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Mr. Kimball married, February 5, 1908, Ella Parker, a native of Lynn, Massachusetts. Of this union have come four sons: Alfred, Warren, Har- vey Russell, and Parker Chesley. The family are active members of the Universalist church, and make their home in Reading, Massachusetts.
IRVING ADDISON HADLEY-The legal pro- fession is represented in the city of Lynn, Massa- chusetts, by a group of men whose progressive work along their chosen line of endeavor reflects credit upon the community. Irving Addison Had- ley is a leader in this profession, and one of the forward-moving attorneys of the Essex county bar.
Mr. Hadley is a grandson of Ethan Hadley, a noted figure in Eastern Massachusetts history of the early part of the nineteenth century, and a descendant of early Colonial families of this State.
Darius Hadley, father of Irving A. Hadley, was born in Peterboro, New Hampshire. He was a man of brilliant mental capacity, and well educated as well as widely read. For forty years he taught school in the city of Boston, and placed the im- press of a fine and manly character upon the youth of his day. He resided at different times in Everett and Wakefield, and in both places acted as town moderator for several years. He was a man of pronounced convictions of a personal nat- ure, but broadly tolerant in his judgment of other men. He was one of the early disciples of the Church of Christ Scientist. Serving with signal honor in the Civil War, he was later the first commander of Post No. 56, Grand Army of the Republic, of Everett. He died on February 11, 1916, in Lynn. He married Mercy Emma Snow, who was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, and in early life taught school in her native town.
Irving Addison Hadley, son of Darius and Mer- cy Emma (Snow) Hadley, was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1878. Receiving his early education in the public schools of his native town, he also covered the high school course, then attended the Burdette Business College, in Boston. With this preparation the young man entered the world of industry well up on the ladder of success, in the capacity of manager of the Whitten & Las- cell needle factory. This position he held for a period of two years, and then established the needle factory of Kimball & Hadley, in which he held a considerable interest, and bore an active part in the management.
But the industrial world could not hold a man of Mr. Hadley's tastes and talents. Professional fields offered greater opportunities more in line with his ability, and Mr. Hadley chose the law. His brother, Everett H. Hadley, had made a prom- ising start in this profession, so Mr. Hadley took up the study of law in his brother's office. Later he entered the North-Eastern College. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in August, 1908, and on April 4, 1916, was admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Hadley located in Lynn in 1908, and has built up a very wide and successful practice here. He has won the confidence and esteem of the people of Essex county, and bears a progressive part in the ad- vancements of the public interest.
Broadly active in the public affairs of the city, and a leading member of the Republican party, Mr. Hadley always declines public honors, and will accept no office. He is a prominent member of the City and County Bar associations.
Fraternally, Mr. Hadley is widely connected. He is a member of Paul Revere Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of which order he is past chancellor; of Glenmore Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; of Manatahqua Lodge, Improved Order of Red Men, in which order he is past sachem, hav- ing been the first sachem; and also a member of Damascus Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Majestic Lodge, New England Order of Protection,
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in which order he is past warden; of Evangeline Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah; and of Paul Re- vere Temple, Pythian Sisters.
Mr. Hadley married, on November 27, 1901, Ef- fie B. Titus, daughter of Joseph C. and Hettie (Darcy) Titus, farming people of Centreville, Nova Scotia, where both they and their daughter were born. Mr. and Mrs. Hadley have one son, Irving D., of Lynn High School, class of 1922.
ALBERT PORTER WADLEIGH, State Senator and a prominent business man, of Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, was born November 7, 1886, at Merrimac, Massachusetts, and comes of distinguished ancestry on both the maternal and paternal sides. His father, D. Porter Wadleigh, was a native of Merri- mac and followed the trade of carriage trimmer; he was a great-grandson of Benjamin Dean Wad- leigh, of Amesbury, who was gunner's mate on the privateer "Decatur" in the War of 1812, and a dir- ect descendant of Robert Wadleigh, governor of New Hampshire about 1700. Mr. Wadleigh's mother was Cora L. Godsoe, of the Maine family of Godsoe, whose members were active participants in the War of the Revolution.
