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The Bradly family came to Haverhill to reside during the boyhood of their son, William C., whose education was obtained almost wholly in Haverhill public schools. After leaving school, he found em- ployment in the plant of the Haverhill Counter Company, which firm he served for three years. For the next two years he was with the George Web- ster Company, leaving them to work for the Apple- ton Counter Company. Three years later he found it to his advantage to change, and for about twelve months thereafter was in the employ of the Sleeper Counter Company, subsequently serving the Summer Counter Company for more than four years as fore- man of their plant. In 1912 he decided to venture into business for himself, and he then established the Bradly Counter Company, and began the manu- facture of fibre counters and leather shanks. He was and is sole owner, and has developed the busi- ness very well. This year, 1921, expansion of the business during the nine years of operation made Mr. Bradly think of re-organizing, so as to get cor- porate powers. Consequently a charter of incor- poration was applied for and granted, and the busi- ness is now conducted under the corporate name of the Bradly Counter Company, Inc. There has been practically no change in ownership, however, and Mr. Bradley is still actively managing the plant. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternal order, and belongs to the Baptist church of Haverhill.
Mr. Bradly married, in 1908, Lillian Stultz, of Haverhill. They have four children: Robert B., Charlotte M., Alton F., and June B.
EARL H. PICKENS, manufacturer, owner and general manager of the Standard Wood Heel Com- pany, of Haverhill, was born in Wilton, Maine, March 5, 1890, the son of William and Alice (Cox) Pickens, of that place.
The family came into Massachusetts when Earl H. was a boy, and took up residence in Haverhill, where his father entered into box manufacturing. Earl H. Pickens attended the Haverhill public schools, and in due course began a business career. For five years he followed his father's trade, box manufacturing, working in the plant of E. Hoyt, on Wingate street, Haverhill. Then for another five years he worked for Joseph Moore, whose specialty was the manufacture of wood heels. In that branch of the shoe industry he became proficient in that time, then left to open a plant for the Wingate Shoe, Incorporated. He was manager of the plant until 1918. Early in 1919 he decided to go into in- dependent business, and under the name of the Standard Wood Heel Company, opened a factory. He has had good success, the output being now about 300 dozen a day. His plant covers a floor space of 2,000 square feet, and he is now basically well situated, having a patented process which en- ables him to guarantee his product to the shoe manufacturers, the only wood heel company able to do so, it is stated. The company does a local and export trade.
Mr. Pickens is affiliated with some fraternal orders, including the Knights of Pythias (uniform rank), Odd Fellows, and Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
He was married on January 21, 1911, to Edith Boodle, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Law- son) Boodle, of Haverhill, who were of English birth.
WILLIAM ALFRED CLARK, JR .- For many years active in the business and financial progress of eastern Massachusetts, William Alfred Clark, Jr., of Lynn, was identified with the progress of the day in his banking business located in Boston.
Mr. Clark was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 9, 1852, a son of William A. and Elizabeth (Lin- coln), Clark. Receiving a practical education in the public schools, Mr. Clark struck out for himself as a young man of sixteen years, and going to North- ampton, Massachusetts, learned the trade of watch- making and engraving, spending five years in mas- tering the intricacies of this art. He then came to Lynn and established himself in the jewelry bust- ness here, meeting with very good success, and fol- lowed this line of activity in Lynn for a period of fifteen years, having stores both on Broad and Union streets. Then in 1888 Mr. Clark went to Boston, disposing of his business interests here, and in that city engaged in the banking business, which he followed continuously until the time of his death, which occurred at his home in Lynn, on' October 14, 1921, after a short illness.
For years Mr. Clark had been interested in the civic progress of Lynn, and was identified with its
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educational advance. For nine years he served on the school committee, for two years of that time was chairman of the board. He was instrumental in organizing and providing for the maintenance of many of the evening schools of the city, and in many ways had contributed to the educational progress of the city. He was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the term of 1886-7, and was elected State Senator for the term of 1888- 9, but otherwise declined political honors.
