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vanced under his mastership into popular favor, and in less than three years became generally recognized as the leading insti- tution of its kind in the country.
On resigning his position to devote his time exclusively to his profession, the school board placed on record its unquali- fied appreciation of his great ability and the invaluable work he had done. In 1883 he was appointed by Governor Butler a member of the state board of education, a position for which he was eminently fitted.
Mr. Carrigan was always the champion of evening and industrial schools, compul- sory education of illiterate minors, and the teachers' tenure of office, with a pension from the State after a forty years' service. His influence on educational legislation was ever felt as a power in the advance of school reform. He believed the State to be the guardian of the popular education of her children, that they should receive their foundation training in schools super- vised by the representatives of the people.
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His best efforts were put forth for the free text-book act of 1884, the illiterate minor bill, the evening school law of 1888, and the general English high school act.
He was appointed by Governor Butler a delegate to the inter-state education con- vention in Kentucky in 1883, and was
chairman of the congressional committee of the American Institute of Instruction. He was a member of several of the lead- ing literary and musical clubs of Boston.
Mr. Carrigan was unmarried.
CARRINGTON, HENRY BEEBEE, son of Miles McCleave and Mary (Beebee) Carrington, was born at Wallingford, New Haven county, Conn., March 24, 1824, his mother still surviving, with unimpaired faculties, at the age of ninety-four. His grandfather, James Carrington, manu- facturer and inventor, was partner of Eli Whitney; and his great-grandfather, Cap- tain Jeremiah Carrington, entertained Washington at his house in 1789. His maternal grandfather and great-grandfather graduated at Yale, the latter in 1745, and took part in the old French and Indian war. The subject of this sketch graduated in 1845, giving up the West Point course because of lung troubles.
He became professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute, Tarry- town, N. Y., in 1846; was for a time amanuensis for Washington Irving, and under his advice began "The Battles of the American Revolution," which was completed in 1876, after personal sur- veys and exceptional access to European records.
While at Yale law school he was also professor of natural science at Root's New Haven Institute. He practiced law at Col- umbus, Ohio, with Perry & Carrington, then for nine years with Dennison & Car- rington, became and still is a member of the United States supreme court bar, and was attorney for the leading Ohio railroads until 1861.
He took active part in the organization of the Republican party in 1854, being chairman of the committee appointed by the state convention of July 13, 1854, to combine opposition to the extension of slavery. As the confidential friend of Salmon P. Chase, he stumped Ohio with him, in two gubernatorial campaigns, and as his adjutant-general, published a military work in 1858, and organized the militia, with direct view to the contingency of civil war. Within sixty hours after the first call, in 1861, twenty companies were started for Washington, and nine militia regiments were soon placed in West Vir- ginia. The thanks of the government were followed by his appointment as colonel of the 18th U. S. infantry, upon the recom- mendation of Generals Scott and Wool, and assignment to the organization of the regular regiments at the West. By special
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order he also aided to organize the Ohio regiments until July 1, 1861.
He served under Buell and Thomas; was assigned by General Rosecrans to the com- mand of the regular brigade; but during the Kirby Smith invasion of 1862, was, at the urgent request of Governor O. P. Mor- ton, assigned to the protection of the Ohio border, and mustering service, with head- quarters at Indianapolis. He was promoted brigadier-general November 29, 1862. Dur- ing this period he exposed the treasonable order of the "Sons of Liberty ; " received special acknowledgments from General Sherman for services in forwarding troops
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and maintaining communications with the front, and from Governor Bramlette, for aid in raising the siege of Frankfort in 1864.
In 1865 he rejoined the army of the Cumberland. At the end of the war he took command of the Rocky Mountain district, opened a wagon route to Montana, built forts on the line, in the midst of con- stant hostilities; and, on account of a severe wound, was retired from active service in 1870. He served as military professor at Wabash College, Ind., until 1879, while completing his historical works, and re- moved to Boston in 1882.
He was for some years trustee of Mari- etta College, Ohio; received literary honors
at home and abroad; the courtesies of the Athenæum and other London clubs, of the British Association of Science; the Royal Geographical, the Royal Anthropological, and other British societies. He escorted the Prince of Wales from Cincinnati to Columbus in 1859, and was of the escort of President-elect Lincoln, as far as Colum- bus, in 1861.
