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Early in life he turned his attention to manufacturing, and his first connection in business was with Charles H. Amidon, at Greenfield, in 1861. In 1868 a company was organized under the name of Miller's Falls Company, for the manufacture of hardware, of which he has been treasurer for twenty-one years.
Mr. Gunn was married in Sunderland, October 5, 1853, to Esther C., daughter of
Cephas and Miranda C. Graves. Of this union was one child : Levi W. Gunn.
Mr. Gunn has been called to serve his town in various municipal offices, select- man, assessor, etc. He was elected to the state Senate in 1885, and re-elected in 1886. He was a member of the Republican state central committee nine years, and also served as a member of the governor's council two years.
He is a director of the Franklin County National Bank, and trustee and member of the investment committee of Greenfield Savings Bank.
HADLOCK, HARVEY DEMING, was born at Cranberry Isles, Hancock county, Me., on the 7th day of October, 1845, on the estate which has been in the possession of his family for three generations. His father, Capt. Edwin Hadlock, was born at Cranberry Isles, January 17, 1814, and in early life followed the sea. He married Mary Ann Stanwood, born July 22, 1816, by whom he had a family consisting of three sons: William Edwin, Gilbert and Harvey Deming.
The education of Mr. Hadlock up to November, 1856, was under the instruction of his mother, who was a woman of superior intellect and education, and in the schools of his native place. His parents then moved to Bucksport, Maine, so that he could enjoy the educational advantages afforded by the East Maine Conference Seminary at that place, in which institu- tion and under private instructors he pur- sued an advanced course of classical study which he supplemented with a partial scientific course in the Maine State Semi- nary (now Bates College), and in the scien- tific department of Dartmouth College.
In September, 1863, he commenced his legal studies in the office of Hon. Samuel K. Humphrey, at Bangor, Maine, and such was his application, that on the 6th day of January, 1865, having pursued the requi- site course of study (designed as a three years' course), and passed the required ex- amination, he was in that city, admitted an attorney and counselor of the supreme judicial court of Maine, and commenced practice at Bucksport, where he continued to reside until 1868, with the exception of six months in the fall and winter of 1865 and '66, when he studied civil and maritime law at New Orleans, under the direction of the
late Christian Roselius. He then moved to Boston, where, on the 7th of October, 1868, he was admitted an attorney and counselor of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, and commenced practice in that city.
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In the spring of 1869 he was admitted to practice in the courts of New York, and was engaged as counsel in an important case in the United States circuit court, which caused him to reside in New York until the following autumn. He then returned to
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Boston and resumed his practice, which was largely in criminal cases.
In 1871, the construction of the Bucks- port & Bangor Railroad being contem- plated, he returned to Bucksport and con- tinued in practice there for about ten years, during which period of time he was engaged as counsel in some of the most important cases tried in Maine, and established his reputation as an accomplished jurist and eloquent advocate, and earned for himself a leading position among the ablest men at the Maine bar. He was for several years a director, and acted as counsel for the B. & B. R. Co.
In January, 1881, Mr. Hadlock moved to Portland, where he resided until April, 1887 ; and in the number and importance of the cases in which he was retained while in Portland, he maintained his high rank as a jurist and advocate.
He now resides in Boston, in the practice of his profession, which includes cases in the state and federal courts of Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, and in the supreme court of the United States.
January 26, 1865, Mr. Hadlock married Alexene L. Goodell, of Searsport, Maine, by whom he has had three children, two of whom are now living : Inez Blanche and Webster Deming Hadlock. His eldest son, Harvey Deming Hadlock, Jr., a youth of rare promise of some fifteen years, acci- dentally shot himself while handling a revolver, on the 22d day of January, 1886.
HAGAR, DANIEL BARNARD, son of Isaac and Eunice (Stedman) Hagar, was born in Newton Lower Falls, Middlesex county, April 22, 1820. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Water- town.
His early educational training was se- cured in the village district school and in the private academy of Seth Davis, in West Newton, who lived to the age of one hundred years. He prepared for college in Newton, chiefly under private tutors, and entering Union College, was gradu- ated in the class of 1843.
When a boy he spent several years in a paper mill in his native village, and was later a clerk in a Boston dry-goods store two years. While connected with college he taught in the academy at Schuylerville, N. Y., and at Kingston, N. Y.
