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War he was a member of many prominent committees and took a leading part in many of the drives that were launched. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety and the American Medical Associa- tion. Socially Dr. Daly belongs to the An- dover Service Club and fraternizes with the Knights of Columbus.
On June 10, 1908, Dr. Daly was married to Josephine E. Lynch, of Arlington, Massa- chusetts, and they are the parents of three children: I. Eleanor, who was graduated from Tufts College in 1934 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. 2. William, who is now a student at Lowell Textile Institute. 3. Josephine Patrice, now a student at Emanuel College in Boston.
ARCHIBALD L. JONES-Although by profession an electrical engineer, Archibald L. Jones follows the distinguished tradition of his family in devoting much of his time to the public service. He is now representa- tive from the Seventh Essex District in the Massachusetts Legislature and holds a num- ber of local offices at Middleton, where he makes his home.
Mr. Jones was born at Cowansville, Prov- ince of Quebec, Canada, on June 26, 1900, a son of John and Mary Ann (Fletcher) Jones, both of whom were born in Canada of Eng- lish parentage. His father, a carpenter and contractor, was for some years highway commissioner in Canada, and in later life carried on his business at Gloucester. He died on September 16, 1926, as a result of injuries suffered when he was accidentally struck by a bus. Robert Jones, an uncle of Archibald L. Jones, has been prominent over a long period in New Hampshire public life, serving for thirteen years as mayor of Keene and for an equal period in the New Hamp- shire Legislature. Although he is now re- tired from active life, his charitable and civic
interests keep him busily engaged and his many contributions to worthy enterprises have made him well known as a philan- thropist.
Archibald L. Jones, of this record, was educated in the public schools of Middle- ton, Danvers High School, Phillips Academy in Andover, and Huntington Preparatory School in Boston. Following his graduation from the latter institution in 1922, he entered Northeastern University, taking a five-year course which he completed in 1928, when he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. Subse- quently he carried on post-graduate work in electrical engineering at Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology. He began his active career as an engineer in the employ of the Electrical Illuminating Company at Boston, but, during this period, maintained his resi- dence in Middleton, and soon became promi- nent in the community life. In 1929 he was elected chairman of the electric light com- mission of Middleton, and in 1931 was elected chairman of the board of selectmen, retaining both these offices without inter- ruption thereafter. He has also served since 1931 as chairman of the Middleton board of health. With his election to the State Legis- ture as representative of the Seventh Essex District in 1932, Mr. Jones resigned his pro- fessional connection in Boston to devote himself exclusively to his public duties. He enjoyed the distinction of being the first legislator elected from Middleton during the past thirty years, and the confidence thus placed in him by the people of his district has been fully justified by his record in the House. The recent announcement of his candidacy for reelection has been received with general approval.
During his term in the Legislature, Mr. Jones served as clerk of the public service committee and as a member of the commit-
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tee on towns. As a leading Republican of his district, he has also been prominent in local councils of his party and is now a mem- ber of the Republican town committee at Middleton. He is affiliated fraternally with Amity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Danvers; the Order of the Eastern Star, Danvers Chapter ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Danvers; and the Improved Order of Red Men. In addition to those connections he is a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the American Society of Illuminating Engineers.
On June 2, 1933, Mr. Jones married Elea- nor Seaver, of Beverly.
CARL VETTER-The present position held by Carl Vetter, of North Andover, Mas- sachusetts, was attained by his own con- structive and concentrated efforts, and is broadly significant of the opportunities open to the talented and trained of home or foreign birth. Carl Vetter was born August 2, 1867, in Oberkirch, in the Black Forest section of Southern Germany, where his parents were proprietors of a country inn. Educated in the public schools of his home, he came to America in 1883 at the age of sixteen and found employment in the Germania Mills in Holyoke, Massachusetts. After two years he returned to his native land for technical training in the manufacture of woolen fab- rics, remaining abroad two years. Upon his return to America he was successively em- ployed as designer at the Worumbo Manu- facturing Company, Lisbon Falls, Maine, where, at a later date, he became superin- tendent ; designer at the Washington Mills, Lawrence; designer and assistant superin- tendent of Holden, Leonard and Company, Bennington, Vermont; and as superintend- ent of the Germania Mills of Holyoke. In 1898 he came to the M. T. Stevens and Sons Company, North Andover, first as assistant superintendent, then as superintendent, and
later was promoted to general manager, which position he now holds. He is also a director of the company.
