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Mr. Frye was married in North Andover, April 28, 1869, to H. Jennie, daughter of Benjamin F. and Hannah (Patch) Pingree. His second marriage occurred January 9, 1884, with Kate C., daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah (Moore) Field of North Andover. He has had no children.
He is a regular attendant, and has been for many years a member, of the Congregational church in North An- dover, where he resides. He is president of the Merrimack Valley Congregational Club. In politics he is a Republican, and in many campaigns has taken an active part. He is also president of the Essex Club.
FULLER, ASA M: BLAKE, son of Asa and Hepzibah (Blake) Fuller, was born in Franklin, Norfolk county, May 17, 1813.
Under great disadvantages he obtained his early education in the common district schools of those days. He is a descendant, in the sixth generation, from Thomas Fuller, who was admitted to purchase land in Ded- ham, November 25, 1642 ; also a descendant of Michael Metcalf (in the eighth genera- tion) who was admitted as a "freeman" in Dedham, July 14, 1637.
In 1841 he commenced business, repair- ing watches and clocks, and has been engaged in this and the jewelry business to the present time. In 1852 he was com- missioned justice of the peace. He was also trial justice two terms.
Mr. Fuller was married in Upton, May 25, 1847, to Nancy D., daughter of Eph- raim and Polly (Stowe) Furbush. Of this union was one child : Charles Metcalf Fuller. His wife died December 21, 1854. He was again married, January 28, 1858, to Mrs. Mary A. Ingram, daughter of Mat- thew and Elizabeth Tarleton.
Mr. Fuller held the offices of clerk, treasurer and collector in the town of Medway from 1857 to '68 inclusive ; was selectman one year, 1869. He has been one of the trustees of the Medway Savings Bank, and one of the vice-presidents since its organization. He is one of the corpo- rate members of the Third Congregational
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church in Medway, and clerk of the same body.
He has also served his town in many of the minor offices and associations, and has been an active worker in all the move- ments that have aimed at its growth and prosperity.
FULLER, HENRY WELD, the second son of Henry W. and Esther (Gould) Ful- ler, was born in Augusta, Kennebec county, Maine, January 16, 1810, and died in Bos- ton, August 14, 1889. His father was a leading lawyer and land-owner of that place, and for many years judge of pro- bate for that county. His mother was a sister of Hannah F. Gould, the poetess, and of Mrs. Rapallo, the mother of the late Judge Rapallo, of the New York court of appeals. She was a daughter of the old revolutionary soldier, Captain Ben- jamin Gould, a personal friend of General Washington and General Lincoln. Mr. Fuller was the uncle of the present Chief Justice of the United States. His own father was a lineal descendant of the late Rev. Habijah Weld, described by Dr. Dwight in his book of travels in New England.
Mr. Fuller, when about ten years of age, attended the Kennebunk Academy, and was there a school-mate of Hon. Hugh McCulloch, late treasurer of the United States. Afterwards he was a private pupil of Dr. Enoch S. Tappan of Augusta. At the age of fourteen he entered Bowdoin College and graduated in 1828-his com- mencement part being the salutatory ora- tion. Three years later he received the degree of A. M., and in 1835 he delivered the annual oration of the Athenian Society, at commencement. During a part of his college life, Henry W. Longfellow, Nathan- iel Hawthorne, Dr. Ephraim Peabody, S. S. Prentiss, John P. Hale, and others since distinguished, were among the collegians.
After leaving school he began reading law with his father, and then attended the law school at Cambridge, under Judge Story and Professor Ashmun, whose warm friendship and favor he enjoyed while they lived. Soon after leaving Cambridge he went to Florida, by advice of his physician, and spent several months in that locality greatly to his benefit.
On his return to Augusta he was admitted to the Kennebec bar and became a partner with his father. This relation continued for ten years and until his father's death. In the fall of 18441 he removed to Boston and formed a law partnership with Elias Hasket Derby, which continued for thir-
teen years, during which time Derby & Fuller were engaged in many important cases, especially as counsel for various railroad corporations.
Subsequently he was appointed clerk of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, and for eleven years filled the place most satis- factorily. Then, resigning that office, he devoted himself to other lines of activity, and acted as treasurer and trustee of sev- eral corporations and estates.
Being always fond of horticulture and rural scenery, he converted a farm which he owned in Everett, a few miles from the city of Boston, into the beautiful cemetery of "Woodlawn," which for more than five and thirty years was to him a constant object of interest and care, and which he managed as its treasurer and principal designer.
