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family in this country, who with his wife and nine children came from England in 1635, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. He kept a tavern in Newbury for some years, and about 1650 moved to Boston, where he died in 1671. The line of de- went is through (2) Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury (1628-1690) and his wife Elizabeth Coffin; (3) Captain-Stephen Greenleaf, born 1652, married Elizabeth Gerrish, was a Selectman of Newbury 1675-6, prominent in public affairs and famed for his services in the Indian wars, was known as the " great In'jan fighter," and was the appointed Agent of the State to treat with the Indians at Penacook : (+) Stephen Greenleaf, born in New- bury 1690, married Mary Mackcres in 1712, moved to York, thence to Falmouth, and subsequently to Woolwich, Maine, where he died in 1771; (5) Richard Greenleaf, born in Newbury 1715, after- wards lived in Pownalboro (Wiscasset), Maine, enlisted as a private and was afterwards Corporal and Captain of militia 1742-57, served in the Revolutionary War, was at Fishkill 1777 and at Camp Valley Forge 1778; (6) Joseph Greenleaf, born about 1748, married Margaret Nason, moved from Wiscasset to Starks about 1780-85 and thence to Norridgewock, served in the War of the Revolu- tion as private and Sergeant from March 1776 to December 1780; (7) Thomas Greenleaf of Nor- ridgewock ( 1794-1874) and Mary Young ( 1793- 1874) ; and (8) Joseph Warren Greenleaf, father of the subject of our sketch, born November 16, 1822, married Melissa E. Morton in 1850, and died in ISSo. Luther C. Greenleaf (9) was their fourth son and sixth child. He acquired his early educa- tion in the " little red schoolhouse " and the High School of his native town, and prepared for a course in mechanical engineering at the Maine State College ; but being unable on account of illness to carry out his plan of attending that institution, he began the study of the carpenter trade and building business, with the intention of becoming an architect. He worked as journeyman carpenter for a time, spending about two years in Farmington, Maine, which then was being built up after the fire. He also spent a year at Poland Springs, Maine, following which he took a course at the Dirigo Business College in Augusta, graduat- ing therefrom in June 1889. He then came to Boston and engaged with J. M. E. Morrill, a promi- nent builder, as foreman and superintendent. In this capacity he continued for nearly four years, in the meantime taking a three-years course in archi-
tecture at the Boston Evening Public Schools, and also one year's instruction in freehand chiawing. After severing his connection with Mr. Morrill he travelled for two years among builders, estimating for them, figuring in nearly all of the architects' offices in Boston and vicinity and studying archi- tects' plans, to which practice he attributes in a large degree the thoroughness of his preparatory learning for the profession. During these years of labor he was an indefatigable student, constantly on the alert for ideas and suggestions, and embrac- ing within the scope of his observations and inves- tigations all that would tend to lead him to ultimate
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success in his chosen profession. In the summer of 1895 Mr. Greenleaf opened an office at 40 State street, Boston, and in 1896 removed to the new Tremont Building, where he is now located. Among the numerous buildings designed by him are the Stewart Building, brick and brownstone, in the Dorchester district of Boston, containing eight large stores, three public halls and two large lodge halls which were formally opened and dedicated January 26, 1897 ; the elegant private residence of Jesse Moulton, Dorchester ; many handsome and costly residences in Brookline, Newton and other suburbs of Boston, and others in New Hampshire and other New England states. On April 1, 1897,
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owing to steadily increasing business, he took into partnership Albert W. Cobb, formerly with John Calvin Stevens, architect, of Portland, under the firm name of Greenleaf & Cobb, and moved his offices into larger rooms on the tenth floor of the Tremont Building. Mr. Greenleaf is a member of the Boston Real Estate Exchange, the Shawmut (Boston) Real Estate Association, and the Dor- - chester Centre Improvement Association, in which latter organization he is a Director. He is also a 1 ember of Maine Lodge No. 20 A. F. & A. M. of Farmington ; the American Art Society ; the Chick- a.awbut Club of Dorchester, a Republican social and political organization, one of the leading clubs " the city ; and of the Dorchester Central Athletic Club, in which he is an active member. He was married July 12, 1893, to Alice Henrietta MacCabe, of Boston ; they have one child : Dorothy Augusta Greenleaf. Mr. Greenleaf resides at 249 Park street, Dorchester District, Boston, where he is becoming well known socially and also as a promoter of public improvements.
