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In 1864 he removed to Newton, Mass., where he continued to reside until his death. In that city he was always assidu- ous in promoting every scheme for its wel- fare, and to his generosity the prosperity of some of its prominent institutions is due. He was one of the largest contributors towards the erection of the Eliot Church, and was conspicuous in the establishment
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NATHAN P. COBURN.
of the Newton Free Library, of the board of management of which he was a mem- ber at the time of his death, and to which he gave an expensive clock. He was a benefactor of Colorado College, giving it fifty thousand dollars for the erection of a library building and endowment of the library which was named for him.
Mr. Coburn died at Newton, Aug. 25, 1894, leaving a widow, who still resides on a fine estate on Franklin Street.
SAMUEL WALES FRENCH, treas- urer of the Newtonville Trust Company, was born in Palmer, Mass., May 12, 1857, and is the son of Marshall W. and Eliza- beth T. (Wales) French. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Palmer and fitted for college at the Hitchcock Free Academy of Brimfield, Mass.
Mr. French's business life includes work as a bookkeeper in the Palmer Savings . Bank ; assistant cashier, cashier and direc- tor of the Palmer National Bank ; presi- dent and treasurer of the Palmer Wire Company ; cashier of the First National Bank of Peterborough, N. H .; director in the Newton Co-operative Bank ; and
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secretary and treasurer of the Newtonville Trust Company.
He is a member and treasurer of the Newton Club and a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston, of the Royal Arcanum, Golden Cross and Albemarle Golf Club.
Mr. French married Miss Emma M. Weller of Winchendon, and with two chil- dren, Alice C. and Robert W. French, re- sides on Walnut Place, Newtonville.
DWIGHT CHESTER, one of the most prominent citizens of Newton Cen- tre, was born in Maryland, Otsego County, N. Y., on March 2, 1835. His father was Alden Chester and his mother Mary H. Chappel. He obtained his education in the public and private schools of West- ford, N. Y., and later engaged in manu- facturing until 1862. Four years in busi- ness in New York City were followed by his appointment as Boston manager of the Ætna Life Insurance Company, in which business he is now engaged.
Mr. Chester has held many positions of honor and trust, among which can be
SAMUEL W. FRENCH.
DWIGHT CHESTER.
mentioned that of town clerk and super- visor of Westford, N. Y. ; member of the common council of Newton in 1876, '77 and '78 ; of the board of aldermen in 1879, '80, '81, '83 and '84 and president of that body for four years ; and representative to the legislature in 1891, '92, '93 and '94. He is president of the Newton Centre Trust Company, treasurer and trustee of several charitable and religious societies, and a civil service examiner for the city. Mr. Chester also has membership in the Boston Baptist Social Union, Boston Life Underwriters, The Neighbors of Newton Centre and the local golf club. He is a prominent member of the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Chester has been twice married, his first wife being Mary J. Storrs of Worces- ter, N. Y., who is survived by one daugh- ter, and his second wife being Anna C. Stiles of Auburn, N. Y. Mr. Chester is a descendant of Samuel Chester, who came to Boston from England in 1663 and set- led in New London, Conn. His grand- father, John Chester of Groton, Conn., served in the Revolutionary War.
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FRANK J. HALE.
FRANK JUDSON HALE, a promi- nent manufacturer of Newton Upper Falls, was born in that village Aug. 14, 1862, and is a son of Amos L. and Tam- son C. Hale. Upon completing his edu- cation in the public schools of Newton he entered the employ of Otis Pettee & Co., cotton machinery manufacturers. This firm was succeeded by the Pettee Machine Works and again by the Saco and Pettee Machine Shops, of which Mr. Hale is a director and agent. Mr. Hale represented his native village in the common council in 1888 and 1889, and on the school board during 1890 to 1900 inclusive. He is a member of the Newton Club, the South- ern Manufacturers' Club of Charlotte, N. C., the Derryfield Club of Manches- ter, N. H., Home Market Club and National Association of Manufacturers, a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank, a director of the Pettee Machine Works, Saco and Pettee Machine Shops, the Eastern Machinery Company, the Laurens Cotton Mills, the Newton Co- operative Bank and the Newtonville Trust Company. Mr. Hale married Miss Grace Ella Herrick, and with a family of two
children, Marjorie and Roger D., resides on Walnut Street, Newton Highlands.
