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He is a Vice-President and Trustee of the Newton Hospital, Trustee of Lasell Seminary, Trustee of the Arthur C. Farley Estate and the F. N. Day Estate, Councillor of the Business Historical Society, and a member of the Boston and Newton Chambers of Com- merce.
He is. also, a member of the Algonquin Club, Uni- versity Club, Brae Burn Country Club, Woodland Golf Club, Boston City and New York City Clubs, Bald Peak Country Club and Kingswood Golf Club.
During the War he was on the United States War Industries Board.
He married Miss Gertrude Carlisle Mead and they have one son and two daughters. The family residence is at 379 Central Street, Auburndale.
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G. WILBUR THOMPSON was born in Gilford, New Hampshire, the son of George W. and Ann Margaret Thompson. He came to Newton Centre in 1896, where he is a heating and plumbing contractor under his own name at 80 Langley Road. He has been awarded many important contracts throughout New England and employs a large force of men continually.
He is a member of the State Board of Examiners of Plumbers, is a past president of the Massachusetts Plumbers' Association, of the Sanitary Club of Mas- sachusetts, and also of the Newton Chamber of Com- merce. He is a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank and a director of the Newton South Co-Opera- tive Bank and the Federal Mortgage and Loan Co. of Boston. He served for sixteen years as treasurer of the Newton Centre Improvement Association, resign- ing that position in 1929.
He is a member of Dalhousie Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Royal Arch Chapter, Gethsemane Commandery, Knights Templars, the Boston City Club, the Rotary Club of Newton and an active member of the First Baptist Church in Newton.
During the war he was actively connected with the Liberty Loan and Red Cross local campaigns.
He married Miss Amelia Frances Hayward of Fitchburg, Mass., and their residence is at 38 Everett Street, Newton Centre.
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GEORGE W. ST. AMANT was born in Roxbury, Mass. on May 12, 1871, the son of Frank L. and Mary E. St. Amant. He was educated in the Boston Public Schools and the Roxbury High School.
Mr. St. Amant is a cotton merchant dealing in im- ported raw cotton from foreign ports. His office is located on Milk Street.
He is a member of the Congressional Country Club of Washington, D. C., the Brae Burn and the Woods Hole Golf Club of Woods Hole, Mass.
He married Miss Jane Galloway Douglas and they have one son, George W. Jr., and two daughters, Ruth D. and Mrs. Thomas Carpenter, Jr.
Mr. St. Amant is actively engaged in stock raising. specializing in Guernsey cattle on AAtamannsit Farms. Falmouth, Mass.
JOSEPH ELLIOTT DOWNEY, president and director of Joseph E. Downey Company, 40 Broad Street, Bos- ton, is also director of the Newton Theatre, Inc., Bellevue Community Theatre, Inc., and Malone Fi- nance and Acceptance Corporation.
lle was born in Providence, R. L., on March 17, 1887. the son of John Joseph and Katherine A. Downey who have resided in Newton for 41 years.
Mr. Downey was educated in the Newton Schools. Phillips Exeter Academy and is a graduate of Dart- mouth College, Class of 1910, with a degree of S. B.
Prior to the War he was associated with the firm of Hinckley & Woods but upon his discharge in Sep- tember. 1919, formed the agency of Joseph E. Downey Company, who are General Agents for Boston and metropolitan districts for a number of leading Fire, Marine and Casualty Insurance Companies.
During the World War he enlisted in the United States Army as a private and at the time of discharge on August 4, 1919, held the rank of First Lieutenant. During his service in the A. E. F. he was stationed at First Army Headquarters and later attached to the 304th Engineers of the 79th Division.
While at college he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and the Sphinx Senior Society, and is a member of the University Club; Army and Navy Club; Military Order of the World War; Military Order of Foreign Wars and the Point Independence Yacht Club.
On June 30, 1917, he was married to Marie L. O'Brien of Newton. They reside at 37 Gay St., New- tonville, and have a son, John Joseph Downey, 2nd, and a daughter, Nancy Rynn Downey.
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LEWIS EUGENE MOORE, a consulting engineer, is a designer of bridges and structural work for buildings and general engineering work, with offices at 73 Tre- mont Street, Boston.
Ile was born at Amboy, Illinois, January 24, 1880, the son of Lewis T. and Martha M. ( Wells) Moore. He was eduated in the Chicago Manual Training School and at the University of Wisconsin and Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Moore is also Director of the Collateral Loan Company. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Society of American Military Engineers, the Boston City Club, and the Nashua Country Club.
During the war Mr. Moore was a captain and major of Engineers in the A. E. F. His duties consisted largely of reconnaissance, and design and construc- tion of military bridges.
