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Stanley L. Judkins was educated in the public schools of Merrimac, but after passing through the local high school he took the course at Exeter Academy. So as to gain a thorough knowledge of automobile manufacture, he went to Cleveland, Ohio, soon after leaving Exeter Academy, and for the next three years worked in automobile plants in that city. Thus equipped, he returned to his native place, and the J. B. Judkins Company went energetically into the manufacture of automobile bodies under his direction, he being appointed superintendent and general manager. He retained those offices with the J. B. Judkins Company until
his death, which occurred December 14, 1920. But in February of that year he also organized the Merrimac Body Company, and that company, fol- lowing the same line, has been developed very satis- factorily. Mr. Judkins held direction as general manager and treasurer until his death, when his widow became treasurer. His death, coming so early in a promising business career, was a distinct blow to many Merrimac people, where he was well known and liked, and looked upon as one of the leading business men of the younger generation.
Fraternally, Mr. Judkins was a member of Beth- any Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Merri- mac, and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Haverhill. He also was a member of the Alumni Association of Exeter Academy, and the Home Club. He did not enter actively into politi- cal movements, but was firmly a Republican. His church was the Congregational, of Merrimac.
Mr. Judkins married, May 25, 1912, at Haverhill, Florence M. Merrill, of Haverhill, who was born April 3, 1890, at Salt Lake City, Utah, daughter of Forest E. and Alice M. (Averill) Merrill, both na- tives of Georgetown, Massachusetts, where the for- mer was born August 2, 1858, and the latter March 3, 1869. The father of Mrs. Judkins was an acad- emician, and at the time of her birth held a pro- fessorship in Salt Lake City, Utah, and later was an educator in Provo City and at Hampstead, New Hampshire. He died June 21, 1920, surviving his wife by some years, her death occurring February 19, 1915. To Stanley Lovering and Florence M. (Merrill) Judkins was born one child, Stanley Lover- ing, Jr., born April 6, 1914.
ROBERT A. S. REOCH-As superintendent of the largest print works in the world, Robert A. S. Reoch holds a position entailing great responsibil- ity and a foremost place among the leading citizens of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Mr. Reoch was born at River Point, Rhode Is- land, December 7, 1867, son of Robert and Helen (Stewart) Reoch. Both of his parents were born in Scotland, where they were married, the death of the mother occurring in 1893, and that of the father, November 9, 1918. For a period of forty years, Robert Reoch, (the father), was manager of the Clyde Print Works, resigning this position to ac- cept a similar one with the Cranston Print Works, both of these establishments being located in Rhode Island. During the latter years of his life he was president of the Phenix Lace Company, of Phenix, Rhode Island.
Mr. Reoch attended school in River Point, and at the Mowry & Goff Military School at Providence. Rhode Island. Subsequently, he entered the em- ploy of the Clyde Print Works, owned by S. H. Greene & Sons Company, and was employed there from 1886 to 1903, holding the position of assistant manager when resigning. During his sojourn in Rhode Island, he was intensely interested in sports. He was president for several years of the Clyde Base Ball and Foot Ball Association, and was one of the incorporators of the Kent County Fair Asso-
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ciation. Mr. Reoch was the first secretary of the Fair Association, and afterwards became its presi- dent.
After his resignation from the Clyde Print Works, Mr. Reoch went to Dover, New Hampshire, to be- come superintendent of the Cocheco Manufactur- ing Company. He held this position until the firm was absorbed by the Pacific Mills Company in 1909, and continued manager of this plant until it was dismantled in 1913, when he came to Lawrence to become superintendent of the new Print Works that had been built in South Lawrence for the purpose of concentrating all of Pacific Mills printing, dye- ing, and finishing in one plant. This enormous es- tablishment is the largest in the world, and con- solidates the work formerly carried on by the Print Works located in Dover, New Hampshire; Lawrence, Massachusetts; together with the Hamilton and Merrimack Print Works, of Lowell, both of which had been absorbed by the Pacific Mills. During the erection of this new and most up-to-date plant, Mr. Reoch was constantly called into consultation by Lockwood Greene & Company, the engineering firm who built the Print Works. The success attained by this well known firm (Pacific Mills), in the printing and dying industry is in no small measure due to the experience and practical knowledge of the business that enabled Mr. Reoch to be of such assistance in the laying out of the new works. In addition to printing and dyeing, an enviable repu- tation has been established because of the fine qual- ity of bleached sheetings and shoe linings that are produced, the same being handled in a depart- ment that has been added to the original plant, and which is considered as being the acme of perfection, so far as is possible in a finishing establishment.