Mr. Hagar was Phi Beta Kappa, A. B., and commencement orator in 1843 ; A. M., 1846; Ph. D., 1871 - degrees conferred by Union College - principal of academy, Canajoharie, N. Y., five years - 1844-'48 inclusive ; Norwich Academy, N. Y.,
1848-'49; Eliot high school, Jamaica Plain, 1849-'65 ; and of the state normal school, Salem, since 1865.
He was also superintendent of schools, Canajoharie, N. Y., 1846 to '48 ; member of the school board, Salem, 1866 to '75 ; president of Montgomery County (N. Y.) Teachers' Association, 1846 ; of the Nor- folk County Teachers' Association, 1853 and '54; of the Massachusetts State Teachers' Association, 1856 and '58; of the American Institute of Instruction, 1860 and '61 ; of the American Normal Association, 1858 ; of the National Teach- ers' Association, 1871 ; of the National
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Council of Education, 1885 and '86 ; pres- ident of the Y. M. C. A. of Salem ; vice- president of Essex Institute, Salem ; Unit- ed States presidential elector for Massa- chusetts, 1884 ; editor of " Massachusetts Teacher," 1852 to '56 and 1865 to '70 ; author of "An Abstract of the Proceed- ings of the Massachusetts Teachers' Asso- ciation from 1845 to 1880 ; " of numerous educational addresses, and of a series of mathematical text-books ( Philadelphia, 1871).
Dr. Hagar is, and has been for a long series of years, one of the strong pillars in the temple of our state and national edu- cation. He has been tempted to leave
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normal school work by invitations to other fields, but has uniformly declined ; among these, the position of state commissioner of schools in Rhode Island, supervisor of public schools in the city of Boston, and superintendent of schools in four other cities of the Commonwealth.
Dr. Hagar was married in Schenectady, N. Y., August 28, 1845, to Mary Bradford, daughter of John and Augusta E. (Porter) McKim. Of this union were seven chil- dren : John McKim, Mary Gertrude, Antoinette, Hamilton Rice, Mary, Walter Calvin and Anna Gertrude Hagar.
HAIGH, JOHN, son of George and Han- nah (Parkinson) Haigh, was born in Duk- infield, Cheshire, England, December 31, 1832.
He obtained his early knowledge of books in the grammar schools of his native land. At the age of seventeen he was ap- prenticed to the trade of calico printer.
He came to America in December, 1855, and in the early part of 1856 engaged with the Pacific Mills, Lawrence. In 1873 he severed his connection with the above firm, to take charge of the printing department of the Middlesex Bleachery & Dye Works at Somerville, of which he has since be- come half owner.
Mr. Haigh was married in Perkins, Maine, April 12, 1859, to Lucy Jane, daughter of Captain Redford D. and Jane (Bowker) Tallman. They have no chil- dren.
Mr. Haigh has always been associated with the Methodist Episcopal church, not as a communicant, but as a thorough be- liever in its governmental policy. Liberal always, and charitable toward others of different denominational views, he has been a strong supporter of his special choice, generous in church contributions, whether for local or missionary interests, and this liberality has kept full pace with his in- creasing means.
Mr. Haigh has long been an enthusiastic devotee and worthy exemplar of the Ma- sonic fraternity, which he joined in Law- rence in 1859. He has been master of two lodges, and by regular election has been at the head of chapter, council, and commandery ; in the grand chapter was a district deputy, grand high priest, and deputy grand high priest - holding the latter place in 1878. For several years he was grand recorder of the grand council of Royal and Select Masters, and from this was elected most illustrious grand master three years consecutively. In 1883 he was elected grand conductor of the general
grand council, R. & S. M., of the United States for three years. He is the repre- sentative of grand bodies in chapter, council, and commandery organizations, and is an active member of the supreme council of the United States in the Ancient
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Accepted Scottish Rite, being also past most puissant sovereign grand commander of that body. His private library at his residence in Somerville is perhaps the first in choice Masonic literature in New Eng- land. His cabinets of rare coins, medals, and other articles of virtu, are the result of intelligent study and judicious selection, eminently characteristic of their owner.
In politics Mr. Haigh is a pronounced Republican, but is not an aggressive poli- tician in his views or action.
HAILE, WILLIAM HENRY, son of Wil- liam and Sabrana (Walker) Haile, was born in Chesterfield, Cheshire county, N. H., September 23, 1833. His father was a suc- cessful merchant and manufacturer, and was the first Republican governor of New Hampshire.
