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Mr. Cregg married Grace M. Hanrahan, daughter of William and Mary B. Hanrahan, of Lawrence, and they are the parents of three children: Rose- mary Reynolds, born August 25, 1916; Janet Con- stance, born January 1, 1919; Matthew Aloysius (2), born January 3, 1921.
FRANCIS X. McCANN, a prominent merchant of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born at Spencer, same State, November 6, 1883, son of James B. McCann, a woolen manufacturer of that city, who died in 1911, at the age of sixty-one years. The mother of Mr. McCann was Helen E. Finegan, of Spencer, and later of Worcester.
Mr. McCann attended the public schools, and in 1899, after leaving high school, from which he grad- uated with the class of 1899, he went to work in the furniture business for various companies throughout New England, continuing until 1917, the last years being spent as buyer for many of the large concerns. In the latter year he formed a partnership with Hollis M. Jennings (see sketch fol- lowing), under the name of the McCann Furniture Company, of Haverhill, where they are now engaged
in business. Mr. McCann is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce, and his clubs are the Agawam, Pentucket, and the Island Golf. He also is a mem- ber of the Haverhill Lodge of Elks.
Mr. McCann married, in 1910, Anne I. Linehan, of Bradford, and to this union has been born a son, Francis X., Jr. Mrs. McCann was a daughter of Daniel W. Linehan, a realtor of Bradford, Massa- chusetts, and Margaret (Huxley) Linehan, of Ar- lington, that State. Mr. and Mrs. McCann, with their family, reside at No. 36 Commonwealth ave- nue, and attend the Sacred Heart Church of Brad- ford.
HOLLIS M. JENNINGS, a prominent merchant of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born in that city May 12, 1894, son of Albert H. and Julia E. (Trafton) Jennings.
Mr. Jennings attended the public and high schools, and subsequently the Bryant & Stratton Business College of Boston, then entered the employ of the George F. Carlton Shoe Company, of Haverhill, there remaining for a year. At this time he became the owner of the Bradford Laundry Company, which he successfully carried on until 1917, in which year he entered the furniture business, in association with Francis X. McCann, (see preceding sketch). They are among the leading merchants in this line in Haverhill, and through their uprightness in busi- ness dealings have built up a very satisfactory trade.
Mr. Jennings is a Mason, a member of Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Haverhill Coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters; he is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Agawam Club.
In 1915 he married Hazel E. Malbon, of Haver- hill, and they are the parents of two children: Mal- bon and Marilyn Jennings.
THOMAS A. DOHERTY, D. M. D .- Among the younger men of Essex county who are taking promi- nent places in the professions and contributing to the welfare of the people, Thomas A. Doherty, D. M. D., is a noteworthy figure. Dr. Doherty's family has been identified with the progress of the city of Lynn for many years, his father having been for years a morocco leather manufacturer. The doc- tor is a son of Jeremiah J. and Margaret E. (Landri- gan) Doherty.
Thomas A. Doherty was born in Lynn, Massachu- setts, August 28, 1887. As a boy he attended St. Mary's Parochial School as far as the eighth grade, which he covered at the Corbett Grammar School, later graduating from the English High School of Lynn. He thereafter entered the industrial world, and for a period of five years was engaged in elec- trical work. By this means he largely financed his higher education, and meanwhile was preparing for college by special study in his leisure hours. Matri- culating at Tufts College, in Boston, he took up the study of dentistry, and was graduated from that institution in February, 1918, with the degree which he now holds. Beginning practice in Lynn, he short- ly afterwards entered the United States Army as a
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member of Dental Corps, No. 1. He was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he served until he was mustered out of the service following the signing of the armistice. Upon his return to Lynn, Dr. Doherty resumed his interrupted practice, and with a well appointed suite of offices at No. 7 Wil- low street has gained a most promising start in his profession. The breadth of experience acquired in the military service has been of practical use in his private practice, and Dr. Doherty has taken rank with many who have been active in the profession for longer periods. A work which will always stand to his credit is the dental clinic at the Lynn High School, which he organized in May, 1920. He is still in charge of this clinic, and its usefulness is com- mented upon very favorably both by the profes- sion and among the families which are reached by its activities. Dr. Doherty is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the American Legion, and belongs to St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
Dr. Doherty married, November 30, 1920, Alice Helena Sullivan, daughter of Timothy and Nora Sullivan, both now deceased, old residents of the city of Lynn.
