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CHARLES WILBUR HARWOOD,
banker and manufacturer of Lynn, has very substantially contributed to the city of his birth, and here and throughout the county of Essex he has a host of friends.
Mr. Harwood was born in Lynn on Sep- tember 6, 1871, son of the Hon. Charles E. and Nellie I. (Blaisdell) Harwood and member of an old and established family of Massachusetts. His father was born at Charlestown, this State, and died in Lynn. He was president of the Lynn Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and was at one time mayor of his city. Lending his support to the Republican party's principles, he was elected to the chief executive office of his city on the Republican ticket, and in a va- riety of ways he assisted in the furtherance of worth while civic interests in this region. Like many others in this district, he was active in the shoe supply industry, in which he had extensive interests. His wife, mother of Charles Wilbur Harwood, was born in South Berwick, Maine, and now makes her home in Lynn.
In the schools of Lynn, Charles Wilbur Harwood received his early education, later being graduated from Lynn High School and from Chauncey Hall, Boston. He was then associated with his father in the manu- facture of shoe counters and heels, in which the elder Mr. Harwood had become engaged as early as 1869, when the Harwood Coun- ter Company, of which he was president and treasurer, was organized. The son afterward succeeded to this dual position in the Harwood Counter Company, and so
continues today. He achieved the presi- dency of the organization, however, when he had worked his way through all the vari- ous operations. In 1927 he became presi- dent of the Lynn Safe Deposit and Trust Company, in which position he has contin- ued down to the time of this writing. He was for eleven years vice-president of the National City Bank and is a trustee of the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank and also holds many other important positions in the business and financial world.
Mr. Harwood is a lifelong Republican in party alignment. He has participated in many charitable projects, serving on the executive boards of most organizations con- cerned with charity in this district. He is also vice-president of the Lynn Hospital. In the Lynn Chamber of Commerce he is an active member and a director and is now (1934) serving on several important com- mittees. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, being a charter member of Damascus Blue Lodge; member of Lynn Royal Arch Chapter; Council of Royal and Select Masters; Olivet Commandery, Knights Templar; affiliated with all the Scottish Rite bodies and in the Consistory attained the thirty-second degree; and a member of Aleppo Temple, Boston, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Golden Fleece Lodge of Masons. His church is the First Universalist. He is a member of the Ox- ford Club, the Swampscott Masonic Club. the Lynn Rotary Club, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, and other Essex County groups. Yachting is his favorite diversion.
Mr. Harwood married Nellie Sayward Morse, born in Bath, Maine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Dexter Morse, of Lynn. Mrs. Harwood is active in several social clubs and organizations, and is a member of
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the First Congregational Church of Swamp- scott. To Mr. and Mrs. Harwood two chil- dren have been born: I. Marion L. Har- wood, who became the wife of Harold F. Harvey, of Lynn, and the mother of two children : Barbara L. Harvey and Alan Har- vey; Mrs. Harvey was educated in the pub- lic schools of Lynn and at Rogers Hall School, Lowell, Massachusetts. 2. Charles E. Harwood II, who was graduated from the public schools of Lynn and the Hunt- ington School, of Boston, and is now as- sociated with his father in business and serving as a vice-president of the Harwood Counter Company, and is also a bank di- rector ; he married Glenna Winslow Holder, of Lynn, and they have a son, Charles E. Harwood, Jr.
REV. FREDERICK DOWNING HAY- WARD-The Hayward family, of which the Rev. Frederick Downing Hayward, of Me- thuen is a member, has been notable in the annals of Massachusetts and the numerous States to which descendants have gone in the development of the country. He is of the eighth generation from the American progenitor of this branch of the Haywards- Nehemiah Hayward, who settled in what is now Beverly in 1635, and he is the great- great-grandson of Jabez Hayward, a private in the company of Captain Henry Abbot, of Andover, who marched to the alarm from Boston on April 19, 1775. His parents, Charles Warren and Eliza Rebecca (Down- ing) Hayward, died in North Andover, the father on August 29, 1916, and the mother on June 26, 1932. Upon the mother's side, the Rev. Mr. Hayward is a great-great- grandson of Palfrey Downing, of Andover, an officer in the Continental Army, who was slain at the Concord bridge in April, 1775.
