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Glines, Jacob T., son of Jacob and Jane Glines, was born in Moultonborough, N. H., July 20, 1817; he removed to Charlestown when a young man, and married, in 1840, Miss Sarah Washburn, of Kennebunk, Me. Mr. Glines was always identified with the prosperity of Somerville as a town and city; he was a member of the last Board of Selectmen; was chairman of the first Board of Aldermen, and member of the City Government for a number of years subsequently; he represented Somerville two years in the lower house of the Gen- eral Court; early in life he carried on an extensive brick business, and for many years was a prominent coffee merchant in Boston; he was a charter member of Bunker Hill Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Charlestown; he died August 3, 1882. In recognition of his services to the city the Jacob T. Glines School was named in 1891.
Gookin, Abijah B., son of Thomas Thwing and Mary (Brown) Gookin, was born at Watertown, Mass., September 7, 1825. He attended the schools of Watertown until he was fifteen years of age, and when nineteen he entered the High School of Fitchburg. He em- barked in the provision business October 1, 1847, and has since continued in the same line and in the original location at 370 Commercial street, Boston. He moved to Somerville in 1873, and still resides in the house that he purchased at that time. Mr. Gookin has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Sarah F. Monroe of Cambridgeport, and his second Miss Louisa M. Loring of Boston. IIe has served the city one year in the Common Council and two years in the Board of Aldermen. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Fruit and Produce Exchange of Boston. He is also a member of the St. John's Lodge, F. A. A. M. Mr. Gookin is a deacon in the Union- square Baptist Church, and has been very earnest in his efforts to promote its welfare. His residence is at 15 Grand View avenue.
EDWARD GLINES.
Residence of HON. EDWARD GLINES, 129 Highland Ave.
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Gordon, Emma J., was born in Boston, but her early childhood was passed in Lynn, where her people still reside. She was educated in the public schools of that city, and at- tended the Salem Normal School with the intention of becoming a teacher in the public schools. Her inclinations, however, led her to choose another profession for her life's work, and in 1884 she entered the Training School for Nurses at the City Hospital, Boston. She applied herself with great zeal, graduated in two years, and for six months after was the head nurse of one of the wards. She then took up the work of a district nurse, and among the poor of the "North End" of Boston gained much valuable knowledge. Later she was a private nurse, filling the important position in very many critical cases where unremitting attentions were absolutely necessary to ensure the patient's recovery. For two and a half years, just previous to being called to take charge of the Somerville Hospital, she was matron of the Sunny Bank Home for Convalescents in Watertown. When the Somerville Hospital was established in 1893, Miss Gordon was selected as one eminently qualified to fill the im- portant position of matron, and the confidence that was felt in her ability to fill that post has been fully confirmed by her three years' service; in fact, much of the success that has attended the institution has been due to her able management. Increased responsibilities that have come upon her with the gradual increase of the number of inmates, and the corresponding increase in the expenditures and in the enlarged corps of nurses, have been met with firmness and rare good judgment, and the fidelity to the interests of the hospital that she has at all times displayed, have been acknowledged by every one. Miss Gordon is often invited to de- liver lectures on hospital work, but is compelled to decline them on account of the pressure of her duties in our city institutions; at home, however, she has given on several occasions informal talks before societies whose sympathies are enlisted in the hospital's behalf, and her words of advice and instruction have been of great value to the cause in which she is so in- tensely interested.
Gould, Aaron H., son of John Gould, was born in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, January 15, 1865. He attended the public school of the town and learned the carpenter's trade. About 1884 he was persuaded by his uncle, of Ellsworth, Me., to locate there, and in charge of a force of fifty men he rebuilt for him the Hancock IIouse. Later he planned and built a costly residence for H. B. Mason, mayor of the city, and other important buildings for many well-known citizens; the Swiss Shallia, Manor Inn, and many beautiful residences at Sullivan, Me., the growing summer resort managed by a company of which the late ex- Governor A. H. Rice of Massachusetts was president. Passing about four years in the then booming sections of the South, Mr. Gould had many contracts for the erection of manufactur- ing-buildings, residences, etc., in Atlanta, Chattanooga, Fort Payne, Pell City, and other places - one an important business-block for Hon. John Maxwell of Winchester, Mass., another a savings-bank building for Col. J. W. Spaulding of Boston.