JAMES R. TETLER-The superintend- ent of the Essex County Training School, James R. Tetler has contributed importantly to the prestige of Lawrence as a public official, business man, and private citizen during the last three decades. He was born in the city August 26, 1877, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Bower) Tetler, both natives of England. They came to the United States when three and four years of age respec- tively, arriving in the same year. James, the grandfather of James R. Tetler, of this re- view, was a textile worker, while Mr. Bower was a printer and published the first news- paper of the community, "The Lawrence Journal." He was also a member of the Massachusetts Legislature and was one of the two who introduced the sixty-hour labor law, one of the advanced pieces of legislation for that day, and considered almost revolu- tionary when advocated by the Knights of Labor.
Educated in the public schools of Law- rence and the old North End Trade School in Boston, James R. Tetler entered the plumbing and heating business, in which he has been interested ever since. He was elected a member of the Lawrence city council in 1903, and was a representative in the Massachusetts General Assembly during 1908 and 1909. The generous public appre- ciation of a capable and comprehensive work well done in the city and the Legislature led, in 1914, to Mr. Tetler's election to the State Senate, in which he served five years, 1914 to 1918 inclusive. Calvin Coolidge was President of the Senate at that time, and the years of Senator Tetler's service coincided with the crucial period of the pre-World War, when the Commonwealth, while re- maining neutral, prepared for the inevitable
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conflict, and when a state of war was officially recognized, was more nearly ready than any other State in the Union to do its part and to do it more expeditiously than any other section of the country.
In 1922 Senator Tetler was appointed post- master of Lawrence by President Harding, and was reappointed by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. He held the office for eleven years, and, on July 1, 1933, was appointed superintendent of the Essex County Train- ing School, a post he holds at the present writing. Public service rather than political activities has been the foundation of the Senator's long years in office. Fraternally he is affiliated with Tuscan Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.
On April 26, 1905, James R. Tetler mar- ried Catherine M. Healey, who was born in New Jersey. They have an adopted son, Walter R., already keenly interested in poli- tics. He was elected to the Republican pre- primary convention held on June 9, 1934, at Worcester.
BERTRAND ELVIN COX-As founder of the B. E. Cox Leather Company, of Pea- body, Massachusetts, Bertrand E. Cox has concretely and constructively aided in the furtherance of one of his city's foremost in- dustries. His company makes sheep leather, and employs approximately three hundred People when the plant is operating at ca- pacity. In 1926 the enterprise was incor- porated, with Mr. Cox as its treasurer.
Mr. Cox was born at Malden, Massachu- setts, on March 18, 1880, son of George and Adele (Burkett) Cox, both natives of the State of Maine. His father was the finan- cial head of Allen, Field and Lawrence, a prominent Boston leather business house. He is now deceased.
In the public schools and at the Young Men's Christian Association Night School, Bertrand E. Cox, of this review, received his formal education, studying chemistry in the evening class work that he did. For four years he attended evening schools, and then for one year worked as a "printer's devil" at the rate of seven cents an hour. That employment was in the city of Boston, and his salary was advanced to ten dollars a week. After a time he gave up that posi- tion for a four dollars a week wage in the leather industry, feeling that his future in the new work would be more promising and worth while. He solicited orders in the morning and wrapped the company's prod- ucts in the afternoon. He remained with the firm of C. Brandt thereafter until the consolidation with Winslow Brothers and Smith in 1906. He was then made assist- ant superintendent of the plant. In 1909 he associated himself with Shoelkopf and Com- pany, of Buffalo, New York, as superintend- ent, continuing with them for two and one- half years. In August, 1911, he came to Peabody, here engaging in the leather busi- ness for himself and building up the B. E. Cox Leather Company to a position of suc- cess and leadership.
