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JAMES HENRY BROAD-In the busi- ness and civic life of Lynn, James Henry Broad has for many years taken an impor- tant part. As chief of the local police, he has done much to bolster the forces of law enforcement and orderly human relation- ships in this community, and his position is
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one of leadership among his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Broad was born September 3, 1868, in Lynn, son of the late James Henry and Amberzima (Aymer) Broad. He received his early education in the public schools of Lynn, but at the age of fourteen years, due to the death of his father, was forced to go to work to support his widowed mother. Becoming a clerk for the Child and Kent Express Company, he remained with that business organization for several years, at length rising to the post of cashier. For five years he acted as messenger on trains on the Boston and Maine Railroad, working on the Saugus branch, and he was also em- ployed in the office of the North Shore Ex- press Company, continuing this work until 1903.
It was in 1897 that he took the police ex- amination. There was no immediate place for him on the police force, but he was placed on the reserve list on January II, 1898, by Mayor Walter A. Ramsdell. In 1903 there came the opening that made it possible for him to begin work as a patrol- man. On October 7, 1905, after serving his preliminary apprenticeship on the so-called "Brickyard" beat, he was promoted to ser- geant. In 1910 he became an inspector. For ten years, through the period as ser- geant and inspector, he was also clerk of the department and so learning many of the inner details that prepared him for the more important responsibilities that came to him in subsequent years. On June 24, 1919, he was made captain. His ascendancy to the headship of the department came December 27, 1929, when he was elevated to the post of chief of police by former Mayor Ralph S. Bauer.
In the course of his busy career in the de- partment, Mr. Broad has handled many im- portant cases and has participated in the growth and development of Lynn's whole
police system. While serving as inspector, just after the close of the World War, he was detailed as special investigator and ex- aminer for soldiers' relief and aid claims. For many years he has served as treasurer of the Lynn Police Relief Association. When he joined the department in an active way, in 1903, there were about seventy men in its employ. By 1935 it had so grown in its proportions and scope of work that it included twenty-six superior officers, be- sides one hundred and twenty patrolmen, twenty-six reserve men, three captains, one chief inspector, nine sergeants, two police women, four clerks, two garage men, four janitors and two matrons, as well as a num- ber of other general employees-in all, about two hundred persons directly under supervision of the chief. The department is housed in a beautiful new station, having every convenience and improvement. It was built in 1930, and comprises fine offices for each branch of the department, includ- ing private quarters for the chief and the other superior officers. The office equip- ment is of the finest, and the system of crime detection and record-keeping is one of the most complete and accurate to be found anywhere in the United States. It is significant that this new organization has been developed under the wise direction of Chief Broad himself, who, as clerk of the department many years ago, had occasion to observe the need of modernity. Through his efforts, some years ago, the first type- writer was installed in the department, and it provided a basis upon which to build for the future. Modern police cruising cars are on duty twenty-four hours each day, and the department is considered one of the most efficient in this State. Chief Broad has also endeavored at all times to intro- duce the very highest type of men into the department, and his own wide experience
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makes it possible for him to carry this policy into effect.
Quite aside from his work with the po- lice department, Chief Broad has interested himself in many branches of civic and social life. He is a member of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons, which he joined at about the turn of the century, and in 1935 he was made a life member of the order. Since 1890 he has belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and for all but two of the years of his membership he has been connected with the Encampment. He also has belonged for a long period to the Knights of Pythias, the local Rotary Club of Lynn, the Swampscott Ionic Club, and the Sons of the American Revolution.
On October 16, 1895, James A. Broad married Frances G. Heath, of Lynn, daugh- ter of Charles Heath, deceased, who was for many years superintendent of the street railways of this city. They became the par- ents of two children: I. Ralph C., who be- came treasurer of the Security Trust Com- pany, of Lynn ; he married Clara M. Coyne. 2. Fred H., who was graduated from Dart- mouth College, and now lives in Canton, Ohio, where he is associated with a large real estate and insurance brokerage firm and is acting as both a salesman and coun- sel for the company; he married Ida M. Rogers, and they have two children, Jean and Ann Harding Broad.