Since his return from the South he has planned the Drouet Apartment Hotel, the H. W. P. Colson Apartment Hotel, City Stables and Central Fire Station, all in Somerville; the Ward 5 Engine-house and Ward I Schoolhouse, Cambridge, the latter costing $40,000. Plans for the addition made this year to the Glines schoolhouse, Somerville, were prepared by him, also for a new engine-house in Dedham, Mass. His work has been of such a char- acter as necessarily to come under the observation of such men as ex-Mayor Hodgkins, Wm. H. Gray, superintendent of buildings, Cambridge, Hon. E. P. Cook, Portland, Me., IIon. Hannibal Hamlin, Ellsworth, Me., and others equally well known. Mr. Gould is a man who by careful attention to what he has undertaken has been able to accomplish re- sults that speak more forcibly than words of his abilities in his chosen vocation. His Bos- ton office is at 42 Court street, and his studio is at his residence, corner of Columbus and Stone avenues, Somerville.
Gray, Rev. Andrew, A.M., D.D., was born at Sussex, N. B. After the usual course
Residence of AARON H. GOULD, Columbus and Stone Avenues.
Residence of CHARLES A. GRIMMONS, 72 Thurston Street.
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of study in the schools at home, he became a scholar in the St. John Model School, and later pursued his studies at Sackville, N. B., at Windsor, N. S., and at the Boston School of Lan- guages. He was ordained both deacon and priest by the Right Reverend Dr. Binney, late Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, and spent the first three years of his ministry at Liverpool, N. S., as curate to the late Rev. Dr. Nichols. He then accepted a unanimous election to the rectorship of the adjoining parish of Port Medway, where he remained for five years.
His first charge in this diocese was the Episcopal City Mission of Boston, of which he was head from 1876 to 1879, and in which he was the successor of the late Rev. Dr. E. M. P. Wells of blessed memory. The Mission had suffered much by the "Great Fire " of 1872, both by the destruction of St. Stephen's Church and Mission House, and by the breaking up and disorganization of its work. During Mr. Gray's incumbency the work was reorganized, a house for a headquarters was purchased, and Grace Church, South Boston, was built.
In 1880 he accepted the rectorship of St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, which he held for seven years. Here, too, he did an excellent work. The church building was repaired and improved at a considerable expense, and many articles of furniture, etc., including a church bell, were provided.
After resigning St. Luke's, Dr. Gray traveled extensively abroad, and gathered mate- rials for a forthcoming work on " The Origin and Early History of Christianity in Britain." After his return from Europe he gave much attention to literary work, lectures, etc., and doing ministerial duty on Sundays. During this time he took charge of " Christ (Episcopal) Mission," Wellesley, then in the feebleness of its infancy. For eighteen months it continued under his care, during which time it developed into the present St. Andrew's Parish.
He is the author of a number of pamphlets and of one or two bound volumes, all of them on subjects connected with his profession. Some of these have reached a second or third edition. He has also been a frequent contributor to both religions and secular papers. St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y., conferred the degree of '. D. D." upon him Honoris Causa in 1894, in recognition of his literary labors and of the service he had thereby rendered to the church. In December, 1895, he was elected to the rectorship of St. Thomas' Church, in succession to the late Father Durell. He accepted the election, and at once entered on his work with earnestness and zeal.
Grimmons, Charles A., son of Charles and Cordelia (Covell) Grimmons, was born in Middleton, Conn., January 19, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of Boston. graduat- ing from the English High School in the class of 1876. He began his business life as book - keeper for Pitkin Bros., and after fifteen years' service he succeeded them with Edward F. Grimmons and William T. Hight, under the firm name of The Boston Furniture Supply Co., of which Charles A. is the senior partner. They do an extensive business as importers, manu- facturers and jobbers in hardware and supplies for the cabinet, drapery and upholstery trades at 102 Union street, Boston, their trade extending throughout this country and Canada. Mr. Grimmons was married June 1, 1887, to Katie M. Aldrich, and they have one son; they re- side at 72 Thurston street. Mr. Grimmons is a member of Soley Lodge, F. A. A. M., of the Central Club of Somerville, and of the 999th Artillery Association of Charlestown.
