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Dwight Tuxbury Hersey was born in Whit- man, Massachusetts, September 7, 1884, son of George Edward and Mary (Hayes) Hersey, both now deceased. Mr. Hersey completed the course in the grammar school of his birthplace and then continued study for a period of three years in the Whitman High School, leaving at the end of the third year to begin his active business life. In 1904 he associated himself with the National Biscuit Company as city salesman in New York City, in which posi- tion he continued for some time and then was transferred to the branch at Springfield, Massachusetts, as salesman. Later, he was made branch manager at Concord, New Hampshire, and after increasing his experience by this change he was made a supervisor, cov- ering from eighteen to twenty-two States. In 1913 he severed his connection with the Na- tional Biscuit Company, in order that he might accept a position with the Splitdorf Electrical Company, of Newark, New Jersey, as branch manager in Kansas City, Missouri. Later, in this same connection he was made mid-west- ern sales manager, with offices at Chicago, Illi- nois, and still later, he was again promoted, this time to the responsible position of branch supervisor, having charge of domestic and for- eign branches, with offices at the company's
factory at Newark, New Jersey. Finally, he was made general sales manager, which posi- tion he held until 1920, when he left and be- came general sales manager for the Jenkins Vulcan Spring Company, of Richmond, Indi- ana. After one year he resigned, and in 1922 engaged in business as a manufacturers' agent, with offices at Kokomo, Indiana. In 1923 he entered the employ of the Ford Motor Com- pany, in which connection he was later made wholesale manager for the New England dis- trict. In 1927, he resigned in order that he might accept his present position as general manager of the Oakland Motor Company of New England, in which capacity he is giving the Oakland Motor Company of New England the benefits of his long and successful experi- ence in this special field of the selling busi- ness. Mr. Hersey is a member of the Masonic Order; the Boston Chamber of Commerce; and the Massachusetts Dealers' Association. His clubs include the Pelham Country, and the Sandy Burr Country; and he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Dwight Tuxbury Hersey was married, in Windsor, Vermont, August 4, 1909, to Stella L. Smith, daughter of Justin Carlos and Lucia M. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Hersey have no children. They make their home at No. 26 Humphrey Street, Boston.
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MAURICE CARO is a former member of the Legislature of Massachusetts and was for many years an assistant district attorney for Suffolk County. He has established a large law practice and maintains a suite of offices in the Kimball Building, Boston.
He was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, September 18, 1880, and secured his education in the public schools of Chelsea, graduating from the Chelsea High School in 1898, receiv- ing his Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude)
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from Harvard College in 1901, and his Bache- lor of Laws degree from Harvard College in 1904.
He is a member of the State and Federal bar. Mr. Caro has been active in his profession, has held various public offices, and in 1928 was ap- pointed by Governor Alvan T. Fuller a mem- ber of the Special Commission relative to Rapid Transit needs in Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and vicinity. He is the president of the Chelsea- Revere Bar Association, member of the Massa- chusetts Bar Association, Boston Bar Associ- ation, and an executive officer of the Law Society of Massachusetts. He has been counsel in many large and important trials. He represented the State in many celebrated felony cases, including the widely reported Ponzi prosecutions. He served in the Legis- lature in 1913, 1914, and 1915; was House chairman of the Committee on Municipal Fi- nance, and House chairman of the Committee on Legal Affairs. He was senior assistant dis- trict attorney during the greater part of his service (1922-1926). Mr. Caro is the author of many legal articles, of which "The Stock Broker" (Eugene W. Hildreth, 1929,) is the most recent.
He is a member of the Boston City Club, the Phi Beta Delta Graduate Club, Chelsea Young Men's Hebrew Association; the Chel- sea Lodge, No. 938, Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks; Robert Lash Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; a charter mem- ber of Everett C. Benton Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and also of Shekinah Chapter. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner (Aleppo). He belongs to the Temple Ohabei Shalom of Boston, and Temple Beth- El of Chelsea. He is president of the Beth-El Brotherhood. During the war he served on the Lawyers' Advisory Board and was active in the various Liberty Loan and Red Cross drives. On May 2, 1915, he married, in Boston, Jeannette Steuer, daughter of Moses H. Steuer (deceased in 1926), and Bessie (Siden) Steuer.