The output of this department is 6,000,000 yards of cloth weekly, necessitating the operation of fifty printing machines, and giving employment to 2,500 people. The finest grades of draperies, wash-goods, serges, percales, shirtings, flannelettes, and similar goods are manufactured. From these figures, some idea can be gained of the great responsibility rest- ing upon Mr. Reoch. However, his vast experience, natural ability and efficiency have combined them- selves in such a way that he is ideally fitted for his work, and he has a trained corps of assistants and overseers who work in harmony with his plans. Mr. Reoch is a member of the Merrimac Valley Country Club, and is a member of the American Chemical Society.
Mr. Reoch married, in 1916, Helen Emmons, of Methuen. They are members of the Methuen Con- gregational Church.
HAROLD S. TOGGERSON-Most of the busi- ness career of Harold S. Toggerson, part-owner of the Auto Special Body Company of Amesbury, has been spent in Amesbury, his native place, and he has shown industriousness as well as versatility and enterprise. He was born in Amesbury, Massachu- setts, March 25, 1892, on of Samuel Augustus and Mary Elizabeth (Connor) Toggerson. His father was born at Cape Naddock, Maine, but has lived
the greater part of his life in Amesbury, where he has been successful as a building contractor. His mother, however, was born in Canada, at Sand Point, New Brunswick.
Harold S. Toggerson was educated in the Ames- bury public schools, his education including the high school course. Soon after leaving school he found employment in the Merrimac plant of the Walker Carriage Company, and there during the next two years learned the trade of carriage building. Re- turning then to Amesbury, he entered the employ of the Congdon and Graves Company, for which firm he worked for about a year, then became con- nected with the Biddle and Smart Company. A short while afterwards he entered the employ of the Lamber Hollander Company, and a year later went to work for the Briggs Carriage Company, all of Amesbury. For the last named company Mr. Toggerson worked for three years, leaving their employ in order to enter into business for himself. He was induced to venture into a garage enterprise at Sea Brook, New Hampshire, and he pursued that business for two years, giving it up to become a manufacturer of automobile tops. He followed that line for two years, after which, in association with J. W. Meehan, of Amesbury, he took up the automobile painting and trimming business, the partners since trading as the Auto Special Body Company. The volume of business developed is quite satisfactory to the partners, who are both well known Amesbury men. Mr. Toggerson has held closely to his business affairs; he is a Repub- lican, but has not actively interested himself in political matters. Fraternally, he is identified with the Knights of Columbus, of Amesbury. He is a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, of Ames- bury.
In 1915, Mr. Toggerson married Sarah C. Burke, of Amesbury. She was born September 25, 1891. They have two children: Robert Samuel, born March 30, 1917; Ruth Burke, born February 13, 1921.
REV. JOHN FRANCIS KELLY-Since the earl- iest settlement of Essex county, Massachusetts, all through the development of the later social fabric, the church led the way of progress, pointing out new fields of endeavor and fresh paths of civic and individual righteousness. She is now pre-eminent among the living forces for good, which still carry this county forward in the lead in all branches of public effort. The individual consecration of the men who have served the church is the same at the present day as it was among the early mission- aries a spirit of Christian progress. Rev. John Francis Kelly, former pastor of St. Thomas' Ro- man Catholic Church, at Nahant, Massachusetts, did a worthy work in the forwarding of the re- ligious interests of the day in this section up to the time of his death.
Father Kelly was born in Ireland, on October 17, 1872, and was a son of John and Ann (Foley) Kelly. He came to this country with his parents as a child of four years, locating in Boston in 1876.
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There he was educated, first in the public schools of the city, then spent two years at the Boston Uni- versity, completing his studies at St. John's Semi- nary, where he was ordained in 1897.
Father Kelly's first appointment was as curate of a church at East Boston. Later he was made assistant pastor at St. Patrick's Church, at Natick, Massachusetts, and there he remained from 1913 to 1918.' In the latter year he came to St. Thomas' Church, at Nahant, taking charge in October. His work here was noteworthy in more than one sense. This church was built in 1872, and its growth for many years was slow, but when Father Kelly's pastorate began he built up the church to about four hundred families, and his labors so increased that he was given an assistant in the summer months.
