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dition. In his professional connection, he is a member of the Boston Chamber of Com- merce, the Insurance Society of Massachusetts, and the New England Insurance Exchange, of which he has served as vice-president. In politics, he is a follower of the principles of the Republican party. His fraternal affilia- tions, in which he takes such a prominent part, are with the St. Paul and Dorchester Lodges, Free and Accepted Masons; the St. Andrew's Chapter; Boston Council; St. Omar Comman- dery; Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and all bodies of the Scottish Rite, including Boston Con- sistory. In financial activities of the city, he is prominent as a trustee of the Dorchester Savings Bank. During the recent World War, he served in the Dorchester Military Training School as adjutant.
Walter Adlard married (first), in 1886, Charlotte M. Geezer, born in Brooklyn, who died, 1925. To this union were born six chil- dren: 1. Florence May, married Robert R. Clark, who is now United States manager for the Caledonia Insurance Company of Scotland, and also United States manager for the Cale- donia American Insurance Company. 2. Le- Roy V., served in the World War as first cor- netist in the 71st Coast Artillery Corps Band, and overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces. He is now associated with the Equi- table Life Insurance Company. 3. George W., served in the United States Navy during the World War as a machinist of the first class, and he is now connected with the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, in their Boston agency. 4. Edward Livingston, now with the Massachusetts Fire and Marine In- surance Company in the clerical department. 5. Frederick L., a student at Norwich Univer- sity. 6. Adele Charlotte, a student in the junior class at Wheaton College.
Mr. Adlard married (second) Mabel F. War- ren, who was born in Salem. He finds his greatest pleasure in family life, and with his family is an attendant at the Congregational church.
ERNEST H. EVANS-Though a native of England, Ernest H. Evans has been a resi- dent of this country since 1904, a period of twenty-five years. During that time he has been engaged in several different lines of busi- ness in many different localities, from New York State to sunny Florida. He has worked in a lumber camp, has served as clerk and as manager of several different hotels, including the old Gralynn Hotel at Miama, Florida, has been cashier and accountant for a nationally known manufacturing concern, in which last connection he was transferred from Norfolk, Virginia, to New York City. Then the auto- mobile business claimed him. For the past twelve years he has been associated with the C. E. Fay Company of Boston, Chrysler deal- ers, covering the New England district, and of this well-known concern he is treasurer, and a member of its board of directors.
Ernest H. Evans was born in Tottenham, England, May 2, 1885, son of Alexander Reid and Isabella (Dyer) Evans. His father, who died and is buried in Lewisham, England, was for many years district manager for the Sir Thomas de la Rue concern, manufacturers of government stationery and stamps for the im- perial government, but the family in general is military one. After completing his course in the public schools of England, Mr. Evans remained in his native land only a short time. At the age of seventeen years he came to Can- ada, where for about a year and a half he worked on a farm. In 1904 he removed to Standish, New York, and went to work in a lumber camp. This lasted for only a few months, at the end of which time the young man decided that he could find better and more congenial employment elsewhere. He moved to Saranac Lake, New York, and there secured a position in Riçe's Lake Clear Hotel, first as clerk, and later as manager. About two years later he again moved on to other regions, making the usual jump from the hotel busi- ness in the North to the same line of activity in the South, thus rounding out the year with two seasons. He went to Miami, Florida, as
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clerk in the old Gralynn Hotel, where he served for one season. In 1906 he entered the em- ploy of the National Biscuit Company, at Jacksonville, Florida, as cashier and account- ant, and so well did he handle this job and others that were later assigned to him that he was finally made manager of the company's branch establishment at Spartanburg, South Carolina. After some time he was transferred to New York City as special accountant in the New York office of the company, and there he remained until 1913, when he came to Bos- ton and associated himself with C. E. Fay as New England branch manager for the Ford Motor Company. He was made assistant man- ager in 1916, and in 1917, when Mr. Fay took over the Maxwell automobile interests, Mr. Evans was made treasurer of the concern. The Maxwell automobile later became known as the Chrysler of today. The company holds the agency for the New England district, and is selling a vast number of this popular high- grade motor car.
