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Mr. Munroe married, June 2, 1892, Clara Bailey Mansfield, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 14, 1868, daughter of Edward Galen and Re- becca Stacey (Breed) Mansfield, granddaughter of Edward and Clara (Bailey) Mansfield. Edward Galen Mansfield was born in Brighton, Massachu- setts, in July, 1842, died July 26, 1875. Rebecca Stacey (Breed) Mansfield, born January 15, 1841, died June 8, 1880, was a daughter of Captain Hub- bard Breed an old-time deep-water master of ships. Edward Mansfield was born April 13, 1813. Clara (Bailey) Mansfield was born September 15, 1818,
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and died November, 1898. Nine children were born to William F. and Clara Bailey (Mansfield) Munroe, seven in Peabody, and two in Salem. 1. Eleanor Vinton, born March 26, 1893, died October 18, 1897. 2. Ruth, born June 15; 1894, a graduate of the Mas- sachusetts State Normal School at Framingham, 1915; married, January 15, 1916, Charles H. Went- worth, and has two daughters, Clara Munroe, born January 15, 1917, and Virginia Alan, born June 23, 1920. 3. Alice Hubbard, born November 11, 1895, a graduate of Burdett College, class of 1915; married, June 26, 1920, Samuel Oliver King. 4. Marjorie, born November 27, 1898; married, February 9, 1915, Ralph K. Raymond, and has two children: John Munroe, born July 19, 1916, and Eleanor Wilson, born November 11, 1918. 5. Allen Breed, born March 11, 1900; he entered the United States ser- vice in March, 1918, and was honorably discharged in September, 1919. He was in training at the United States Radio Station at Cambridge, Massa- chusetts, prior to entering the service, being in the navy. He crossed the ocean three times and saw active service. Since the war he attended Eastern Radio Institute at Boston, Massachusetts, as a stu- dent, is now a radio operator, first class, and has again crossed the ocean three times. 6. Wil- liam Calvin, born May 20, 1902, a student at Brown University, class of 1923. 7. Edward Mansfield, born March 9, 1904, a student at high school. 8. John Vinton, born August 6, 1905, a student at high school. 9. Frederick Galen, born July 4, 1910. The family home was in Peabody, but a summer home was maintained in Salem many years. Mrs. Clara Bailey (Mansfield) Munroe survives her husband, and continues her residence in Peabody, Massachu- setts, at No. 25 Orchard street.
SAMUEL HOOPER (2) STONE-Two men have borne this name in Beverly, Massachusetts, Samuel Hooper Stone, mariner and later merchant, long since gathered to his fathers, and his son, Samuel Hooper (2) Stone, the well known real es- tate and insurance broker, now located at No. 164 Cabot street, where he conducts a business which he established forty-four years ago (1877) in a room over Hill's jewelry store at No. 160 Cabot street. The business has remained in that locality all the years which have since intervened, and is housed in the building next door to the one in which it had its birth.
Samuel Hooper Stone, the elder, was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, July 15, 1826, died Sep- tember 7, 1881. He followed the sea in his earlier life, then engaged in the shoe business in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he died. He married Caroline Augusta Dodge, born in Beverly, September 17, 1830, and there died, May 5, 1881, daughter of Azor Dodge, whose home was the old Batch home- stead, the oldest house standing in Beverly.
Samuel Hooper (2) Stone, son of Samuel Hooper (1) and Caroline Augusta (Dodge) Stone, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, January 26, 1852, and there yet resides, sixty-nine years later. He was
educated in the public schools and was variously engaged until the age of twenty-five, then, on April 1, 1877, began his long and successful career as a real estate and insurance agent. He opened his first office in a room over Hill's jewelry shop at No. 160 Cabot street and from the beginning met with gratifying success. He has continued in the same lines and has built up a strong agency. His real estate operations and dealings have been ex- tensive and he may be given credit for a great deal of the expansion and improvements which in the last half century Beverly has experienced. The 'strongest and best companies are represented in his insurance department, and it is a conservative state- ment to say that in his business operations Mr. Stone has registered success. The business was incorporated August 1, 1917, under the name of the Samuel H. Stone Company, Inc., Roy K. Patch and George W. Barron being associated with Mr. Stone. He was one of the founders of the Beverly Board of Trade in 1888, has continuously held an import- ant office, and never missed a board meeting dur- ing the entire period of twenty-nine years, which has elapsed since its organization. Since 1889 he has been secretary of the Beverly Building Associa- tion. He is Beverly's representative on the Salem "News", and a citizen, public-spirited and progres- sive.