No record of Mr. Cox's life would be com- plete without an account of the development of this company from the time when Mr. Cox established it on August 17, 1911. Mak- ing sheep leather, it grew to such a stage that, in 1926, he incorporated it. Malcolm Cox was its president ; B. E. Cox, treasurer ; and Anna H. Cox, chief clerk. Bertrand E. Cox today continues as financial director of the company and its undertakings. The Cox plant occupies a large frame building, 194 by 261 feet in area, in Hardy Street, Pea- body. This building has five and one-half stories, and is thoroughly equipped with modern facilities for the complete up-to-
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date manufacture of leather products. Man- ufacturing is done on contract for mer- chants. To start this enterprise, Mr. Cox had available only $1,500, which he had saved by thrift and industry. The first home of the business was a small frame building. Since that time the Cox company has grown to its present proportions, and Mr. Cox him- self has attained to a position of high stand- ing in the industrial world. He is also treas- urer of E. A. Woelfel, Cox, Inc., embossers and decorators, and a director of the Naum- keag Trust Company, of Salem, one of the outstanding banking institutions of this region.
Social, civic and fraternal affairs have, from the outset, interested Mr. Cox who has come to be a leading figure in commu- nity life as well as in the business circles in which he moves. Active in the Free and Accepted Masons, he is affiliated with Win- slow Lewis Commandery of Knights Tem- plar, holds the thirty-second degree of An- cient Accepted Scottish Rite, and is an initiate in Aleppo Temple, Boston, of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Salem Country Club and the Corinthian Yacht Club. Yacht- ing is his favorite leisure-time diversion, and Mr. Cox himself owns the "Celeritas," a 200- horsepower sixty-foot yacht. To every ac- tivity with which he has associated himself, he has consistently given his best energies and fullest enthusiasm, and, as a result, his position is one of high regard in his commu- nity and industry.
He lives at Swampscott. On October 8, 1907, Mr. Cox married Anna Hathaway, of Everett, Massachusetts, and to them have been born three children: I. Elvin Hatha- way, born December 7, 1908, a graduate of Governor Dummer Academy and Pratt In- stitute (where he took a chemical engineer- ing course) ; he is now in business with his father. 2. Richard P., born November II, 1918. 3. Betty C., born January 2, 1920.
ARTHUR P. TUTTLE-During the years of the present century Arthur P. Tuttle has been identified with the Murray Brothers Company of Lawrence, and is its president. Murray Brothers was founded in 1879 by Charles N. Murray, who died in November, 1899, and George E. Murray, whose death occurred in September, 1932. Shortly after George E. Murray was made the head of the concern, a desire to introduce new blood into the company induced him to obtain the services of Arthur P. Tuttle, whose proved ability led to promotion and larger duties.
Mr. Tuttle was born in Athens, Maine, February 24, 1879, and was educated in the schools of his native State, Lawrence, and Andover, Massachusetts. He was a junior in Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hamp- shire, when, on January 1, 1900, he accepted a position with the Murray Brothers Com- pany. He knew nothing about groceries, but had the mind, energy and enterprise which had caught the attention of George E. Murray. In March, 1903, he was elected treasurer of the company, an office he held until the death of Mr. Murray in September, 1932, since which time he has been the presi- dent of Murray Brothers Company. Mr. Tuttle is a trustee of the Lawrence Savings Bank, and financially interested in several corporations. He has, however, devoted the greater part of his life to the company with which he has been associated for more than a third of a century, to the exclusion of many other activities. In this connection one may quote the prophetic utterance of Mr. Mur- ray, made years ago :
There is no question as to this house's future pros- perity, Arthur P. Tuttle being unsurpassed in his department, when his age is considered. He is fully alive to the modern modes of doing business. In him is represented all the qualifications for success as a financier, buyer and salesman. He has adopted the principle which has been fundamental with George E. Murray from the beginning, and which will doubtless achieve greater results, that, having entered the busi-
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ness on principle, he would by all legitimate means take advantage of every circumstance and not sur- render until he had accomplished his purpose and realized that this business in the course of events must naturally become his.
