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Elmer O. Putnam received his early education in the public schools of Massachusetts. After his graduation from high school, he entered his father's employment, and spent twenty-five years
working in the lumber mill and ice factory which had been established by his grandfather. He was the proprietor of these properties at the time of his death, October 6, 1921. He was a member of the Maple Street Congregational Church. He belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and to the Rebekahs.
Mr. Putnam married Nettie M. Pitman. Mr. and Mrs. Putnam had four children: Otis F., born in 1899; Lillian Franeis, born in 1905; Ruth and Robert E., twins, born in 1913.
EUGENE HORTON-The present active head of one of the very old business houses of Lynn, Massachusetts, is Eugene Horton, whose manage- ment of the hat and fur business of Amos B. Chase has placed that firm in the lead along this line in the city of Lynn.
Eugene Horton was born in Swampscott, Massa- chusetts, on July 5, 1871, and is a son of George and Ellen Horton. After the death of his mother, which occurred while he was still a very young child, the boy was cared for by his grandmother. He received a thoroughly practical education in the public schools of his native town, then, at the age of sixteen years, entered the business world in the employ of P. B. Mansfield & Company, then owners of the business with which Mr. Hor- ton has always been connected. This business was established in 1830 by Samuel Mansfield, father of P. B. Mansfield. Samuel Mansfield, the founder of the business, was a man of remarkable am- bition and physical endurance. He lived in Salem, and it was his custom to walk to and from his business in Lynn. The business passed out of the hands of the younger Mr. Mansfield, being purchased by Amos P. Chase. Since the death of Mr. Chase, which occurred two years ago, Mr. Horton has been the active head of the business, and will eventually assume full control. This house is an important one in their line, that of furriers and hatters.
Mr. Horton is prominent outside his business. He is a well known member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Rotary Club, and of the Swampscott Club. He also is a member of the Masonie order, and a noble of Aleppo Temple.
Mr. Horton married Miss E. A. Cleary of Lynn, Massachusetts.
FREDERICK W. LIBBY - For more than twenty-five years Frederick W. Libby has been a building contractor in Amesbury, and ereditable evidences of his ability as such are to be seen in many places in the district. He has had a good business, and a good lumber business in addition, and has necessarily become widely known. Fred- erick W. Libby was born in Gray, Maine, on March 1, 1867, son of Charles E. and Elizabeth (Crocker) Libby. His father was of a Maine fam- ily, born in Gray on April 2, 1835, but his mother was born in Nova Scotia, on November 15, 1839.
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Both lived to venerable age, Charles E. Libby, who was a carpenter for the greater part of his life, reaching the age of eighty-five years, death not coming until 1920; and his wife died only three years earlier, in 1917. Both were esteemed by a wide circle of true friends.
Their son, Frederick W. Libby, grew to man- hood in his native place. He was educated in the public schools of Gray, Maine, and after leaving school spent about two years in farming in his home. For the next three years he did well as a hauler, after which he associated with his father, thereby learning the trade of carpenter, and gain- ing a good knowledge of the building trade of carpenter, and gaining a good knowledge of the building trade. Eventually, in 1888, he came to Amesbury, and for the next seven years was in the employ of Pike Bros., contractors of that place. In 1895 he was in a position to enter into business for himself. He did so in that year, and has ever since been in independent business. The name of F. W. Libby, builder and contractor, and dealer in lumber, is, and for long has been, well known in the district. Mr. Libby is a Republican, but does not appear to have keenly followed politics. At all events, he has not taken public office, which his standing in the community might have gained for him had he been so disposed. His church is the Baptist, and he has been a member of the Amesbury church for many years.
He married (first), in 1888, Grace Hamilton, of North Yarmouth, Maine. She was born in May, 1868, and died in 1903. In 1906, Mr. Libby mar- ried (second), Grace G. Dow, of Salisbury, Massa- chusetts. She was born on January 14, 1883. Mr. Libby has four children, all born to his first wife, they are: Harvey P., born on September 11, 1889; Frederick Urban, born November 22, 1892; Preble Hamilton, born in October, 1895; and Wal- ter Fred, born March 1, 1899.