Mr. Evans is a member of the Boston Cham- ber of Commerce, the Newton Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Automobile Club, and the Needham and Vesper Country clubs. Po- litically, he supports the principles of the Re- publican party, and is a member of the Mid- dlesex Republican Club. While in Canada he served a term of enlistment in the Scottish Light Dragoons, better known as Lord Dun- donald's Regiment. He has always been in- terested in the public affairs of his adopted land, though he has never been a seeker for public office. He is a member of the Masonic Order, holding membership in two lodges, the Joseph Webb Lodge, of Boston, and Victory Lodge, of Watertown, Massachusetts. He has attained the thirty-second degree in this body, and is a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and also of Omar Grotto. His religious affili- ation is with the Episcopal church.
On February 20, 1908, Ernest H. Evans married Stella M. Mulligan, of Bloomingdale, New York, a daughter of John P. and Sally A.
(Bryant) Mulligan, and they were the parents of two children: Isabella Stella, born Decem- ber 11, 1908; graduated from Watertown High School, class of 1927, and is now attending Boston University; and John Alexander, born December 11, 1912, died October, 1914. Mr. Evans married (second), October 7, 1926, Dorothy Lela Thorne, of Somerville, Massa- chusetts, daughter of Frank J. and Mary A. (Wheeler) Thorne. The family home is at No. 17 Halcyon Road, Newton Center, Massa- chusetts.
LAURENCE S. SHAW-The leather busi- ness claims men of pronounced ability and business acumen, and it is true that very many of the most successful leather men of Boston have been associated with some phase of this important industry from the time they left school. Laurence S. Shaw, who is a partner of the Carman Leather Company, associated himself with a well-known shoe company here immediately after leaving high school, and then, a year later, entered the employ of the Donnell, Carman and Mudge Leather Com- pany, of Boston, with whom he gained the. greater part of his experience. Since 1926, he has been a partner in the Carman Leather Company, which he helped to organize, with offices at No. 34 South Street, here in Boston .. Mr. Shaw served in the Aviation Department of the navy during the World War.
Laurence S. Shaw was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, August 25, 1898, son of Wye Shaw, a native of England, who came to this country and is engaged as a bookkeeper, and of Jennie H. (Robbins) Shaw, a native of Deer Isle, Maine, both of whom are living (1928). He attended the public schools of Watertown, including the high school, and then began his active career in the employ of the Rice and:
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Hutchins Shoe Company, with whom he re- mained for a year. He then severed that con- nection and identified himself with the Donnell, Carman and Mudge Leather Company, with whom he remained for a period of ten years, making himself familiar with many depart- ments of the business and giving to those with whom he was associated the best of service. In 1926, he and Eugene Moore Carman decided to organize a new company and established what is now known as the Carman Leather Company, with Mr. Carman, a sketch of whose life follows this, as president. Both men are experienced in the leather business, and their offices at No. 34 South Street are well known to the trade. As a business man Mr. Shaw is well known and well liked, and he has made many friends both among his business associ- ates and among those with whom he comes in contact through civic, social, and religious affili- ations. After the United States entered the World War Mr. Shaw enlisted in the navy and was assigned to the department of Naval Avi- ation. He is a Republican in his political sym- pathies, is a member of the Masonic Order, and is interested in the general welfare of the community in which he lives. His favorite form of recreation is the one he finds on the golf links, and he is one of the enthusiastic members of the Albemarle Golf Club. His religious interest is with the Congregational church.
Laurence S. Shaw was married, in 1924, to Susan May Jefford, who was born in Needham, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of one child, Janet.
EUGENE MOORE CARMAN-One of the many successful leather men who have been identified with that field of activity since boy- hood, Eugene Moore Carman is one of the prominent and notably active representatives. Beginning his active career in the leather tan-
ning business at the age of fifteen years, he was a partner in a business of his own at the age of eighteen, a president at the head of a large concern before he was thirty-five, and since 1926 he has been; the efficient chief ex- ecutive of the Carman Leather Company, with offices at No. 34 South Street, in Boston. Mr. Carman is prominent in many and varied lines of business, civic and charitable enterprises, and represented the Tanners' Council of Amer- ica in the organization of the International Chamber of Commerce in 1920. Both in Som- erville, where he makes his home, and in Bos- ton, where his business is located, Mr. Car- man is progressive and helpful in all forward- looking projects.