Other corporations and associations also shared his interest and influence. He was long an active member of the Massachu- setts Horticultural Society and was a vice- president thereof, and one of its executive committee. He was also a member of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and was greatly interested in the Society of Arts, and for a long time was chairman of its executive committee, having been one of the projectors and a charter member of the Institute of Technology, and one of the original trustees of that corporation. His name was also placed by Griswold among the poets of Maine.
He married, November 10, 1835, Mary Storer, daughter of Nathaniel Goddard, a prominent East India merchant of Bos- ton ; her mother, Lucretia Dana, being an adopted daughter of Colonel May, of the old "Boston tea-party," as reputed. Of this union were five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom the daugh- ters only are now living : Mary Goddard Fuller, Mrs. Henrietta Goddard Dorr, and Caroline Weld Fuller. The oldest son, Nathaniel Goddard Fuller, and his wife and five children -passengers on board the ship " Radiant," in 1876-were all lost in a cyclone. The second son, Henry Weld Fuller, graduated at Harvard College in 1859, and died in 1863, after a long ill- ness caused by a fall.
Mr. Fuller, during the course of the late war, was an active Union man. He de- voted time, money and energy to the raising of volunteers, and for months con- tinned to address the people, particularly
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in Roxbury and its neighborhood, impress- ing them with the importance and neces- sity of immediate and decided action.
Socially, Mr. Fuller was a delightful man, his sympathies were warm and ten- der, his manners refined and genial, and his conversation was full of intelligence and animation. His home life was espec- ially attractive to him, and the tributes of respect and affection which were inspired by his death, showed the deep hold which he had upon the hearts of all who were favored with his friendship.
FULLER, LORIN L., son of David C. and Maria (Lovejoy) Fuller, was born in Readfield, Kennebec county, Me., January 25, 1820.
He obtained his early education in the public schools of his native state.
He commenced a business career on his own account as carpenter, in Boston, 1843.
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He resided for a number of years in Melrose, but moved to Malden in 1860, where he has resided for twenty-nine years.
His reputation for integrity and ability in commercial circles for forty-five years, as a real-estate dealer and builder in Bos- ton, has been acknowledged by all who know him. He served his city as alder- man during the first year of the organiza-
tion of the city government, and was mayor of the city 1884 and '85.
For ten years he was a member of the water board ; has been a member of the Industrial Aid Society, from its organiza- tion to the present time, and is an active member of the Malden Improvement Asso- ciation. He was chairman of the com- mittee for the adjustment and dividing of the township property, at the time of the separation of Everett from Malden, in which his able and satisfactory negotiation gained for him the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
He now represents his ward in the higher branch of the city council. In politics he is a conservative Democrat.
Mr. Fuller was married in Sebec, Me., November 8,1852, to Lucy P., daughter of John and Lydia (Brown) Lovejoy. Of this union are four children : Henry L., M. Louise, Everett L., and L. Alma Ful- ler. Mrs. Fuller died April 11, 1886. At Malden, June 20, 1889, Mr. Fuller again married Mrs. Annie McHornsby, daughter of Thomas and Lydia Stewart.
FULLER, LUTHER F., son of Alden and Sarah (Faulkner) Fuller, was born in Acton, Middlesex county, January 3, 1827.
He received his education in the com- mon schools of Acton, Roxbury and Wor- cester.
April 8, 1844, he began commercial life as clerk in a general merchandise store at West Cambridge, with Fowle, Prescott & Proctor. In 1846 he changed to West Acton in the same line of business. Two years later he entered the employ of C. & E. Hunt, South Sudbury. In 1854 he went to Saxonville in charge of a branch store for the same house, and soon took an interest in the business, under the firm name of Hunt & Fuller. At the breaking out of the civil war his partners sold their interest to Joseph Wilde, and the firm title became Fuller & Wilde. Three years later he bought Wilde's interest and has since been sole proprietor.
August 21, 1885, Mr. Fuller was placed in charge of the Framingham Savings Bank by the savings bank commissioners. He is the present treasurer.
Mr. Fuller was married in South Sud- bury, January 3, 1855, to Henrietta M., daughter of Luther and Elizabeth Hunt. Of this union were two children (deceased, 1877). Mrs. Fuller died in 1882. Mr. Fuller's second marriage occurred March 28, 1888, with Mrs. Laura A. Holman, widow of George H. Holman, M. D., Sax- onville.