Mr. Caro's parents reside in Chelsea, Mas- sachusetts. His father, David Caro, was born
in Poland in 1852, and came to America in 1871. The Caro family have lived in Chelsea over fifty years-being one of the oldest and most respected Jewish families in the city. For over two generations David Caro conducted a department store in the city, where he estab- lished a reputation for square dealing. His brother, Dr. Heiman Caro, Harvard College, 1911, Harvard Medical School, 1914, enlisted for service in the World War in June, 1917, and became a captain in the American Expedi- tionary Forces. He died while in active serv- ice in France, January 22, 1919. His sister, Miriam (Mrs. Abram I. Cohn), died in 1924, at Concord, New Hampshire. His brother, Oscar P. Caro, is engaged in the insurance business in Chelsea.
FRANK RICHARD BRINE-Specializa- tion in automobile accessories has been such a successful business in the capable hands of Frank Richard Brine, whose headquarters is at No. 922 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, that he found it necessary to erect a second build- ing to accommodate his ever-growing trade. This success came, in large measure, because of the native friendliness of the man at the head of the enterprise, coupled with a keen business mind and a code of principles that guaranteed to everyone dealing with him the fairest treatment, such as he expected from all with whom he had business relations. Com- mon sense teaches the value of honesty in busi- ness and common sense is among the most conspicuous attributes of Mr. Brine. Added to these qualities is an active interest in all matters that appertain to the progress of the community, making him a good citizen as well as a business man of high principles and intelli- gent administration. Progressive himself, he assists in the progress of others by keeping the commercial ball rolling and free from the moss
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of stagnation, thus making friends wherever his business operations enter the avenues of associated enterprises.
He was born in East Boston, Massachusetts, January 30, 1889, a son of Richard A. and Mary M. Brine, his father having been engaged in the automobile business until his death, June 2, 1927. Frank Richard Brine acquired his education in the elementary public schools, the Revere High School, and Boston College. Upon completion of his studies he entered busi- ness with his father, who in 1900 had founded the Columbia Tire & Top Company, which was conducted first at No. 97 Averill Street, Boston, and afterward at No. 31 Irvington Street. In 1911, the company found its growth to demand more space for stock and garage and a building was erected at No. 922 Com- monwealth Avenue, which is now the head- quarters for New England distribution of the J. H. tonneau windshield. In 1924 the son took active control of the business and still conducts it independently. He is affiliated with the Boston Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Frank Richard Brine married, in Boston, Dorothy M. Mack, of Salem, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas F. and Nellie Mack. Their children are: Dorothy, Frances, Ruth K., and Frank Richard, Jr.
HENRY FORREST LIBBY, D. M. D .- The family of Libby, whose name is held by Dr. Henry Forrest Libby, and his son, Arthur Allen Libby, leaders of the profession of den- tistry in New England, and who have their offices in Boston, seems to have had its root in the West of England, probably Cornwall or Devon. John Libby, the first of the name to come to America, arrived prior to 1635, and was a fisherman and farmer in Maine, served as constable and first selectman in Scarbor- ough, that State, and lost all his possessions,
except his plantation, in King Philip's War in 1675. Of his first wife nothing is known beyond the fact that she bore him sons and daughters. Of his second wife nothing is known but her Christian name, Mary. His descendants have figured prominently in the wars of the country, in professional and civil occupations, and have contributed generally to the growth and prosperity of the Repub- lic.
Captain Daniel Libby, in the sixth genera- tion from the founder, John Libby, was born in New Durham, New Hampshire, September 15, 1796, died in Wolfeborough, New Hamp- shire, August 3, 1862. He lived in Alton and Tuftonborough, was a farmer, and for six years commanded a local company of mili- tia. He married Ada Clough, and they had children, of whom was Moses. Moses Libby, son of Captain Daniel and Ada (Clough) Lib- by, was born in Alton, July 26, 1824. He lived in Tuftonborough, later in Manchester, Iowa, and then came back to his native State, to reside in Wolfeborough. He married Vesta R. Wiggin, born in Tuftonborough, daughter of William and Dolly (Snell) Wiggin. They had five children: Asa H., Henry Forrest, of whom further; Elizabeth C., Willie S., and George A.
