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Mr. Arnold has followed business closely, but what time he has been able to give to other mat- ters has been thoroughly given. He is manifestly well-read, takes recreation strenuously, and is of record in many public activities. He has served in the city administration, being alderman in 1892 and 1893, the latter year being chairman of the board. He has been identified with military organizations, being a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. He also has been prominent in the functioning of fraternal bodies, being a thirty-second degree Mason; emi- nent commander of Haverhill Commandery, Knights Templar; and his love of the outdoors finds expression in driving, fishing, motoring and golf. He is a former president of the Island Golf Club of Haverhill, and the Pentucket Club. He at- tends the Universalist church of Haverhill, and politically is a Democrat.
On September 16, 1882, at Lawrence, Massachu- setts, Mr. Arnold was married to Mildred Fletcher, daughter of Raymond and Julia Fletcher, of Haverhill. To them have been born five children, two sons and three daughters, as follows: Claude M., Blanche M., Charles W., Jr., Marjorie, and Nathalie.
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ARTHUR L. COLE-Among the reliable and this time, consisting of Adam Reid, James J. enterprising business men of Lawrence, Massachu- setts, is Arthur L. Cole, a stationer. His business has steadily grown until it now is the best in that line in Lawrence; indeed it is stated that his store is one of the show places of Lawrence.
Mr. Cole was born in Waybridge, Vermont, on May 26, 1867, son of James S. and Mary (Winters) Cole, his father being of Middlebury, Vermont, and his mother of Stockholm, New York. His father, who was a farmer, died in 1912; his mother died twenty-two years earlier, in 1890. They were the parents of six children, Arthur L. being the young- est of their four sons. He was educated in public schools in his native place, and later at the Bee- man Academy, New Haven, Vermont. After leav- ing school he found employment with George Har- ris, at Clinton, Massachusetts. He remained in this employ for twelve years, then came to Law- rence to enter into business for himself. He opened a stationery store at No. 282 Essex street, and by persistent and consistent effort developed it to its present enviable standing.
Mr. Cole is widely known in the district. He be- longs to the Home Club, the Country Club, and the Methuen Club, and also is a member of John Han- cock Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Methuen, and of the Boston Stationers' Association. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce for one term. By religious faith he is a Congregationalist, attending Trinity Congregational Church, of Law- rence.
Mr. Cole married, in 1897, Edith L. Gibbs, of Clinton, Massachusetts, daughter of William H. and Marcia (Lawrence) Gibbs, of Clinton. The former is a manufacturer of harness and reeds at that place, but he has been a widower since 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Cole were the parents of one child, a son, William H., who was born in 1900.
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REID & HUGHES COMPANY-This company, which is located at Nos. 225-235 Essex street, Law- rence, Massachusetts, is one of the leading stores of the city, embodying as it does twenty-eight de- partments, carrying every kind of women's wear and household furnishings. "The Boston Store," as it is familiarly known to the shopping public of Lawrence, is most favorably regarded not only in the city itself, but also in the surrounding terri- tory adjacent to Lawrence. The business was founded by Thomas Simpson and William Oswald, who bought out the dry goods business of A. Sharpe, at No. 213 Essex street, and opened under the firm name of Simpson & Oswald. As time went on and the business grew, it was removed to its present quarters. Mr. Oswald purchased Mr. Simpson's interests some time later and continued alone until 1893, when he sold out to the Reid & Hughes Company. Ten years later, according to a previous agreement, Mr. Oswald bought back the business and formed the William Oswald Company, but owing to ill health he again sold to the Reid & Hughes Company, which was a new corporation at
Hughes, Eugene T. Adams and Leonard E. Ben- nink. In 1905 James J. Hughes died, in 1907 came Mr. Reid's death, and in 1914 George F. Hughes, who was later admitted to the firm, passed away. This left the interests of the last two named in the hands of Leonard E. Bennink and Eugene T. Adams. In 1918 the interests of the James J. Hughes estate were acquired by Leonard E. Ben- nink, which gave him a large majority control, and he became president and treasurer of the concern; radical improvements were made, and at the present time, 1921, there is no more modern store in Essex county. The establishment has a frontage of 105 feet on Essex street, is 85 feet deep, and three stories high, with an extensive basement in addi- tion. The present officers are: Leonard E. Ben- nink, president and treasurer, a sketch of whom follows; Donald C. Bennink, assistant treasurer; and Frederic N. Chandler, secretary.