PATRICK HENRY O'CONOR-In Dromahair, Leitrim, a county of Ireland in Connaught, touching Donegal bay on the north, lived Peter and Elizabeth (Kelly) O'Conor, he a farmer and member of Lei- trim County Council. At that home farm in Droma- hair, their son, Patrick Henry O'Conor, was born February 9, 1852; he is now an official of a textile plant and a bank president of Peabody, Massachu- setts.
In his native Ireland, Patrick H. O'Conor obtained a good education, being a graduate of the National School at Ballaitogher, County Sligo, and from Christian Brothers College in Sligo. In later years Mr. O'Conor came to the United States, where he has gained high standing as a business man, finan- cier and citizen. He is now in charge of the finish- ing department of the Danvers Bleachery & Dye Works of Peabody, a corporation with which he has been connected since 1876. He is president of the Peabody Co-operative Bank, of Peabody, and vice-president of the Warren Five Cents Savings Bank, of Peabody.
For nine years Mr. O'Conor was a member of Peabody School Committee, for six years was a trustee of Peabody Institute, and is now chairman of the library committee of Peabody Institute, hav- ing been a member of that committee for thirty-four years. For two years he has been president of the Peabody Board of Trade, and in all these organiza- tions his interest has long been deep and abiding. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church.
Mr. O'Conor married, in St. John's Church, Pea- body, Massachusetts, February 9, 1879, Lizzie M. Mullane, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Hanlon) Mullane. Mr. and Mrs. O'Conor are the parents of four children: 1. Rev. George P. O'Conor, born January 10, 1881; Father O'Conor served as chap-
lain in the American Army during the World War, and is now director of the Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Arch Diocese of Boston. 2. Charles T., born August 1, 1888. 3. Mrs. Mary L. Hickey, born March 27, 1885. 4. Roger Henry, born March 27, 1893, died January 11, 1921; he served as chief yeoman in the American Navy during the World War; he was on the U. S. S. "Barry", in front of Brest, protecting the landing of the American troops.
EDWIN COOK, Sr .- The business known under the corporate title, Cook Brothers' Leather Com- pany, Inc., was established in 1909 by Edwin and Charles A. Cook, of Danvers, Massachusetts, under the firm name, Cook Brothers' Leather Company. The business was conducted as a partnership until February 21, 1921, when it was incorporated as the Cook Brothers' Leather Company, Inc., the incor- porators being Edwin Cook, Sr., Charles A. Cook, and Edwin Cook, Jr. The business of the company is the tanning of raw calf skins and their conversion into fine leather for the shoe manufacturers' use. The company has been in operation in Salem, Massa- chusetts, for twelve years, and during that time has been under the personal management of the founders, the success of the company attesting the strength and ability of its management.
Edwin Cook, Sr., and Charles A. Cook are sons of Albert C. Cook, born in England, who at the age of thirty came to the United States and settled in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he engaged in the leather business until his passing in 1876. He mar- ried Ann Foote, of England, who there married and later came to the United States with her family, and here died in 1894.
Edwin Cook, Sr., son of Albert C. and Ann (Foote) Cook, was born in England, March 3, 1866, and when three years of age was brought to the United States by his parents, they finally locating in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools of Lowell, then was inducted into the tan- ning business, his father having been an expert tan- ner. The lad learned the trade of tanner, and be- came an expert tanner of leather, and for forty- two years he continued at that trade. In the mean- time his brother, Charles A. Cook, had also come to an expert knowledge of the trade of tanner, and in 1909 the brothers pooled their interests and their resources, located in Salem, Massachusetts, and or- ganized the Cook Brothers' Leather Company, which has now had a successful career of twelve years, manufacturing fine calfskin leathers. The business was incorporated, February 21, 1921, as Cook Brothers' Leather Company, Inc., Edwin Cook, Sr., president.
Mr. Cook is a member of Amity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Danvers; Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lewis Commandery, Knights Templar, of Salem; Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Ancient Order United Workmen of Salem; Chamber of Commerce of Salem, and is a director of the Wool & Leather Corporation of Salem.
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Mr. Cook married, in Lowell, in 1889, Mary F. Gormley, who died December 8, 1920, leaving a son, Edwin (2), and a daughter, Helen M., wife of James L. Davenport, of Danvers, Massachusetts.
