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Cents Savings Bank. For two terms he represent- ed Peabody in the General Court, was chairman of the school committee, chief of the fire depart- ment, member of the Peabody Club, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a communicant of the Protestant Epis copal church.
Mr. Littlefield married, at Wiscasset, Maine, January 6, 1890, Matilda Shaw Taylor, daughter of William Taylor. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Littlefield: Alice Taylor, born October 6, 1897; Arthur Stanley, born September 29, 1899; vice- president of Winchester-Hayden, Incorporated, Bos- ton, Massachusetts.
ARCHIE NORWOOD FROST-For nearly a quarter of a century Mr. Frost has practiced law in the Massachusetts courts, beginning in 1898. For a long period he has been active in the civic life of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and in the public life of his State, holding positions professional, legis- lative and political, his service continuous and valu- able. In his legal business he has appeared in all State and Federal courts of his district, in the Su- preme Courts of Massachusetts and of Oklahoma, and in the United States Supreme Court, being reg- ularly admitted to practice in all. It has been a busy, useful quarter of a century, and covers nearly half his lifetime, he beginning the practice of law as a young man of twenty-six. The years have brought him honors and rewards, and he stands high among his contemporaries of the Essex bar. He is a son of Thomas Parsons and Sophia K. (Landers) Frost, his father a veteran of the Civil War, and long a messenger in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Archie Norwood Frost was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, July 26, 1872. He completed the courses of Lawrence public schools, then entered Colby University, transferring to Brown Univer- sity, whence he was graduated A. B., class of 1894. He chose the law as his profession, and after ade- quate preparation was admitted to the bar in 1898, and has since been continuously engaged in pro- fessional work in Lawrence, Boston, Washington and Oklahoma. He has been admitted in all State courts, in all United States courts in the State of Massa- chusetts, in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, and in the United States Supreme Court. He is a mem ber of the Bar Association of Lawrence, Essex county, Massachusetts, and has attained high stand- ing as an able lawyer, learned and skillful.
Mr. Frost is a Republican in politics, and held official connection with the government of Law rence as early as 1898. For three years, 1899-1900- 1901, he represented Lawrence in the Massachu- setts House of Representatives, and in 1902-03 was State Senator. He was special assistant United States attorney general, 1907-14, and in 1917, 8 member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Con- vention. In 1917 he was elected clerk of the courts of Essex county, and is yet (1922) holding that office. In 1916 and again in 1920 he was a dele- gate to the Republican National Convention, aiding
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in the nomination of Charles E. Hughes and War- ren G. Harding for president of the United States. In the Masonic order, Mr. Frost holds all de- grees of lodge, chapter and commandery of the York Rite, has attained the thirty second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight .of Pythias. His clubs are the Home of Lawrence, Salem of Salem, and the Merrimack Valley Coun- try Club. In religious faith he is a Baptist.
Mr. Frost married, in Boston, Massachusetts, De- cember 16, 1898, Charlotte Elizabeth Hovenden, and they are the parents of a daughter, Mildred Har- riett, born May 16, 1900; and a son, Malcolm Ho- venden, born July 10, 1903.
CHARLES ALVIN LITTLEFIELD For many years active in religious work in Massachusetts, and of more recent years prominent also in individual enterprise and in public endeavor, Charles Alvin Littlefield, A. B., A. M., is now a forceful figure in Lynn, Massachusetts. Mr. Littlefield was born in Wells, York county, Maine, August 9, 1854, the son of Horace and Dorcas Littlefield, old residents of that section, both long since deceased.
Receiving his early education in the public schools of his native place, Charles A. Littlefield thereafter took a course at the College Preparatory School, at Kent's Hill, Maine. Later he entered Wesleyan University, from which institution he was grad- uated in 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. At a later period he received from the same in- stitution the degree of Master of Arts. During the next fifteen years, or thereabouts, after his graduation, Mr. Littlefield's time was fully occupied with his duties as a Methodist minister in various towns and cities of Massachusetts, including Clifton- dale, Springfield, Watertown, Boston, Chelsea, in succession. He then came to Lynn. It was in 1902 that he located here, and he immediately became interested in the box manufacturing industry. The firm name of Littlefield & Plummer was later re- organized, and since July 1, 1912, has operated under the name Littlefield & Moulton. In 1920 the firm purchased the manufacturing interests of V. K. and A. H. Jones Company, one of the largest and oldest manufactories of shoes in the city of Lynn. They now conduct both industries, making this firm one of the most prominent shoe manu- facturing interests of the city.
