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CALVIN A. PAIGE.
Dresser Manufacturing Company, and con- tinued twenty-five years, until 1870, at which time the mill was destroyed by fire. He was elected as a representative to the Legislature in 1863. He has held many of the town offices, covering a period of more than twenty-five years, among them, selectman, assessor, overseer of the poor (which office he now holds), and much of
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the time chairman and clerk of the boards named.
He has held the office of notary public ; has been a director in Southbridge National Bank, and a trustee of Southbridge Savings Bank more than thirty years. He is also a commissioner to qualify civil officers. He has served several years on various committees of the town, one of the most important being that to oppose its division by the Legislature in 1854.
Mr. Paige was married in Southbridge, May 9, 1843, to Mercy, daughter of Har- vey Dresser, of Charlton, who died Sep- tember 14, 1852. He married his second wife, Ellen Jane Scholefield, of Dudley, February 20, 1856. His children are: Mary Elisabeth, born April 7, 1846, died Sep- tember 2, 1848 ; Calvin D., born May 20, 1848 ; Frank S., born May 18, 1857. The two sons are now doing business and living in Southbridge.
Mr. Paige is not now in active business. He has much public spirit, and takes great interest in town affairs, and finds consider- able time to attend to politics, being an ardent Republican.
PAIGE, FRANK E., son of Francis B. and Elzada (Haskins) Paige, was born in Amherst, Hampshire county, March 22, 1859.
His early education was received in the schools of Amherst. He began life on the farm, and by industry has risen to his present position. He chose the profession of law, and having prepared himself by close ap- plication, was admitted to the Hampshire county bar at the age of twenty-one, being the youngest member up to that time ever admitted. Since that time he has had a large and successful practice in Amherst, where he now resides.
He has been secretary and treasurer of the Hampshire Agricultural Society for several years ; in 1886 he was elected treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and has charge of the finances of that institution. In 1887 he was elected to take charge of the law department of the college, and each year has given a course of lectures.
In 1888 he was elected to the House of Representatives, as a Republican, serving as clerk of the agricultural committee. He has held many town offices, is promi- nent in Masonry, and for a long time has held important positions in the local organi- zations.
During his legislative service he was the promoter and advocate of the yearly appro- priation of five thousand dollars by the
State to the college of which he is treasurer, for the purpose of paying poor and needy students for labor on the farm, that they might be able to attend the college and ob- tain the educational training offered by the institution. He was also, upon the floor of the House, foremost in advocating the cause of the farmers of the Common- wealth.
Mr. Paige is unmarried. He has trav- eled extensively, visiting nearly every part of the United States, and many foreign lands.
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, son of Charles Cushing and Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, was born in Boston, October 28, 1835. His great grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He received his early educational training in the private and public schools of Boston, entering the Boston Latin school at ten, and graduating at fifteen. He has always regarded these five years as an invaluable training.
Mr. Paine entered Harvard in 1851, and was graduated with honors in the class of 1855, among such distinguished classmates as Francis C. Barlow, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman and Frank B. Sanborn.
Mr. Paine studied law at Harvard one year, and then passed two years in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain ; returned to Boston in 1858 ; studied law in the offices of Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker one year, and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He practiced till 1870, when he retired from active, business, in- tending to devote the remainder of his life to various benevolent enterprises, one of the first of which was the building of Trin- ity church, which took a large share of his time from 1872 to '76, he being one of the sub-committee of three who had charge of the work.
He was chosen the first president of the Associated Charities at its origin in 1878, and has held that office ever since. He organized the Wells Memorial Institute in 1879, the largest workingmen's club in the United States, and having now over seventeen hundred members. He became its first president, which office he still retains, and raised the various subscriptions which have paid out over ninety thousand dollars for the memorial building.
Mr. Paine was married in Boston, April 24, 1862, to Lydia Williams, daughter of George Williams and Anne (Pratt) Lyman. Her father was the son of Theodore Ly-
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man, a distinguished Boston merchant at the beginning of this century. Of this union are five children : Edith (Mrs. John H. Storer), Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Ethel Lyman, George Lyman, and Lydia Lyman Paine.
Mr. Paine's winter residence is 6 Joy Street, Boston, and his summer residence is at Waltham.
Mr. Paine represented Waltham in the House of Representatives in 1884; has been a member of the vestry of Trinity church, Boston, for fifteen years ; a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Episcopal city mission, and also of the
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Society for the Suppression of Vice. He is one of the trustees of donations to the Protestant Episcopal church, and is presi- dent of the Workingmen's Co-operative Bank, Workingmen's Building Association, Loan Association, and Congress of Work- ingmen's clubs.