Gross, Jaazaniah, son of Isaac S. and Betsy Gross, was born at Truro, Mass., April S, 1824. Ile removed in 1840 to Boston, and went to work in the provision store of George Carlisle, 241 North street, with whom he remained a year, and then went to work for a Mr. Humphrey in Quincy Market. When nineteen he went into the boot and shoe business for himself, and started with the meagre sum of $150, which he borrowed of his father. Some idea of his persistency and perseverance can be formed by the statement that the youth did a business the first year amounting to $14,000, and in the thirteen years he was alone he saved $45,000. He then took in two Blanchard brothers, but the concern was dissolved in two years to protect Mr. Gross' interests. He then went to work in his father's provision
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stall in Quincy Market, and when his father died, in 1873, he assumed charge of the business, which he continued until 1895, when he sold out and retired.
In 1850 Mr. Gross married Harriet Augusta, daughter of Foster Clark of Walpolc, N. II., and about three years later he built the house at the corner of Perkins and Mt. Vernon streets. They had three daughters : Mary, who married Charles B. Stockwell of Port Huron, Mich .; Laura C., now Mrs. C. M. Shove of Fall River; and Harriet Augusta, who resides at the old homestead. Mrs. Gross died in 1874.
Mr. Gross is a member of the Masons, Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, and Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Guild, Charles H., was born at Roxbury, June 11, 1825, the son of Chester and Har- riet (Fiske) Guild. He received his education in the public schools of Roxbury, supple- mented by a course at Chauncey Hall School in Boston. He followed the occupation of his father, having obtained a thorough practical knowledge of the leather business. In this he continued many years. He became a resident of Somerville soon after its incorporation as a separate municipality, and served the town in various public capacities, having been a mem- ber of the Board of Selectmen and School Committee, president of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library, and he was three times elected to the Legislature. He held other positions of trust and responsibility. In all public, religious, educational and patriotic movements he was a zealous worker and supporter. Mr. Guild married, November 21, 1848, Margaret Jane, daughter of William and Abigail (Eaton) Fox of Woburn. For the past nine years he re- sided at Newton Highlands. His death occurred November 17, 1896.
Guild, Chester, son of Nathaniel and Rebecca ( Hart) Guild, was born in Walpole, April 9, 1791. When fourteen years of age he went to Roxbury and entered his brother's leather manufactory, and in 1812 went into business on his own account. He married Har- riet Fiske of Boston, June 13, 1822. In 1845 he purchased a large tannery in Charlestown, and shortly afterward removed to Somerville. Mr. Guild was a member of the Board of Selectmen of Somerville, and had represented the town in the General Court. He was a char- ter member of Washington Lodge, F. A. A. M., of Roxbury, and of John Abbot Lodge, of Somerville. He died March 7, 1869.
Hadley, Emma Prichard. Somerville is proud of the part that woman has had in making history for the growing city. Much of its success, even from the setting off from Charlestown, when the wives and daughters and sisters urged independence, has come from woman's influence. Other pens have exalted her in the various avenues in which she has labored and won, but outside of the ordinary praise which should be accorded there is still another scope to be alluded to, and which is finely represented by the lady whose name heads this sketch.
Mrs. Hadley is the daughter of John P. and Elizabeth A. Prichard, whose ancestor helped make a teapot of Boston Harbor. She was born in Charlestown, but moved to Somerville when a year old, and received her education in its schools, graduating at the High School in 1875. Immediately thereafter she taught as a substitute here, and in 1879 was married to Walter M. Hadley, son of George W. Hadley, one of the original settlers of the town. As early as four years of age she showed marked signs of ability in elocution, and it can be said of her that she is the first public lady reader in Somerville. From that time until the present she has taken high rank among the readers of the State, and is one of the most versatile artists on the public platform. Thousands have heard her only to praise her, and she has the fullest commendation of the ablest judges and literary personages in our city and elsewhere.
In 1895 she was the lady judge with four eminent gentlemen at the Goddard prize reading at Tufts College. In charitable and philanthropic work Mrs. Hadley has been most generous, as many churches, the hospital, and organizations can well attest. Her annual recitals are occasions looked forward to with great interest, and are signally successful.
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Mrs. Hadley's pen is not an idle one, and many papers on various subjects have come from her pen and brain. Of this line of work she is also very fond. She finds time from that devoted to her niany pupils to give society the benefit and pleasure of her association, and her name is enrolled as a member of the Somerville Shakespeare Society, the Heptorean and Hillside Clubs. She is a highly esteemed member of the First Universalist Church.
