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Mr. Allen has seen the different changes and de- velopments of box manufacturing, in which branch of industry his father was a pioneer. He has seen the introduction of fiber and paper boxes from the standpoint of one of the largest producers of the day, and is still as keenly interested, although past eighty years of age, as when he entered the field as a young man, with his future before him. He is remarkably active, and the business which he han- dles daily would do credit to a much younger man.
In the Civil War Mr. Allen served in the Third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, also acting as wardmaster in the hospital. He served in North Carolina, under General Foster, for nine months, in the 18th Army Corps, in the Regimental Field Hospital, and through all the exigencies of the time was fortunate enough to suffer no wounds.
By political affiliation a Republican, Mr. Allen has often been sought as a candidate for public office, but has always declined the honor. In finan- cial circles he holds high standing, having been clerk of the board of directors of the Manufactur- ers' National Bank, which office he still holds, his period of service now having covered twenty-eight years. He is also president and trustee of the Com- monwealth Bank of Lynn.
Fraternally, Mr. Allen is widely known. He is a member of Golden Fleece Lodge, Free and Accept- ed Masons, of which lodge he has been treasurer for about twenty-seven years; a member of Sutton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; of Giles F. Yates Council, Royal and Select Masters; of Lafayette Lodge of Perfection, of Boston; of Mount Olivet Chapter, Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite, and holds the thirty-third de- gree in this order. He is also a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine; and is treasurer and trustee of the Masonic Fraternity, of Lynn. He was formerly a member of United Brothers Lodge, No. 66, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Lawrence, and of Palestine En- campment of Lynn, and is past high priest of Pal- estine Encampment. His clubs are the Oxford and the Masonic, of Swampscott.
On December 26, 1864, Mr. Allen married (first) Sarah Luella Mcintyre, daughter of Eben and Tem- perance Mcintyre, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, who died in 1901. Eben Mcintyre was a highly re- spected farmer of that section. Mr. Allen married (second) Effie Sophia Spinney, who was born in Argyle, Nova Scotia, of seafaring ancestors, resid- ing later in Gloucester, Massachusetts. They have two children: Luella Spinney, born September 21, 1904; and George Harrison, Jr., born October 6, 1905.
JOHN O'NEIL, attorney, of Amesbury, Massa- chusetts, was born in that town July 31, 1890, the son of the late John and Mary J. O'Neil. He re- ceived his early education in St. Joseph's Parochial School, and later at the Amesbury High School, from which he was graduated in 1908. For two years following graduation he was engaged in news- paper work, abandoning that in the fall of 1910 to enter Harvard College. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1914, and in the fall of the same year entered the Law School of Harvard Uni- versity. Concluding his law course in June, 1917, he was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts during the summer of that year.
During the World War, 1917-18, Mr. O'Neil served in the army, being attached to the Intelli- gence Service. He was honorably discharged Janu- ary 31, 1919. He was later associated with the law office of William A. Morse, of Boston, and eventu- ally opened offices in Amesbury, where he has since been engaged in the work of his profession and has built up a fine practice.
Mr. O'Neil has been very active in the community work of Amesbury, and there have been few com- munity efforts of recent years in which he has not taken an active part. He is at present a director of the Amesbury Hospital Association and the Amesbury Chamber of Commerce; trustee of the Scholarship Funds of the Amesbury High School and of the Athletic Injury Fund of the same in- stitution.
Mr. O'Neil has been prominent in American Le- gion circles, and has held several offices. At pres- ent he is chairman of the executive committee of Amesbury Post. Fraternally he has been promi- nent in the Knights of Columbus, and now holds the office of grand knight of Amesbury Council of that order. In politics Mr. O'Neil is a Democrat. He has been the party candidate for the Senate in the Fourth Essex District and for Representative in the First Essex District, and has been prominent in the councils of the party in this section of the State.
Mr. O'Neil is unmarried, and resides with his brother at No. 86 Greenwood street, Amesbury.
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WALTER M. LIBBEY-Allied with the great shoe industry in the manufacture of soles and leather, Walter M. Libbey is an active executive in the trade as president of J. L. Libbey & Com- pany.