He married Miss Rowena Grace Karns and they have one son.
Among the recent projects handled by him were the plans for the reconstruction of Harvard bridge in 1925. the design of the steel arch and railroad spans of the Cottage Farm bridge, the engineering design of the skew concrete arch bridge at Arsenal Street over the Charles River, design of the steel arch bridge over Mt. Vernon St., South Boston, design and super- vision of construction of the George M. Whitney Memorial granite arch bridge in Winchendon, and the design of the long span steel roofs and supports for the Boston Elevated Railway garages.
ELISHA W. COBB was born in Denver, Colorado, on September 30, 1884, the son of Wilbur F. and Mary A. Cobb. He received his education in the Melrose High School. He is treasurer of the W. F. Cobb & Son Company of Boston, whose business is warehous- ing and distributing with offices at 567 Atlantic Ave- nue. He is also treasurer of the Cobb Associates, Inc.
Mr. Cobb is a member of Dalhousie Lodge, A. F. & A. M., the University Club, the Charles River Country Club, the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the New- ton Chamber of Commerce.
Ile married Miss Fanny T. Guth and they have two sons and one daughter. The Cobb residence is at 145 Langley Road, Newton Centre.
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EDWIN SIBLEY WEBSTER is president and director of the well-known firm of Stone & Webster, Inc. He was born in Boston on August 26, 1867, the son of Frank G. and Mary Messinger Webster. He was educated at Chauncey Hall School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1888.
Mr. Webster is also president and a trustee of the Eastern Utilities Associates, vice-president and trustee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a member of the Corporation and Executive Committee of M. I. T., a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boys' Club of Boston, Inc., a director of the Ames Shovel and Tool Co., Atlantic National Bank, Boston Con- solidated Gas Co., Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., Cape Breton Electric Co., Limited, Chicago. Wilmington and Franklin Coal Co., En- gineers' Public Service Co., Florida Motor Lines, Inc., Galveston-Houston Electric Co., Jacksonville Traction Co., Lawyers' Mortgage Investment Corporation of Boston, Lawyers' Title Insurance Co., New England Coal & Coke Co., New England Manufacturing Co., Pacific Mills, Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Rail- way and Light Securities Co., Stone & Webster and Blodgett, Inc., Stone & Webster Engineering Corpor- ation, Stone & Webster Investing Corporation, Stone & Webster Service Corporation, Swedish American Investment Corporation, and Tampa Electric Co., and
a trustee of the American Orchid Society, Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, Massachusetts Gas Companies. Massachusetts General Hospital, the Museum of Fine Arts and the New England Fuel and Transportation Co.
In 1917 he served as head of the great War Drive launched by the Red Cross, which raised millions of dollars, and in 1918 he served as Chairman of the Red Cross Roll Call. By appointment of Governor Cox. in 1922, he served as Chairman of what became known as "The Webster Commission" to make a report on State Administration and Expenditures.
He is a member of the Somerset Club, Union Club, Tennis & Racquet Club, St. Botolph Club, Country Club, Boston City Club, Commercial Club, Exchange Club, Engineers' Club, Massachusetts Automobile Club. Commonwealth Country Club, Dedham Polo and Country Club, New Riding Club, University Clubs of Boston and New York, Down Town Club and Re- cess Club of New York and the Woods Hole Golf Club and Pald Peak Country Club.
He married Miss Jane deP. Hovey on June 1, 1893, and they have one son and three daughters. His old- est daughter, Frances Webster Haim, served with the Red Cross in Europe during the War, she being the only member of his family then old enough to serve. The family residence is at 307 Hammond Street. Chestnut Hill.
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CHARLES AUGUSTUS STONE was born in Newton on January 16, 1867, the son of Charles H. and Mary Augusta (Green) Stone. He received his early edu- cation in a private school and in 1884 graduated from the Newton High School. He entered the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology and graduated with the degree of S. B. in 1888. Among his classmates in the electrical engineering course there was Edwin S. Web- ster, and a close friendship between the two resulted in the formation of the firm of Stone and Webster, in November of 1889. The phenomenal growth and suc- cess of this concern has been one of the notable ro- mances of American industrial life. Pages could be filled with details of the hundreds of enterprises con- structed by them in the past forty years. The first offices were at 4 Post Office Square. Boston, but as their business increased larger quarters were succes- sively secured at 93 Federal Street in 1901, 84 State Street in 1904, and the whole building at 147 Milk Street, in 1908. Still larger quarters becoming neces- sary in 1926, the company purchased for their use the ten-story building at 120 Franklin Street. In 1920 the firm was incorporated with Mr. Stone as chairman of the Board of Directors and with Mr. Webster as president, which offices they still continue to hold.
