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Warren L. Preble married Ida L. Kelley, and of this union the son they called Elliott Maxfield was born at Ayer, Massachusetts, on September 3, 1896. He began his education in his native place, graduated from the Ayer High School with the class of 1914, and subsequently studied at Wentworth Institute in Bos- ton, from which he also graduated, in 1916. Following his graduation, he became associated as a special ma- chine designer with a firm in the hardware industry at New Britain, Connecticut, and this remained his oc- cupation for some four years.
During these years in New Britain, Mr. Preble became interested in the Young Men's Christian As- sociation work as a career of usefulness, offering the satisfaction of a consciousness of service, and he entered the organization of that association in that city as an assistant secretary. He remained with the
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New Britain "Y" until 1932. In that year, confirmed in his conviction that this was his true field of work, Mr. Preble accepted the position of business and dormitory secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Hartford, Connecticut, and in this capacity remained in Hartford until 1928.
In October of that year Mr. Preble came to Western Massachusetts to fill the position of as- sociate general secretary of the Pittsfield "Y". He has been in Pittsfield from that time to the present. In December, 1938, he was appointed general secre- tary of the Pittsfield Association, and this top posi- tion he has continued to fill to the present writing. His administrative ability, energy and earnest de- votion to the work and progress of the great organi- zation which he serves, have kept the Young Men's Christian Association growing, and maintained it in the forefront of civic work in the city of Pitts- field. His religious affiliation is with the First Bap- tist Church of Pittsfield. He is a member of the Masonic order.
On June 24, 1922, Elliott Maxfield Preble was married at Winsted, Connecticut, to Ethel Eliza- beth Gimm, a daughter of Julius and Rose Gimm. Of this marriage there are three children: I. Eleanor Louise, who was born on March 13, 1924, and is now Mrs. Eldridge. 2. Elliott Maxfield, Jr., born on Au- gust 2, 1925. 3. Warren L., II, born September 20, 1930.
WALTER EARL CROSIER, who conducts a general insurance agency in Holyoke under the name of the W. E. Crosier Company, and who has been fire commissioner and park commissioner in South Hadley, where he and his family make their home, is well known and liked in this vicinity and a member of a number of professional, social and civic organiza- tions.
He was born in Holyoke on November 14, 1894, the son of William Jefferson and Anna Elizabeth (Corner) Crosier. His father, the late Major Wil- liam J. Crosier, for whom Crosier Field is named, was known and respected throughout the city for his work as superintendent of parks and playgrounds, a post he held from 1918 to 1936. He was born in 1860 and spent his early adult years in the leather belting busi- ness, a career he interrupted to serve as a major in the Spanish-American War. It was in 1938, the year he died, that the Major William J. Crosier Field was named for him. Anna Elizabeth (Corner) Crosier, who was born in 1860, is still living. Mr. Crosier is a direct descendant of Jefferson Moore, who came from England to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 and later came to Massachusetts. Moore's Corners, named for him in pre-Revolutionary times, still keeps its identity on the outskirts of Leverett.
Walter Earl Crosier was educated in the Holyoke elementary schools and Holyoke High School. In 1913 he entered the employ of the Farr Alpaca Com- pany as an office boy and had worked up to the post of Custom House Clerk in 1917, when the United States entered World War I. He enlisted as a pri- vate and was a second lieutenant when he received his honorable discharge in April, 1919. He then re- turned to the Farr Alpaca Company in the capacity of paymaster and remained with this concern for al- most twenty years, until the time of its liquidation
in 1928. Meantime, however, he had become fire com- missioner of South Hadley, a post he filled from 1934 to 1944. It was natural therefore that he should enter the field of fire and other insurance, and shortly after the Farr Alpaca Company was liquidated he bought out the insurance agency of Dwight O. Judd and Company, which he has been operating ever since, although he later, in 1943, changed its name to the W. E. Crosier Company. In 1944, after completing ten years of service as fire commissioner of South Hadley, he was made commissioner of parks, a post he held until 1947. Mr. Crosier belongs to a number of professional organizations, including the Holyoke Board of Fire and Casualty Underwriters, the Massa- chusetts State Board of Insurance Agents, the Na- tional Board of Fire Underwriters and the National Board of Insurance Agents. He is a member of the William Whiting Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Mt. Holyoke Royal Arch Chapter, and the Knights Templar, St. Andrews Commandery. Other organizations in which he takes an active part are the Holyoke Kiwanis Club, the Pocumtuck Club of South Hadley, the Holyoke Canoe Club, Holyoke Turnverein, Inc. and the American Legion. His fa- vorite hobbies are fishing and golf. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of South Hadley.