Mr. Paine was a candidate for congres- sional honors in the 5th Massachusetts district in 1884, as a Mugwump and Dem- ocrat. He had always been a Republican (and Free Soiler) till the nomination of Mr. Blaine. He is vice-president of the Children's Aid Society, of which his mother was one of the founders, and a director as long as she lived.
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Starting in life with no money, his sav- ings at the law were so judiciously in- vested in real estate and railroad and min- ing enterprises, that at thirty-five years of age he gave up business with an independ- ent fortune of his own making.
In 1887 Mr. Paine gave ten thousand dollars to Harvard College to endow a fellowship for the study of "the ethical problems of society, the effects of legis- lation, governmental administration, and private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the mass of mankind."
This eminent philanthropist has done something more than theorize. Besides his twenty-five published pamphlets and addresses, all for the public weal, he has . thrown himself and his wealth into the work of raising the unfortunate, improv- ing the condition, and especially the homes, of the working-classes, strengthening pri- vate morals and public " law and order."
PAINE, TIMOTHY OTIS, son of Fred- eric and Abiel (Ware) Paine, was born in Winslow, Kennebec county, Maine, Octo- ber 13, 1824.
Having availed himself of the common school training in his native town, he pre- pared for college in the Waterville Liberal Institute, 1840-'43. He entered Waterville College (now Colby University) in 1843, and was graduated in the class of 1847. From 1848 to '52 he studied and worked as an artist, and then prepared for the ministry, which he entered in 1853, and in which he has continued up to the present time.
In 1866 he became professor of Hebrew in the theological school at Waltham, afterwards at Boston, and in 1889 at Cam- bridge ; and is now professor emeritus of the sacred languages. He has been pastor of the East Bridgewater society of the New Jerusalem church since 1856.
Mr. Paine was married in Medford, October 13, 1856, to Agnes, daughter of Adonis and Catherine (Holman) Howard. They have had eight children : Edith (Mrs. George Benedict), Howard, Miriam (deceased), Joseph (deceased), Isabel (Mrs. Henry Hastings Grant), Bertha, James (deceased), and Herbert Ware Paine.
Mr. Paine is a member and honorary member of several literary societies in England, Nova Scotia, and the United States. He received the degree of L.L. D. from Colby in 1875. He is the author of "Solomon's Temple" (1861), and " The Holy Houses" (1885, Houghton, Mifflin & C'o.).
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PALFRAY, CHARLES WARWICK, was born in Salem, Essex county, December 20, 1813. He is the son of Warwick and Elizabeth (Roundy) Palfray, and a descend- ant of Peter Palfray, one of the "Old Planters " who came to Salem in 1626 with Roger Conant and others.
He attended the private school of Samuel H. Archer, was a member of the first class of the Salem English high school, and was
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fitted for college by Henry K. Oliver. He entered Harvard College in 1831, and was graduated in 1835.
After graduation he completed a legal course in the office of Hon. Leverett Sal- tonstall in Salem, and at the Dane law school in Cambridge. He received his degree of LL. B. in 1838, after which he was admitted to practice in all the courts of the Commonwealth.
He opened a law office in Salem for a short time, but never practiced, his father dying a few days before his admission to the bar, and in August, 1838, the son succeeded him as one of the editors of the Essex, now Salem, " Register," with which he has been connected ever since.
Mr. Palfray was a representative to the General Court, from Salem, in 1840, '41, '64 and '66. He was a member of the state valuation committee in 1865 ; collec-
tor of customs for the district of Salem and Beverly from 1869 to '73 ; a mem- ber of the Essex Institute, a fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, and an honorary member of A. B. C. F. M.
He has never married.
PALMER, CHARLES DANA, son of George Wall and Ellen H. (Jackson) Pal- mer, was born in Cambridge, Middlesex county, November 25, 1845.
His early education was received in the Dwight school, Boston. He fitted for college in the Boston public Latin school, graduating therefrom in 1864. He entered Harvard University the same year, and was graduated in the class of 1868.
In October, 1868, he went to Lawrence, entering the employment of the Washing- ton Mills. He was sent to Canada in 1869 to purchase wool for the company. In 1872 he entered into partnership with Thomas H. Gray, of Walpole, and John Pendergast, of Lawrence, with whom, in charge of the mills at North Chelms- ford, he manufactured shoddy for ten years. He then sold out the business and retired.