THOMAS VINCENT UNIAC, M. D .- For the past two decades Dr. Thomas Vin- cent Uniac has been ministering to the med- ical needs of the city of Lawrence and in the performance of his duties has become one of the most popular and widely known phy- sicians of this vicinity, taking an active part in the social, civic and business life of his adopted city.
Dr. Uniac was born in Randolph, Massa- chusetts, January 18, 1881, the son of Rob-
ert and Bridget (Moran) Uniac. His father, who was a native of Ireland, came to this country at the age of four years and fol- lowed the shoemaking trade. Two of the elder Uniac's brothers served in the Civil War. Dr. Uniac received a general educa- tion in the public schools of his native com- munity and after completing his studies here entered the Thayer Academy at South Braintree, graduating from this institution in the spring of 1900. The fall of this year he entered Dartmouth College and four years later received a degree of Bachelor of Science. He remained here to pursue his medical studies and in 1909 received a de- gree of Doctor of Medicine. During his collegiate career he was very active, being a member of the football and baseball teams, the college band, the college orchestra and the college Philharmonic Society. At this time he also fraternized with the Theta Nu Epsilon and Theta Delta Chi fraternities, was a member of the Sphinx Senior Society ยท and belonged to the Alpha Kappa Kappa Medical Fraternity.
After completing his medical training here he served his interneship at the Massa- chusetts State Infirmary at Tewksbury. At the end of one year he became the resident physician and maintained this position until January 1, 1914, when he established a prac- tice in Lawrence which he carries on today. In his professional associations he is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, the Massachusetts Medical Society and the Lawrence Medical Club of which he is treasurer. He is on the staff of the Law- rence General Hospital and between 1929 to 1933 served as city physician to Lawrence. In his social affiliations he is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Kiwanis Club, serving the latter organization as president in 1931. In addition to baseball, which he followed in a professional capac- ity for fifteen years, his main hobbies are
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trout and salmon fishing and bird hunting, which he indulges in during his leisure time.
On April 26, 1916, Dr. Uniac married Anna Isabel McGlynn of Andover, Massa- chusetts.
JOHN C. TWOMEY-One of Essex County's useful native sons, John C. Twomey is an esteemed member of the law firm of Thompson and Twomey, of Boston.
He was born in Lawrence on June 22, 1889, son of Sylvester and Honora (Gor- man) Twomey, both of whom were born in Ireland and came to America soon after the Civil War. In this country they determined to make their home in Lawrence, Massachu- setts, where Sylvester Twomey became a merchant. Both he and his wife are now deceased.
Their son, John C. Twomey, received his early education in Lawrence, being gradu- ated from high school here in 1906. In 1912 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College, and in 1914 the Bachelor of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. Admitted to the bar in the same year, he started to practice in Lawrence. In 1918 he joined with two partners to form the firm of Twomey, Moyes and Dow. The entry of the United States into the World War somewhat interfered with Mr. Twomey's plans, for in July, 1918, he enlisted for serv- ice in the Intelligence Department of the United States Navy, and was stationed at Boston for the active performance of special duties.
In the political field he has also rendered public service, having been a member of the constitutional convention from 1917 to 1919. When not busily engaged in service to county, State or Nation, Mr. Twomey went ahead with his law practice. In 1931 he formed, in Boston, the partnership that is now known as Thompson and Twomey,
which began functioning on May 1, 1931. His work as a member of this firm has been distinctive and useful. A record of his part- ner's career appears in the following biogra- phy under the heading of Hubert Clinton Thompson. The firm of Thompson and Two- mey is widely known in Massachusetts, par- ticularly in the Boston and Essex County regions. Mr. Twomey is a member of the Lawrence Bar Association, the Essex County Bar Association, the Boston Bar Associa- tion, the Massachusetts State Bar Associa- tion, and the American Bar Association. In every group with which he is connected, he has done much for the furtherance of the best interests of his contemporaries and for the raising of the standards of his profession.
On June 22, 1919, John C. Twomey mar- ried Harriet Bolton, of North Andover. Their children are: I. Virginia M. 2. June B. 3. John C., Jr. The family residence is in Pond Circle, Jamaica Gardens, Boston, and Mr. Twomey's offices are at No. 10 Post Office Square, Boston.