WILLIAM FRANCIS BACON, born in Newton Nov. 27, 1863, is the son of Joseph N. and Sarah A. (Woodward) Bacon. He received his education in the Newton schools, graduating from the high school in 1881. He graduated from Harvard College in 1885 with the degree of A. B., and from Harvard Law School in 1889 with the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January, 1889, and has been busily engaged in the practice of his profession since that time. Mr. Bacon married Miss Bessie F. Sayford, the daughter of the well-known evangelist, Samuel M. Say- ford, and they have two children, F. Say- ford and Margaret.
Although Mr. Bacon has large business interests, being a director in the Newton National Bank, in the Newton and Water- town Gaslight Company and the Citi- zens' Mutual Insurance Company, and a trustee of the Newton Savings Bank, he finds time for membership in the Boston
WILLIAM F. BACON.
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JAMES W. FRENCH.
Bar Association, Harvard Law School As- sociation, the Hunnewell Club, the Eight o'Clock Club, and is the treasurer of the Eliot Religious Society.
In 1898 Mr. Bacon accepted a position on the Newton Board of Health, which he still holds, and has recently been ap- pointed by Governor Crane as an associ- ate justice of the Newton police court.
JAMES WILKINSON FRENCH, one of the best-known business men in Newton, was born in Boston March 4, 1851, at 25 Winter Street. His parents were James and Lucina French. He was educated in the public schools of Newton and immediately entered business with his father as a real estate and mort- gage broker, which he has successfully managed for many years.
Mr. French represented Ward 7 in the common council in 1884, 1885 and 1886 and was president of that body in 1886. He also was a member of the board of aldermen in 1888.
He attends the Channing Church and is a prominent member of the Newton Club.
Mr. French married Miss Emily S. Moore, and with a daughter, Margaret, resides on Washington Street, Newton.
ALBERT FRANKLIN NOYES, son of George H. and Abby Taylor Noyes, was born in South Boston on July 10, 1850. The family removing to Mel- rose, he was educated in the public schools at that place, and prepared for his special career at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. From July, 1871, to November, 1873, he was an assistant in the office of Ernest W. Bowditch, Jr., American Society of Civil Engineers, and Mr. Charles H. Bateman, engaged chiefly on topograph- ical surveying and landscape architecture. Subsequently he was principal assistant to Mr. Frederic Schoff, city engineer of New- ton, Mass., and from March, 1875, to Feb- ruary, 1876, was acting city engineer of that place.
He was appointed city engineer of Newton in February, 1876, and filled that position for seventeen years. In 1882 he was appointed plumbing inspector for the board of health, which position he filled for
ALBERT F. NOYES.
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RESIDENCE, JAMES L. RICHARDS, KIRKSTALL ROAD.
several years, remodelling the plumbing regulations. In 1884 he made a sanitary inspection of the city with reference to sewer requirements. In 1890 he made a comprehensive report on a separate system for the city of Newton, which included 130 miles, estimated to cost $1,750,000, or an average of $2.56 per foot. The system was
adopted and construction commenced the following year, over forty miles being built under his administration. In 1889, in con- nection with Alphonse Fteley, member of American Society of Civil Engineers, as consulting engineer, he made a report on the additional water supply for the city of Newton and also on a high-service sys-
RESIDENCE, JARVIS LAMSON, TEMPLE STREET.
tem. In 1892 the additional supply work was carried out by building a covered fil- tering conduit and the first covered ma- sonry reservoir in this section of the coun- try. In 1892, in connection with Mr. Edward Buss, he made an exhaustive re- port on a system of surface drainage for the whole city. In 1893, in connection with Charles A. Allen and George S. Rice, members of American Society of Civil Engineers, he reported on a plan for abolishing the various crossings on the Boston & Albany Railroad through the city.
represent his ward in the board of alder- men of the city of Newton.
He closed his connection with the State Board of Health and in February, 1895, formed a partnership with Allen Hazen under the firm name of Noyes & Hazen, making a specialty of sewer and water- works investigation and construction.
Mr. Noyes married Miss Helen Marr Fordham, and they have had four children, Helen M., Mary A., Harry F. and Edith Noyes.
On Oct. 12, 1896, when about to take a train at the railroad station in Boston
NONANTUM SQUARE, 1902.
On July 24, 1893, Mr. Noyes re- Mr. Noyes was taken with heart disease signed his position as city engineer of and expired immediately. Newton to accept the position of assistant chief engineer of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, to make a special study of the ground-water supplies of the state.
In 1894 he was appointed by the gov- ernor a member of the Metropolitan Sewer Commission. This was an especially ap- propriate appointment, as from its start Mr. Noyes had been conversant with the work and plans of the metropolitan sewer construction. In 1895 he was elected to
Mr. Noyes was elected a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on Dec. 3, 1884. He was a member and past president of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, and at the time of his death was vice-president of the Massachusetts High- way Association. He was president of the New England Waterworks Association for the years 1890 and 1891, a member of De Molay Commandery, K. T., and at- tended the Church of the Messiah at Au- burndale."