CHARLES A. COOK, son of Albert C. and Ann (Foote) Cook, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, April 10, 1874, and there educated in the public schools. His father was a tanning expert, and his brother, Edwin, eight years his senior, had learned the father's trade, so from force of example, if for no other reason, Charles A. Cook was destined for the tanning business. He learned the trade of tan- ner in all its details, and knew no other employ- ment until 1909, when with his brother, Edwin Cook, he moved to Salem, Massachusetts, these two ex- perts in tanning there establishing in the tanning business as The Cook Brothers' Leather Company, tanners of calfskin. The partnership most profit- ably existed between the brothers until February, 1921, when the partnership became a corporation, Edwin Cook, Jr., being admitted with his father and uncle to an interest in Cook Brothers' Leather Company, Inc., Charles A. Cook being a member of the company. He is president of the Wool and Leather Corporation, of Salem, and a director of the Northway Motor Company, of Natick, Massa- chusetts. Mr. Cook is a member of the Salem Chamber of Commerce; Amity Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; the Masonic Club and Homestead Golf Club, all of Danvers.
Mr. Cook married, in 1900, Ethel F. Myers, of Lowell, and they are the parents of a son, William A. Cook, and a daughter, Doris Y. Cook. The family are members of the Congregational church of Danvers, Massachusetts.
EDWIN COOK, JR., only son of Edwin and Mary F. (Gormley) Cook, was born in Danvers, Massa- chusetts, October 31, 1893, and educated in the pub- lic schools of Danvers. At the age of sixteen he was introduced to the leather business by his capable father, who was then, as now, engaged in the manufacture of leather with his brother, as Cook Brothers' Leather Company. He learned the business thoroughly under these expert tanners, and continued in the business until his entrance into the World War as a soldier of the United States. He enlisted on May 7, 1917, in Base Hospital Unit No. 5, and went into training at Fort Totten, New York, there remaining until May 11, 1917, when he sailed with a contingent of the American Expedi- tionary Forces, landing in England, where they re- mained a short time at Blackpool. They were then sent to Boulogne, France, and attached to the British Army, then engaged in fierce battling with the Germans at Arras. After this baptism of blood the unit was given a short rest, but soon afterward Mr. Cook was sent to Base Hospital No. 13 with a broken arm. After recovery he was on duty at . Base Hospital No. 13 until the signing of the armistice, when he was detached and sent to Brest, France, from which port he embarked for the
United States, arriving April 20, 1919. He was honorably discharged and mustered out of the ser vice of his country, May 2, 1919.
After his army service, Mr. Cook returned to the leather business, and in February, 1921, was ad- mitted to an interest in the new corporation, Cost Brothers' Leather Company, Inc., of Salem, « which he is a director. Mr. Cook is a young man d sterling worth, and as the youngest member of Cock Brothers' Leather Company, he has had an oppor tunity to learn the business in a manner and with a thoroughness of detail only possible to a young man beginning at the bottom and under the expert guidance of those so deeply interested in his wel- fare.
He is a member of Amity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Danvers, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Danvers, the Chamber of Commerce of Salem, the Masonic Club, Home- stead Golf Club, and the Universalist church, all of Danvers. He was one of the organizers of Post No. 180, American Legion, and a past commander, hav- ing been the first elected commander, his term ex- tending from August, 1919, until August, 1920.
Mr. Cook married, September 4, 1920, Eleanor Couch, of Danvers.
REV. JAMES L. HILL, D. D .- A review of the published works of Dr. Hill give a very clear idea of the manner of man he is. Only an enthusiast could write as he does, and only an enthusiast could so appeal to the hearts of his readers, or paint word pictures with such picturesque vividness. He is in- tensely human, for he loves boys, fast horses, and the old home scenes, and as he preaches the gos- pel of fair play, must himself believe in it. He is clean of mind, fresh in spirit, brilliant in diction and thought, an indefatigable worker with pen, voice and example. Says a reviewer:
Dr. Hill's hand on the book means that it shall glow and flame and sparkle on every page, abound in historical allusion and dramatic situations. Some of them tragic and pathetic in the extreme; and from start to finish it shall be inspiring, interesting, and instructive.
His writings are voluminous, his platform and pulpit work unceasing, and everywhere he goes he seeks an opportunity to do good. On a tour of Alaska he did not pass a public library to which he did not donate at least four of his books, and a similar trail has been made in several parts of the world, for he has made pilgrimages to the far quar- ters of the earth, visiting the shrines of great re- formers, he calling his journeys "visits to homes of ideas."
