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In 1902, at Haverhill, Mr. Sargent was married to Nellie B. Chapman, of that place, but a native of Merrimac, where she was born on November 5, 1877, the daughter of Samuel W. and Anna Fran- cis (Webster) Chapman. The Chapman family also is an old New England family, Mrs. Sargent's great- grandfather being Eliphalet Chapman, who was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, in 1778, and died in 1863. He was a farmer, and married Peggy Kennison, of Tamworth. They had nine children: Penelope, born February 9, 1804, died September 8, 1826; Andrew, born April 25, 1806, died in 1890; Eli- phalet, born April 6, 1808, died July 22, 1873; Ben- jamin Franklin, born April 16, 1810, died December 10, 1890; Lucinda, born March 12, 1812, died April 30, 1843; Elona, born December 3, 1815; Joseph, born June 29, 1817; Timothy, born June 26, 1821, died 1890; John, born September 19, 1825, died 1852. Andrew Chapman, the second child, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, and passed his life in farming there. He married Mary Woodman, of Deerfield, New Hampshire, in November, 1827. She was born February 10, 1805, and died April 8, 1863. Their only child, Samuel Woodman Chapman, was born in Tamworth, New Hampshire, on February 1, 1839, and died at Haverhill, Massachusetts, in July, 1909. For the greater part of his life he was con-
nected with the Massachusetts shoe manufacturing industry. On October 28, 1871, he married Anna Francis Webster, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, where she was born on April 9, 1839, died July 20, 1919. Their children were: Annie Mary, born February 17, 1873; George Webster, born March 7, 1875; and Nellie Belle, born November 5, 1877. The last- named married John K. Sargent, of Merrimae, as above stated. Mr. and Mrs. Sargent have three children: Bernard C., born November 28, 1907; Mar- jorie A., born January 17, 1911; and Esther R., born December 10, 1912.
WILLIAM I. PORELL, dentist, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born April 29, 1892, in Spring- vale, Vermont, son of William John and Mary V. (Pichette) Porell. The public schools of Haverhill prepared Dr. Porell for entrance to Tufts Dental College from which he graduated in 1915. He im- mediately engaged in the practice of his profession, and in the few years since passed has gained success and recognition; he is also one of the youngest dentists in Haverhill. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Porell is dental examiner of the Pub- lic Health Service. On May 30, 1918, he enlisted in the Dental Corps, Newport News, and was com- missioned first lieutenant; on September 20, 1918, he went into service and served for eleven months, until July 29, 1919, attaining the rank of captain in reserves. He is a member of the Foresters; the Knights of Columbus, and of the Agawam Club.
Dr. Porell married, in 1918, Corinne B. Leonard, of Haverhill.
GUY NEWHALL, one of the successful attor- neys of Lynn, Massachusetts, and a man who has already made a name for himself in the profession, is a native son, his birth having occurred here June 17, 1877. He is a son of Edgar P. and Elizabeth (Vickary) Newhall).
Mr. Newhall received the elementary portion of his education at the public schools of his native place. After graduating from the Cobbet Grammar School, he entered the Lynn Classical High School and here prepared himself for college. In 1894 he matriculated at Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He had in the meantime determined to adopt the law as a profession and, accordingly, matri- culated at the law school of Harvard University. After completing the prescribed course, he grad- uated with the class of 1901, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Throughout his school and college years he had proved himself an intelligent and painstaking 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 long and conscientious effort. Immediately after graduating from Harvard Law School he re- turned to Lynn, where he passed his bar examina- tions and established himself in the practice of his chosen profession. He opened an office at No. 38 Exchange street, this city, and this has remained
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his headquarters ever since. Mr. Newhall has built up an excellent practice and has handled many im- portant cases up to the present, proving himself a most capable and conscientious attorney.
Besides his legal activities, Mr. Newhall has in- terested himself in the conduct of public affairs in the community, and in the years of 1907 and 1908 served his city as councilman. He affiliates with the Masons, and the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, and also holds membership in the Lynn His- torical Society and the Oxford Club of Lynn.
Mr. Newhall married, in 1907, Ethel Mary New- hall, daughter of Joseph Warren and Mary (de Laski) Newhall, and they are the parents of two children: Rosalind Frances, born April 13, 1908; and Edward Bradford, born May 26, 1916.