JOHN Q. HENRY.
JOHN QUINCY HENRY, one of the best-known citizens of Newton a dec- ade and a half ago, was born at Rutland, Mass., Oct. 28, 1822, his parents being William and Catherine Augusta Henry. After receiving his education in the com- mon schools and at Leicester Academy, he entered business as a clerk in a bank- ing office in New York. Later he came to Boston as a clerk in a wholesale shoe and leather firm in which he eventually became a partner. He was a member of the firm of Burrage & Henry and later of that of Henry & Daniels, and he was for some years the president of the Shoe and Leather Bank of Boston. He was much interested in music and was president of the Newton Musical Association for some time, and a member of the Handel & Haydn Society.
Mr. Henry came to Newton to reside about 1851 and was a constant attendant of the Eliot Church until his death in Boston Dec. 21, 1888.
He became deeply interested in city affairs and represented Ward 7 in the common council during the years 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881, serving as
president of that body, and then was a member of the board of aldermen in 1882, 1883, 1884 and 1885. His service to the city was distinguished by sound business intelligence.
Mr. Henry married Miss Helen Jose- phine Smith, the daughter of Nathaniel Pierce and Phebe (Bancroft) Smith, and they had four children.
ALFRED SWIFT NORRIS, alder- man at large from ward six, was born in South Dennis, Mass., in 1850, and is a son of Captain Ellis and Margaret G. Norris. He was educated in the Dennis High School and immediately entered the business of gas and electric lighting fixtures, in which he is now engaged. Mr. Norris is a member of the Newton Club, where he is on the executive committee, and of the Newton Centre Improvement Society. Mr. Norris has served his ward on the board of aldermen from 1889 to the pres- ent time, and exerts a strong influence upon city affairs. He married F. Blanche Gay- lord, and lives on Glenwood Avenue, Newton Centre.
ALFRED S. NORRIS.
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FREDERICK JOHNSON.
FREDERICK JOHNSON was born on Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, April 28, 1838, and became a resident of Newton in 1854. He received his education at the Dwight School, Boston, and later the West Newton English and Classical School. For more than forty years he has been in his present business as weigher and in- spector of hides.
Mr. Johnson has always been active in political life, and represented his ward in the common council in 1886 and was an alderman for the four years commencing with 1887. He is a member of the Re- publican Congressional committee for the 1 2th district, and has recently been elected to the board of aldermen for 1903.
Mr. Johnson married Miss Emma F. Kendall of Boston, and resides with his wife and two daughters, Miss Ethel G. and Miss Edna D. Johnson, on Wood- land Road, Auburndale.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the New- ton Club and has served as chairman of its executive committee for some years.
FRED MESSENGER LOWE, al- derman from Ward 3, was born in Law-
rence, Kansas, March 22, 1858, and is the son of Joseph G. and Sarah E. (Gerry) Lowe. He received his education in the grammar and high schools of Fitchburg, Mass .; Phillips Exeter Academy, Ex- eter, N. H .; Yale College, class of '82 ; and graduated from the Harvard Medical School with the degree of M. D. in 1885. He entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in Boston, where he remained until 1897, when he removed to West Newton. Dr. Lowe has a fine residence on Washington Street, West Newton, and has built up a large and flourishing prac- tice. He is also a member of the staff of the Newton Hospital.
Dr. Lowe was elected an alderman at large from Ward 3 for the years 1901, 1902 and 1903, and he is a member of the Newton Club, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Harvard Medical Alumni Association, the Newton Medical Club, Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, and is a Past Grand of Newton Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Dr. Lowe married Miss Amelia F. Robbins, and they have one child, Gwen- dolen R. Lowe.
FRED M. LOWE, M. D.
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LUTHER PAUL, one of the oldest residents in the city, was born at Newton Centre June 16, 1829, and is the son of Luther and Rebecca (Crehore) Paul. He was educated in the schools of his native place and for many years has been a suc- cessful farmer. Mr. Paul is also a suc- cessful merchant, dealing in coal and wood, and has built up a large and profitable business.
He attends the First Congregational Church, and lives in a comfortable house on the site of the old homestead, Centre Street, Newton Centre.
Mr. Paul married Ellen D. Briggs, and they have had four children, Florence Helen, Dr. Luther Gordon, Harriett Otis and Irving Crehore Paul.