LEONARD E. BENNINK, president and treas- urer of the Reid & Hughes Company, above men- tioned, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 8, 1855. He was the son of Gerrett Jan and Maatje (Van Setten) Bennink, both natives of Holland. After finishing his education in the public schools of his native city, the business of life began for the boy at fifteen years of age, and from its inception he has been engaged in the dry goods business, having been thus employed both in Bos- ton and Brockton previous to his identification with the Boston store.
Mr. Bennink, in addition to his duties as directing head of the Reid & Hughes Company, has been one of the most active and well known public-spirited citizens of this community, his activities having found expression in his being secretary of the Old Merchants' Association, president of the Merchants' Association, director in the Chamber of Commerce as it is constituted today, director in the Bay State National Bank and Morris Plan Bank, besides be- ing chairman of the Water Commission of Law- rence, and a member of practically every important committee for civic betterment in the last decade. In the great 1912 textile strike, Mr. Bennink was a member of the Citizens' Committee which did suc- cessful work in those trying times. He was the first president of the association which drafted the present Lawrence City Charter and was one of the fathers of the project. During the World War he was tireless in his efforts as an official "four-min- ute man," and a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety.
Leonard E. Bennink is also prominent in Ma- sonic circles, being a member of all the Masonic bodies through the thirty-second degree, and is affiliated with many other organizations, as follows: Lawrence Lodge, No. 65, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks; ex-president of the Lawrence Anti-Tuberculosis League; Home Club; Merrimac Valley Country Club; president of the Men's Club of the Universalist church; treasurer of the Law-
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rence Newsboys' Protective Association and a trustee from its inception; and a member of the executive committee of the Republican Club of Massachusetts.
On April 13, 1881, Leonard E. Bennink was united in marriage with Katherine A. Crone, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and the daughter of Captain Louis E. and Augusta A. Crone, the latter a native of Peterborough, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Bennink are the parents of two chil- dren: Bertha, who married Charles Ernest Curran, of Lawrence, and lives at No. 43 Pearl street. 2. Donald C., who is assistant treasurer of the firm of the Reid & Hughes Company, is a graduate of the Lawrence public schools and Dartmouth Col- lege, having graduated from the latter institution in the class of 1915. He served in the United States army during the World War from May 12, 1917, until March 4, 1919, in the grades from pri- vate to first lieutenant, and was discharged a cap- tain in the reserve corps. He is a member of Gre- cian Lodge of Masons, of Lawrence; Mt. Sinai Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Masters; and is affiliated with Lawrence Lodge, No. 65, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Lawrence Post, No. 15, Ameri- can Legion, of which he is past commander. Mr. Bennink also holds membership in the Home Club, Merrimac Valley Country Club, and was formerly commanding officer of Company D, First Supply Train, Massachusetts National Guard, of Lawrence. Donald C. Bennink married, on June 12, 1920, Elizabeth Scott Jeffrey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Jeffrey, of Lawrence, and they have one son, Leonard E. Bennink, 2nd., born May 16, 1921.
HARRY E. JACKSON was born at Salem, Mas- sachusetts, the son of Eben and Lupyra S. (New- begin) Jackson, the former born in Madison, New Hampshire, March 10, 1834, the latter in Newfield, Maine, June 17, 1843. They now reside in Dan- vers during the summer, but spend their winters in Plymouth, Florida. Eben Jackson grew up on & farm, but from the age of eighteen to twenty-one years was a seaman on a whaling trip to the Arctic, then was a shoemaker in Lawrence. Later he went to Salem and entered the grocery and provision business, being a partner of the late Franklin White. He returned in 1882 to a small farm in Danvers.
Harry E. Jackson received his early education in the public schools, graduating from the Salem Grammar School and the Danvers High School. He proceeded to the Boston University Law School, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1894.
Mr. Jackson began to practice law with John M. Raymond, of Salem, in 1894, and remained in Mr. Raymond's office until he was admitted to the bar and established his own office. Mr. Jackson has been eminently successful in his profession and is well known in Massachusetts. He has been coun- sel for the town of Danvers for the past ten years
and acts as a special justice of the Ipswich District Court. He is vice-president of the Cooperative Bank of Danvers, and also acts as attorney for the bank. For about nine years he served as a member of the School Board of Danvers, and also served as chairman of the School Committee.