Mr. Palmer was mayor of Lowell in 1888, and is now serving his second term.
Mr. Palmer married, in Lowell, May 20, 1880, Rowena, youngest daughter of Fisher Ames and Lauretta (Coburn) Hil- dreth, of Lowell. Of this union are two children : Elinor and Jackson Palmer.
PALMER, DWIGHT WALDO, son of F. A. and Hannah (Smith) Palmer, was born in Amherst, Hampshire county, November 22, 1825.
He received his education in the com- mon schools and at Amherst Academy.
His first connection in business was in Springfield, where he carried on the dry- goods trade ten years. He then removed to Amherst, where he carried on the same line of business thirty years.
He is at present president of the trustees of the Smith charities, Northampton, hav- ing held this position four years.
Mr. Palmer has been twice married, and has four children. His residence is Am- herst.
PALMER, MOSES POORE, the son of Moses H. and Mary H. Palmer, of East Bradford (now Groveland), Mass., was born at Derry, Rockingham county, N. H., May 1, 1830.
His paternal ancestors came over origin- ally from England - his grandfather on the same side being a native of East Bradford.
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He received his early education at Groveland, to which place his parents re- moved when he was two years old. He afterward went to Merrimac Academy. Upon leaving school he worked upon his father's farm during the summer months, and, as was the custom in those days, at shoemaking in the winter. His first busi- ness engagement was in a shoe-cutting establishment at Marlborough, where he learned the trade.
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In 1858 he commenced the manufacture of shoes in connection with his brother in Marlborough, which partnership continued until the war broke out in 1861. He then recruited a company at Marlborough, of which he was made captain. The com- pany was assigned to the 2d battalion of Massachusetts militia rifles, and in June was ordered to Fort Independence and or- ganized with other companies into the 13th regiment of Massachusetts volun- teers. In July, 1861, the regiment left for the seat of war. Captain Palmer was in command of the company through all the principal battles of the army of the Potomac, notably the second Bull Run, where he received three wounds, one of which was a very severe one -a bullet through the neck and lower jaw. He was also slightly wounded at Fredericksburg.
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He took part in Chancellorsville, Thor- oughfare Gap, Bolivar, Front Royal, and various other battles and skirmishes. In the first day's fight at Gettysburg, while with the ist corps (Reynolds) he had his right knee shot to pieces, and being crip- pled for life, was honorably discharged in March, 1864, for disability. He was afterward breveted major by the United States Congress for gallant and meritorious service in the field.
After his discharge, Major Palmer re- turned to Groton and bought the farm upon which he now resides, and by his success has proved that farming in the old Commonwealth can be made to pay.
He has served as selectman, assessor, and overseer of the poor, for the past twelve years, and four years as chairman of the board. He has been commander of Post 115, G. A. R., for seven years, master of Grange No 7, P. of H., an officer of the Groton Farmers' Club, and an active mem- ber of the Middlesex North Agricultural So- ciety, having been for many years one of its vice-presidents and trustees. He is treas- urer of the New England Milk Producers' Union, and has been a justice of the peace for several years, his commission having been renewed.
In 1884 he was sent to the Legislature as a representative, and in 1888 and '89 as senator from the 5th Middlesex district. In 1885 and '86 he was a member of the Republican state central committee.
Major Palmer was married, in July, 1861, to Martha G., the daughter of Joshua and Matilda (Prescott) Eaton of Groton. His family consists of two daughters and one son : Mary Hale, Mattie Eaton, and Frank Henry Palmer.
PARK, EDWARDS AMASA, son of Calvin and Abigail (Ware) Park, was born in Provi- dence, R. I., December 29, 1808. His father was formerly a professor in Brown Univer- sity, afterward a Congregational pastor in Stoughton ; and he is descended on the paternal side from Richard Park, one of the original settlers of Newton. His mother was the daughter of Captain Na- thaniel Ware, of Wrentham, a descendant from Robert Ware, one of the original settlers of Dedham.
Dr. Park was graduated at Brown Uni- versity in 1826, and at Andover Theolog- ical Seminary in 1831. He was pastor at Braintree, 1831-'33 ; professor of mental and moral philosophy at Amherst College, 1835-'36 ; professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover Theological Seminary, 1836-'47 ; professor of Christian theology at Andover,
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1847-'81. Thus he has held a professor- ship in the seminary forty-five years, and has been connected with it in some capac- ity nearly fifty-six years.