In June, 1877, Mr. Clark married Clara H. Swain, daughter of Joseph H. and Elizabeth Swain, and they are the parents of four children: Alfred S., a graduate of Lynn Classical High School, class of 1896, and Harvard University, class of 1900, and now literary editor of the "Boston Post"; Flor- ence J., a graduate of Lynn Classical High School in 1900, and Smith College in 1904, later teaching school; Harold S., graduate of high school and Bur- dette College, now in business in Chicago; and Helen, a graduate of Lynn Classical High School, and of Smith College in 1920, and now following the lines of chemical research.
HOWARD JOSEPH CURRY-The exhaustive comprehension of an idea, and its daily application in the broadest and most practical form-that is the foundation upon which Howard Joseph Curry, of Salem, Massachusetts, has built a remarkable success. This foundation, the idea, is the direct ad- vertising of the bill-board. Mr. Curry comes of a race of practical men, men alive to the oppor- tunities of their day, and quick to take advantage of them, men no less prominent in public endeavor than in private enterprise. Mr. Curry's grandfather, Captain Patrick Sarsfield Curry, came to America from England, when he was a lad of twelve years. He was a stone cutter and monumental worker by trade, possessing more than a little artistic ability. He won his military rank in the Civil War, being captain of a company of a Massachusetts Volun- teer Infantry. After the close of the war he rep- resented his district in the Massachusetts State Legislature, doing constructive work for the county and for the State.
Edward Martin Curry, Captain Curry's son, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, but spent his later years in Lynn. He learned the same trade which his father had followed, and for many years they were associated together in the monumental works founded by the elder man in Lynn. This became a prosperous interest, and one of the leading busi- ness houses in this line at that time. Edward Mar- tin Curry married Mary J. Robinson, and they were the parents of ten children, one of whom died in infancy, and the rest are now still living.
Howard Joseph Curry, son of Edward Martin and Mary J. (Robinson) Curry, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on October 5, 1886. He received a practical education in the public schools of that city, then looked forward to a business career, and in this his father advised him. As a boy he had showed definite artistic talent, yet his tastes ran along executive lines, and he planned a business
future. Realizing the value of originality in any line of business, Mr. Curry's father turned his at- tention to the possibilities in out-door advertising, knowing that his artistic ability would count far in the upward struggle. Therein lies Mr. Curry's success. At sixteen years of age he started in busi- ness for himself at Lynn. Early in the game he spent a year touring the United States, going through the middle West, and on to California, gathering ideas for the line of work in which he had embarked. In 1910 he came to Salem, establish- ing his business here, where he has since been lo- cated. The present quarters of Mr. Curry's business have housed this same line of business since 1900, when George Purbeck entered this field of adver tising. He continued until 1908, when the firm be- came Purbeck & Porter. In 1912 this partnership was dissolved, Mr. Porter continuing the business alone until 1914. Then Curry & Leslie conducted it for two years, Mr. Curry purchasing Mr. Leslie's interest in 1916, since which date he has been the head of the business.
The scope of this business includes extensive bill- boards devoted to advertising purposes throughout Essex county, in Salem, Lynn, Beverly, Peabody, Danvers, and Marblehead, and also all along the North Shore. These bill-boards are located at ad- vantageous points along the highways, and not only present each its individual advertiser's busi- ness, but presents it in the most attractive and most logical manner. Mr. Curry does all his own de- signing. He is an idealist, and nothing of the crude or the bizarre can be detected in his work. Every striking feature has its logical origin, and this is clearly evident, although handled with the dis- criminating taste of the true artist. Mr. Curry's success is a fair appraisal of the character and value of his work as an advertising medium, and thereby an impetus to the prosperity of the cities of Essex county. The bill-boards are all of iron construc- tion within the fire districts, and on rural highways they are built of wood. Mr. Curry's time is largely occupied by his business interests, but he is a mem- ber of the Knights of Columbus, and of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks.
On February 29, 1908, Mr. Curry married Caro- line Crudden, daughter of Barney Crudden, of Es- sex county, Massachusetts. They have two sons: Herbert Edward, born September 2, 1909; and Ralph James, born January 18, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Curry are members of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, of Lynn, the family being residents of that city.