Henry Forrest Libby, son of Moses and Vesta R. (Wiggin) Libby, was born in Tuf- tonborough, New Hampshire, April 7, 1850. After attending the district school, he studied under a preceptor for two years in his home town. He then went to Boston and pursued his studies under a preceptor there, after which he attended Harvard Dental School for two years. Having opened his own office in Bos- ton, he soon arrived in the front rank of his profession and his practice included some of the most representative people of the Boston area.
Being of an inventive turn of mind, Dr. Lib- by employed his gift for the production of many appliances useful in the dental prac- tice and for other purposes. Among them was a rubber dam clamp and a dental heater
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and annealer, a plaster tablet, used as a mount for the Blaska glass models in the Ware col- lection in the Agassiz Museum; plaster mounts in cases, glass cylinders for preserv- ing bird skins, implement for boring a straight hole and a gauge device. During the early years of his practice, he displayed his talent for sculpture by carving a number of groups which won favorable comment, but he abandoned the art when his dental practice began to take up most of his time and atten- tion.
Dr. Libby is a most devoted student of Nature in all her moods. At his estate in Wolfeborough, on the shore of Lake Winni- pesaukee, he erected a museum which is main- tained at his own expense. It is assembled in harmony with his design for bringing to- gether in one place rare specimens of the taxi- dermist's art, and curios from different parts of the world. It is also a repository of speci- mens of much of the natural life of New Hampshire, and thus preserves for posterity a rich array of world-wide range and State exhibits that cannot help but be an estab- lished source of information to those who re- ceive the privilege of making researches there.
Dr. Libby purchased Rattlesnake Island, in Lake Winnipesaukee, and has occasionally both for diversion and scientific purposes, cap- tured a few rattlers which he has had stuffed and placed in his museum.
Horticulture and forestry also command the earnest attention of Dr. Libby, and at his Pine tree farm on the shore of Mirror Lake, near Wolfeborough, he is carrying on a very extensive work in the transplanting and cul- ture of native seedlings. His tract of several hundred acres devoted to this purpose is now the site of a well-advanced forestation planta- tion, and in itself constitutes an exhibit of the kind worth the trouble of making a jour- ney of many miles to see. Around the whole Dr. Libby has thrown a sort of literary and artistic atmosphere which appeals to persons of intellectual attainments. In order that his farm might contribute to the happiness of a
greater number of people, he threw it open to the Ellis Memorial Club, an organization of boys and girls. In many other ways, in connection with the facilities and attractions of his estate on Winnipesaukee, Dr. Libby has demonstrated his public spirit, by being elec- ted to the General Court in three successive legislative sessions. He has also acted most generously in the rôle of benefactor by adding to the pleasures of mankind, and to the light- ening of their burdens wherever he can. In addition to the father and son's lives of devo- tion to the dental profession, a textbook "Treatise on a Neglected Phase of Dentistry" has been published in 1927, that is creating an unusual interest.
Dr. Libby married, May 28, 1874, Hattie E. Horne, of Wolfeborough, born August 23, 1848, daughter of Frederick Woodbury and Elizabeth (Allen) Horne. She received her education in the local schools and at Wolfe- borough and Tuftonborough Academy, after which she taught school in Wolfeborough and Tuftonborough and in Grafton, Massachusetts, and attended the Salem Normal School. She later learned kindergarten under Madam Creger, who introduced that system of educa- tion in Boston, and taught in Roxbury two years. Mrs. Libby found herself in complete harmony with her husband's artistic tastes and his professional achievements and the develop- ment of his museum and estate in New Hamp- shire. Her companionable temperament and cooperative spirit are reflected admirably in the assistance given him as he promotes his many-sided endeavors for the benefit of his fellow-men. Of the union of Dr. and Mrs. Libby there is one child, Dr. Arthur Allen Libby (see accompanying biography).
ARTHUR ALLEN LIBBY, D. M. D .- The profession of medical and surgical den- tistry, which has been elected and is practiced
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by so many notable exponents in the Boston area has, in the ranks of those in this noble calling a worthy representative in Dr. Arthur Allen Libby, who for many years has been connected with the Harvard Dental School, first as an instructor in operative dentistry and latterly as an instructor in dental research. Dr. Libby has been associated in practice with his distinguished father, Dr. Henry Forrest Libby, an appreciation of whose life and mani- fold contributions to the benefit of mankind is contained in this work.
