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He is a man of advanced ideas and broad theological views. These views tended to create some question, and aroused certain opposition at the time of his settle- ment in Boston ; but his earnestness, ability, and determination won for him many friends who have been his firm sup- porters, and who have aided him materially in the success with which he has met since his settlement as pastor of the famous Old South church.
GOSS, ELBRIDGE HENRY, son of Hen- ry and Betsey (Kendall) Goss, was born in Boston, December 22, 1830. From the age of six to twelve years he lived in Dum- merston, Vt., where he attended the district schools. He then returned to Boston, completing his education in the Adams school and the English high school.
He began the labors of life early in the tailoring house of Kimball & Fisk ; for a year was cashier in Chandler & Co.'s dry goods house ; and then for five years clerk in W. F. Shaw's gas-fixture and lamp store. For thirty years he was book-keeper for the leather house of A. L. White & Co. and their successors.
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He is now treasurer of the Melrose Sav- ings Bank, a position he has held for four- teen years, and is also the Boston treasurer of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, of Kansas. He has been several years auditor of the town of Melrose - which became his residence in 1856 -- and trustee of the public library since its organization in 1871. He is now chairman of the board.
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He was representative in the Legislature in 1874 and '75. In religious matters he is known as an active worker, and holds many offices and trusts in religious and philanthropic societies and social clubs. He is a member of the New England His- toric Genealogical and Bostonian societies, the American Historical Association, treas- urer of the Prince Society, and correspond- ing member of the Rhode Island and Wisconsin Historical societies.
Besides attending to his many duties, he has also been engaged in literary matters - writing the Melrose Memorial, the Annals of Melrose during the great re- bellion of 1861-'65, and the life of Paul Revere, together with contributions to mag- azines and newspapers, some of which were published under the nom de plume " Elhe- gos." July 4, 1876, he delivered the cen- tennial historical address for Melrose.
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On the 22d of December, 1853, Mr. Goss was married in Boston, to Jennie H., daughter of Martin and Prudence (Rich- ardson) Baker. Their children are : Frank Martin and Mary Alice Goss.
GOSS, FRANKLIN B., son of William Whittemore and Hannah Goss, was born in Brewster, Barnstable county, July 17, 1831.
He was put out on a farm in Dennis at nine years of age, and at fourteen entered the " Barnstable Patriot " office as an ap- prentice in the printing business. He had the advantage of the public schools a por- tion of each year previous to that time.
In 1851 he started a newspaper called the "Cape Cod Advocate," printed at Barnstable and Sandwich, in company with Benjamin C. Bowman. In 1869 he became joint proprietor with George H. Richards, of the "Barnstable Patriot ;" in 1871 its sole proprietor, and was editor and man- ager from his first joint ownership, 1869.
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He was appointed collector of customs for the district of Barnstable, July 8, 1876, by President Grant, and continued in office until August 8, 1887, when he was removed by President Cleveland.
He established the " Provincetown Ad- - vocate," in 1869 ; the " Harwich Independ- ent" and "Chatham Monitor," in 1883,
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and the "Cape Cod Bee," in 1880-all now flourishing local papers.
Mr. Goss was married in Barnstable, January 20, 1852, to Mary Gorham, daugh- ter of Capt. Joseph and Lucy Josephine Parker, of Barnstable. Of this union were five children : F. Percy, Alton Parker, William F. M., Lillie Stanley and George Richards Goss-the latter deceased.
Mr. Goss has held a position on the school board several years, and for many years was vice-president and secretary of the Barnstable County Agricultural So- cietv.
He was originally a Democrat, but found a political home more consonant to his tastes with the Republicans during Gen- eral Grant's first presidential campaign. He has ever since acted with the Republi- can party as its staunch supporter. He is now for the second time the collector of the port of Barnstable, having been re-ap- pointed to that position by President Har- rison, July 20, 1889.
He is always prominent in temperance work, and believes in prohibition.
Mr. Goss is the fourth child of a family of fifteen children. His father died in 1884, aged eighty-two. His mother is still living, aged eighty.
GOULD, JOHN HENRY, of Medfield, is descended from English ancestors who emigrated to this country early in 1600, and settled in Massachusetts, where his parents, John H. and Emiline B. (Pitcher) Gould were born. He was born at Paw- tucket, Providence county, R. I., December II, IS29.
His early education was obtained at the public schools and at a private academy. At an early age he entered the militia ser- vice of the state of Rhode Island, in which service, during a period of twelve years, he was successively promoted from the grade of private to that of major.
