporation of Los Angeles, of which Paul G. Hoffman was the head, as a salesman. He was successful and remained there until 1925, the last year functioning as retail as- sistant sales manager, then coming to Boston in the same interests, his position here having been related in the foregoing. His work in California was briefly interrupted when the United States entered the World War. He enlisted in the army, July 3, 1917, was as- signed to the Field Artillery and transferred in December to the Aviation Corps. He was trained for active service at Berkeley, Cali- fornia, and at Mather Field, Sacramento, qualifying but never being sent overseas. He was honorably discharged, as a flying cadet, November 30, 1918. He is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, the Boston City Club, Woodland Golf Club, the Chamber
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of Commerce, and the Boston Automobile Association. He is also a member of Nor- umbega Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Newtonville. He attends religious services, but subscribes to no particular creed.
Gerald M. Sullivan married, at Hollywood, California, July 21, 1917, Gussie M. Crow, of St. Louis, Missouri, daughter of Edward C., formerly attorney-general of the State of Mis- souri, and Gussie (Hanna) Crow. They are the parents of the following children: 1. Gerald M., Jr., born at San Diego, California, May 21, 1918. 2. Mary Ann, born August 3, 1921. Both are attending school in Waban, Massa- chusetts.
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