His published works, other than histori- cal, scientific and educational pamphlets and addresses, are, "Scourge of the Alps," (1847), "Russia among the Nations," (1849); "Crisis Thoughts," (1861); "Hints to Soldiers taking the Field," (1862); "Battles of the American Revolution " (4th thousand); "Absaraka, or Indian Opera- tions on the Plains" (6th ed.); "Ocean to Ocean ;" "The Washington Obelisk and Its Voices," (1888); " Patriotic Reader, or Human Liberty Developed," (1889). He has in preparation "Battles of the Bible," " Pre-Christine Assurances of Immortal- ity," "Patriotic Manual for Intermediate Schools," "History as a Patriotic Force," " The Rent Veil and other poems, light and grave," and "The Dream of Columbus Developed."
General Carrington first married Marga- ret Irvin, eldest daughter of Joseph Sul- livant, Columbus, Ohio, grand-daughter of Col. Joseph McDowell, Danville, Ky. Two children survive: Henry Sullivant, (Illinois Central R. R. Co.) and James Beebee, associated with "Scribner's Maga- zine." His second wife was Fannie, widow of Lieut. Geo. W. Grummond, U. S. A. (a son, Wm. Wands surviving), third daugh- ter of Robert and Eliza Jane Courtney, Franklin, Tenn. Their children are : Rob- ert Chase, Henrietta and Jane Eliza.
CARTER, CHARLES ERNEST, son of Charles H. and Maria A. (Keenan) Carter, was born June 1, 1850, at Lyndeborough, Hillsborough county, N. H.
His early education was obtained in the public schools of the city of Lawrence, Mass. He came to Lowell in 1865, and his first connection in business was in 1873, when he there started on his own account as a druggist, in which line he has continued ever since, building up a trade that has placed him among the successful merchants of the city of his adoption.
He was married in Lowell, December 4, 1872, to Julia A., daughter of William and Mary A. (Butterfield) Tyler. Their chil- dren are : Juliet B., William T., Edward E., Joseph W., Edith A. and Ruth Carter.
Mr. Carter has devoted most of his time to the prosecution of his business, and has
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not sought municipal or legislative honors. He consented, however, to serve as alder- man in 1888, and in 1889 he represented his city in the lower branch of the Legisla- ture, serving upon the standing House com- mittee on finance and the joint committee on expenditures. He is a member of the William North Lodge of Masons, and of the Mt. Horeb Commandery, K. T.
CARTER, FRANKLIN, son of Preserve Wood and Ruth Wells (Holmes) Carter, was born in Waterbury, New Haven county, Conn., September 30, 1837.
His early education was obtained in the boarding - school of Amos Smith, New Haven. His preparatory college course was passed in Phillips Academy, Andover, where he was graduated valedictorian in the class of 1855. He entered Yale Col- lege the same year, where he remained two years, but was forced to leave by a severe hemorrhage.
He traveled for three years, then entered Williams College in 1860, from which he was graduated in the class of 1862. He was appointed professor of Latin and French in 1863, and after spending eight- een months in Europe, entered upon his duties in 1865. He was appointed profes- sor of the German language and literature in Yale College in 1872, held this chair for nine years, and was elected president of Williams College, Williamstown, in 1881, which responsible and honorable position he still holds.
President Carter was married in Water- bury, Conn., February 24, 1863, to Sarah Leavenworth, daughter of Charles Deni- son, and Eliza (Leavenworth) Kingsbury. Of this union were four children : Charles Frederick (1864), Alice Ruth (1865), Ed- ward Perkins (1870), and Franklin Carter, Jr. (1878).
He was president of the Gospel Union, New Haven, three years ; is now president of the International Committee of Work for Boys ; trustee of Andover Theological Seminary ; corporate member of A. B. C. F. M. ; trustee of Clarke Institution for Deaf Mutes at Northampton ; fellow of the American Academy.
He received the degree of A. B. from Williams, 1862 ; A. M. from Dickinson, 1863, Williams, 1865, and Yale 1874; Ph. D. from Williams, 1877, and LL. D. from Union, 188[. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America 1884 to '86, and the first president of the Berkshire Congregational Club, an associa- tion of Congregationalists in Berkshire county. He has been a contributor to
various journals, and published an edition of the " Iphigenia auf Tauris," in 1879.