WILLIAM HENRY GALWAY-Holding a world championship in one branch of athletics, William Henry Galway, of Amesbury, comes into local and State notice for other than only business promi nence, in which, by the way, he has succeeded well. He was born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, Feb ruary 3, 1877, son of John and Bridget A. (Cody) Galway. His mother was born in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, Canada, April 9, 1837. She reached her sixty-fourth year, her death coming
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in 1901. John Galway, father of William H. Gal- way, was born in Thomastown, Ireland, March 17, 1847, and is still living. His has been a busy life. He retired in 1914, but for forty-seven years prior to that he was superintendent of the private estate of Sherman Paris. He is respected for his sterling qualities, and throughout his life has manifested a commendable sturdiness of character.
William Henry Galway began his schooling in the public schools of Charlestown, New Hampshire, passing eventually through the elementary and high schools of that place. His education was continued at the Vermont Academy, after a year at which place he entered Conner's Commercial College, studying there for two years, and then engaged in business. His school record was not even then com- plete, for after being in business for some years he availed himself of the opportunity to attend the night school of the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, of Boston. There he took special courses, to better fit himself for executive business, and the capacities he has filled in business indicate that he is a man of executive ability and good business acumen. After leaving school he went to New York City, and there for eighteen months was employed as bookkeeper by the American Ice Company. For ten years thereafter he was in the employ of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company, of Boston. He started in minor capacity in a local office, and by good work advanced rapidly in the general office of the company. At the end of a decade of ser- vice, he was offered the position of traffic manager for the Woodstock Lumber Company. Efficient handling of that responsibility brought him advance- ment within a year to the position of office manager for the lumber company. Five years later he was sent to Richford, Vermont, to take charge of the company's operations in the timber tracts. At such work he remained in Vermont for five years, then returned to the Boston office. Shortly afterwards he was placed in charge of all the lumber opera- tions of the company, and remained in the field for about eighteen months in that capacity. At the end of that time there was little about lumbering that Mr. Galway did not know. Also, he had in his many years of responsible office accumulated some sur- plus means. Therefore he was able, when oppor- tunity offered, to acquire the business of the Merri- mac Lumber Company, of Merrimac and Amesbury. He has owned and operated the business ever since. It is a substantial one at both branches, Merrimac and Amesbury, and it has been considerably devel- oped since Mr. Galway became owner and manager.
He is widely known in Essex county. His busi- ness brings him into connection with the Amesbury Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally, he is of the Amesbury Chapter of the Knights of Columbus, ac- tive in expanding that work; socially, he belongs to the Amesbury Club; politically, he is non-parti- san; and he has come into not a little prominence and popularity as a sportsman. Fond of outdoor life and athletics, his inclination has shown most prominently in the game of bowling. For six years he held the world championship in that game, his
record being hard to better. The Galway family belong to the Roman Catholic church, and Mr. Gal- way is a member of St. Joseph's Church, of Ames- bury.
Mr. Galway married, November 7, 1911, Catherine A. O'Neil, who was born, of Irish parents, in Somer- ville, Massachusetts, April 2, 1882. They have one child, Mary, born November 11, 1912.
HENDRICK SCOTT TUTTLE, a worthy son of a worthy race, was well known throughout New England and New York as a road builder, he hav- ing the distinctive record of having built more miles of good roads than any road maker in the State of Massachusetts. He was a son of Jerome and Han- nah (Watson) Tuttle, and of a family which has been in New England for nearly three centuries and long seated in the State of New Hampshire.
The first mention of the family in New England was in 1635, when the ship "Planter," of London, brought to Boston as some of its passengers Rich- ard Tuttle, his wife and three children; John Tut- tle (brother of Richard), his wife and four young children; and William Tuttle, his wife and three children.
John Tuttle, the ancestor of the New Hampshire Tuttle family, settled at Dover, and his name ap- pears in 1660 on a citizens' protest against the pro- ject of Underhill to place the republic of Dover under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. John Tut- tle lived on Dover Neck and there owned eight acres, which, with other lands, gave him the title "plan- ter" in the public records. He seems to have passed on to his posterity a liking for his occupation, for many of his descendants seem to have been im- bued with a "love of the land."
