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John William MacLean was born in Nova Scotia, February 4, 1860. He attended the schools there, and when fourteen years of age came to the United States, where he completed his schooling. After leaving school he worked for four or five years on a farm and then worked for a manufacturer of shoes, first as a cutter. Later he learned to manufacture lasts, and for five years was manager for the R. L. Cleveland Company. However, this work did not appeal to Mr. Maclean as an occupation and in 1913 he engaged in the grocery business on his own account in Danvers, Massachusetts. In this venture he has been very successful; of a pleas-
ing personality, and having a desire to please, he has succeeded in building up a large trade, and is well known among his fellow business men. Mr. MacLean is a Mason, third degree; he is a member of the Con- gregational church.
Mr. MacLean married Elizabeth Knight Prentiss, of Danvers, and they have three children: Charlotte A .; Valentine; and Grace G.
MICHAEL T. DOYLE-In one of the practical lines of business endeavor in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Michael T. Doyle is making his own success and con- tributing to the general prosperity of the city. Mr. Doyle was born in Limerick, Ireland, on December 16, 1879, and is a son of Maurice J. and Honora (Ken- nedy) Doyle, who are now also residents of Lawrence, the elder Mr. Doyle having heen for a number of years in the employ of the city.
Coming to the United States with his parents when about six years of age, Michael T. Doyle has been a resident of Lawrence since 1885, and here he received a thoroughly practical education in the parochial and public schools. In 1896, at the age of seventeen years, the young man entered the business world in the employ of Sanborn & Robinson, prominent hardware dealers of that day, and remained with them for a period of eighteen years. Then, in 1914, with this experience behind him, Mr. Doyle started in business for himself along the same line. In the past seven years he has built up a large and constantly growing business in hardware, paints, oils and varnishes, and also carries a complete line of sporting goods and automobile sup- plies.
Mr. Doyle is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce of Lawrence, and interested in all civic progress. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, No. 65; of the Knights of Columbus; and of the Holy Name Society of St. Mary's Church. He is also a member of the Catholic Club.
Mr. Doyle married, in Lawrence, Amanda M. Colvin, and they are the parents of three children: William A., a high school student, and associated with his father in business; Maurice J .; and Rita C. Mr. and Mrs. Doyle reside at No. 74 Park street.
MAHLON D. CURRIER-As general superin- tendent of the Champion International Company of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mahlon D. Currier holds one of the responsible positions of the industrial world of Lawrence, and is among the leading citizens of that city
Mr. Currier was born November 28, 1857, in New Hampshire, son of Benjamin G. and Mary P. ( Wheeler) Currier, both natives of New Hampshire. The former was a veteran of the Civil War, a member of Company K, Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and was located for a time in Louisiana; he took part in the battle of Port Hudson. Originally there were twelve hundred men in this regiment and when it returned there were but three hundred. Mr. Currier died in 1873.
Mahlon D. Currier was educated in the public schools of Lawrence, and his first position was with the Russell Paper Company, as runner-boy, in 1873. By diligent effort and attention to his work, Mr. Currier worked his
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way upward by degrees and held the offices of clerk, pay-master, and eventually became superintendent of the plant. In due course of time this company was consolidated with other companies, and the Champion International Paper Company was formed, of which Mr. Currier became general superintendent, which position he has since ably filled, having under his supervision six hundred or more employes. The paper made by this company is enameled book or coated paper, and the company supplies very many of the leading publications using this high grade paper.
Mr. Currier has always been active in public and fraternal affairs. He is a member of Phoenecian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mt. Sinai Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Masters; Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar. He is also a member of Lowell Lodge of Perfection, Scot- tish Rite Masonry; Lowell Council, Princes of Jeru- salem; Massachusetts Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, with the thirty-second degree. He is a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. Mr. Currier is a past grand of Meonadnock Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and a past chief patriarch of Kearsarge Encampment. He is also a member of Crys- tal Rebekah Lodge and a past patron of Lawrence Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.
Mr. Currier was one of the founders of the Lawrence Canoe Club in 1885, and was its first commodore, an office which he has held a number of years at different times. He is the only founder who still retains his mem- bership in the club.
