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Mr. Johnson entered the army in July, 1917, and was honorably discharged in April, 1919. He went overseas with the Twenty-Sixth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces and saw nineteen
months' service in France, being engaged at Cha- teau, Demoles, Toul Sector, Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel and Verdun. He escaped injury of a seri- ous nature and returned to Salem after receiving his discharge.
In Salem he was returned to his old position with the Salem Savings Bank and there continues; he is also representative in Salem for the State Mutual Insurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Johnson is a member of Essex Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; a Republican in politics; and a member of the Unitarian church.
Mr. Johnson married, June 15, 1920, Mildred Lou- gee, daughter of Arthur L. and Anna (Call) Longee, her father general sales manager of Hayward Brothers & Wakefield, of Boston.
REV. WILLIAM INGLIS MORSE-There is no way by which the value of a life to a community can be estimated, and especially is this true of the life of a minister of the Gospel. When Rev. Wil- liam Inglis Morse accepted a call in 1905 from the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, the congregation was small, but today the communi- cants of the parish number about three hundred, and the parishioners, twelve hundred. The church was organized in 1885, the chapel being erected that year. In 1909, four years after Rev. William Inglis Morse became its rector, the new extension which had been built was freed from debt and vested in the hands of the trustees of donations of the Mas- sachusetts diocese. The present church was con- secrated by Bishop Lawrence, February 2, 1918, and the property adjoining the church was purchased for parochial purposes in 1915; an endowment fund also exists for the maintenance of the parish. These are but tangible evidences of the value of his rectorate, and constitute but a small part of the real benefit his leadership has meant to the church he has served so long and devotedly. The spiri- tual advancement cannot be measured or told; only the great record will ever reveal what the life of this eloquent, devoted divine has meant to his own people and to his city.
William Inglis Morse was born at Paradise, Nova Scotia, June 4, 1874, the son of Joseph and Almira (Phinney) Morse. His ancestor, Samuel Morse, son of Rev. Thomas Morse, rector of Foxearth, Essex county, England, came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1631. Descendants settled in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, in 1760. After spending several years in preparation at the public schools of his native place he entered Acadia University, Nova Scotia, whence he was graduated with honors, A.B., class of 1897. He then took courses in theology at the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from this institution in 1900, after which he took s post-graduate course in Philosophy at Harvard Post Graduate School, and was ordained a priest of the Episcopal church by Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D.D., bishop of Massachusetts, May 22, 1901. From 1900 to 1902 .Rev. Mr. Morse was chaplain of the
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Westminster School at Simsbury, Connecticut, and from 1902 until 1905, when he came to Lynn, he was assistant at St. John's Episcopal Church, Stam- ford, Connecticut. The enthusiasm with which he came to this parish has given way to earnest set- tled purpose and mature judgment, rendering him valuable in counsel and leadership.
Rev. Mr. Morse was elected a member of the Canadian Society of Authors on March 15, 1906, at Toronto, Canada. He is the author of "Acadian Lays" (1908, Briggs, Toronto); "Lady Latour" (1920, Ryerson Press, Toronto); and "Seeing Eur- ope Backwards" (1922, Boston). He is a member of the Tedesco Golf Club, Swampscott; Hartford Golf Club, Hartford, Connecticut; and Summer Subscriber at Manchester, Essex county, Massachu- setts. He is also a life member of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
On June 15, 1905, Rev. Mr. Morse married Susan A. Ensign, daughter of Ralph Hart Ensign (presi- dent of the Ensign, Bickford Company of Simsbury) and Susan (Toy) Ensign, daughter of Joseph Toy, esquire, of Camborne, England, who migrated to America in 1839, where he started the manufacture of safety fuses on this side of the Atlantic. They are the parents of one daughter, Susan Toy Morse, born in Simsbury, July 4, 1905. The family at present reside at No. 170 Ocean street, Lynn. The Rev. W. I. Morse will complete his seventeenth year as rector of his parish this coming July, 1922.
JANE SMITH DEVEREAUX, M. D., received her degree and began the practice of medicine in her native Marblehead, Massachusetts, in 1880, the woman physician at that time not being looked upon with the same favor as at the present day. That was true of all professions, and Dr. Devereaux met with no unusual hardships in the way of prejudice against the entrance of women into the professions. Forty years have since elapsed and she is still in practice, her skill and value having been so fully demonstrated that her place in the life of Marblehead could not easily be filled.