Frederick Downing Hayward is a native of Andover, of which his parents were long residents, the father holding many offices of
trust which were the gifts of the electorate. After attending local schools, the son was graduated from Phillips Andover Academy, in 1890, and matriculated at Amherst Col- lege, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1894. He was a student in Harvard Divinity School and Andover Theological Seminary during 1908 and 1909, prior to his ordination in the Congregational Church, in October, 1909. Between his graduation from college and his taking up the study of divinity, the Rev. Mr. Hayward was engaged in educational activities. He was an instructor in high school, and for eight years was principal of the Newport, New Hampshire, High School. He was also superintendent, from 1913 to 1916, inclusive, of the Newport-New Lon- don, New Hampshire, supervisory district.
The Rev. Frederick Downing Hayward held several pastorates in the Congrega- tional Church, the last being at Ticonderoga, New York, extending from 1916 to 1919. At this time he retired from the ministry, ex- cept for occasional supply services in neigh- boring churches, and has since made his home in Methuen, Massachusetts. He has become closely identified with the life of Methuen, and is a town meeting member from Precinct One. He is a director of the Methuen National Bank, a trustee of the Nevins Memorial Library, and is senior dea- con of the First Church, Congregational, Methuen. Fraternally he is a Past Master of Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 15, Free and Accepted Masons, of Newport, New Hamp- shire; now by affiliation a member of John Hancock Lodge of Methuen; Lawrence Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Bethany Commandery, Knights Templar; Lawrence Lodge of Perfection; and Aleppo Temple, Boston, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is the author of "A Short History of the First Church and Parish of Methuen, Massachusetts, 1729-1929," and is
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an occasional contributor to papers on mat- ters of historical interest. At this writing (1934), he is engaged in the compilation of a "History of the Town of Methuen," which promises to be a valuable contribution to the historical lore of this fine modern town of ancient origin.
The Rev. Frederick Downing Hayward, on October 10, 1898, married Mary Elizabeth Curtis, of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
WILLIAM FRANCIS SHANAHAN,
register of probate and insolvency for Essex County and well known lawyer of Lynn, was born in Rockland, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1892, a son of Patrick and Mary E. (Sullivan) Shanahan. He is a grandson of Michael and Hannah Shanahan, who were of Irish birth and became pioneer set- tlers at East Abington, now Rockland. Michael Shanahan was a shoe worker in local factories there. Patrick Shanahan, the father, was born on the ocean while his par- ents were enroute to America in 1854, and he died in Lynn on March 30, 1916. His active career began as a shoe worker, in which he was a pioneer at Lynn, and rose from the bench to the position of superin- tendent of the Rice and Hutchins Company. He was associated with this company for many years and was also connected with the Commonwealth Shoe and Leather Com- pany. In politics he was an active Demo- crat and in religious faith an early member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Swampscott. His wife, Mary E. (Sullivan) Shanahan, was born in East Abington, now Rockland, on June 1, 1857, and died in Swampscott July 20, 1934. She was a daughter of John and Bridget (O'Day) Sul- livan, who were born in Ireland and were pioneer residents of East Abington. Her father, a shoe worker, was associated with a number of companies in Rockland and, dur- ing the Civil War, served in the Signal
Corps of the Union Army. Her brother, the late Rev. John P. Sullivan, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Salem, was the first young man of Rockland to be ordained to the priesthood to the Catholic Church. Another brother, the Rev. William F. X. Sullivan, was the first to be- come a member of the Jesuit Order, and a sister, Nellie D., was the first young woman of Rockland to join the Holy Order of Nuns. Joseph E. Sullivan, D. D. S., also a member of this family, was the first young man of the town to give his life for his country in the Spanish-American War.