Dr. Hill is a son of Rev. James J. Hill, who gave the first dollar to found Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. He was a home missionary in Iowa, where he founded five churches during his first five years of service. At the time Rev. James J. Hill began his mission work in Iowa there was no settled min- ister between him and the North Pole, nor between him and the Pacific Ocean. He married Sarah Eliz-
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abeth Hyde, who died at the age of twenty eight, her interest as deep in the mission and educational work of her husband as was his own. "Somebody must be built into these foundations." As Rev. James J. Hill gave the first dollar toward the founding of Grinnell College, so his son, Rev. James L. Hill, gave the first dollar toward the founding of Yank- ton College at Yankton, South Dakota. Grinnell is also the son's "alma mater," and while the father will be remembered as the founder, the son's mem- ory will always be connected with the college by a park and museum building and by the many rare curios which Dr. and Mrs. Hill are collecting during their travels, all of which will go to the museum.
Rev. James Langdon Hill was born in Garnavillo, Iowa, March 14, 1848. After preparatory study was over, he entered Grinnell College, whence he was graduated, class of 1871, and twenty years there- after was honored by his "alma mater" with the de- gree of Doctor of Divinity, the first alumnus of Grinnell to be thus honored. He remained at Grin- nell College for a year after graduation, as a tutor, then became a student at Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts, was graduated (valedictorian) B. D., class of 1875, and ordained a minister of the Congregational church. He was settled over the North Church, of Lynn, from 1885 to 1886, that congregation having called him while yet a student. In 1886 he accepted a call from the Mystic Church, Medford, Massachusetts. For eight years, 1886-1894, he served that church, then withdrew from the active ministry, settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and has since devoted himself to authorship and special work. .
Dr. Hill was mustered into the United States ser- vice in 1864, and rendered detached emergency ser- vice, saw the shedding of blood, captured horses and prisoners, was mustered out, paid off by United States check, and his name is in the newspapers as a volunteer and as in actual service. There is, however, an irregularity in his discharge papers which prevents his joining the Grand Army of the Republic.
Dr. Hill, at the fiftieth anniversary of the found- ing of Grinnell College, made an address that was published by the college. He presided at the Semi- Centennial of the founding of the town of Grinnell, and introduced the governor of Iowa. Both the states of Iowa and Massachusetts have published works written by Dr. Hill at state expense. He is a trustee of Grinnell College; president of the Grin- nell College Club of New England from its incep- tion; trustee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor from its beginning, was present when the society was founded, and raised the salary of its first secretary; was one of four clergymen who in 1891 founded endeavor societies in England, and he founded the society at old Boston in England. He has delivered over four hundred anniversary and convention addresses before endeavor societies, and is as strong a friend and advocate of the society as in the beginning. He is a Phi Beta Kappa member, that honor having been voted him upon nomination by the faculty of Grinnell College. He Essex-2-18
is a member of Tabernacle Congregational Church, of Salem, in which the first missionaries were or- dained, and there, amid the surrounding of old Salem, Dr. Hill wrote one of his best known books, "The Immortal Seven," those unmatched heroes, the first seven missionaries from this country to the "heathen in Asia," Dr. Adoniram Judson and his wonderful wife, Ann (Hasseltine) Judson, "whose names will be remembered in the churches of Bur- mah when the pagodas of Gautama have fallen," Samuel Newell, Harriet Newell, Gordon Hall, Sam- uel Nott and Luther Rice, truly an Immortal Seven.
Apropos of "The Immortal Seven," a missionary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, stationed at Hsipaw N. Shan States Burma, Rev. W. W. Cochrane, wrote:
Dear Doctor Hill: You do not know me and I do not know you. That is neither here nor there. You can write and I can read. You wrote an ar- ticle, story, inspiration or whatever you choose to call it, for that Full Moon called Missions. I read it. That was one of the finest things I ever read.
Who dips his pen in morning light And writes in music sweet and bright. Should scratch away with all his might.
Any Christian man that can make such a grace- ful use of his pen as you can, ought to make a large use of it. I refer to the article, "The Seven Immortals of Salem."