In 1842-'43, also in 1862- 63, he visited Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Germany. During these two visits he spent much of his time at the German universities -four months at Marburg, four months at Berlin, and three months at Halle. In 1869-'70 he made the tour of Italy, Greece, Egypt and Palestine.
He has published numerous essays in theological quarterlies ; sixteen or seven- teen pamphlets ; four volumes of memoirs ; the first a memoir of Rev. William Brad- ford Homer ; the second, of Professor B. B. Edwards ; the third, of Dr. Samuel Hopkins ; the fourth, of Dr. Nathanael Emmons. In 1844 he united with Pro- fessor B. B. Edwards in establishing the " Bibliotheca Sacra," and was its chief editor from 1851 till '84. He was en- gaged in the publication of forty volumes of this quarterly. In connection with Professor Austin Phelps and Dr. Lowell Mason, he edited the "Sabbath Hymn Book," which reached a circulation of about a hundred and twenty thousand copies between 1859 and '66. His first published essay appeared in 1826 ; his last pamphlet contained ninety-eight pages, and appeared in 1883 ; his last publication was a volume of " Discourses on some Theological Doctrines as related to Re- ligious Character," and appeared in 1883.
For more than thirty years he has been president of the board of trustees of Abbott Academy at Andover ; by the will of the founder, he was appointed one of the original trustees of Smith College at Northampton ; since 1865 he has been a member of the board of fellows of Brown University. He has been elected a mem- ber of the Victoria Institute in England, and of several historical societies in the United States.
PARKER, CHARLES WALLINGFORD, son of Charles and Mary Hildreth (Wal- lingford) Parker, was born in Framing- ham, Middlesex county, June 27, 1831.
He was educated in the district school and at Framingham Academy, until the age of fifteen. April 20, 1847, he was employed in a retail clothing store in Worcester.
In 1849 he entered the employ of Addi- son Macullar - his former fellow-clerk - and in 1860 he became a partner in the house. His business connection with Mr. Macullar has continued for over forty years.
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The well-known clothing firm of Macul- lar, Parker & Company - still under Mr. Parker's management - occupies, by gen- eral consent, the first position in its special line in New England.
Mr. Parker was married in Chelsea, No- vember 30, 1854, to Mary J., daughter of Charles E. and Ann (Huse) Schoff. Of this union were five children : Mary, Charles S., Herman, Allston, and Ross Parker, all of whom are living except- ing Allston.
Mr. Parker has studiously avoided all methods that lead to political preferment, finding in letters, in art, and in foreign
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travel, as well as in a conscientious dis- charge of manifold duties as a private cit- izen, employer, and parent- work more satisfactory to his quiet tastes and unob- trusive character.
For many years he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Church of the Disciples, and one of the circle of James Freeman Clarke's personal friends and warm supporters.
In landscape gardening at his summer place, "Redgate," in Marblehead, Mr. Parker has been instrumental in reclaim- ing an unpromising territory of considera- ble extent to a state of rare beauty and culture.
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His interest in the manufacture of do- mestic woolens of the finer quality has secured for him a deserved recognition, and he has been called to the presidency of Georges River Woolen Mills, in War- ren, Me., a corporation extensively engaged in that business.
Mr. Parker is a descendant of pure New England stock, his paternal ancestors hav- ing come to this country from England in 1628. The farm on which he was born was in the possession of the family for over one hundred and fifty years.
Mr. Parker is a conspicuous example of the successful, representative, self-made business men of New England.
PARKER, GEORGE G., son of Asa and Ann Margaret (McCorristine) Parker, was born in Acton, Middlesex county, June 19, 1826. He obtained a common school education, and then prepared for college in Ashby Academy, Lawrence Academy, Groton, and Appleton Academy, New Ips- wich, N. H. He was graduated from Union
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College, New York, in the class of 1852 ; studied law in the Albany law school, New York, and practiced law at Piqua, Miami county, Ohio, and at Westfield, New York.
He removed to Milford, Mass., in 1856, and has since been a member of the Wor- cester county bar.
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Mr. Parker was married in Milford, De- cember 26, 1854, to Augusta, daughter of Rev. James T. and Augusta (Porter) Woodbury. Of this union was one child : Margaret Augusta Parker (since deceased). He has an adopted daughter, Lillian Blanche.