.WILLIAM F. FLYNN-The Flynn Coal Com- pany of Salem, Massachusetts, was founded by Maurice E. and William F. Flynn, sons of Maurice and Anna (Joyce) Flynn, both born in Ireland. Maurice Flynn came to the United States in youthful manhood, and settled in Salem, Massa- chusetts, where he became a foreman of city em- ployees. He died in Salem, March 28, 1893. He married Anna Joyce, who came from Ireland to the United States in girlhood and spent most of her life in Salem, where she died in 1885.
William F. Flynn was born in Salem, Massa- chusetts, January 20, 1877, and was there edu- cated in the public schools. After leaving school he secured employment in a shoe factory and there continued until 1910, when, with his brother, Maurice E., he founded the Flynn Coal Company, of Salem, Massachusetts, and is conducting a prosperous business.
The brothers are members of the New England Coal Dealers' Association, and both are communi-
cants of the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion of Salem; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Fraternal Order of Eagles; Cath- olic Order of Foresters; Washington Associates, and Father Mathew Total Abstinence and Benevol- ent Society. They are good business men, and very popular in the city in which their lives have been spent.
HORACE MARTIN SALKINS-For many years active in the shoe industry in Essex county, Massa- chusetts, and latterly turning his business experi- ence and ability to good account in the automobile service business, Horace Martin Salkins is truly representative of the energetic American business man. Mr. Salkins is a son of James Young and Mary Hanley (High) Salkins, of Marblehead. James Y. Salkins was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts, and came to Marblehead when he was a boy. He became a fisherman, and for many years fished the grand banks. He died in 1919. The mother died two years previously.
Horace Martin Salkins was born in Marblehen.", on December 20, 1875, and received his education in the public schools of the town. He was inter- ested in a business life, and upon his completion of the school course, entered the shoe business as a jobber, continuing along this line for about twenty-five years. At the end of that time he made a radical change in his field of effort, en- tering the automobile business as manager of the State Street Garage, of Marblehead. In this ex- acting position Mr. Salkins is more than success- ful. He is placing this business at the head in its line, and is being recognized as one of the significant figures in the business world of Marble- head of today. Mr. Salkins is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a member of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.
In 1906 Mr. Salkins married Martha Redding Goss, of Marblehead, daughter of George S. and Etta (Wilkins) Goss, of this place. Mr. Goss was for many years a prominent grocer of Marble- head, but died in 1911.
OWEN H. DALEY, partner in the automobile supply business conducted under the trading name of the Haverhill Tire Shop, was born in Saugus, Massachusetts, but has spent the greater part of his life in Haverhill. He was born on August 13, 1864, but was still in infancy when the family took up residence in Haverhill, and the whole of his schooling was obtained in the public schools of that city. His parents, Owen and Rose (Mc- Cabe) Daley, who both were born in County Armagh, Ireland, became American citizens, though his father, who became connected with the Massachusetts shoe industry, died in 1886, in Haverhill. His mother is still living.
After leaving school, Owen H. Daley decided to enter a shoe factory. His first employers were Messrs. Field and Thayer, of Haverhill, but sub-
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sequently he was, for short periods, connected with several local concerns at different times. Eventually, however, he entered the employ of the R. A. Splain Company, of Haverhill, that company doing perhaps the largest mail order business in spirituous liquors in New England. Daley served that company for twenty years. In 1920, however, he took up another line, and with a friend, Mr. J. H. Cleary, bought Mr. Langelim's automobile supply business in Haverhill, and then formed the Haverhill Tire Shop Company to conduct and expand it. They have a good business in auto tires, make a specialty of Ford parts, carry a general line of accessories and supplies, and main- tain an efficient service station. Mr. Daley is a Roman Catholic by religious belief; he is a mem- ber of the local chapter of the Knights of Colum- bus, and has for many years been identified with the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He also be- longs to the Loyal Order of Moose, and to the Nonpariel Club. In his early manhood, he was for three years a member of a militia unit of the State.
In 1893 Mr. Daley married Katharine Toner, of Dover, New Hampshire, daughter of Owen and Bridget (Carbary) Toner, both of whom were of Irish birth, the former deceased since 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Daley have one daughter, Mary K.
JOHN F. McDONOUGH, contractor of Andover, Massachusetts, was born June 13, 1887, at North Andover, son of Martin McDonough, a native of Cork, Ireland, who died in 1920. The latter is sur- vived by his wife, Katharine (Mahoney) Mc- Donough, of Ireland, now living in Andover.