Mr. Currier became active in bicycling in 1882, when the first high wheels, or "ordinarys," as they were called, came into use in Lawrence. He was president of the Lawrence Bicycle Club for a number of years. Through the efforts of the Lawrence Bicycle Club the League of Essex County Wheelmen was formed in Lawrence at that time, and Mr. Currier was the president of this league for four years. In 1884 and 1885 Mr. Currier was chief counsel of Massachusetts in the League of American Wheelmen, and still retains his membership in that organization, being one of the oldest in years of membership. Mr. Currier is a member of the Appalach- ian Mountain Club, the National Geographic Society, the National Historical Society, the Lawrence Natural History Society, the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Universalist church, of which he has been treas- urer for forty years. Mr. Currier is unmarried.
SAMUEL ARTHUR MEARS-In the business life of Essex, Massachusetts, Samuel A. Mears is taking a practical place, having become interested in business since his return from France.
Mr. Mears was born in Essex, and is a son of Samuel A. and Annie J. (Perkins) Mears, of Essex. The elder Mr. Mears was for a long time engaged in the insur- ance business in Salem. The mother was a native of Wenham, Massachusetts.
Samuel A. Mears was born in Essex, October 19, 1890, and received his education in the public schools of the town. Thereafter he took up farming, which he followed for a number of years, later working on the Bay State railroad for four years. It was here that the
World War found him, and he early enlisted in the United States army. He was first assigned to the Depot Brigade, then was transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and became a member of Company M, 102nd Infantry, a Connecticut regiment. He served for eleven months with the American Expeditionary Force in France, and was discharged from Camp Devens, Mas- sachusetts, in 1919. Returning to Essex after his dis- charge, Mr. Mears entered the retail ice business in association with Charles W. Mears of this place.
Mr. Mears is a member of the American Legion, the Knights of Pythias, and the West Gloucester State Grange. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church.
ARTHUR J. BROOKS-One of the leading con- tractors of the day in Newburyport is Arthur J. Brooks, who also handles lumber and builders' supplies exten- sively.
Mr. Brooks was born January 17, 1868, and is a son of Charles H. and Hannah M. (Moore) Brooks, of Freedom, New Hampshire. Acquiring his early edu- cation in the public schools, he completed his studies at Parsonfield Seminary, in Maine. Coming to Newbury- port at the age of eighteen years, he followed farming for about six months, working for a short time there- after as a butcher. He then became interested in the carpenter's trade, from which developed his permanent business interest. In 1892 Mr. Brooks started in busi- ness for himself, in the line of building and contracting, then, in 1913, when he had developed a large business, added another branch by the purchase of the Coleman Wharf Extension, and since that time has built up a far-reaching trade in all kinds of contracting essentials. He has also continued his activities in the contracting line, and many of the finer structures of this section stand to his credit. A few of these are: The French Catholic church, the cold storage plant, the Odd Fellows Hall, the W. D. Dodge shoe factory, and W. D. Han- nah shoe factory, the wood-working plant at the Towle Manufacturing Company, all these located at Newbury- port, Massachusetts; also the Second Congregational Church, St. John's Memorial, Knights of Pythias and Grange halls, all at West Newbury; and the cold storage plant at Cape Cod and one at Nova Scotia; and many fine public buildings, industrial plants and resi- dences might be added to the list. Mr. Brooks is now located on Mercantile walk, Merrimac street, New- buryport, Massachusetts.
Mr. Brooks is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is brigadier general (retired) of the First Brigade, Department of Massachusetts, and is commodore of the North End Boat Club. His religious convictions place his membership with the Baptist church.
On January 25, 1887, Mr. Brooks married Alice M. Chase, and they adopted a daughter, Katherine G.
HÉRIGAULT PELLETIER-Bearing a construc- tive part in the general progress, as editor of "Le Cour- rier de Lawrence," Hérigault Pelletier is also advancing the welfare of the community in the real estate and fire insurance business.
Mr. Pelletier was born in Montreal, Canada, on July 9, 1884, son of J. H. L. and Josephine (Powell) Pelle-
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tier. Acquiring his early education in the schools of Montreal, he entered Montreal College, Laval Univer- sity, from which he was graduated in 1903, with the degree of B. L. The initial work of his career was as instructor in French in the Berlitz International School of Languages in New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts. In 1917 Mr. Pelletier attended Harvard Law School for one year, then taught French literature in the Dussault School of Languages, in Boston, for a period of two years.