During the World War Father Kelly took an ac- tive part in all Liberty Loan drives, and in all move- ments in support of the American Expeditionary Forces. He was the head of the Knights of Colum- bus Drive in Natick, and was also active in Red Cross Work.
MAURICE M. WILSON, of the Wilson Shoe Company, shoe jobbers, is a son of Paul and Annie (Marshall) Wilson, his father a dry goods mer- chant of Salem. Maurice M. Wilson began his business life in a shoe factory, and thoroughly mas- tered the trade of a factory shoemaker by working in different shoe departments. With thorough knowledge of shoemaking, he was well equipped for either the business of manufacturing shoes or his present business, shoe jobber.
Maurice M. Wilson was born in Montreal, Can- ada, August 13, 1898, and there was educated in the public schools. Later he came to the United States. He entered a shoe factory, and until 1918 continued a shoe worker. In that year he organized the Superior Shoe Supply Company, Inc., of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for two years continued a shoe manufacturer. In April, 1920, he opened up busi- ness in Lynn, Massachusetts, as a shoe jobber under the name of the Wilson Shoe Company. He re- mained in business in Lynn until January 1, 1921, when the business was moved to Salem, Massachu- setts, and there continues. Mr. Wilson is a mem- ber of the Commercial Travelers' Association, and a member of the Jewish church of Lynn. He is an energetic, ambitious young man and has built up a good reputation as a business man.
Maurice M. Wilson married, in 1918, Sadie D. Segal, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Segal, of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the parents of a daughter, Harriet Arline Wilson.
THOMAS T. McNICHOL-The McNichol & Tay- lor Last Company, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was founded in 1913 by Thomas T. McNichol, a prac- tical lastmaker, under the firm name, McNichol & Carr. This association was dissolved by the with- drawal of Mr. Carr in 1914, Mr. McNichol continu- ing the business on Willow street, Lynn, as the McNichol Last Company. Later changes gave the
firm the style and title, McNichol, Taylor & Ste- vens, another change being to the present name, The McNichol & Taylor Last Company, a prosper- ous, well-managed corporation.
Thomas T. McNichol was born in 1876, at St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, son of Theodore W. and Mary E. (Haley) McNichol. Theodore W. McNichol, a practical lastmaker during the early boyhood of his son, moved to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he engaged in business as a manufacturer of shoe lasts, a business which he conducted very suc- cessfully until his retirement. His home has long been in Swampscott, Massachusetts, and there he is living, retired from business cares.
Thomas T. McNichol, after finishing his years of educational preparation in Lynn public schools, be- came associated with his father as an employe of McNichol & Bishop, last manufacturers, Harrison Court, Lynn, there remaining eighteen years. He learned the business from every angle, and finally became a manufacturer of lasts, organizing the firm of McNichol & Carr, which firm, in 1913, began business on Willow street, Lynn. Mr. McNichol has continued in the business as a manufacturer during the nine years which have since intervened, and is now the senior member of The McNichol & Taylor Last Company, Incorporated.
Mr. McNichol married, in Boston, Massachusetts, September 3, 1911, Mary E. Haskell, of Greenfield, New Hampshire.
HENRY J. BURKE-Among the successful no- tary publics and insurance brokers of Beverly, Massachusetts, where he has been engaged in the practice of his chosen profession for several years, is Henry J. Burke, who has identified himself closely with the public interests of the city, and no good work which has for its aim civic betterment seeks his aid in vain.
Henry J. Burke was born at Walpole, Massachu- setts, February 28, 1873. He there received the elementary portion of his education, after which he became engaged in agricultural pursuits, continu- ing for several years. But at the age of twenty- seven, having in the meantime decided to enter into another line of business, he secured employment with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road Company, with whom he remained two years, being transferred to the Boston & Maine railroad, remaining for fourteen years with this latter com- pany. At the time of his resignation, February 26, 1915, which was occasioned by Mr. Burke's decid- ing to adopt the law as a profession, he was chief inspector of safety appliances under the United States safety y appliance department. Devoting some time to the study of commercial law, he sub- sequently opened an office in the Mason building at Beverly, Massachusetts, and this has remained his headquarters ever since. Mr. Burke has already attained great success in his profession, being well skilled in its application. He is a member of the Beverly Chamber of Commerce, and is held in the highest esteem by all who know him. During the World War he enrolled, April 6, 1917, and was very
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active throughout the entire war as a member of the Public Service Board. He resides at No. 244 Cabot street, Beverly, Massachusetts.