Among the sons of John Tuttle was Judge John Tuttle, who filled every public office within the power of the citizens of Dover to confer. He saw military service, was "Lieutenant" John Tuttle in 1689, and in 1692 was captain of his company, and so continued until 1702, having had complete charge of the defenses of Dover.
Jerome B. Tuttle, a more recent member of this family, was born in Lee, New Hampshire, April 15, 1815, on the farm that had been in the family for many generations, and there died October 29, 1900. He cultivated the farm until his retirement, and also operated a saw mill, having water power sufficient to run an up-and-down saw. He thus converted his timber into lumber, which found a ready sale. Jerome B. Tuttle married Hannah Watson, daughter of Winthrop and Lydia (Tibbetts) Watson, of Dover, New Hampshire, and to them six children were born: Hendrick Scott, to whom this review is dedicated; Annette B .; Rosetta, died in early childhood; Rosetta (2), also deceased; Mary A., deceased; Sarah Belle (S. Belle), now residing in Lee, New Hampshire.
Hendrick Scott Tuttle, eldest child and only son of Jerome B. and Hannah (Watson) Tuttle, was born in Lee, New Hampshire, November 18, 1846, and died at his home in Swampscott, Massachusetts, April 6, 1921. He was educated in the town pub-
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lic schools and at Cortland Academy, and remained with his father until of legal age. He was employ- ed as a farmer and lumberman until 1878, then made his first venture in contracting by taking a section of the Worcester & Portland railroad to grade. He got through with that undertaking so profitably that he continued a railroad builder for about ten years, having contracts at Plymouth, Compton, North Woodstock, and other New Hamp- shire points.
Mr. Tuttle then settled in Swampscott, Massa- chusetts, and there operated as The Tuttle Con- tracting Company. He became a very large con- tractor, and in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York did a great deal of highway and railroad work. For many years he did a great deal of road building for the State of Maine, many of the State highways having been built under his direction. For several years he did the road and street building of several land development companies on Long Island and in other parts of New York. He did a great deal of road bed building for the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Boston & Maine rail- roads; laid out the Mudge and Stetson estates in Swampscott, and was interested in other 'develop- ment enterprises of that section. He was a char- ter member of Swampscott Lodge, No. 140, Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows, and was a man most highly appreciated by all who knew him.
ALBERTA H. EMERY, part owner of the Na- tional Wood Heel Company, of Bradford, Massa- chusetts, in which has been merged some other companies, and is now quite an appreciable busi- ness, was born in Bradford, New Hampshire, No- vember 25, 1882, daughter of Edward and Rosella R. Hall. Her father was a shoe manufacturer, and of a New Hampshire family; he died in 1890. Her mother was of an old Maine family, born in Buck- field, that State.
Alberta H. Hall was well educated, and when only seventeen years old, married George Melville Emery, of Lockhaven, Pennsylvania, son of John and Maria (Cummings) Emery, the former of English birth, but interested in the Maine lumber industry, where he met and married Maria Cummings, who was of Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Emery came to live in Haver- hill, and became identified with the shoe industry there. In 1915 Mrs. Emery helped to establish the National Wood Heel Company, of Bradford, the plant of which was located at No. 32 Locket street. She also was manager of the Essex Turning Block Company, at their factory, No. 40 Wingate street .: The business was consolidated with that of George Elliott, of No. 55 Park street, in 1918, and on Janu- ary 1, 1919, the company acquired the Essex Wood Heel Company. In May, 1920, the business of Charles Proctor, of No. 2 Elm street, Bradford, was absorbed. The up-to-date plant of the National Wood Heel Company is now situated at No. 2 Elm street, and in its specialty is capable of an output of five hundred dozen a day. The factory covers 9,000 square feet of floor space, and finds employ- ment for many persons. The management has been
very efficient, aggressive and enterprising, as will be inferred by its progress since 1915, and is an appreciable industry of the Haverhill-Bradford dis- trict, that busy center of shoe manufacturing.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery live in Haverhill, at No. 41 Portland street. They have one child, Doris M., who married a Mr. Snow, of the firm of Emery, Dana & Tucker, shoe manufacturers.