Walter Earl Crosier married, in Holyoke on Sep- tember 6, 1924, Bessie Elsie Robinson, the daughter of John Green and Matilda Christine (Johnson) Rob- inson. Mr. and Mrs. Crosier have two children: Char- lotte Anne, born July 24, 1927, now a junior at Framingham Teachers College, and Nancy Moore, born April 8, 1931, a student at Northfield School for Girls.
REV. FATHER ALBERT C. FLEURY, pastor of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church of Turners Falls, in Franklin County, was born in Belchertown on August 12, 1889, the son of Albert C. and Salome (Fregeau) Fleury. Both of Father Fleury's parents were natives of Canada but came to the United States in infancy, his mother's people settling in Holyoke, and his father's people in Springfield. His ยท father was a prosperous farmer in Belchertown and a real estate operator in Springfield.
Father Fleury attended St. Ann's parochial school in Three Rivers, after which he became a student at St. Charles College in Sherbrooke, Canada, from which he graduated. He then studied theology at Grand Seminary in Montreal and after completing his training for the priesthood, was ordained on December 23, 1916. His first charge was as assistant at the Holy Name Church of Worcester, where he served from 1917 to 1926. From 1926 to 1931 he was assistant at St. Cecelia's in Leominster; from 1931 to 1934, assistant at St. Joseph's in Springfield; from 1934 to 1936, assistant at Assumption Church in Mil- bury; and from 1936 to 1941 assistant at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Linwood. In 1941 Father Fleury became pastor of St. Raphael's Church in Williamstown, and in 1944 came to Turners Falls as pastor of St. Ann's Church. This church was founded in 1885, and its first pastor was Father Perrault. Father Fleury served as curate, and then served as assistant to Father Perrault at the Holy Name Church in Worcester in 1917. He thus has a long-standing interest in the parish of St. Ann's in Turners Falls.
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GEORGE THOMAS MULLEN, M.D., has not only served his community of North Adams well as a surgeon, but holds important place on the staffs of several hospitals in this region. His practice at North Adams has been interrupted by a three-year period in the service of his country during World War II, and was resumed in 1945. He has a number of affi- liations with veterans' and professional groups, and has come to take a significant part in the affairs of his home city.
Dr. Mullen is the son of Thomas and Ellen (Swen- son) Mullen. Thomas Mullen, who died in 1928, was a native of Norwich and a farmer by occupation. Ellen Swenson, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, emi- grated to the United States as a girl, selected Nor- wich as a pleasant place in which to live, and mar- ried there. Their son, George Thomas, was born in Norwich on October 3, 1899.
His secondary education was completed at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vermont, after which he entered Middlebury College, taking his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1926. His professional studies were pur- sued at the Boston University School of Medicine, where he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1932.
Dr. Mullen interned at Boston City Hospital until 1934, at which time he was appointed resident surgeon at that hospital. This appointment he held until 1937. His practice was first established at North Adams in 1938, and he has remained there since, with the exception of three years during World War II when he saw active service as a commander in the United States Naval Reserve Medical Corps. Since resumption of his practice in North Adams, he has become chief of the surgical staff of the North Adams Hospital, member of the surgical staff at the St. Luke's Hospital in Pittsfield, and associate sur- geon at the House of Mercy, also in Pittsfield.
Dr. Mullen's professional associations include mem- bership in the Massachusetts Medical Society and in the Northern Berkshire Medical Society. He belongs to Alpha Kappa Kappa, medical fraternity at Boston University, and to Chi Psi fraternity at Middlebury College. Since the period of his naval service, he has been active in veterans' organizations, and belongs to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Dr. Mullen is of Catholic faith, and he and his family attend St. Francis' Roman Catholic Church in North Adams.
In Boston, June 9, 1927, Dr. George T. Mullen mar- ried Anita McNamara, a native Bostonian and gradu- ate of the New England Conservatory of Music, and member of the Aristos Club, of Boston. Her parents were Thomas and Agnes (Delaney) McNa- mara. Dr. and Mrs. Mullen are the parents of two daughters: I. Anita Marilyn, who was born in Bos- ton, August 24, 1928. She is a graduate of the Acad- emy of the Assumption at Wellesley, and attended Albertus Magnus College for Women, New Haven, Connecticut. She now is a junior at Middlebury Col- lege, in Vermont. 2. Janice Swenson Mullen, born February 7, 1937.