GORDON, SETH CHASE, M. D., Portland, was born in Fryeburg, Oxford county, Maine, August 17, 1830, son of Stephen and Lydia B. (Chase) Gordon. His father's family emigrated from Scot- land two generations back, and came from An- dover, Massachusetts, to Fryeburg, where they were among the first settlers of the town. His mother's family also came from Andover, and his maternal great-grandfather, Dr. Josiah Chase, married a daughter of General Joseph Frye, to whom the town of Fryeburg was given for services in the French and Indian War. The subject of this sketch spent his early life on the home farm, attending the district school and Fryeburg Acad- emy, where he nearly fitted for college. In the meantime he taught school winters in country dis- tricts of Freburg and adjoining towns, and later taught for a year in Evansville, Indiana. In 1851 he began the study of medicine with Dr. Ira Towle, a noted practitioner of Fryeburg. Two years later he attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth Med- ical School, and then entered the Maine Medical School at Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in May 1855. In the following June he com- menced practice in Gorham, Maine, where he con- tinued until he entered the service of the United States in the first year of the Civil War. In December 1861 he entered the army as Assistant
Surgeon of the Thirteenth Maine Volunteer Infan- try. In October 1863 he was made Surgeon of the First Louisiana Volunteer Infantry (white), and was mustered out in July 1865, having served nearly four years, principally in the various cam- paigns of the Department of the Gulf, and a por- tion of the time as Surgeon of the District of La Fourche, on General Cameron's staff. Returning to Maine at the close of the war, Dr. Gordon in October 1865 settled in Portland, where he has since practiced and resided. He was appointed Surgeon to the Maine General Hospital in 1874, and is still one of the surgical staff of that institu-
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tion ; is Consulting Surgeon to the Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Lecturer on Diseases of Women in the Portland School for Medical Instruction. He has served as President of the Maine Medical Association, Vice-President of the American Medi- cal Association, and President of the Section of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the latter body; is a fellow of the Boston, American and British gynecological societies, and has written largely for medical journals, and read many papers before medical societies, on surgical subjects, both of this country and Europe. Dr. Gordon holds a prominent and honored place in the profession of which he is a distinguished member and in which
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he has won the highest honors. In an eminent degree he combines scientific attainments with practical ability and sound judgment, all of which have contributed to make him, not alone a success- ful practitioner and leader in the great field of labor and usefulness in which his professional life has been spent, but a valued member of society as well. His reputation as a physician and his great skill in surgery, to which latter branch of medical science he has de oted especial study and efforts, have made his professional services sought by people from all czer the state, and have led to frequent demands upon him to give expert testimony before the courts. In politics Dr. Gordon has always been an a.dent Democrat, and is at present the member for Maine of the Democratic National Committee. He is a believer in a tariff for revenue only, in a sound currency, and in the fullest liberty in statute law consistent with safety to the com- munity. He believes that the Maine Law has made more drunkards and hypocrites than all other causes combined, favors a license law with suitable penalties for violators, would punish drunkards in the early stage, establish inebriate asylums for con- firmed subjects and make attendance at those insti- tutions compulsory. He has served as a member of the Common Council of Portland, and was for three years on the Board of School Committee. He was never married.
