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On May 19, 1858, at Charlestown, Mr. Gilmore was married to Sarah D., daughter of Robert and Susan (Dearborn) Todd. Their children are : Robert H., James M., S. Helen, Frank L. and Bessie A. T. Gil- more.
Previous to taking up his residence in the city of Cambridge, where he now re- sides, Mr. Gilmore lived for ten years in the adjoining town of Medford, where he held the offices of selectman, overseer of the poor, highway surveyor, assessor of taxes, and member of the board of health. During the war of the rebellion he was an active war Democrat. On his removal to Cambridge he at once became prominent and active in the many institutions and in- dustries which have made that city con- spicuous for intelligence and good govern- ment.
Mr. Gilmore has served his fellow-citi- zens most acceptably in the common council and in the board of aldermen, and in 1884 was elected to the state Senate, to repre- sent the 3d Middlesex district, serving upon the committees of mercantile affairs and the state-house, and was chairman of the committee for expediting the business of the session. In 1885 he re- ceived the unanimous nomination of the Democratic party for lieutenant-governor, Hon. F. O. Prince being at the head of the ticket.
Although formerly an advocate of the high- license system, his voice and vote have been given to the advancement of the cause of "no license" for the past three years, and in 1888 he was placed in nomination as a candidate for mayor of the
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city, as one most worthy to be made the head of the government he had previously served so well. His selection was endorsed by his fellow-citizens at the polls, and Mr. Gilmore has, in his treatment of the im- portant questions of the day, amply justi- fied their verdict.
GLEASON, CHARLES A., son of El- bridge and Emeline (Ranger) Gleason, was born on the 7th of February, 1846, at New Braintree, Worcester county.
He was educated in the common schools of New Braintree, and later studied in the Westfield Academy. He has always lived upon the farm on which he was born, which at present he owns and conducts.
On the 17th of November, 1875, at Hardwick, Mr. Gleason was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Joel D. and Melinda H. (Winter) Mandell.
For several years he has been superin- tendent of the Congregational Sabbath- school. He is also justice of the peace, president of the Worcester West Agricul- tural Society, and for eighteen years has been upon the school committee ; for sev- eral years he was town treasurer and select- man ; for fourteen years town collector. In 1873 he was elected as representative to the General Court, and was sent to the Senate in 1886, '87 and '88. He is a trustee of the Amherst Agricultural College, and for many years has been a member of the Congregational parish committee, and par- ish treasurer.
He is a man whose influence is widely felt in his community, and who, without ostentation, has won for himself an enviable name in the state.
GLEASON, DANIEL ANGELL, son of John Fiske and Maria (Tourtelotte) Glea- son, was born in Worcester, May 9, 1836.
The public schools of Worcester gave him the preliminary training enabling him to enter Harvard University at the age of sixteen. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1856.
After graduation he taught for three years in a private school in Meadville, Pa. During this period he also studied law and was admitted to the bar in Craw- ford county, Pa. Returning East, he re- ceived the degree of LI. B. from Har- vard in 1860. At this time he assisted Prof. Washburn in the preparation of his work on "Easements," and later edited " Bouvier's Law Dictionary," and an edition of " Bouvier's Institutes," and assisted Mr. Phillips in that author's last edition of his work on insurance.
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He was admitted a member of the Suf- folk bar in 1861, and commenced the prac- tice of law in the city of Boston. He was law clerk to Attorney-General Dwight Foster from 1862 to '64. He served as deputy tax commissioner from 1864 to '81, and as commissioner of corporations from 1870 to '81. In 1881 he was elected on the general state ticket to the office of treasurer and receiver-general of the Com- monwealth, serving the full constitutional term of five years, till 1886. In March, 1887, he was appointed treasurer of the Fitchburg Railroad Company, which posi- tion he now holds.
Mr. Gleason was married in Roxbury, on January 7, 1863, to Annie L., daughter of Richard and Mary A. (Henry) Hall. He has five children : Hall, Sidney, Eliza- beth, Annie and Charles Bemis Gleason.
Mr. Gleason has been exceptionally for- tunate in early securing and long maintain- ing the confidence of his fellow-citizens of Medford, where he has for many years resided. He served on the school com- mittee from 1864 to '85, and the high standing of the public schools in that place is in no small degree attributable to his care and supervision, he serving as chair- man for eighteen consecutive years, from 1867 to '85. He was largely instrumental in the introduction of water into the town, and has served uninterruptedly upon the board of water commissioners since their incorporation in 1869.