William Francis Shanahan received his early education in the public schools of Rockland and was subsequently graduated from St. Joseph's High School in Manches- ter, New Hampshire, as valedictorian of the class of 1908. Thereafter, he completed a special course at Boston College High School and then matriculated at Holy Cross College, Worcester, from which he was graduated in 1913 with the degree of Bach- elor of Arts. Mr. Shanahan prepared for the profession of law at Suffolk Law School in Boston, taking the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1925. In the following year he was admitted to the bar and entered the office of Judge Edward B. O'Brien at Lynn. He began independent practice soon after- wards and has always maintained his office at No. 31 Exchange Street, Lynn.
Mr. Shanahan is a member of the Lynn Bar Association, the Essex County Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar As- sociation. His professional attainments have won him the respect of his associates and the public alike and have made him a prominent member of the local bar. In ad- dition to his legal duties, however, he has found time to take an active part in public life. In 1928 he was the Democratic nomi- nee for State Senator from the First Essex District, comprising Lynn, Swampscott,
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and Nahant, and although unsuccessful in that election he was renominated by his party in 1930 and succeeded in carrying the district-the first time in its history that a Democrat was elected to the Senate. Two years later he was returned to office in recognition of the value of his service, re- signing in August, 1933, when he was ap- pointed register of probate and insolvency for Essex County by Governor Joseph B. Ely. He was elected to this office by the voters of Essex County in November, 1934. Mr. Shanahan is an able public servant and has demonstrated both his fidelity and effi- ciency in the performance of his duties. He is well known throughout the county and has won wide recognition through his ef- forts on its behalf.
Mr. Shanahan has many other interests and connections. He is an accomplished musician, appearing in many concerts throughout the State, and for a number of years has been organist and choir director of St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Lynn, of which he is a leading member. He has also participated in numerous radio pro- grams. Fraternally he is affiliated with Lynn Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is also a member of the Lynn Chamber of Commerce, the Oxford Club of Lynn and the Holy Cross Club of Boston. He is a fluent public speaker and has been in demand in this capacity. Dur- ing the World War, he was associated with the legal department of the Bureau of War Insurance, now the Veterans' Bureau, and was stationed at Washington, District of Columbia, and at Boston, where he had charge of the local office.
On January 17, 1931, in New York City, William Francis Shanahan married Ella Maie Harrell, of Portsmouth, Virginia. She was born in North Carolina, a daughter of James P. Harrell, a retired lumber dealer of Churchland, Virginia, and Ella Jane (Roby)
Harrell, who is now deceased. Mrs. Shan- ahan is active in women's clubs in Lynn and a member of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution.
EDWARD WILLIAMS EAMES-Ed- ward Williams Eames, present headmaster of Governor Dummer Academy in South Byfield, was born at Buffalo, New York, on August 14, 1900, a son of Edward Ashley and Isabel (Morey) Eames. His father is an executor of estates. Mr. Eames received his preliminary education at the Nichols Country Day School, Buffalo, New York, which he attended from 1912 to 1918, and subsequently entered Amherst College, from which he was graduated in 1922. In 1929 he also took the degree of Master of Arts at Harvard University. He began his active career in education in 1923, serving as an instructor at Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, from 1923 to 1930. At the end of this period he was appointed head- master of Governor Dummer Academy, a position he has since held without interrup- tion. Mr. Eames is a qualified administra- tor and has maintained the fine traditions of the institution which he heads. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, and of several local organi- zations, including the Oldtown Country Club of Newbury and Old Newbury Golf Club. He also attends the Congregational Church.
In 1925 at Burlington, Vermont, Edward Williams Eames married Eleanor Kimball, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Kimball. They are the parents of two children: I. Elizabeth Tower Eames, born July 14, 1928. 2. Edward Ashley Eames, born October 13, 1930.