Mr. Libbey is a son of Jeremiah L. Libbey, long the head of this business, which still' bears his name, and Elizabeth (Sisson) Libbey. Jeremiah L. Lib- bey was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and reared in this city, which was even then a widely recognized center of shoe manufacturing. He founded the present business June 1, 1864, in association with a partner, R. E. Hilliard, who later, in 1870, retired to go into business for himself.
Walter M. Libbey was born in Lynn, Massachu- setts, on April 27, 1858, and educated in the public schools of that city, later spending one year at Wilbraham Academy. Entering his father's fac- tory, he learned the business in all its departments, and on June 1, 1879, was received as a partner. From that time until the present Walter M. Libbey
has been closely identified with the business in an executive capacity. Walter M. Durgin was made a partner in 1892, and in 1918 Mr. Libbey's son, Wal- ter S. Libbey, became a member of the firm. For fifty-seven years J. L. Libbey & Company has been a'factor in the shoe industry in Essex county, and for the past thirty years the plant has occupied its present location on Union street, Lynn. Walter M. Libbey, as president of the company, is prominent in the business world of Lynn.
In financial circles, also, Mr. Libbey is identified with large interests. He was one of the founders of the Manufacturers' National Bank of Lynn, and is vice-president and director of that institution. He is also a member of the Lynn Chamber of Com- merce, and director of the Lynn Mutual Insurance Company. Fraternally, Mr. Libbey is a member of all the Masonic orders, including the Ancient Ara- bic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Lynn Lodge, No. 117, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and of Providence Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His clubs are the Oxford, of Lynn, and the Masonic, of Swamp- scott.
Mr. Libbey married (first) Jessie B. Sawye, who died in November, 1891. They were the parents of two children: Beatrice M., who is now Mrs. Robert J. Kissock, of New York; and Walter S., who is a member of the above-named firm. Mr. Libbey mar- ried (second) Sarah E. Delano.
JAMES KINSELLA-One of the younger attor- neys of Salem, Massachusetts, James Kinsella is building up a successful practice, although his ser- vice in the World War came as an interruption in his career. Mr. Kinsella was born in Salem, in 1888, and is a son of James F. and Margaret (Savage) Kinsella, of this city. His father has for many years been active as a carpenter and builder in Salem and its vicinity.
After attending the parochial and high schools of Salem, Mr. Kinsella entered Boston College, in
the class of 1911. He later took up the duties of clerk of the Probate Court of Essex county, and remained in this capacity until 1915. At that time he opened an office and entered upon the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in Febru- ary, 1913. He had built up a very considerable practice when, in May, 1918, he enlisted in the Ordnance Supply School, at Fort Slocum, New York, for service during the World War. In Au- gust of the same year he sailed for France, where he took an active part in the Meuse-Argonne of- fensive and in the Toule Sector, and was discharged July 24, 1919.
Returning to Salem after his discharge, Mr. Kin- sella resumed his practice, and in the comparatively short period which has since elapsed, has established himself once more in the profession of his choice. Mr. Kinsella is a member of the Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, and is a prominent member of the Knights of Columbus.
EDWIN B. HALL-A native of Haverhill, Mas- sachusetts, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and for many years among the responsible executives of the Haverhill shoe industry, Edwin B. Hall comes deservedly into the Essex county record. Edwin Bowley Hall was born in Haverhill on August 4, 1878, son of George A. Hall by his first wife, Mary G. Bowley, of Haverhill, daughter of Edwin Bowley, who was an early resident in Haverhill, and one who aided appreciably to bring Haverhill into a good place among the incorporated places of that part of Massachusetts. He was a large owner of - real estate in the city, and was one of the most in- fluential citizens of his day.
The Hall family was originally of New Hamp- shire, Thomas Hall, grandfather of Edwin B., hav- ing been born in Plaistow, that State. He was a Protestant, and had a farming estate, the working of which he made his main occupation. He had seven children, four of whom were sons, among them George A., father of Edwin B., of whom further.