HUBERT CLINTON THOMPSON- As member of the bar in the Boston district, Hubert Clinton Thompson has performed a work of great value and importance, earning the esteem and respect of his fellow-citizens in many walks and departments of life. He is a member of the firm of Thompson and Twomey.
Mr. Thompson was born in Danversport, Essex County, November 15, 1889, son of William O. and Agnes J. (Kinney) Thomp- son. His father, who came from Barnstead, New Hampshire, was for many years en- gaged in the business of ice cream produc- tion, but is now living retired. His mother was born in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, Can- ada.
In the public schools of Haverhill, Hubert Clinton Thompson received his early educa-
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tion, being graduated from high school in 1908. He then attended Clark University, where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911. Afterward he attended Harvard Law School, studied law with the Hon. Henry G. Wells, and was admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in February, 1915. Beginning his practice in Haverhill, Mr. Thompson subsequently opened offices in Boston for the practice of his profession. There followed a busy period of participation in the affairs of Haverhill, the community where he lives, and of activ- ity as a practitioner of the law in a wide territory. He is today engaged, with John C. Twomey (q. v.), in operating the law firm of Thompson and Twomey, which started in 1931. Its headquarters are at No. 10 Post Office Square, Boston, though its work is widely and favorably known in the whole of the Boston district. Mr. Thompson has performed notable work as a member of this firm and as a practicing lawyer in Boston, and is active in the Haverhill Bar Associa- tion, the Essex County Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, and the Massachu- setts State Bar Association.
Along with his professional work, Mr. Thompson has taken occasion to serve his State and his country. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention from 1917. to 1919. During the World War, he was with the United States Merchant Ma- rine. Later, in 1924 and 1925, he was assist- ant district attorney of Essex County ; from 1925 to May I, 1932, he was first assistant United States attorney in Boston, and in August, 1934, was appointed referee in bank- ruptcy for Essex County. His deep interest in the affairs of both Boston and Haverhill has been of great value to his fellow-citizens and their institutions. In Haverhill he be- longs to the Pentucket Club and to the local
lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
On August 12, 1923, Hubert Clinton Thompson married Sadie B. Hooper. They became the parents of one child, Jane P. Thompson.
CHANDLER BIGELOW-In the finan- cial circles of the city of Boston, where for the past nine years he has been associated with the investment brokerage firm of Ed- ward B. Smith and Company, Chandler Bigelow now fills a valued place.
Mr. Bigelow was born in Readville, Mas- sachusetts, on July 21, 1900, the son of Henry Forbes and Eliza Frothingham (Davis) Bigelow, both natives of this State. His father, who died in 1929, was one of the most celebrated architects of this Com- monwealth, and is credited with designing many of the finest buildings in the city of Boston and its environs. Among the out- standing examples of his work is the Shaw- mut National Bank Building, the Tremont Building, and the Hotel Touraine, in Bos- ton. He was highly esteemed and re- spected in the artistic circles of this com- munity, where he was a trustee of the Bos- ton Museum of Fine Arts, was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the Art Commission of the city of Boston.
Chandler Bigelow received a general edu- cation at St. Mark's School in Southbor- ough, and after completing his studies there entered Harvard College, with the class of 1924.
After finishing his academic education, he became associated with the Pacific Mills, in Lawrence, where he worked until he joined his uncle, C. Willard Bigelow, in the cor- poration of Bigelow, Reed and Company, in Boston. He remained with this concern un-
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til 1925, when he joined the firm of Edward B. Smith and Company, investment bank- ers, an association he inaintains today.
In the fall of 1934 Mr. Bigelow became a candidate for the office of alderman-at-large in the city of Beverly, and was, by reason of the vote polled by him, elected president of the board. During the years 1934-35, he served as chairman of the finance commit- tee. He was recently chosen to the board of trustees of the North Shore Babies' Hos- pital. Mr. Bigelow also has been a trustee and for three years treasurer of the Wells Memorial Association, an old established community center for working people in Boston.
