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In December, 1876, Mr. Prince was nom- inated by the Democrats as mayor of the city of Boston, and was elected by a large vote, although his party at that time was in the minority. The following year he was again nominated, and only defeated after one of the most hotly contested elections ever known in Boston. Again, the follow- ing year, there was a re-action in his favor, and he was re-elected by a handsome ma- jority. In 1879, 'So and 'Si he was returned to the same office. In 1882, though ear- nestly pressed, he declined renomination.
Among the notable achievements of his administration are the "park system " and the improvement in sewers. Mr. Prince was early interested in the " park system," and its final adoption and subsequent lay- ing out are largely due to his efforts. He appreciated keenly the necessity of an im- proved sewage for the rapidly growing city under his care, and by his earnest ad- vocacy of the measure, contributed not a little to the complete success of that won- derful piece of engineering known as the great intercepting sewer which takes to
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Moon Island, outside the harbor of Boston, all the sewage of the city and the district lying south of Charles River. The mag- nificent buildings for the high and Latin schools were also erected through the influ- ence of Mr. Prince.
In 1885, Mr. Prince was nominated by the Democrats as governor of the State. He was defeated upon a strictly party vote, and in ISS8 was appointed to the board having exclusive control of the construc- tion of the new building of the Boston public library. To this work he is now giving his entire attention, and with this exception he has retired from both profes- sional and public life, after making for himself an honorable name in the one, and in the other a record alike successful and meritorious.
PROCTER, FRANCIS, eldest son of Captain Francis Epes and Ann (Allen) Procter, was born in Gloucester, Essex county, March 16, 1833.
He received his education in the public schools of his native town. His father died in 1846, leaving him, at the age of thirteen, with two younger brothers, the support of his widowed mother, who shortly after lost her eyesight. Borrowing the capital of one dollar with which to start business, he purchased thirty-three copies of the "Flag of Our Union," published by F. Gleason, of Boston, and entered upon his career that has since embraced every department of printing, publishing, book, stationery, wall-paper, fancy-goods, and a general newspaper business.
Early in business life he took his only brother, George H. Procter, into partner- ship, his youngest brother, William A., having died in 1848. In July, 1853, he started a monthly paper, which was circu- lated free, and afterwards changed to a subscription semi-monthly paper - " The Gloucester Advertiser." In 1856, in com- pany with his brother, the "Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser " was started, which is still published. In 1888 the Procter broth- ers began the publication of a one-cent evening paper - "The Gloucester Daily Times "- still published. They also con- duct the Cape Ann News Company, a branch book and stationery store, which was established in 1884, and the Procter Circulating Library, established by Francis Procter in 1851.
Mr. Procter has always taken an active and influential part in public matters and enterprises for the growth and welfare of his native city, notably the development of what is known as Bellevue Heights.
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Mr. Procter was married in Marlbor- ough, March 15, 1856, to Mary Melissa, daughter of Solomon and Mary H. Perkins Rice, of that town. His children by that marriage are : Frank Rice, George Per- kins (deceased), William Allen, and Mary M. Procter.
Mr. Procter was a delegate to the first Free Soil state convention, at Worcester ; was an auditor of town accounts in 1861, and alderman of the city of Gloucester (ward 4) 1876, besides filling other minor offices. He has always been a Repub- lican, excepting in the Greeley campaign of 1872. Heattended the state convention
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of that year, and was a member of the con- ference committee of the two parties that nominated Charles Sumner for governor.
He is a prominent Mason - secretary of Tyrian Lodge two years ; was chairman of the parish committee of the Independent Christian church (the oldest Universalist church in America) from 1883 to 'S9, and a director in the Gloucester Electric Com- pany ; is president of the Willoughby Park Land Association, secretary and treasurer of the Wolf Hill Land Company, and was a member of the Gloucester Artillery Com- pany 185 1 to '56.
He was one of the prime movers in or- ganizing the Massachusetts Press Associa-
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tion, 1869, has served as secretary two years, vice-president five years, and presi- dent three years. He was Massachusetts delegate to the second convention at Cin- cinnati, of the National Editorial Associa- tion, 1886, and a member of the executive committee for 1887 ; and also a delegate to the fourth convention, which met at San Antonio, Texas, 1889.