When Mr. Haile was very young, his father removed to Hinsdale, N. H., and in that town his boyhood was passed. There he attended the public schools, and subse- quently prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He
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studied about a year and a half at Amherst College, but left that institution to enter Dartmouth College, where he graduated with high honor in 1856. After graduation, he studied law in Springfield, Mass., and was admitted to the bar and practiced for a short time in Boston, after which he re- the manufacture of woolen goods, and be- ; came a partner with his father and Hon. Rufus S. Frost, of Chelsea, under the firm name of Haile, Frost & Co. The business of this partnership has been transferred to a corporation called The Haile & Frost Manufacturing Co., of which Mr. Haile is now president.
He was married, January 1, 1861, to Amelia L., daughter of Ethan S. and Louisa
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Burns Chapin, of Springfield. Their chil- dren have been : William Chapin, born December 2, 1863 (died August 14, 1864), Alice and Henry Chapin Haile.
Mr. Haile was a representative in the New Hampshire Legislature from the town of Hinsdale in 1865, '66 and '71. In 1872 Mr. Haile removed his residence to Spring- field, of which city he was elected mayor in 1881. In 1882 and '83 he represented the Ist Hampden senatorial district, in the state Senate, serving as chairman of the com- mittee on military affairs, and of the
committee on mercantile affairs, being also a member of the committees on banks and banking, and manufactures.
Mr. Haile has always esteemed it a priv- ilege and a duty to render his full share in political work expected of a good citizen, and has long been recognized as a wise moved to Hinsdale, N. H., to engage in : counselor among the leaders of the Repub- lican party. His recent nomination by the Republican state convention to the lieu- tenant - governorship emphasizes the fact that he belongs to a class of men whose personal character and unquestioned integ- rity invite the suffrages of those who desire to unite in their public officials good morals as well as good politics.
HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, a son of Nathan Hale, LL. D., and Sarah Preston (Everett) Hale, was born in Boston, April 3, 1822.
After studying at the Boston Latin school, he was graduated at Harvard in 1839. He then spent two years as an usher in the Latin school, and prepared for the ministry with the Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, and the Rev. John G. Palfrey.
In 1842 he was licensed to preach by the Boston Association of Congregational Ministers, after which he spent several years in ministering to various congrega- tions, passing the winter of 1844 and '45 in Washington. His first regular settle- ment was in 1846, as pastor of the Church of the Unity in Worcester, where he re- mained until 1856. In that year he was called to the South Congregational (Uni- tarian) church in Boston, where he still remains.
Mr. Hale's influence is extensively felt in all philanthropic movements. Few men are called upon so frequently in social and benevolent circles, and none respond with more alacrity to the calls of sympathetic and practical deeds of charity than this large- hearted, wise and diligent worker. His co- operation in the organization of beneficent enterprises is a guarantee of their worth and success. His book, " Ten Times One is Ten " (Boston, 1870), led to the estab- lishment of clubs devoted to public spirit, which are now scattered throughout the United States, with chapters in Europe,
Asia, Africa, and the islands of the Pacific. These associations have a membership that is supposed to exceed fifty thousand in number, and are called "Harry Wads- worth clubs." They have for their motto : " Look up and not down ; look forward and not back ; look out and not in ; and lend a hand." The "Look-up Legion," one of these organizations among the
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Sunday-schools, includes upwards of five thousand members.
He also has taken great interest in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, of which he is one of the councilors, and is a frequent contributor to "The Chau- tauquan." Mr. Hale has served his col- lege as a member of the board of over- seers for successive terms, and as preacher to the university, and has been very active in advancing the interests of Harvard. He has also held the office of president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 1879 re- ceived the degree of S. T. D. from his alma mater.
As a boy he learned to set type in his father's printing office, and he has served on the " Daily Advertiser " in every capac- ity, from reporter to editor-in-chief. Be fore he was of age he wrote his full share in the monthly issues of the "Monthly Chronicle " and the " Boston Miscellany.' In later years he edited the " Christian Examiner " and also the "Sunday-school Gazette."
In 1869 he founded, with the American Unitarian Association, "Old and New," for the purpose of giving wider currency to liberal Christian ideas through the medi- um of a literary magazine. Six years after- wards this journal was merged into "Scrib- ner's Monthly." In 1886 he again returned to journalism, and began the publication of " Lend a Hand : a Record of Progress and Journal of Organized Charity."