On September 30, 1902, Arthur P. Tuttle married Myra Warburton, of Lawrence, and they are the parents of one son, Murray W., now in business with his father and treas- urer of Murray Brothers Company. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, Bachelor of Arts, and attended Harvard Graduate School, from which he received the degree of Master of Arts. He was born March 17, 1903.
GEORGE EDWIN MURRAY-In the history of the Murray Brothers Company is written one of the important chapters in the mercantile history of Lawrence, and the per- sonal record of George Edwin Murray, co- founder of the corporation, contributes the outstanding pages of this chapter. To quote a comment: "Since the very first days in 1879 that the original Murray Brothers' store was opened until his recent illness (1932) he was daily at his desk and never missed a meeting of the board of directors. There are few records that surpass his for business continuity."
George Edwin Murray was born in Leb- anon, York County, Maine, November 24, 1853, the son of Lewis and Arabell (Good- win) Murray. He grew up on a farm and received his rudimentary education in local schools. Prepared for college in the Coburn Classical Institute of Waterville, Maine, he matriculated at Colby College, from which he was graduated in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was class president in his senior year, and for many years after was elected president at all the reunions of the class. With no experience in business, within four weeks after his graduation, he joined his brother as a partner to establish
the grocery business known as the Murray. Brothers. Its first location was on Broad- way, near Essex Street, Lawrence ; the sec- ond, on Essex Street ; and, third, at No. 617 Common Street. The name Murray Broth- ers Company was adopted in 1892. The elder partner and treasurer of the company, Charles N. Murray, died in November, 1899. At this time, George E. Murray was presi- dent, a post he held until his demise in 1932, became treasurer for two years, and filled that office until 1903. An executive far ahead of his times, he early gathered about him young men of good families and assured financial position who gave evidence of potential administrative and executive abili- ties. One whom he knew intimately from the age of nine years, Arthur P. Tuttle (q. v.), was taken into the business on the first day of the present century, and is now presi- dent of the company.
How successfully George Edwin Murray directed the destinies of the company of which he was the head for more than a half century is suggested by the opinion ex- pressed some years ago by one of the fore- most business men of Boston, who said :
I cannot bring to mind an enterprise with a more comprehensive policy from the very beginning, and absolute genius manifested in new departures, that appeals more strongly to the most intelligent class of a community than the Murray Brothers Company.
In advanced ideas this house is a leader. It ranks among the most important in this part of the State. there being other houses of established reputation. Its credit has never been questioned, being founded on character. A man of great experience is at the head. With the capital behind this business, with the energy manifested, this house should attain greater prominence.
While one recalls Mr. Murray as pri- marily a business man, he was really keenly interested in many other things. He was, indeed, a director of the Merchants' Trust Company, a corporator of the Andover Sav- ings Bank, held a membership in the Bos-
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ton Fruit and Produce Exchange, and other allied concerns. But he was also prominent in religious and educational circles as a member and former treasurer of the First Baptist Church, a past director of the Law- rence Young Men's Christian Association and the Lawrence Boys' Club. He had served on the directorate of the Massachusetts Bap- tist Missionary Society and the Massachu- setts Baptist Sunday School Association. Never did he lose interest in his alma mater, Colby College, serving as a trustee for twenty-three years, and was the donor of the annual George E. Murray prize award for debating, and was one of the most gen- erous benefactors of the college.
At Athens, Maine, on November 25, 1885, George Edwin Murray married Cora M. Tuttle, of Athens, Maine, and for forty-three years they made their home at No. 435 North Main Street, Andover. Mr. Murray died in September, 1932, in the seventy-ninth year of his life. His long career had been one of useful service and permanent achievement, and his success had been a substantial factor in the larger growth and prosperity of Law- rence. Among the many tributes paid his memory, one of nearly thirty years before may bear repeating. Said this contemporary at that time :
George E. Murray is clearly in touch with the needs of the hour, an executive keenly alive to all that is going on around him, and a reflective master of men and affairs. System was carried on by him to as near perfection as is attainable. He is an ambi- tious man, but not with the ambition that is too nar- row for friendship, too crooked for affection, too rugged for honesty, too stark for science, nor too high for happiness.