Mr. Stone is a member of Liberty Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Diana Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Bass River Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and Friendship Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah. He is a Republican in poli- tics, and a member of Dane Street Congregational Church. Now nearing his seventieth birthday, Mr. Stone is hale and hearty, and is daily at his busi- ness. He is widely known as a genial, generous soul, upright andd honorable in all things, a man both trusted and loved.
Mr. Stone married Nellie M. Hussey, a daughter of Frank H. and Augusta P. Hussey.
GEORGE DRAPER-With long experience in the manufacture of leather, George Draper, of Peabody, Massachusetts, is carrying forward to a successful future the business which he has estab- lished in this city.
Mr. Draper was born in Peabody, March 18, 1880, and is a son of Edward and Jane (Tresilian) Draper. The father was born in Ireland, and the mother in Maine.
Receiving a thoroughly practical education in the public and high schools of this city, Mr. Draper first entered the industrial world in the employ of the A. C. Lawrence Company, the well known Peabody leather manufacturers. Here he worked in the shipping department for four years. He then became connected with the Morrill Leather Company, of Salem, Massachusetts, as foreman, and remained with them in that capacity for fifteen years. He then went to Brooklyn, New York, . where he was with the Richard Young Company, leather manufacturers, for three years. Following
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this he went to the O. H. Oppenheimer Company, of Newark, New Jersey, with whom he was asso- ciated for one year as superintendent. Thereafter returning to Peabody, he became superintendent of the C. P. Osborne Company's plant, filling this posi- tion for a period of five years.
Through these various changes, Mr. Draper gain- ed a fund of experience, and a familiarity with modern methods in different plants, which he is now finding invaluable. In 1919, in association with Ruric A. Chilson as partner, he founded the busi- ness which is now progressing most satisfactorily. Located on Walnut street, in Peabody, the firm are manufacturing sock linings for Mckay turned shoes, and are handling the splitting of leather on contract, manufacturing sheep skins. They are building up an extensive business and taking a posi- tion of prominence in the manufacturing world.
Mr. Draper is a member of the Peabody Cham- ber of Commerce, and politically supports the Re- publican party. In fraternal circles he is well known, being master of Jordan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and also a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which he is also warden. For thirty- five years, ever since his childhood, he has sung in different church choirs.
Mr. Draper married, in Peabody, Massachusetts, Emma L. Osborne, daughter of Calvin P. and Louise V. (Jones) Osborne, Mr. Osborne being Mr. Draper's recent employer.
FREDERICK PENFIELD LIBERTY-The busi- ness record of Frederick Penfield Liberty, of Merri- mac, Massachusetts, shoe manufacturer, clearly in- dicates his measure as an organizer and executive. He has had part in the formation and development of several important shoe manufacturing corpora- tions, as will be seen. His record also includes im- portant administrative duties accomplished in mili- tary capacity during the World War.
Frederick P. Liberty was born on June 9, 1885, at Renovo, Pennsylvania, son of Magloire and Al- phonsine (Normand) Liberty. His father was born in Pigeon City, Pennsylvania, on July 26, 1862, and for the greater part of his life was a lumber mer- chant in Pennsylvania. His mother was born in Lakeport, New Hampshire, on June 7, 1865. Their children were: Frederick P., of whom further; Marie Louise; Elodie; and Ernest.
The family seems to have settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, early in the boyhood of Frederick P., for he received his elementary education in the public schools of that place. He later was a stu- dent at the Sacred Heart College, Arthabaska, Can- ada. After graduating therefrom, he entered busi- ness life without delay. His first work was in the retail clothing store of Warren Emerson, in Haver- hill, where he remained for about eighteen months, then left to work in New Bedford, Massachusetts, for the Haskell & Tupp Company of that place. He was only twenty-two years old when he re- turned to Haverhill and ventured into business for
himself. He formed business association with Ernest C. Peabody, and the two, as partners, con- ducted the firm of Ernest C. Peabody & Company, leather trimmers, from 1907 to 1910, when Mr. Lib- erty acquired a half-interest in the business of Ed. E. Sullivan, of Haverhill, the firm with the change of ownership becoming Ed. E. Sullivan & Company. The partnership continued for four years, until 1914, and an appreciable volume of manufacturing of high grade turned shoes for ladies had been de- veloped; but in 1914 Mr. Liberty saw an advantage in retiring from the company to organize the Lib- erty-Durgin Corporation, and did so. The prin- cipal incorporators were Bernard L. Durgin, Freder- ick P. Liberty, and William S. Starkey, and these became the president, treasurer, and vice-president of the corporation when chartered. Seeing that nowadays most of the manufacturing is done by the Rex system, it is interesting to note that the Liberty-Durgin Corporation was the first company to manufacture shoes under the Turn Rex system.