CARTER, HENRY, was born in Bridg- ton, Cumberland county, Me., in 1814. His mother, who belonged to the distin- guished Hamlin family of Maine, died when he was but two years, and his father, John Carter, when he was twelve years of age.
He then lived with an uncle, his guar- dian, at Bridgton, and attended the well- known academy there, with the expectation of a collegiate course. At the age of six- teen, being informed by his guardian that the small estate left by his father was exhausted, and that the idea of a college course must be abandoned, he, without asking advice of anyone, immediately set out, on foot, for the city of Portland, forty miles distant, and found employment in the office of the "Advertiser," where he remained a year. He then went to Paris Hill, where his relative, Hannibal Hamlin, was at that time publishing the " Jeffer- sonian," and worked on that paper as a printer with Mr. Hamlin and Horatio King, now of Washington City. When Mr. Hamlin sold his interest in the paper, Mr. Carter also left and began the study of law, teaching a district school in the winter, and they were both students at law in the office of J. G. Cole, on Paris Hill, about one year.
Being still desirous of obtaining a higher education, he secured, through the influ- ence of Dr. Cornelius Holland, then con- gressman for the Oxford district, an ap- pointment to the West Point Military Academy. Two years later, while at home on a furlough, an article contributed to the " Kennebec Journal " so pleased the editor of that paper that he advised Mr. Carter to resign his cadetship and engage in jour- nalism. This advice was followed, and he became, for nearly two years, a journalist at Augusta, Me., connected with the " Kennebec Journal." During these years, however, he devoted all his spare time to the study of law, and in April, 1836, was admitted to the Kennebec county bar. In June of the same year he was married to Elizabeth Jane Caldwell, of Augusta, Me., and returning to his native town, commenced the practice of his profession. In 1841 he was appointed county attorney for the county of Cumberland, by Gov- ernor Kent, and held that office until the Whigs went out of power in Maine. In 1847 he removed to Portland and took editorial charge of the " Advertiser," then the leading Whig paper in the state.
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In 1849 Mr. Carter was elected repre- sentative from Portland to the Legislature, and was re-elected to that office for three successive years. He was appointed by Governor Hubbard a commissioner to establish the reform school. Subsequently he was appointed by Governor Crosby a trustee of this institution, which office he held until his resignation on removal to Massachusetts. He was appointed judge of the municipal court of Portland, by Governor Anson P. Morrill.
In 1856 he was chosen by the Republi- can members of the Legislature a delegate- at-large to the first national Republican convention at Philadelphia, and was selected as a member of the committee on plat- form, with Francis P. Blair, Judge E. R. Hoar, of Massachusetts, and other distin- guished men.
In 1857 he removed to Bradford, Mass., intending to devote himself to the practice of his profession, but during the war, tak- ing a lively interest in public affairs, he was elected one year to the House of Repre- sentatives and two years to the Senate. In
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1876 he was a delegate to the national Republican convention at Cincinnati.
111 1868 he was appointed, by Governor Bullock, judge of the municipal court of the Haverhill district, which position he
now holds. He is also chairman of the board of commissioners on the boundary question between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Judge Carter's children by his first wife are four sons : John H., Eugene, Walter, and Robert G., and two daughters : Kate and Amelia. Two of the sons, Eugene and Robert G., are graduates from West Point. All of them served in the war of the rebellion.
He contracted a second marriage, July 28, 1882, with Mrs. Mary F. (Dwight) Webb, of Winchester, with whom he is now living.
CARTER, SOLOMON, oldest son of Solomon and Elizabeth (White) Carter, was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, January 19, 1816. He had three brothers : William H., who settled in Chicago and was chairman for many years of the board of public works of that city ; George P., a prominent citizen of Cambridge, for many years chairman of the board of wa- ter works, and a member of the executive council of the State-both now deceased ; and James C., a distinguished lawyer of New York City, now living.
His educational training was acquired in his native town, with the exception of two terms in Master Whitney's then well-known evening school in Harvard Place, opposite the Old South Church, in the city of Boston.
He served a short time as boy in a re- tail dry goods store ; afterwards an appren- tice in the drug store of Gregg & Hollis, and Thomas Hollis. He began a retail business in 1839 at the West End ; removed to Hanover Street, where he continued in the wholesale and retail business for about thirty years, under the style of Solomon Carter, Solomon Carter & Co., Carter, Wilson & Co., Carter, Colcord & Preston, and Carter, Rust & Co. He then sold out and formed a new concern on Washington, opposite School Street, under the style of Carter & Wiley ; he some time afterwards bought out Mr. Wiley and formed a new connection under the style of Carter, Har- ris & Hawley. The present style of the firm is Carter, Carter & Kilham, who occupy one of the most attractive buildings on Washington Street. He now remains the oldest dealer in active trade in the State, and from small beginnings has built up a business which has become one of the largest in the city of Boston.