In the spring of 1919 Mr. Pelletier went to Lowell, Massachusetts, as editor of the French daily newspaper, "L'Etoile," which is published there. He remained in Lowell until his purchase of the only French newspaper in Essex county, Massachusetts, "Le Courrier de Law- rence," of which he is now the owner and editor. Arthur Beaucage is manager of the subscription depart- ment. The paper has a very wide circulation, by no means confined to the vicinity of Lawrence.
In the public life of Lawrence, Mr. Pelletier is deeply interested, keeping in touch with every phase of civic advance, but outside of his editorial work he has little leisure for public activities.
Mr. Pelletier married, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1919, Désirée Kerr, and they have an infant son, Hérigault, Jr.
REV. J. LOUIS DUCLOS-Sacred Heart Church was started as a mission or division of St. Anne's Par- ish, Lawrence, Massachusetts, by Rev. J. M. Portal in 1898, he erecting the building which first served both as chapel and school. For a few years the priests from St. Anne's attended the religious needs of the little congregation, but in 1904 Sacred Heart became a separate parish, Rev. E. Vinas, the first pastor, being installed in 1905. In 1906, the parish having so increased in size, an assistant was appointed, Rev. Francis Morcel. The latter was succeeded as assistant by Father Hamet, who later succeeded to the pastorate and started the erection of a new house of worship, which was completed in 1914. To this parish came in June, 1916, Rev. J. Louis Duclos, succeeding Father Hamet as pastor.
Father Duclos, in 1919, inaugurated a drive for funds which enabled the parish to cancel the deht on the church, and create a fund for a convent building, which was placed in charge of the Sisters at Christmas, 1920. Sacred Heart is now a parish of about seven hundred and fifty French-speaking families of South Lawrence, Massachusetts. About six hundred and twenty-five scholars attend the parochial school and are under the instruction of Sisters of the Holy Union. Both the pastor, Father J. L. Duclos and his assistant, Father M. Janisson, are members of the Marist Fathers, or Fathers of the Society of Mary.
Father Duclos was born in Medford, Massachusetts, January 1, 1877, and until fifteen years of age attended the public schools of Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1892 until 1896 he was a student at St. Mary's College, Van Buren, Maine, and from 1896 until 1898 he was a student at a Marist Novitiate Theological Seminary in Maryland. He completed his studies in theology in the Marist College in Washington, D. C., and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic church June 21, 1901. From graduation until 1904 he was assigned to duty as an
instructor in a Marist College at Atlanta, Georgia, and from there went to Jefferson College in Louisiana, where he remained a year, and then, in 1905, went to All Hal- low's College, Salt Lake City, as spiritual director and econôme until 1912. In 1913 he was appointed assistant pastor at St. Anne's Parish in Lawrence, and continued there until 1916, when he was assigned to the pastorate of Sacred Heart Church, Lawrence, Massachusetts. The parish has prospered under his administration of its affairs, the school enlarged, the convent built, the debt paid, and the spiritual life of the parish quickened.
EDWARD N. CUMMINGS, manufacturer, of Amesbury, Massachusetts, was born in Haverhill, November 11, 1873, son of Nelson P. Cummings. After completing his formal education, Mr. Cummings was associated with the carriage industry, following this line of business for fifteen years, most of this time as sales- man. As the automobile began to replace the carriage, Mr. Cummings turned his attention to the former busi- ness, and with G. W. J. Murphy, of Merrimac, Massa- chusetts, formed the G. W. J. Murphy Company in 1905, manufacturers of automobile accessories. Some years later Mr. Murphy retired from the business.
Mr. Cummings is among the well-known business men of Amesbury, and he is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally, Mr. Cummings is a member of the Masonic order, and of the Amesbury Club, and attends the Episcopal church.
Mr. Cummings married, in 1903, Emma M. Hughes, and their son, Edward N .. Jr., was born June 28, 1906.
WILLIAM ALBERT HALL, undertaker, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, was born July 23, 1857, in Barrington, New Hampshire, son of Isaac Y. and Cynthia A. Hall, natives of New Hampshire, both born in 1836, and, a remarkable fact, both now living.