Dr. Devereaux is a daughter of Samuel and Han- nah W. (Smith) Devereaux, her father born in Marblehead, May 28, 1836; her mother, also born in Marblehead, June 22, 1886, died there, February 22, 1908. They were the parents of four children: 1. Robert Devereaux, born in Marblehead, February 20, 1856, now a resident of California. 2. Jane Smith, of further mention. 8. Anna W., a sketch of whom follows. 4. Gertrude M., born December 2, 1870, now the wife of Gardner R. Hathaway, a prominent real estate dealer of Marblehead. They have four children: Anna, the wife of Richard D. Sanders, of Salem; Alden L., of Marblehead; Sam- uel D., of Norfolk, Virginia; and Daniel R., of Marblehead.
Jane Smith Devereaux, eldest daughter of Samuel and Hannah W. (Smith) Devereaux, was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, February 11, 1858. She prepared in Marblehead public schools, decided upon a professional career, and was graduated from
the Medical School of the University of Boston, with the degree of M.D., class of 1880. She at once began the practice of her profession in Fall River, in June, 1880, then in December, 1880, came to Marblehead, where she has a record of forty years' successful practice. She is a member of the Mas- sachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society; the Mas- sachusetts Surgical and Gynæcological Society; the Marblehead Woman's Club; and the Congregational church. Dr. Devereaux is highly regarded in Marblehead, both for her professional ability and her fine, womanly quality. She is devoted to her profession, and is an earnest laborer in the cause of sanitation and better and more healthful living conditions.
ANNA WHITE DEVEREAUX, second daugh- ter of Samuel and Hannah W. (Smith) Devereaux (see preceding sketch), was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and died there June 16, 1919. The following review of her valuable life and touching tribute to her memory is from the pen of Miss Anna J. McKeag, a co-worker in the cause of education:
"Miss Anna White Devereaux, well known to Wel- lesley people as director of the Page Kindergarten and lecturer in the Department of Education of Wellesley College, died at her home in Marblehead, on Monday morning, June 16, 1919.
"Miss Devereaux, who was one of the best known kindergartners in this country, received her train- ing in Boston at the Anne Page Normal Kinder- garten Training School. For twenty years she was engaged in kindergarten work in Lowell, having been during fourteen years of this period in charge of the kindergarten training class of the State Nor- mal School in Lowell.
"A few years ago Miss Devereaux came to Welles- ley to take charge of the newly-established Anne Page Memorial Kindergarten and to direct the theoretical and practical work of graduate students of Wellesley College who were being trained as kindergartners. Miss Devereaux also gave lectures each year to undergraduate students of education on the subject of the kindergarten.
"In the course of her busy life and varied profes- sional interests, Miss Devereaux had found time also to write several books on kindergarten theory and practice, and to give addresses at noteworthy educational conventions.
"In her work with the children of Wellesley at the Anne Page Memorial Kindergarten, Miss Dever- eaux had the respect and confidence of the parents and the strong affection of the children. To her the kindergarten was no mere place of child activ- ity; it was a centre of spiritual growth for the lit- tle lives entrusted to her care. No one who has seen the "morning circle" can forget the spirit of good-will, the eagerness, the joy of the members of the little group gathered about their beloved Miss Devereaux, learning from her, through song and story, the great lessons of helpfulness, of duty, of reverence. Each child was to her a special sub- ject of study; his physical, mental and moral nature received her earnest consideration and she gave to each her best self. It is hard to give an adequate estimate of all that the devoted service of this noble woman has meant to the children of Welles- ley.
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"As a lecturer at the college, Mist Devereaux was interesting and inspiring. Students gained from her a new respect for the possibilities of child nur- ture and fresh inspiration in their educational studies. Her personality was one of unusual at- tractiveness. Radiant, buoyant in spirit, enthusi- astic always, she diffused a spirit of hope and joy among her colleagues and her pupils. Her faith in human nature, her unselfish devotion to the welfare of others, and her beautiful Christian character will be an abiding memory in the hearts of those who knew her. Kindergartners over the whole land will mourn the going of one of their number, wide- ly known and highly esteemed, and the town of Wellesley will miss one who has given so much of herself to the best interests of the community."