DR. JOHN CHARLES PHILLIPS- Dr. John Charles Phillips, naturalist and author, was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
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on November 5, 1876, son of John C. Phillips, a Boston merchant, and Annie (Tucker) Phillips. He was educated at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard Uni- versity, from which he was graduated in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and prepared for a medical career at Har- vard Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1904. For two years following he was an interne at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Phillips never entered active practice, however, and has devoted his principal at- tention during the past quarter of a century to zoology, ornithology and various phases of conservation. He is a Fellow of the American Ornithologists Union, a trustee of the Boston Society of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Harvard; re- search associate of birds at the Harvard Musuem of Comparative Zoology; and a member of the boards of various societies devoted to conservation, forestry, fish and game, and the preservation of sites of scenic beauty or historic interest. He is also the author of many books and papers on orni- thology, experimental evolution, genetics, the life histories of game birds and water fowl, conservation, sport and travel, writing with authority on the subjects of his special study.
Dr. Phillips is a member of the Tavern Club of Boston, the Harvard Club of Bos- ton and the Harvard Club of New York. In November, 1915, during the World War, he joined the 2d Harvard Surgical Unit and was assigned to the British General Hos- pital No. 22. Subsequently, from Septem- ber, 1917, to July, 1919, he served in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, with the Field Hospitals and Sanitary Train of the 4th Division, Regular Army. He was appointed to command Field Hospital No. 33 in September, 1918, and was discharged from the service after the war with the rank of major.
On January II, 1908, at Boston, Dr. Phillips married Eleanor Hyde, daughter of General Thomas W. Hyde and Annie (Hay- den) Hyde. They are the parents of four children : I. John Charles Phillips, Jr., born December 24, 1908. 2. Madelyn Hyde, born August 16, 1912. 3. Eleanor, born August 20, 1914. 4. Arthur Hyde, born June 7, 1920. For some years the family home has been at Wenham.
ROLAND WILLIAM BOYDEN, who rose to distinguished prominence at the Massachusetts bar during his long career as a lawyer and was called to conspicuous in- ternational service as his country's repre- sentative in the period following the war, was born at Beverly, Massachusetts, on October 18, 1863. He was a son of William Cowper and Amy Lydia (Hoag) Boyden and a member of old New England families, tracing his dsecent in the paternal line from Thomas Boyden, who came to Massachu- setts from Ipswich, England, in 1634. His mother's family, who were residents of Sandwich, New Hampshire, were for many generations members of the Society of Friends.
Roland W. Boyden spent his boyhood in Beverly and received his preliminary edu- cation in the public schools of this com- munity, Salem High School, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Subsequently he entered Harvard College, where he distinguished himself in scholarship and athletics and was graduated in 1885 with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts. For a few months thereafter he served as substitute principal of the Bev- erly High School but declined a permanent appointment to prepare for the profession of law. In 1888 he was graduated from Harvard Law School with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and in the same year was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. His first associations in practice were with
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Henry P. Moulton of Salem and Herman W. Chaplin of Boston. After some two years he formed a partnership with Charles I. Giddings, a young man of approximately his own age, which continued until Gid- dings' death in 1893. By this time his pro- fessional reputation was soundly estab- lished and on August 20, 1894, he was asked to join the firm of Ropes, Gray and Loring, of Boston, one of the oldest New England firms and today one of the most widely known and respected legal organizations in the United States. This connection he re- tained until his death, at which time he was its senior member.
The business of his firm consisted largely in advising clients as to the care of property and the management of business. It was natural, therefore, that he should be in close contact with important interests, and his services were so highly regarded by those who consulted him that he was elected a director in a number of corporations. Dur- ing his long residence in Beverly, he also exercised a strong influence in the develop- ment of local institutions. For many years he served as president of the Beverly Sav- ings Bank, a director of the Beverly Na- tional Bank, treasurer of the Beverly His- torical Society, and participated actively in other Beverly enterprises. While the par- tisanship of politics, as such, was distaste- ful to him, he recognized and fully met the obligations of good citizenship and devoted his time to the faithful performance of many public responsibilities. From 1891 to 1902 he was chairman of the school com- mittee of Beverly and for more than twenty- six years a director of the Beverly Hospital. In the First Parish Unitarian Church, of which he was a lifelong member, he taught in the Sunday school, of which he was also superintendent for ten years, and served on the Parish Committee. In addition, he was a director of the American Unitarian Asso-
ciation and one of the trustees of "The Christian Register," the Unitarian organ. At Boston he was equally active in public and philanthropic enterprises. He was over- seer of Harvard College, was prominent in the Girl Scout movement, the Judge Baker Foundation, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, of which he was president ; and other organizations far too numerous to mention in detail.