Mr. Carter was a member of the city council in 1849 and '50 ; of the board of aldermen in 1857, and also served two
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years in the board of assessors ; was a member of the Legislature in 1869 and '70. He is now president of the old Mercantile Library Association, which office he has held for several years.
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He was married in Lancaster, April 10, 1845, to Abby, daughter of Levi and Abi- gail (Ballard) Lewis, of that town. Of this union were four children : Frank Edward (deceased September 22, 1881), Fred L., now associated in business with his father, Herbert L., and Clarence H. Carter.
Mr. Carter was an ardent Whig in 1840, and an equally active Republican in the election of the second Harrison in 1888. In forty years, with four exceptions, he never missed casting his vote nor distribut- ing votes at the polls on election day, whether city, state, or national. As a business man and citizen, he is known for his uniform courtesy and unquestioned in- tegrity.
CARTER, WILLIAM, son of John and Mary (Carey) Carter, was born in Alfreton, England, February 25, 1830. His educa- tion was obtained in the English common schools.
His first business in this country was the manufacture of cardigan jackets, Highlandville. He subsequently took in partners, and the concern was known by
the firm name of Lee, Carter & Co., and William Carter & Co. At present they manufacture silk and woolen goods.
Mr. Carter came to America in 1857, without means, but possessed of health, energy, and perseverance. He soon was in possession of means secured by his own thrift to manufacture for himself, or be received as partner in one of the leading industries. His efforts have been crowned with success.
He has for years been a member of the board of selectmen and of the school board. He is connected with the Metho- dist Episcopal church, and for four years past he has been superintendent of the Sunday-school.
Mr. Carter was first married in Gedling, England, December 25, 1853, to Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Horsely) Truman. The issue of this marriage now living is one child : Frank C. Carter. He was married again September 2, 1863, in Newton Centre, to Martha, daughter of Mark and Phebe (Wigley) Lee. Of this union are four children : William H., John J., Mary E., and Horace A. Carter, all liv- ing. His third marriage occurred in Brook- line, April 23, 1874, with jane G., daugh- ter of Jonathan and Eunice L. (Arnold) Avery. Their children now living are : Lucy A. and Roscoe A. Carter.
CARVILL, ALPHONSO HOLLAND, son of Sewall and Tamar (Higgins) Carvill, was born in Lewiston, Androscoggin coun- ty, Me., February 4, 1843.
Having passed through the common schools of Lewiston, he fitted for college at the Maine State Seminary (now Bates College) and the Edward Little Institute (Auburn). He entered Tufts College in 1862, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1866. In 1869 he was graduated from the Harvard medical school, and the same year received the degree of A. M. from Tufts College.
From 1869 to 1873 he practiced medi- cine and surgery in Minnesota, but returned to the East in May, 1873, and settled in Somerville, where he is still in practice.
He is a member of the American Insti- tute of Homeopathy, Massachusetts Ho- mæopathic Medical Society, Boston Ho- mœopathic Medical Society, and several medical clubs. He has always taken an active interest in temperance and educa- tional affairs, and has served on school boards twelve years.
Dr. Carvill was married in Cambridge, August 17, 1869, to Mima S., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Swanson) Gray. Of
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this union are two children : Sewall Albert and Lizzie Maud Carvill.
CATE, GEORGE NEAL, son of Moses and Abigail (Brewster) Cate, was born December 1I, 1824, at Wolfborough, Carroll county, N. H. The facilities of- fered for an early education were very slight, but at eighteen years of age, Mr. Cate had fitted himself to teach, and secured a position in Rochester, N. H., which he held for two years. At the close of the term, in the spring of 1843, he came to Boston seeking a fortune, and secured employment at Ashland (then Unionville) to learn the trade of house builder. For
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five years after completing his service, he remained in Ashland, carrying on the lumber business and house carpentering. At this period his health was so seriously affected that for three years he was obliged to abandon all labor, but in 1856 had so far recovered as to begin, in Marlborough, upon a limited scale, the lumber and con- tracting business, in which he is still en- gaged.