George A. Hall was born in 1848, was twice mar- ried, and was a prominent business man of Haver- hill. His line was real estate, and he probably as- sociated with his father-in-law in many big real es- tate transactions. He was respected and popular in the community; so much may be inferred from the fact that for several years he was the repre- sentative of Haverhill in the State Legislature. By religious affiliation he was a Congregationalist, and a good supporter of the local churches. His first wife, Mary G. (Bowley) Hall, bore him one child, Edwin B., of whom further; by his second wife, Helena Clarkson, he had two children: Harold and Isabelle, both of whom, however, are deceased.
Edwin B. Hall received elementary and high schooling in Haverhill public schools, and took the preparatory collegiate course at the Hopkinson School at Boston, proceeding from there to Dart- mouth College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1902. Soon thereafter, he entered busi-
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ness life as an employee of the firm of Payne & Webster, Boston brokers, with which firm he re- mained for four years. He left them in order to ac- cept an appointment with the Winchell Company. He was one of the directors of the company, and for twelve years had charge of the office and sales force. In 1918 he was the principal organizer of the Baker Shoe Company, Inc., of Haverhill, and has since given his time wholly to its direction. He is presi- dent of the company; F. Baker Hall, treasurer; and R. H. Taylor, secretary. Their plant is at No. 280 River street, and its capacity production is 2,000 pairs of their specialties, ladies' boudoir shoes and a line of sandals. The factory uses 16,000 square feet of floor space, and finds steady employment for about one hundred persons.
Mr. Hall is placed well among the leading busi- ness men of Haverhill, but he does not seem to enter much into public life. He has never held pub- lic office, and belongs to none of the local socie- ties or fraternal orders. Socially he is a member of the Pentucket Club, and his church is the North Congregational, of Haverhill.
Mr. Hall married, in Haverhill, on April 30, 1902, Florence B. Gould, who was born in Lawrence, Mas- sachusetts, in 1883, daughter of Wilbur H. and Mercy (Baker) Gould, the former a shoe manufac- turer. Mr. and Mrs. Hall have three children: Eleanor, who was born in 1903, and graduated from the Haverhill High School in the class of 1921; Barbara, born in 1905, and now (1922) a Haverhill High School junior; and Natalie, born in 1910, and now in the eighth grade of the Fox Grammar School
WINFIELD B. KNOWLTON was born at Low- ell, Massachusetts, on May 18, 1877, and is a son of George Winfield and Etta Frances (Watson) Knowlton. His father was born at Newmarket, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in the bank- ing business for about forty years, until 1906, when he retired from active participation in business af- fairs. He died in 1907. His wife, who was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, died in 1914.
Winfield B. Knowlton received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Lowell. He graduated from the Lowell High School as a member of the class of 1895, and proceeded to the Lowell Textile School. When he had completed his technical studies he obtained employment with the Kitson Machine Company, of Lowell. After spending two years in the service of the Kitson Machine Com- pany, Mr. Knowlton was offered a position as draftsman with the Tremont and Suffolk Mills, of that city. He remained in this position for a year, and then, in 1899, formed a connection with the American Woolen Company, of Lawrence, Massa- chusetts. His first position at Lawrence was that of draftsman, but he was steadily promoted, until he attained his present position, which is that of supervising mechanical engineer.
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Mr. Knowlton is a member of the Congregational church of Andover. He is a member of Phoenician . Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mount Sinai
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lawrence Coun Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commande Knights Templar; and Aleppo Temple, Anci Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He a is a member of the American Society of Mecha ical Engineers of New York; the Merrimac Vall Country Club; the Meadowbrook Country Club; t. Home Club of Lawrence; and the Young Mer Christian Association of Lawrence. In politics ] is a Republican.
Mr. Knowlton married, in 1903, Minnie Arundal daughter of Joshua Arundale, of Lawrence. Mr Knowlton was born on April 21, 1882. They hav one daughter, Marjorie Knowlton, who was bor on January 5, 1909.
SAMUEL R. BAILEY-An ex-service man, an of good civil record, Samuel R. Bailey, a native o Amesbury, is now associating with his father in the management of the Bailey Manufacturing Company of Amesbury, Massachusetts. He is a young mar of good technical knowledge, and is an expert in some branches of electrical work.