Since taking up his residence in Essex County, Mr. Bigelow has been a member of the Myopia Hunt Club.
ROBERT GRAY DODGE-The bar of Boston is of Colonial and Revolutionary fame and the distinction it won thus early has never been diminished in later centu- ries. Such firms as that of Palmer, Dodge, Barstow, Wilkins & Davis have helped to maintain the prestige of ancient origin. Rob- ert Gray Dodge, member of this law firm and its predecessors for more than two dec- ades, is a native of Newburyport, born July 29, 1872, the son of Elisha Perkins and Katherine Searls (Gray) Dodge.
Mr. Dodge received his formal education at Harvard University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1893, with the degree Bachelor of Arts, and was awarded the Master's degree in Arts, two years later. He matriculated in the Harvard Law School and became a Bachelor of Laws in 1897. That same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and has since been en- gaged in the practice of his profession in Boston. He became a member of the firm with which he is now associated in 1910.
Many will recall this group of partners un- der the former style of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer and Dodge.
Robert Gray Dodge was assistant attor- ney General of the Commonwealth from 1902 to 1905, and was a member of the Mas- sachusetts Judicial Council from 1924 to 1930. He was president of the bar associa- tion of the city of Boston (1931-34), is a member of the council of the American Law Institute, and is a member of the American and the Massachusetts State Bar associa- tions. He is president of the trustees of Wellesley College, chairman of the board of trustees of Northeastern University, a trus- tee of the New England Conservatory of Music, a director of the National Shawmut Bank of Boston, and of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company. Numbered among his clubs are : St. Botolph, Somerset, Union, the country clubs of Boston, and the Harvard Club of New York.
On September 11, 1900, Robert Gray Dodge married Alice W. Childs, of Ames- bury, Massachusetts, and they are the par- ents of four children : Katherine, Eleanor, Sarah, and Alice.
HON. FREDERICK BUTLER-Since 1914, the Hon. Frederick Butler, of Boston, and Andover, has been continuously in pub- lic office. He is a native of Lawrence, born September 21, 1884, son of Franklin and Carrie Lillian (Jennings) Butler, the former of whom was born in Lawrence and the latter in Westerly, Rhode Island. The elder Mr. Butler, a well-known worsted goods manufacturer of Lawrence, was an alder- man of the city in early days, and for many years served on the school committee. He was also a director of the Bay State Na- tional Bank, a trustee of the Essex Savings Bank, a director of the Lawrence Gas Com- pany. A popular figure in Masonic circles,
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he was prominent in civic and welfare af- fairs and his death in 1922 was greatly re- gretted.
Frederick Butler attended the local grade schools and was graduated from the High- land Military Academy, of Worcester, with the class of 1903. He completed courses in the Bryant and Stratton Business College during the following year and then engaged in the brokerage business. He was associ- ated with Goodwin and Ratskesky, of Bos- ton, until 1911, when ill health compelled his retirement. After extensive traveling throughout the West and other sections of the country, Mr. Butler returned to Law- rence. Nominated and elected in the fall of 1913 to represent the Seventh Essex Dis- trict in the House of Representatives he was continued in office until 1918. He was elected five times to the Massachusetts House from Ward Five, Lawrence, and sponsored in the Legislature a number of valuable measures. He was chairman of the Committee on Public Institutions and for three years held a like post in the Commit- tee on Rules and Elections. In the fall of 1919 the Hon. Frederick Butler was elected to the State Senate, serving during 1920-21 and 1922, and was a member of the Commit- tee on Public Safety and the Bills of Third Reading and chairman of Public Institu- tions. The autumn of 1922 marked his nom- ination by the Republican party for Con- gressman, but in an election noteworthy for the Republican losses, he failed of election. In March, 1923, he was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Essex Board of County Commissioners, and since has been returned regularly by the electorate.