WARREN DUDLEY KING-A half century ago Warren Dudley King was born in Peabody, Massa- chusetts, and later he returned to the place of his birth with a professional degree acquired from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For a year after receiving his degree, he was engaged as an engineer in Cape Breton. He then located in Peabody, and as contracting, consulting and super- vising electrical engineer has spent the nearly three decades which have since intervened. Peabody is a municipality, owning its lighting plant, and for twenty years that department of the city govern- ment has been under the management of Warren D. King, which is an indirect way of saying that Peabody is well lighted. Mr. King has given him- self wholly to his profession, and ranks among the leading electrical engineers of his State. He is a son of Eben Upton and Mary Louise (Trow) King, his father an invalid practically all of his life, de- voting the strength he had to the study of science and mechanics.
Warren Dudley King was born in Peabody, Mas- sachusetts, August 1, 1870, and completed gram- mar and high school study. Later he entered Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology, whence he was graduted E.E., class of 1893. On May 12, 1912, after serving as contracting, consulting and super- vising electrical engineer, as above stated, he was appointed manager of the Peabody Electric Light Department, and has held that office continuously until the present, August, 1922. He has been a member of the Municipal Lighting Association since its organization in 1906, and its secretary-treasurer since 1910. He is also a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Fire Chiefs' Club of Massachusetts, and was for a time a direc- tor of the First National Bank, of Salem, which is now out of existence.
A citizen public-spirited and progressive, Mr. King has long been connected with the important civic societies, namely: Peabody Institute, which he serves as trustee, member of the Lyceum and Li- brary committees of the same; was the first presi- dent of Peabody Historical Society; was for three years chairman of the finance committee of the town of Peabody; is a Republican in politics, and for three years was chairman of the Republican Town Committee. In the Masonic order he is a Master Mason of Jordan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; a Companion of Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and a Sir Knight of Winslow Lewis Commandery, Knights Templar. His religious affiliation is with the South Congregational Church.
Mr. King married, in Georgetown, Massachusetts, October 9, 1894, Susie Bartlett Baker, daughter of Cornelius G. and Vine (Bartlett) Baker. Mr. and Mrs. King are the parents of a daughter, Louise King, born November 16, 1895, and a son, Ebenezer Baker King, born July 80, 1899. The family home is at No. 240 Lowell street, Peabody.
NEHEMIAH H. HAYMAN, shoe manufacturer, owner of the Hayman Shoe Company, of Haverhill, has lived in that city since early manhood, and is well known in shoe manufacturing circles. He wu born in St. Stevens, New Brunswick, Canada, Octo- ber 1, 1874, son of Jeremiah Richard and Flora M. (Morrison) Hayman, both of New Brunswick by birth. His grandfather was Mathew Hayman, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and died in St. Stevens, New Brunswick. He married Margaret Libby, born in the State of Maine, died in St. Stevens, New Brunswick. They were the parents of eight children: Thomas, William, Jeremiah B., Margaret, Sarah, Rebecca, Ann, Rachel. His father, Jeremiah R. Hayman, was in the lumber business in St. Stevens, and held some of the local civic offices. He was collector of taxes there for many years, and the family home has always been in St. Stevens. There his wife, Flora M. (Morrison) Hay man, died in 1912. Her mother was also born in New Brunswick, so that Nehemiah H. Hayman, of Haverhill, comes from New Brunswick families of standing and long residence.
Nehemiah H. Hayman was educated in the public schools of St. Stevens, New Brunswick, but soon after leaving school came to Haverhill, Massachu- setts, and entered a shoe factory, that of the N. F. Gorman Shoe Company. There he worked for six years, leaving at the end of that time to take up a better appointment in the plant of the Gale Shoe Company, in the employ of which company he re- mained for three years. Then followed ten years of responsible service to the R. L. Webster Company, and three years with the Ruddock Shoe Company. For two years prior to the time when he ventured into independent business, he was with the C. B. Watson Company, being superintendent of that com- pany's shoe factory. He established the Hayman Shoe Company, equipping and opening a factory in Haverhill for the production of a line of Mckay's shoes, and women's shoes in general. He has con- tinued the plant in steady operation since that time, and it is expanding satisfactorily. Mr. Hayman is a member of the Episcopal church, and fraternally belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and Greciaa Lodge, Clan Douglas, of Haverhill. He also is 8 member of the Agawam Club.