Born in Boston, October 7, 1875, Arthur Al- len Libby is the only child of Dr. Henry For- rest Libby and Hattie E. (Horne) Libby. Hav- ing received his preliminary education in the public schools of Boston, he was graduated from the English High School of that city in 1894. He then entered the scientific depart- ment of Harvard University for two years. As already indicated, he had wisely chosen to make his father's profession his own, and suit- ing action to decision, he took up the study of dentistry at the Harvard Dental School from which he was graduated Doctor of Dental Medicine in the class of 1899.
Immediately on leaving the University, he associated himself in practice with his father. The elder Libby already had made his name enviable among the profession in Boston, and with the infusion of his son's younger blood, and more recently specialized equipment from the Dental School, there was added much of strength and prestige to the firm composed of father and son.
Dr. Libby's first office was located in the Kensington, No. 687 Boylston Street, Boston. Soon an increasing practice made it necessary to move to No. 366 Commonwealth Avenue. In 1918 another change seemed wise, this time to a private house, which he bought, at No. 508 Commonwealth Avenue. Here he has since had his professional address.
In 1924 Dr. Libby was asked to become clin- ician in Exo-Orthodontia at the Forsythe Den- tal Infirmary, rendering valuable service, not only to the children who require the correct-
ing of irregular teeth, but also to the internes representing many countries of the world who have been taught very little in the specialized field, namely: the judicious removal of the teeth to correct irregularities, and the study of the development of the third molar or wisdom tooth. As a result of their research, Dr. Libby and his father published a book in 1927 the title of which is "Treatise on a Neglected Phase of Dentistry" with illustrations explaining the remarkable results, by extracting the teeth uni- formly for the purpose of correcting irregulari- ties, and incidentally offering a great aid to preventive dentistry. During the World War period, Dr. Libby did his bit by caring for the teeth of those going to the front.
In organized professional bodies, Dr. Libby enjoys the high standing which is the rightful claim of those who are devoted to their life- work. He is affiliated with the Boston Society for Dental Improvement, the American Acad- emy of Dental Science, the Harvard Odonto- logical Society, the Massachusetts Dental So- ciety and the Harvard Dental Alumni Asso- ciation. He is a member of the Harvard Club of Boston, and the Delta Sigma Delta Fra- ternity of the Harvard Dental School.
Dr. Libby married, October 3, 1900, at Read- ing, Massachusetts, Florence Adeline Hunt, born January 7, 1879, daughter of Edgar Nor- man and Frances Adeline (Gould) Hunt. They are the parents of three children: Arthur Al- len, Jr., born September 3, 1902; Madeleine, born May 31, 1904; and Gordon Henry Noble, born June 20, 1908. Madeleine married John Alden Loring, and has one child, John Alden Loring, Jr.
LEON CLIFTON GUPTILL-The family is one of the oldest in the United States. It was founded in America prior to the Revolution by one of the surname who immigrated from Holland, and who attained to a position of
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prominence in Colonial times. From him are descended a number of generations, though the name Guptill is by no means common, nor have its representatives scattered widely through the nation, as has been the case in the majority of Colonial houses. In general the descendants are firmly rooted to New England, and among them, from generation to generation, have been many figures of distinction in varied walks of life.
Phineas Bond Guptill, father of Leon Clifton Guptill, was descended in direct line from the American progenitor. He was born in Cherry- field, Maine, and there died, having engaged in business as a jeweler for the balance of his career, under the style of P. B. Guptill, Jeweler. He was numbered among the most respected citizens of the Cherryfield community, and ac- complished much of lasting benefit to it. Phineas Bond Guptill married Cora May Davis, na- tive of Cherryfield, who survives him. In the family were three children: 1. Charles Wil- bur, deceased. 2. Marion, wife of Harold F. Lewis, of Winthrop. 3. Leon Clifton, of whom follows.
Leon Clifton Guptill, third child and second son and only surviving son of Phineas Bond and Cora May (Davis) Guptill, was born Sep- tember 24, 1887, in Cherryfield, Maine. He completed the elementary courses offered in Cherryfield Grammar School in 1901, and took his diploma from Cherryfield Academy in 1905. In the fall of that year he matriculated in Colby College, from it took the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1909, and, meanwhile having felt a greatly increased interest in the law, entered George Washington University School of Law, Washington, District of Co- lumbia. From George Washington he grad- uated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913, at the age of twenty-five years, and April of 1914. Since that month and year he has engaged continuously in practice, having offices at No. 11 Beacon Street, Boston. He is known as one of the prominent and able barristers of the metropolis, bearing an honored
reputation among colleagues, who esteem him highly for his manifest talents and undoubted integrity.