GOULD, ROYAL ERASTUS, Superintendent of Schools in Biddeford, was born in Biddeford, Feb- ruary 8, 1852, son of Charles F. and Olive S. (Berry) Gould. His ancestors for several genera- tions have been residents of Maine. His grand- father John Gould was. a prosperous farmer of . Goodwin's Mills, York county, and his father, who died in 1861 at the age of fifty-two, was a prominent merchant of Biddeford. His mother was a native of Saco, Maine. After passing through the public schools of his native city he entered Bowdoin College, graduating therefrom in the class of 1873, with the degree of A. B. Following graduation he taught school for a short time in Woodstock, Con- necticut, and then entered upon the study of law in the office of Wedgewood & Stone, Biddeford. Being admitted to the York County Bar in 1877, he began the practice of his profession in Biddeford. Soon after, he was elected a member of the School Board, and in 1878 he was appointed Principal of the Spruce Street Grammar School. After seven
years' acceptable service in this capacity he was in :885 elected Superintendent of the Biddeford Public Schools for a term of five years, in which responsible position he is now serving his third term, having been re-elected in 1800 and again in 1895. Mr. Gould is possessed of high scholarly attainments and fine executive ability, and in his administration of school affairs has introduced many new and ad- vanced ideas, not a few of which are his own. He is a member of Dunlap Masonic Lodge, York Chapter Royal Arch Masons, and Bradford Com- mandery Knighis Templar, which he has served as Eminent Commander for four years ; also of Maine
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Consistory Scottish Rite, and Aleppo Temple of the Mystic Shrine, Boston. He is also a member of Laconia Lodge of Odd Fellows and Mavoshen Lodge Knights of Pythias. In politics Mr. Gould is allied with the Democratic party. He was married July 4, 1883, to Lizzie A. Nickerson, of Biddeford ; they have a son : Carlisle R. Gould, born May 14, 1890.
HAMILTON, CHARLES SUMNER, Mayor of Bidde- ford 1894-5, was born in Biddeford, September 21, 1855, son of Samnel C. and Miriam S. Hamilton. His paternal ancestors were of Scotch origin, and landed in this country about 1650. His father, a
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retired lumberman of Saco, Maine, was the first City Marshal of Biddeford, has served as Sheriff of York County and as a member of the Maine Legis- lature, and is a veteran of the late war. At the time of the Civil War and for a few years thereafter, the subject of this sketch was fitting himself for active life, including the duties of American citizenship, by diligently pursuing his studies in the public schools of Biddeford, the Lewiston (Maine) Grammar School, the Saco High School and the Limerick ( Maine) Academy. Upon finishing his school career he · entered the field of journalism as City Editor and Reporter on the Biddeford Daily Times, in which
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capacity he served for three years. The two years directly following this period he spent as a law stu- dent in the office of his uncle, the Hon. Benjamin F. Hamilton. of Biddeford, at the end of which time, in 1880, he passed the requisite examination and was admitted to the York County Bar. Another year of newspaper work, as Editor and Manager of the Seaside Reporter of Old Orchard, and also as cor- respondent of the Herald and Globe of Boston, intervened before he entered upon the active duties of his profession. Opening a law office in Bidde- ford in 1881, he applied himself with an earnestness that speedily won for him a reputation as a criminal lawyer, being called to the defence in some of the
most important criminal cases that have been tried in York county. From the first he has had a large and constantly increasing practice, and he has for several years been accounted one of the leaders of the York County Bar. In 1882, soon after entering upon his professional career, he was appointed Judge of the Municipal Court of Biddeford, and served two terms in that office, enjoying the distinction of being the youngest Judge that ever sat upon the Municipal Bench in Maine. In 1894, Judge Ham- ilton was elected Mayor of Biddeford, being the first Republican to fill that office in twelve years ; carrying the day by two hundred majority, in a city that usually gave a Democratic majority of from three to seven hundred. In 1895 he was re-elected by six hundred and twenty-five majority. During his administration many important municipal im- provements were undertaken and successfully carried forward to completion ; a new stone-arch bridge was built at Westbrook Hill, land was purchased for a city park, and a new city building, one of the finest in the state, costing one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, was erected to replace the old buildings burned in 1894. Mr. Hamilton is a mem- ber of various fraternal societies and organizations, including Dunlap Lodge of Masons; Mavoshen Lodge Knights of Pythias, in which he has filled all the chairs ; Squando Tribe Improved Order of Red Men, and Biddeford Court Ancient Order of For- esters. He was married November 24, 1880, to Frances K. Dresser, daughter of Captain Gilman Dresser, a shipmaster and native of Brunswick, Maine.