Samuel R. Bailey was born in Amesbury, Massa- chusetts, on January 17, 1894, son of Edwin W. N. and Lydia (Crowell) Bailey. His father was born in East Pittston, Maine, and his mother in Beverly, Massachusetts. As a boy he attended the Ames- bury schools, graduating eventually from the high school. Soon, thereafter, he proceeded to Pratt Institute, at Brooklyn, New York, and there grad- uated in the class of 1915. He found employment with the Edison Company, at Orange, N. J., work- ing in the battery testing department for two months. Showing aptitude for responsibility, he was made night foreman of the research department of the Edison plant, but only filled that office for a short time, being transferred to the more impor- tant repair department, where he remained for six months as assistant foreman. He had by this time acquired quite a comprehensive knowledge of the business, and might have gone much further in the Edison works, but he left the Orange plant to take a position in the New York office of the Walker Vehicle Company. For that company he went to Chicago, Illinois, and there for a time represented them, returning eventually to New York City, where he became city salesman for the company. He was thus engaged when the nation entered the World War, in April, 1917. Mr. Bailey did not wait many weeks before enlisting, being probably in the first ten thousand enlisted of the four million men even- tually brought into the United States army during the war. He voluntarily enlisted on April 20, 1917, and was assigned to the Fifteenth Company, of the Ninth Coast Defence Command, of New York. He passed the examination as electrician sergeant, first class, on June 9, 1917, was mustered into Federal service on July 5, 1917, and was assigned to duty at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, New Jersey. In April, 1918, he was transferred to the Fourth Off- cers' Training Camp, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and there was promoted to the grade of engineer
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on June 6, 1918, being commissioned in the rank of second lieutenant soon afterward, on June 26, 1918. He was reassigned to the Coast Defence Service at Sandy Hook, but shortly afterwards sailed over- seas, as signal officer of the Fifth Trench Mortar Battalion. On January 10, 1919, he returned to this country from France, and on the 20th of that month was honorably discharged, in the rank of second lieutenant, at Fort Hamilton, New York.
Soon after leaving military service Mr. Bailey resumed his connection with the Walker Vehicle Company, and continued to work for them in New York until June 15, 1920, when he came to Ames- bury to join his father in the Bailey Manufacturing Company, of Amesbury, and they have since been associated in business. The World War service of Samuel R. Bailey was not his only military experi- ence. He served one enlistment term in the State Militia, enlisting in June, 1912, as private in Com- pany F, of Haverhill, and was discharged in the same grade in June, 1915.
Politically, Mr. Bailey is a Republican; religious- ly, he is an Episcopalian, a member now of the Amesbury church; and fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Warren Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Amesbury, of which he holds one of the lesser chairs. He also is a member of the Amesbury Post of the American Legion. On March 13, 1922, he was elected to the Board of Selectmen of the town of Amesbury.
On June 26, 1917, Mr. Bailey married Helen Jack- son, of Westfield, New Jersey. She was born on February 19, 1894, and they have two children: Helen, born June 6, 1918; and Samuel R., born December 10, 1919.
GEORGE A. STICKNEY, M. D .- No mention of the medical fraternity of Essex county, Massachu- setts, would be complete without the name of Dr. George A. Stickney, who since 1882 has been num- bered among the progressive representatives of the medical profession. Dr. Stickney has always com- bined with his professional activities those of a public-spirited citizen, associating himself intimate- ly and influentially with the leading interests of his native city, Beverly.
Dr. Stickney was born in Beverly, Massachu- setts, October 5, 1857. There he attended the pub- lic schools until 1871, when he entered the Haver- hill High School, finishing with graduation in 1875. He then matriculated at Harvard College, subse- quently entering the Medical Department of Har- vard University, where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, class of 1882. Dr. Stickney immediately returned to his native city and established himself in the practice of his chosen profession on Thorndike street, later moving to his present location, No. 68 Lathrop street, where he has a pretentious home, pleasantly situated, over- looking the bay. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, and the Essex County Medical Society. He is medical examiner of the Seventh District of Essex
county; president of the North Shore Pension Board, which is located at Salem, Massachusetts; physician-in-charge of the United Shoe Machine Corporation plant; and is on the staff of the Bev- erly Hospital. He also holds membership in the Beverly Historical Society, the Union Club, and during the World War the Home Medical Reserve Corps. In religion he is a Baptist; in politics, a Republican.