The breaking out of the rebellion found him organizing a company, which was mustered into the United States service as the 3d Rhode Island artillery, of which he was commissioned captain.
On January 21, 1861, he married Abbie B., daughter of the late Dr. Thomas J. and Abigail (Baker) Stevens, of Charles- town, Mass. Two children were the fruit of this marriage : May (deceased) and Alfred Henry Gould.
Captain Gould sailed in 1861 in a secret expedition which assisted in the capture of Port Royal, S. C.
Major-General Hunter, commander of the department of the South, recommend-
ing him for promotion, said that Captain Gould was an officer of excellent ability, and had rendered important service to the department. General Gilmore subse- quently assigned him to the command of
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Fort Pulaski and of the batteries on Tybee Island, and he, also, recommending him for promotion, said that he considered that Captain Gould was one of the most intel- ligent, capable and valuable officers in the volunteer service.
Captain Gould was commissioned as inajor, and in 1864 was honorably dis- charged on account of injuries incurred in the service of his country.
His political record begins with his ser- vice as a member of the board of health and of the school committee of the town of Medfield. In 1882 he was elected to the Republican state central committee, and served two years as chairman of its executive committee, and in 1886 he was re-elected and chosen chairman of the whole committee, and ably and successfully managed one of the hottest political cam- paigns ever fought in the State.
As a member of the state Senate in 1886 and '87, Mr. Gould was chairman of the committee on military affairs and member of the committee on railroads and agri- culture ; subsequently was chairman of the
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committee on railroads and a member of the committee on the state-house and cities. He was one of the organizers of the Nor- folk County Club, and with the late George Draper of Hopedale, he took an active part in organizing the Home Market Club, which was established for the protection of home labor and home industries, which has a membership of nearly twenty-five hundred members, and of which he is now one of the executive committee.
Major Gould is also a member of the G. A. R., being past commander of Post 117 of Medfield ; is a Mason of high standing, and a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He assisted in the organi- zation of the Republican League of the United States, which has a membership of over one million, and he was chosen one of a sub-executive committee of nine of this organization. He is also the father of the State Republican League. He has been repeatedly urged to be a candidate for Congress, with an excellent prospect of success. In June, 1888, he was chosen a delegate to the national Republican con- vention held at Chicago, and was elected vice-president, representing Massachusetts. As a recognized leader among the friends of General Harrison, voting for his can- didate on every ballot, he was enabled to perform signal service towards secur- ing the vote of the Massachusetts and other delegations for the successful candi- date.
Major Gould, as he is familiarly known, has also been actively and successfully en- gaged as a shipper of grain and coal on his own account for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and enjoys an excellent reputation.
GOULD, LEVI SWANTON, son of Dr. Levi and Elisabeth Webb (Whitmore) Gould, was born March 27, 1834, at Dix- mont, Penobscot county, Maine. His an- cestors were John Gould, an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1635, who died in Stoneham in 1690, and Francis Whitmore, ancestor of the Whitmore and Wetmore families, who lived in Cambridge in 1649, and who died there in 1685.
When six months old, his parents moved to his father's native town, Stoneham, and in 1843 settled in North Malden, now Mel- rose. He was educated in the public schools of Malden and at Waitt's and In- galls academies in Melrose.
Early in life Mr. Gould learned the shoe- maker's trade and worked at the bench in North Malden, where, according to the
custom of the time, he would niake up a lot of shoes. pack them in a bag prepared for the purpose, carry them on his back to Stoneham, two miles away, receive his pay and a new lot of stock, and return for another season of work.
In 1850 he became a clerk in the fancy goods house of Messer, Warren & Davis in Boston. In 1857 he went West and found employment with Alexander Leitch, a prominent druggist of St. Louis. Upon the election of Abraham Lincoln, Mr. Gould received an appointment in the office of the secretary of the treasury at Washington, and was later in the navy agent's department in Boston. In 1866 he became connected with F. M. Holmes & Co., manufacturers of furniture, and in 1878 purchased Mr. Holmes's interest in the business, which he has since continued as senior partner, under the firm name of F. M. Holmes Furniture Company, the fac- tory of which concern is in Charlestown, and the ware-rooms in Boston.
On the 23d of February, 1860, Mr. Gould was married in Melrose, to Mary Eliza Payne. Their two children are: Mary Pearl and Annie Elizabeth Gould.