In 1907, at Haverhill, Mr. Hayman was married to Lottie Morse, who was born in Haverhill, April 5, 1880, daughter of Fred D. and Maria (Wood) Morse. The former, a shoe manufacturer, was & veteran of the Civil War, having served through- out the struggle with a regiment of New Hamp- shire infantry. He was a member of Major Dow (Haverhill) Post of the Grand Army of the Be- public. Mr. and Mrs. Hayman have no children, but Mr. Hayman himself was of a large family, his brothers and sisters being: Alice B., Carrie E. Alexander, Jennie I., Lucy C., Ivan, and Charles P. Nehemiah H. was the fifth born.
FRED A. MCELLIGOTT, investment broker, of Peabody, Massachusetts, was born September 24. 1880, in Peabody, and attended the public schools
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of Salem and Lynn. For ten years after he left school he was engaged in the ice business, and then for eleven years was a successful insurance agent. He resigned from the latter field to become an in- vestment broker, in which venture he has been very sucessful and in which he has engaged to the present time. Mr. McElligott is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of Peabody, and also of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is af- filiated with the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. McElligott married, in 1907, Mary E. Sexton, also a native of Peabody, and they are the par- ents of two children, Kenneth Walter and J. Ed- ward. The family are regular attendants of the Peabody Catholic church.
WILLIAM A. WALKER, in 1904, came to his present home, Marblehead, Massachusetts, and there continues, treasurer and general manager of the G. L. Metcalf Box Company. He has devoted his adult years to box manufacture and is familiar with its every detail. He is a son of Rosalvo M. and Har- riet W. Walker, his father a veteran of the Civil War, in which he served three years in the Union Army, and by trade a millwright.
William A. Walker was born in Billerica, Massa- chusetts, May 30, 1868, his education, however, being secured in the public schools of Lynn. In 1883, at the age of fifteen, he began working at boxmaking in Lynn with the G. A. Crosman Company, continu- ing with that firm until 1889. He then entered the employ of D. A. Kilham & Company, in Beverly, and there remained fifteen years, until 1904. In that year he located in Marblehead, where he now holds his present position. In politics, Mr. Walker is a Republican, but entirely independent in local affairs. He is affiliated with the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, his club the Masonic of Swampscott, his church preference Con- gregational.
Mr. Walker married, in Lynn, October 15, 1895, Mary E. Pierce, born in Lynn, August 4, 1866, daughter of Levi Pierce, of Lynn. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are the parents of a daughter, Vivian O., born February 6, 1898.
SULLIVAN-Mac NEIL-In the many and varied industries of Salem, Massachusetts, one of the most interesting factories is that of the Acme Leather Company. This business is the outgrowth of the enterprise and energy of Miss Mercy A. Sullivan, and her sister, Mrs. R. MacNeil, women who have stepped out into the field of fine leathers, and are making a remarkable success.
Miss Sullivan and her sister are the daughters of Dennis and Sarah (Donahue) Sullivan, of Beverly, Massachusetts. Mr. Sullivan is an old-time leather man, highly skilled in the preparation of this widely- used material for the trade, and a rare judge of leathers. It was undoubtedly through their inter- est in his work that his daughters gained the idea of taking a part in the production of fine leathers for the trade. Both sisters began their education in the public schools of Peabody, Massachusetts,
then Miss Sullivan took a course at the Bryant & Stratton Business College, in Boston, completing her studies in 1904. Mrs. MacNeil had thereto- fore taken a course as commercial accountant at the Commer School of Boston, finishing in 1900.
Miss Sullivan started in the leather business with Richard Barry, where she learned the business from its very foundations. She spent ten years in the Barry plant, then started in business for herself in Peabody, but remained there for only six months, then came to Salem, believing that broader oppor- tunities lay in the larger city. Establishing the business in 1911, she has developed it to the point where the business amounts to $600,000 per year. Miss Sullivan is the head and centre of the busi- ness, and is the manager of the production depart- ments, while Mrs. MacNeil is the financial head of the firm. Both women are thoroughly conver- sant with the leather business, and familiar with every detail of the work throughout the plant. They can go out into the factory and do anything that is to be done there, an advantage fully ap- preciated by any employer of labor. The Acme Leather Company is doing a constantly increasing business, and in the capable hands of Miss Sul- livan and Mrs. MacNeil has a still greater future before it. The company are tanners and finishers of leather, sheep skin, and India Tan, and cater to the finest wholesale trade.
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