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CHARLES S. DENNISON.
beautiful grounds, on Waltham Street, West Newton.
CHARLES SUMNER DENNI- SON is a native of Newtonville, where he was born June 20, 1858, the son of Elipha- let W. and Lydia A. ( Beals) Dennison.
He received his education in the New- ton grammar, West Newton English and Classical schools and the Highland Mili- tary Academy of Worcester and the Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology. He learned the machine business as a trade, but became an active member and treasurer of the well-known Dennison Manufactur- ing Company, with offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, San Francisco, and with exten- sive factories at South Framingham, Mass.
Mr. Dennison attends the West New- ton Unitarian Church and is a member of the Newton Club, Country Club, Eastern Yacht Club, Beverly Yacht Club, and is a trustee of the Newton Hospital and the donor of the Dennison Children's Ward of that institution.
Mr. Dennison married Miss Mary R. French, daughter of Abram French, and
with his family of two daughters, Florence Lydia and Olivia Belle, resides on one of the finest estates in the city on Kirkstall Road, Newtonville.
WILLIAM EDWARD WEB- STER is the son of David Clough and Nancy (Gordon) Webster, and was born in Plymouth, N. H., Dec. 7, 1833. He received his education at the public schools and at the academies of Plymouth and Thetford, Vt.
After leaving school he engaged in the dry goods business. In early life he took an active part in political affairs, was sec- retary of the Republican city committee of Boston and a member of the state committee. He was a member of the Boston common council in 1860. In 1861 President Lincoln appointed him United States appraiser of merchandise for the port of Boston, a position which he resigned in 1871 to engage in the manufacture and sale of ladies' dress goods, a business in which he has contin- ued during the greater part of his busi- ness career. Since his resignation of the office of appraiser Mr. Webster has been
WILLIAM E. WEBSTER.
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FREEDOM HUTCHINSON.
retained by the government as an expert in the trials of many important revenue cases, mostly in the city of New York.
He was connected with the Massachu- setts Volunteer Militia, and served as pay- master upon the staff of Colonel Robert 1. Burbank of the old Ist Regiment.
Mr. Webster is a member of the First Church (Congregational) and of the Neighbors' Club.
He married Mary Shannon Davis, daughter of the late Robert S. Davis of Brookline, and has one son, Arthur Gor- don Webster, professor of physics at Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
Mr. Webster has lived in Newton thirty-four years and resides on Beacon Street, Newton Centre.
FREEDOM HUTCHINSON, Boston, descends from one of the oldest and most distinguished families of Massa- chusetts. He is the son of Edwin F. and Elizabeth Ann ( Flint) Hutchinson, and was born Aug. 6, 1847, in Milan, N. H., where he received his common school education. He subsequently attended the Nichols Latin School in Lewiston,
Me., and was graduated from Bates Col- lege, in the same place, in 1873, having an English oration at commencement and standing high in his class.
After leaving college Mr. Hutchinson was for two years principal of the high school at Topsham, Me., and in the meantime and afterwards also read law in Lewiston with the firm of Hutchinson & Savage, which consisted of his brother, the late Liberty H. Hutchinson, and Al- bert R. Savage, now a justice of the Maine Supreme Court. He was admitted to the bar in Auburn, Me., in April, 1876, and at once came to Boston, Mass., where he was admitted to the Suffolk bar May 9 of the same year, and where he has since practised his profession with uniform success. He has had no partnerships. His business has been of a general civil character, with a considerable specialty in corporation matters. He has attended to all the legal matters in Boston and the East for the Swifts of Chicago and Boston during the past nineteen years, organizing their numerous meat-packing, slaughtering and transportation companies and estab- lishments and acting as their attorney. In connection with these interests he has been counsel in a large number of important cases in both Maine and Massachusetts.
Mr. Hutchinson has gained a wide rec- ognition as a lawyer and for many years has occupied a prominent place among the leading members of the Boston bar.
He resided in Boston from 1876 to the fall of 1892, and since then in New- ton Highlands, where he was a member of the Newton common council in 1895 and 1896. He is a member of the Columbian Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Boston, of the Middlesex Club, and presi- dent of the executive committee of the Unitarian Church of Newton Centre.
He was married Feb. 15, 1886, to Abbie Laighton Butler, daughter of Dr. David P. and Eleanor ( Bisby) Butler of Boston. They have two children, Eleanor Butler Hutchinson and Sumner Freedom Hutchinson.
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ALBERT METCALF.
ALBERT METCALF, one of the prominent residents of West Newton, was born in West Wrentham, Mass., Nov. 27, 1824, and is the son of Reuben G. and Sarah Ann (Cushman) Metcalf.