When it is borne in mind [it was written of him] that his public work was carried on while he was constantly engaged in the arduous and exacting labor of a large and growing legal practice, he seems to have carried an impossible burden. Yet the testi- mony is unanimous that not only what he did was well done, but that it was done without apparent strain. His command of his powers, his intensive- ness of application when he worked, the perfect econ- omy of his effort, which was without friction or waste, resulted in ample leisure for his family and his friends, for taking a full part in all the friendly life and association that was going on about him.
The following lines are quoted from a Memorial prepared by a committee of the bar association of the city of Boston, from which much of the material for this record is taken:
Boyden's power of accomplishment rested on a deep serenity of mind and temper. His imperturbability was unusual, and it never failed him. Nothing could dis- turb his calm. It may be doubted whether by nature he was a rapid worker, and neither in mind nor in speech had he any of those showy qualities that go with what is called brilliancy. He thought carefully and was habitually cautious in expressing his conclu- sions. . ... With this wisdom and caution went, how- ever, a rare sureness of judgment and complete cour- age in action. .... He could form and hold strong opinions and speak when necessary with firmness and decision, because those opinions were the considered result of clear and honest thought. . ... His mind was lucid, logical and strong, and, consequently, his touch seemed to clarify things. Simplicity and straightness of thought, together with a tenacious memory which included the large and the small, enabled his mind to carry a great deal and to have it immediately available for his use. .... Besides his own capacity to turn off without apparent effort a
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very exceptional quantity of high-class work, he also was remarkable in his ability to utilize the services of others. This last faculty displayed itself in every aspect of his life.
The entry of the United States into the World War brought Mr. Boyden still larger opportunities for service. In the early days of the war he became one of the Four- Minute Men, speaking at various gather- ings to enlist public support for the govern- ment's efforts, served as a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety and also participated in the Red Cross drives and other activities of the period. Not content to remain at home, he solicited and accepted at considerable cost to himself an appointment to the legal staff of the United States Food Administration, remain- ing in Washington until the close of the war. In this position, with its necessity for skilled judgment and forcefulness, in order that the aims of the government might not be impeded, and its equal necessity for tact and a conciliatory spirit, in order that the costly delay and waste of court proceedings should be avoided, he rendered service of the greatest value. The estimate of his character and talents formed by the Presi- dent and by the Chief of the Food Admin- istration, Herbert Hoover, was so high that in 1920 he was appointed by President Wil- son as the representative of the United States on the Reparations Commission con- stituted by the Treaty of Paris. In this office he continued until 1923, at the request of President Wilson's successor, Warren G. Harding. Mr. Boyden was without previ- ous experience in diplomacy, and his task was made more difficult by the failure of the United States Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles so that his status as a member of the Reparations Commission was unofficial, rather than official. Nevertheless, he en- tered upon his duties with the calm serenity which always distinguished him and by the
sheer power of character, intellect and deep sincerity won the confidence of his associ- ates to a remarkable degree. His influence was potent in the deliberations of the Com- mission and his efforts of the utmost value in arriving at a solution of the perplexing problems which beset the Western World.
Owen D. Young, at the time of Mr. Boy- den's death, paid him the following tribute :
It is not for me to speak of his service at the bar. Others better qualified will do that. Of his interna- tional work, however, I am fortunate enough to have special knowledge. This is not the place to review and appraise it in detail. It is enough to say that in times of great strain, when emotions ran high and fears and prejudices were rife, the quiet voice, the modest manner, the penetrating humor, the kindly sympathy of Roland Boyden reflected to all of Europe the best in the American people. His place was never dependent on a title nor his power on authority. All of us who followed him were proud of the high posi- tion he had attained in the minds and hearts of his associates abroad, and our work was made easier by his earlier and more difficult effort. .
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