During the next few years a great expansion came, and when in 1917 the government had to en- ter into many phases of manufacture to meet the requirements of the nation at war, the plant of the Liberty-Durgin Corporation was important enough to be one of those sought for and turned over. During the war the plant manufactured textile equipment exclusively for the government, and was very efficiently managed. It is said that the fac- tory had the distinction of having the greatest out- put per machine at the least expense, notwithstand- ing that it had the highest paid operators during the period in which it was devoted to government con- tracts; and a further distinction, which is treasured, is a citation from the United States Government as to its valuable service to the nation in war, it being stated that the Liberty-Durgin Corporation was the only company engaged in government con- tracts that was not delinquent in filling orders. The company continued in government work until the close of the World War, and then reverted to shoe manufacturing, and to the making of Good- year welt women's shoes. In the same year Mr. Liberty acquired the controlling interest in the Austin H. Perry Shoe Company, the name being then changed to the Cooper, Liberty, Thompson Company, the company continuing to manufacture on an extensive scale, having two plants, one at Marlboro and the other at Haverhill. In 1920 Mr. Liberty became chairman of the Shoe Manufactur- ing Association, acting also as manager, capacities he still holds. Recently, in 1921, he became con- nected with the George B. Leavitt Corporation, large shoe manufacturers, and was elected presi- dent and appointed general manager. It will there- fore be seen that Mr. Liberty has been quite active in his connection with the Massachusetts shoe manufacturing industry.
During the World War he volunteered his ser- vices to the nation, in military capacity, though of course beyond draft age. He enlisted in the United States army in March, 1918, and was commissioned
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in the grade of captain by President Wilson, on May 7, 1918. He was assigned to duty at Boston, Mas- sachusetts, under the district chief of ordnance, Levi H. Greenwood, and had charge of production of ordnance equipment. In August, 1918, he was transferred from the Ordnance Department to the Quartermaster Corps, and in this assignment was the officer in charge of the manufacturing branch of the department in the Boston district. He was not discharged from military service until June, 1919. Immediately, thereafter, he resumed his full connection with the shoe industry.
Mr. Liberty is necessarily well known in the Haverhill district. He is a member of the Haver- hill Chamber of Commerce, was a director of it for two years, and also was a member of the Haverhill Rotary Club. He belongs to the Island Golf, Agawam, and Merrimac Valley clubs.
Mr. Liberty married, January 4, 1905, Sarah Isa- belle Page, who was born in Haverhill, March 26, 1885, daughter of George H. and Mary Jane (Hughes) Page, of Haverhill. George H. Page was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, December 1, 1860, and was a hotel proprietor in Haverhill until he died, August 4, 1907. His wife was born in Georgetown, Massachusetts, August 6, 1859, and they were married July 3, 1879. Their children were: Flora Edith, born February 6, 1881; Charles, born in August, 1882, died in 1883; Sarah Isabelle, who married Frederick P. Liberty; Elzo B., born June 21, 1886; George L., born October 7, 1890; Ruth A., born October 8, 1892; Jennie M., born May 7, 1894; and Doris, born April 6, 1898. Frederick P. and Sarah Isabelle (Page) Liberty had children as follows: Norman D. Page, born September 2, 1906; Jane Louise, born October 26, 1908; Ruth, born November 16, 1910; Frederick P., Jr., born January 3, 1913; George Currier, born July 29, 1915, died July 12, 1917; James Sherman, born July 1, 1917; and Franklin, born July 22, 1919.
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HARRISON MERRILL DAVIS, a member of the law firm of Dunbar & Rackemann, Room 75, Ames building, Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, December 17, 1867, and is a son of Abner H. and Mary L. (Merrill) Davis, both of New England families.