Eleven years ago Mr. and Mrs. Hadley moved into their new and cozy-like home at the corner of Hathon and Arlington streets, where they now reside.
Hadley, George W., son of Benjamin and Martha (Ireland) Hadley, was born in Charlestown (now Somerville) in 1826, and was engaged in the wood and coal business on Charlestown Neck for twenty years. He was on the Board of Selectmen of the town of Somerville for four years during the war, and after the town was incorporated as a city he was elected to the Board of Aldermen. Mr. Hadley served fifteen years as principal assessor.
He married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Hugh Tannant Moore, in 1852. They have one son, Walter M. IIadley, who succeeded his father in the coal business.
Hadley, S. Henry, was born in Boston, November 22, 1844, the son of Samuel D. and Mary (Oliver) Hadley, of that city. His education was obtained at the Lyman and Chap- man Schools, Boston, and the Prescott and High Schools of Somerville, where he moved in 1853. He graduated from the High School in 1862 with the first class that received diplo- mas. There were six in the class. Mr. Hadley was instructed in music by his father, who enjoyed an eminent reputation; and in his fifteenth year was organist at a Medford church. For eleven years he was organist at the Winthrop Church, Charlestown, and has served in the same capacity in several of the larger churches of Somerville. He has held many posi- tions as conductor of musical societies, - notably at the Peace Jubilee in 1870, and has otherwise been connected with musical organizations. In 1868 he became teacher of mu- sic in the Somerville High School, and soon after in the grammar schools, which position he still retains. He has taught music in the public schools of Everett, Reading, Weston, for eight years in Medford, and for eleven years in Watertown. His success as a teacher is shown by the remarkable progress made in singing in the Somerville schools during the last quarter of a century. He has a practical knowledge of ali the musical instruments, having played more or less upon nearly all of them. He has had charge of the Memorial-day music in Somerville for the past twenty years, and thus in another way his success and ability as a teacher and conductor has been demonstrated. Mr. Hadley married, October 28, 1869, Miss Martha T. Conant, daughter of Ezra D. and Betsey (Skeele) Conant, of Somerville. They reside at 46 Pearl street, and have two sons, Henry K. Hadley and Arthur D. Hadley. Both of the sons are talented musicians, the former, though only twenty-one years of age, having the peculiar gift of his father, of composing and arranging music for the orchestra.
Haigh, John, son of George and Hannah (Parkinson) Haigh, was born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, England, December 31, 1832. His education was obtained in that town, and when he was seventeen years of age he was apprenticed to the trade of calico printer, which trade was the foundation of his success. He came to America in 1855, and early in 1856 became engaged with the Pacific Mills at Lawrence. After eighteen years of service with that firm he severed his connection with it, and took charge of the printing department of the Mid- dlesex Bleachery and Dye Works, of which he subsequently became half owner. April 12, 1859, Mr. Haigh was married in Perkins, Me., to Lucy Jane, daughter of Captain Redford D. and Jane Bowker Tallman. He was always associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was ever liberal in church contributions. He was an enthusiastic member and worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, which he joined in Lawrence in 1859. He has held nearly every position in the order. In the Grand Chapter he passed through the office of district deputy, grand high priest, and deputy grand high priest. For several years he was
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illustrious grand master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters. In 1883 he was elected grand conductor of the General Grand Council, Royal and Select Masters of the United States, for three years. He was also past most puissant sovereign grand commander of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He had a private library which was, perhaps, the richest in choice Masonic literature of any in New England, and he acquired no small fame as a collector, his cabinets containing many rare coins, medals and articles of vertu of all sorts that are characteristic of the intelligent study of the collector. He was intensely inter- ested in historical research, and was a member of the Massachusetts Society, the Society of Odd Volumes, and other organizations devoted to such matters. Mr. Haigh was respected and beloved by all the residents of Somerville, and his death, which occurred August 20, 1896, was regarded as a public bereavement.
Hall, William Franklin, though a native of Charlestown, has resided in Somerville for a score of years. IIe was chosen a member of the Mystic Water Board of Somerville for a term of three years, from January 1, 1894. His business is that of professional account- ant, in which he has become widely known.