STEWART RAMSAY ALLYN-The third gen- eration of realtors engaged in that activity at Holyoke, Stewart Ramsay Allyn, the senior partner of Allyn and O'Donnell, has been so engaged for more than a
score of years. His previous business life of almost equal length was devoted to the automotive industry. He is interested, currently, in the financial and civic affairs of Holyoke and he is continuing an extensive tenure on the local board of public works.
Stewart Ramsay Allyn was born, November 26, 1893, at Holyoke, the son of George Henry Allyn, born in 1856 and died in 1917, and of Rachael Cecelia (Oli- ver) Allyn, who was born in 1868 and died in 1938. George Henry Allyn, as his father before him, was engaged in real estate dealing in the city of Holyoke. Stewart Ramsay Allyn received his formal education locally, being a graduate of both the grade and high schools. He entered into business endeavor in 1914, as a member of the office staff of White and Wyckoff, paper manufacturers. In 1915, he transferred to the Cowen Truck Company, a subsidiary of White and Wyckoff, where he remained as a cost clerk until June I, 1917, when he enlisted for service with the United States Army, in World War I. A private in the Corps of Engineers, he went overseas and was assigned to duty with the army of occupation. He rose to the rank of first sesrgeant, in which grade he received his honorable discharge in September, 1919.
For two years following his discharge from service Mr. Allyn was active as a purchasing agent in the rapidly expanding automotive industry in Michigan. He then returned to Massachusetts and was associ- ated briefly with Stevens-Duryea at Chicopee. Re- turning to the Cowen Truck Company of Holyoke in 1921, he remained with them for five years in the stock. and production departments. In 1926, he joined the Allyn Agency, realtors, founded by his grandfather in 1885 and continued since his father's death in 1917, by his brother, Oliver Edwin Allyn. They operated the family enterprise jointly until 1928, when Oliver died. Stewart Ramsay Allyn carried on alone until the following year when he formed the partnership of Williams, Allyn & O'Donnell. In 1933, the firm became Allyn & O'Donnell, under which name it has continued successfully to the present. His current standing in the real estate field is attested to by his office of president of the Holyoke Board of Realtors.
Mr. Allyn's only other business association at the present time is a financial one, for he is a trustee and a member of the board of investment of the Holyoke Savings Bank. In 1932 and 1933, he was chairman of the board of public works for Holyoke, and he is repeating that service at this writing, his present ten- ure having begun January 1, 1940. He is a member of the Holyoke Taxpayers Association, Chamber of Com- merce, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and American Legion. He is affiliated with the First Con- gregational Church of Holyoke and politically is an in- dependent Republican. He maintains his residence at 37 Princeton Street, Holyokc. His hobbies are golf and fishing.
Stewart Ramsay Allyn married, November 15, 1941, in Vermont, Laura Ann Pattison, the daughter of Robert W. and Ann Pattison, of Holyoke. MI. and Mrs. Allyn are the parents of two daughters: I. Priscilla Ramsay, born April 9, 1945. 2. Cynthia Ruth, born December 7, 1947.
HENRY JARISCH, JR .- Make a fine product, and contrary to that ancient adage, the world will not beat a path to your door-unless you employ to the
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fullest the arts of salesmanship. This is particularly true of the highly intensified and competitive paper and paper products manufacturing field in Western Massachusetts. Henry Jarisch, Jr., president of the United Folding Box Company, of Holyoke, and presi- dent of Henry Jarisch, Jr., Incorporated, of North Adams, has brought to his present endeavors in the paper and paper products industry a varied experience, from errand boy to executive, of which not the least part has been activity as a salesman and as a jobber. Aside from these stated interests he is particularly active in the business and community life of Holyoke.