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During the two sessions of 1868 and '69 Mr. Gould was representative in the Gen- eral Court, of the district of Melrose, Wake-
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field and Stoneham. He was first elected as selectman of Melrose in 1869, was chair- man of the board of selectmen in 1885, '86, 87, '88 and '89, and has served fifty-five times as moderator of the town meetings, and with the adjournments, had presided over one hundred and four meetings up to May 22, 1889. He has been for many years a member of the board of health, one of the overseers of the poor, and chairman of the highway surveyors of the town of Melrose. Four times he has been chosen worshipful master of Wyoming Lodge, F. & A. M. of Melrose.
Mr. Gould was president of the New England Furniture Exchange in 1883 and '84, and president of the Furniture Club of Boston in 1886. He is a member of the Boston Executive Business Association as a delegate of the New England Furni- ture Exchange, and a director of the Farmers' Loan & Trust Company of Kan- sas.
For forty-six years Mr. Gould has re- sided in Melrose, where he has always been known as active and energetic in all social and town matters, and an earnest Repub- lican politician.
GOVE, JESSE MORSE, son of Dana B. and Susan (Morse) Gove, was born in Weare, Hillsborough county, N. H., De- cember 11, 1852. The American ancestry of Mr. Gove is easily traced back to John Gove, who came from London in 1646, and settled in Charlestown. He died in 1648, leaving two sons, John and Edward Gove. Edward subsequently went to New Hamp- shire, and there settled, becoming one of the leaders in a rebellion against some of the coercive measures of the crown. He was with one of his sons arrested and sent to England and imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was pardoned and re- turned to his home. From Edward Gove, Jesse M. is of direct descent.
He was educated at the public and pri- vate schools of Lowell, and in 1872 he commenced the study of law in the office of his father, being admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1875, since which time he has prac- ticed law in Boston.
Mr. Gove was elected a member of the Boston common council in 1881 ; a men- ber of the state Legislature in 1883, '84 and '85 ; a member of the Boston ward and city committee in 1886, '87 and '88 -- for the last two years holding the position of president of the same. He was elected a delegate to the national Republican conventions at Chicago in 1884 and in '88. Upon his return in 1884, he was tendered
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a banquet by the Republicans of the 4th congressional district, for his fealty to them in supporting their choice at the conven- tion, as against the wishes and choice of all other delegates from Massachusetts, during the contest, he having been the only delegate from Massachusetts who voted for James G. Blaine as candidate for the presidency. His native shrewdness and positive views upon the political situa- tion gave him at once a national prominence as " the original Blaine man." During his presidency of the ward and city committee, the prominent members of the Republican party of Boston tendered him a banquet in
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honor of his exertions in their behalf. Like honor was conferred by the 4th Con- gressional District Club at one of their monthly gatherings.
Mr. Gove is at present a member of the board of aldermen. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Knights of Pythias.
He was married at Lowell, August 17, 1882, to Agnes E., daughter of James and Jane Ballantyne. Of this union are two sons : Dana B. and Edward J. Gove.
Mr. Gove is a man of strong convictions, is forcible in his utterances, and believes in earnest work to accomplish the desired results.
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GOVE, WESLEY AUSTIN, son of Austin and Louisa (Ann) Gove, was born in Bos- ton, September 9, 1836.
He received his early education at the public schools of Boston, and at the Wes- leyan Academy, Wilbraham.
In 1860 he entered the wood and coal business, at East Boston, under the firm name of Austin Gove & Son ; but since the death of the senior member of the firm, he has carried on the business alone.
Mr. Gove was married in East Boston, September 9, 1858, to Mary Jane, daughter of William and Jane Kelley. Their chil- dren are : William A., Robert J., Louisa J., Alice M. and Wesley A. Gove.
Mr. Gove was a member of the House of Representatives in 1869 and '71, and of the state Senate in 1885 and '86, serving upon important committees in either branch. He is a director of the Erie Telegraph & Telephone Company, a di- rector of the First Ward National Bank, and a trustee of the East Boston Savings Bank.
In 1862 he enlisted, as a private, in the 41st regiment of infantry, afterwards changed to the 3d Massachusetts cavalry, taking the different grades to captain. He was wounded and taken prisoner of war at Port Hudson, and was in Andersonville, and also under fire at Charleston, at the time the rebels were retaliating for General But- ler's placing their men under fire at the Dutch Gap Canal.