In 1915 a group of prominent New York financiers organized the American International Corporation. Mr. Stone was offered and accepted the presidency of this company, and in January, 1916, moved to New York to assume executive direction of this corporation and to become executive head of the New York divi- sion of Stone and Webster. Mr. Stone resigned the
presidency of the American International Corporation in 1923, requiring relief from a part of his crushing responsibilities.
During his business career Mr. Stone has been a director in scores of corporations. In addition to holding the Chairmanship of the Board of Stone and Webster, the most important directorships he now holds are the following: American International Cor- poration, Engineers' Public Service Company, Inter- national Mercantile Marine, North American Com- pany, Union Pacific Railroad, International Acceptance Bank, First National Bank of Boston and the Ex- change National Bank of Tampa, Florida. He is also a life member of the Corporation of M. I. T.
His club memberships include the University, Metro- politan, New York Yacht, Century, Seawanhaka Yacht, Riding, Harvard. Recess, India House, and Piping Rock, all of New York; the Union, St. Botolph, East- ern Yacht, New Riding, Tennis and Racquet, Auto- mobile and Exchange, all of Boston; and the Metro- politan of Washington, D. C.
In 1914 Harvard University conferred on Mr. Stone the honorary degree of A. M. in recognition of his achievements.
He married Miss Mary A. Leonard of Hingham, Mass., in Boston on June 3, 1902. They have two sons, Charles Augustus, Jr .. and Whitney, and two daughters, Margaret, the wife of R. Colgate Vernon Mann of New York, and Janet Elizabeth.
Mr. Stone and his family resided here until 1916, but since that time have lived in New York at 907 Fifth Avenue and Locust Valley, Long Island.
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WILLIAM JAMES DAVIDSON is president of the New England Division of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., a chain store organization dealing in retail gro- ceries. The executive offices of the New England Di- vision are at 130 Auckland Street, Dorchester. Mr. Davidson came to Boston from the New York end of the business in 1919.
Mr. Davidson is a member of the Algonquin Club, University Club, Woodland Golf Club, Hatherly Country Club, and the Bald Peak Country Club.
He married Miss Annie W. Watson and they have seven daughters. The family residence is at 99 Aspen Avenue, Auburndale.
PALMER YORK was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1883, and graduated from Hillhouse High School of that city in 1901 and from Yale University in 1905. He has long been prominently identified with a large number of New England Public Utility and Industrial enterprises as officer, director and trustee.
He is a member of the University Club, Engineers' Club and Yale Club of Boston, Graduates Club of New Haven, and the Vale Club of New York City.
He married Miss Jessie Kimball Rockwell of Fitch- burg. Mass., in 1914. They have three children, Palm- er. Jr., Deborah and Elizabeth, all students in the Newton schools. Their Newton residence is at 301 Otis Street, West Newton, and their summer home is on Nantucket Sound at Harwichport, Mass.
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CHARLES E. GIBSON, was born in Rockford, Ill., June 16, 1861, and is the son of Allen and Elizabeth Stewart Gibson. Mr. Gibson was educated in the public schools and at the Evanston, Ill., High School. He came east in 1889, making his home in West New- ton, and establishing the Charles E. Gibson Co., for the purpose of improving lands in Colorado by construc- tion of irrigation and drainage systems and selling them to settlers.
He served the city as a member of the Playground Commission and since 1913 has been chairman of the Newton Planning Board.
He is a member of the Boston Chamber of Com- merce, Boston City Club, 20th Century Club, Pudding- stone Club, Newton Chamber of Commerce, the Neighborhood Club of West Newton, the Men's Club of West Newton, Bucks Harbor Yacht Club of Maine of which he is commodore and is a member of the Second Church of West Newton.
Mr. Gibson married Miss Helen Knowlton of Rock- ford, Ill., and they had three sons and a daughter : Stewart K. Gibson of West Newton; James W. Gib- son of West Newton; Charles E. Gibson, Jr., of Alamoso, Colorado; Mrs. Arthur H. Jacks of Great Neck, N. Y.
THOMAS PHIPPS CURTIS, was born in Quincy, Mass., May 16, 1850, the son of Lewis (1818-1897 ) and Emeline M. ( Phipps ) Curtis, and is a great grand- son of Mehitable Adams, a first cousin of John Adams, second president of the United States, and a second cousin of John Quincy Adams, also a president of the United States. Mr. Curtis was educated in private schools and for forty years has been connected with the firm of Deering, Milliken & Co., of New York and Boston, dry goods commission merchants, as sales- man and partner. Mr. Curtis is also treasurer of the George W. Olney Woolen Co., of Cherry Valley, Mass. ; president of the Mavo Woolen Co., of Millbury, Mass .; president of the Cascade Woolen Co., of Oak- land, Maine, and managing director of the Madison Woolen Co., of Madison, Maine.
