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Mr. Worcester is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and also is affiliated with the local body of the Knights of Pythias. His church is the Universalist.
Mr. Worcester married, in 1877, Runie Etta Dormand, daughter of Leonard and Priscilla (Barton) Dormand, of Maine. One child was born to them, a son, Harold D., in 1888. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is an automobile supply salesman. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Grace Methodist Church. He married Pauline Dutrie, who died in April, 1921.
GEORGE P. POOR-Energetically directing a suc- cessful business, which finds steady employment for about two hundred and fifty people of Newburyport, Massachusetts, George P. Poor may be looked upon as a worthy native son of that place.
Mr. Poor was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1886, son of Benjamin F. Poor, a re- spected wholesale provision merchant, in business for many years in Newburyport, and his wife Alvana Wes- ton (Card) Poor, who is still living, and was originally of Newcastle, New Hampshire. Benjamin F. and Alvana Weston (Card) Poor were the parents of four children, the two sons being Ben Perley, and George P., of whom further.
George P. Poor, with his brother and sisters, attended the Newburyport public schools, and eventually passed into the high school, graduating in 1901. He also took a business course at the Salem Commercial School. For four years after leaving school he was in the employ of the North Eastern Telephone Company. In 1915, however, he was one of the organizers and prin- cipals of the firm of Fern & Poor, shoe manufacturers. At the outset, the company's plant was at No. 371 High street, Newburyport, but larger quarters eventually became necessary. Since 1919 the company has been located at No. 102 Merrimac street, where they have 25,000 square feet of floor space available. The company was incorporated in 1915, under the same name, and since that time the executives have been : Benjamin F. Poor, president; and George P. Poor, treasurer and general manager. The company specializes in a medium grade of women's turn shoes, and the plant is capable of producing twelve hundred pairs a day. The company is well known to the trade, and the large demand there is for their make of shoes would indicate that quality as well as price enters into their operations. Mr. Poor is a good husiness man, quite active and enterprising, and in addition to his manufacturing house, is also one of the principals of a jobbing house, being president of the H. M. Johnson Company, of Lynn, Massachu- setts. He is necessarily well known in Newburyport, and also is generally esteemed by business people, and by many others who come into close association with him. He is a Mason, up to and including the chapter, and also is a member of the Newbury Golf Club.
Mr. Poor married, in 1915, Marion H. Spaulding, of Newburyport, daughter of Louis Spaulding, a wholesale provision merchant in that place, and they have two children : Edith, born in 1916; and Ben P., born in 1918.
JAMES BAILLIE, president of the North Star Chemical Works, at No. 13 Railroad street, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in September, 1877, and in his native land spent the years until 1910. He was educated in an Edinburgh prep-
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aratory school, Herriot Watt College, Edinburgh, and Central School of Pharmacy, same place, and became an expert chemist, leaving a good position in 1910 to come to the United States, where for ten years he was engaged as chief chemist with a pharmaceutical manu- facturing company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1914 he organized the North Star Chemical Works, and in 1916, in order to be near the source of raw supply, he moved from Minneapolis to Lawrence, Massachusetts. The business of the company is extracting the greases from raw wool and scouring waste liquors, which when purified furnishes the product known to the chemical trade as lanolin. This is a business created by war- time necessities, the lanolin used in the country having all heen imported from Germany prior to the war.
During the war period the North Star Chemical Works supplied the government with a large amount of lanolin, which was used as the base for a paste used by the soldiers to protect them from mustard gas burns. This part was made according to a formula prepared by officers of the medical service with suggestions by Mr. Baillie. Another product of the North Star Chem- ical Works is a wool fat used by veterinarians, and also a sterilizing and disinfecting agent. The business is a prosperous one, and Mr. Baillie is a complete master of its every detail. In addition to their plant on Railroad street the works include a recovery plant on the South Side, and a similar plant in Norton, Mas- sachusetts. Even with these sources of supply for the refinery, they are largely buyers of wool fat, which is shipped to them from different plants throughout the country equipped with centrifugal methods of recovering wool grease, which methods originated in the United States with the North Star Chemical Works. In addi- tion to the home market the firm exports largely to Europe, Asia and South America.
Mr. Baillie is a member of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce ; Grecian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and the Caledonian Club.