August 25, 1857, Mr. Cate married Charlotte A., daughter of Mark and Sophia (Brigham) Fay, of Marlborough, who died in 1860, and their only child, a son, died the following year. In August, 1869, Mr. Cate married Adelle E. Glidden of Lowell.
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Mr. Cate was a delegate to the first Free Soil convention in Worcester, in 1848, has been a director in the People's National Bank of Marlborough, and is now a direct- or in the First National Bank, and trustee of the Marlborough Savings Bank. He has been a member of the United Brethren Lodge of A. F. & A. M. for thirty years, and a charter member of the Houghton R. A. Chapter, of Marlborough, and other societies.
CATE, GEORGE W., son of Jonathan Cate, was born in Northwood, Rockingham county, N. H., March 10, 1834.
He obtained his preliminary education in the public schools of his native town, fitted for college at the Blanchard Academy, Pembroke, N. H., entered Dartmouth Col- lege, 1857, and was graduated in 1861. Farm work and a shoe-maker's trade gave him the practical side of life in early years -- his work on the bench supplying him with the funds requisite for his academic expenses. Before and after entering col- lege he employed what time he could spare from the prosecution of his studies, in teaching.
After his graduation he entered the law office of S. G. Clarke of Northwood, taught school the following winter in Portsmouth, N. H., and afterward served as assistant assessor of the United States Internal Rev- enue. In January, 1863, he entered the law office of Hon. W. W. Stickney, Exeter, N. H.
While a student in Judge Stickney's of- fice he was appointed school commissioner for Rockingham county, and re-appointed the following year. He was chosen secre- tary of the New Hampshire state board of education in 1865.
While still a law student, he taught the high school in New Market, N. H., two terms. He was admitted to practice law in the supreme court of New Hampshire, October, 1865. In 1866 he removed to Amesbury, Mass., where he opened an of- fice and engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, retaining his residence there up to datc.
On January 1, 1873, Mr. Cate was mar- ried in Amesbury, to Caroline C., daughter of David Batchelder.
For several years he was a member of the school board of Amesbury. He has served two years, 1878 and '79, in the state Senate, being elected from the 4th Essex district. He was a delegate to the national Republican convention in Chicago, 1884. In 1868 he was appointed one of the trial justices of Essex county, which office he
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held until May 1, 1888, when the second district court of Essex was established. In 1885 he was appointed by Governor Robin- son one of the commissioners to ascertain and establish the true boundary line be- tween the State of New Hampshire and
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this Commonwealth. He was appointed justice of the second district court of Essex, May 1, 1888, which position he still retains.
CHALIFOUX, JOSEPH L., son of Joseph and Odile (Daunais) Chalifoux, was born in St. Henri de Mascouche, P. Q., December 20, 1850. He comes of an ancient and honorable stock, the Chalifoux family having resided in this place for up- wards of a hundred years.
He received a common school educa- tion, followed by an attendance at Masson College, Terrebonne, P. Q. He afterward spent two years in the drug business in Montreal.
In 1868 he came to Lowell, Mass., and for six years was clerk in a clothing store. In 1874 he went into business for himself, as retail clothier, in which business he still remains.
Mr. Chalifoux was married in Lowell, August 6, 1876, to Nellie M., daughter of James and (Ellen) Gallagher. Miss Galla- gher had been principal of Mann grammar school for three years previous to date of her
marriage. Of this union are four children: Paul, Alice, Ada, and Harry Chalifoux.
Mr. Chalifoux has been a director of the Old Lowell National Bank since January, 1887. Since April, 1887, he has conducted a branch business in Manchester, N. H., of the same character as his Lowell house. He is an eminently successful business man, a leading representative of his native coun- trymen, who have proved so loyal to the institutions of their adopted home.
CHAMBERLAIN, GEORGE DANA, son of Jason and Betsey (Burnap) Chamber- lain, was born at Westborough, Worcester county, June 4, 1828.
He was educated at the Leicester Acad- emy and passed his early years on the milk farm of his father -the pioneer in the business of supplying the city of Bos- ton with milk by rail. In 1849 he went to Framingham and engaged in the beef business with his brother. Ten years later he removed his business to Brighton. For forty years the partnership of N. & G. D. Chamberlain has continued, holding a lead-
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