He was educated in the common schools and had two terms in the academy. He then worked in a country store in Attle- boro connected with the cotton factories of H. N. & H. M. Daggett for three years. This was followed by five years with the jewelry-manufacturing firm of H. M. Richards & Co., acting as the Boston agent of the firm. After a period as agent of the jewelry firm of Palmer, Richardson & Co. of Newark, N. J., Mr. Metcalf be- came a partner in a woollen goods jobbing business, but in 1862 associated himself with the late E. W. Dennison in the busi- ness of tags, tickets and box manufactur- ing and what is now the well-known Den- nison Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Metcalf married Miss Mary Caro- line Roulstone, and they have had three children, Elizabeth Freeman, the wife of Mr. Robert W. Williamson, and Edward Roulstone and Mary Palmer Metcalf.
Mr. Metcalf's residence in West New-
ton on Highland Street is named " Fair Lawn" and is one of the most beautiful estates in that vicinity.
JOHN MORTON STICKNEY, ex-alderman from Ward 2, was born in Calais, Me., Jan. 29, 1843, and is a son of Robert C. and Susan E. ( Dutch ) Stickney.
Mr. Stickney was educated in the com- mon schools and academy and engaged at once in the dry goods business. At pres- ent he is the sole proprietor of the firm of Stickney & Smith, ladies' cloaks, furs and garments, of Boston.
Mr. Stickney is retiring in his nature and has no taste for club life. He is a Repub- lican and takes an active though quiet part in political affairs. He served his ward with ability and distinction in 1899, 1900 and 1901, and refused a renomination.
Mr. Stickney is a constant attendant at the Central Congregational Church of Newtonville, and has served upon its parish committee as chairman.
Mr. Stickney recently built a fine house on Birch Hill Road, where he lives with his wife, who was Miss Elizabeth C. Parker of Pittsfield, Mass.
JOHN M. STICKNEY.
ROBERT H. GARDINER.
ROBERT HALLOWELL GAR- DINER was born in Fort Tejon, Cal., Sept. 9, 1855, and is a son of Major and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John William Tudor Gardiner, U. S. A.
He was educated in the Roxbury Latin School of Boston, Harvard College ('76) and Harvard Law School. He was ad- mitted to the bar of Suffolk County, Mass., and of Kennebec County, Me., and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, with offices in Boston.
Mr. Gardiner was the treasurer and one of the wardens of the Church of the Redeemer at Chestnut Hill, Mass., and treasurer of its predecessor, St. Andrew's Church, a member of the Newton Club, Chestnut Hill Club, Newton Centre Im- provement Association, and chairman of the Republican city committee and the Republican congressional district commit- tee, and one of the founders and chair- man of the executive committee of the Republican Club of Massachusetts.
Although Mr. Gardiner has never ac- cepted public office, he has always been a powerful factor in the political life of the city, and his change of residence from
Chestnut Hill to Gardiner, Me., in 1900, was the subject of universal regret.
Mr. Gardiner married Miss Alice Bangs, daughter of Edward Bangs of Watertown, and they have four living children, Robert H., Alice, Anna L. and William T. Gardiner.
FRANK LINCOLN NAGLE was born in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., July 25, 1860, and is a son of the late General James and Elizabeth ( Kaercher) Nagle. His father left an enviable war record, serving in the Mexican and Civil wars, attaining the rank of brigadier gen- eral at Antietam in recognition of bravery. Mr. Nagle enlisted as a drummer boy in the state militia of Pennsylvania when very young, and received an honorable discharge after five years of service before he was the required age to enlist. During this period he participated in the great Pittsburg riots of 1877. He left school at an early age and served four years in the banking busi- ness, followed by three years as clerk with the Pottsville Iron and Steel Company. In September, 1880, he went to Philadel- phia and worked on the first issue of the
FRANK L. NAGLE.
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JAMES L. RICHARDS.
Textile Record. He has served faithfully and continuously with this company ever since, which now owns the representative paper of the great textile industries. He is one of its officers and stockholders and its manager for the New England states. Mr. Nagle came to Newtonville to reside in 1892 and lives in a comfortable home on Kirkstall Road. He is a member of the Central Congregational Church, of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Newton Club, the Massachusetts Union of K. T. Commanders, Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, Royal Arch Chapter, an hon- orary member of Charles Ward Post, G. A. R., vice-president of the Ward 2 Re- publican Club, and the eminent com- mander of Gethsemane Commandery of Newton.