William A. Hall was educated in the public schools, and for some years followed agricultural pursuits, until his removal to Haverhill, when he entered the shoe industry, working at this occupation for six years. Mr. Hall had always been musically inclined, but had never thought of it as a vocation until about 1894, when he had an opportunity to play in an orchestra, in which position he remained until 1896. In the latter year he went to work for C. A. Twombly Company and learned the undertaking profession, leaving the above-named firm in 1912 to engage in similar business on his own account, and in which he has met with success. Mr. Hall is a member of the Haverhill Chamber of Com- merce, and also of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Hall married, in 1899, Emma L. Watkins, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They are attendants of the Methodist church of Bradford.
CHARLES BAKER was born in Beverly, in the section which is now Danvers, Massachusetts, in the house at No. 220 Conant street, in which he now resides, September 16, 1850, and is the only living child of Andrew C. and Dorinda (Trask) Baker. Andrew C. Baker was born at Wenham, Massachusetts. He bought the farm on which his son now resides, at an early date, and here died. He lived the life of a farmer and drover. In addition to managing his farm prop-
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erty, he bought hogs at the Brighton stockyard, some- times over a thousand a week, and these he sold all over Massachusetts and New Hampshire; he employed from six to eight drovers.
Charles Baker received his education in the public schools of Danvers, Massachusetts, Like his father, he had a great affection for the land, and carly decided to spend his life in the pursuit of agriculture. He has never turned aside from farming, but has devoted his entire life to the management of his farm. He is a member of the Hawthorne Club.
Mr. Baker married Hattie M. (Davis) Clark, the widow of Albion Clark, and daughter of Darwin and Harriet (Paige) Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have two children: Lena, who is now the wife of Horace Bushby, and they have one child, a son, Sidney Baker Bushby, and reside in Danvers; and Walter, who, with his father, looks after the farm.
GEORGE F. CAVANAUGH-Continuing a busi- ness which was established in 1856, and with which he himself has been connected for twenty-seven years, George F. Cavanaugh, tinsmith, owner of the Newbury- port business known as Fuller & Cavanaugh, has become widely known in that city. He is the oldest established tinsmith of that place, and his business is correspond- ingly important.
Mr. Cavanaugh was born in St. John's, Newfound- land, on March 29, 1869, son of James and Susanna ( Hennesey) Cavanaugh, both of whom were of St. John's. His father was a carpenter, and died in 1897; his mother died in 1874, when he was only five years old.
George F. Cavanaugh was reared in St. John's, and passed through the public schools of Newfoundland. In 1887, when he was eighteen years old, he came into the United States, and until 1894 worked as a tinsmith for various firms. In the year named he entered into busi- ness partnership with Mr. Fuller, and the two pur- chased the business in Newburyport conducted by John Sumner. It had been established by Mr. Sumner in 1856, and with the change of ownership in 1894 it became Fuller & Cavanaugh. As such, business was steadily continued until 1916, when Mr. Cavanaugh became sole owner. He is considered to be one of the most skillful men in his line in the Newburyport district, and has a good business. He is of the class that take especial pride in their work, and that pride prompts him not only to do a good job well, but to keep pace with the times and be able to offer the most modern and useful advice in problems that come into his line.
Mr. Cavanaugh is a member of the Catholic church, and belongs to the Catholic Order of Foresters, He also is a member of the Loyal Order of Moose, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Cavanaugh married (first), in 1889, Agnes A. Fitzpatrick, of St. John's, Newfoundland, who died. In 1917 Mr. Cavanaugh married (second) Jane Gingrais, of Fisherville, Massachusetts. Mr. Cavanaugh is one of six children, he being the only son, and unfortu- nately, he has been unable to continue the family name, only one child, a daughter, Lillian A., being born to him. She was a daughter by his first wife, and is herself now married, her husband being Carl Miller, of
St. Paul, Minnesota. Her maternal grandparents were Patrick and Agnes (Nivelle) Fitzpatrick, of St. John's, Newfoundland, the former connected with the New- foundland fishing industry.
