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In 1891 Dr. Adelbert M. Hubbell married Anna Moores, a native of Massachusetts.
ALBERT GOODRICH HARDING-In a long and busy life, Albert Goodrich Hard- ing has witnessed the developments of half a century and more in Haverhill, and in many of these he has played a worthy rôle. He was born in the city on August 26, 1858, a son of Thomas Harding, also a native of Haverhill and member of one of the oldest of Massachusetts families, and of Jennie (Goodrich) Harding, who had for her birth- place Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The elder Mr. Harding, a sea captain and expert navigator, later interested in shoe manufac- turing, died in 1862. His wife died in 1859.
Albert Goodrich Harding, left an orphan at the age of four years, was brought up by relatives and received the educational ad- vantages of the local grammar and high schools. He was a very young man when he secured employment in the office of Thomas Sanders, who was in the leather trade and where he remained six years. Subsequently he formed a partnership with Charles E. Greenman in the cut sole business under
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the name of Harding and Greenman. After a few years engaged in executive capacities and accounting work, he entered, in 1897, what was to remain his vocation, the insur- ance business. He started as an agent and eventually established his own concern which he has continued efficiently and suc- cessfully, down to the time of this writing. In point of service he is the longest in the insurance business in Haverhill. He rep- resents some of the largest corporations doing life, fire, accident and other forms of insurance, and is one of the leading realtors of the city.
Business has been a means to an end with Mr. Harding, rather than the aim and end of his endeavors. He loves the city of which he has been so long a resident, and through- out his life has contributed to its well being and betterment. Politics has never occupied a first place in his activities, although he has been a member of the school board and served the municipality in other official posi- tions. When the World War military enter- prises called for civilian support, he offered himself for any work that he could do, and served on many of the boards and commit- tees which operated so worthily in Haver- hill. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Haverhill Historical So- ciety, and for ten years served as president of the latter organization. He is also a mem- ber of the Whittier Club and the Pentucket Club. A Unitarian in his religious convic- tions, Mr. Harding has held practically all the offices within his church. He is a Knight Templar Mason, affiliated with Mer- rimack Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he served as treasurer for thirty years, and his grandfather, Isaac Harding, had also served as treasurer of this lodge.
In 1881, Albert Goodrich Harding mar- ried Alice Elizabeth Cheney, of Haverhill, daughter of Frederick Plummer and Sarah
Perry (Lewis) Cheney. Mrs. Harding died June 22, 1929. They were the parents of six children: I. Thomas, who died at the age of seventeen months. 2. Caroline G., married Karl S. Brackett. 3. Jesse, married Dorothy E. Mills. 4. Alice Elizabeth, mar- ried Harold G. Look. 5. Sarah L., married William B. Terry. 6. Jennie G., married Frederick Whitham. Wife and children have been the great affection and interest of Mr. Harding, and he rejoices in nine grand- children, who, with their parents are the joy and pride of his life.
GEORGE EMERSON DALRYMPLE- Throughout his life George Emerson Dal- rymple has been a resident of Haverhill. Taking the duties and privileges of citizenry seriously, more than most men he has con- tributed to certain phases of community life valuably. Realizing the need of outdoor recreation and enjoyments, he has devoted much of his civic efforts to the promotion of athletic fields, tennis courts and grounds for other sports and games, in a word, the crea- tion of recreation centers. This is to him a pleasure rather than work, and he has been able to achieve results for which the city must ever remain grateful.
Mr. Dalrymple was born in Haverhill, March 3, 1883, son of Joseph A. Dalrymple, a civic and industrial leader of Haverhill, although a native of Hudson, New Hamp- shire, and Anna M. (Pinkham) Dalrymple, who was a native of Massachusetts and died in 1891. The elder Mr. Dalrymple is now a retired manufacturer. After attending the public schools, the son prepared for college in Colby Academy and was for two years a student at Dartmouth College. He then ma- triculated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for scientific training prepara- tory to entering the shoe manufacturing industry. For a year after his education
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and technical studies had been completed, he was a member of the engineering depart- ment of the United Shoe Machinery Com- pany, at Beverly, Massachusetts. He then returned to Haverhill to become associated with his father in the company, manufactur- ing many of the accessories used in the shoe trade. Until 1930 he was thus engaged, serving in various capacities and becoming thoroughly familiar with the industry. In 1930 the affairs of the business were liqui- dated, and George Emerson Dalrymple be- came interested in the insurance business in connection with the Equitable Life, and has continued along this line since that time.