Mr. Gleason has always been a prom- inent and influential leader in town affairs. possessing unrivaled gifts of persuasive eloquence and convincing logic. He is courteous in debate, fertile in resource, and a powerful supporter of any cause to which he may give his sanction.
GLEASON, JUBAL CONVERSE, son of Andrew and Celia (Harwood) Gleason, was born in Hubbardston, Worcester county, November 9, 1837.
He received his early educational train- ing in the public schools and New Salem Academy. He entered Amherst College in 1859, and was graduated therefrom in the year 1863, in the first sixth of his class. He was graduated from the Harvard med- ical school, 1867. He practiced medicine in Gilbertville, (Hardwick) three years, when he removed to Rockland, where he has since resided in the active practice of his profession.
Dr. Gleason was married in North Abington, July 31, 1867, to Mrs. Anna Pierce Sayles, daughter of the late Rev. Willard Pierce. Of this union were two
children : Everett Harwood (deceased), and Emma Willard Gleason.
Dr. Gleason was a member of the Hard- wick school board one year, of the Rock- land school board continuously since the incorporation of the town, 1874. He was chairman of the Rockland board of health three years, and has been medical ex- aminer of the 2d Plymouth district since 1877.
He served as representative to the Gen- eral Court 1870 and '86, and in the state Senate 1887, '88, and '89. He is a mem- ber and councilor of the Massachusetts Medical Society, member of the Massa- chusetts Medico-Legal Society, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Amherst College, and is also connected with the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F.
Dr. Gleason has made himself a reputa- tion as a public speaker, not only in the Senate, but on the platform. He has con- tributed some valuable professional papers to the various medical societies.
GLINES, EDWARD, son of Jacob T. and Sarah A. (Washburn) Glines, was born in Somerville, Middlesex county, August 31, 1849.
He obtained his education in the public schools, graduating from the high school in 1869. He began to learn business as clerk in a general spice and coffee store, and was with his father in the same busi- ness until his father's retirement, which brought the son to the head of the oldest firm in its line in Boston. He is still carry- ing on the importation, manufacture and sale of spices and coffee.
Mr. Glines was married in Boston, March 5, 1872, to Frances C., daughter of Ziba P. and Nancy L. (Henderson) Hanks, of Augusta, Me. They have no children.
Mr. Glines was an officer and member of the Somerville fire department ten years ; is a member of the Central, Webcowitt and Winter Hill clubs of Somerville, the Cen- tral, Middlesex, New England and Cereal clubs of Boston. He is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Glines has held office in the I. O. O. F. and K. of H .; is a Mason, Knight Tem- plar degree ; has served in the militia as a private ; has been president of the Repub- lican city committee ; member of the Re- publican state central committee ; presi- dent of the Somerville common council ; overseer of the poor; member of the House of Representatives two years, 1882 and '83 ; and was a member of the state Senate in 1887 and '88, serving as a mem- ber of the committees on street railways,
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expediting business, labor, and public health, and as chairman of the railroad committee and the committees on federal relations and roads and bridges.
He was largely influential in the adoption by the Legislature of the important public improvement known as the widening and extension of Beacon Street, giving to the city of Boston one of its most elegant boulevards.
As chairman of the railroad committee, he reported and successfully advocated the passage of two very important measures affecting the railroad and mercantile inter- ests of the State- the consolidation of the
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Old Colony and the Boston & Providence railroads, and the uniting of the larger and more important rival lines, the Boston & Maine and the Eastern railroads.
Mr. Glines enjoys the remarkable and unprecedented legislative record of never losing a bill which was reported by either of three committees of which he was chair- man.
He has been connected with various literary and religious associations, his church relations being with the Universalists.
GODFREY, NATHAN, son of Otis Smith and Susan Elizabeth (Sauveuer) Godfrey, was born in Cherryfield, Wash- ington county, Me., August 19, 1859.
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Removing to Massachusetts while quite young, he received the greater portion of his educational training in the public schools of Milton, and was graduated from the Milton high school.
He first sought his fortune at sheep- raising, in Smith River Valley, Montana Territory, in 1877 to '80. In 1881 he en- gaged in the lumber business. In 1884 he added the coal trade, and these two have been his occupation up to the present time.