Mr. Baillie married, in Scotland, in 1905, Margaret C. Dobbie, and they are the parents of five children : Hannah Wallace: Catherine Margaret; Andrew; John, and William Wallace. The family home is at Methuen, Massachusetts, the family attendants of the United Con- gregational church.
WILLIAM H. HIGGINS, of Andover and Law- rence, Massachusetts, is a son of Henry C. and Eliza A. (Abbott) Higgins. His father, a Civil War veteran, was born in East Randolph, Vermont, but is now de- ceased. His mother, Eliza A. (Abbott) Higgins, daugh- ter of Noah Abbott, was born in Andover, Massachu- setts, where her son, William H. Higgins was born, March 3, 1864. He was educated in the public schools, and upon arriving at man's estate, started a sale exchange and livery business in Andover, which he has very successfully conducted for about thirty years. He had in the meantime become the owner of a good farm, and in 1910 began operating it under his personal management, continuing until 1918. He then began operating in real estate, with offices at No. 575 Essex street, Lawrence, with a branch office at Andover, where he also has a store for the sale of novelties. He has built up a good real estate, mortgage and insurance
business, his dealings being in residence, commercial and farm properties.
Mr. Higgins is a member of the Masonic order, affiliated with St. Matthew's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mt. Sinai Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Law- rence Council, Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar; Massachusetts Con- sistory, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, at Andover. In politics he is a Republican, but not an office seeker.
On October 20, 1896, Mr. Higgins married, at An- dover, Helen I. Barnett, daughter of William Barnett, of Andover, and they are the parents of two sons: William B. and Loring A.
William B. Higgins enlisted in the National Guard and saw service on the Mexican Border as a member of Battery C. Later this battery went overseas with the 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, to France. He entered the service as first lieutenant of Battery C, Heavy Artillery, and attained the rank of captain. After several months of hard service as an artillery officer, he was transferred to the Radio Divi- sion, and later served as staff intelligence officer. He is now a captain of the Massachusetts National Guard.
Loring A. Higgins enlisted in the Coast Artillery and was at once sent overseas, where he was transferred to Battery D, 148th Regiment, 66th Field Artillery Brigade, and later was assigned to the Army of Occupation after the Armistice was signed. The family home is No. 15 Chestnut street, Andover, Massachusetts, the town of Mr. Higgins' birth, the birthplace of his mother and of his sons. He is widely known as an able, energetic business man and as a good citizen, public-spirited and progressive.
THE ANDREW WILSON COMPANY, INC., of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was founded in 1897 by Andrew Wilson, a native of Scotland, where he was born in 1856; he died in 1912. Mr. Wilson came to Ames- hury, Massachusetts, in 1882, and engaged in the roofing business on a small scale. Later the business was removed to Lawrence and from this time it increased and expanded. The firm contracted for all kinds of roofing work, tar, gravel, slate and copper, also sheet metal work. They manufactured steel clothes lockers, steel barrels and metal boxes, and have contracts for special metal work in the textile mills. Skylights and cornices are also part of the work. During the World War the firm was engaged in the work of manufac- turing metal boxes and metal cylinders, also metal lockers for the government transports. In 1912, upon the death of Andrew Wilson, the business was incor- porated, and his sons, Alexander E. and Walter C. Wilson, were made president and treasurer, respectively.
Mr. Wilson married Violet Chisholm, and their chil- dren were: Alexander E., and Walter C., both of extended mention below.
Alexander E. Wilson was born in Galashiels, Scot- land, November 4, 1881, and as a boy attended the public schools of Amesbury, Massachusetts. In 1899 he en- tered the employ of his father, continuing until the death of the latter, at which time he was made presi- dent of the corporation.
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Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; also a member of Monadnock Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Caledonian Club, and the Scotch Charitable Society of Boston. He married, in Bradford, Massachusetts, September 24, 1914, E. Romena McClintock, of Bradford, and their children are: John A .; Alexander M., and Robert F. Mr. Wilson and his family attend the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lawrence, and they make their home at No. 33 Dartmouth street.