In the public schools of Portland, Maine, Mr. Davis laid the foundation for his education, then spent two years at Olivet College, Michigan. Re- turning East, he thereafter read law in the offices of Holmes & Payson, of Portland, Maine, and was admitted to the Maine bar in 1888. He was admit- ted to the Massachusetts bar in 1896, and has since carried on a general practice, being associated since 1896 with the firm of attorneys formerly known as Balch & Rackemann, and more recently Dunbar & Rackemann, having been admitted to the firm in 1908.
Mr. Davis is a member of the Salem Billiard Club, the Salem Golf Club, and the Eastern Yacht Club. He is also a member of the Salem Club, and of the St. Botolph Club of Boston.
Mr. Davis married, in 1901, Mary Adams, daugh- ter of Dr. John F. Adams, and they have two sons: John F. A., born October 19, 1904, and Harrison M. Jr., born April 19, 1908.
HARRIE J. PHIPPS was born at Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in 1880, and is a son of Appleton and Sarah J. (Metcalf) Phipps, of Hopkinton. His father was a carpenter and builder.
Mr. Phipps received his early education in the public schools at Watertown, Massachusetts. After completing his preliminary studies, he proceeded to Harvard University and graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1903. Having decided to adopt the profession of teaching, Mr. Phipps ac- cepted a position as teacher at Cumberland, Mary- land, where he remained for two years. He next spent three years as a teacher at the Allen School for Boys, at West Newton. From there he' went to the Malden High School, where for three years he was professor of mathematics and science. When his connection with the Malden High School came to an end, Mr. Phipps became the principal of the Oliver Ames High School, at North Easton. At the end of four years of service in this position Mr. Phipps became the superintendent of schools at Easton, a position which he held for three years. At length, after having been connected with the Oliver Ames High School at North Easton for seven years, Mr. Phipps decided to accept a new position, and became the superintendent of schools at Walpole, where he remained for one year. From Walpole he came to Danvers, where for the past two years he has been superintendent of schools of the town.
Mr. Phipps is an active member of the Maple Street Congregational Church. He served as a member of the State Guard during the period of the World War, from 1917 to 1920. He is a Mason and a past master of the Grange. He is also a member of the Massachusetts High School Association; the Massachusetts School Masters' Club; and the Mas- sachusetts Superintendents' Association.
Mr. Phipps married Alice Cox, of Watertown, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of four daughters: Virginia, Gwendolyn, Miriam, and Jean Phipps.
DEAN K. WEBSTER, the present head of the H. K. Webster Company, of Lawrence, Massachu- setts, has for years carried forward in ever widening scope a business built upon one of the everyday needs of the people.
Henry K. Webster, the founder of this concern, was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Janu- ary 18, 1835, and was educated in the schools of that city. As a young man he worked on his fath- er's farm, then, in 1858, came to Lawrence. Here he entered the employ of a local grain dealer, re- maining in this connection until 1863, when he en- listed in the 12th Regiment, Massachusetts Volun- teer Infantry, serving until the end of the war. Returning to Lawrence in 1865, Mr. Webster re
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sumed the duties of his old position and continued with the same firm until 1868. During his employ- ment in this business he had learned thoroughly the relation of this branch of mercantile endeavor to the trade which it supplied, and with the originality which was characteristic of the man, devised a plan for developing the business in such a manner as to be of mutual advantage to both the dealer and the consumer. Starting in business for himself in 1868, he built up a very large interest by milling grains and preparing feeds for the special require- ments of the different groups into which the mar- ket is naturally divided. Carrying this idea through all his experience as head of the business, it be- came the fundamental principle of the concern, and has been developed to a point where the company mills and manufactures a large variety of grain products, including corn meal, cracked corn, ground oats, and many special lines of mixed feeds for stock and poultry, all under the brand of the "Blue Seal Grain Products." They make a specialty of distributing assorted car lots of grain and feed to points on the Boston & Maine railroad in this and other States. They sell at both wholesale and retail and do a large business. Prior to 1904 the firm was known as the H. K. Webster Co., and then, be- ing incorporated, it has since been the H. K. Web- ster Company.