The public schools of Merrimac and the high school were the sources of Mr. Wadleigh's early education and from a boy of ten years he was accustomed to work during those hours when he was not in school, thus forming at this early age the ambition 'to succeed with the passing years which has been a large factor in his success. He worked as a "printer's devil" and utility man in the printing office of the Merrimac "Budget" dur- ing vacation periods for nine years and then en- tered the Haverhill Business College where he completed the business course in eight months, receiving his diploma at the end of this time.
His next employment was with the Dutra Tobac- co Company, an old established firm and the larg- est wholesale distributor of tobacco in Northeast- ern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire, and at the time. Mr. Wadleigh entered their em- ploy, January 4, 1907, as bookkeeper, the sole owner of the business was Alfred E. Lyons, and three years later Mr. Wadleigh was admitted to the firm with Mr. Lyons, this arrangement con- tinuing until 1917, in which year Mr. Lyons died. In October of the same year Mr. Wadleigh formed a partnership with Fred W. George, of Merrimac, on an equal basis, to continue the business of the Dutra Tobacco Company, they having jointly pur- chased the Lyons interests, and the business is still continued under its original name.
Mr. Wadleigh's interest in public matters is a natural one considering his firm belief in the suc- cess and necessity of constitutional representative government, and from the time he was twelve years of age, when he acted as messenger and errand boy of political committees and conven- tions, he has been keenly interested in all that pertains to the public welfare. A year after at- taining his majority Mr. Wadleigh was elected town auditor of Merrimac and served very capa-
bly in this office from 1909 to 1911. In 1913 he was elected library trustee and is now chairman of the board. Since 1916 he has been chairman of the Republican Town Committee, and during 1918 and 1919, served as representative from the First Essex District in the Massachusetts Legislature. He was recently elected to the Massachusetts State Senate to serve in the sessions of 1921 and 1922, and is chairman of the committee on ; late House and of the committee on Counties and , ;ri- culture. Mr. Wadleigh has also representec his town many times before the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission on street railway rate cases and other matters of this nature. In the offices he has held Mr. Wadleigh has always kept the in- terests of his constituents at heart and the manner in which he has discharged the duties incumbent on him has been such that it has brought great satisfaction to those citizens he represents.
His fraternal activities are many, and at present he is past master of Bethany Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Merrimac; past councillor and present National representative of the State Coun- cil of Massachusetts, Junior Order United Ameri- can Mechanics; past councillor of Enterprise Council No. 1, of Haverhill, Junior Order United American Mechanics; past master of Merrimac Grange; past master and past lecturer of Essex County Pomona Grange. His memberships in- clude: Bethany Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Haverhill Council, Royal and Select Masters; Haverhill Commandery, Knights Templar; York Rites; Mer- rimack Valley Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rites; Princes of Jerusalem; Rose Croix; Consistory at Boston; Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine; Riverside Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Merrimac Grange; American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science; National Geo- graphic Society; Massachusetts Republican Club; Essex County Republican Club; Roosevelt Club; and the Board of Trade and other civic bodies. He is a member of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Merrimac. Mr. Wadleigh's father died in 1911, and he makes his home with his mother at Merrimac.
PERLEY L. SANBORN, M. D .- The Sanborne (Sanborn) family early came to New Hampshire. John . William and Stephen Sanborne, sons of an Englishman, supposedly William, of Brimpton, and his wife, Anne Bachiler, daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler. Anne Bachiler's husband died about 1630, and her three sons are said to have come to New England with their Grandfather Bachiler in 1632, Rev. Bachiler becoming a prominent. preacher. There is no trace of the sons until 1639, and then in Hampton, New Hampshire. De- scendants of these sons of Anne (Bachiler) San- borne now number a multitude, many of them leaders of men and filling positions of honor, trust and profit, worthy successors of the men who transformed the New England wilderness and made it to blossom as the rose. The medical
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profession has attracted many Sanborns, and this review deals with one of that name and profes- sion, Dr. Perley Lewis Sanborn, of Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Perley Lewis Sanborn was born in Unity, New Hampshire, September 7, 1851, and there attended public schools. He completed his studies at Colby Academy, New London, New Hampshire, then entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1877. After graduation he was for a time con- nected with a New York City dispensary, then, in 1878, he opened an office in Marblehead, Massa- chusetts, and began the practice of his profession. Forty-three years have since elapsed and the good doctor is still ministering to the bodily ills of the people of Marblehead, his original patients in some instances, and to their children and their grand- children. In the final estimate of a human life the question is not what he has gained, but what he has given; not what he has acquired, but what he has bestowed; not the pain he caused, but the pain he has assuaged; not the wounds he has inflict- ed, but the wounds he has healed; not the applause he receives, but the social works of mercy he has done. Measured by these standards, the world is better for the life Dr. Sanborn has lived in Marblehead. He has devoted himself exclusively to the general practice of medicine and has few interests outside his profession.