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Mr. Fuller is trustee of the Framingham Town Library, and of the Edgell Grove Cemetery ; treasurer of the Framingham Electric Company, and director of the Framingham Union Street Railway. He is on the board of management of the Framingham Home for Aged Men and Women, and also one of the deacons of the Edwards Congregational church. His residence is in Saxonville.
Mr. Fuller represented his district in the House of Representatives in 1881, serving upon the committee on mercantile affairs.
FULLER, ROBERT OLIVER, son of Oliver and Sarah (Richardson) Fuller, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, Sep- tember 12, 1829.
He was educated in the public schools. He began his commercial career in the iron business in 1855, under the firm name of Gay, Manson & Co., changed in 1857 to Robert O. Fuller, then Fuller & Dana in 1860, and in 1866 to Fuller, Dana & Fitz, which is the present title of this large and successful house.
Mr. Fuller's varied attainments have constantly been called upon by those de- sirous of obtaining the active co-operation of a man of character and social standing,
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and the few positions of public honor and trust he has consented to fill could be in- creased many-fold were not his time and energies occupied with the details of his private business.
Mr. Fuller is a trustee of Worcester Academy, Colby University, and Newton Theological Institution. He was one of the founders of the Boston Baptist Social Union, and its president in 1874 ; president of the Boston Baptist Bethel ; has been president of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and a member of the executive committee of the American Bap- tist Missionary Union. He was a member of the Cambridge common council in 1861- '62, but has uniformly declined all other city offices.
He was a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, 1871 ; in 1872-'73 a member of the state Senate, and in 1889 a member of the executive council of Governor Ames, from Cambridge, where he now resides.
Mr. Fuller was married in Cavendish, Vt., May 31, 1855, to Sarah P., daughter of Joseph and Emma (Baldwin) Parker. Of this union were seven children : Mary F., Robert O., Alfred C., Grace, Annie, Charles Sumner and Helen Fuller.
GALLAGHER, WILLIAM, son of Wil- liam and Emily (Collins) Gallagher, was born in Boston, June 6, 1849.
He received his early educational train- ing in the Hawes and Bigelow grammar schools and the public Latin school. Having prepared for college, he entered Harvard in 1865 and was graduated in the class of 1869. He subsequently pursued his studies in the Chicago Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1874.
He was engaged in teaching in Philadel- phia from 1869 to '71 ; was called to preach in Illinois in 1874, where he remained until 1877 ; was master in the Boston Latin school, 1877 to '85 ; master in the girls' Latin school, Boston, 1885 to '86, and was then elected principal of Williston Sem- inary, Easthampton, where he still remains. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Amherst in 1889.
Mr. Gallagher was married in Chicago, Ill., October 21, 1874, to Frances Harriet, daughter of Carleton Graves and Harriet (Pettibone) McCulloch. Of this union are five children : Oscar Charles, Isabel C'arle-
ton, Agnes Ella, William Withington, and Rollin McCulloch Gallagher.
GALLISON, JEFFERSON CUSHING, son of John M. and Sarah A. Gallison, was born in Sebec, Piscataquis county, Maine, August 8, 1841.
His education was received in 'the com- mon schools of his native place, Wood- stock high school, and Oxford Normal Institute. He was three years private pupil of Dr. J. H. Kimball, late surgeon of the 14th regiment Maine volunteers, Bridg- ton, Maine. He attended lectures a por- tion of two terms at Harvard medical school, was graduated from Boston Uni- versity, class of '75, and from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston, 1888.
He was a year in the office of the " Nor- way Advertiser," and served an apprentice- ship as apothecary in Norway, Maine, pre- vious to his beginning his professional studies with Dr. Kimball.
He first located in Medway, Mass., 1875, where he remained three years ; removed to Brookline, 1878, thence to Franklin, where he has since resided.
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Dr. Gallison was married in Portland, Me., January 2, 1864, to Ellen S., daughter of Isaiah M. and Abigail S. Burnell. They have one child, Annie Louise Gallison, born October 28, 1871.
Dr. Gallison has been a member of the town committee five years, was president of the Alumni Association of Boston Uni- versity. one year, instructor in surgery in the same university three years, president of the Phi Sigma Society, College of Physicians and Surgeons, one year, and is now demonstrator of anatomy and in- structor in surgery in the latter college. He is surgeon to the New York & New
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England Railroad, is a director of the Franklin National and the Benjamin Franklin Savings banks, and also of the Milford, Franklin & Providence Railroad.