Although primarily a keen business man, Mr. Dalrymple, as has been indicated, has been active in other fields of endeavor. Proud of his city he has done noteworthy things in its finer development, particularly the provision of parks and other centers where its people may enjoy themselves and renew their vigor. On January 1, 1933, he was inaugurated the mayor of Haverhill, an office to which he was elected in appreciation of his efforts on the behalf of the best inter- ests of the city, rather than because of politi- cal influence and activities. Much is ex- pected of his régime and leadership. For five years he has been a member of the park commission. He has been a popular figure in the Chamber of Commerce and has served on several of its boards and committees. Fraternally Mr. Dalrymple is affiliated with Saggahew Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, and is a member of all the bodies of Masonry including the local Scottish Rite, and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. During the World War he went to the officers' train- ing camp, at Plattsburg, New York. In his religious faith he is a Congregationalist.
In 1918, George Emerson Dalrymple mar- ried Cora M. Atwood, of Haverhill.
DANIEL C. HUNT-Active in the affairs of Haverhill, Daniel C. Hunt occupies a posi- tion of high standing in the world of finance and business. He is treasurer of the Citi- zens' Cooperative Bank, of this place, and is a leader in many civic undertakings. Ma- sonry has been one of his foremost inter- ests, and he stands high in the order.
Mr. Hunt was born on October 13, 1867, at Chelsea, Vermont, son of Daniel S. and Henrietta (Ordway) Hunt, both of whom are now deceased. The father, a Vermont man by birth, died in 1882. The mother was a Vermont woman. They were engaged in farming, and it was on the farm of his fam. ily that Daniel C. Hunt was reared. Attend- ing the public schools of his native place, he later studied at business college. For many years he was connected with the shoe industry, so continuing until 1922. For a part of the time he served as bookkeeper, later turning his attention to manufacturing operations.
It was in 1922 that he entered upon his career of banking. Becoming treasurer of the Citizens' Cooperative Bank, of Haver- hill, to succeed James W. Goodwin, he has since held that position, filling it with emi- nent satisfaction to his associates and the bank's customers. The Citizens Cooperative Bank was organized in 1887 by a group of prominent business men of Haverhill and vicinity. George H. Carleton was its pres- ident; James W. Goodwin, its treasurer ; Philip C. Swett, its second president, was succeeded in that office by W. W. Spaulding. The fourth and present president is Herman E. Lewis, and the other officers are: H. M. Goodwin, vice-president; Mr. Hunt, treas- urer. The institution, operated on the truly cooperative plan, has 1,591 shareholders who hold a total number of 17,354 shares. Its total capitalization is $1,792,196.21. It is the second oldest cooperative bank in Haverhill.
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Along with his activities in this bank, Mr. Hunt is a leader in local affairs. He is vice- president of the Pentucket Savings Bank and a member of its investment committee. In the Free and Accepted Masons, he holds membership in Merrimack Lodge and holds other high offices. The thirty-third degree, possession of which is one of the very high- est honors bestowed in Masonry, has been conferred upon him; and he has arrived at this end through both the York and Scottish rites. He also belongs to the Pentucket Club and the Haverhill Historical Society. His church is the First Universalist, which he has served as a member of several boards and as chairman of the finance committee. It is of the Masonic affiliations that Mr. Hunt is proudest, however, and his life has exemplified the finest teachings of the order. In Haverhill there are few men who are so well versed in financial matters as is he, and his knowledge has been particularly useful in this respect to a number of organizations and individuals.
Daniel C. Hunt married, in 1895, Evelyn O. Merryman, of Oregon. By this marriage there have been born the following chil- dren : I. Olive S., who was graduated from Wheaton College; she became the wife of Hubert G. Fisher and is the mother of one child, Dana Hunt Fisher. 2. Harriet O., graduated from the School of Domestic Science; she was married to Kyle C. Whit- ing, and has two children, Evelyn Ellen and Clinton Taylor Whiting. 3. Paul W., grad- uated from the University of New Hamp- shire ; he married Gladys N. Slocum.