Willard Burton Carman, father of Mr. Car- man, was born at Highgate Springs, Vermont, about 1846, and died in Stockville, Nebraska, December 24, 1893, at the age of forty-seven years. With his wife and family he removed from Stockville to Denver, Colorado, where he owned a cattle ranch, but two years later he returned to Stockville, where his death oc- curred, December 24, 1893. After his death his widow removed with her family to Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, where the boy, Eugene Moore Carman, received his education. Willard Burton Carman married Minnie E. Baker, who was born in Phillipsburg, Canada, March 12, 1850, two miles north of the Vermont line, and died at Somerville, Massachusetts, October 4, 1920, aged seventy years. They were the par- ents of eight children, of whom four are liv- ing: Rev. Merrill B., of Fullerton, Nebraska; Mrs. Martha B. Gilbert, of Needham, Massa- chusetts; Arnold B., of Farnam, Nebraska; and Eugene Moore, of further mention.
Eugene Moore Carman, son of Willard Burton and Minnie E. (Baker) Carman, was born in Stockville, Nebraska, December 24, 1886. When he was five years of age his par- ents removed from Stockville, Nebraska, to Denver, Colorado, and two years later they returned to Stockville. After the death of the father, the mother took her little family to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Eugene en-
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tered the Morse Grammar School, from which he was graduated with the class of 1901. He then continued his studies in the English High School, but when he was fifteen years of age he left school and began his active connection with the leather trade by securing a position with a local tanning concern, with whom he remained for a period of three years. At the end of that time he started a business of his own, in partnership with Robert N. Gilbert, under the firm name of Gilbert and Carman. Later this concern developed into the prosper- ous concern known as that of E. M. Carman and Company. In 1916 Mr. Carman was made president of Donnell, Carman and Mudge, In- corporated, and in 1926 he organized the Car- man Leather Company, with offices at No. 34 South Street, Boston, of which enterprise he is senior partner: In addition to his responsi- bilities in this connection, Mr. Carman is also president of the Carman-Gotham Leather Company, Incorporated, of New York City, and of the Carman and Flynn Tanning Com- pany, Limited, of Montreal, Canada. He has been active in banking operations and was one of the organizers and a director of the High- land Trust Company and of the Haymarket National Bank of Boston.
As a citizen, Mr. Carman is always ready to share in the bearing of the burdens of public office, and in 1913 and 1914 he was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen of the city of Somerville. In 1918 and 1919 he was elected alderman-at-large, and he has been chairman of the licensing commission of Somerville since 1920. In philanthropic and charitable activi- ties Mr. Carman has long been a leader. He is a trustee of the Medford State Hospital, having been appointed to that official position by Governor Channing H. Cox in 1922, and in 1920 and 1921 he served as president of the Associated Charities of Somerville, which or- ganization he is now (1929) serving as hon- orary vice-president. He was formerly a di- rector of the Somerville Young Men's Chris- tian Association, and for some years has been a trustee of the Somerville Hospital. In 1920
he went to Paris, France, as a delegate to the meeting called to form the International Cham- ber of Commerce, representing the Tanners' Council of America. For a year he served as president of the Advisory Council of the Sal- vation Army. Even these numerous official responsibilities do not represent the entire field of Mr. Carman's many-sided interests and ac- tivities. For several years he was president of the Somerville Press, Incorporated, and he is also a member of the West Somerville Civic Association and of the Winter Hill Improve- ment Association, also of the Somerville Fourth of July Association, and is a trustee of the College Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Somerville. Hs is a member of the Clarendon Club of Somerville, which he served as president in 1918, and of the Central Club, also of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Fraternally, he is identi- fied with the Free and Accepted Masons, and with the Order of the Eastern Star; the Knights of Pythias; Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Daughters of Rebekah; also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Eugene Moore Carman was married, at Bev- erly, Massachusetts, in 1908, to Susie B. Dins- more, and they have two children: 1. Erma M., born March 26, 1909. 2. Virginia J., born December 27, 1917. The family home is located at No. 102 College Avenue, West Somerville.
LOUIS JABLON, in legal practice since 1924, is one of the prominent attorneys of his generation in the city of Boston. Active pro- fessionally, he is also a well-known figure in general affairs, and supports all projects di- rected toward the benefit of the city.