NATHANIEL E. RANKIN, one of the success- ful attorneys of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and a man who has made a name for himself in the pub- lic life of this region, is a native of Taunton, Mas- sachusetts, where he was born September 12, 1874. He is a son of William H. and Catherine A. (Mc- Mahon) Rankin. His father was born in Kenne- bunk, Maine, and has always been a textile manu- facturer. For thirteen years he was a dyer at the Lower Pacific Mills, in Lawrence. After periods in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Columbus, Geor- gia, he went to Waltham, Massachusetts, as agent of the Boston Manufacturing Company.
Nathaniel E. Rankin received the elementary portion of his education at the public schools of Lawrence. After graduating from the local high school he entered Phillips Academy at Andover, where he prepared himself for college, having in the meantime determined to adopt the law as a profession. He accordingly matriculated at the law school of Boston University and pursued the pre- scribed course with the class of 1900. Throughout his school and college years he had proved himself an intelligent student, and at the close, came to the opening of his career unusually well equipped both with natural gifts and a training that was the result of conscientious effort. Immediately after graduating, he passed his bar examinations and es- tablished himself in the practice of his chosen pro- fession, first in Boston, where he remained for two years, returning subsequently to Lawrence, where he formed a partnership with Archie N. Frost. That continued until 1914, but since then he has practiced alone. He has built up an excellent prac- tice, for as a lawyer with a broad comprehensive grasp of all questions that come before him, he has proven himself to be well fitted for affairs requir- ing administrative ability. He is clerk of the Dis- trict Court, having been appointed January 1, 1917, and is a member of the Essex County Bar Associa- tion and the Lawrence Bar Association.
Besides his legal activity, Mr. Rankin has inter- ested himself in the conduct of public affairs in the community and has come to be regarded as one of the leaders of the local organization of the Re- publican party. He was a member of the Repub- lican City Committee for some years, and later was, for five years, a member of the Republican
State Committee, doing a good deal of speech- making for the cause. During the World War he was a member of the local draft board, having al- ways, in a public-spirited manner, discharged every obligation of citizenship, never shrinking any duty, public or private. Mr. Rankin attends the Tower Hill Congregational Church; he affiliates with the Masonic order, being a member of Tuscan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
On November 4, 1903, at Lawrence, Massachu- setts, Nathaniel E. Rankin was united in marriage with Elizabeth M. Speirs, daughter of Alexander Speirs, of Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin are the parents of two children: Elizabeth and Catherine. The family home is at No. 645 Lowell street.
REV. MICHAEL J. COFFEY-In caring for the spiritual needs of the people of the parish, Rev. Michael J. Coffey, pastor of the Church of the Holy Sacrament, in Cliftondale, Massachusetts, has greatly broadened the usefulness of the church in many practical ways, and has increased the ma- terial prosperity of the church.
Father Coffey was born in Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, April 11, 1872, and is a son of Michael and Margaret (Buckley) Coffey, who came to this country from Ireland in their youth. Receiving his early education in the parochial schools of New- buryport, Father Coffey was graduated in 1888. Thereafter he studied under a special tutor for a period of four years, then entered St. John's Semi- nary, at Brighton, Massachusetts, where he pursued his theological studies. Ordained on December 16, 1897, he began his service as curator of the church in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1898, and re- mained in that capacity for ten years. In 1908 he was appointed assistant at St. Mary's Church in Brookline, and in 1917 was appointed pastor of the Church of the Holy Sacrament, at Cliftondale, in the outskirts of Saugus.
Father Coffey found his present parish burdened with a mortgage of $6,000, which they had carried for upwards of ten years. The eight hundred mem- ber of the church were in a state of discourage- ment, but his activities soon changed the prevailing conditions. Within the first year of his pastorate Father Coffey wiped out the entire indebtedness. He has since added to the church property a hand- some parochial residence, which he now occupies, and has furthermore accumulated a large sum of money, which now rests in the church treasury.
These sweeping improvements have developed in connection with a deep spiritual awakening among the people of the community. From the member- ship above noted the church has increased to a membership of thirteen hundred or more, Father Coffey gathering in many who had hitherto been considered out of reach of the ministrations of this church or any other. This he accomplished through an organized campaign of development in jitney service at such hours as the holy services of the church called the people together.
This church, under Father Coffey's ministrations,
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has taken an active part in many branches of com- munity progress, particularly in the work in sup- port of the American Expeditionary Forces during the period of the World War. The church gave to the cause of humanity, in that terrible struggle, one hundred men, who bore a noble part in the service in France.