LAWRENCE BROWN CUSHING- Throughout the long career of Lawrence Brown Cushing in Newburyport, he was the compeer of the leaders in its financial, civic and communal life. Few men knew more of the facts and history of financial institu- tions, upon which he was recognized as an
authority and able financier. He observed the development of his city over a period of more than three-quarters of a century, and had played no small part in that develop- ment.
Mr. Cushing was a native of Newbury- port, born November 9, 1845, son of John Newmarch and Mary Lawrence (Brown) Cushing, both of Newburyport, the former of whom was born October 21, 1820, died July 12, 1904, and Mrs. Cushing, who was born May 15, 1819, died August 2, 1898. They were married May 16, 1843. John Newmarch Cushing was well known in mer- chant marine and banking circles. The Cushing family, very ancient in England, is one of the oldest and most distinguished in New England, and Hon. Caleb Cushing, uncle of Lawrence B., was first mayor of Newburyport, Minister to Spain, Attorney General of the United States and one of the ablest lawyers of the Nation. After com- pleting his education, Lawrence Brown Cushing was for a period in the East India importing business, but later associated with banking. For sixty-three years he was a banker during the most intense and chang- ing century of American finance. His bank- ing service was with the Newburyport Insti- tute for Savings and the Merchants' National Bank, and included with the former fifty-five years as a trustee and thirty-four years as vice-president, a record that stands out in the annals of the business. Mr. Cushing was a director of the Merchants' National Bank from 1877 to the time of his death, and of several other corporations.
Into the general activities of Newburyport, Mr. Cushing entered heartily but quietly. He was sagacious and thoughtful, conserva- tive yet enterprising, a man of calm poise who was ever ready to assume responsibil- ity. He was a member of the common coun- cil of the city for two years, but never cared for political office. Fraternally he was affili-
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ated with the Masonic Order, being the old- est member of St. John's Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of King Cyrus Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He was a director of the Home for Aged Men and the Home for Aged Women, a trus- tee of the Public Library for thirty-eight years, vice-president of the Newburyport Historical Society, and over a long period from 1901, president of the Wheelwright Fund. This fund was established many years ago to assist boys from Newburyport to gain a scientific college education. More than four hundred boys have been so helped, and the skilled management and manipula- tion of the fund by Mr. Cushing was in a great measure responsible for the large scope of its work. Religiously, Mr. Cushing affili- ated with the Presbyterian Church.
Lawrence Brown Cushing died on Octo- ber 14, 1933, one of the most highly re- spected men of Newburyport. He had never married, and of his four brothers and sisters, Marianna, who married Thomas Gillis Todd, Elizabeth Johnson, Margaret Woodbridge, and John Newmarch, Jr., only Elizabeth J., and Margaret W., survive, the former being Mrs. Francis Abbott Goodhue, of Andover, Massachusetts.
The memory of Lawrence Brown Cushing will long remain green. The good that he did abides in the hearts and minds of the many whose lives he influenced, and in the community in which he figured so promi- nently.
CLIFTON ALBERT CLARKE-Almost the whole of the business career of Clifton A. Clarke has been connected with life insur- ance work in Haverhill, the city of his birth. He has taken a keen interest in Haverhill and Essex County affairs, and is highly re- garded by all whose privilege it is to know him.
Mr. Clarke was born on June 9, 1890, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, son of Dr. Israel J. and Nellie E. (Pearson) Clarke, both na- tives of this State and both now deceased. His father died in 1933, and his mother in 1915. Israel J. Clarke was a physician by profession, a graduate of New York Uni- versity with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine, and was one of the prime movers in the prevention and cure of tuberculosis. On this subject he has often been quoted as an authority. An extended record of his useful and noble life is given elsewhere in this volume.
In the public schools of Haverhill, Mas- sachusetts, Clifton A. Clarke received his early education, graduating from Haverhill High School in 1908, and in 1913 from Dart- mouth College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Immediately afterward he asso- ciated himself with the Massachusetts Mu- tual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, in which he has since continued. He has developed a large clientele, and is rated among the foremost life insurance men in this region of the Bay State.