In the financial circles of Lynn, Mr. Littlefield is also prominent. He is president of the Sagamore Trust Company, and of the Lynn Morris Plan Com- pany, and a director in both institutions. He is vice-president, a director, and a member of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the New England Guarantee Corporation, of Boston, and a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, of Boston. His more personal interests include membership in the Ma- sons, the Rotary Club, the Tedesco Country Club, and the Twentieth Century and Boston City clubs of Boston. Possessed of a gift for public speaking, his interest in those who speak from the rostrum
never wanes, nor does his interest in men of power and ability who accomplish things along any worthy line. One of his hobbies, if such it may be termed, is a collection of the portraits and autographs of American men who have done distinctive things. He treasures these as chosen and personal friends.
Politically, Mr. Littlefield has been brought into more than usual prominence by his contemporaries in public life. He was a member of the second national convention of the Progressive party, which nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency. He was also a member of the Republican national convention of 1920, which nominated Harding and Coolidge. Although Mr. Littlefield has never had personal ambitions of a political nature, his friends have approached him most seriously on many oc- casions with the request that he enter public life in some larger way than as a representative of merely local interests.
Among all these manifold interests, Mr. Littlefield has never relinquished his active participation in the progress of religious work. Always connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, he has been most assiduous in promoting the spread of, and in sup- porting the institutions of this denomination. He was one of the organizers of the Epworth League, and has always kept in close touch with its de- velopment. He was also one of the organizers of the Methodist Federation for Social Service. He has been broadly instrumental in advancing . the work of the Boys' Club and of the Boy Scouts, and during the World War was prominent in all the war activities. Every branch of public benevolence is of interest to him, and receives its share of sup- port and encouragement. He is a trustee of the Foxboro State Hospital, and in all the work of this and other institutions and organizations with which he is connected his administrative ability is a force for progress and development of a permanent na- ture.
On February 5, 1890, Mr. Littlefield married Jane Whipple, daughter of Andrew and Hannah Whipple. Mr. and Mrs. Littlefield have one son and one daughter, Dorcas Alice and Horace Jackson.
FRANCIS A. O'REILLY, M. D., one of the younger physicians of Lawrence, Massachusetts, whose service in the World War has given him breadth of experience, was born in Lawrence, in 1887, and is a son of Patrick O'Reilly, who has been superintendent of Catholic cemeteries in this city for the past fifty years.
As a boy Dr. O'Reilly attended St. Mary's Par- ochial School, then studied pharmacy in Lawrence. This opened up before the young man the possibili- ties of future usefulness, and having completed this branch of study in 1909, he entered Tufts College, and was graduated from that institution in 1918, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For two years thereafter Dr. O'Reilly was interne at St. Mary's Hospital, in Brooklyn, New York, and then for six months filled the same position in the Kings County Hospital, also in Brooklyn. With this un-
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usually exhaustive preparation for his life-work, Dr. 'O'Reilly returned to Lawrence in 1916, and began the practice of medicine here. But the World War came with its great need of skilled men, and the young doctor left his practice for the service. He was commissioned first lieutenant of the Medical Corps, October 23, 1918, and served during the in- fluenza epidemic at the Willard Parker Hospital. He was later sent to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and was there at the time of his discharge, in December, 1918. He returned at that time to Lawrence and resumed the practice of medicine. Dr. O'Reilly is a member of the American Medical Association, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. He is a mem- ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of For- esters.
On June 22, 1921, Dr. O'Reilly married, at Law- rence, Massachusetts, Mary M. Habershaw, a grad- uate nurse, of Attleboro, Massachusetts.
ALBERT ROWE MERRILL-For more than thirty-five years identified with the business life of Lynn, Massachusetts, and during the entire period associated with the same house, Mr. Merrill is broadly representative of that progressive spirit which has made Lynn one of the foremost cities of New England. Mr. Merrill is a member of a very old and prominent New Hampshire family.
His father, John F. Merrill, was throughout his lifetime active in the marble and granite business in Laconia, New Hampshire, and was a leading figure in the public life of that community, serving for long periods as selectman and member of the Board of Education of Laconia. He married Flora Abby Rowe.