Mr. Nagle served his ward in the com- mon council in 1897 and as alderman at large for 1898-99, performing his duty faithfully, fearlessly and conscientiously. Mr. Nagle married Laura Ida Rosengarten and has a fine family of four sturdy sons, Frank L., Jr., Arthur R., Norman C. and Robert A. Nagle.
JAMES LORIN RICHARDS, one of the most successful business men in the city, was born at East Longmeadow, Mass., Jan. 8, 1858, and is the son of R. P. and Sarah E. (Burt) Richards.
He received his education in the public schools, and at sixteen years of age en- tered the retail tobacco business. After one year he became a bank clerk for a short time, and when eighteen years old engaged in the wholesale tobacco business. For some years Mr. Richards was asso- ciated in business with Mr. Austin R. Mitchell of Newtonville, but the firm name is now J. L. Richards & Co. Mr. Richards is also a director in the Harry Weissenger Tobacco Company of Louis- ville, Ky., and a director and vice-presi- dent of the Universal Tobacco Company of New York. He was one of the first to see the value of street railway invest- ments and was treasurer and a large owner in the Wellesley & Boston Street Rail- way Company for some years. At present Mr. Richards is a director in six street railway companies and president of one. He is also the president of the Boston Gaslight Company, the South Boston Gas- light Company, the Roxbury Gaslight Company and of the Bay State Gaslight Company of Massachusetts.
Mr. Richards attends the West Newton Unitarian Church and is a member of the Newton Club.
He married Miss Cora E. Towne, and they have two children, Edwin M., who just graduated from the high school, and Ruth S. Richards.
Mr. Richards is now erecting on Kirk- stall Road, Newtonville, a very handsome residence, which when completed will be one of the finest estates in the city.
ROYAL MACKINTOSH PUL- SIFER, fourth mayor of Newton, was born at Chestnut Hill June 2, 1843, and died at Auburndale Oct. 19, 1888. When he was three years old his parents moved to Saxonville, where he passed his child- hood. He had the customary common
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ROYAL M. PULSIFER.
and high school education and was fitted for college, but was unable to study fur- ther, and went into business. He was first employed as a bookkeeper in the office of the Boston Herald, and in 1869 became a part owner of that newspaper, and so remained until his death. He was also a director of the Commonwealth Na- tional Bank and the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and engaged in many other business enterprises.
He lived in Newton for about twenty- five years, and was always interested in any movement for the improvement of the town and city. He took a very active part in the early work of the Cottage Hospital and in the formation of the New- ton Club, and was an original member and strong supporter of the Newtonville New Church society (Swedenborgian). In political life he was a member of the com- mittee which obtained the first city charter, alderman from Ward 2 in the first city government, chairman of the first water commission, and in 1880 and 1881 mayor, his elections being practically unanimous.
Mr. Pulsifer married in 1866 Clara Stacey Keyes of Newton, who now lives
at Newtonville. He had two sons, George Royal and Louis Warren.
WILLIAM MELVILLE FLAN- DERS, member of the Republican state central committee from the First Middle- sex district, was born in Dunham, Province of Quebec, May 6, 1858, and is a son of Rev. Rufus A. and Mary E. Flanders. He was educated at Stanstead Wesleyan College, Canada, and is now engaged in the wholesale grocery business as a mem- ber of the firm of Martin I .. Hall & Co., the second oldest firm in that business in Boston. Mr. Flanders married Mary Fowle, and with a family of four daughters, Maida, Marguerite, Gladys and Kathryn, resides on Lake Terrace in Newton Centre. Mr. Flanders is a potent influence, as his fifteen years' service in the Republican city committee and membership in the Middlesex County twelve years and state central committee three years will testify. Mr. Flanders is also active in church work, being a trustee of the Newton Centre Methodist Church, president of the Bos- ton Methodist Social Union in 1899, and a trustee of the Deaconess Hospital. He
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WARREN P. TYLER.
is also a trustee of the Newton Co-opera- tive Bank, a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank, vice-president of the New- ton Club, and a member of the Boston Club, Middlesex Club, Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, and of the Royal Arcanum, Home Market Club and Canadian Club.
WARREN PARKER TYLER, a well-known resident of the city, was born in Andover, Mass., Feb. 17, 1821, his father being Parker Tyler and his mother Rebecca Tyler. He is a lineal descendant of Job Tyler, who tradition says wasfound at Andover in 1640, "monarch of all he surveyed." Mr. Tyler's grandfather was first sergeant of the Boxford company which served at the battles of Lexington, Concord, and at Long Island, N. Y., dur- ing the Revolution.