Dr. Sanborn married, in Camden, Maine, in April, 1880, Octavia Porter, born in that town. Dr. and Mrs. Sanborn are the parents of a son, Tracy L. Sanborn, a graduate of Dartmouth Col- lege, class of 1912, now in business in Boston, but a resident of Marblehead.
IRVING WILDER SARGENT-One of the most widely known and highly esteemed law firms of Lawrence, Massachusetts, is that of Sweeney, Sargent & Sweeney, and Mr. Sargent has borne a significant part in its progress. His genial spirit and helpful attitude towards any advance move- ment endear him to his associates. His clear- headed appraisal of fact and his wit and power in argument have carried him to high standing in his profession.
The Sargent family has been prominent in Law- rence for several generations. Seneca Sargent, Mr. Sargent's grandfather, came from New Hamp- shire in 1846, and practiced medicine in this city for many years. With the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the service of his country as con- tract surgeon, and was in the Virginia Campaign of 1862, under General Mcclellan. He was a member of Grecian Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of Lawrence, and his death, which occurred in 1873, made a rift in other social and fraternal organizations. He married Mary Wilder, also of New Hampshire birth and rearing.
Dr. George Woodbury Sargent, their son, and Mr. Sargent's father, was born in Concord, Ver- mont, in 1834, and early in life came to Lawrence with his parents. His public school course was
completed in the schools of this city, and he pre- pared for his career in the Albany Medical Col- lege. He was in active practice in Lawrence when the Civil War broke out, and in 1864 became as- sistant surgeon in the Sixth Regiment, Massachu- setts Volunteer Infantry, his headquarters being at Fort Delaware. Later returning to Lawrence, he became one of its distinguished physicians, and died in 1893. He married Marietta Bancroft, who was born in Merrimac, Massachusetts, in 1838, and who still survives her husband, residing in Law- rence (1921). Of their children, Dr. George B. Sargent is the third generation in this family to win prominence in the medical profession, being now a representative physician of Lawrence.
Irving Wilder Sargent, son of Dr. George Wood- bury and Marietta (Bancroft) Sargent, was born in Lawrence, August 8, 1879, and early determined upon the profession of the law as his field of future effort. Upon the completion of his gram- mar course in the Lawrence schools, he entered Phillips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, a member of the class of 1896. Thereafter entering Harvard University, he was graduated from that institution in the class of 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His professional course in Harvard Law School was finished in 1903, and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws, his ad- mission to the bar followed before the close of the year. Mr. Sargent's first professional associ- ation was with the noted law firm of Sweeney, Dow & Cox, composed of John P. Sweeney, the present head of the firm, Harry R. Dow, judge of the probate court since 1908, and Louis S. Cox, who was appointed judge of the superior court in 1918. Mr. Sargent became a member of the firm in 1916, the firm name then becoming Sweeney, Cox & Sargent. In 1918 Mr. Cox withdrew from the firm upon his elevation to the bench, and the firm was reorganized as Sweeney, Sargent & Sweeney, the junior partner being Arthur Sween- ey, son of John P. Sweeney, the senior partner. With this group of associates Mr. Sargent is carry- ing forward a general law practice, and stands among the foremost men in the profession in Essex county.