Albert Rowe Merrill was born in Laconia, New Hampshire, May 29, 1867. Following his elemen- tary education, he attended the Laconia High School, then completed his studies at the New Hampton In- stitution, at New Hampton, New Hampshire. In the capacity of assistant bookkeeper, Mr. Merrill enter- ed the employ of Hilliard, Kistler & Company, of Lynn, in 1885, and throughout the intervening period he has been identified with the progress of this con- cern, the changes in personnel eventually placing him at the head of the interest. In 1893 the firm . name was changed to Hilliard & Merrill, and nine- teen years later Mr. Merrill became president and treasurer of Hilliard & Merrill, Incorporated. This concern holds a leading position in this city as a manufacturer and distributor of several branches of sole leather for the shoe and other trades, its busi- ness extending throughout the United States, and comprising a growing export trade.
In many branches of advance, Mr. Merrill takes a deep interest and affiliates with the various or- ganized bodies. He is a director of the Central Na- tional Bank of Lynn. Fraternally he holds mem- bership in Mount Carmel Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is past master, and in the various Scottish Rite bodies, holding the thirty- second degree in this order, and also being a mem-
ber of Aleppo Temple, of Boston, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. A member of the New Hampshire, Lynn and Ipswich Historical societies, he takes the keenest interest in all phases of early American progress, and is a member of the Bostonian Society, the Society for the Preser vation of New England Antiquities, also of the Bibliophile Society of Boston. He is a member of the Boston Leather Trade Benevolent Society, of the Algonquin, Art and City clubs, of Boston, of the Oxford Club, of Lynn, and the Tedesco Club, of Swampscott. His religious affiliation is with the First Universalist church of Lynn, and politically he ordinarily endorses the Republican party, reserving the right to individual decision, however, when his judgment dictates.
Mr. Merrill married, in Lynn, May 29, 1889, Har- riett Elvira Davis, daughter of James Leroy and Clara Elvira (Simpson) Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Mer- rill have two daughters: Clara Lillian, born March 20, 1890; and Alberta Rosalind, born June 11, 1895.
SAMUEL FOWLER-A descendant of worthy ancestry, Samuel Fowler upheld through his long and useful life, to the highest degree, the prestige of his honored name. He was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, September 15, 1776, son of Samuel and Sarah (Putnam) Fowler, and was baptized June 20, 1779. He was seventh in direct line of descent from Philip Fowler, of Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, who was a settler in Ipswich, Massachu- setts, in 1634.
The education of Samuel Fowler was obtained in the district school, and that he was especially skilled in figures is shown in a dozen or more ledgers, now extant, and which also show that he was an ex- cellent bookkeeper. In 1799 Mr. Fowler bought the land on which the Fowler House now stands, and also bought two grist mills and a sawmill. By pur- chase he acquired large real estate holdings, and in all was the owner of five mills. He was the pioneer in the tanning industry in Danvers, and with seven others shared the expense of building the Liberty Bridge, known as "Spite Bridge."
Public-spiritedness has ever been a predominating trait of the Fowler family, and Samuel Fowler held strong interests in public affairs. Whether it was financially, or through counsel or time devoted to any enterprise for the public welfare, he was al- ways ready and cheerful in giving. The farm lands and the mills gave evidence of Mr. Fowler's thrift and industry. It was his custom to rise at four o'clock in the morning and go to his mills to super- intend the work. He had a large apiary and or chard, and raised large quantities of peaches.
Mr. Fowler was beloved by his neighbors and fellow-citizens for his kindness of heart; he lived in his daily life the Christian teachings, and was al- ways willing to help those not so fortunate.
The Fowler House, now the property of the So- ciety for the Preservation of New England Anti- quities, was built in 1809 by Samuel Fowler, and was purchased by the Society January 18, 1912,
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thereby insuring its preservation.
Mr. Fowler married, October 13, 1799, Clarissa Page, born in Danvers, November 18, 1779, dangh- ter of Captain Samuel and Rebecca (Putnam) Page, and died April 19, 1854. Samuel Fowler died Feb- ruary 22, 1859. He is survived by his two grand- daughters, Adelaide and Sarah Putnam Fowler.
ALEXANDER H. ROGERS, son of Barnett Rogers, now of Andover, Massachusetts, was born in Scotland, and when a boy came to the United States with his parents, Andover, Massachusetts, becoming the family home.