Mr. McDonough attended the public schools of North Andover, and was a member of the class of 1903 at high school. He went to work for J. D. Costello, a contractor, and was with him for four years during which time he learned the fundamentals of the business. For a year he was engaged in business on his own account as a merchant, and then returned to the contracting line, working for E. W. Pitman. For the next few years he held various positions and was fore- man of the Street Department of the town of Andover, for five years.
In 1913, he engaged in the contracting business on his own account, and was attaining success when the World War swept the country. He en- listed and was assigned to the Quartermaster's De- partment, and served through the war, being dis- charged in March, 1919, with the rank of first sergeant. When he returned to Andover, Mr. Mc- Donough took up his contracting work and now has added to it in many ways. He is one of the leading men in his line in Andover and has received many contracts from leading citizens for the laying of walks and other similar work. Fra- ternally Mr. McDonough is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the Andover Club, and the New Independent Irish Club. He makes his home
in Andover, and attends St. Augustine's Church, of that town.
CHARLES E. VALLIERE-Coming from & family of inventors, it is not surprising that Charles E. Valliere, a young and enterprising busi- ness man of Lynn, Massachusetts, should also have successfully entered the field of invention. The motor-driven ice sled he recently patented is likely to bring him profit as well as prominence. A demonstration of the sled in use was given by Mr. Valliere in Lynn, and the Lynn "Item" car- ried a very good description of the invention.
Charles E. Valliere was born in Concord, New Hampshire, April 23, 1898, the thirteenth of four- teen children born to Ferdinand J. and Amanda (la Flaunne) Valliere. The family is of French- Canadian antecedents, both parents being of Que- bec, Canada, where they had a farming estate. Both parents are still living, and of their fourteen children seven were sons. It would seem that the family came into Massachusetts early in the boyhood of Charles E., for he was educated in the public schools of Lynn, and eventually at the Manual Training School, where he obtained the diploma as mechanical draughtsman in graduating. He was in educational work for some time, being for two years in charge of the printing depart- ment at Corbett School. In 1916, however, he joined his three brothers in establishing the Wes- tern Avenue (Lynn) Garage, the exact location be- ing at No. 444 Western avenue. Their garage is completed and up-to-date, with all the appliances necessary for proper and efficient meeting of all demands in service, gas, oil, and all machine re- pairs.
The ice sled, of which Mr. Charles E. Valliere is the inventor, has been before referred to here- in, and it is not proper here to review the full achievements in invention of the Valliere family, but it may be stated that Alfonse Valliere, brother of Charles E., has devised many instruments, and has niany patents now pending. He is interested particularly in aviation, and has himself come into public notice as an aviator. Another brother, George, has applied his inventive aptitude to things electrical, and is an authority on electrical devices. They, the brothers Valliere, may all be placed in the class of progressive young business men of Lynn, where they are of course well-known. Mr. Charles E. Valliere is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and of the Knights of Columbus fraternity. He is unmarried.
GEORGE A. CHILDS, son of Martin W. and Georgia S. (Whittier) Childs, was born in Deer- field, New Hampshire, February 18, 1865. When a young man he entered the undertaking business in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and in 1895 became the active partner in the firm of Dole & Childs, whose undertaking establishment, located at 39 Main street, continued under his management until his death on July 18, 1921. At the time of his
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death his firm was the oldest of its kind in Haverhill and had acquired a prestige that tes- tified strongly to the usefulness and high standing of Mr. Childs in his community. His profession was one in which success is possible only to a man who conducts it with a spirit of deep sympathy with his fellow-men and of devotion to their tragic needs. Such a man was Mr. Childs; yet his business sense was so practical, and his judgment so reliable, that throughout his life he was con- stantly expected to fill positions of responsibility and to assume duties that are reserved for leaders. Mr. Childs held membership in many fraternal orders and clubs, and on boards and committees of important institutions. He gave freely to the poor with unostentatious charity, and treated all men as his brothers. He was survived by a widow, Elizabeth V. (Tourtillotte) Childs, daugh- ter of Josiah and Lura (Barron) Tourtillotte, and by a son, Edward B. Childs, born of a former marriage, now a student at Dartmouth College. The following resolutions of the Haverhill Cham- ber of Commerce amply testify to the esteem in which Mr. Childs was held:
Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Resolutions: Whereas, in His wisdom the All-loving Father has called to his Eternal Home our friend and fellow-worker, George A. Childs; and
Whereas, our departed brother was, for many years, treasurer and a director of the Haverhill Chamber of Commerce, eminently faithful in his office of trust, active and helpful in the delibera- tions and achievements of the board of direc- tors; high-minded, amiable and of gentle man- ners; in his daily vocation ministering tenderly to the bereaved; loyal to Haverhill, an upholder of organized community effort, a good citizen; Therefore, be it
Resolved, that the Directors of the Haverhill Chamber of Commerce herein record their grief at the passing of their one-time associate and their heartfelt sympathy with those dear to him who are left behind. And, be it further
Resolved, that these resolutions be conveyed to the family of the deceased, and that a copy be spread upon the records of this Chamber.