As a writer of short stories, Mr. Hale has achieved signal distinction. His " My Dou- ble, and How He Undid Me," published in the " Atlantic Monthly " in 1859, at once caught the popular fancy. "The Man Without a Country " had a large circulation.
Among the best known of Mr. Hale's numerous literary productions may be named the following : " Letters on Irish Emigration " (1852), " Kansas and Ne- braska " (1854), "Ninety Days' Worth of Europe " (1861), " The Man Without a Country " (1868), " The Ingham Papers " (1869), " His Level Best, and other Stories " (1870), " In His Name " (1874), " Philip Nolan's Friends" (New York, 1875), "What Carcer ?" (1878), " The Life of George Washington " (New York, 1887), "Ups and Downs," " Franklin in France " (2 vols., Boston, 1888), "How they lived in Hampton " (Boston, 1888).
October 13, 1852, at Hartford, Conn., Mr. Hale married Emily Baldwin, daugh- ter of Thomas C. and Mary Foote (Beecher) Perkins. Their children are : Ellen Day, Arthur, Charles (deccased),
Edward Everett, Philip Lesley, Herbert Dudley, Harry Kidder (deceased) and Robert Beverly Hale.
HALE, JEREMIAH BALLOU, son of Gardner and Ann S. (Ballou) Hale, was born in what was Smithfield, Providence county, R. I., February 22, 1830.
He obtained his education in public and private schools of Taunton, Mass., and at Adelphi Academy, North Bridgewater, now Brockton.
His father needing him in his cotton factory, his schooling was stopped for a more convenient time to finish - which never came. At sixteen years of age he was put in charge of the carding and spinning department ; at eighteen went to Prattville, Alabama, to take a much larger charge in the same business, staying there three and a half years. In 1852 he re- turned, and entered the employ of the Union Straw Works, Foxborough, for six years. Next we find him superintendent
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of the Bay State Straw Works, Middle- borough, remaining there four years, then four years again at Foxborough with his old employers.
In 1866 he moved to Medfield, entering into partnership with Warren Chenery, in the straw and palm-leaf hood business. After one year he leased the factory for
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three years, and took sole charge of the business, buying all the machinery, selling his goods in Boston and New York. In 1870 he bought the whole property where he still lives. His business was prosperous up to 1873; from then to 1887, it being poor, he turned to the insur- ance business, during this time spending most of two years in copying and arrang- ing the town records from 1649 to 1875, a work which has been much commended by those competent to judge. He was ap- pointed postmaster of Medfield in 1880, holding the office five years. He is now general manager of the Excelsior Straw Works in Medfield.
Mr. Hale was married in North Attle- borough in March, 1848, to Eliza B., daugh- ter of William and Betsey (Cole) Grover, of Mansfield, who died in 1851. Of this union two children were born, who died in infancy. His second marriage was in Med- way, in June, 1852, to Mary Jane, daugh- ter of George and Mary (Tolman) Plimp- ton, of Sharon. Of this union there were four children : Merton and Clarence, who died young at Foxborough, Charles Everett (drowned in 1881, aged nineteen), and Lillian J. (now wife of Dr. C. E. Bigelow, of Leominister).
Mr. Hale's public spirit has been re- warded by being called upon to serve his fellow-citizens in the several capacities of selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor, and town clerk. He has been a member of the school committee for nine years, and justice of the peace nineteen years. His judgment and business tact have fre- quently been recognized in local affairs of importance - notably in serving as chair- man of the committees for the remodeling of the Baptist church, with which he has long been connected, and the rebuilding of the Medfield town house.
HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY, son of Granville Bascom and Abby (Beals) Hall, was born in Ashfield, Franklin county, in 1846.
His preparatory educational training was received in Sanderson's Academy, Ashfield, and in Williston Seminary, East- hampton, where he was fitted for college. He was graduated from Williams College in the class of 1867. Subsequently he spent five years in study in the universities of Europe.
Entering upon his life work as an edu- cator, he first accepted a professorship in Antioch College, Ohio, from which he was called to Harvard, and later to Johns Hopkins University, where he has held the
chair of psychology seven years. Professor Hall has also held the position, to which none but the most critical scholar may aspire, that of editor of the " American Journal of Philology," which was founded by him.
He was married in Berlin, Germany, in 1880, to Cornelia, daughter of James and Julia (Brigham) Fisher. Of this union are two children : Robert and Julia Hall.