Mr. Jackson was formerly president of the Salem Bar Association, and is now a member of the board of directors of that association. He is director of the Massachusetts City Solicitors' and Town Coun- sels' Association. In politics he is a Republican. and was for several years chairman of the Repub- lican Town Committee of Danvers. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has held all the chairs of the lodge of that organiza- tion in Danvers. He is a Mason of the thirty- second degree, and belongs to the Knights Templar. He is a member of the Masonic Club, and served as district deputy of the Ninth Masonic District. He belongs to the Blue Lodge, in which he has held all the chairs; and he is a past master of Amity Lodge.
Mr. Jackson married Fanny M. Freind, of Dan- vers, and they are the parents of one daughter, Hilda Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson reside at No. 34 Poplar street, Danvers. The law office of Jackson & Jackson, in Salem, is at No. 81 Washing- ton street.
ALBERT WARREN ROGERS, a practicing den- tist, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1875, son of George C. and Lydia (Purington) Rogers. His boy- hood was spent in that town, and there he attended the public schools. He entered the Boston Dental School, where in 1898 he received his degree, spend- ing the ensuing year in East Weymouth, Massa- chusetts. He then succeeded Dr. Emery in New- buryport and has successfully continued to the present time.
Fraternally, Dr. Rogers is a member of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows; and also is a mem- ber of the American Yacht Club; the North East- ern Dental Society; and the Essex County Dental Society. With his family he attends the First Con- gregational Church.
Dr. Rogers married, in June, 1901, Daisy Moses, daughter of Chauncey B. and Mary J. Moses, and their children are: Marjorie, born April 12, 1902; Edith, born June 30, 1904; Rachel, born May 1, 1909.
WILBERT J. SMITH-As head of the Smith Motor Car Company, at No. 166 Essex street, Lawrence, Mr. Smith fills a responsible position with both energy and ability. The salesroom and offices of the company are modern in every par- ticular and the plant of the Smith Motor Car Com- pany is an addition to the street.
Wilbert J. Smith was born at Nictaux South, An- napolis county, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 11, 1880, there attended public schools and resided until nineteen years of age, when he came to Lawrence,
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Massachusetts. His first position was with his uncle, John D. Morehouse, who was in the retail grocery business in Lawrence, where he remained for about four years. He was then, until 1910, en- gaged as salesman in various lines. In that year he entered the automobile field by opening a sales- room and service station. Since 1912 he has hand- led the Buick, and for about two years the Chevro- let and Cole cars, the G. M. C. trucks, and a full line of tires, parts and accessories. He also main- tains a branch of his business at Haverhill, Mas- sachusetts.
Mr. Smith is a member of the Lawrence Cham- ber of Commerce, the Home Club, and the Merri- mac Valley Country Club. He also belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of Phoenician Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Lawrence; Mt. Sinai Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Com- mandery, Knights Templar; Massachusetts Con- sistory; and is a noble of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Monadnock Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Smith married, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in September, 1909, Grace E. Sampson, daughter of Fred Sampson, of that city. Their home is in An- dover, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM DAVID HARTSHORNE, C. E .- While Mr. Hartshorne is above all else the pro- fessional man, and devoted to his profession, he is none the less the able business man and financier at the head of and connected with the directorates of National, Trust and Savings banks of Methuen and Lawrence, Massachusetts. He came to the Lawrence district in 1879, and since has served the textile industry as superintendent and agent, but since 1913 he has acted in the capacity of consult- ing engineer.
William D. Hartshorne was born in Brighton, Maryland, January 18, 1853, son of Isaac and Anna Elizabeth (Stabler) Hartshorne, his father a drug- gist and landowner. The boy, William D., attend- ed the public schools of Brighton, prepared at Westtown Boarding School (a famed Friends' School of Chester county, Pennsylvania), then en- tered Haverford College, in the fall of 1867, remain- ing two years. The next two years were spent at home as his father's assistant, following which he entered Lehigh University, whence he was grad- uated, with the degree of Civil Engineer, class of 1874. At Lehigh he pursued special courses in chemistry and mine engineering, his university edu- cation being broad and comprehensive. After graduation, he spent two years in the service of the Lehigh Valley railroad, engaged on the construc- tion of the Musconetcong tunnel, under Henry S. Drinker, who was in charge of the building of that important work, 1872-75.