Henry Jarisch, Jr. was born May 9, 1896, at Holy- oke, the son of Henry, born in 1855 and died in 1939, for thirty-five years a pattern weaver for the silk house of Skinner; and of Hulda (Kaufman) Jarisch. He received his education in the grade and high schools of his native city and in the year 1912 he be- gan his business career as an errand boy for White and Wyckoff, paper manufacturers. His salary was a munificent three dollars and a half per week. He shortly transferred to the United States Envelope Company, despite a sacrifice of fifty cents in weekly salary, because there he was furnished a bicycle. In or about 1913, he entered the cost accounting depart- ment of Crocker and McElwain where he remained until in 1917, he enlisted in the United States Merchant Marine for service during World War I. After two years of honorable service in the rank of first mate, he received his discharge, March 17, 1919. He there- upon returned to Holyoke and accepted a post as salesman for the Carter Paper Company. On June I, 1927, he established himself independently as a jobber in paper and paper products, under the name of Henry Jarisch. He acquired in 1937, and became presi- dent of the United Folding Box Company. Eight years later, May 19, 1945, he secured the E. A. Mc- Millan Company, of North Adams, which had been founded in 1890; renamed it Henry Jarisch, Jr., Inc., and occupied the office of president. He is currently active in both these latter capacities and his marketing and distribution experience and talents are important elements in the progression of both firms.
Mr. Jarisch was also one of the incorporators of the Holyoke Savings Bank. He is a director for the Family Welfare organization of Holyoke; a member of the United Commercial Travelers Association, of the Chamber of Commerce, and of the Rotary Club, all of Holyoke. He is fond of golf and maintains a membership in the Mt. Tom Golf Club. He is also a member and a director of the Springfield Country Club. Affiliated with the fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, he has progressed through all the ranks up to and including the Shrine. He is a com- municant of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. His princi- pal hobby, aside from golf and fishing, is the breeding of cattle on a fourteen acre farm near Mt. Tom.
Henry Jarisch, Jr., married, September 27, 1921, at Holyoke, Anna Margaret Klinke, daughter of Her- man and Anna (Greenwald) Klinke. Mr. and Mrs. Jarisch are the parents of one child: Claire Anna, born July 12, 1922; a graduate of the Holyoke High School, the Northampton School for Girls, and of Jackson College, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in1 1944; married Joseph E. Butterfield and has issue one child, Joseph Henry Butterfield, born December 16, 1947.
SIDNEY OSBORNE, earnest public school edu- cator and administrator, Sidney Osborne, of South Deerfield, has devoted himself steadfastly to the cor- rect education of New England young people. He has gained a creditable reputation for his work as su- perintendent of schools in more than one community.
Mr. Osborne was born June 9, 1897, in New York City, son of Sidney and Frances B. (Lake) Osborne. The father was a prominent New York City lawyer.
Sidney Osborne received his early training in the New York City public schools and attended DeWitt Clinton High School there. He then studied at Kents Hill School in Maine, and was graduated from Coburn Classical Institute at Waterville, Maine. He entered the University of Maine and re- ceived the Degree of Bachelor of Science there in 1927. Years later, in 1937, he gained his master's degree at the same institution.
Mr. Osborne, while still in school, became asso- ciated with the Westinghouse Electric Company, and worked from 1924 to 1928 in the sales and en- gineering departments at East Pittsburgh, and Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania.
He then taught school at Orleans, and Hingham. In 1931, he became principal of Huntington High School, serving until 1940, when he was made superin- tendent of schools at Richmond, Rhode Island. In the following year, 1941, he was appointed superin- tendent of schools at South Deerfield, headquarters of P. S. Union No. 49 and has continued in this post since.
In connection with his professional work, Mr. Os- borne is active in the New England School Superin- tendents Association, the Massachusetts School Su- perintendents Association, and the Franklin County School Superintendents Association. During World War I Mr. Osborne served as a seaman, first class, in the United States Navy, and he is now a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In civic affairs he is active as president of the South Deerfield Ro- tary Club. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons and in this connection is a member of Star of the East Lodge No. 60 at Old Town, Maine. In addition he belongs to Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Delta Chi professional fraternities, and Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity. In reli- gious affiliation he is an Episcopalian.
At Newburyport, Massachusetts, Sidney Osborne married Ruth H. Edmands, daughter of LeRoy S. and Helen A. (Cutler) Edmands. They became the parents of one child, Robert Geoffrey Osborne, who was born April 26, 1931, at Newburyport.