Mr. Tyler received his education in the public schools of Andover and Danvers, and then engaged in the business of wool- len goods and clothing, from which he re- tired some years ago.
Mr. Tyler served in the common coun- cil of Newton in 1887 and for a part of 1888 in the board of aldermen. He has
also been a trustee of the Newton Ceme- tery for thirty-five years, of the Children's Mission of Boston for forty years, of the Newton Hospital since its organization, and is also interested in the Newton Sav- ings Bank and the Newton and Watertown Gaslight Company. Mr. Tyler is also deeply interested in the Channing ( Unita- rian ) Church, and has been a resident of Newton over forty years.
He married Miss Harriett A. Mulliken, from one of the old families of Lexington, and his home is on Sargent Street, Newton.
FREDERIC MORTON CRE- HORE, the eighth in the line from the first of the name who settled in Dorchester about 1640, is a son of Dr. Charles Fred- eric and Mary Wyer (Loring) Crehore. He was born at Newton Lower Falls, his present residence, on July 16, 1858, and received his education at Allen's School, West Newton, private tutors and Harvard University, class of 1881. His business is that of paper manufacturer, which was established by his grandfather, Lemuel Crehore, in 1825. Mr. Crehore has served
FREDERIC M. CREHORE.
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JOHN A. FENNO.
his native city as a member of the common council in 1890, as alderman in 1891, on the water board in 1893 and '94, and on the school committee in 1897, 1900 and 1902. He is also a member of the Uni- versity and Exchange clubs of Boston, the Newton Boat Club and the Loyal Le- gion. Mr. Crehore married Miss Frances Isabelle Carter of Honolulu, H. I., and they have one daughter, Sybil.
JOHN ARTHUR FENNO, ninth mayor of Newton, was born in Revere, Mass., Oct. 18, 1849, and is the son of John F. and Mary (Borden) Fenno.
He was educated in the public schools of Revere and the high school in Chel- sea.
For many years Mr. Fenno has filled the positions of treasurer and superintend- ent of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad.
Mr. Fenno first entered public life when he was elected to the common council from Ward 2 in Newton, where he served in 1888 and 1889. In 1890 and 1891 he was a member of the board of aldermen, and in 1893 and 1894 filled the mayor's chair.
Mr. Fenno is a member of the Newton Club and was its president in 1898 and 1899 ; a member of the Home Market, Massachusetts and Mayors' clubs; of Dal- housie Lodge of Masons and was its worshipful master in 1901 and 1902, and belongs to Newton Royal Arch Chapter and Gethsemane Commandery.
He married Miss Nina M. Hunt, daughter of Dr. Otis E. Hunt, and they reside with their two daughters, Ardelle Hunt and Mildred Aroline Fenno, on Walnut Street, Newtonville.
LEVI CLIFFORD WADE, who was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1879, and has since become more widely known as president of the Mexican Central Railway, was born Jan. 16, 1843, in Allegheny City, Pa., and was the son of Levi and A. Annie Wade. His father, whose ancestors were among the early inhabitants and largest landowners of Medford, was born in 1812 in Woburn, Mass. He retired in middle life after a highly successful career as a merchant and manufacturer in the city of Pittsburg, dying in 1899.
LEVI C. WADE.
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Mr. Wade attended the public schools for a short time, but was educated chiefly by private tutors. He attended Lewis- burg (now Bucknell) University, in Penn- sylvania, and from there went to Yale in 1862, graduating in 1866 with the degree of A. B. While in college he took prizes in English composition, debate and decla- mation ; was one of the editors of the Y'ale Literary Magazine, and was active and prominent in athletic sports.
It is interesting to note the different stages of development in the early career of a man like Mr. Wade, who was at one
to 1879 inclusive, and in the last year was chosen speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives. In 1877 he formed'a partner- ship with Hon. J. Q. A. Brackett, and the legal firm of Wade & Brackett con- tinued until 1880, when Mr. Wade retired from general practice, and after that gave his attention to railway law and active rail- way management.
During his service in the legislature there was no work in which he took a greater pride than his successful effort with others to effect a change of the stat- ute whereby an unfortunate but honest
NEWTON CENTRE M. E. CHURCH.
and the same time a student and an un- usually successful man of affairs. He first came to Newton in October, 1866, for the purpose of studying at the Theo- logical Seminary, under a promise to his parents that he would devote at least two years to theological study. But as soon as the two years were completed he devoted his attention to the law, and was admitted to the bar in September, 1873. While studying law Mr. Wade taught school, being principal of the grammar school at Newton Upper Falls for five years. He was representative from Newton from 1876
debtor could be arrested upon mere be- lief that he had property which might be used for the payment of the debt. This law existed upon the Massachusetts statute books as late as 1878, and Mr. Wade secured its repeal in the House of Representatives in the face of power- ful opposition. The same public-spirited traits were conspicuous throughout Mr. Wade's life.
