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ton Street grammar school, and was gradu- ated from the Haverhill High School. Ma- triculating at Dartmouth College, he was graduated in 1872 with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts. Four years later he was granted the Master's degree in Arts.
By this time Albert L. Bartlett had al- ready started upon his career as an educa- tor. Immediately after his graduation from college he began teaching in the Haverhill High School and after a few years' service there, became principal of the old Bradford High School. He returned to the teaching staff of the Haverhill High School in 1882, and continued until 1888 when he was elected superintendent of the Haverhill schools. He held this position until 1897 and during his term of service brought the schools to a high degree of excellence.
He was master of Sherborn Academy for a brief time during his early teaching ca- reer and also lectured on English language and literature at the New Hampshire Sum- mer Normal School at Keene in 1895, re- maining in that position until 1897. He as- sumed a similar position at Martha's Vine- yard Summer Normal School in 1900, re- maining until 1901 when he became a lec- turer on the same subjects at Virginia Nor- mal School at Richmond.
When he completed his duties as super- intendent of schools he traveled in Europe with his late brother, Horace Bartlett, and upon his return wrote a book, "A Golden Way," which pictured many interesting scenes and incidents of his trip. Soon after returning from Europe, Mr. Bartlett wrote "First Steps in English," "The Essentials of Language and Grammar" and "The Ele- ments of English Grammar." These books were translated into Spanish for use in the Spanish possessions, while the English edi- tions of them were used in this country and Canada.
Other books which Mr. Bartlett wrote were: "History of Haverhill Academy and High School," in 1890; "The Construction of English," in 1903; "Some Memories of Old Haverhill," in 1915; "Haverhill, 1640- 1915," which is an historical address that was published in 1915. He also contributed to many magazines.
"Mr. Bartlett was active in the establish- ment of the commission form of government for Haverhill, under which the city is still being operated. The first movement for this form of government was conceived by him and two other citizens in 1908, after he had listened to a lecture in the Portland Street Baptist Church one evening by the late President Eliot of Harvard University on the commission form of government. When the new charter was adopted in 1909, he was a candidate for mayor, but was de- feated by a comparatively small vote. In III he was elected an alderman and was assigned to the position of commissioner of public safety. He was reelected two years later by a large plurality.
He served as mayor in 1915 and 1916 and during his term the city enjoyed high pros- perity. During his administration the Gale Hospital was established and opened and the extensive marginal sewer around Lake Kenoza begun and carried nearly to com- pletion.
Mr. Bartlett again served in the city coun- cil as commissioner of public safety in 1917 and 1918. He had been a trustee of the Haverhill public library since 1889 and was a member of the park commission from 1900 to 1912. For seven years he served as its chairman. During his term as a member of the park commission he took a leading part in having the city accept the legislative act for the establishment of playgrounds.
Mr. Bartlett died on May 15, 1934. At the time of his death he was serving his second
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term as a representative in the Legislature. He was a member of the North Congrega- tional Church, and in his fraternal affilia- tions a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He never married.
ROY EDWARD HARDY-After being well established for a decade and a half in his profession of sales engineering, Roy E.d- ward Hardy, of Andover, Massachusetts, had the vision and the enterprise to enter the difficult business of catering to the aver- age citizen's enjoyment, and with marked success. He was born in Andover, August 30, 1892, son of Lewis T. and Harriett R. (Abbott) Hardy, both of whom are natives also of Andover. Lewis T. Hardy, a con- tractor and well-known figure in local affairs, was a member of the board of public works, a trustee of the Andover Savings Bank, and a member of other civic and local organiza- tions.
After being graduated from the local high school, in 1908, Mr. Hardy completed his preparation for higher educational work in Phillips Andover Academy in 1910. He then matriculated at the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, from which he re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Science with the class of 1914. For fifteen years he was associated with the Truscon Steel Com- pany as a specialist in sales engineering, but resigned to engage in the recreation and amusement business in his part of the Com- monwealth. He owns and developed Bal- moral Spa, at Shawsheen, one of the most beautiful of recreation gardens in this sec- tion. He also is the proprietor of the Law- rence Recreation Building, which houses some twenty bowling alleys and has a hall which can accommodate twenty-one hun- dred people. In 1930 he purchased the Spa drug store, or Shawsheen Pharmacy, one of
the leading stores of its kind, together with the large three-story brick building in which it is located.