JOHN E. WOODBURY, a prominent merchant of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born in Methuen, same State, August 22, 1870, son of Austin and Su- san Jane (Murray) Woodbury. The former was a native of Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, and he was engaged in the wheelwright business until his death in 1888. Mrs. Woodbury was also a native of Nova Scotia, born in 1836, and died in 1906.
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John E. Woodbury attended the public schools of Ayers Village and at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and subsequently pursued a special course in gram- mar. He then entered the employ of the Goodrich & Porter Company, shoe manufacturers, in their stitching department, remaining for three years, and then worked for his brother, W. H. Woodbury, as assistant foreman, and later foreman of the stitch- ing room. His enlistment in the United States army in 1891 made it necessary for him to resign from his work, and the succeeding five years were spent in military activities. He enlisted in Company F, Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts State Guard, and was stationed at Haverhill from 1888 to 1891, at which time he was discharged from the State militia as a corporal, and immediately re-enlisted in the Regular United States army and was sent from Boston to David's Island, now Fort Slocum, and there was a member of the Company D Instruc- tion Company, where he remained for five months, at the end of which time he was sent to Fort Sill, Indian Territory, remaining for a year and a half, when he went to Fort Reno, remaining there for the same period. During this time Mr. Woodbury was selected as one of three men to attend the opening of the Cherokee land strip, and after this was finished he went East, and was stationed at Governor's Island, where he remained until his discharge in 1896. In this same year he entered the employ of F. M. Hodgson & Company, as trimming cutter, and remained there until 1901, in which year he associated himself in business with E. J. Hodg- son. After four successful years Mr. Woodbury withdrew to enter a partnership in a similar busi- ness, with an additional line of talking machines, with Mr. McLeod, under the firm name of Wood- bury & McLeod, in Haverhill, and they are among the leading merchants in that city. Mr. Woodbury
is also a director of the Haverhill Coal Supply Company.
Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic order, being a member of Merrimac Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; the Benevolent Protective Order Elks; the New England Order of Protection; and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. His clubs are the Agawam and the Haverhill Rifle, and he is a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Red Cross organization.
Mr. Woodbury married, in 1901, Lillian H. Bean, daughter of Arthur and Harriet (King) Bean, of Haverhill, and their children are: Dorothy Rowena, Priscilla Murray, and John Edward, Jr.
JAMES F. LANIGAN-In the manufacturing world of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the name of James F. Lanigan is one of unusual prominence, he being the head of three leading manufacturing en- terprises, all long-established industries.
Coming to this country from Ireland in his child- hood, Mr. Lanigan, when he reached the age to be- come interested in his future, chose the world of action, and apprenticed himself to the Davis Foun- dry Company. This was in August, 1862, and be- ginning the climb at the bottom, he worked his way up until he was made superintendent of the plant, May 24, 1875. In 1892 he became owner of the entire plant, which he still holds. This foundry manufactures castings of every description, no job too large and none too small, and as head of this concern, Mr. Lanigan became a power in manufac- turing circles. In 1902 he purchased the Emerson Manufacturing Company, of which he became presi- dent. The product of this concern is largely paper machinery, although they list many lines of ma- chinery. In October, 1909, Mr. Lanigan purchased the Lawrence Machine Company, one of the most important manufacturers of centrifugal machinery in New England, and he is sole proprietor of this interest. He has recently built a large plant at No. 353 Market street, of modern construction, and fully equipped with the most approved and up-to-date machinery, and one of the largest foundries in Northern New England.
Mr. Lanigan is a member of the Lawrence Cham- ber of Commerce, and is a director of the Arling- ton Trust Company. He is a member of the Home Club, and of the Merrimac Valley Country Club; he resides at No. 289 Andover street.
Mr. Lanigan married Annie McDonald, daughter of James McDonald, of Lowell, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of nine children, six of whom grew to maturity: James, deceased, married, but left no children; Joseph, deceased, unmarried; Mary; Edward, married Lena Donovan, and has two chil- dren, Mary and Edward; William, deceased, un- married; and Charles.
HARRY W. HALE, wholesale merchant in Merri- mac, Massachusetts, since 1900, was born in West Amesbury, Massachusetts, July 2, 1873, son of Frank
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E. and Julia A. (Borne) Hale, the latter of George- town, and the former of Newburyport, Massachu- setts, where- the Hale family had long been set- tled. Deacon Ezra Hale, of Newburyport, was a grandfather of Harry W., and was born in Newbury- port in 1804, farmed there all his life, and died in Rowley, Massachusetts, in 1891. Frank E. Hale, father of Harry W., was a carriage maker until he retired in 1911, and is well known in the district.