Along with his insurance activities, Mr. Clarke has taken part extensively in civic, social and fraternal affairs. He is a corpo- rator of the City Five Cents Savings Bank. In the Free and Accepted Masons, he be- longs to Merrimack Lodge, and is affiliated with Chapter, Council and Commandery, and Lodge of Perfection, as well as Aleppo Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. His other affiliations are with the Pentucket Club, the Boys Club, Incorporated, of Haverhill, of which he is secretary ; the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Haverhill Historical Society, and the North Congregational Church. For a number of years he was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, and the University Club of Bos- ton. He is a member also of Wilbur M.
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Comeau Post, American Legion and of Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity, Dartmouth Chap- ter. In his parish he has served on different committees and boards. He has interested himself in all matters pertaining to the prog- ress of his city, and enjoys a high reputation among his fellow-citizens here. He also has added naval service to his other work, hav- ing enlisted for wartime duty in the United States Navy. He began as a yeoman and at the end of the World War was discharged with the rank of lieutenant, junior grade. He is today a member of the Naval Reserve Officers' Association.
Clifton A. Clarke married, in 1923, Agatha L. Kayton, a Virginia woman. By this mar- riage there have been two children : I. Vir- ginia Lee Clarke, who was born October 4, 1924, died September 26, 1931. 2. Clifton Albert Clarke, Jr., who was born on October 16, 1928.
ISRAEL J. CLARKE, M. D .- At the time of his death Dr. Israel J. Clarke was one of the oldest practicing physicians in Haverhill, and both in seniority and by right of esteem was considered the dean of his profession in this city. He was an author- ity on tuberculosis and for a quarter of a century led the fight in Essex County on behalf of the anti-tuberculosis movement. His unselfish efforts and devoted services were of notable value in alleviating the ravages of this disease and raising stand- ards of public health.
Dr. Clarke was born in Woburn, Massa- chusetts, on May 22, 1860, a son of Dr. Albert W. and Philanda G. (Willey) Clarke, of whom the former was also a physician. During the course of the Civil War, Dr. Albert W. Clarke joined the Union Army and his early death was the result of an infection he received while in the service.
Israel J. Clarke was one of three children in the family and was about eight years of age
when his father died. He continued his pre- liminary education in the Woburn schools, but while he was still in the lower grades he began to work in his spare time, first in a local drug store then as an assistant in a doctor's office. Later the family moved to Littleton, New Hampshire, but returned after a number of years to Brockton, where Dr. Clarke completed the high school course and was duly graduated. His father's ex- ample and his own experience as a doctor's assistant had meanwhile turned his thoughts toward a medical career and he resolved to make this profession his life's work. Fol- lowing a course of lectures in medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, he enrolled at the Univer- sity of the City of New York Medical Col- lege in New York City, from which he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1883. After a brief period as an interne in a New York hospital, he began practice at Ashland, Massachusetts, where he remained for about four years. In 1887 he came to Haverhill, which was to be the scene of his labors during the remainder of his life.
During the first part of his professional activity, Dr. Clarke carried on an unrestricted general practice. He was always particu- larly interested, however, in the problems posed by the "great white scourge," and gradually came to devote more and more of his time to tuberculosis work. In the last quarter-century of his life it was his major interest, and his labors in the field brought him national recognition. Dr. Clarke was one of the prime movers in establishing the Haverhill Sanatorium and served as physi- cian in charge throughout the period of its existence. This institution was abandoned with the opening of the Essex County Sana- torium in Middleton. Dr. Clarke was also in charge of the Tuberculosis Clinic on Court Street, which has now been in opera- tion for several years under the direction of the city. He became supervising physician
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of the clinic at the time it was founded and continued in that capacity until his death. Over a long period he was president of the Haverhill Anti-Tuberculosis Association and in connection with his official duties co- ordinated and directed the efforts of various Haverhill organizations to reduce the inci- dence and mortality of tuberculosis. He was especially active in the movement to estab- lish weekly clinics for undernourished school children as a means of demonstrating to the local board of health the need of a nutrition physician and nurse in the schools.