Henry K. Webster became widely prominent in various circles in Lawrence, and was honored by the people by election to public office. He was long a member of the Common Council, and served as president of that body in 1878-79. In 1881 he was elected mayor of the city of Lawrence, and served with dignity and wisdom. For many years he was president of the Lawrence National Bank, and after its consolidation with the Merchants National, as the Merchants Trust Company, he was chairman of its board of directors until his death. He was a member of Tuscan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Mount Sinai Royal Arch Chapter; of Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Masters; and of Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar. He died February 23, 1920.
On September 7, 1861, Henry K. Webster married Elsie A. Johnson, who died in 1909. They were the parents of three sons: Burt G., now of Haver- hill, Massachusetts; Neal W .; and Dean K., of fur- ther mention.
Dean K. Webster was born in Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, May 10, 1870, and received his early edu- cation in the public schools of the city. Covering the high school course, he thereafter attended com- mercial school, and also studied law in the office of a Lawrence attorney. While never taking up the practice of law professionally, he has found this knowledge a useful business adjunct. Becoming associated with his father in 1891, he was received. into the firm as a partner in 1895, and upon the death of his father became president and treasurer of the concern, in which office he is still active.
In 1007 Mr. Webster was selected by the Grain Dealers' Association of New England to head the
organization of the Grain Dealers' Mutual Fire In- surance Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, since which time he has served as its president. From this beginning three other mutual insurance com- panies have grown, of each of which Mr. Webster is the active head: Automobile Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Automobile Mutual Liability Insurance Company (called The Twin Mutuals), and the Beacon Mutual Fire Insurance Company. These are all Massachusetts corporations, with offices at No. 40 Central street, Boston.
In fraternal circles Mr. Webster is widely promi- nent. He is a member of Tuscan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, being a past master of the lodge. He is a past high priest of Mount Sinai Royal Arch Chapter; is past illustrious master of Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Masters; is a past com- mander of Bethany Commandery, No. 17, Knights Templar. He is past district deputy grand master of the Grand Lodge, is past district deputy grand. high priest, and past grand king of the Grand Chapter, also past grand principal conductor of the work, and at the present time is most illustrious grand master of the Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Massachusetts. He is a member of Lowell Lodge of Perfection, Scottish Rite, and is past sovereign prince of Lowell Council, Princes of Jerusalem. He is past second lieutenant com- mander of Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite, with the thirty-second de- gree, and has been crowned with the honorary thirty-third degree. He is a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston.
Socially, Mr. Webster is well known, and is a member of the Rotary Club, and also of the Merri- mac Valley Country Club. He is a member of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
On May 31, 1894, Mr. Webster married Clara- bell Hatch, of Lawrence, and they have two sons: Dean K., Jr., associated with his father in business; and Walter N., a student of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology. The family resides at No. 19 Wyman street, and attends the Central Meth- odist Episcopal Church. They also have a charm- ing country home at White's Pond, Pelham, New Hampshire.
GEORGE HARRISON ALLEN-A lifelong resi- dent of Essex county, and now, at nearly eighty-one years of age, at his desk daily, George Harrison Allen is a noteworthy example of the business ex- ecutive who is still alert and active far beyondd the allotted span of life.
Mr. Allen comes of one of the oldest families. in New England, and is a son of Jacob Alva Allen, who was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, March 5, 1810. Jacob A. Allen was a member of the firm of Wilson & Allen, a representative firm of Essex county of a day gone by, conducting a prosperous planing mill and a box factory. He continued long in this business, his son being identified with its progress from his youth. Jacob A. Allen married
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Prudence Hire, who was born in Middlebury, Ver- mont, November 5, 1807. Both are long since de- ceased.
George Harrison Allen was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, on June 21, 1840. Obtaining a prac- tical education in the public schools both of Man- chester and Methuen, he began his business career in his father's planing mill, shoveling shavings. About 1867 Jacob A. Allen and Captain James Boy- den formed a partnership, and coming to this city began making wooden boxes in Lynn and Beverly. George H. Allen, then twenty-seven years of age, and a veteran of Civil War, joined them in the ven- ture. Two years later Captain Boyden died, and they received into partnership his half-brother, .William Boyden. The business continued to prosper in their hands, and although they had the mis- fortune of seeing the larger factory burn to the ground, they replaced it with a larger, finer and better equipped plant, and continued, undismayed. This arrangement continued until about 1891, when Mr. Allen purchased the interest of the Boyden heirs. George H. Allen conducted both plants until January 1, 1920, when he sold to the Hoague- Sprague Corporation, retaining, however, an inter- est in the concern.
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