The Directors of the Haverhill Chamber of Commerce.
by (signed)
FRED W. MEARS,
President and Director.
Haverhill, Mass., July 21, 1921.
PERLEY H. HARGRAVES, owner of a good auto-trimming business in Merrimac, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on October 17, 1887, son of Frank H. Hargraves, a trader of Merrimac, and Minnie (Miller) Hargraves, who died in 1894, and who was of a Haverhill family.
In his boyhood and youth he attended the pub- lic schools of Haverhill, eventually graduating from the high school. Thereafter, for a couple of years, he was in the employ of Haverhill druggists, spending about a year with George E.
Crane, and a like period with George P. Holden. After leaving Mr. Holden, he went to Merrimac, and entered into an entirely different line. For the next three years he worked for the Walker Carriage Company, of Merrimac, leaving that firm so that he might work for the J. B. Judkins Com- pany, of same place. A year later, he went to Medford, Massachusetts, where for a short time he was in the employ of the Teel Manufacturing Company. Next, for a while, he was in Waltham, Massachusetts, working in the plant of the Metz Automobile Company, and following that, he was for about a year in Amesbury, where he was connected with the Biddle & Smart Company of that place. Returning to Merrimac, he found oc- cupation in the plant of the Merrimac Body Com- pany, with which company he remained for about a year. At the end of that time he was per- suaded to enter into business for himself, and for the next eighteen months he gave his time wholly to the management of a restaurant he had pur- chased. However, it did not seem to promise as substantial an advantage as should come in fol- lowing the automobile business, so he gave up the restaurant, and opened business for himself as an auto trimmer, in Merrimac. The enterprise is developing satisfactorily.
Mr. Hargraves is a Republican, though he has not actively followed politics. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Riverside Lodge, of Merrimac, and the Loyal Order of Moose, of Haverhill. During the stress of the World War, when all the men of draft age were drawn from State troops into the federal forces, Mr. Hargraves enlisted in the Massachusetts State Guard, serving in Company D, of the Sixteenth Regiment, for two years, as a private.
He was married on March 29, 1913, to Annie Mary Pease, who was born in Mcrrimac on March 29, 1885, to James and Mattie (Heath) Pease. The mother of Mrs. Hargraves died in 1917, but the father is still actively in business president of the James Pease Company, of Merrimac, carriage makers. Mr. and Mrs. Hargraves are members of the Congregational church, in fact, the Har- graves family have been Congregationalists for several generations. Rev. Daniel R. Hargraves, grandfather of Perley H. Hargraves, was for many years in ministerial charge in Haverhill, retiring in old age.
LEROY BENJAMIN PATTERN, postmaster and enterprising merchant of Rocks Village, near Merrimac, Massachusetts, is a native of the place, born there on March 18, 1897. His grandfather, John Pattern, lived in Merrimac practically the whole of his life, which ended in 1920. His grand- mother, Margaret (Stewart) Pattern, was of West Newbury. She is still living. His father, Ben- jamin P. P. Pattern was born in Merrimac, and was in merchandising business there until his death, in 1908. His mother, Flora M. (Osborne) Pattern, was born in Rocks Village, where she
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still lives. So that the Pattern family is well known in the Merrimac district. LeRoy B. Pat- tern was educated in the village schools, and at Merrimac. When his schooldays were over, he found employment in the grocery store of Horace Emery, remaining with him for about a year. For the next five years he was in government service, as mail carrier, leaving at the end of that time so that he might enter into business for himself. He opened a grocery store in his native place, and has since developed a satisfactory business.