Harry W. Hale was educated in the public schools of his native place, and at Merrimac, which educa- tion was supplemented by a commercial course he took at Burdett's Business College, Boston, Massa- chusetts. After graduating therefrom, he entered the employ of John H. Cleary, a grocer of Merri- mac. He worked for him, as clerk, for nine years, at the end of which time he went to Boston, and there worked for the F. M. Morrel Company, deal- ers in butter, eggs and cheese. A year later he re- turned to Merrimac, and went into business for himself, as a whole merchant in confectionery. He soon developed a good connection, and the business has grown considerably during the twenty-one years he has owned and conducted it.
Politically, Mr. Hale is a Republican, and while he has not prominently entered into national poli- tics in his district, he has taken an active interest in the public affairs of Merrimac. He was tax col- lector for two years, and was on the Board of Fire Engineers for three years. As a man of substan- tial standing. he has been brought into connection with local- banking institutions; he is a director of the First National Bank of Merrimac, and member of the Investment Committee of the Merrimac Sav- ings Bank, and vice-president of the Merrimac Sav- ings Bank. He belongs to several fraternal or- ganizations, holding membership in the Bethany Lodge of Masons, Riverside Lodge of Odd Fellows. the Rebekah Lodge of Merrimac, and the United Commercial Travelers' organization of Haverhill. That he is popular in Merrimac is evidenced by his connection with the Oxford Club, of which he was president from 1910 to 1920.
Mr. Hale married, in 1903, Minnie S. Cook, of Haverhill, daughter of Thomas R. and Caroline Cook, originally of Guysboro, Nova Scotia. The former was a contractor, and in business until his death, which occurred in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Hale have one child, a daughter, Dorothy Elaine, who was born on November 1, 1912.
HOWARD T. CLARK, ex-service man, president of the Fellows Hardware Company, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, is one of the very active young busi- ness men of Haverhill. He was born in the city on January 28, 1892, the son of Charles H. and Mary Louise (Hantmond) Clark, of Haverhill. The pater- nal line connects with a Pennsylvanian family, and the maternal line; Hammond, was of Beverly, Mas- sachusetts. Charles H. Clark was a merchant, and is treasurer of the' Fellows Hardware Company, Inc., but he is not actively in business.
Howard T. Clark passed through the Haverhill
public schools, being of the high school class of 1910. In the following year he graduated from the Bryant & Stratton Business College, and began a commer- cial career as a clerk for the Haverhill Gas Light Company, remaining with that firm for three years. His father was connected with the firm of Fellows Hardware Company, Haverhill, and soon after the death of Corydon Fellows, in 1914, the company was reorganized, and of the new company, Howard T. Clark became president, and his father treasurer. That connection has held to the present, though the son has latterly been the active executive. The Fel- lows Hardware Company is one of the historic busi- ness houses of Haverhill, the oldest in that line. It was established in 1851 by Samuel Fellows, and continued by his son until the latter's death in 1914, which made it necessary to reorganize, as before stated. The firm occupies the entire building at No. 31 Merrimac street, and does considerable busi- ness throughout Essex county.
During the World War, Mr. Clark was in mili- tary service, enlisting in the Ordnance Department on December 15, 1917, and for service anywhere. He happened to be assigned to duty at the Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, New Jersey, and because of his executive ability and business experience, was held to administrative duty at that point until the end of the war, being honorably discharged on Janu- ary 5, 1919, when he returned to his native place and resumed his civilian occupations.
Mr. Clark has been quite prominent in many phases of Haverhill affairs. Possessed of a good voice, he has come into notice locally during the last ten years in the capacity of tenor soloist in local churches, and this talent probably was what brought him into association with the theatrical events of local amateurs. He has been one of the leaders of Agawam productions, and in several other ways has helped toward the success of Haverhill social functions. He is a member of the Pentucket and Agawam clubs, and is also a Mason of the thirty-second degree. He is a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is lieutenant of the Arab Patrol. He is un- married.