JAY ROY LEWIS was born March 15, 1881, at Machias, Maine, son of John Fairfield and Elizabeth (Lewis) Lynch. At the age of two weeks, after the death of his mother, Jay Roy Lewis was adopted by his maternal grandparents, Joseph Curtis and Sarah S. Lewis. Captain Townsley, an early forebear of the Lewis family, served on the staff of General Steuben during the War of Independence, and took part in a number of campaigns, one of which was Valley Forge. He founded the town of Steuben, Maine, naming it for the general. Mr. Lewis' paternal great-grand-
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father was Colonel Moore, head of the state militia in Maine at the time of the War of 1812. John Fair- feld Lynch. father of Jay Roy Lewis, was born in 1845 at Addison. Maine, and died in 1923 at Portland. Maine. He was one of the best known trial lawyers in the state. and his office was a source of knowledge for many people. including United States Senator Johnson, of Maine, who studied law with him. John F. Lynch was the first Democrat to be elected to the state legislature irom Washington County, a Republi- can stronghold. He married Elizabeth Lewis. Tho was born in 1848 at Cherryfield, Maine, and died at Machias on March 13. 1881.
Jay Roy Lewis was brought to Holyoke. when an infant, and he received his early education in the ele- mentary and high schools of Holyoke. He then went to Phillips Academy. Andover, and Harvard College.
In the summer of 1895 he was office boy in the City National Bank of Holyoke. Also during this time he sold newspapers. and developed the largest paper route in Holyoke, which included the regular sale of one hundred fifty each of the "Holyoke Transcript" and the "Holyoke Globe Democrat" In 1898 he was associated with the "Springfield Republi- can" as the paper's assistant Holyoke correspondent. During his summer vacations from college he worked at a sawmill at Gill in Franklin County, across the river from Turners Falls. In 1904 he became associ- ated with The Ely Lumber Company of Holyoke. and in 1913 was made assistant treasurer and yard mana- ger. In 1918 he had become treasurer and manager of the company. In 1923 he was elected a director of the Hampden Lumber Company of Springfield. In 1939 he merged the Hampden Lumber Company of Spring- field and The Ely Lumber Company of Holyoke into a new company named the Hampden-Ely Company, of which he has been president and treasurer. The machinery, inventory and personnel of The Ely Lum- ber Company came to Springfield, where the new company is located.
Mr. Lewis is a former director in the Eastern Woodwork Bureau of the Northeastern States, in the Northeastern Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, and in the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers' As- sociation. having acted in this capacity from 1913 to 1916. He is a trustee of the Holyoke Savings Bank and the Holyoke Cooperative Bank. He played an important part in the history of the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, having been vice president in 1919. and acting as president for six months of this period. He then initiated the reorganization of the Chamber. with the result that the membership was expanded from one hundred to eleven hundred and fifty. and the annual income from two thousand dollars to twenty-five thousand. In February. 1932. he was one of the or- ganizers of the Holyoke Tax Association. served on its executive committee, and played an active role in its work, aiding the city at its most critical financial period to cut out excessive municipal expenses and indebtedness. which again made for municipal sol- vency. Since 1908 Mr. Lewis has been a contributor of articles on government and other subjects to many newspapers. including New York City papers. the "Springfield Republican," "Springfield Union." the old "Harper's Weekly." the "Holyoke Transcript." and lumber trade magazines. He is a member of the Ki- wanis Club of Holyoke of which he was president in
1921. the Holyoke Canoe Club. and for many years was a member of the Bay State Club, the Holyoke City Club and the Me. Tom Golf Club. He is a Uni- tarian.
In June 1914, at Montpelier. Vermont, Jay Roy Lewis married Della Dwight. daughter of Henry Otis and Della (Griswold) Dwight of Constantinople, Turkey. Her father served during the Civil War on the staff of General Force in Sherman's army, after the war became a civil engineer, and later returnd to Turkey as financial agent for the Turkey mission of the American Board. He was co-author of a Turkish-English dictionary, and was the author of other books. Mrs. Lewis was graduated from the Granger Piace School at Canandaigua, New York, and Vassar College. She was at one time president and then treasurer of the Holyoke Home for Aged People, held officerships in other service groups, is an active member of the Second Congregational Church of Holyoke. She is a member of the Qui Vive Club. Jay Roy and Della (Dwight) Lewis are the parents of the following children: I. Adelaide Griswold. 2. George Sherman, who was graduated from Junior High School in Hoiyoke and from the Hotchkiss School at Lakeville. Connecticut. from Harvard College in 1938, and from the Harvard School of Architecture in 1942. During World War II he served as captain with the 333rd Special Service En- gineers Regiment
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