Dr. Gallison has successfully surmounted all the difficulties incident to a lack of means during his preparatory course, and by his own unaided efforts has worked his way up to an honorable position in profes- sional life.
GALVIN, OWEN A., son of Patrick and Mary (Hughes) Galvin, was born in Boston, June 21, 1852.
After attending the public schools of Boston, he studied law in the Boston Uni- versity, and in the office of C. F. Donnelly.
He was admitted to the bar February 29, 1876, and began the practice of the law in Boston in 1881.
Mr. Galvin was married at Boston, July 3, 1879, to Jennie T., daughter of Timothy K. and Ellen (O'Driscoll) Sullivan. Their children are : Stephen P., Augustus H., and Frederick S. Galvin.
He was a member of the Democratic city committee in 1879, '80, '81 and '82 - serving as vice-president the two latter years. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1881, serving upon the committees on education and constitutional amendments. In 1882, '83, and '84 he was elected to the Senate, and received the entire vote of the Democratic members for president of that body. He served upon the important committees of the liquor law, labor, education, judiciary, and elec- tion laws. He also served upon a special committee to visit penal and charitable institutions, and on the report of this com- mittee, the reformatory prison at Concord and the homeopathic hospital for the in- sane were established.
He was appointed assistant United States district attorney by Hon. George M. Stearns, in July, 1886, and upon Mr. Stearns's resignation in September, 1887, was appointed United States attorney, the appointment, made during recess, being afterwards confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Galvin has conducted the affairs of his office with marked ability and success.
GAMWELL, HARLOW, son of Morgan and Julia (Spring) Gamwell, was born in Washington, Berkshire county, October 30, 1833.
He received his early educational train- ing in the public schools and Hinsdale Academy. He chose the medical profes- sion, and after a course of preparatory study he entered the Berkshire Medical College, and was graduated therefrom in the class of 1858.
In 1859 he began practice in Lee ; re- moved to Huntington in 1860 ; was made assistant-surgeon of the 2d Massachusetts cavalry, 1863 ; promoted to surgeon of the 5th Massachusetts cavalry, May, 1864; removed to Westfield in 1873, where he is still in eminently successful practice of medicine and surgery.
Dr. Gamwell was married in Hunting- ton, November 24, 1859, to Alice, daugh- ter of Gilbert and Caroline (Kelsoe) Lewis. Of this union were two children: Ida Alice (deceased) and Alice Lewis Gam- well. His second marriage was with Sarah A., daughter of Thaddeus K. De Wolfe,
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M. D., of Chester, and Correlia (Benham) De Wolfe. Of this union were three chil- dren, two of whom are living : Correlia De Wolfe and Grace De Wolfe Gamwell.
While Dr. Gamwell's advantages for carly educational training were somewhat limited, he made good use of what was within reach, and has been through life a willing and industrious student, and a prac- tical worker in medical and surgical re- search, until he has attained to eminence in his profession.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society ; has been president of the Hampden Medical Society two years ; was pension examiner during President Cleveland's administration ; is medical director of the Bay State Beneficiary Asso- ciation, at Westfield ; member of the school board, serving the second term of three years.
The grandfather of Dr. Gamwell came from northern Ireland a few years previ- ous to the war of the revolution ; entered the army and served through the war ; was one of the sturdy settlers of New England ; and was the father of sixteen children, several of whom are living. Dr. Gamwell is one of a family of nine, of whom all but two are living.
GANNETT, GEORGE, son of Luther and Olive (Washburn) Gannett, was born in East Bridgewater, Plymouth county, October 29, 1819.
He prepared for college at Belfast, Me., to which place his parents had removed in 1820. He graduated at Bowdoin Col- lege in 1842, and later received the degree of A. M. from his alma mater, and was also elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.
Immediately after leaving college, he became principal of Strafford Academy, Strafford, N. H., and continued in his work here for two years. On leaving, he re- ceived the highest testimonials from the trustees, in view of his eminently success- ful administration, having secured the es- teem and affection of the students of both sexes.
Three years later, in 1847, he graduated at the theological seminary, Bangor, Me. Soon after, he was settled over the Congre- gational church at Boothbay Harbor, Me., where he remained three years, enjoying a pastorate full of comfort and delights. On account of serious ill health, however, he was compelled to resign, much to the re- gret of the people with whom he had la- bored, and by whom he was so well be- loved.