Mr. Hardy has had the courage of his con- victions to back to the limit any enterprise that appeals to his judgment. He has suc- ceeded where others failed and in a period that is the most difficult of the present gen- eration. He is a director of the Merrimac Cooperative Bank, Lawrence. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Matthew's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Andover, of which he is a Past Master; is a member of Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a thirty- second degree Mason. He is secretary of the Andover planning board, president of the Andover Guild, treasurer of the South Church for ten years, and a member of the Kiwanis Club.
On January 19, 1918, Roy Edward Hardy married Helen E. Knowles, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and they are the parents of three children : I. Ruth B., born August 17, 1920. 2. Judith, born August 1, 1923. 3. Virginia, born September 6, 1929.
NATHANIEL HATCH belonged to that select group of manufacturers and business men who pioneered the development of an industry which has since made Haverhill one of the shoe centers of the world. Com- ing here during the early part of his career, he entered the high school of this city, but was compelled to discontinue because of physical disability. It was then that he en- tered the shoe manufacturing business here and began a business career that was highly profitable.
Mr. Hatch was born in Gorham, Maine, September 1, 1815, son of Nathaniel and Anna (McDougall) Hatch and one of a family of twelve children. He prepared for college in the schools at Gorham and by
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private instruction and entered Bowdoin College from which he was graduated in 1843. For a period he taught in the Gor- ham schools, and later in Westbrook Acad- emy and in other schools of his native State. While thus engaged he contracted a throat malady that was to handicap him seriously in his educational work. He was advised to seek a change of climate and settle in a community away from the salt air. Com- plying with this advice he went to Bos- ton, Massachusetts, about 1854, and there learned of a vacancy in the Haverhill High School. He made application for the posi- tion and was accepted, but his career here was limited for his throat ailment recurred. He determined to give up his profession and to enter the shoe manufacturing busi- ness. He established a plant at this time and operated it with great success, until he retired from active business to devote him- self to his private interests.
Throughout his residence here he was identified in many ways with the progress and development of this community and through his enthusiastic public spirit was sought by his fellow-townsmen to fill many important and responsible offices. For many years he was town clerk for Bradford, which is now part of Haverhill. Following the Civil War he was, for several years, United States internal revenue officer for this district.
Nathaniel Hatch married, March 10, 1852, Catherine P. Harbach, who was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, December 18, 1821, daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Sherman) Harbach, according to family records of "Mayflower" ancestry and a direct descend- ant of Peregrine White. Mrs. Hatch died April 26, 1904, the mother of six children as follows: I. Anna Sherman, who died at the age of twenty-one. 2. Frederick Thomas, who was a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy and Scientific School. He was a
civil engineer, for many years chief engi- neer of maintenance of the Southwest Divi- sion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with headquarters for some years at Indianap- olis, Indiana, and later at St. Louis, Mis- souri, where his death occurred. He mar- ried (first), Alice G. Hill, who was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where she had been a teacher in the public schools. She died in 1905, the mother of four children: i. Fred- erick Nathaniel, who is a civil engineer and is a resident of St. Louis. ii. Alice Katha- rine, a librarian in the Cleveland, Ohio, Public Library. iii. William Sherman, who resides at Pasadena, California. He mar- ried Sophie Disteli and they have two sons, William Edward and Robert Alan. iv. Ed- ward Flint, who died in St. Louis in 1910, at the age of seven years. Frederick Thomas Hatch married (second) Mrs. Nola Pearson Underwood, who survives him and resides in St. Louis, Missouri. 3. Mary Frances, who completed her education at Bradford Academy and for over fifty years was a teacher in the public schools of the Brad- ford section of Haverhill. 4. Charles Har- bach, who died in infancy. 5. Edward Flint, who throughout life was prominently identified with the leather industry of this section ; he died unmarried. 6. Katharine Agnes, who died in 1932, unmarried. The family were members of the Congregational Church in Bradford, where Mr. Hatch, of this review, served as clerk of the church and as a deacon for many years. The only survivor of the children of Nathaniel Hatch is Mary Frances, who occupies the home- stead at No. 333 South Main Street, Brad- ford, which has been in the family for about eighty years. It was formerly a part of the Haseltine estate, and the substantial brick house was erected by Mrs. Rebecca (Hasel- tine) Emerson nearly a century ago.