Professor Hall was the unanimous choice of the trustees of the new Clark University, lately founded by Jonas G. Clark, Worces- ter, as the first man to fill the presidential chair. He needs no introduction to the scholars of this country. The recognized head of one of the great departments of human knowledge and research, he ex- changes one place of usefulness and influ- ence for another, and becomes the respon- sible head of the intellectual side of this new university.
President Hall, immediately after closing his professorship in the early summer of 1888, assumed the duties of his new position. In August of the same year he went to Europe, where he spent ten months in the careful study of the systems of all the leading universities on the Continent and in England. He returned in the spring of 1889, and formulated the general scheme of the university, which, when carried out, will place this institution on an elevated plane-having no academic course, but rather supplying advantages for post- graduate study, research, and publication, in the line of pure and abstract science, and in extending the boundaries of human knowledge.
HALL, JAMES MORRIS WHITON, son of Samuel Whitney and Margaret Bass (Knowlton) Hall, was born in Boston, September 28, 1842.
Lyman school, East Boston, Boston Latin school, and Roxbury Latin school furnished the advantages for his education.
He began business life as clerk with the house of Edward D. Peters & Co., who were succeeded by George H. Peters & Co., and after dissolution, the present firm of Wellman, Hall & Co., wholesale lumber merchants. Mr. Hall is at the present time the head of the Boston house.
He was married in West Medford, June 23, 1868, to Orianna Antoinette, daughter of Horace A. and Sarah (Smith) Breed. Eight children have blessed this union : Alice Knowlton, Marion Breed, Helen Whitney, Orianna Phillips, James Ran- dolph, Stanley Breed, Henry Bass, and Horace Whitney Hall.
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Mr. Hall has been superintendent of the Shepard Sunday-school eight years, and is deacon of the Shepard Memorial (First Congregational church), Cambridge ; was trustee of Cambridge Savings Bank four years ; is director Howard National Bank, Boston ; president Cambridge Club ; presi- dent Bay State Lumber Association ; was president Congregational Club, Boston, in 1885 ; is trustee Sunday-school Publishing Society ; member advisory board, Avon Place Orphan Home, Cambridge ; director of Congregational Union. He was a mem- ber of the Cambridge board of aldermen in 1879, and was in 1880 elected the city mayor. He is now a member of its board of water commissioners.
Mr. Hall has long been identified with the Republican party and was a presiden- tial elector in 1880 on the Garfield and Arthur ticket.
Mr. Hall settled in Cambridge after his marriage. His father's maternal ancestor, Mary Hall, settled in Cambridge in 1639, where lands were granted her. Her sons settled in Medford, where her descendants are now found, and in Cornish, N. H., from which place his father came to Bos- ton about 1817. His mother's ancestor, Joseph Bass, married Ruth Alden, daugh- ter of John Alden, and settled in Braintree and Boston, where his mother's ancestors have always since lived, and several of whom were prominently identified with the revolutionary war.
HALL, LUTHER, son of Thomas and Hepsey Hall, was born in Dennis, Barn- stable county, November 5, 1842, where he received a common school education, ob- tained at intervals between the demands of farming, which was his first occupa- tion.
He twice enlisted in the civil war, and by Governor Andrew was commissioned captain of the militia. For several years he was engaged as a merchant, but soon re- turned to his original vocation, and became extensively interested in the cultivation of cranberries. He was made chairman of the school committee and superintendent of schools.
He held the office of postmaster ten years, resigning the office in 1885.
On the 27th of May, 1869, Mr. Hall was married to Minerva H., daughter of Howes and Minerva ( Bassett) Chapman. Their children are : Frank Burnham, Ner- nie Abby, and Howard Luther Hall.
His present residence is at his birth- place, in Dennis, where he is justly held in high esteem by a large circle of friends.
HALL, RICHARD HENRY, son of Rich- ard H. and Mary A. (Bates) Hall, was born in Norton, Bristol county, November 7, 1830. He is a direct descendant of George Hall, one of the founders of the town of Taunton, in 1639, through his great grand- father, Brian Hall, who was born in Taun- ton, July 9, 1727, and who removed to the
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adjoining town of Norton (formerly a part of Taunton) about the year 1755. He is also connected by intermarriage with most of the early families of Taunton.
He received his education in the public schools of Norton, at Bristol Academy, Taunton, and at Pierce Academy, Middle- borough.
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