Mr. Parker is senior warden of Trinity church, Milford ; has been ten years chair- man of the Milford school board ; secre- tary of the Milford Mutual Fire Insurance Company twenty-five years, and was a member of the House of Representatives in 1876.
PARKER, GEORGE JUDSON, son of Samuel W. and Charlotte B. (George) Par- ker, was born in Reading, Middlesex county, February 10, 1850.
He attended the public schools of Read- ing until thirteen years of age ; on his removal to Boston, in 1863, he entered the Dwight school, from which he graduated in 1865, and the same year entered the English high school.
When seventeen years of age he began work in one of the departments of piano-forte manufacture in the employ of George M. Guild, at eighteen remov- ing to Leominster, and engaging with Allen & Jewett in the same industry. At twenty-one he returned to Boston, entering the employ of Henry F. Miller, at the same time beginning the study of music with Joseph P. Cobb, and continuing later with J. W. Tufts and John Hodsdon. He went to Europe in 1882 ; studied in Lon- don with Shakspeare, Randegger, and Behnke; in Milan with San Giovanni; at Nice with Lamperti (père), and in Paris with Sbriglia.
He has been a member of the Boylston and Cecilia clubs. He is at present a member of the Apollo Club, and is en- gaged as oratorio and concert soloist (tenor), having sung for the principal mu- sical societies of Boston, and at Washing- ton, Chicago, Philadelphia, and the leading musical centres of the United States and Canada.
His present vocation is tenor soloist and vocal teacher.
PARKER, HENRY G., was born in Plymouth, Plymouth county, March 19, 1836.
His father, Ebenezer Grosvenor Parker, was born in Falmouth, in 1796. The grandfather of Colonel Parker, Dr. Henry Parker, was also born in Falmouth, and was a surgeon in the United States navy. The mother of Colonel Parker was Rebecca
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Morton, daughter of William Davis, of Plymouth.
In his earlier years Colonel Parker at- tended the common school of his native town, but after the removal of his mother to Boston, he attended a famous private school in Brookfield, where William Bliss, president of the Boston & Albany Rail- road, Charles P. Clark, president of the New York & New Haven Railroad, Stan- ton and Arthur W. Blake and their brother, the late George Baty Blake, were among his fellow-pupils. Later he attended the Adams school and Chauncy Hall school in Boston.
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On his retirement from school, when his entrance into college would have been an easy step, his mother yielded reluctantly to his strongly expressed wishes for an ac- tive life, and he entered as a boy the store of Blanchard, Converse & Co., of Boston. After a year's service there, he became as- sistant book-keeper in the counting-room of Callender, Rogers & Co., also of Bos- ton, where he remained three years. Dur- ing the succeeding three years he was employed as book - keeper by Blodget, Clark & Brown, and subsequently took the position of confidential clerk in the private office of Jordan, Marsh & Co.'s wholesale establishment, which he held until 1869.
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He married, June 7, 1865, Lucy Joseph- ine, daughter of the late William Brown, well known as a druggist, of Boston. They have no children, their only daughter hav- ing died in 1878.
Colonel Parker was a prolific writer and a popular and constant contributor and critic for the "New York Mirror," " Bos- ton Daily Courier," and " Boston Saturday Evening Gazette." In April, 1870, he pur- chased the "Saturday Evening Gazette," and became its proprietor and editor.
In 1869, and again in 1872, he was selected general secretary of the executive committee of the National Peace Jubilee (of which committee the Hon. Alexander H. Rice was chairman). When Mr. Rice was inaugurated governor of Massachu- setts, in 1876, he appointed Colonel Par- ker a member of his staff. He served in this capacity during the three years' term of Governor Rice, and received the de- served compliment of a re-appointment by Governor Talbot.
He purchased an estate in Swampscott in 1882, where he resides a portion of each year, his winter home being on Common- wealth Avenue, Boston. Few men are bet- ter known in club and mercantile life in that city, and the prominence he has ac- quired in the publication of his brilliantly conducted " Gazette " has given him a con- spicuous standing in social circles.
PARKER, JAMES CUTLER DUNN, son of Samuel Hale and Sarah (Parker) Parker, was born in Boston, June 2, 1828.
His early education was obtained at the Adams school, and at the public Latin school, where he was fitted for college un- der E. S. Dixwell. He was graduated from the Latin school in 1843, spent a year at home occupied with various studies, and entered Harvard in 1844. In 1856 the college bestowed upon him the degree of A. M.
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