Dr. Stickney married, December 4, 1884, Harriett W. Cole, daughter of Israel D. and Alice (Ware) Cole. Israel D. Cole was for many years in the tailoring business in Beverly, but in later years moved to Rutland, Vermont. Dr. and Mrs. Stick- ney are the parents of three children: Esther, who married Walter Alley, of Beverly, and they have a daughter, Constance S .; Robert C., who is a grad- uate of Dartmouth and Harvard colleges, and is now associated with his father in practice; G. Hor- ton, who is assistant manager of the United Shoe Machinery Company, of Beverly; he married Paul- ine Klink, and they have one child, a daughter, Nancy Lee.
FREDERICK W. CHANDLER-As vice-presi- dent of the Nathan D. Dodge Shoe Company, Fred- erick W. Chandler, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, is actively engaged in the manufacture of shoes, the leading industry of Essex county.
Mr. Chandler was born May 10, 1883, and is a son of James H. and Carrie (Lake) Chandler. Receiv- ing his early education in the public schools, he thereafter took a four years' course at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated in the class of 1906.
Beginning his career as secretary of the company with which he has since been associated, Mr. Chand- ler has risen, since 1907, to the office of assistant general manager and vice-president, and is an active factor in the progress of this concern, one of long standing in this county, and now the largest plant in the United States devoted exclusively to the manufacture of ladies' turn low shoes.
Mr. Chandler is a member of St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Newburyport Com- mandery, No. 3, Knights Templar; and of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine. He is a member of the Dalton Club, and the Golf Club.
Mr. Chandler married Adelaide P. Dodge, daugh- ter of Nathan D. and Matilda (Hinsdale) Dodge, (q.v.), and they have two children: James D., and Matilda. The family attends the Central Congre- gational Church.
JOSEPH MONETTE-In the legal profession in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Joseph Monette, whose offices are in the Central building, is a successful practitioner of the day.
Mr. Monette was born in Montreal, Canada, on December 11, 1869. Receiving his early education in the public schools of his native town, the young man became ambitious to enter one of the profes-
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sions, and ultimately decided upon the law. He entered Laval University, at Montreal, Canada, from which he was graduated in 1891, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Arts, then coming to the United States, he entered Harvard University Law School, from which he was graduated in 1896, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was induced, however, to remove to Lawrence two years later, and located permanently there in 1898. He has since built up a large practice, and is now well known in the pro- fession in Essex county and elsewhere about the State.
Mr. Monette is a member of the Lawrence Bar Association, and of the Essex County Bar Associa- tion. Besides his extensive private practice he is counsel for the Massachusetts State Department of Labor and Industries.
Mr. Monette married, in 1900, in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, Ubaldine Landry, and they have three children: Lucille, Claire, and Joseph, Jr. The family reside in Methuen, and attend St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church.
ALBERT HENRY CHAMBERLAIN-The suc- cess of Albert Henry Chamberlain, the well known professional and business man of Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, is recognized as richly merited. He has earned what he has gained. In earlier years a pros- perous lawyer, he was one of that exclusive set of lawyer-business men who hold such high rank in the world of commerce.
His father, Volney R. Chamberlain, was a Ver- monter, born in Weathersfield of that State. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1887. He was in the produce trade in Boston for many years. · His wife, Lucia Woodruff (Lincoln) Chamberlain, was born in Windsor, Vermont, in 1840, and at present resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Albert Henry Chamberlain is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, born December 9, 1872. After the customary study in graded and high schools of Cambridge, Massachusetts, he matriculated at Harvard University in 1892 and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1894. After en- gaging in business for two years he entered the Harvard Law School and graduated in 1899 with the degree of LL.B. After admittance to the Bos- ton, Massachusetts, bar, 1899, he spent the follow- ing five years in the practice of law with William A. Munroe, a prominent attorney of Boston. From 1898 to 1900 Mr. Chamberlain had his own law offices in Boston. About this same time he enter- ed the employ of William Whitman & Company, who were selling agents for various textile mills, with offices in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago. This association eventually brought him in touch with the Arlington Mills, makers of woolen and worsted goods, whose plants are lo- cated at Lawrence and North Adams, Massachu- setts. This is one of the largest companies along these lines in the United States. It was founded
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