SHERMAN HENRY MARSHALL, shoe manu- facturer, and founder and treasurer of the Emery Marshall Company, Inc., probably the largest manufacturers of women's medium-grade turns and welts in the Haverhill district, was born in Haver- hill, Massachusetts, December 5, 1870, the son of Joseph A. and Mary A. (Manser) Marshall, both of Nova Scotia originally.
Mr. Marshall's education was obtained in the common and high schools of Haverhill, and after passing through the latter he started a business life in the cutting room of the shoe factory of Knipe Brothers, in whose employ he remained for about a' year. Then followed a like period in the packing room of W. F. and J. A. Blake, after which he entered the employ of Spaulding & Swett. Even- tually he became superintendent of the plant, hold- ing that responsibility in a plant at Wolfboro, New Hampshire, for thirteen years. In 1898 he was made a member of the firm, and four years later located in Lowell, Massachusetts. Coming to Haver- hill, he acquired an interest in the predecessor of the present Emery Marshall Company, Inc. He formed a partnership with Mr. Emery in 1903, un- der the trading name of Emery & Marshall Com- pany, the company specializing in women's medium- grade turns and welts. The business was incor- porated in 1912 and has grown to such an extent that today it is stated to be the largest in Haver- hill in its line, the output being 4,000 pair a day.
Mr. Emery retired from the business in 1918, and Mr. Marshall's son, Frederick S., is now president and assistant treasurer of the company, his father being treasurer. Sherman H. Marshall also controls the financial direction, as treasurer, of the Granite State Shoe Company, and the Sample Shoe Com- pany (retail store business) of Boston. He also is prominently identified with other business enter- prises and financial institutions, being president of the Haverhill Coal Supply Company, treasurer of the Prescott Power Company, and director of the Merrimack National and Morris Plan banks of Haverhill.
Mr. Marshall has taken part in much public work in his native city, particularly during the re- cent World War period, and especially in connec- tion with the Liberty Loan and Red Cross cam- paigns. He is a director of the Haverhill Young Men's Christian Association, and president of the Pentucket Club. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason; religiously, he is a Methodist, a member of Grace Church, of Haverhill.
Mr. Marshall married, in 1889, May W. Phil- brick, daughter of George H. and Carrie E. (Bunk- er) Philbrick, of Kittery, Maine, the latter original-
ly of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have one child, a son, Frederick Sherman, a sketch of whom follows.
FREDERICK SHERMAN MARSHALL, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, president and assistant treasurer of the Emery Marshall Company, Inc., also of the Granite State Shoe Company, director of the Sample Shoe Company, of Boston, and of the Prescott Power Company, is a native of Haver- hill, born in that city on February 24, 1890, son of Sherman Henry and May W. (Philbrick) Marshall (see preceding sketch).
Frederick S. Marshall was educated in the pub- lic schools of Haverhill, and after passing through high school, entered his father's factory, there thor- oughly learning the shoe business. For three years he worked in the shipping department, and for an- other five years he was in the sole leather de- partment, after which practical experience he was taken into the general offices and given charge of production and detail work. In 1912 he became a member of the firm, the Emery Marshall Company, Inc., and later was elected assistant treasurer. When Mr. Emery retired in 1918 he became presi- dent. He is now president and assistant treasurer, his father being treasurer. While this is his main business, Mr. Marshall also is president and assist- ant treasurer of the Granite State Shoe Company, and a director of the Sample Shoe Company, of Boston, as above mentioned.
During the World War Mr. Marshall was in military service, being commissioned a second lieu- tenant, and assigned to a Machine Gun Company. That he is an expert in shoes may be inferred from his National work during the stress of the World War, when leading manufacturers and executives were asked to put their own affairs secondary to the National interest, and take up the direction of business departments for the government in the great emergency. During the World War, Mr. Marshall was in charge of the Shoe Supply Depart- ment of the Boston District. He is a director of the Prescott Power Company, and was one of the incorporators of the Pentucket Savings Bank.
Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason; and a member of the Junior Order United Ameri- can Mechanics. He also belongs to the Pentucket and Agawan clubs. His church is the Universalist, being a member of the First Universalist Church of Haverhill.
Mr. Marshall married, in 1908, Georgia Lillian Page, daughter of Henry and Mary (Hughes) Page, the former of Haverhill, and the latter originally of Georgetown, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Mar- shall have three children: Kenneth Sherman, who was born in 1909; Richard Donald, who was born in 1916; and Barbara Page, born in 1919.