AUSTIN RICHARDS MITCH- ELL, a resident of Newtonville since 1872, was born at Cummington, Mass., May 28, 1828. His parents were Chester and Venila (Richards) Mitchell. He at- tended the public schools of Cummington and the Stillwater Academy, New York.
For three years Mr. Mitchell was a clerk in a country store of his native vil-
AUSTIN R. MITCHELL.
LUTHER PAUL.
lage, and entered the tobacco business at the age of twenty-one.
At that time tobacco was sold from wag- ons which travelled through the country, and Mr. Mitchell had a route which em- braced portions of Massachusetts, Ver- mont and New Hampshire. Later he travelled for the well-known tobacco firm of P. Lorillard & Co. of New York, and in 1865 opened a place of business in Bos- ton in connection with this house. In 1868 he established a business for himself (re- maining agent for P. Lorillard & Co. until 1879) which he conducted until he retired in 1895.
Mr. Mitchell represented his ward in the common council in 1880, 1881, 1882 and 1883 and has never held any other public office.
He was the president of the West New- ton Savings Bank from its establishment until 1902, and has been the vice-presi- dent of the First National Bank of West Newton from its incorporation. He was also a large stockholder and director in the Newton Street Railroad.
Mr. Mitchell is a member of the New- ton Club, its first meeting being held at
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his residence, and he was a large contribu- tor toward the erection of its present club- house.
He married Miss Louisa S. Sackett, also a native of Cummington, and they reside in a fine estate on Walnut Street, Newtonville.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS, D.D., pastor of the Eliot Congregational Church, was born in Chelsea, Vt., April 23, 1851, and is the son of Aaron and Mary ( Wells) Davis.
He fitted for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H., and gradu- ated from Dartmouth College in 1874, a classmate with Samuel L. Powers, Sam- uel W. McCall, Judge John A. Aiken and other well-known men at the Massa- chusetts bar. He then studied theology at Union Seminary, New York, and was ordained to the ministry in July, 1877, over the Washington Street Congrega- tional Church in Beverly, Mass. In 1884 he was installed as pastor of the First Congregational Church at Detroit, Mich., and in 1896 accepted a call to the Eliot Church in this city.
REV. WILLIAM H. DAVIS.
GEORGE C. LORD.
Dr. Davis has been and is a trustee ot many educational institutions, such as Olivet College, Chicago Theological Sem- inary, Kingfisher College, Oklahoma, Atlanta University, Kimball Union Acad- emy, etc. He was chosen a life trustee of Dartmouth College in 1901, was the college preacher in 1897-99, and has often served as occasional preacher in other institutions of learning. He was elected a member of the prudential committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1896, which position he still holds.
Dr. Davis was married Oct. 22, 1879, to Miss Emma Priscilla Meacham of Bur- lington, Vt., and they have had four chil- dren, Robert Meacham, Mary Wells, Donald Gifford (now deceased) and Ed- ward A. Davis.
He resides on Park Street, Newton.
GEORGE CLEMENT LORD, son of George and Olive (Jefferds) Lord, was born in Kennebunk, Me., Feb. 27, 1823. He was descended from Nathan Lord, who came from England in 1636, settling in Kittery, Me., and one of his
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ancestors was Roger Conant, who came from England in 1623 and who was after- wards governor of the Cape Ann colony and built the first house in Salem.
Until sixteen years of age he attended the public schools of his native town, and in 1839 came to Boston and entered as clerk the dry goods house of Holbrook, Carter & Co. on Kilby Street. In 1843 he became a partner in the firm of Da- mon & Howe, wholesale grocers on Long Wharf. Though still a young man he displayed a special aptitude for business, and with a character of which integrity,
In 1866 he was elected a director of the Boston & Maine Railroad, in 1880 vice- president, and in 188 1 he became its presi- dent, a position he held for eight years. During his term of office the Eastern Rail- road and the Boston & Lowell were merged into the Boston & Maine. At the time of his death he was a director of the Second National Bank of Boston, the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, the American Loan and Trust Company, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insur- ance Company, the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Railroad, the York Harbor &
BRIDGE, FARLOW PARK.
industry and intelligence were the ingre- dients he successfully crossed the thresh- old of a career in which he became one of the substantial and respected merchants of Boston. In 1847 he formed with his brother, Charles H. Lord, the firm of George C. Lord & Co., which for many years was largely engaged in the shipping business and built and managed a fleet of vessels which found their way into the waters of every sea.
About 1865 Mr. Lord was chosen president of the New England Mutual Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and until 1881 devoted himself to its service.
Beach Railroad and the Newton and Watertown Gaslight Company.