Mr. Guptill interests himself in diverse af- fairs. He makes his residence at Winthrop, No. 125 Bartlett Road, and for many years has participated in matters pertaining to the com- munity's welfare. He is Town Counsel of Winthrop, member of the Winthrop Golf Club, the University Club of Boston, Cottage Park Yacht Club, and other similar organiza- tions, being also a communicant of the Meth- dist Episcopal church, of Winthrop. While a student at Colby he played baseball, and for a considerable period, before and after college, that game was his chief hobby, but of more recent time his favorite relaxation has been in fishing. During the World War he was active- ly of assistance in the campaigns of the Liberty Loan, and served wherever possible in the works of committees and boards charged with wartime responsibilities. His fraternal affilia- tions are with the following: Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and Zeta Psi (national).
At East Orange, New Jersey, December 8, 1916, Mr. Guptill was united in marriage with Helen Russell Boyd, native of Jersey City, New Jersey, daughter of John S. Boyd, de- ceased, and Bessie H. (Dunn) Boyd, who sur- vives her husband and makes her residence in Winthrop. Of this union were two children both of whom are living: 1. William Laws, born March 3, 1918. 2. Nancy, born March 28, 1922.
KENNETH C. DUNLOP-Though still re- acquired in Boston legal circles a reputation as a lawyer of unusual ability and brilliant prom- ise. Soundly grounded in the principles of the law, master of a persuasive eloquence, and possessing a keenly analytical mind, he has
was admitted to the bar of Massachusetts in, latively young, Kenneth C. Dunlop has already
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built up a prosperous practice, and won the confidence of his clients in an unusual degree.
Mr. Dunlop was born in Boston, on June 28, 1895, son of William Holland Dunlop, who was born in Kings County, New Brunswick, and died in Denver, Colorado, March 13, 1900, at the age of thirty-two, and of Emma (Flint) Dunlop, born in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, De- cember 21, 1868, and now living with her son in Newtonville. Mr. Dunlop is connected with several distinguished families, through his mother with the Churchills of England, while his father's people came originally from Dun- lop, Scotland, members of the prominent family of that name, which includes, among others, the famous surgeon, Dr. Robert Dunlop.
Kenneth C. Dunlop received his early edu- cation in private schools in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and Colorado, to which State his father, a merchant and busi- ness man of the finest progressive type, had gone in the vain attempt to regain his health. Returning East, Kenneth C. Dunlop attended Moses Brown Preparatory School, in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, and later undertook the course of study in Suffolk Law School, at Boston, from which he was graduated in 1919 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year he was admitted to the Massachu- setts bar, and shortly afterwards began the practice of his profession in Boston, after- wards began the practice of his profession in Boston, to which he has since devoted him- self, with genuine success.
Politically a member of the Republican party, Mr. Dunlop occupies high place in the councils of his party, and has frequently campaigned throughout the State on behalf of its candidates. He is affiliated, fraternally, with the Free and Accepted Masons in which organization he is a member of all bodies of the York and Scot- tish Rites, and a member of the Ancient Ara- bic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Dunlop is also Past Grand Patron of the Order of the Eastern Star. He is a member of sev- eral clubs and associations, including the Bos- ton City Club, of which he is a member of
the Board of Governors, the Insurance So- ciety of Massachusetts, and the Alumni As- sociation of Suffolk Law School, of which he was a founder, and has been president for five years. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
On September 28, 1918, at Albany, New York, Kenneth C. Dunlop married Pauline Schriver, who was born in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, a daughter of Charles H. and Har- riet (Hobbs) Schriver, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop are the parents of one son, Kenneth C., Jr., born July 13, 1923. The family home is at No. 371 Highland Street, Newtonville.
JOSEPH WALKER-A member of the Massachusetts bar, and an important figure in the public life of the State, Joseph Walker in his own career has devoted himself largely to serving as trustee of various estates and prop- erties. He is well known to the people of Massachusetts, both in this capacity and as a distinguished member of the State Legislature for a period of years.
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