GRANT, ROBERT, son of Patrick and Charlotte Bordman (Rice) Grant, was born in Boston, January 24, 1852.
His early education was obtained at a private school in that city, and at the Bos- ton public Latin school, he being a Frank- lin medal scholar. He entered Harvard, graduating an A. B. in 1873, receiving subsequently the degree of Ph. D. in phi- lology in 1876, and LL. B. in 1879. He was the poet of his class, and while an un- dergraduate was editor of the "Harvard Advocate." While in the law school he was editor of the "Harvard Lampoon."
He was admitted to the bar in 1879, and has since resided in Boston, engaged in the practice of his profession, and in writ- ing and publishing.
His first publication was "The Little Tin Gods on Wheels," in 1879, a bright and taking work in verse, which first at- tracted public attention in its previous publication in the " Harvard Lampoon." This venture was immediately followed by " The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl "
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(1880), a book that confirmed the expec- tations which had been raised by the pre- vious work from an author new to the general public. His other publications are " The Lambs" (verse), first published in the "Century Magazine " (1882), "An Average Man," first published as a serial in the same magazine (1883), " The King's Men " (1884), written in co-operation with John Boyle O'Reilly, F. J. Stimson and J. T. Wheelwright, " The Knave of Hearts" (1885), "A Romantic Young Lady " (1886), " Jack Hall, or the School Days of an American Boy " (1887), and " Jack in the Bush " (1888). These later works show no diminution of the power of the author in graphic delineation of character, and in artistic construction of plot.
Besides these, all published in book form, Mr. Grant has been a frequent con- tributor of various articles, stories and verses to the standard magazines. The reading public await with much interest further productions from his pen.
He delivered the Phi Beta Kappa poem before the alumni of Harvard University in June, 1883, and was honored by being selected as poet on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Latin school, which occurred April 23, 1885.
Mr. Grant possesses characteristics which qualify him for other than a literary life. He was private secretary of Mayor Green of Boston during 1882. In 1888 he was appointed by Mayor O'Brien water commissioner of the city of Boston, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Horace T. Rockwell. In April, 1889, he was re-appointed to the same position for a period of three years, and was chosen chairman of the board.
Mr. Grant was married in Montreal, Canada, July 3, 1883, to Amy Gordon, the daughter of Sir Alexander T. Galt, G. C. M. G., and Amy Gordon (Torrance) Galt. They have three children : Robert, Alexander and Patrick Grant.
GRAVES, GEORGE S., the son of John J. and Lucy Graves of Groton, was born in Groton, Middlesex county, Novem- ber 22, 1840.
He received his early education at the public school at that place, finishing at Lawrence Academy, Groton.
In 1861 he went into the provision busi- ness at Groton with his father, but the war breaking out very soon after, he left and embarked in the shipping trade to North Carolina and the West Indies, in which he continued during the war, carry- ing several cargoes to Newbern, N. C.
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Mr. Graves served on the school board for three years, and in 1876 and '77 was select- man, assessor, and overseer of the poor.
In 1878 he made a trip to Europe for six months.
He is an honorary member of company F, state cavalry militia.
Mr. Graves was married June 20, 1866, to Anne S., the daughter of Edmund Tiles- ton of Dorchester.
He represented his native town in the Legislature of 1887, serving on the com- mittee on mercantile affairs.
GRAVES, HENRY CLINTON, son of Newcomb and Almira (Phillips) Graves, was born in Deerfield, Franklin county, September 22, 1830.
His early educational training was ob- tained in the private and public schools of his native place until he was sixteen years of age, then in preparation for college at Shelburne Falls Academy, and at East- hampton.
Entering Amherst in 1852, he remained four years, and was graduated A. B. with the class of 1856. After graduation he was a teacher at the Mt. Pleasant School for Boys in Amherst, also in Leicester Academy. He then studied theology at Newton Theological Institution under Drs. Hackett, Hovey, Ripley, and Arnold, in the class of 1859. He received the degree of A. M. in course at Amherst, 1859, and of D. D. from the Central University of Iowa in 1888.
Dr. Graves was married in Braintree, in 1859, to Susan Elizabeth, daughter of Perley and Harriet P. (Hayward) Sted- man. Of this union are three children : Henry S. (Brown University, 1883, and New York Medical College, 1885), Alice T. and Fred C. Graves.