Mr. Lord married, Sept. 22, 1846, Marion Ruthven, daughter of Robert Waterston of Boston. In the spring of 1849 he came to Newton, residing at that time on the northerly side of Waban Park. In April, 1861, he moved to the westerly slope of Nonantum Hill, where his estate comprised very nearly the entire square bounded by Franklin, Park and Sargent streets and Waverley Avenue.
He always felt a deep interest in the welfare of the town, assisting in the forma- tion and aiding in the support of the Free
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RESIDENCE, GEORGE P. BULLARD, TEMPLE STREET.
Library, and was especially earnest and liberal as a member of the Channing Uni- tarian Church. He was chairman of the building committee of the first meeting house erected in 1856 on Washington Street, and also of the present edifice erected in 1881, and for many years was chairman of its standing committee.
For several years he was one of the Sinking Fund Commissioners of the city.
He passed away at his home in New- ton, Feb. 23, 1893, leaving a widow, two sons and a daughter, - Robert Water- ston Lord, Marion Ruthven Lord and Charles Edward Lord.
RESIDENCE, ALBERT C. WARREN, CHESTNUT STREET.
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HIRAM EUSTIS BARKER, one of the substantial business men who make their home in Newton, was born in Brighton Jan. 4, 1842, and is the son of the late Hiram Barker of Brighton.
He was educated in the public schools of Brighton, at Chauncy-Hall, Boston, and at the English and Classical School at West Newton.
Upon leaving school Mr. Barker im- mediately entered the family business of manufacturing starch, and is now the senior member of the Watertown Starch Company.
He is a member of Eliot Church and of the Hunnewell Club, and resides on Park Street, Newton.
Mr. Barker married Miss Abby Anna Arnold, and they have two children, Walter Hiram and Ida Arnold Barker, now Mrs. George C. Ewing.
EDMUND TROWBRIDGE WIS- WALL, a member of one of the oldest families in the city, was born in the town of Newton Jan. 20, 1831, and is the son of William Wiswall, 2nd, and Ruth (Trow- bridge) Wiswall. He was educated in the
EDMUND T. WISWALL.
HIRAM E. BARKER.
public schools of the town and the private school of Marshall S. Rice and in Comer's Commercial College.
Mr. Wiswall was engaged for many years in the milk business before engaging in his present occupation of real estate.
He served with credit and honor to himself and the city in the common coun- cil of 1888 and 1889, as a member of the board of health from 1888 to 1894, and upon the water board from 1888 to the change in charter. He is also a trustee of the Newton Savings Bank and a much respected member of the Second Congre- gational parish at West Newton, a mem- ber of the Newton Lodge of Odd Fellows and a member of the Knights of Honor.
Mr. Wiswall married Sophronia M. Baird, and they have had two daughters, Lizzie B. and Lucy T. Wiswall, both of whom are dead.
Mr. Wiswall resides on Wiswall Street, West Newton.
EDWARD ROSWELL UTLEY, M. D., city physician of Newton, was born in Taunton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1862,
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and has resided in Newton since he was a boy. He is the son of Dr. James and Martha F. Utley, his father being one of the oldest established practitioners in the city.
He was educated in the Newton schools, Amherst College (A. B. 1885, A. M. 1888), Harvard Medical School, 1891, and since his graduation from the latter institution has been engaged in the prac- tice of his profession with his father.
Dr. Utley was appointed the prison physician for Middlesex County in 1891, and associate medical examiner for the seventh Middlesex district in 1898. He was also appointed city physician of New- ton during the same year, and became thereby an ex-officio member of the board of health.
He is a member of the University Club of Boston, the Newton Club, Hunnewell Club, Eliot Church, is a thirty-second de- gree Mason and affiliated with various Masonic bodies.
Dr. Utley married Miss Edith Sanger Wood, and resides with his parents on Centre Street, Newton.
EDWARD R. UTLEY, M. D.
WINFIELD S. SLOCUM.
WINFIELD SCOTT SLOCUM, city solicitor of Newton, was born in Graf- ton, Mass., May 1, 1848, and is the son of William F. and Margaret ( Tinker) Slo- cum. He received his education in the common and high schools of Grafton and at Amherst College, and studied law in the office of Slocum & Staples. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Suffolk County Oct. 21, 1871, and to the bar of the United States Circuit Court Nov. 18, 1875. Upon his admission to the bar in 1871 he formed a copartnership with his father, William F. Slocum, which continued until the death of his father in 1896, since which time he has conducted the business alone. In 1881 he was elected city solicitor of Newton and is now the oldest city solicitor in the state in point of continuous service.
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