Frederick Butler has been moderator of the town of Andover, and the manager of many campaigns of friends. He was chair- man of the Speakers Bureau for the Repub- lican State Committee during the Smith-
Hoover campaign in 1928, and was emi- nently successful. At this writing (1934) he is manager of the campaign for the elec- tion of Lieutenant-Governor Gasper G. Ba- con, as Governor of the Commonwealth in the fall, 1934, elections. The Hon. Fred- erick Butler is a member of the Lawrence Home Club, the Andover Country Club, the Square and Compass Club of Andover, and the Service Club, also of Andover. He was president of the board of trustees of the Essex County Tuberculosis Hospital from 1923 to 1931. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
On December 12, 1918, Frederick Butler married Anna M. Olive, of Calais, Maine, and they are the parents of three children : Olive, born September 6, 1919; Frederick, Jr., born November 12, 1922; and Jane Jen- nings, born December 8, 1925.
VINCENT J. CIANCI-Since he began the practice of law at Lawrence in 1931, Vincent J. Cianci has firmly established his professional reputation and has won wide recognition at the local bar. He is also ac- tive in many other phases of the city's life.
Mr. Cianci was born in Lawrence on April 20, 1907, a son of Sylvestro and Mary (Melucci) Cianci, both of whom were na- tives of Naples, Italy. His father came to Lawrence in 1896 and was engaged here as a mill operator until his death.
Vincent J. Cianci was educated in local public schools. Following his graduation from high school in 1926, he attended the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Business Administration of Boston Univer- sity and in 1931 was graduated from the Law School of that institution with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same
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year he was admitted to the bar and began the active practice in Lawrence which he has since continued without interruption. The demands on his services increased rap- idly, necessitating the closest attention to his professional duties. Mr. Cianci is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Essex County Bar Association and the Lawrence Bar Association ; the Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity, the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, the Italy Grand So- ciety, the Italian Citizens Club, the Italo- American Civic Association and the Essex Republican Club. He has been especially interested in charitable work and is secre- tary of the Columbian Aid Society, a board of five members formed to provide hos- pitalization for the poor. Mr. Cianci is also very active in Italian circles of the city and influential in Italian organizations. In pol- itics he has prominently supported the Re- publican organization and while he has not himself entered public life, he has been in- terested in many public movements and civic causes. Mr. Cianci's favorite recrea- tions are hunting and fishing. He is un- married.
JOHN JOSEPH FORD-In 1932 John Joseph Ford was elected Commissioner of Health and Charities, city of Lawrence, in just recognition of his long and useful serv- ice to the municipality in a variety of lines, and of his own native abilities, integrity and enterprise. He was born in Lawrence, De- cember 1, 1881, the son of Patrick and Ellen (Monihan) Ford, both natives of Ireland who settled in Lawrence, and both deceased.
John J. Ford, after attending the local public schools and St. Mary's High School, became a teamster at the age of eighteen years, working for Ford Brothers, importers and wholesalers. For a time he was in busi- ness for himself, but accepted the post of
foreman of one of the sections of the Law- rence street department, a position similar to the one held by his father for some years. John J. Ford was for six years in the street department, eight years in the health depart- ment, and four years in the incinerator de- partment, prior to a return to the street de- partment under Alderman McCarthy.
Since early manhood greatly interested in politics, Mr. Ford was elected in 1909 a member of the Lawrence Common Council, and a year later was a member of the Board of Aldermen. In the fall of 1932 he was elected Commissioner of Health and Chari- ties, an office he holds at the present writing (1934). Fraternally Mr. Ford is affiliated with Lodge No. 65, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, and is a member of the Lawrence Yacht Club.
On June 17, 1903, John Joseph Ford mar- ried Mary Edward, of Lawrence, and they are the parents of two children: I. William, who has one child, Barbara. 2. Genevieve, wife of Stanley Vogt, and the mother of two children, Nancy Marie and John.
ADAM EBERHARDT-Though born in Germany, Adam Eberhardt has spent the better part of his life in Lawrence, where, during the course of his career, he has risen to become a prominent figure in the life of the community.
Mr. Eberhardt was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, January 5, 1887, the son of John and Lena (Witzgall) Eberhardt. As a child he was brought to this country by his family and his father engaged in the textile indus- try here until his death in 1912. Mr. Eber- hardt received a general education in the public schools of this community and at the age of fourteen years discontinued his stud- ies to enter the Washington Mills, where he worked for three years. He then took up the
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