After his service with the Lehigh Valley rail- road, Mr. Hartshorne accepted a position as profes-
sor of mathematics and physics at the Howland School, Union Springs, New York, remaining there two years. In the fall of 1878 he was placed in charge of a party of government engineers, station- ed at Vicksburg, gauging the flow of the Missis- sippi river in search of needed data. He retired from that position in July, 1879, and for a few months was engaged in special study in certain branches of chemistry.
In the fall of 1879 he entered the service of the Arlington Mills, at Lawrence, as chemist, but a year later he was placed in charge of the dyeing and finishing departments of the mill. In the winter of 1882-83 he was appointed superintendent of the worsted department, remaining in that position until 1900, then, until 1913, filled the office of agent. In that year he resigned the agency and during the following summer visited Europe. Upon his re- turn, he opened an office and has since acted pri- vately as consulting engineer, textile mill conditions a specialty. He is highly regarded in his profes- sion, has written extensively on technical subjects, and on certain phases of engineering is a recognized authority.
Mr. Hartshorne is located in Methuen, Massa- chusetts, two miles from Lawrence, and takes a deep interest in his town. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce; member of the American Society for Testing Materials; Boston Society of Civil Engineers; American Society of Civil Engi- neers; American Chemical Society; life member and past president of the National Association of Cot- ton Manufacturers; and member of the New Eng- land branch Society Chemical Industry. He is affili- ated with John Hancock Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; attends the Congregational church of Methuen; and in politics is a Republican, serving for twelve years on the Methuen School Commit- tee. He has most important business connections outside his profession, being president of the Na- tional Bank of Methuen, Massachusetts, an office to which he was elected in 1905; is a director of the Merchants' Trust Company of Lawrence, and a trus- tee of the Broadway Savings Bank of Lawrence.
Mr. Hartshorne married, in 1877, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Eliza Cutler, of that city, and they are the parents of four children: Elsie Cutler; Miriam; Isaac, who is an oculist of New York City; and Hugh Hartshorne, a professor in Union Theo- logical Seminary, New York City. The family home is in Methuen, Massachusetts.
CHARLES A. CLIFFORD-In the city of Law- rence, Massachusetts, one of the prominent mem- bers of the legal profession is Charles A. Clifford, who is also interested in various branches of activ- ity.
Mr. Clifford is a son of James H. and Mary (Le- han) Clifford. The elder Mr. Clifford, born in St. John, New Brunswick, came to Lawrence in 1847, and for forty consecutive years was a familiar figure in the business life of the city. He died in Janu-
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ary, 1910. He established the decorating business now conducted under the name of the James H. Clifford Company.
Charles A. Clifford was born in Lawrence, on October 31, 1883, and received his early education in the public schools of this city. Later he at- tended the Phillips-Andover Academy, then entered Boston University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1904, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, and then began practice in Lawrence, where he has since continued. He has won his way to a posi- tion of success and dignity. Outside of his im- mediate practice in Lawrence, he is city solicitor for Methuen.
Mr. Clifford is a member of the Lawrence Bar Association, and also of the Essex County and the Suffolk County Bar associations. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Lawrence, and in- fluential in the deliberations of that body; is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order Elks, and the Home Club of Lawrence.
Aside from his professional practice, Mr. Clifford is interested in one of the leading mercantile houses of . Lawrence, the James H. Clifford . Company, in- terior and exterior decorators, established by his father. This concern does a large business in rugs, wall paper, electric floor and table lamps, and their office and show rooms, at No. 430 Essex street, occupy an entire building of five floors.
Mr. Clifford married, in Lawrence, in 1906, Mary I. Garry, daughter of John Garry, of Methuen, Massachusetts, and they have three children: John Garry, James Henry, and Charles A., Jr. The charming family residence is in Methuen, and the family attends St. Margaret's Roman Catholic Church.
ARTHUR G. FROTHINGHAM, Jr., was born in Salem, Massachusetts, December 18, 1886, and there educated in the public schools. After leaving school he enrolled for a course of instruction with the Society of Automobile Engineers of New York City, and after leaving that institution, organized the Cadillac Private Renting Service, of New York City, and for seven years, 1913-1920, conducted a very prosperous business. He then sold his interest in the business to Alfred G. Kraft, of New York City, and removed to Salem, Massachusetts. In Salem, Mr. Frothingham organized the Federal Leather Company, Inc., later known as the Frothingham Tanning Company, Inc., Arthur G. Frothingham, Jr., president; Arthur G. Frothingham, Sr., treas- urer; and Joseph E. Mulford, of Boston, and Frank Hathaway, of Lynn, Massachusetts, directors. The company has made a very successful career and is a well managed concern.