The energy and perseverance of Mr. Procter have been severely taxed during his business career. Three times the busi- ness has been burned out, in the fires of 1853, '64 and '73. Mr. Procter has been quite a traveler, has seen much of his na- tive land, and as a writer has contributed interesting sketches of his visits to Ber- muda, California, and Mexico. He is an enterprising, industrious and public-spir- ited citizen.
PROUTY, DAVID, son of David and Abigail (Bisco) Prouty, was born in Spen- cer, Worcester county, October 18, 1813.
The usual attendance in the common schools in those days, with two terms at the academy, gave him his preparatory education.
Mr. Prouty was a farmer in early life, and later was in the wine business a few years. In 1852 he became interested in the manufacture of boots, with Charles E. Denny and John G. Prouty. In 1854, upon the death of John G. Prouty, and the retirement of Mr. Denny on account of ill health, John Boyden was taken into partnership. He soon retired and Isaac L. Prouty was associated as a partner in 1859. This relation continued until 1876, when the subject of this sketch retired from active business.
While never a politician, he has been called to serve his town, county and state in various official capacities - has held the office of selectman and assessor several terms ; was a representative to the General Court in 1876; is vice-president of the Spencer National Bank, and one of the vice - presidents of the Spencer Savings Bank.
Mr. Prouty is widely known as a man of high moral character, unquestioned in- tegrity, and quiet but systematic benevo- lence. His generosity shuns any approach toward ostentation. He has always been specially interested in every educational movement that promised to be beneficial. He is now erecting a high school building, that when completed and furnished for school use will be a gift to the town of Spencer, at a cost not far from forty-five thousand dollars.
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Mr. Prouty was married in Spencer, in January, 1840, to Caroline, daughter of Dr. Jonas and Persis (Bemis) Guilford. Mrs. Prouty died in November, 1863. Mr. Prouty was again married, to Mrs. Sarah B. Denny, sister of his first wife. She died in June, 1873. He has had but one child, Jonas G. Prouty, who died in July, 1864.
PUTNAM, ADRIAN LOUIS, son of Ad- rian and Fanny (Flint) Putnam, was born in Danvers, Essex county, August 29, 1834.
He passed through all the grades of public schools in Danvers, including the Holten high school. He was graduated from the state normal school at Bridge- water, in 1856. From 1856 to '60 he was engaged in teaching in Provincetown and Danvers.
He began the business of jeweler and stationer in Provincetown, July, 1862, under the firm name of Atkins & Putnam. He has continued in the business the last twenty-four years under the firm title of A. L. Putnam & Co.
Mr. Putnam was married in Province- town, December 18, 1860, to Addie O., daughter of Henry and Abigail (Rich) Cook. Of this union are two children : Nellie Flint and Abbie Cook Putnam.
Mr. Putnam has held the chairmanship of both town and county Republican commit- tees, the former for ten years ; has been treasurer of the Masonic lodge for nine- teen years ; officer of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, and Royal Good Fellows since their formation in Provincetown.
He is a trustee, and has been a member, of the board of investment in the savings bank for the last ten years ; a trustee of the public library building ; a member of the school board twenty-five years : and is agent for the Commonwealth Loan & Trust Company of Boston.
PUTNAM, ARTHUR A., son of Elias and Eunice (Ross) Putnam, was born in Dan- vers, Essex county, November 18, 1829.
He obtained his early education in the district schools of his native town, and at the academies of Westfield, and Thetford and West Randolph, Vt.
In the meantime he taught school in Danvers, Boxford and Brookline. Fitting for college, he entered Dartmouth in 1852, but left after completing the sophomore year. He studied law at the Dane law school, Cambridge, and in the offices of the late S. B. Ives, of Salem, and of Culver, Parker & Arthur (the late President Ar- thur), of New York City.
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He was admitted to the bar December, 1859, and at once commenced practice in his native town. April, 1861, he turned his law office into a recruiting office, and recruited a company known as " Putnam Guards" for the 14th regiment, Massachu- setts volunteers. He was commissioned captain of company I, same regiment.
From October, 1863, to the close of the war he was Ist lieutenant and captain. He served at Newbern, N. C., as assistant pro- vost-marshal, district of North Carolina, and as judge-advocate at Plymouth, N. C.
At the close of the civil war he opened a law office in Blackstone, and was in active practice till his appointment as judge, June, 1872, removing to Uxbridge, May, 1877. He holds the position of judge of the 2d district court of Southern Worcester.