He has entered actively into local public affairs, has been postmaster of Rocks Village since 1919, and is a member of the Rocks Village volunteer fire department. Politically he is a Republican; religiously he is a Baptist, a member of the Rocks Village church of that denomination.
Mr. Pattern was married in 1917 to Agnes H. Gleed, daughter of William and Esther (Bailey) Gleed, of Rocks Village, where the former is con- nected with shoe manufacturing. Mrs. Pattern was born in Rocks Village on December 23, 1900. They have one child, Louis Pattern, born July 12, 1920.
ELMER E. BROWN-For the past twelve years Elmer E. Brown, of Lawrence, has been actively identified with the physical growth and develop- ment of the city. Mr. Brown is a son of Horace and Ada E. Brown, who reside at No. 432 Howard street, Lawrence, the father having been a con- tractor and builder, now retired.
Elmer E. Brown was born in Belfast, Maine, De- cember 12, 1882. The family removing to Law- rence when he was only one year old, it was in the Lawrence schools that he received his educa- tion. Spending his earlier years in various ac- tivities, he entered the building field independently, in the year 1909, and has since attained wide prominence along this line. He has built resi- dences, almost entirely, and in connection with this business has handled real estate extensively. In 1920, in association with Fred Eastman, Jr., Mr. Brown organized the Massachusetts Realty Company. This concern has large real estate holdings, and is building many residences on one of their best plots of ground at the present time.
Mr. Brown, as head of this business, is . well known in the building trades, and is president of the Master Builders' Association, of Lawrence. He is also a member of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he is a member of Tus- can Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias, and is also an active member of the Young Men's Christian Association. His business is located at No. 329 Essex street, and he resides at No. 86 Elm street, Andover, Massachusetts.
JOHN F. WHIPPLE-For forty-six years, through sunshine and storm, heat and cold, pleas- ant days and dreary ones, John F. Whipple car- ried the United States mail over a route in Salem. Massachusetts, but finally paid tribute to the years
and retired. He is an old veteran of the mail service, but has a title which antedates that, being a veteran of the Civil War. He is one of nine brothers and a sister, children of Daniel and Adeline Whipple, all of these living to a good old age. The wonderful life of John F. Whipple began in Ipswich, Massachusetts, August 20, 1841, and he is now enjoying octogenarian honors in Danvers, Massachusetts.
John F. Whipple attended South West District School, going thence to the academy at New Lon- don, New Hampshire, now known as Colby Acad- emy, there continuing a student for two and one- half years. After leaving school he became his father's farm assistant, and at times was in the employ of neighborhood farmers. When war broke out between the North and South, he at once enlisted, serving, until honorably discharged, in Company L, First Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. He escaped all the perils of war, al- though taking part in many battles, until Peters- burg, in June, 1864, when in the charge at the crater, he was shot through the leg and breast, and on the day General Lee surrendered, Mr. Whipple lost an arm through a shot from one of our cannons.
Upon his recovery, Mr. Whipple was employed in Boston, Massachusetts, until May 18, 1869, go- ing thence into the service of the post office in Salem, Massachusetts, as a letter carrier. He con- tinued in the postal service for forty-six years, resigning in 1915, aged seventy-five years. In 1873, he was elected justice of the peace, and that office he has now held for forty-nine years, being still in office. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the United Order of Amer- ican Mechanics, and since 1866 has been a mem- ber of the Baptist church, serving as Sunday school superintendent for ten years, now being the senior member of the board of deacons.
John F. Whipple married, in Saco, Maine, June 17, 1871, Cornelia E. Hood, daughter of John and Rebecca Hood. Their only son, Guy M. Whipple, is a graduate of Brown University, and is a pro- fessor in Michigan.
CLIFFORD ELWELL STANLEY-For a con- siderable period the name of Stanley has been connected with the electrical business in Salem. Massachusetts, and Clifford Elwell Stanley is now the head of the business which his father founded. As an electrical contractor and engineer, he is placing the name high on the list in this line of endeavor.
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