Walter C. Wilson, the second son of Andrew and Violet (Chisholm) Wilson, was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, June 19, 1888, and attended the public schools there and the Lawrence High School. He entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, grad- uating in 1911 as a chemical engineer, and the following year went to Newark, New Jersey, where he followed his profession. Upon the incorporation of the Andrew Wilson Company, he was made treasurer of the cor- poration, which office he now holds.
Mr. Wilson is a member of the American Chemical and Engineering Society, and fraternally he is a mem- ber of Phoenician Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. He also is a member of the Merrimac Valley Country Club, and the Caledonian Club.
Mr. Wilson married, in Lawrence, in 1916, Alice Marion Andrew, and their children are: Jean and Andrew Wilson. Mr. Wilson and his family attend the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and their home is at No. 1046 Essex street.
ALFRED A. PHILLIPS, one of the most success- ful citizens and business men of Haverhill, Massachu- setts, is not a native of that city, but has lived there several years. He was born in England in 1885, son of Alexander and Elizabeth Phillips, and after completing his education, found employment with various firms in his native town until coming to America. Soon after his arrival in this country, he located in Haverhill, where after a time he was in a position to engage in business on his own account. He is one of the owners of Albert A. Phillips, Inc., and has met with well deserved success in this venture. He is a member of the Sons of St. George, and the Loyal Order of Moose. Since becoming a resident of Haverhill, Mr. Phillips has made its public interests his interests and is always willing to share his part of the civic burden.
Mr. Phillips married Ida L. London, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca London, and they are the parents of three children : Alexander H., born in 1911; Beatrice L., born in 1913; and Elizabeth N., born in 1917.
JOSEPH E. TROMBLA, undertaker, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, has been connected with that city during the last two decades, and among the residents of that place he has been placed in high esteem, especially by his work for the Young Men's Christian Association of Amesbury. He was born in Dixon, Illinois, July 24, 1865, son of Daniel and Elizabeth Ann (Courtright) Trombla, the former a native of Toledo, Ohio, a soldier of the Civil War, and in civil life a carpenter and far- mer until his death. He was a member of the Thir- teenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, and served as a private. The rigors of the campaign- ing and directly a forced march incapacitated him, and
he was eventually discharged from military service because of physical disability. The mother of Joseph E. Trombla was of a Pennsylvania family.
Sometime after the birth of Joseph E. the Trombla family went to reside in Nebraska, and the boy was educated mainly in the public schools of Friend, Nebraska. His education included the high school course, and later in life, when he decided to become an undertaker, he became a student at the Boston School of Anatomy and Embalming, the diploma of which he holds. However, long before taking up that profession, he did capable work in several different lines of effort, and has proved himself to be a man of distinct ver- satility and superior intelligence. For three years after leaving high school, he was a teacher in the public schools of Nebraska. He left that profession to enter commercial business, and for that purpose went to Omaha and there became connected with the Pacific Express Company. He remained in the employ of that company at Omaha for twelve years, then came east. Soon, thereafter, began his long association with Ames- bury, Massachusetts. For seven years after taking up residence there he was engaged in mercantile business there, giving up that business when appointed secretary of the Amesbury Young Men's Christian Association. He was local secretary of that organization for ten years, and in consequence is now widely known to most of the young business men of Amesbury of to- day. During the World War he felt a desire to do work of a more national character and work that would have a more direct bearing on the struggle, so he resigned his appointment and entered the employ of the Gray & Davis Company, and was appointed a fore- man in the ammunition plant. When the war work was at an end he resolved to fit himself for entering the undertaking profession in Amesbury. He eventually graduated from the Boston School of Anatomy and Embalming and became an undertaker in Amesbury. He is giving good and appreciated service, and so might be said to be succeeding.
Fraternally Mr. Trombla belongs to several orders, including the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Powan River Lodge, Harmony Encampment, Colfax Rebekahs, of Amesbury; Askus Santorums, of Haver- hill, and the John A. Douglas Camp, Sons of Veter- ans. Politically he is a Republican and has followed national politics with a somewhat active interest, for three years being a member of the Republican State Committee. He also is a member of the Amesbury Chamber of Commerce.
A review of his life also must record his three years of military service in the Nebraska National Guard, 1888-91. Later, during the World War, in fact, when State National Guard troops were mustered into Federal service, he served in the emergency troops of Massachusetts. He was a sergeant of the Massachusetts State Guards from 1917 to 1919. His church affilia- tion is Congregational, he being a member of the church in Amesbury.