He is a Mason, a Knight Templar since 1873, and a member of the Grafton Club, Merchants Club of New York, Middlesex Club of Boston and of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He married Miss Ellen F. Hobbs, March 24, 1890. and they have one son, Lewis Foster Curtis.
Mr. Curtis has made his home in Newton High- lands for over forty years, where he has a handsome residence on Lake Avenue.
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GEORGE WHITEFIELD TAYLOR was born in Moncton. New Brunswick, March 28, 1878, and was the son of George W. and Margaret Taylor. Mr. Taylor is the head of the Taylor Press, Inc., in the business of direct mail publicity printing and color work, in Boston.
During the war Mr. Taylor was chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee of the Graphic Arts of Bos- ton. He was also for five years President of the Bos- ton Typothetae Board of Trade. Mr. Taylor is treas- urer of the trustees of the Newtonville Methodist Epis- copal Church and is a member of the Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, Boston City Club, Boston Advertising Club and the Albemarle Golf Club. He married Miss Bessie C. McGaw and the family consists of one daughter and one son. Mr. Taylor resides on Foster Street. Newtonville.
FREDERICK GRIGGS HOWE, Jr., vice-president of the Boston Consolidated Gas Co., and general manager of the Newton Division, is the son of Frederick Griggs and Clara Richards Howe. He was born in Spring- field, Mass., on September 29, 1888. He was grad- uated from the high school of his native city in 1907 and later took special courses related to the gas in- dustry.
He attended the Plattsburg Camp in 1916 and the following year enlisted in the 5th M. V. M., which later became the 101st Infantry of the 26th Division, better known as the Yankee Division. He served with the 101st A. E. F. in all the engagements participated in by that regiment, including Chemin-Des-Dames, Toul Front, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne.
He is a Mason and an Elk and is a member of the American Legion, Newton Post 48, the Engineers' Club of Boston, the Y. D. Club of Boston, the Rotary Club of Newton, the Albemarle Golf Club, and the American Gas Association.
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CHARLES EDWIN HATFIELD was born in Medford, Mass., on September 30, 1862, the son of Charles and Ann L. L. Hatfield. He received his education in the public schools and at Dean Academy. He has had a long and distinguished political career, beginning as a member of the Newton Common Council in 1894-95 In 1910 he was elected the eighteenth Mayor of New- ton, and was the first mayor to serve two terms. For many years he was Chairman of the Republican City Committee of Newton, and for four years was Chair- man of the Republican State Committee of Massachu- setts. At present he holds the post of Treasurer of Middlesex County, to which he was elected in Novem- ber 1922.
Ile is president of the First National Bank of West Newton, and of the West Newton Co-operative Bank, and a director in the Harvard Trust Company, and Lechmere National Bank of Cambridge.
Ile is a Past Master of Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, a Past High Priest of Newton Royal Arch Chapter, a member of Gethsemane Commandery, K. T., Newton Lodge, J. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias, and Knights of Honor.
He is a member of the Allen School Alumni Asso- ciation, the Newton Club, the Neighborhood Club, Newton Boat Club, and is treasurer of The Players, Inc.
He married Miss Martha Pelton of Chicago, and they reside at 108 Cherry Street, West Newton. Their daughter, Margaret, is the wife of Stuart Chase.
S. BRUCE BLACK, is president and director of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, which writes workmen's compensation, automobile and other forms of liability insurance. He is also vice-president and general manager of the United Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and a director of the Conveyancers Title In- surance and Mortgage Company.
He was born at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, the son of Robert and Margaret Scott Black. He received his education at Ripon College and the University of Wis- consin.
He is a director of the American Mutual Alliance, the Massachusetts Safety Council, president of the Na- tional Association of Mutual Casualty Companies, and a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society of Amer- ica, the University Club of Boston, Merchants Club, Algonquin Club, Arlmont Country Club, Brae Burn Country Club and the Waban Neighborhood Club.
He married Miss Adele Bergner, and they have three sons, Robert Bruce, Gordon, and Donald. The family residence is at 180 Kent Road, Waban.
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WINSLOW SEARS. a member of the banking and brokerage firm of Arnold, Sears & Co., of Boston, was born in Quincy, Mass., September 5th, 1893, and is the son of Russell A. and Jennie Crocker Sears.