Morris Jablon, father of Louis Jablon, was born in Odessa, Russia, and came to the United
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States, taking residence in Chelsea, Massa- chusetts, soon after his arrival. There he died, September 11, 1927. He was in the wholesale furniture business, and succeeded at it with good fortune. He married Betty Malz, like himself a native of Odessa, who died, in Chel- sea, November 17, 1926. They were the par- ents of seven children, of whom the following survive: 1. Lillian, wife of Perry Swartz. 2. Etta, unmarried. 3. Minnie, unmarried also. 4. Arthur. 5. Louis, of whom we write.
Louis Jablon was born in Chelsea, Novem- ber 19, 1902. He took his elementary academic work in Shurtliff Grammar School, where he completed his studies in 1916, and was presi- dent of the last class ever to graduate from this venerable school in Chelsea. In 1920 he grad- uated from Chelsea High School, and in 1923 took the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Boston University Law School. Admitted to the bar in 1924, he has been engaged in prac- tice through the years succeeding until the present time (1928), now having offices at No. 20 Pemberton Square, Boston. His clientele, large, increases steadily, and the nature of cases handled tends to become more important. For two years Mr. Jablon was with Maurice Caro, assistant district attorney of Suffolk County. For Mr. Caro he helped to campaign for Republican votes, and had charge of dis- tricts adjacent to Boston, 1925.
While in high school, in Chelsea, Mr. Jab- lon evinced great interest in theatricals, and made some reputation on the stage in several varieties of entertainment. He was regarded of unusual talent in this direction, and even to- day maintains his interest in dramatics, which he makes a hobby. He is a member of the Chelsea-Revere Bar Association. He is fra- ternally affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Chelsea Lodge of the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, Boston City Club, Young Men's Hebrew Association, and the Woolsack, which last is a legal fraternity, and which is to the law schools what Phi Beta Kappa is to the academic schools. He held the office of class prophet by unanimous choice.
FRANCIS L. MCNULTY was born in Everett, November 29, 1892, son of Thomas and Mary (Morgan) McNulty. The elder Mr. McNulty is now living in retirement after many years of activity as an engineer. After completing the courses in the public schools of Everett, Francis L. McNulty took advanced studies in the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion in Boston. His first work was as office boy for Pinkham and Smith, one of the oldest dealers in photographic supplies in Boston, and he later became an office assistant for them. This concern was taken over by the Eastman Kodak Company many years ago, and is the Boston branch from which their products are distributed to the larger part of the New Eng- land territory. Young Mr. McNulty was given an opportunity to show what he could do as a salesman for them in the Metropolitan District, and so well did he acquit himself that he was transferred to their Chicago branch. He was then only twenty-two years of age-one of the youngest salesmen that company ever put out on the road. He was still in that position when the World War broke out, and when the United States went into it, he enlisted. After the war he became associated with the New England branch of the Willys-Overland Com- pany as salesman. This was going from one highly technical line to another, but as differ- ent as chalk and cheese. Mr. McNulty was successful in the new position from the very beginning, however; showing that it is not so much the goods as the man and the manner of handling them that counts. It was not long before he was made supervisor of sales activi- ties and also sales promoter and given charge of various sales schools for that company. Finally, he was made manager of retail distri- bution in Boston and the Metropolitan Dis- trict; that was in 1927.
Mr. McNulty is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. He claims that what progress he has made has been accomplished by perspiration rather than by inspiration, and this concentration of time, thought and energy has left him little opportunity for the fraternal
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and social affiliations toward which his natural instincts would attract him.
In Medford, on April 17, 1916, Françis L. McNulty married Gwendolyn Caldwell, daugh- ter of Charles and Ella (Salter) Caldwell. Rob- ert, the only child from this union, was born on May 29, 1918.