Mr. Trombla married, in 1894, Margaret McRoberts, of Toronto, Canada, and they have two children, both of whom were born in Omaha, Nebraska; they are: Daniel C., born April 2, 1895; and Joseph Edward, born December 7, 1897.
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MARTIN B. CRANE, postmaster of Merrimac, Massachusetts, from 1913 until 1921, was born in Willi- mantic, Connecticut, October 7, 1860, son of Patrick and Bridget (Hart) Crane, both of whom were born in Sligo, freland. They emigrated to this country and settled in Connecticut. Patrick Crane was a farmer in Willimantic for the remainder of his life, which ended in 1880. His wife lived a widowhood of seventeen years, her death occurring in 1807.
Martin B. Crane was reared in Connecticut. He attended the Willimantic public schools, and after leav- ing school, entered the factory of the Willimantic Linen Company, in the employ of which company he remained for three years. He next went to Hartford, and there worked for the S. N. Hart Carriage Company, of that place, for a short while, before going to New Britain, Connecticut, and there working for the Graham Com- pany for about a year, and for Banning & Company and the Arch Street Carriage Company. both of New Britain, for about a year each. Coming into Massa- chusetts, he settled in Merrimac, and for the next six years was an employee of the Steven Brothers Company. He worked for several other Merrimac companies, among them the Pease Company, Judkins Company, and the J. Lancaster Company, before entering Federal service in 1913, when he was appointed postmaster of Merrimac by President Wilson, serving from that year until 1921 ; he is a popular citizen of Merrimac.
Politically Mr. Crane is a Democrat; fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and to the Amesbury body of the Knights of Columbus. By religious faith he is a Catholic, member of the Nativity Roman Catholic Church, Merrimac. While living in Connecticut, he served for four years in the Connec- ticut State Guard, being a member of Company E, of the Third Regiment of Infantry.
Mr. Crane married, in 1892, at Merrimac, Margaret Lawton, of that place, and they have five children: Ellen Mary, born August 27, 1893; Mildred Margaret, born January 15, 1895; Gladys Veronica, born July 4, 1896; Katherine Agnes, born November 16, 1897; and Andrew Lawton Patrick, who was born on June 28, 1901.
JULIUS B. EMMERT-One of the leading under- takers of Lawrence, Massachusetts, is Julius B. Em- mert, whose show rooms, at No. 93 East Haverhill street, are the finest in the city.
Mr. Emmert was born in Germany, November 29, 1872, and is a son of Carl J. and Bertha Emmert, his father now being retired from business.
Coming to New York City in 1880, Mr. Emmert at- tended the public schools of the city for a few years, also learning art wood finishing as a trade. This occu- pation he followed until 1892, when he came to Law- rence. Here he entered the employ of the Briggs & Allyn Manufacturing Company, where he remained for a period of two years. He then decided upon his future field of effort, and entered the Egyptian School of Embalming, in Boston, studying under Professor F. A. Sullivan, and was graduated from this institu- tion in June, 1895. For a few months he was in the employ of Conlin & Ryan, prominent Lawrence under- takers of that day, then, in the fall of the same year,
founded the present business at the same address. The venture proved more than successful, and later Mr. Emmert erccted the present handsome building, designed particularly for its present purpose, spacious and mod- ern in every way. Mr. Emmert has kept pace with the times, and now for some years has had a complete motor equipment. He commands a large share of the best patronage.
Mr. Emmert is a member of the Massachusetts Under- takers' Association, and of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. He served on the Board of Health of Law- rence in 1916. Fraternally he is prominent, being a member of Grecian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; the chapter, council and commandery, of Lawrence; Scottish Rite, of Lowell; Massachusetts Consistory, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also is a member of the Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, and several local German societies.
In May, 1899, Mr. Emmert married Ella M. Dietz, of Paterson, New Jersey, and they have three children : Julius F., born August 7, 1902, a graduate of the Bos- ton School of Anatomy and Sanitary Science, and now associated with his father in business; he is also a student at Boston University; Clemens B., born May 12, 1905, and now a student at the Lawrence High School; and Ella B. E., born July 29, 1909, who is now in grammar school.