He was secretary of the Rhode Island Baptist state convention from 1865 to '70 ; elected president of the Massachusetts Baptist Charitable Society in 1884, which office he now holds ; president of the New- ton Theological Institution alumni for the year 1886-'87 ; vice-president of the Am- herst College alumni in 1885, and regular correspondent of " The Watchman," since 1880.
He was pastor of the Bunker Hill Bap- tist church, Boston, from 1858 to 1863, then accepted a call to the pastoratc of the Brown Street Baptist church, Provi- dence, R. I., in 1863, where he remained until he accepted the pastorate of the Sec- ond church in Fall River, 1874 ; he was called to the First Baptist church in Hay- erhill, 1880, where he remained six years,
and to the North Baptist church, New Bedford, 1886, where he is still settled.
He is the author of "The History of the Baptist Religious Society of Haver- hill, Mass.," "The Life of David Benedict, D. D .; " several essays and sermons ; let- ters from Europe on religious and educa- tional matters, and editor of "Benedict's History of the Donatists."
GRAY, HORACE, son of Horace and grandson of William Gray, was born in Boston, March 24, 1828.
His early education was obtained at private schools in the city of his birth. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1845. He then entered the Dane law school, receiving on his graduation the degree of LL. B., after which he continued the study of law, under William Sohier and John Lowell. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, and at once began to practice in Boston. Six years later he formed a law partnership with Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar, which continued till 1860.
In 1854 Mr. Gray was appointed report- er of the Massachusetts supreme judicial court, and served in that capacity for seven years. In 1864 he was appointed justice of that court, by Governor Andrew, and was appointed Chief Justice of the same by Governor Washburn in 1873. Here his dignity, integrity, learning, and executive ability placed him in the front rank of the able chief justices of the State. In 1882 he was made associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, which office he now holds.
On the 4th of June, 1889, in Washing- ton, D. C., Justice Gray was married to Jeanette, daughter of the late Stanley Matthews, his fellow associate justice.
GREEN, SAMUEL ABBOTT, son of Dr. Joshua and Eliza (Lawrence) Green, was born in Groton, Middlesex county, March 16, 1830.
His early education was obtained at Lawrence Academy, Groton. He was graduated at Harvard, 1851, and received his medical degree three years later, after which he spent several years in Europe. On his return he began practice in Boston, and became one of the district physicians for the city dispensary.
On May 19, 1858, he was appointed by Governor Banks surgeon of the 2d militia regiment. At the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned assistant-surgeon of the ist Massachusetts regiment of vol- unteers, and was the first medical officer from the State mustered in for three years'
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service. He was promoted to the sur- geoncy of the 24th Massachusetts regiment on September 2, 1861, where he remained until November 2, 1864, serving in the meanwhile on the staff of various general officers. He had charge of the hospital ship " Recruit " in the Burnside expedition to Roanoke Island, of the hospital ship "Cosmopolitan " on the coast of South Carolina, and during the siege of Fort
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Wagner was chief medical officer on Morris Island. For gallant and distinguished ser- vices in the field in 1864, he was breveted lieutenant - colonel of volunteers. Dr. Green organized " Roanoke Cemetery " in the winter of 1862, which was one of the first regular burial-places for national sol- diers established during the rebellion.
After the close of the war Dr. Green was from 1865 until '72 superintendent of the Boston dispensary ; a member of the Boston school board, 1860-'62 and 1866 - 72; trustee of the public library, 1868 -'78, and acting librarian from October, 1877, to October, 1878.
In 1870 Governor Claflin appointed him one of a commission to care for disabled soldiers. In 1871 he became city phy- sician of Boston, and retained the office till 1882. He was chosen a member of the board of experts authorized by Con-
gress in 1878 to investigate the yellow fever, and in 1882 was mayor of Boston. In 1883 he was elected a trustee of the Peabody education fund, as well as the secretary of the board, and from 1885 to '88 was the acting general agent.
Dr. Green has for twenty-one years been librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Among his publications may be mentioned " My Campaigns in America," translated from the French of Count Wm. de Deux Ponts (Boston, 1868); " Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Gro- ton " (1878) ; "The Early Records of Groton, 1662-1707 " (1880) ; "History of Medicine in Massachusetts" (Boston, 1881); "Groton during the Indian Wars" (Groton, 1883) ; "Groton during the Witchcraft Times " (1883); " The Bound- ary Lines of Old Groton " (1885); "The Geography of Groton," prepared for the use of the Appalachian Mountain Club (1886), and " Groton Historical Series" (32 numbers, 1883-'9).
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