W. HOMER TAPIN-With broad experience in his chosen field of activity, and for some years past the owner of a flourishing business of which he was the founder, Mr. Tapin stands among the rep- resentative men of the day in the business world of Georgetown, Massachusetts. He is a son of Charles E. and Annie E. (Robourge) Tapin, and his father, formerly well known in the shoe industry in Haverhill, died when scarcely past the prime of life, in the year 1893.
W. Homer Tapin was born in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, November 29, 1888. He acquired his fundamental education in the public schools of the city, and secured a practical commercial training at the Haverhill Business College. His first business position was with George F. Carlton & Company, shoe manufacturers of Haverhill, with whom he re- mained, however, for only a short period. He then became identified with O. A. Martin, also of this city, in the capacity of bookkeeper; his duties included meeting the trade as well. After four years in this connection, Mr. Tapin determined to prepare him- self for a special line of mechanics, as a field richer with opportunity than clerical work. In association with H. E. Cullam, of the Haverhill House Heat- ing Company, he learned the plumber's trade, spending three years in this connection, after which he was identified with Sawyer & Dean for about two years. Then striking out for himself, with head- quarters at No. 66 Winter street, he was shortly afterwards induced to become associated with the Globe Furniture Company, buying out their plumb- ing and heating branches, and carrying forward his interests at their plant on White street. This was in 1912, and two years later Mr. Tapin resold his interest and entered business for himself at No. 64 White street, continuing thus until 1917. With war conditions and the vital importance of pre- serving and protecting public works by the over- sight of competent experts, Mr. Tapin was employed by the government and placed in charge of the Portsmouth Water Works, the responsibilities of this position absorbing his time and attention until the signing of the armistice. Late in 1918 he re- moved to Georgetown and again took up his inter- rupted business interests. He is now located at No. 10 Central street, Georgetown, and his position in the trade is a leading one in this section. In ad- dition to a general plumbing and heating business, he is handling a constantly increasing trade in the line of acetylene welding.
Holding both journeyman and master plumber's licenses, Mr. Tapin has the distinction of having passed as the youngest master plumber in this dis- trict. He is a member of the National, State and
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Haverhill Master Plumbers' associations, and also of the Massachusetts Sanitary Association. Broadly in- terested in all community progress, he is a mem- ber of the Georgetown Fire Department, but has never accepted leadership in public affairs. Frater- nally he is a member of Charles C. Dean Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Protection Lodge, No. 78, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Haverhill; of Canton Aerie, No. 40, Fraternal Order of Eagles; of Theodore Roosevelt Lodge, No. 3, Junior Order of United American Mechanics; of the Georgetown Lodge of Rebekah, and of the Georgetown Grange, No. 294, Patrons of Husbandry.
Mr. Tapin married, in 1908, Ada Belle Sney, of Haverhill, daughter of Herman A. and Emmeline (Racine) Sney, of that city, and they have one son, Homer Kenneth.
STANLEY LOVERING JUDKINS-During the last decade quite a number of now prosperous manu- facturing concerns have been established in the Merrimac-Amesbury district in an entirely new in- dustry-automobile bodies, and these enterprises, judging by the volume of manufacture during the last year or so, are likely to appreciably advance the general prosperity of that section of Massachu- setts. Among the companies is the Merrimac Body Company, of Merrimac, formed in February, 1920, by the late Stanley Lovering Judkins, and others. Mr. Judkins was principal owner and treasurer of the company, and since his death his widow, Flor- ence M. (Merrill) Judkins, has capably undertaken the responsibilities of that executive office.
Stanley Lovering Judkins was born in Merrimac, Massachusetts, December 21, 1886, son of Frederick B. Judkins. The Judkins family is of long record in New England, and four generations have now had residence in Merrimac, the senior generations succeeding well in business, and gaining general respect. John B. Judkins, grandfather of Stanley L. Judkins, was born in Freeborne, New Hampshire, in 1835, and died in Merrimac in 1898. He was a carriage builder, and in later life in Merrimac was the principal owner and chief executive of the J. B. Judkins Company, following that line of manu- facture. John B. Judkins was president and man- ager of the company. A member of the firm also was his son, Frederick B. Judkins, father of Stan- ley L. Judkins, but it seems that it was not until the last-named came into the business that the manu- facture of automobile bodies was taken up.
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