Dr. Clarke also participated in the battles fought on wider fronts. He was active in the Massachusetts League of the Tuber- culosis Association and for a period of fifteen years attended every meeting of the Cabot clinics conducted at the Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital in Boston in order that he might be informed of each new development in diagnosis of different cases. He was a leading member of the Northern Essex County Tuberculosis Association and in 1920 was honored by his colleagues in his election as president of the association. As its head, he directed the expansion of its activities in order that a more effective fight against this disease might be waged in the northern Essex district. He was largely instrumental in providing the first school nurses at Georgetown, Groveland, and West Newbury, an example quickly followed in other towns of the county, and was equally active in carrying the work outside Essex to every county in the State.
There were still other aspects of Dr. Clarke's outstanding public service. He was a member of the medical advisory board of the Haverhill Health Center which accom- plished a notable work by raising the stand- ards of physical care for childhood, taking children of the city at pre-school ages, ex- amining them for constitutional defects and prescribing treatment to fit them for the
duties of school and after life. The inter- ests and welfare of children were always close to Dr. Clarke's heart and only a few years before his death, after long effort, he secured enactment of a curfew law in Haver- hill, requiring all children to be at home after 8:45 P. M. He was the originator and author of the "Healthgrams" which ap- peared in the Haverhill "Gazette" daily and were subsequently publicized throughout the country in tuberculosis organs. Dr. Clarke was also local chairman for the sale of Christmas seals to aid tuberculosis sufferers in the annual campaigns of the Tuberculosis Association, and through his connection with that body was instrumental in provid- ing camps for the undernourished at Box- ford.
During the World War, he served on the local medical advisory board, examining men taken into the army. He was a former pres- ident of the Haverhill Medical Journal Club, an organization of local physicians ; a mem- ber of the Haverhill Medical Club, the Pen- tucket Association of Physicians and the American Medical Association. In other fields, Dr. Clarke was a member of the Pen- tucket Club, Merrimack Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge of Perfection, and the North Congregational Church.
In 1889 he married Nellie E. Pearson, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1865 and died in 1915. They were the par- ents of one son, Clifton A. Clarke (q. v.), now district agent of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Dr. Clarke died at Haverhill on May 4, 1933. Humanitarian, philanthropist and be- loved physician, he made his life a career of service to his fellowman, asking no re- ward save the consciousness that his efforts had been of value to others. He labored at Haverhill for almost half a century and in the affectionate remembrance of its people his place is notably secure.
Daniel Kimball
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FRANK J. BRADLEY-Throughout practically all his business career, Frank J. Bradley, of Haverhill, has been associated with the shoe industry. He was born at Methuen, Essex County, on February 25, 1859, a son of L. and Catherine C. (Frye) Bradley, both natives of Massachusetts, the former of whom died in 1882, the latter in 1900. The father, a veteran of the 14th Massachusetts Heavy Artillery during the Civil War, was for many years interested in agriculture.
After being a student in the Lawrence grammar and high schools, Frank J. Brad- ley remained for some time on his father's farm before entering a shoe factory where he laid the foundations of his noteworthy career of later years. He learned the shoe industry in nearly all of its phases from the bottom up, and was amply prepared to rise to high executive rank when the opportunity came. He is now the president of Bradds, Inc. The history of this company, in the building up of which he played such an important part, is as follows: In 1880 the firm of Goodrich and Porter was organized to manufacture men's and women's turned shoes, located at nearly the same place as at present, on Washington Street, Haver- hill. In 1887 Hazen Goodrich took over the business and continued it under the name of H. B. Goodrich and Company until 1916, when he withdrew from the company. In the meantime Frank J. Bradley had entered the employ of Mr. Goodrich, in 1887, and in 1889 he was made a partner of the con- cern. After Mr. Goodrich's withdrawal in 1916, Mr. Bradley carried on the business under the same name, although he was the sole owner until January 1, 1927. On this date the firm was incorporated and became known as the Bradley-Goodrich Company, Inc., with Frank J. Bradley, president ; Everett Bradley, his son, treasurer; and George W. Langdon, Jr., vice-president. On
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