Arthur G. Frothingham, Jr., is a member of the Masonic order, a thirty-second degree Mason, and a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Universalist church. Arthur G. Frothingham, Sr., is also a mem- ber of the Masonic order.
Arthur G. Frothingham, Jr., married, March 10, 1919, Ada Kelly, of New York City.
HUGH E. McGLEW-Quite interesting State history is contained in the record of one of the industrial companies of Newburyport, Massachu- setts. The McGlew Brothers Company is a con- tinuation of a business established in 1845 by the grandfather of Hugh E. McGlew, the latter the present owner, and while it now makes all kinds of open forgings, springs, tires, and such-like iron and steel work, it holds basically to blacksmithing, which was the main occupation of the founder. It is interesting to note that Hugh McGlew, the grand- father, was superintendent of the Eastern Stage Coach Company that pioneered the stage coach ser- vice between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, and that the ironwork for the first stage coach to run over that route was all made in the smithy of Mr. McGlew, at Newburyport. An inter- esting detail also is the statement that all the men employed in making that coach were taken as free passengers in the initial trip of the first coach to run over that route to Portland. The McGlew fam- ily comes into early records of Newburyport, four generations of McGlews having lived in it, and four generations have had connection with the operation of the historic iron-working plant.
Hugh E. McGlew was born in Newburyport, Mas- sachusetts, on November 7, 1858, son of Hugh and Lydia (Lewis) McGlew. The family is of Irish origin, the grandfather having been born on that island, in County Meigh. Hugh McGlew, father of Hugh E., was born in Salem, Massachusetts. He died in Newburyport in 1888, and the greater part of his adult years were spent at his trade, black- smithing and iron-working, in the MeGlew smithy at Newburyport. Lydia (Lewis) McGlew, mother of Hugh E., died in 1892; she was born in the State of Maine.
Hugh E. McGlew was educated in the public schools of Newburyport, and after his schooldays were over, began to help his father in the iron- working plant. He associated with his father in that business until 1880, when he and his brothers acquired the business from their father. For the next twenty years the plant was run under the name of MeGlew Brothers, and satisfactory business was done. In 1900 Hugh E. McGlew became sole own- er, and from that year the company has been known as the McGlew Brothers Company. It is one of the old, solidly-established industrial concerns of Newburyport, and throughout the seventy-aix years it has been operated, has found steady em- ployment for quite a number of men of the district. Mr. McGlew is affiliated with the order of Elks, and the Catholic Order of Foresters.
Mr. McGlew married, in 1881, Julia Sheehan, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Timothy and Julia (Shannon) Sheehan. Mr. and Mrs. McGlew have had nine children: Edward E .; Catherine; Mary; Hugh E. (2) ; Thomas G .; Robert; Lydia; Henry, and Anna. Two of the sons, Robert
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and Henry, are veterans of the World War; they enlisted in the United States navy during the war, Henry being assigned to the Coast Guard Service, and Robert to the U. S. S. "Nebraska," which ship he joined as first class fireman, and had reached the grade of machinists's mate before the war end- ed. Both received honorable discharge from the service eventually.
ADELBERT D. SPRAGUE - A worthy father usually begets a worthy son, at least one can often understand traits in the son by studying the father. Adelbert D. Sprague is a worthy son of a worthy father, Daniel Forest Sprague, born August 3, 1851. The father was at one time a shoe manufacturer in Haverhill, Massachusetts, but in later years was called to an important position with the govern- ment. He was appointed by President Mckinley an appraiser of merchandise at the custom house in Boston. This was a very responsible position and called for much specialized knowledge. He was re- appointed at the beginning of Theodore Roosevelt's administration. He was always very. active with the Republican party of his State. On February 18, 1908, while spending his later days in that win- ter home of so many of the aged and successful --- Florida, the hand of death touched him. Mrs. Lola Caroline (Daggett) Sprague, his wife, born in Haverhill, is one of those who, steadfast always, has lived and still resides in the place of her birth.
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