HAWTHORNE, FRANK WARREN, Editor, New York, was born in Bath, Maine, July 1, 1852, son of Warren and Priscilla (Eaton) Hawthorne. His ancestry is English on both sides. The Hawthornes (English Hathorns) came from the old country early in the seventeenth century. His great-great- great-grandfather settled in Eastern Massachusetts, and the latter's son, great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, bought a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in North Woolwich on the Kennebec River in Maine about the year 1740. His great- grandfather, Seth Hathorn, married Miss Sarah Thwing, of Woolwich, whose father was Judge Thwing of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, which then included the present territory of Maine. Frank W. Hawthorne received his early education in the public schools of his native city, graduating from the Bath High School in 1869, and graduated
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from Bowdoin College in 1874. Only a few weeks after his graduation a serious accident to his father necessitated his taking charge, temporarily, of the latter's business in Bath, and for the succeeding eleven years he remained there associated with his father in trade. In the meantime his natural taste for literature and his trend toward a newspaper career led him to make occasional contributions to magazines and the press. In March ISSI, upon the occasion of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversa y of the settlement of the town of Bath, Mr. Hawthorne read an original poem that was fav- orably conimented upon. He was, up to 1895, an earnest Democrat, a political faith inherited from his fathe. id his grandfathers on both sides. He took an active part in the political campaigns of IS76 and ISSo in Maine, and Governor Harris M. l'laisted, soon after his inauguration in January 1881, gave Mr. Hawthorne an appointment on his military staff with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a position that he held until the accession of Gov- ernor Robie in ISS3. Early in October 1885, Colonel Hawthorne was induced to go to Florida, and three months later, associated with John P. Varnum, he established the Morning News of Jack- sonville. Later he became Secretary and Treasurer of the News Publishing Company, and in May 1887, when the Florida Printing and Publishing Company was organized with a capital of $100,000 and pur- chased both the Morning News and the Evening Herald, Colonel Hawthorne became the associate editor of the consolidated newspaper, the News- Herald. In May ISS8, the Florida Publishing Company, a reorganization of the Florida Printing and Publishing Company, purchased for $65,000 the Florida Times-Union (established in ISSo by Colonel Charles H. Jones, now of Missouri) and stopped the publication of the News-Herald. Colonel Hawthorne continued as associate editor of the Times Union, and was in this position at the breaking out of the famous yellow-fever epidemic of 1888. He remained at his post throughout the memorable siege of five months, most miraculously escaping the fever, although every other member of the editorial and business staff was stricken with the disease, the editor and the city editor falling victims to it. Out of the sixty-five employes of the establishment over thirty of those who remained in the city had the fever, and five died. Upon the death of Editor Martin early in October 1888, Colonel Hawthorne came into editorial charge of the newspaper, with a staff broken in numbers and
in health, and in addition to conducting the Times- Union and shaping its policy, he managed the entire Florida news service of the Associated Press. In March 1890 he became managing editor of the newspaper, and continued in editorial charge of it until December 1, 1893, when he resigned to engage in general newspaper and magazine work, still retaining his residence in Jacksonville. He was rapidly becoming alienated from the Demo- cratic party because of its local policy in the South, but chiefly on account of its drift toward the free coinage of silver. A careful study of the political situation during a visit at his old Maine home in
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the summer and autumn of 1895, culminated in an open renunciation of Democracy and an espousal of the Republican cause. Colonel Hawthorne became an ardent supporter of Speaker Reed for the Presi- dential nomination. Early in January 1896, when about to start on a tour of the Far Western States in search of political information, he was offered the editorship of the New York Morning Advertiser, accepted it and has since been in editorial charge of that newspaper. Mr. Hawthorne is a member of the Owl Club of Bath ; the Seminole Club, Elks' Club and Board of Trade of Jacksonville, Florida ; Lotos Club of New York ; New England Society in Florida, and the University Association of Florida.
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He was married at Bath, Maine, January 27, 1887, to Miss Eleanor Low Turner, of that city ; they have one child : Hayden Thwing Hawthorne, born August 3, 1890, in Jacksonville, Florida.