The lad, Alexander H., attended Andover public schools, completing the courses, and soon after- ward began learning the printer's trade in the George S. Merrill office. Later, the young printer became a reporter for the "Evening Tribune" of Lawrence, Massachusetts, continuing in that rela- tion with the "Tribune" until the death of Horace A. Wadsworth, the proprietor. The family attempt- ed to continue the "Tribune," but after a short time sold the paper to Alexander H. Rogers and Henry F. Hildreth, who as partners continued the publication of the "Evening Tribune" until Mr. Hil- dreth's death, about 1907. Mr. Rogers then or- ganized the corporation, The Hildreth & Rogers Company, and as treasurer of the company and its general manager has kept the "Evening Tribune" up to modern requirements and made it a valuable newspaper property. He is also a director of the Merrimack Co-operative Bank, and a corporator of the Lawrence Savings Bank. In politics Mr. Rogers is a Republican. He is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Clan Mc- Pherson, Order of Scottish Clans, the Caledonian Society, Merrimack Valley Country Club, Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, and Lawrence Rotary Club. He is an attendant of the Universalist church, his wife a member.
Mr. Rogers married Ethel L. Emerson, and they are the parents of a son, Irving E. Rogers, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, August 20, 1902, now a sophomore at Dartmouth College.
WILLIAM E. CHASE, a prominent citizen of Newbury, Massachusetts, was born June 4, 1856, in the city of Newburyport, son of William F. and Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Chase.
The public schools afforded him his early edu- cation, and then he started to work in the Mechan- ics' National Bank as a clerk, and then was book- keeper in the National Bank of Redemption, Boston, and afterwards held this position in the Newbury- port Bank, where first employed. In 1879, Mr. Chase engaged in the insurance business, and after forty successful years with that business, including real estate, he retired from active duties, although he still holds a directorate in the company. In con- nection with his insurance work, he was also an auctioneer, and still follows this occupation, having the distinction of being the. oldest auctioneer in the
State. He was a director of the Merchants' Na- tional Bank for several years. At one time Mr. Chase was a member of the School Board at New- buryport.
Mr. Chase married, January 10, 1878, Laura Thur- low, daughter of Alexander and Austria (Putnam) Thurlow, and their children are: W. Fred, born Ang- ust 13, 1879; Charles Rupert, born September 8, 1883.
WALTER S. BAILEY, of the firm of John Bailey & Sons, manufacturers, was born in Haver- hill, Massachusetts, December 12, 1882, son of John and Elizabeth F. (Potter) Bailey. His father was the founder of the business now conducted by the son, and was actively engaged in its management until his death in 1916. His wife was Elizabeth F. Potter, a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and she died in 1908. Mr. Bailey was a director of the Haverhill Trust Company for many years.
The education of Walter S. Bailey was obtained in the public and high schools of Haverhill, and, im- mediately upon completing his courses there, he be- came associated with his father in the manufacture of tops and soles, a branch of the shoe industry, one of the main industries of that vicinity. Mr. Bailey was subsequently admitted to the firm and the name changed to John Bailey & Sons, con- tinuing to the present time, the death of the father not resulting in change of name. The business is one of the oldest of its kind in Haverhill. Mr. Bailey is a member of Bailey & Bayley, manufac- turers of heel-pads, box-toes and fillers. He is also president of the Bollard & Bailey Company, Incor- porated, manufacturers of top-lifts, shanks and soles.
Mr. Bailey is a Mason, and is a member of Sag- ahew Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Pentucket Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Haverhill Council, Royal and Select Masters; Haverhill Commandery, Knights Templar; Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Lodge of Per- fection; Massachusetts Consistory, thirty-second de- gree; Palestine Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Agawam Club and of the An- cient and Honorable Artillery Company.
Mr. Bailey married in 1905, Iva M. Brickett, of Haverhill, and their children are: Dudley J., Thelma E. and Valeska B. Bailey.
DANIEL D. MURPHY, M. D .- Among the re- spected and successful medical practitioners and specialists of Essex county is Dr. Daniel D. Murphy, who for thirty years has been in practice in Ames- bury. He was born in Essex county, at East Haver- hill, Massachusetts, October 21, 1868, and his par- ents, Daniel and Ellen (McAuliffe) Murphy, were known to many of the older residents of Haverhill and vicinity. His parents were born in County Cork, Ireland, and after coming to this country, and to Massachusetts, Daniel Murphy, the father, bought a farm in East Haverhill, and passed the re- mainder of his life in working it. He died in 1889,
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and his wife in 1890.