The death of Deacon Nathaniel Hatch on April 22, 1886, removes a substantial and
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worthy citizen from a community which he loved and helped to improve. He gave liberally of his time and talents to the wel- fare and progress of this city and to the happiness of his fellowmen.
FRANK LESLIE BRIGHAM, the vice- president of the Merrimack and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of An- dover, Massachusetts, is a native of Ver- mont, born in Bradford, on January 23, 1879, the son of Silas H. and Olive (Merrick) Brigham. His mother was born at Comp- ton, Province of Quebec, Canada, while sev- eral generations of the Brigham family were Vermonters. Silas H. Brigham was a travel- ing salesman for twenty-one years, whose later years were spent in the insurance busi- ness at Lisbon, New Hampshire. He was sheriff of Grafton County, New Hampshire, for a dozen years and died in 1911. Mrs. Brigham died in 1902.
After being graduated from the Lisbon High School, Frank L. Brigham attended the Burdett Business College in Boston. In 1898 he became associated with his father in insurance, the business being conducted as the Brigham Insurance Agency. In 1901 Frank L. Brigham purchased an insurance agency at Bradford, Vermont, and it was not until twelve years later that the larger field for his activities in Andover caused his removal to that town. Here he was first a general agent, supervising the field depart- ment of the Merrimack and Cambridge Mu- tual Insurance Company. In 1932 he was elected vice-president of the corporation. The Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Com- pany was incorporated in 1928, the Cam- bridge Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1833.
In community and civic affairs in both Bradford and Andover, Mr. Brigham has played many prominent rôles. He was town treasurer of Bradford for twelve years, and
was elected to the Vermont Legislature as a representative in 1912, serving one term. He organized the Vermont State Association of Fire Insurance Agents and had been presi- dent of the body for several years, resigning the office when moving from the State to Andover. In fraternal circles Mr. Brigham is a popular figure, being a thirty-second de- gree Mason, affiliated with Charity Lodge, No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons, Brad- ford, of which he is a Past Master ; Palestine Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont; and Mount Sinai Temple, at Montpelier, Vermont, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Massachusetts Con- sistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, of Boston, and is a Past Noble Grand in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is secretary and a member of the Andover Country Club; a lover of sports; a much sought public speaker, and an outstanding personality in the varied life of Andover.
On October 30, 1901, Frank Leslie Brig- ham married Winifred Whitcher, a native of New Hampshire. She has been a director of the Red Cross Society for several years, is a member of the welfare committee of Andover, and is identified with many of the charitable and social organizations of her community. Mr. and Mrs. Brigham have homes in Andover, Massachusetts, and Haverhill, New Hampshire, the latter being a summer residence.
WILLIAM DACRE WALKER, M. D .-- Medical practice and public service continue to occupy the attention of Dr. William D. Walker, well known physician and member of the board of health of Andover. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, January 29, 1878, son of Dr. Thomas Walker, who was a physician and surgeon and colonel of the 62d Regiment, Canadian Militia, and Mary Rebecca Walker. After passing through
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the public schools of Saint John, he took his professional training at Tufts College Medical School, where he received his de- gree on graduation in the class of 1905. In the following year he entered practice at Andover, where he has a large following.
Under the designation of Republican he has participated in public affairs of Andover since 1925. In that year he was elected to the school committee, serving for a term of six years. In 1931 he was elected a member of the board of health and still occupies this office; a member of the staff of the Law- rence General Hospital. He is affiliated with the American Medical Association, Massa- chusetts Medical Society (member of the council), Lawrence Medical Club, and Phi Chi (National Medical) Fraternity. He is a member of the North Andover Country Club, Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, and University Club of Boston. His reli- gious fellowship is with Christ Episcopal Church, Andover, of which he is a vestry- man and former junior warden.