CHARLES CALVIN BUCKNAM-The family background of the American family of Bucknam, of which Charles Calvin Bucknam, leading Boston attorney, is a well-known mem- ber, has as its original ancestor William Buck- nam, who came from Ipswich, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, prior to 1632, removing to Rumney Marsh (now Chelsea) in that year. He founded the line which has been prolific and also productive of many descendants who have figured in the professions and other endeavors. Asa Bucknam, father of Charles C., was born in Falmouth, Maine, in 1819, and died in East- port, Maine, in September, 1878. He was a well-known ship chandler and merchant at Eastport, and at one period of his life a mem- ber of the Maine Legislature. He married Lucy Ann Mayhew Davis, born in Cutler, Maine, who died in Eastport in 1883. They were the parents of three children, of whom was Charles Calvin, of whom. further.
Charles Calvin Bucknam, son of Asa and Lucy Ann Mayhew (Davis) Bucknam, was born in Eastport, Maine, November 18, 1871. He passed through the Eastport grammar school and high school. His college prepara- tory training was received at Bridgton Acad- emy, North Bridgton, Maine, from which he was graduated in the class of 1889. His academ- ic education was concluded at Bowdoin Col- lege, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893. Already he had elected the law, and pursued a year's reading under the pre- ceptorship of Henry B. Cleaves, a well-known
attorney of Portland, Maine, and then gover- nor of the State. He then entered the Boston University Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1896 as a Bachelor of Laws, cum laude.
Mr. Bucknam was admitted to practice at the Boston bar in the year of his graduation from law school, and his professional labors have chiefly centered in that jurisdiction, while he has attained the front rank of barristers in his association. He is qualified to practice be- fore various Federal courts and before the Su- preme Court of the United States. His first connection was with the office of Benton & Choate; afterwards he was with Hutchins & Wheeler, from 1899 to 1909. In the latter year he associated himself with Henry N. Berry, and later they formed the firm of Berry & Bucknam, which later became the firm of Berry, Bucknam and Lovejoy, one of the strongest legal combinations in the Boston area, with prestige throughout the State. Mr. Bucknam is a member of the American, Mass- achusetts State, and the Boston Bar associa- tions. With the Republican party, Mr. Buck- nam has been identified ever since he attained his majority. His social organizations are Theta Delta Chi College Fraternity, the City Club of Boston, the Appalachian Mountain Club, Wellesley Country Club, and the Maugus Club. His religious affiliation is with the Uni- tarian denomination. He is eligible for mem- bership in the Sons of the American Revolu- tion by right of descent from a Colonial pa- triot.
Charles Calvin Bucknam married, November 4, 1903, at Allston, Massachusetts, Maud Lou Clark, born in Portland, Maine, daughter of Ira F. and Ella M. (Gordon) Clark, both par- ents deceased. Their children are: 1. Gordon, born September 15, 1904; educated in the pub- lic schools of Boston and Mitchell Military School at Billerica, Massachusetts; then en- tered Andover Academy, from which he was graduated in 1922; matriculating at Bowdoin College, his father's alma mater, he graduated from there in 1926 and entered Harvard Uni-
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versity Graduate School of Business Adminis- tration, completing that course in 1928. He is now associated with the firm of Hornblower and Weeks, Boston. 2. Charles Clark, born January 21, 1906; educated at Mitchell Mili- tary School, Billerica; Andover Academy, 1923; Valley School, Valley, Wyoming, 1924; graduated 1928, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, from Harvard; transferred in his jun- ior year to Stanford University, California, completing the course while there and awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree during the same week that he received his similar degree at Harvard, June, 1928; now attending Harvard School of Business Administration. 3. Bettina, born May 16, 1910; attended local schools at Boston, and Wellesley, Massachusetts; Palo Alto, California; Walnut Hill School, Natick, Massachusetts, and The Misses Allen School, West Newton, Massachusetts. She is now at- tending Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn- sylvania. Mr. Bucknam's official address is No. 85 Devonshire Street, in the heart of the professional life of Boston, and he and his family have their residence in Wellesley Hills.
HERBERT B. CHURCH, since 1913, has been the efficient president of the Massachu- setts Realty Mortgage Company, of which he is the founder. He is a member of the Massa- chusetts Real Estate Exchange and of the Bos- ton Chamber of Commerce, and has been in Boston for more than forty-four years.
Herbert B. Church is of the ninth generation from Richard Church, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. He was born in Rochester, New York, May 5, 1857, son of Theodore H., who was born in Unadilla, Otse- go County, New York, and was engaged in the book publishing business to the time of his death, and of Sarah (Bleloch) Church, who
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