CHAMPION-INTERNATIONAL COM- PANY-Lawrence is usually indexed in the minds of most people as a textile city, over- looking the fact that it has one of the largest coated paper manufacturing plants in the
United States, and two other paper-making concerns. Nor is this industry of recent estab- lishment, since the forerunner of the Cham- pion-International Company was founded in 1842, and was not then, by many years, the first of the paper makers on the site where Lawrence was to rise. The Russell family started the present-day business and have been identified with it for ninety years, although the Russell Paper Company was not incorporated until 1864, and in 1898 was made a part of the International Paper Com- pany. In 1902 the present corporation was formed, comprising the Champion Card and Paper Company's mill at East Pepperell, Massachusetts, and the paper and pulp mills in Lawrence-the International Paper Com- pany retaining an interest in the new organi- zation. At that time a large coating mill was built in Lawrence.
Many of the country's leading magazines use this firm's product, which is known to be of the finest grade obtainable. Employing six hundred, it turns out nearly one hundred tons a day. The Champion-International Company has been and is a progressive con- cern, taking the lead in newer and original methods of manufacture. The paper indus- try watched the local concern with interest when it introduced ground wood paper into the market, a feat in those earlier days, but now common in the manufacture of news- print. Again the local concern led the way in the soda and sulphite processes of con- verting wood into high grade papers, which have revolutionized the paper industry of America. The sulphite mill of the plant is one of the first built in America. Here and across the water the acid proof lining method, developed successfully in the Law- rence mill, is used today in nearly every sul- phite plant. Were it not for the enter- prise of the Champion-International mill the method might have been unknown to the world, but Lawrence persistency and genius
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perfected it, and made it an integral part of the wood transforming process.
The expansion of the relatively small Rus- sell concern into one of the greatest special- izing in coated paper is due to many factors, such as available raw materials and inexpen- sive power, skilled workmen and commercial resourcefulness, but most of all to the thrifty and ingenious men who founded the business and those of later generations whose enter- prise, courage and executive abilities found ample scope in the management of the vari- ous companies. The Hon. William A. Rus- sell, Congressman, State and civic leader, for years managed the affairs of his company. George Fred Russell, son of George W. and Frances (Osgood) Russell, was a graduate of Phillips Andover Academy and the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology before he became identified with the paper indus- try. He became agent of the Russell Com- pany when it merged with the International, and held a similar post when the 1902 merger produced the Champion-International Paper Company. Charles M. Gage was the first president of the Champion-International Company, but resigned a year later to be succeeded by George Fred Russell as presi- dent and treasurer of the corporation. Mr. Russell was chairman of the board of directors of the Merchants' Trust Company, of Lawrence, and a director of the Selden Worsted Mills. George F. Russell was born June 30, 1865, and died on September 29, 1932. His successor as president of the Champion-International Company is Charles T. Dole, who served as sales manager of the company for many years, and as a trustee of the Broadway Savings Bank, and as a director of the United States Bobbin and Shuttle Company. William T. Dole is vice- president and treasurer.
WILLIAM B. HOLIHAN-Born at Law- rence, September 13, 1911, William B. Holi- han returned to his native city in 1933 to
take up a business career. He is the son of James P. and Alice (Behan) Holihan, both of whom were also born in Essex County. James P. Holihan was a brewer in the olden days, and founded in 1912 the well-known Diamond Spring Brewery. His partners at this time were his brothers, Joseph P. and Charles A. Holihan, and the present plant of the company was constructed shortly after the company was established. The business changed its products during the prohibition period, but, since the spring of 1933, and repeal, it has returned to the mak- ing of malt beverages. Joseph P., James P. and William B. Holihan, of this review, now direct the affairs of the Diamond Spring Brewing Company.
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