DOOLING & COFFEY, book and job printers, located at No. 2001/2 East Essex street, Salem, Massa- chusetts, was founded January 1, 1907, by John C. Dool- ing, of Peabody, and James E. Coffey, of Salem. The business was begun at the present address nearly fifteen years ago and has continued, without change of part- ners or location, a very prosperous career. The firm ranks well in the business world, Is a member of Salem Chamber of Commerce, and the partners are both well and favorably known as craftsmen, business men and citizens.
John C. Dooling, senior member of the firm, was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, and was there edu- cated in the public schools. James E. Coffey was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and educated in the public schools. Both men are practical printers, and they conduct a high grade print shop.
WILLIAM E. BOYLE, druggist, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, was born September 21, 1882, in that city, son of Matthias and Harriet H. (Bartlett) Boyle, of Amesbury. His education was obtained in the public schools of his native town. His first experience in business was as a clerk in the drug business, as an employee of J. Frank Nason, where he continued for five years. Following this, he was employed in various drug stores until 1911, when he started in business on his own account, and has now completed ten success- ful years.
Mr. Boyle married, in 1906, Mary Gertrude Lowell, daughter of Fred A. and Ann (Caswell) Lowell, and their children are: Marjorie E., born March 14, 1908; Elmore L., born February 13, 1911; and Barbara, born April 1, 1918.
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ANNIE C. (BRANN) BEAL-Among the active leading business women of Haverhill, Massachusetts, is Mrs. Annie C. (Brann) Beal, who is superintendent and manager of the Haverhill plant acquired by the Beal Brothers in 1889. The business was established in 1865 by John Maners, and passed to the Bcal broth- ers twenty-four years later, at which time the plant was at No. 72 Merrimac street. There it was continued and developed for the next seventeen years, in 1906 being removed to Middlesex street, Bradford, which is the present address. The company has, however, in addi- tion, a large plant at Lowell, Massachusetts, and it is said that their business is the largest of its kind in the Haverhill district. Mrs. Beal has manifested superior aptitude for business affairs, and has helped to main- tain the business in progressive development.
Annie C. (Brann) Beal was born in Dover, Maine, on February 10, 1859. She was educated in the Dover public schools, and at Foxcroft Academy. She married Fred C. Beal, Sr., a dyer and cleaner by trade, and a native of Bangor, Maine. One child was born to them, Fred C., Jr., of whom further.
Fred C. Beal, Jr. was born on January 30, 1883, and grew up in his native place, Dover, New Hampshire, where in early life he attended the elementary public schools. When his parents came to Haverhill to live, Fred C., Jr. became a student of the Haverhill High School. After leaving school he became associated with the family business, and in course of time became a valuable associate. He is well known in Haverhill, especially in Masonic and business circles. He is a niember of all the Masonic bodies, and is active in the Rotary Club of Haverhill. Socially he belongs to the Agawam Club.
Fred C. Beal, Jr. married, in July, 1911, Florence Vernard, of Salisbury, New Hampshire, daughter of William and Sadie (Eaton) Vernard, the latter of Sal- isbury, and the former of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. William Vernard was connected with the shoe manu- facturing industry, and died in 1911. Fred C. Jr. and Florence (Vernard) Beal have two children : Elinor V., born in 1913; and Janet B., born in 1917.
JOHN ELLIOTT-For twenty-five years a well- known and respected funeral director of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and for forty years a responsible resi- dent in the United States, John Elliott, who is of Scot- tish birth, comes into place as a worthy American cit- izen and a representative man of Essex county, Massa- chusetts.
Mr. Elliott was born in Scotland, on November 14, 1868, son of John and Mary E. (Telford) Elliott. John Elliott, Sr., was a farm overseer, and died in 1911. His wife died in 1872, when John, Jr., who was the second of their four children, was only four years old, and he was not yet fourteen years old when he came to the United States, in 1882. His education had been obtained in the public schools of his native place, and he prob- ably was farther advanced in academics than the aver- age American boy of fourteen would be, because Brit- ish children, as a rule, enter school at an earlier age than American children, and the British school year is much longer than the average American school year. At all events, when he came to this country, he imme-
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