Judge Putnam was married in Black- stone, November 25, 1868, to Helen Irving, daughter of Artiman and Esther (Burn- ham) Staples. Of this union are two children : Alden L. and Beatrice Putnam.
Judge Putnam was six years chairman of the prudential committee of the First Con- gregational church of Uxbridge; served on the school board in Danvers, Black- stone and Uxbridge, and on the library committee of the Peabody Institute ; was for many years a trustee of the Worcester Agricultural Society, and a trustee of the Uxbridge Savings Bank.
He is the author of "Ten Years a Police Court Judge ; " "History of Blackstone ; " various pamphlets, including "A Glance at the History of the Village Bank, Dan- vers ;" "An Open Letter to the Constable of the Commonwealth ; " "The Sunday Law in Massachusetts," and the "Story of the Putnam Guards." He was " war editor " of the " Peabody Press " (1862-'63); also of " The Flag," a paper published two months at Plymouth, N. C. He has been an occasional contributor to papers and maga- zines since 1855, has lectured in lyceum courses, and has spoken in political cam- paigns. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College, 1887.
He represented his district (Danvers) in the Legislature in 1857 and '60 ; was alter- nate delegate to the national Republican convention in 1860, and also in 1876. While in the Legislature in 1860, he took an aggressive position in opposition to the bill for the slaughter of cattle suspected of being diseased with pleuro-pneumonia. He was attacked in the Legislature by press and people, but time vindicated his position, and the abuse hurled at him soon recoiled upon its authors.
PUTNAM, JOHN PICKERING, son of John Pickering and Harriet (Upham) Put- nam, and grandson of Judge Samuel Put- nam, of Salem, Mass., was born in Boston, April 3, 1847.
A primary school in Boston, and gram- mar and high schools in Lawrence, furn- ished the first courses of his education. He entered the public Latin school in 1860, and graduated in 1864. Entering Harvard College the same year, he was graduated in the class of 1868. He entered L' École des Beaux Arts, Paris, in 1869, after a year's preparation, the Royal Academy of Architecture, Berlin, in 1870, and began the practice of architecture, Boston, in 1871.
In 1883 he began a special course of study and investigation into the subject of house drainage, and in this study invented the "sanitas" plumbing appliances, to supply a demand for simpler and more sci- entific fixtures and methods of plumbing than at that time were in use. He founded the Sanitas Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Putnam married, in Framingham, 1885, Grace Cornelia, daughter of Edward O. and Elizabeth L. Stevens. They have one child : Grace Elizabeth Putnam.
Mr. Putnam was for some years a mem- ber of the American Metrological Society, the American Spelling Reform Association, the Boston Society of Architects, and vari- ous other social and scientific societies. He published, in 1882, a treatise on " The Metric System of Weights and Measures," and a work on heating and ventilation, entitled "The Open Fire-place in All Ages;" in 1886, a book on "The Principles of Home Drainage," and, in 1887, another on "Improved Plumbing Appliances." Since 1883 he has contributed many articles on sanitary plumbing and drainage to the "American Architect and Building News," and other building journals; and has lec- tured on the subject of house drainage before architectural, engineering and med- ical societies in Boston and Worcester.
PUTNAM, WILLARD, son of Samuel and Elizabeth F. (Richardson) Putnam, was born in New Salem, Franklin county, September 6, 1838.
He was educated at New Salem Acad- emy, where he was fitted for college. He entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1860 ; he taught school for one year and six months after graduation, and then, following his rural tastes, chose farming as a vocation.
His present residence is in Cooleyville, New Salem. He has been an active mem- ber of the school board since 1866.
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He has been a trustee of the New Salem Academy since 1880, and is now president of the board ; was a member of the lower branch of the Legislature, 1875, and has been trial justice for Franklin county.
Mr. Putnam married, in New Salem, July 14, 1862, Nellie L., daughter of David Bur- nett, of New Salem. He has two children : Willard A. and Bertrand F. Putnam.
PUTNEY, LYMAN K., son of Joseph and Mary (Winch) Putney, was born in Troy, Cheshire county, N. H., August 2, 1833.
He received a common school education in the public schools of those days. At fifteen years of age he began to learn the trade of woolen manufacturer, and worked steadily at this for three years. In 1851 he went to Boston and worked in the mar- ket there three years, then started in the business of trucking, which he has since followed. He has also the management of his large stock and dairy farm, the im- proving of his real estate, etc.