THE MERRIMACK NATIONAL BANK, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, is the oldest banking in- stitution of Haverhill. It received its charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1814, by
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special act of the Senate and House of Represen- tatives "in general court assembled," and by that act Charles White, David How, Jr., Leonard White, Daniel Haddock, Robert B. Willis, Bayley Bartlett, James Howe, James Duncan, Jr., Peter Osgood, Thomas R. Appleton, Moses Gale, Jr., John Dow and Ebenezer Gage, and successors, were "created a corporation by the naming of the president, direc- tors, and company of the Merrimack bank." The bill, passed by both houses to be enacted on June 14, 1814, was signed by Alden Bradford, Secretary of Commonwealth, on June 23rd. "Upon the pas- sage of the act of incorporation, the proprietors of the bank met at the house of William Greenleaf, innholder, on Tuesday, July 5, 1814, at 4 o'clock, when Charles White was chosen clerk. Bayley Bartlett, Esq., was chosen moderator, and the seven directors chosen were David How, Esq., Bayley Bartlett, Esq., Ebenezer Gage, Esq., James Howe, Peter Osgood, Robert B. Willis and Charles White." On July 9th the directors "voted to purchase the store belonging to Leonard White, Esq., for a bank- .ing house, together with the land, for $1,000." Two days later David How was elected president, and Leonard White, cashier. Mr. How was a soldier of the Revolution, was representative to the Gen- eral Court of Massachusetts for twelve years, and was one of the first to engage in the manufacture of shoes on a wholesale scale in Haverhill. He was president of the Merrimack Bank until 1826. Leonard White, first cashier, was prominent in the local administration, town clerk and treasurer for many years, State Representative and later Na- tional Congressman from that district (1811-13). He was cashier of the bank for twenty-two years. The original home of the bank still stands at the corner of Water and Stage streets.
Nathaniel Hill was second president, serving until 1881. David Marsh, Jr., succeeded him in that year. James H. Duncan was president from 1838 to 1845, and from 1847 to 1849, Dr. Rufus Longley serving from 1845 to 1847, and from 1849 to 1855. Hon. E. J. M. Hale was president for twenty-three years, 1855 to 1878.
The bank was a State institution until 1864, then becoming a National bank. On September 22, 1879, the store at Nos. 22-24 Washington street was purchased from George A. Greene for $12,000. Fortunately, the directors expended $4,000 in "a double-lined vault and burglar-proof safe." Two years later the great fire in Haverhill razed the bank building with others, but it was found, how- ever, that the vault withstood the flames.
Charles W. Chase was president from 1878 to 1891. He was succeeded by Dudley Porter, and he in turn by the present incumbent, Charles W. Arnold, who became chief executive of the insti- tution in 1905.
When the Merrimack National Bank opened for business in 1814, the trading can not have been very appreciable, because the valuation of the whole of the city was then only about $85,000, but the
bank has gone steadily forward through the de- cades, as its reports will show.
CHARLES W. ARNOLD, president of the Merri- mack National Bank of Haverhill, (see preceding sketch), and one of Massachusett's leading leather merchants, was born in Hampstead, New Hamp- shire, May 24, 1853, son of John W. and Mary A. Arnold, the former a lumber merchant, and a man of sterling character. Charles W. Arnold was rear- ed in the wholesome environment of a New Eng- land home of independent responsibility without affluence, and he therefore developed a sturdy, steady character. He was educated in the public schools, and for eighteen months was able to attend the Connecticut Literary Institution, which was of a preparatory collegiate class. But he was only sixteen years old when his father died, and it then became necessary for him to at once begin to cara money. So he entered the employ of T. Noyes and Company, of Haverhill, in the humblest capacity, and there learned the leather business, with which he has ever since been identified. His steadiness and reliability soon became evident. It is said that for seven years he "never lost an hour from his day's work." To-day he is among the leading leather merchants of Massachusetts. What may his success be attributed to? Earnestness, con- scientiousness, and application. Mr. Arnold's com- mon sense doctrine is: "To attain true success in life, give close application to whatever one is en- gaged in, with honesty and hard work. Above all, whatever one does, whether work or play, do it well." Production cannot come without applica- tion, but complete success will not come out of poor workmanship.
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