Dr. Walker married, May 29, 1901, at Pea- body, Mary Thomas, daughter of Horatio U. and Lizzie (Bancroft-Jacobs) Thomas. Their children are: I. Helen Bancroft, born June 4, 1902; married Talcott Parsons, and has children : Anne Parsons, born December 27, 1930, and Charles Dacre Parsons, born April 13, 1933. 2. Thomas Walker, born July 17, 1909. 3. William Dacre Walker, Jr., born October 17, 1910. Dr. Walker has his pro- fessional address at No. 121 Main Street, Andover.
BERTHA BAILEY-As principal of Ab- bot Academy, Andover, Miss Bertha Bailey has performed and is today performing a work of vast importance to Essex County and to the whole cause of education. She has accomplished much that is of value to the institution with which she is connected,
and has at the same time taken a lively inter- est in general civic affairs.
Miss Bailey was born at Albany, New York, daughter of the Rev. William and Mary Loomis (Stark) Bailey. Graduated from the Albany Girls' Academy in 1884, she then became a student at Wellesley College, from which she was graduated with the class of 1888, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. From 1888 to 1890 she was a teacher of science at Science Hall School, Shelbyville, Kentucky, and then, until 1893, she taught science and history at Miss Mit- tleberger's School, Cleveland, Ohio. From 1893 to 1900 she taught history and mathe- matics at Ruel School, in New York, and from 1900 to 1902 was head of the Day School and Miss Brown's and Miss Boese's School, New York. Her next two years were spent in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was at Miss Stuart's School. From 1904 to 1912 she served as principal of the Taconic School, at Lakeville, Connec- ticut, becoming, in 1912, principal of the Abbot Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts. Today she continues her work at the Abbot Academy, and, having lived all these years in Andover, is one of her community's highly esteemed and respected citizens, as well as a leading educator of the youth.
In addition to her actual teaching and school administrative work, Miss Bailey has held important positions in different organi- zations having to do with school life and betterment of the schools. She is a member of the Progressive Education Association, the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls, the National Education Association, the Headmistresses' Associa- tion of the East, the New England Associa- tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and the Wellesley College Teachers' Association. She also belongs to the Shakespeare Society of Wellesley, the Boston College Club, and
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the November Club of Andover. From 1900 to 1902 she was a director of the New York branch of the Association of College Alumna Association. Since 1930 Miss Bailey has been alumnæ trustee of Wellesley Col- lege. In each of these different groups, she has constructively labored toward a general betterment of conditions in society, working through the field of education, the soundest of all mediums for advancement. She is widely and favorably known in education circles, and through her many affiliations and by virtue of her breadth of school ex- perience has been able to influence to some extent the direction that educational changes have taken.
JOHN JOSEPH HARTIGAN, M. D .- John Joseph Hartigan, prominent physician and surgeon of Andover, was born Sept. 19, 1893, at Andover, a son of David and Mary (O'Brien) Hartigan. His father was a woolen goods finisher. After attending Stowe Gram- mar School until 1908, and Punchard High School from 1908 until 1910, he studied at Phillips Andover Academy until 1913. He was graduated from Tufts College in 1918, from Tufts Medical School in 1922, and served his interneship at the Boston City Hospital from 1922 to 1924. During the war days of 1917 and 1918, Dr. Hartigan was a member of the United States Naval Forces.
On March 18, 1924, Dr. Hartigan began to practice at Andover, and has continued there until the present. In his large practice he has exemplified the finest traditions of his profession, and is highly regarded both for his professional skill and for his qualities of character.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American Medical Soci- ety, and the Merrimack Country Club. In 1932-33 he served as president of the Tufts College Club (Lawrence District) and from
1926 until 1928 served as secretary and treas- urer of the Caduceus Medical Club.
Dr. Hartigan married, February 25, 1922, Celeste M. Doucette, a daughter of Dennis and Orphelia (Boudreau) Doucette, and they are the parents of a daughter, Joan Adelaide, born March 8, 1926.