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He is treasurer and manager of the Wel- lesley Co-operative Creamery Company.
Mr. Putney was married in Boston, April 3, 1858, to Abbie A., daughter of William and Louisa (Aldrich) Marshall. Their children are : Alice M., Henry M., and Ethel W. Putney.
Mr. Putney was selectman four years in Needham, has been selectman in Wellesley seven years, assessor two years, and is still in office. He is a member of the Wellesley water commission, and was a member of the General Court from Needham in 1880, and from Wellesley in 1883.
A prominent member of the F. & A. M., and a member of Newton R. A. Chapter ; he is also a member and officer I. O. O. F., and was two years district deputy for the 28th district. He is also an active working member of the Needham Farmers' and Me- chanics' Association, having been its secre- tary three years and president four years.
He is now serving his second term as master of Wellesley Grange.
QUA, FRANCIS WINNIE, son of Robert and Jane (Moncrief ) Qua, was born in Lisbon, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Sep- tember 2, 1845.
He was educated in the district schools and in the institute at Ogdensburgh, N. Y.
He began business life clerking in a boot and shoe store in Waddington, N. Y. At sixteen years of age he taught school in Lisbon and the neighboring towns, and at twenty began the study of law with George G. Simonds, Madrid, N. Y. In 1867 he went to McGregor, lowa, and studied with Willis Drummond. Later he was principal of the North McGregor school, and afterwards principal of the grammar school at Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Failing health compelled him to abandon teaching, and he entered the office of the Central Vermont Railroad and remained there two years. He was subsequently connected with the " Franklin County Times," Green- field. He finally resumed the study of law with Austin De Wolfe, Greenfield, went to Lowell in 1877, and was admitted to the bar in 1878.
He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1888, serving as chair- man of the committee on towns, and was re-elected in 1889, being appointed to the committees on manufactures and rules, and chairman of the committee on pro- bate and insolvency.
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Mr. Qua was married in Ogdensburgh, N. Y., September 16, 1879, to Alice I .. , daughter of Michael and Mary Ann (Call) Harder. They have one child : Stanley E. Qua.
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QUINT, ALONZO HALL, son of George and Sally W. (Hall) Quint, was born in Barnstead, Belknap county, N. H., March 22, 1828, his parents' residence being Dover, N. H.
He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846 ; read medicine in Dover eighteen months, and studied in mechanical work later. He was graduated from An- dover Theological Seminary in 1852, and took the post-graduate year ; was ordained pastor of the Central Congregational church, Jamaica Plain, Boston, December 27, 1853, which church accepted his resig- nation in May, 1863.
He was chaplain of the 2d Massachusetts infantry, from 1861 to '64, and was offici- ally mentioned for good conduct in several severe engagements.
He was installed pastor of the North Congregational church, New Bedford, in 1864, and resigned because of ill health, after eleven years' service. He returned to New Hampshire, and later on engaged in literary work. From 1881 to '84 he was in charge of the Broadway church, Somerville. He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1881 to '85, serving as chairman of the railroad com- mittee in his second term. To his efforts was due in a great measure the enactment of the "lease law" and the "railroad commissioner law." In 1886 he became the pastor of the Allston Congregational church, where he still remains.
Mr. Quint was a member of the state board of education from 1855 to'61. He was at that time chairman of the West Roxbury school board. He was also chair- man of the Dover (N. H.) school board, after his return to New Hampshire, until his res- ignation in 1884. He served as a manager of the Congregational Publishing Society twenty-one years, and has been a director (now senior) in the American Congrega- tional Association twenty-five years ; has been secretary of the board of Ministerial Aid from its origin in 1868; secretary of the Massachusetts General Association of Con- gregational Churches twenty-five years; was chairman of the committee to draft the constitution for a national Congrega- tional council. He opened its first session in Oberlin, Ohio, 1871, and was its secre- tary the next twelve years; issued the national statistics of the Congregational churches from 1859 to '84, except during the war.
He received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1866. He has been a trus- tee of Dartmouth since 1870. Mr. Quint
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was the first New England man mustered into the Grand Army of the Republic, and helped to form Post 1, New Bedford ; he has since been prominent in G. A. R. coun- cils; was its first chaplain-in-chief ; and on its committee to frame its constitutions ; was chaplain of the Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Free Masons from 1869 to '80. He was chaplain and preacher for the An-
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cient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1884 ; he preached the election sermon be- fore the Legislature of 1866 ; and later, the sermon before the Congregational con- vention. He was chaplain at the dedica- tion of the soldiers' monument, Boston Common, and has delivered many more memorial addresses that have been pub- licly mentioned.