FRANK L, BURTON, who is a well known resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was born in that town, and there has lived almost the whole of his life. For the last fifteen years he has been in successful business for himself.
Mr. Burton was born on June 29, 1879, son of Edward M. and Catherine (Collins) Burton, who were both natives of County Cork, Ireland. However, they both lived in the United States for the greater part of their lives, Edward M. Burton, a mason by trade, dying in 1017, and his widow in 1921, They had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, Frank L. being the youngest child.
Frank L. Burton was educated in the public schools of Lawrence, and after leaving school at once entered commercial life. For the first seven years of his busi- pess career he was a clerk in the employ of H. J. Koellen, of Lawrence, but in 1906, branched out for him- self, as a dealer in spirituous liquors, opening a store on South Broadway, Lawrence. He did good business there until 1919, when the passing of the National Pro- hibition Act rendered his business inoperative, How- ever, he has proved himself to be a man of energy, versatility, and enterprise, and when one avenue of trade was closed to him, he was quite ready to busy himself in proceeding along other lines. When he closed his liquor business he opened a battery and service sta- tion at No. 125 South Broadway, and between that time and the present has developed quite a substantial busi- ness in the new line. He caters to a high class trade, and carries a comprehensive stock of accessories and supplies.
Mr. Burton is popular in many circles, and during the last decade or so has taken a helpful interest in more than one public movement in his home city. He is a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Lawrence, and fraternally belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is unmarried.
JOHN L. HAYDEN was born at Guysborough, Nova Scotia, on February 14, 1886, and is a son of John and Miriam (Stewart) Hayden, of Nova Scotia. His father is a sea captain.
Mr. Hayden received his early education in the public schools of Nova Scotia. After leaving school, he found employment with various firms, but soon decided to adopt the life of a soldier, and enlisted in the United States army. He was assigned to Troop H, of the First United States Cavalry, and was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he remained for four months, his longest encampment being at Fort Clark, Texas, at the end of which period, on June 2, 1907, he received his discharge from the service.
Shortly after his discharge from the army, Mr. Hay- den joined a surveying party, which was being sent to Labrador by the Taylor Engineering Company, and spent a year in the Northern wilds. This did not, however, satisfy Mr. Hayden's taste for adventure, so he became a lumberman and spent five years in various
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logging camps, including one year in Western Canada. At length, in 1913, he settled at Haverhill, and two years later, in 1915, he established an ice and trucking business, under the firm name of Hayden Brothers. Mr. Hayden was successful in this venture from the begin- ning and continued to direct it without change until 1019, when he took Mr. Marcotte in as a partner. The firm name was then changed to Hayden & Marcotte. The partners have their place of business at No. 10 Central street, Bradford, Massachusetts, and serve a steadily increasing number of customers. They have acquired an enviable reputation in the business world and are universally respected.
Mr. Hayden is a member of the Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He has never married.
JOHN G. COX, a sheet metal worker and roofer, now in independent business in Lynn, Massachusetts, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 5, 1892, son of Hugh J. and Jane (Holroyd) Cox, formerly of that place, but now of Revere, Massachusetts. Hugh J. Cox is still living, and by trade is a rigger; his wife died in 1912, having borne him eight children, six of whom were sons. Two of the sons saw service, one in the United States army and one in the navy, during the World War. John G. Cox also was in military service; he enlisted on May 22, 1919, and was sent to Wentworth Institute, where he continued in training until December 5, 1919.
Going hack in this review to his schooldays, John G. Cox was educated in the public schools of Medford and Revere, Massachusetts, and after leaving school, entered the employ of the William A. Murtfeldt Company, of Boston. There he learned the trade of sheet metal working during the more than four years he was with that company. For about two years after leaving them he was with Hertach & Fay, of Lynn. Later he was in educational work, teaching the trade of sheet metal working at the Quincy Industrial School, Quincy, Mas- sachusetts. Eventually he entered into business for himself in Lynn. He trades under his own name, at No. 81 Pleasant street, Lynn, and his business embraces sheet metal working, roofing, repairing of auto radiators, and in fact embraces all kinds of metal repair work, in which Mr. Cox is expert. He has no reason to regret his entry into independent business, and he is getting the success that comes out of good workmanship and steady application to business. He is unmarried.
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