Mr. Godfrey was married in Milton, December 25, 1880, to Georgiana M., daughter of Josiah F. and Susan Anna Twombley. They have two children : Otis S. and Florence L. Godfrey.
Mr. Godfrey was president of the High School Association in 1888 ; member of the Republican town committee for the last six years ; member of the present board of health, and member of the board of fire engineers.
Mr. Godfrey is a lineal descendant on the maternal side of Surgeon Alline, or Allen, one of the "Boston Tea Party." The Sauvener and Twombley families are of English and Irish descent, and on the paternal side are connected also with the ancestors of Robert G. Shaw.
GOOCH, DANIEL W., son of John and Olive (Winn) Gooch, was born in Wells, York county, Me., January 8, 1820.
He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1843. He studied law in South Berwick and Port- land, Me., and also in Boston, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1846.
He practiced law in Boston, and was a member of the House in the state Legis- lature in 1852, and the state Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was elected to Congress, and served in the 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th Congresses, and, resigning from the 39th Congress, to which he was also elected, was appointed naval officer at the port of Boston, which position he held for one year, after which he returned to the practice of the law, in which he was engaged until the 43d Congress, when he was again elected to that body.
In 1875 he was appointed pension agent in Boston, which position he held until 1886, after which he again returned to the practice of the law. During the existence of the joint congressional committee on the conduct of the war, he was its chairman on the part of the House.
Among his speeches in Congress that were issued in pamphlet form are the fol- lowing : " The Lecompton Constitution
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and the Admission of Kansas into the Union " (March 29, 1858) ; "Polygamy in Utah " (April 4, 1860) ; "The Supreme Court and Dred Scott" (May 3, 1860) ; "Organization of the Territories" (May 11, 1860); "Any Compromise a Surrender '
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(February 23, 1861) ; "Recognition of Hayti and Liberia " ( June 2, 1862); "Se- cession and Reconstruction" (May 3, 1864).
Mr. Gooch married Hannah H., daugh- ter of John S. and Theodosia L. Pope, of Wells, Maine, and his only living child is William W. Gooch, born September 8, 1857.
GOODALE, WARREN, son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Fales) Goodale, was born September 8, 1861, at West Boylston, Wor- cester county.
He attended the district schools in his native town, also the grammar and high schools, receiving a thorough course of academic training in the Worcester Acad- emy. He is a graduate of Eastman National Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
He afterwards worked one year for W. R. Walker, in West Boylston, in a general country store. Later he worked for J. W. Howe & Co., Clinton, three years ; then went to Hudson in company with Solon Wood, under the firm name of Solon Wood & Co., and remained there one year, after
which he returned to Clinton, and has since been in company with J. W. Howe, under the firm name of Howe & Goodale, carrying on an extensive furniture and grocery business.
Mr. Goodale was married in Clinton, September 21, 1887, to Annie Carroll, daughter of William N. and Mary Ann (Dickinson) Peirce.
He is a member of the board of select- men, elected in 1889 for three years.
GOODELL, JOHN H., son of Hosea B. and Harriet (Fiske) Goodell, was born in Southbridge, Worcester county, Septem- ber 15, 1851.
His education was received in the com- mon schools of Southbridge and North Brookfield, he having moved to the latter town in 1862.
He opened a retail provision market in East Brookfield, February, 1874. Having sold out the business in 1875, he returned to North Brookfield and went into business in the same line. In November, 1880, he disposed of his interests, and in April, 1882, went to South Framingham. Here he bought a large market business which he still owns.
Mr. Goodell was married in North Brook- field, May 1, 1873, to Emma F., daughter of John and Mary (Griffith) Carleton. Of this union are three children : Juva H, Florence C. and Robert H. Goodell.
Mr. Goodell is active in all matters of public interest, and prominent in the mu- nicipal affairs of Framingham. It was owing much to his perseverance that the town secured the right and adopted the system of "intermittent downward filtra- tion sewage," improved fire-alarm, street fountains, etc. He was overseer of the poor, 1885, '86 and '87, and selectman, '86, '87, '88 and '89. He was vice-president of the Citizens' Association, now merged in the Commercial Club, and is a director of South Framingham Co-operative Bank.