Of the same work the "Journal and Messenger" wrote:
The book does not profess to be a detailed his- tory or biography of anyone of the Seven and yet it brings them all so vividly before us that we seem acquainted with each and hold them all in honor. It takes us from Andover to Salem and from Salem and Philadelphia to India, gives such views of mis- sionary life, including the heroism and suffering of the Judsons and the final victory, as no other book presents in so small a compass. Dr. Wayland's "Life of Judson," Dr. Edward Judson's "Life of His Father," Dr. Wayth's "Missionary Sketches" are more formal and possibly more exhaustive, but none of them has the attractiveness, or so portrays its heroes and heroines, as does this little volume. Dr. Hill has attracted attention and few wield a more graceful pen or show better judgment in the selec- tion of their material.
Dr. Hill's published works include: "Some of my Mottoes;" "The Young People's Prayer Meeting;" "Little Willis;" "Vacation Books;" "Personal State- ment" (on entering ministry) ; "Modern Methods of Christian Nurture" (often reprinted) ; "Notes and Suggestions Upon the Prayer Meeting;" "Boys in the Late War" (often reprinted); "Woman and Satan" (often reprinted) ; "The Problem of Spiri- tual Awakenings;" Introduction to the Second Vol- ume of "Iowa Band;" "Decade of History;" "At Alumni Dinner Andover," Twenty-fifth Anniversary Address; "Laymen to the Front;" "The Superlative Vacation;" "The Scholar's Larger Life" (A collec- tion of addresses) ; "Antiphonal Services," Nos. I and II, (printed with music); "Growth of Govern- ment," (published by the State of Massachusetts) ; "The Century's Capstone;" "A Missionary Shrine;"
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"The Immortal Seven;" "Judson, The Bridge Builder;" "Dr. James L. Hill, writer," (in Unit) ; "A Crowning Achievement;" "Not Negro Churches, but Churches;" "Tribute to Helen Grinnell Mears;" "The Gift of the Bottom Dollar;" "Formative Years in Early Iowa" (Annals of Iowa) ; "The New Forum and the Old Lyceum;" "The Century's Capstone;" "The Last of the Founders" (published by the State of Iowa) ; "Iowa College in the War," (published by the College, three editions) ; "Memorial of Dr. Sal- ter" (Annals of Iowa) ; "The Worst Boys in Town" (351 pages); "Revisiting the Eearth" (274 pages, not a book on spiritualism, but the recital of the experiences of a man who goes back to visit his childhood home.)
Of "The Worst Boys in Town," "The Boston Transcript" wrote:
Dr. James L. Hill of Salem is a forceful speaker and a writer who knows how to arrest the attention. He is profoundly interested in young people, and gave $15,000 towards the Christian Endeavor Build- ing on Mt. Vernon Street, Boston. He has recently summarized thirty-five sermons or public addresses and given us their condensed wisdom in a book en- titled: "The Worst Boys in Town and Other Ad- dresses." Some of the titles are very suggestive: Boy Lost, Becoming a Lady, Little Coats for Little Men, Fine Words, Little Touches, and A Difference in Cradles. In running through these pages we find many snappy, sententious expressions so full of truth and wisdom that we feel like passing them on. Many of them hit the target: "The aim of expres- sion is impression." "Leaven is a committee of the whole. It works." "No man is at his best if he thinks lightly of his work." Dr. Hill likes to re- call chat, in the Civil War, the soldiers were "an army of boys, a battle front of glowing, glorious youth." He has dug into the archives and gives us these surprising facts: "One hundred boys were only twelve years of age, there were more than twenty whose age was eleven, and seven hundred were only thirteen years of age; one thousand, only fourteen; more than two thousand, only fifteen."
Dr. Hill and his wife have visited the Hawaiian Islands, the West Indies, England, and Alaska. His great number of interesting experiences have been made in feature articles for the metropolitan news- papers. He wrote ten feature articles on Alaska, covering the history, marvelous resources, and won- derful scenery of that section of the United States.
Dr. Hill married, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, March 28, 1878, Lucy B. Dunham, daughter of Rev. Isaac and Elanora S. (Brown) Dunham, her father at the time of the marriage of his daughter being chaplain of the Massachusetts Senate. The family home of the Hills is No. 225 Lafayette street, Salem, Massachusetts.
STEPHEN SPAULDING LITTLEFIELD, son of Dependence S. Littlefield, was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, August 8, 1848, and died in the city of his birth, November 20, 1920. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Peabody, and there spent his life. He became a director of the Pea- body Co-operative Bank and of the Warren Five
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