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HEATH, DANIEL COLLAMORE, of D. C. Heath & Company (incorporated), publishers of general ed- ucational works and text books, Boston, was born in Salem, Franklin county, Maine, October 26, 1843, :on of Daniel and Mila Ann (Record) Heath. He acquired his early education in the common schools of his native town and at Farmington (Maine)
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Academy, fitted for college at the Nichols Latin School in Lewiston, Maine, and graduated at Amherst Col ege in the class of 1868. For the two years following graduation he was Principal of the High School in Southboro, Massachusetts, and the next two years he spent in attendance at the Bangor Theological Seminary. He then spent a year in travel abroad for the benefit of his health, and upon his return became Supervisor of Schools in Farm- ington, Maine. After serving in that capacity for a year he engaged in the book trade, in 1874, repre- senting in Rochester, New York, the publishing firm of Ginn Brothers, Boston. A year later he opened a branch house for the firm in New York city, where
he continued for a year. The following year, 1876, he became a member of the firm, under the style of Ginn & Heath, Boston. This relation continued until 1886, when he disposed of his partnership interest and established the house of D. C. Heath & Company, at the head of which he continues at the present time. The publications of the firm embrace works for use in schools, public and private, acad- emies, normal schools, colleges and universities - including textbooks for nearly all departments of instruction. Their list of authors includes profes- sors in the leading universities, colleges and techni- cal schools of this country, besides text-book writers of established reputation connected with the Uni- versity of Toronto in Canada, London University in England, St. Andrews in Scotland, the University of Sweden, and other leading educational institutions of Europe. The name of D. C. Heath & Company stands for the best modern ideas in educational works, and the productions of the firm are invariably in the advance line of educational progress. These publishers are believers in the laboratory method in history and in literature, as well as in the sciences, and their publications on these lines have done much towards leading up to better methods in col- legiate and school instruction. Their books for the study of English language and literature are edited on the theory that it is more important to impress the student with the literary aspect of the author's work, than to use the author's material for the study of mere philology or technical grammar ; and they are now issuing a valuable series of Shakespeare plays based on this plan and edited by Cambridge and Oxford men. In short, they believe the value of the study of literature lies in its power to furnish ideals and to stimulate the higher nature, at the very time, too, when the character of the pupil is most plastic ; and therefore in the matter of reading, their theory is that children should be made acquainted as early as possible with the best literature. And they have put this theory into practice by the issu- ance of a comprehensive series of books, edited by Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard, and known as the " Heart of Oak Books." In 1892 the firm entered into a contract with the University of Chicago to take charge of the publications of the Chicago University Press, through which are to be Issued works in Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek, German and other languages, as well as in English, besides the regular papers and periodicals from each school of the graduate department. Among their many important general works are Corson's " Introduction
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to Shakespeare and Browning," Moulton's " Literary Study of the Bible," Boutwell's "Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century," Dole's "The American Citizen," Wilson's "The State," and Gide's " Principles of Political Econ- omny." A notable work or textbook on "Inter- national Law," by Professor Lawrence, formerly of Cambridge University, England, more recently of Chicago University, has lately been issued from their press. Their publications also include a long list of books on science, mathematics, history and civics, over twenty-five books on education, a series of books on drawing and music, and about one hundred and fifty modern language texts in " Heath's Modern L .. guage Series," which latter have received the highest commendation from representative pro- fessors of languages in this country and abroad. Mr. Heath is President of the Amherst Alumni Association, First Vice-President of the Pine Tree State Club, member of the Council and Chairman of the House Committee and of the Committee on Education of the Twentieth Century Club, and mem- ber of the Executive Committee of the New England Free Trade Club. He is also a member of the Uni- versity, Schoolmasters' and Congregational clubs, and the Municipal League of Boston ; the Newton Club of Newton, where he resides ; and the Aldine (publishers) Club of New York. He was married in January ISS1, to Mrs. Nelly Lloyd Knox, of Col- orado Springs, Colorado, a native of Tennessee ; they have five children : James Lloyd Knox, Stanley D., Arnold C., Daniel C., Jr., and Warren Heatlı.
HUBBARD, WILLIAM WINGATE, Lawyer, New York, was born in Bangor, Maine, June 15, 1868, son of William Philip and Helen Juliette (Wingate) Hubbard. On the paternal side he is descended from Philip Hubbard, who came to Maine in the seventeenth century. His grandfather Colonel Moses Hubbard was a merchant for many years in North Berwick, Maine, and his father, William P. Hubbard, has long been a merchant and prominent business man of Bangor. His maternal grandfather, Hon. William P. Wingate of Bangor, came to Mrine from New Hampshire in early manhood, was prom- ment in business and political circles for many years, and was Collector of Customs at Bangor under the administrations of Lincoln and during the first term of President Grant. William Wingate Hubbard received his early education in the public , whools of his native city, fitting for college in the
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