Endorsing all public advance, Mr. Sargent be- longs to the Chamber of Commerce, and is a mem- ber of the school committee. Politically he sup- ports the Republican party, but has never ac- cepted the honors of office. To the Red Cross Drive during the Great War he gave his best energies, and was a convincing Four-Minute Man, also serving as registrar for the draft board. He was chairman of the committee on relief for soldiers' families, and still serves on the execu- tive committee of the local branch of the Red Cross. He is a trustee of the White Fund, and as such is a trustee of the Lawrence Library. A member of the bar associations of the State of Massachusetts, and of both Lawrence and Essex county, Mr. Sargent serves the last mentioned as a member of the executive committee. He is one of the corporators of the Lawrence Savings Bank.
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Fraternally he is widely connected, being a mem- ber of Monadnock Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Phoenician Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; and his clubs include the Har- vard clubs of both Lawrence and Boston, the Salem Club, the Monday Night Club, and the Merrimac Valley Country Club. He sttends the Episcopal church.
Mr. Sargent married, at Lawrence, in 1906, Helen Stanley, who was born in Lawrence, May 27, 1881, and died in this city April 12, 1919. Mrs. Sargent was a daughter of Charles R. and Nellie M. (Swett) Stanley, of Portland, Maine.
FRANK LEO CAREY-The debt which Ameri- ca owes to its citizens of Irish ancestry is widely recognized and is past computation. Characterized by ambition, industry, thrift and sound morality, immigrants of this sturdy race, cherishing the same ideals of freedom, religious, political and per- sonal, as brought the Pilgrims and Puritans to our shores, have never needed to be assimilated; they are naturally one with us. Of such stock comes Frank Leo Carey.
This branch of the Carey family was established in America by our subject's grandparents, Martin and Ann (Sheedy) Carey. Martin Carey was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1843. Coming to Massa- chusetts with his wife and oldest child, he located in Lawrence, where husband and wife still (1922) reside. For the greater part of his active life Martin Carey engaged in the livery business.
John T. Carey, son of Martin and Ann (Sheedy) Carey, and the father of Frank L. Carey, was born in Lawrence, November 25, 1865. After pur- suing the usual courses of study in the public and parochial schools of his native city, John T. Carey learned the trade of painter and decorator. Fol- lowing this trade as a journeyman until about 1904, he then embarked in business on his own account as a .contracting painter and decorator, doing all kinds of interior and exterior work in that line. His square business methods and the sincerity with which he carries out the spirit of his contracts have won for him an enviable repu- tation. He is a member of the Knights of Col- umbus, but is a man of essentially domestic tastes, finding his chief interests, outside of his business, within the family circle. He married Mary Fitz- patrick, born February 17, 1867, daughter of Den- nis Fitzpatrick, of Lawrence. From this union four children have been born, all of whom are now living in Lawrence: Frank Leo, of further mention; William J .; Anna L., who is a teacher in the Lawrence public schools; and Louis C. The family are all members of St. Mary's Roman Cath- olic Parish.
Frank Leo Carey, who is more particularly the subject of this sketch, was born in Lawrence, February 27, 1892. He attended the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1909. Soon after his graduation he entered the employ of the John Franklin Company, civil engineers. Four years in their employ convinced him that
the engineering profession would not prove con- genial as a life-time vocation. No experience is ever lost, however, to the thoughtful man, and the knowledge of men and things, gained in those . first years of his working life, has already proven of value in his law practice and will continue to pay dividends during the coming years.
In 1913 Mr. Carey matriculated in the law de- partment of Boston University, from which he was graduated in 1916 with the usual Bachelor of Laws degree. He was admitted to the bar at Boston in the same year, and began the practice of his profession in the office of J. C. Twomey, of Lawrence, in December, 1916.
The entrance of America into the World War soon cut short his professional activities. The urge of patriotism and love of country were too great to be resisted, and it cannot fail to be a source of increasing satisfaction for him to recall, as the years go by, that he was among the first New Englanders to enlist in the conflict on the side of justice and democracy. On May 11, 1917. he enlisted as a private in the One Hundred and Second Field Artillery and saw service overseas for two years. He was mustered out as a first lieutenant, his promotions through the various grades to that rank being the strongest testimony to his qualities of thoroughness, faithfulness, in- telligence and bravery. His genial personality and uniform courtesy, while not yielding an iota of the demands of discipline, won for him the esteem and unfailing loyalty of the men under his com- mand.