GOODNOW, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, was born at Princeton, Worcester county, on the 16th of July, 1810. He was the third son of Edward and Rebecca (Beaman) Goodnow. The house in which he was born was built by his grandfather, Edward Goodnow, in 1786, and during his boyhood was occupied by his father as a tavern. His early training was in this tavern, on the farm, somewhat in the district school, and somewhat less in Hadley Academy, where, indeed, he spent only three terms. At the age of nineteen he went to work for wages in the store of his older brother in
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Princeton ; then went into partnership with him ; then engaged in the manufac- ture of shoes for himself. In 1847 he sold out his Princeton business and left the town. In the period of prospecting which followed, he had charge for a year of the store connected with the large cutlery es- tablishment of Lamson, Goodnow & Co., at Shelburne Falls. But neither this nor a manufacturing prospect in central New York offered him the chance he sought. In the end he came back to Worcester, there bought out a small shoe dealer, and with a capital of about $7,000 began a retail and jobbing business. At the end of four years he sold the retail branch and opened the first exclusive jobbing house of any kind then in Worcester. For the first year the business amounted to $130,000 ; in the tenth year it was about $400,000.
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In the midst of a prosperous business the civil war broke out. Being wholly in sympathy with the cause of the Union, Mr. Goodnow patriotically gave the govern- ment his hearty and efficient support. He assisted many of his clerks to enlist for the war; headed a subscription for Gov. Andrew's colored regiment with $500 ; subscribed liberally for govern- ment bonds, and showed his confidence in its stability by his forwardness in estab-
lishing the first bank in Worcester under the national banking law. Of this bank he became the president after retiring from the shoe business at the close of the war, and this office he still holds.
Of his honorably accumulated wealth he has been a faithful steward. Churches, missionary societies, schools and colleges in many and widely separated places have largely shared in his gifts. Much the larger part of his giving has been for edu- cational uses. Scholarships for needy and worthy girls have been founded by him at Mt. Holyoke, Northfield, Wellesley, Wel- lington, South Africa, Iowa College, and Hampton, Virginia. To Iowa College he gave $15,500 for the erection of a library and observatory, and a cottage for girls ; to Huguenot Seminary in South Africa, $15,000 for a building and its furnishing ; to Washburn College, Kansas, $5,000 for a John Brown professorship ; to the Young Women's Christian Association of Worces- ter $5,000 ; and to his native town about $40,000 to found and endow a free library and grammar school, and to aid in erecting a new town hall. These are but parts of his public benefactions. The whole amount would probably exceed $200,000.
Mr. Goodnow has never been an office holder, nor an office seeker. One exception occurred in 1867, when Governor Andrew appointed him a trustee of the Westborough Reform School. This office, through a re- appointment by Governor Bullock, he held seven years.
Mr. Goodnow was married in early life to Harriet, daughter of Dr. Henry Bagg, of Princeton, and subsequently, upon her decease, to her sister, Mary Augusta. After the death of the latter he was married to Catherine Bowman, eldest daughter of Seth Caldwell, of Barre. He was the father of but one child, who died many years ago.
GOODRICH, CHARLES ARTEMAS, son of Artemas and Lydia ( Ramsdell) Goodrich, was born in Lunenburg, Wor- cester county, November 5, 1824.
He was educated in the common schools until the age of fifteen, when he entered the Lunenburg Academy, under the tuition of the Hon. John R. Rollins. When seven- teen years of age he began teaching school, to which occupation he gave his attention for ninety-two terms in the common and high schools.
In 1850 he bought a farm in his native place, which he has since been conducting in connection with land surveying, civil engineering, conveyancing, etc.
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On the roth of December, 1850, Mr. Goodrich was married at Lunenburg, to Martha A. W., daughter of Samuel H. and Mary (Hart) Bailey. She died on the 12th of December, 1884, leaving two children : Charles Edwin and Adie Elizabeth. On the 18th of June, 1887, Mr. Goodrich was again married, to Mrs. Josephine M. Col- burn of Ayer.
For fifteen years Mr. Goodrich has been superintendent of the Lunenburg Unitarian
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Sunday-school, and for thirty-five years upon the school committee, most of the time as its chairman. For nearly a quarter of a century he has been upon the board of selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the poor, and for many years justice of the peace and notary public. His valuable and honorable service has been largely in demand as administrator and executor of many estates, and guardian of several wards.
Mr. Goodrich is in one other respect a notable product of Massachusetts soil, being an unusually large man, measuring six feet five and a half inches in height.