Mr. Wade was one of the directors of the Sonora, the Atlantic & Pacific and the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland railroad companies. He was one of the
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RESIDENCE, HENRY E. COBB, BELLEVUE STREET.
four original projectors and owners of Nov. 16, 1869, to Margaret, daughter of what is now the Mexican Central Railway Company, and was its president and counsel at the time of his death. He was also a director of the General Theological Library in Boston.
Mr. Wade was married in Bath, Me.,
Hon. William and Lydia H. (Elliot) Rogers, and of this union there are four sons, Arthur C., William R., Levi C. and Robert N. Wade. He died at his home on Dedham Street, Oak Hill, March 21, 1891.
RESIDENCE, WILLIAM F. KIMBALL, HARVARD STREET.
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CHARLES P. CLARK.
CHARLES PETER CLARK moved to Newton Centre in 1867, and until his election as president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company occupied the large house No. 75 Pleasant Street.
He was born in Nashua, N. H., Aug. 11, 1836. He was the son of Peter Clark, lawyer, and grandson of Peter Clark, prom- inent as the builder of the Concord Rail- road. His mother was Susan Lord of Kennebunkport, Me., whose early home is occupied by the family as a summer residence. Through his mother is traced the lineage to Elder Brewster of the May- flower.
After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, he entered Dartmouth College, but was soon obliged to leave on account of illness and advised to take a sea voyage. He sought health, experience and fortune at the same time by taking an interest in a vessel engaged in trading with the west coast of Africa. Repeated voyages on his own account qualified him for rapid pro- motion in the Navy, where he served over three years during the Rebellion. At the close of the war he entered the banking
business at St. Louis, but returned east to find a more congenial climate for his family, and became partner in a West Indian com- mission house of Boston.
In 1870 he entered the railroad business as clerk of the receivers of the old Boston, Hartford & Erie, which became the New York & New England, of which he was general manager, vice-president, receiver and president. In 1887 he was elected president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. In this position his work of greatest interest and value to Boston and vicinity was the consolidation of several independent railroads, as result of which many rates were reduced, the shortest possible lines developed, train connections improved, and the South Union Station planned and completed. The great amount of work involved and the energetic manner in which the project was consummated overtaxed his strength and compelled his resignation on Nov. II, 1899. He went abroad in the hope that rest and change might be of benefit, but died in Nice, France, March 21, 1901.
At the time of his death he was vice- commander of the Grand Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, member of the Algon- quin and Commercial clubs of Boston and the Union League Club of New York.
He leaves a widow, Caroline Tyler, whom he married at Portland, Me., Oct. 21, 1857, and six children, C. Peter Clark of Newton Centre, Elisabeth T. Hincks of Andover, Susan L. Clark of Newton Cen- tre, Sallie T. Buckland of Providence, Carita T. Blatchford of Chicago, and Ed- ward L. Clark of New York.
SEWARD WILLIAM JONES, member of the board of health, was born in Ebensburg, Pa., Feb. 9, 1857. His parents were Hugh and Eliza Jones, his father a second lieutenant of Company C of 209th Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol- unteers, being killed at the battle of Peters- burg, Va., March 25, 1865. He was edu- cated in the public and Soldiers' Orphans'
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schools of Pennsylvania. Since 1882 Mr. Jones has been a member of the firm of Jones Brothers of Boston, granite pro- ducers and manufacturers, and is treasurer and general manager of the Hingham Seam Face Granite Company. Mr. Jones was a member of the Republican city com- mittee for eight years, and commands a wide influence in political affairs, although his direct public service has been limited to membership in the Newton Board of Health since 1893. He is a member of the Newton Club, Dalhousie Lodge of Ma- sons, Newton Highlands Improvement Association (president 1897 to '99), Bos- ton Wholesale Granite Dealers' Asso- ciation (president 1890 to '97), president of the Newton Centre Savings Bank since 1896, a director in the Newton Centre Trust Company and of the Granite Man- ufacturers' Association of New England, and an influential member of the Newton Highlands Congregational Church. Mr. Jones married Miss Sarah A. Weller of Zanesville, Ohio, and with a family of two daughters, Mabel E. and Marguerite W., lives in a comfortable house on Columbus Street, Newton Highlands.
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