He was educated at Milton Academy and at Har- vard College. During the War, Mr. Sears served in the United States Navy. He is a member of the Harvard Club. Mr. Sears married Miss Adele Towle and the family consists of one son and two daughters. The family residence is at 119 Old Orchard Road, Chestnut Hill.
STRABO VIVIAN CLAGGETT is President of the firm of Strabo V. Claggett & Co., Inc., Underwriters, Par- ticipating Distributors and dealers in Public Utility and Industrial Issues, with offices at 35 Congress Street. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo and Wash- ington, D. C.
Mr. Claggett was born at Montevideo, Minnesota. on May 26, 1892, the son of Strabo F. and Rose Phoenix Claggett. He received his education at Carleton Col- lege, Minnesota, Stanford University, California, from which he graduated with a degree of A.B. and Harvard Law School where he received the degree of LL.B.
Hle is interested in and a director of the Metropolitan Dairy Prod. Co., Int. Wire Prod. Co., Louis Philippe. Inc., Claggett Shares and El Conquistedor Hotel Co.
In 1924 and 1926 Mr. Claggett was Democratic Can- didate for State Auditor. In 1928 he was a delegate to the Democratic convention in Houston, Texas, and the same year was Massachusetts Presidential elector. He is chairman of the Finance Committee of the Dem- ocratic State Committee.
During the War he was head of the Membership Di- vision of Food Administration and later was Officer-in- Charge. Contract Division, Navy Department, at Washington, D. C.
He is a member of the Central Congregational Church, of Newtonville, Elks Lodge of Boston, No- rumbega Lodge of Masons, Newton Royal Arch Chap- ter. Gethsemane Commandery, Aleppo Shrine. Boston Square and Compass Club, University Club, Harvard Club. Boston Chamber of Commerce, and the Brae Burn Country Club.
He married Miss Nellie Charlson, and they have one son and two daughters. The family residence is at 1820 Washington Street, Auburndale.
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EDWARD HUTCHINS WOODS is a member of the firm of Hinckley & Woods, 40 Broad Street, Boston, gen- eral agents and managers for several insurance com- panies. He was born in West Newton on April 30, 1892, the son of Edward F. and Bertha H. Woods.
He is a graduate of the Newton High School and of Harvard University.
Mr. Woods is president and director of the Indiana Mines Exploration Company. He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club. Marshfield Country Club and Waban Neighborhood Club.
During the War he was with the Naval Reserves for one year.
He married Miss Margaret Harvey and they have one daughter and one son. The family residence is at 148 Moffat Road. Waban.
CHARLES I. BRINK was born in Skane, in the south- ern part of Sweden, on November 2, 1867. Jonathan Brink, his father, was of English extraction. His mother was Charlotte Sendstrom. Both died before he was ten years of age. He attended the Valand Art School in Gothenberg, and later spent a year at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, working on the interior decorations. In his early twenties he came to Boston, and took up outdoor display advertising, which was then in its beginning. Upon the development of the incandescent lamp. Mr. Brink saw the possibilities of electrical advertising. He produced many of the early mechanical and electrical displays in this part of the country. His originality won him immediate distinc- tion, and he entered the business of building and erect- ing signs throughout the country. Shortly after the in- troduction of Claude Neon Tubes in 1925, he became identified with their manufacture and has traveled ex- tensively, bringing back to New England many new and novel ideas. Notable installations in recent years include the talking Chevrolet sign on Beacon Hill. the Edison Clock on Boylston Street, and the Gillette Safety Razor sign at South Boston.
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FRANK BLAKE HOPEWELL, who resides on Waverley Avenue, Newton, was born in Cambridge, Mass., December 5, 1873, and is the son of John and Sarah Blake Hopewell. He was educated in the Cambridge High School, Chauncey Hall and the Kendall School.
Mr. Hopewell is a member of L. C. Chase & Company, selling agents for several manufacturing concerns. He is Treasurer and a Director of Sanford Mills, a Director of the Reading Rubber Manufacturing Company, the First National Bank of Boston, the Samson Electric Company and the Home Market Club.
Ile is a member of the Brae Burn, Commonwealth Country. Hunnewell, Algonquin, Boston Athletic Asssociation, University, Exchange, Boston City, Engineers and the Corinthian Yacht Club. He married Miss Helen Clark and they have one son, John Clark Hopewell.
HENRY CHASE HOPEWELL, the son of John and Sarah Blake Hopewell, was born in Cambridge, Mass., September 23, 1883. He was educated in the Cam- bridge Latin School and at Harvard University.
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