Upon his return to civil life, Mr. Carey became & partner in the law firm of Mahoney & Haverty, the name of the firm being changed to Mahoney, Haverty & Carey. Their offices are in the Bay State building. This is said to be the day of the young man, that is to say, the man who is for- ward-looking and who yet has the adaptability to conform to the new conditions brought about by the evolutionary changes, political, social and econ- omic, through which we are so rapidly passing. The firm of which our subject is a member has already established itself in an enviable position by the careful attention it gives to its clients' in- terests. The same qualities that won promotion for Mr. Carey in the army are pushing him for- ward in the legal profession. His sincerity, care- ful judgment and loyalty are winning a constantly growing clientele.
Mr. Carey is a member of the Lawrence Bar Association, the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Knights of Columbus. A Republican in political affiliation, Mr. Carey be- lieves that the citizen's duty to his community is measured by his ability to serve it; and he is ready at all times to further, in any way that he can, any movement that makes for the public good. He was elected a member of the school board in 1916, but resigned when he enlisted in the army. On June 22, 1920, Mr. Carey married Madaline E. Mahoney, daughter of Maurice J. Mahoney, a sketch of whom appears in this work, and Ellen
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(Hollahan) Mahoney. Mr. Carey and his wife have a daughter, Marie Eleanor, who was born April 9, 1921.
WESTON F. EASTMAN -- The name of East- man is a very well known one in New England and elsewhere and has been for a number of gen- erations, and there have been many prominent representatives among them. The earliest known record of the ancestry of the Eastmans of this country is the will of John Eastman of Ramsey, County of Southampton, England, dated September 24, 1602. The numerous family of this name. which has spread throughout New England and many of the middle and western States, is the progeny of a pioneer of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and many of the later generations in New Hamp- shire are descended from the first of that name in Concord who was the principal settler of that town.
Fred Eastman, father of W. F. Eastman, al- though of New England ancestry, was born in Madison, Wisconsin, August 8, 1856. He early settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and in 1880 established the firm of Eastman & Blyth, painters and decorators, which has become since then a very large and prosperous concern. The mother, Mary J. (Blyth) Eastman, is a native of Lawrence and was born October 22, 1859.
Weston F. Eastman was born in Lawrence, Aug- ust 6, 1883. After getting all the education the graded schools could give him he attended Phillips Academy at Andover and was graduated in 1901. Even at this early date he showed his taste and abilities for the banking business in which he was so successful later, and, encouraged by those who knew him best, he sought a position along that line. This he secured readily in the Lawrence National Bank, starting as clerk. On April 1, 1902, he found improved conditions and a wider opening for advancement in the Merchants' National Bank, No. 264 Essex street. Here for a while he was book- keeper. When the Lawrence National and the Merchants' National banks consolidated in 1911,. forming the Merchants' Trust Company, Mr. East- man was made paying teller and, when later the Pacific National Bank was absorbed by the Trust Company, he became note teller. On October 1, 1920, the Trust Company established him as the assistant treasurer and manager of their Broadway office at No. 590 Essex street, which position he now holds (1921). Mr. Eastman has seen a great growth in Lawrence and in banking, but has grown even faster himself in banking ability, business acumen and aptitude for finance. He looks out on a future big with possibilities. During the war period he took his place with other bankers and had a large share in the success of the various Liberty Loan Drives and other war time activities. Mr. Eastman has confined his fraternal interest to the Masonic order and is a thirty-second de- gree Mason, affiliating with Phoenician Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Mt. Sinai Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lawrence Council,
Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar; Massachusetts Consistory of Boston; Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic. Shrine. He attends and sup- ports the Universalist church.
On December 12, 1917, he was united in mar- riage, at Lawrence, to Rachael Elizabeth Dean, of Lawrence, daughter of William W. Dean, for some time treasurer of the Lawrence Lumber Company, and Rebecca (Sager) Dean, a native of Rhode Island. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman have one son, Weston Dean Eastman, born February 6, 1919.
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