Hanscom, Dr. Sanford, son of James and Mary (Frost) Hanscom, was born in Albion, Me., January 28, 1841. He was prepared for college at the Waterville (Me.) Classical In- stitute, and entered Colby University in 1863, but left college in his sophomore year to enter the Union Army. His Alma Mater, however, in 1885 conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He was first lieutenant of the Eighth Unassigned Company of Maine Volunteers, which, when ready for service, was assigned to the Eleventh Maine Infantry, then in the Twenty- fourth Army Corps, Army of the James. Soon after this assignment he was commissioned adjutant of the regiment. It was in active service around Richmond and Petersburg in the spring of 1865, until the surrender of those cities. Its last engagement was at Appomattox Court-house the morning of the day of General Lee's surrender. In 1868 Dr. Hanscom was graduated from the Harvard Medical School, and in the spring of 1869 commenced practice in Somerville, where he hassince resided. He is now serving his fifteenth year on the Somer- ville School Board, and has served six years as trustee of the Public Library. For a period of twelve years he has been State Medical Examiner for the Royal Arcanum in Massachusetts, which position he resigned in July, 1896, to accept the office of Medical Examiner-in-Chief of the same order. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and is a member of Soley Lodge, F. A. A. M. He was married, October 26, 1874, to Miss Beulah A. Hill, daughter of Cyrus and Cynthia (Moure) Hill; they have one daughter, Aline Louisa Hanscom. The new schoolhouse on the corner of Webster and Rush streets was in 1896 named the Hanscom School, in recognition of his valuable services on the School Board.
Hartshorn, Edward, M. D., son of Rev. Levi and IIannah (Elliott) Hartshorn, was born in Gloucester, Mass., June 28, 1817. He "read medicine" after the custom of the times, with Dr. Rendall Davis of Reading and Dr. M. Spaulding of South Reading, attended lectures at the Dartmouth Medical Department, but graduated after a full course at the Har- vard Medical School in 1840, locating in practice in Berlin, Mass., the same year. In 1841, May 13, he married Lucy Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Solomon and Sarah Howe of Berlin. Their only children have been Edward Howe and William Henry, the former dying ten years ago. After several years of successful practice his health demanded a change, and he commenced the manufacture of medicines and cooking extracts, which are now in general use, in about sixty different varieties. He took his sons into copartnership as they reached their majority. He removed his business to Boston about thirty years ago, taking up his home at 87 Munroe street, in Somerville, where he has since resided with his surviving son and family.
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Residence of HORACE E. HALL, 25 Highland Ave.
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In 1878 he became interested in the United Order of the Golden Cross, and relin- quished his business to his sons (now carried on by W. II. Hartshorn), and devoted much energy and time to its interest. In this order he has been honored with the highest official rank, having been Grand Commander of this State, a representative to and a permanent member of the supreme body, and is accredited with great success. In 1880 he established the "Golden Cross Journal," and he still edits and manages this influential paper of exten- sive circulation. In church matters he has been very active, having been superintendent of the Sabbath School in Berlin several years, and also of the Prospect Hill Sunday-school, in connection with the church of the same name, which he was largely instrumental in formning. He was one of the first deacons of the Day-street Congregational Church, and has held that office in the Prospect Hill Church from its origin. His faithful wife, to whom he attributes largely his success in life, celebrated with him recently the fifty-fifth anniversary of their marriage.
Hartshorn, Frank S., son of Francis G. and Aroline A. (Saunders) Hartshorn, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 13, 1846. His father moving to Somerville with his family in 1852, Mr. Hartshorn received his education in the schools of that city, and was graduated from the Somerville High School in the first class to receive diplomas in 1862. He was for several years in mercantile life, and later in the dramatic profession. For fifteen years he has been connected with prominent hotels, having been for nine years in the Old Tremont House, Boston. He was for three consecutive years W. M. of John Abbot Lodge, F. A. A. M., of Somerville, and is a member of a council of the Home Circle. Mr. Hartshorn married Ellen L., daughter of Cyrus F. Crosby of Somerville, and their children are Horace C., of New Orleans and Florence S. Hartshorn. He has resided in Somerville for forty-four years. excepting a short time in Watertown, and in Memphis. His present residence is at 96 Glen street.
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