Daniel D. Murphy had by that time graduated in medicine. His early education had been obtained in the public schools of Haverhill, following which came a preparatory course at Dummer Academy. From there he went to Dartmouth College, being of the class of 1890. His medical instruction was ob- tained at the Long Island College Hospital, and of that well known medical college he holds the degree of M. D., graduating in the class of 1889. He en- tered upon his professional career at the Chicago Eye and Ear Hospital, his period of service in that hospital being to all intents and purposes a post- graduate course in that branch of medical science. From there he went. to Baldwinsville, in 1891, as first assistant surgeon at the State Hospital. In that year also he opened an office for general prac- tice in Amesbury, which place has ever since been the center of his general practice.
Dr. Murphy is widely known among medical men throughout Massachusetts, and more than one no- table honor has been bestowed upon him by his pro- fessional "confreres." In 1919 he was vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and was elected president in 1920. He has been medical ex- aminer for twenty-two years, and among other pro- fessional associations belongs to the following: The American Medical Association, the Amesbury Medi- cal Association, and the California Medical So- ciety. Fraternally, he is an Elk, and belongs also to the Catholic organization, the Knights of Colum- bus. His church is St. Joseph's Catholic, of Ames- bury.
Dr. Murphy married (first), in 1893, Abbie Maud Bryant, of West Newbury, Massachusetts. She died seven years later, in 1900. Nine years afterwards Dr. Murphy married (second) Gertrude McHugh, of Amesbury, Massachusetts. Dr. Murphy has two children, sons, both born to his first wife, namely: 1. Daniel William, born July 20, 1894; after grad- uating at Dummer Academy, he entered the Cath- olic University at Washington, D. C., and grad- uated as A. B. therefrom in the class of 1912; he chose law, and took the course at the Benjamin Harrison Law School, becoming LL.B. thereof, in the class of 1915; he is now in successful law prac- tice in Oakland, California. 2. Alfred H., born in Amesbury, September 16, 1897; he graduated from Amesbury High School, and eventually became an LL.B. of Benjamin Harrison Law School, Illinois, also later studying law at the National Institute of Law, in Washington, D. C .; he is now in prac- tice in Indiana, being attorney for the Travelers' Insurance Company.
LESLIE ROSS PORTER, was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, June 24, 1888, son of Edward Hoag and Lillian (Evans) Porter, his father a contractor. He prepared in Dean Academy, then entered Tufts College, whence he was graduated a structural en- gineer, class of 1912. Since graduation, he has been engaged as a contractor, his residence No. 49 An- dover street, Peabody, Massachusetts. Mr. Porter is a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with
lodge, chapter, council and commandery, is a noble of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. His clubs are the Salem Golf, Colonial, and Salem Billiard. In re- ligious preference he is a Congregationalist.
On March 6, 1915, Mr. Porter married Marie Eliot Teel, daughter of Frank H. and Grace (Thomas) Teel. Mr. and Mrs. Porter are the parents of two children: Edward Herbert, born May 20, 1916; Leslie Ross (2), born July 15, 1917.
FRANK CUSHING STETSON - In Plymouth county, Massachusetts, not far from the first home of his paternal ancestor, Cornet Robert Stetson, who came to Norwell, Massachusetts, in 1630, Frank Cushing Stetson, vice-president and general man- ager of The Watson Shoe Company of Lynn, Mas- sachusetts was born. A descendant of the Ameri- can ancestor, Cornet Robert Stetson, who fought in the Revolution, and tracing in lineal descent, Mr. Stetson is eligible to the societies basing member- ship upon Revolutionary and early Colonial ancestry. Frank C. Stetson is a son of America Emerson and Mary Caroline (Hill) Stetson, his father a prominent boot and shoe manufacturer.
Frank Cushing Stetson was born in Abington, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, October 21, 1871. He attended the public schools at South Abington (now Whitman), until 1889, then entered the busi- ness world as an employe of his father, then en- gaged in boot and shoe manufacturing. He be- came familiar with the business from various angles, and has devoted himself to that branch of New England manufacturing, now and for many years associated with The Watson Shoe Company, Lynn, Massachusetts. As general manager of the com- pany's plant he is in charge of a large manufac- turing business, while as a member of the board of directors and vice-president, he has a voice in shap- ing the policy of the company.
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