GOODWIN, WILLIAM WATSON, son of Hersey Bradford and Lucretia Ann (Watson) Goodwin, was born in Concord, Middlesex county, May 9, 1831. He grad- uated at Harvard in 1851, and afterwards
studied at Göttingen, Bonn, and Berlin. He was a tutor in Harvard College from 1856 till '60, and since 1860 he has been Eliot professor of Greek literature.
He was the first dircctor of the Ameri- can school of classical studies at Athens, Greece, in 1882-'83, and was president of the American Philological Association in 1872 and again in 1885.
Professor Goodwin is a member of the Imperial Archaeological Institute of Ger- many, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and is a knight of the Greek order of the Saviour. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Göttingen in 1855, and that of LL. D. from Amherst College in 1881, from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1883, and again from Columbia College, N. Y., in 1887.
He has been a contributor to various literary and philological journals and to the transactions of societies in the United States and England. He has been the chief editor of the "Papers of the Amer- ican School of Classical Studies at Athens," volumes i .- iv., published in Boston in 1885 and '88.
His works include " Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb" (Cam- bridge, 1860 ; revised edition, 1865 -- Lon- don, 1873); " Elementary Greek Gram- mar" (Boston, 1870-enlarged edition, Bos- ton and London, 1879); "Greek Reader," with Rev. Joseph H. Allen (Boston, 1871); and an edition of Xenophon's " Anabasis," books i .- iv., with Professor John W. White (Boston and London, 1877). He also revised the old translation of " Plu- tarch's Morals by Several Hands," i .- iv. (Boston, 1870).
Professor Goodwin was married in New York, February 3, 1864, to Emily Haven, daughter of Horace Howard and Mary Prudence (Haven) Jenks, who died in 1874, leaving one son : Charles Haven Goodwin, born in 1866. He was again married, in 1882, to Ellen Adelaide Chand- ler, of Jamaica Plain.
GORDON, ADONIRAM JUDSON, son of John Calvin and Sally (Robinson) Gordon, was born in New Hampton, Belknap coun- ty, N. H., April 19, 1836.
He received his early education in the common school of his native town, and sub- sequently entered the preparatory school at New London, N. H., with the distinct object of fitting himself for a gospel min- istry, thence going to Brown University, Providence, R. I. He was graduated at
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Brown in 1860, and at the Newton Theo- logical Institution in 1863. Before the completion of his course at the latter place, he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church, Jamaica Plain, his ordination taking place June 25, 1863, and until the year 1869, Dr. Gordon continued his work in the same church. At the close of his labors at Jamaica Plain, he received a call from the Clarendon Street Baptist church of Boston, of which he is still pastor.
Dr. Gordon was married at Providence, R. I., October 13, 1863, to Maria T., daugh- ter of Isaac and Harriet (Johnson) Hale.
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They have six children : Harriet Hale, Ernest B., Elsie, Arthur H., Helen M., and Theodora F. Gordon.
Under Dr. Gordon's pastorate, the Clar- endon Street church has been especially noted for the large and important temper- ance and evangelistic work it has carried on. He was mainly instrumental in the formation of the institution known as the Boston Industrial Home, which has been very successful in helping young men towards sobriety and self-support.
Dr. Gordon is well known as an author, and among his publications may be found "In Christ " (1872); "Grace and Glory " (Boston, 1880); followed by "Congrega-
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tional Worship," also the "Ministry of Healing " (1882), and "Two-Fold Life" (1884). He was one of the compilers of the hymn-book known as the "Service of Song." He is a trustee of Brown Uni- versity, from which he received the de- gree of D. D. in 1877.
GORDON, GEORGE ANGIER, son of George and Catharine (Hutchins) Gordon, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Jan- uary 2, 1853, and was educated in the com- mon schools of Scotland.
When eighteen years of age he came to this country, and for two years worked at various occupations, during which time he made the acquaintance of the Rev. L. H. Angier-then settled in South Boston-who, with his wife, encouraged Mr. Gordon to continue his studies. He afterwards be- came a member of their family, and under their influence, in 1874, entered the Bangor Theological Seminary, graduating in 1877. He preached for a year after being or- dained, then entered Harvard College as a special student, joining the class of 1881 in its senior year,and graduated with that class.
For three years subsequent to his graduation he was settled as clergyman in Greenwich, Conn., and in 1884 became pastor of the Old South church in Boston, which position he occupies at the present time. He is also one of the preachers of Harvard University.
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