JAMES SILVER NEWHALL-One of the names most deeply worthy of commemoration in the per- manent records of the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, is that of James Silver Newhall, who was born in Lynn, August 13, 1843, and died there September 21, 1918. He was a son of Judge Thomas B. and Susan Silver (Putnam) Newhall, his father being very prominent in the Lynn of a generation gone by.
Mr. Newhall prepared for his career in the edu- cational institutions of his native city. As a young man he went to Salem, in this county, to engage in the leather business with his maternal grandfather, Jacob Putnam. While residing there he was a mem- ber of the Salem Cadets, and took a broad interest in the public affairs of the day. Later he returned to Lynn, and during his mature years was identified with various business interests of his native city,
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bringing to bear upon their progress the influence of ripened judgment and acute perceptions. For a period of ten years he was president of the Lynn Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
At the time of his death Mr. Newhall was vice- president of the Lynn Five Cent Savings Bank; a director in the Central National Bank of Lynn; a member of the Lynn Historical Society, and the Lynn Home for Aged Men Corporation. He was a member of Olivet Commandery, Knights Templar; of Old Essex Chapter, Sons of the American Revo- lution; the Society of Colonial Wars; the Red Cross; and the Whiting and Oxford clubs. He was a member of the Unitarian church of Lynn, and in earlier life served for a period of twenty-seven years as treasurer of the church society.
Mr. Newhall married Marion Wentworth Clarke, who with two daughters, Mrs. Larkin E. Bennett, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, and Mrs. William G. Keene, of Lynn, survive him.
WALTER EDWARD PARKER-More than four decades ago Walter E. Parker came from Woon- socket, Rhode Island, to Lawrence, Massachusetts, to accept a position with the Pacific Mills, and while that position is now a vastly more important one, the association thus formed has never been interrupted for an instant (January, 1922). The Pacific Mills have greatly increased in size and im- portance as a factor in the textile market, and for thirty-five years, 1887-1922, Mr. Parker has been agent for the Pacific Mills Corporation, and as such has been the great contributing factor to this increased prosperity. Were this his life work it would entitle Mr. Parker to a permanent place in the manufacturing and commercial annals of Law- rence, but his interests are wide, varied and im- portant, and he is well known in financial as well as in textile circles, and in civic as well as in business life.
This branch of the Parker family is traced to Thomas Parker, born in England in 1609, who came to New England in the "Susan and Ellen" with the Sir Richard Saltonstall party, leaving London March 11, 1635. Thomas Parker settled at Lynn, later at Reading, where he was a deacon, a man of ability and substance. He died in 1683, aged seventy-four years, his wife Amy surviving him until 1890. They were the parents of sons and daughters, and from them Walter Edward Parker descends in the ninth American generation.
The name Parker is an ancient one, and Danes, Saxons, and Normans used some form of the word as a surname from a very early date. The name Parker is derived from the Latin, "parcarius," mean- ing "park keeper" or "shepherd," and both "parcus" and "de parco" are found in Domesday Book.
The descent from Thomas and Amy Parker to Walter E. Parker is in unbroken line through their son, Lieutenant Hananiah Parker, and his wife Eliz- abeth (Browne) Parker; their son, John Parker, and his wife, Deliverance; their son, Andrew Parker, and his wife Sarah (Whitney) Parker; their son, Thomas Parker, a patriot of the Revolution, and his
wife, Jane (Parrot) Parker; their son, Deacon Ebenezer Parker, a "minute-man" of the Revolu- tion, and his wife Dorcas (Munroe) Parker; their son, Ebenezer Parker, and his wife, Hannah B. (Merriam) Parker; their son, George Parker, and his wife, Emily R. (Collar) Parker; and their son, Walter E. Parker, to whom this review is inscribed.
Reading, Lexington and Princeton were family homes for the heads of this branch, and in each generation the heads were men of prominence in church or town, frequently both. George Parker, of the eighth generation, was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, February 1, 1818, died at East Black- stone, Massachusetts, January 20, 1893. He mar- ried, September 14, 1841, Emily; R. Collar, daughter of Rev. Hezekiah and Rhoda (Robbins) Collar, of Northfield, Massachusetts. They were the parents of two sons: Walter E., of further mention; and Herbert, born April 23, 1850, who died, unmarried, January 23, 1873.