HARRY R. EMERY-As the directing head of one of the foremost shoe manufactur- ing concerns in the city of Haverhill, Harry R. Emery occupied an important place in the industrial life of this community and was widely known throughout the business realm of the State. During his residence here, which began in his youth, he took a keen and active part in civic and social affairs and had the esteem and respect of many friends and associates.
Harry R. Emery was born in Saco, Maine, on November 2, 1861, the son of George and Lucy (Thacher) Emery, both residents for many years of the community of Biddeford. On his maternal side he was a direct descend- ant of the Honorable George Thacher, for- mer Congressman and Federal judge. Mr. Emery was afforded a general education in the public schools of Biddeford and, after graduating from the high school there, entered the employ of C. P. Emery, with whom he remained for several years. Later he became associated with the shoe industry in Portland and then worked in the same industry at Wakefield, Massachusetts. He remained at the latter city until C. P. Emery again sought his services as supervisor of the cutting plant at Taunton in Massachusetts. Throughout this period he had gained an experience that was to qualify him eminently for the important tasks he assumed later in life. In 1893 he came to Haverhill and entered into partnership with his employer, whose firm continued to operate until 1904 under that basis. During the latter year Sherman H. Marshall pur-
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chased C. P. Emery's interest in the enterprise and the firm became known as Emery and Marshall. Under the able and careful direc- tion of Harry R. Emery the business expanded until it was one of the foremost of its type in this city. He continued in an executive ca- pacity until May, 1918, when ill health and a severe injury compelled him to retire from active participation. By January, 1919, he had recovered sufficiently to reenter active business and at this time became an associate of Orlando N. Dana and Arthur P. Tucker, under the firm name of Emery, Dana and Tucker Company, and maintained his inter- est with this organization until his death.
As senior partner of the firm of Emery and Marshall and associate member of Emery, Dana and Tucker Company, he was widely and prominently known throughout the shoe manufacturing circles of the State.
Socially Mr. Emery was affiliated with many of the leading organizations of this city, including the Haverhill Chamber of Com- merce, the Pentucket Club, and the Agawam Club. In his religious convictions he was a member of the Universalist Church.
In 1887 Mr. Emery married Mary E. Lea- vitt, of Biddeford, Maine, the daughter of Captain George W. and Sarah Jane (Lowell) Leavitt, both natives of that State. Her father, who was a master mariner, passed away at sea when three days out of Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
On April 7, 1920, Mr. Emery died at his home in Haverhill and was laid to rest at Biddeford, Maine. The mark of his business accomplishments and the memory of his per- sonality were so strongly impressed on the minds of those who knew him that time will not dim the admiration and affection in which he was held.
JEREMIAH JAMES DALY, M. D .- For three decades Dr. Jeremiah James Daly has ministered to the medical needs of the com- munity of Andover and, in the performance
of his duties, has not only won the esteem and admiration of a host of grateful friends, but has also been entrusted by them to fill important public office.
Dr. Daly was born in Andover on May 23, 1875, the son of Patrick J. and Hannah E. (O'Brien) Daly, both natives of Ireland who came to this country about 1863, set- tling in New Hampshire, where they met and married. They came to Andover, Mas- sachusetts, in 1874, where his father engaged in railroading for nearly a half a century, being associated with the Boston and Maine Railroad. Later the elder Daly, who was widely known throughout this section, estab- lished a grocery business in this town.
Dr. Daly was afforded a general education in the public schools of his native commu- nity, graduating from the high school here with the class of 1893. The following year he matriculated at Tufts College, graduating from the medical school of that institution with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1903. He entered the Boston City Hospital to serve his interneship and then went to Haverhill and for a short time practiced in that city. In 1904 he returned to his native community of Andover, where he established himself and has since built up a large and substantial clientele.
Throughout his professional residence he has taken a keen and active interest in social and civic affairs. For three years he was a member of the board of health and in 1928 was elected a selectman, and was reëlected in 1930 and again in 1933. During this period he was also elected assessor, an office he has occupied with great success and distinction. He is chairman of the board of public wel- fare, administrator of the Civil Works Ad- ministration and now occupies the same office for the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration of this section. For a period he served as medical officer for the Civilian Conservation Corps. During the World
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