Besides various sermons and other ad- dresses, he has published three volumes of his works : "The Potomac and Rapidan," " The Record of the 2d Massachusetts In- fantry," and "The First Parish, Dover, N. H., 1633-1883." He was joint editor and owner of " The Congregational Quar- terly " from 1859 to '75. He has contrib- uted numerous articles of local New Hamp- shire history and on denominational polity. He is a corresponding member of the New Hampshire and New York Historical socie- ties, and of the Maine Genealogical Society,
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and was once resident member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Mr. Quint was married in Boston, Janu- ary 31, 1854, to Rebecca P., daughter of Allen and Eliza (Page) Putnam, of Salem.
Of this union were five children : George Putnam (deceased), Clara G. (Wheaton Seminary, 1877), Wilder D. (Dartmouth, 1887), Katharine M. (Wellesley, 1889), and John H. (in Dartmouth).
RAND, ARNOLD AUGUSTUS, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth (Arnold) Rand, was born in Boston, March 25, 1837.
He is of the eighth generation in descent in Massachusetts from Robert and Alice Rand, who settled in Charles- town, 1635. His education was obtained in the public and private schools of Bos- ton and Dedham, and was supplemented by a course of study abroad.
After fitting for college, intending to enter Harvard with the class of 1858, he began his business training in the count- ing-room of William B. Reynolds & Co., commission merchants. Here he passed the successive grades to assistant book- keeper. He then spent nearly two years in study in Europe.
On his return he entered the banking house of Blake, Howe & Co., remaining as cashier with them and their successors, Blake Brothers & Co., until the outbreak of the civil war.
Before the call for troops he was already an enlisted man of the 4th battalion, Mas- sachusetts volunteer militia. His first commission, October 30, 1861, was that of 2d lieutenant in the first Massachusetts cavalry. He was soon promoted to a captaincy, and the following year was made assistant adjutant-general with the rank of captain, and ordered to duty in the department of the South. In the fall of 1863 he was recalled by Governor Andrew, assigned as superintendent of recruiting for Suffolk county, and directed to form the 4th regiment, Massachusetts cavalry, to which he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel. Early in 1864 he took the regiment to the army of the James, having been promoted to colonel, and was in active service till his resignation in 1865.
Returning to Boston, after four years of military service, he entered his father's office and began the study of law. In 1874 he was admitted to the Suffolk bar, devoting himself to real estate and probate practice.
Colonel Rand is an active and promi- nent member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, serving as recorder of the
commandery of Massachusetts since 1881. He is a member of Post 144, G. A. R., and has served on the department staff. He has never participated in politics, though in 1884 he was nominated by Mayor Mar- tin a police commissioner of the city of Boston, to succeed the retiring General Nat. Wales. The nomination was con- firmed by the board of aldermen, but ow- ing to a variance between the mayor and the common council, it failed of confir- mation in that branch of the city govern- ment.
In 1885 Colonel Rand, in connection with the late N. J. Bradlee, formed the Massachusetts Title Insurance Company, becoming its vice-president, and organiz- ing and conducting its office and business up to the present time.
Colonel Rand was married in 1877, to Annie Eliza, daughter of Abner W. and Eliza (Le Barron) Brownell, of New Bed- ford. He resides in Boston.
RANDALL, CHARLES STURTEVANT, son of George and Martha (Sturtevant) Randall, was born in New Bedford, Bristol county, February 20, 1824.
His educational training was received at Charles W. Greene's school, Jamaica Plain, in the Friends' Academy, New Bedford. the New Bedford high school, in France, and finally under the care of private tu- tors, with whom he fitted for Harvard. He did not matriculate, however, but entered into business. Touched by the "gold fever," in 1849 he went to California, where he worked in the mines in which he was interested. He remained two years ; returned in 1851, and did a commission business until 1860 ; was then made treas- urer of the New Bedford Copper Company - the largest copper manufacturing com- pany in the country- in which position he remained seven years. He resigned in 1867, and devoted his energies until 1872 to the shipping and commission business. Hle then retired from active business, and traveled abroad with his family for three years.
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