Walter E. Parker was born at Princeton, Massa- chusetts, September 27, 1847, and in 1856 was taken to Illinois by his parents, but four years later he returned to Westboro, Massachusetts, the family moving to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in 1863. The lad, Walter E., attended the public schools during these years, but upon reaching the age of sixteen he entered the employ of the Social Mill, at Woon- socket, as counting room clerk, but continued school attendance during the first two years of his service. He then gave all of his time to his duties at the mill with the exception of a few months spent in drawing school in Boston. The Social Mill was his business university, and for thirteen years he con- tinued with that mill, working his way upward to responsible position. He developed strong ability, and with energy and persistency, pursued his way to better position. When the mill was enlarged he made the plans and aided in carrying them forward to completion. He deemed it wise to make a change later, and on October 27, 1876, became superintendent of the Globe Mill of Woonsocket.
From October 27, 1876, until April 1, 1881, Mr. Parker was superintendent of the Globe Mill of Woonsocket, and there he greatly increased his tex- tile manufacturing knowledge. His reputation had gone beyond the confines of his own city, and in 1881 he received an offer from the Pacific Mills Cor- poration to become manager of the cotton manu- facturing department of the Pacific Mills at Law- rence, Massachusetts. That was too good an offer to trifle with and was soon accepted, he going to Lawrence April 1, 1881. Nearly six years later, January 1, 1887, he was appointed agent for the same corporation and mills, a position he is yet holding, January 1, 1922. He is one of the strong men of the textile business, and in 1889-90-91 was president of the New England Cotton Manufac- turers' Association; is a trustee of the Lowell Tex- tile School; one of the founders of the Textile Club and its second president; a member and a vice- president of the Home Market Club of Boston.
Prior to coming to Lawrence, Mr. Parker be- came interested in city banking, and from 1878 until
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1892 was a director of the Producers' National Bank of Woonsocket. In 1886 he was appointed trustee of the estate of Charles Nourse, and is still ad- ministering the trust with greatest fidelity. When the Merchants' National Bank of Lawrence was or- ganized in 1889, he was elected director and vice- president, and after he had served the Essex Sav- ings Bank for several years, he was elected presi- dent; for two decades he has successfully guided the destines of the Lawrence Lumber Company; and was a former director of the Lawrence Gas Company. To this honorable record of business activity, extending over half a century of business life in two cities, but principally in Lawrence, Mr. Parker adds a record of splendid civil usefulness as president of the City Mission; chairman of the ad- visory board of the Lawrence General Hospital; as trustee with two others of the White Fund, and by virtue of that office as trustee of the Lawrence Public Library; as trustee of the Lawrence Home for Aged People; and as trustee of Tufts College and chairman of the finance committee.
In politics Mr. Parker is a Republican, and in 1877 was president of the Woonscket Town Coun- cil. As he did not become a voter until 1868, he can safely be called a life-long member of that party, founded in 1850. He was a member of the first commission appointed in Lawrence to control the granting of licenses, and in 1904 was an alternate delegate to the Chicago National Republican Con- vention that nominated President Roosevelt for a second term, and was a delegate to the convention that nominated William H. Taft for President. He is a Universalist in religious faith, a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd. He was made a Mason in 1869, and is a past master of Morning Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Woonsocket; is a Companion of Woonsocket Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons; and a past eminent com- mander of Woonsocket Commandery, Knights Temp- lar. He is a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers; of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Society of Arts, London, England.
Mr. Parker married (first) October 12, 1870, Anna Augusta Elliott, who died February 4, 1875, daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Olive A. (Jenks) Elliott. To Mr. and Mrs. Parker was born a son, Herbert S., born October 18, 1874. Mr. Parker married (second) May 2, 1877, Alida Charlotte Willis, born at North Dana, Massachusetts, January 26, 1849, died September 9, 1885, daughter of Rev. John H. and Charlotte (Gleason) Willis, of College Hill. To Walter E. and Alida C. (Willis) Parker a daugh- ter Helen was born, Juy 27, 1878. Mr. Parker mar- ried (third) January 1, 1888, Mary Bradley Beetle, daughter of John and Harriet (Brown) Beetle, of Nantucket, Massachusetts.
MARTIN FRANCIS CONNELLY-For the last six years Martin F. Connelly, a Boston lawyer, has also. practiced in his native place, Amesbury, Mas- . sachusetts, where he has a wide circle of friends, and is generally well regarded. He has given much
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