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In 1850 he opened a private school for young ladies in West Cambridge -now Arlington. In 1857 he removed to Boston, and in the course of a year established a similar school, which has been conducted and become widely known under the name of Gannett Institute. A pioneer in the cause of higher education, it entered upon collegiate work before any of the colleges for women were opened. Dr.
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Gannett has had under his tuition sev- eral thousand who have been educated wholly or in part by him ; and the school still maintains its high rank, and is re- ceiving patronage from all parts of the country.
In 1871 he made an extended European tour for the purpose of visiting the great art centres of the continent, having been one of the earliest of New England educa- tors to introduce into the curriculum the study of history, literature and philosophy of art. Dr. Gannett's deep interest in this subject is evinced by the fact that his choice library of several thousand volumes includes a large and rare collection of val- uable art books.
In 1864 he was chosen one of the exam- ining committee at Harvard College, and discharged the duties of this office for seven years.
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In 1887 he received the degree of D. D. from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. During all these years Dr. Gannett has been a constant and earnest student in many lines ; has been the author of a con- siderable number of educational and other articles for papers and magazines, besides essays and lectures on literature, art, phil- osophy, etc.
In 1847 Dr. Gannett married Mary Jane Shaw of Wolfborough, N. H., who died in 1876. In 1877 he married Georgiana, daughter of Shubael P. and Hannah A. Butterworth, of Warren, Mass.
GARDNER, CHARLES L., son of Elisha and Elvira (Sprague) Gardner, was born in Cummington, Hampshire county, May 27, 1839.
His early education was received in the public schools and at the academy in Ash- field. He chose the profession of law, studied with the late Judge S. T. Spauld- ing at Northampton, and having been admitted to the bar, began practice with the late James G. Allen at Palmer, in 1867, under the firm name of Allen & Gardner. He remained with Mr. Allen until 1870, when the firm was dissolved, and he has since practiced alone in Palmer, his present residence.
Mr. Gardner was married May 19, 1869, to Esther E. Gilmore of Monson, daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Charlotte A. Gilmore, and has two children : Charles Gilmore and Edwin Sprague Gardner.
Mr. Gardner was at one time assistant internal revenue assessor ; in 1875 and '76 he was a representative to the General Court ; a state Senator in 1878 and '79, serving on the judiciary committee each year ; a member of the Republican state central committee two years, serving on the executive committee ; and is at present a member of the board of trustees of the state primary and reform schools. He is president of the Palmer Savings Bank, which position he has held for several years.
GARDNER, HENRY JOSEPH, son of Henry and Clarissa (Holbrook) Gardner, was born in Boston, June 14, 1819. His father was born in the Old Province House, Boston, and his mother was a native of Milton.
Mr. Gardner's early educational training was received in private schools, Boston, and in Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., he having been graduated from the latter institution in 1831. He was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., in the class of 1838.
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He began his commercial life as a dry- goods merchant in the firm of Denny, Rice & Gardner, remaining in this business for many years; afterwards changing to Read, Gardner & Co., Gardner, Dexter & Co., and Henry J. Gardner & Co. He retired from the dry-goods business in 1876, and is now actively engaged in the life-insurance business as resident agent in Boston of the Massachusetts Life Insurance Company.
He was a member of the Boston com- mon council, 1850, '51, '52 and '53, and in '52 and '53 was president of that body. He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives, 1851 and '52, and mem- ber of the Constitutional Convention of 1853.
He was governor of the Commonwealth in 1855, '56 and '57, being elected as the representative of the American party.
In Boston, November 2, 1844, Mr. Gard- ner was married to Helen E., daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Wood) Cobb, of Portland, Me. Elizabeth Wood was a native of Wiscasset, Me. Of this union were seven children : Henry G., Frederic W., Herbert, Helen C., Elizabeth, Clifford and Maud Gardner.
Mr. Gardner received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard University.
During his administration as chief magis- trate of the Commonwealth, much healthy and long needed legislation was accom- plished, and many laws enacted which time and experience prove were founded on right and reason, and which remain on the statute-books to-day - notably the home- stead act, the alien pauper act, an act to regulate the appropriation of school money, an act regulating the membership of the General Court, and acts relating to the curtailment of the powers of the governor, reform in special election laws, and the "reading and writing" clause in the naturalization laws.
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