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Howard, Charles Danforth
Chemist; b., Westford, Mass., July 31, 1873; s. Calvin L. and Jennie (Hale) Howard; ed. Westford Acad- emy, Worcester Polytechnic Insti- tute, 1893; postgraduate assistant with Dr. Wolcott Gibbs (professor of chemistry emeritus, Harvard Univ.), Newport, R. I., 1893-4; assistant chem-
ist, N. H. College Experiment Station, Durham; associate chemist, West Virginia University Experiment Sta- tion, Morgantown, West Va .; chemist, N. H. board of health since 1905; collaborating chemist, U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C .; Con- gregationalist; Republican; member, American Chemical Soc., American Public Health Ass'n, N. E. Water Works Ass'n, Ass'n of Official Agri- cultural Chemists, Wonolancet Club;
honorary member, N. H. Medical Soc .; Fellow, American Ass'n for the Advancement of Science; chairman, N. H. Committee on Dust and Fumes in Factories; member, Council of National Defense; m., Aug. 5, 1901, Pittsburgh, Pa., Ada Yates; children, John Adams, b. Jan. 29, 1909; Char- lotte Danforth, b. July 16, 1916.
Moses, George Higgins
Journalist, diplomat; b., Lubec, Me., Feb. 9, 1869; s. Rev. Thomas Gannett and Ruth (Smith) Moses; ed. Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth Col-
HON. GEO. H. MOSES.
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lege, A.B., 1890, A.M., 1893; entered office of Monitor and Statesman, Con- cord, immediately after graduation and has continued since, serving as re- porter, news editor, editorial writer and editor; president, Monitor and States- man Co., since 1898; Congregationalist member standing committee, South Congregational Church Soc., Concord, three years; Republican; private sec- retary to governor of New Hampshire, 1889-91, 1905. secretary to chairman, Republican state committee, 1890; secretary, N. H. Forestry Commission, 1893-6; member, Concord board of education, 1902-3, 1906-9, 1913-16; U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Min- ister Plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, April, 1909 to Nov., 1912; delegate at large to Republican na- tional convention, Chicago, 1908, 1916; president, N. H. Republican state con- vention, 1914; chairman advisory com- mittee, Republican state committee, 1914, 1916; president, Greek Products Co., New York (office, 32 Nassau St.) since 1913; member staff, Republican Publicity Ass'n, (Real Estate Trust Bldg.), Washington, D. C .; member, Athenian Club, Athens, Greece; Uni- versity, Army and Navy and National Press clubs, Washington, D. C., Re- publican club, New York, Wonolancet and Passaconoway clubs and Capital Grange, P. of H. Concord; author, "John Stark," 1890; editor, "New Hampshire Men," 1893; magazine contributor, lecturer and campaign speaker; m., Oct. 3, 1893, Florence Gordon, Franklin, N. H .; one son, Gordon, b. Oct. 5, 1900 (Phillips Exeter Academy, 1918). Home, . 5 Auburn St., Concord, N. H.
Preston, Frank Buchanan
Insurance and real estate; b., Straf- ford, N. H., Feb. 11, 1856; s. Wingate T. and Mary (Jewell) Preston; ed. public schools, Franklin Academy, Dover, and New Hampton Literary Institution; Free Baptist, president, True Memorial Soc., F. B. Church, Rochester; Democrat; moderator, Rochester, 1887-8; member, N. H.
constitutional convention, 1889, 1912; Democratic candidate for presidential elector, 1900; mayor, Rochester, 1913- 14; member, Democratic state com- mittee, six years; member, Rochester school board, six years (president, two years); trustee, Gafney Home for the Aged; president, People's Building and Loan Ass'n, since incorporation in 1909; member, I. O. O. F., Rebekah Lodge, Rochester Grange, P. of H., and Eastern N. H. Pomona Grange;
m., May 28, 1881, Fannie C. Foss, d. May 10, 1907; three children, Vinton W., b. Rochester, May, 1882 (New Hampton Inst., 1902); Mary Florence, b. June 25, 1891 (New Hampton Inst., 1909); Verne F., b. Dec. 15, 1893 (New Hampton Inst., 1915, Boston Univ. 1919). Residence, Rochester, N. H'
Welch, John Tapley
Journalist, public official; b., Dover, N. H., Dec. 15, 1856; s. Joseph Wil- liams and Mary Elizabeth (Tapley) Welch; ed. public schools and Dart- mouth College; Congregationalist; Re-
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publican; reporter on Whiteside Senti- nel, and correspondent, Chicago Times, Morrison, Ill., 1877; city editor, Dover Daily Republican, 1880; several years Dover correspondent, Boston Globe; city editor, Dover Daily Times, 1889; clerk, Dover police court, 1881-2; reg- ister of probate, Strafford County, 1882-7; member, N. H. house of rep- resentatives, 1889-90; chief time clerk, government printing office, Washing- ton, 1890-4; member, N. H. state sen-
ate, 1897-8; postmaster, Dover, 1898- 1915; city treasurer, Dover, 1915 to date; member, school committee, 1882- 8; trustee, Dover public library, 1883- 8; member, I. O. O. F., K. of P., S. A. R., N. H. Historical Soc., N. H. Gen- ealogical Soc., Bellamy Club, Dover; m., Dec. 1, 1884, Elizabeth A. Mc- Daniel; one son, George Gregg, b. Sept. 18, 1885, d. March 24, 1915. Residence, Dover, N. H.
Hazlett, Charles Albert
Banker, historian; b., Portsmouth, N. H., July 21, 1847; s. William and
Hannah S. (Davis) Hazlett; ed. Ports- mouth schools, high school, 1863; con- fidential clerk to Gov. Ichabod Good- win, 1863-72; connected with First National Bank of Portsmouth (founded 1824) since 1872; cashier for more than thirty years, beginning 1884; now vice- president; trustee, Piscataqua savings bank; agent, N. H. Fire Insurance Co., Manchester, more than forty years; trustee, Portsmouth public library, since 1884; park commissioner; presi- dent, Portsmouth Improvement Ass'n, 1903; life trustee, Weeks Memorial Li- brary, Greenland, N. H .; for many years warden of records of North Con- gregational parish (founded 1640); sec- retary, T. B. Aldrich Memorial; trustee. of Soc. for Care of South Cemetery; president, Piscataqua Pioneers; chair- man, John Langdon Club; director, N. H. Pioneers; member, N. H. His- torical Soc., N. H. Genealogical Soc., St. Andrews Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Osgood Lodge, I. O. O. F., Warwick Country and Portsmouth Auto clubs; for several years member of city coun- cil, also assessor; Republican; Congre- gationalist; m., Josephine Richardson, Manchester, N. H., Dec. 10, 1884; author of "Portsmouth Historical and Picturesque," "Portsmouth in 1824"; editor, "Historical Calendar of Ports- mouth" (pub. 1907), "History of Rock- ingham County" (pub. 1915); advisory editor of "History of New Hampshire" (four vols., 1916). Residence, Ports- mouth, N. H.
Hollis Abijah
Granite business; b., Milton, Mass., Nov. 13, 1837; s. Thomas and Deborah Clark (Allen) Hollis; ed. public schools, Milton, Milton Academy, Chauncey Hall School, Boston, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1858, Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1860; enlisted in the Civil War, . Aug. 26, 1862, becoming second lieu- tenant, 45th Mass. Vols .; later captain, 56th Mass. Vols .; brevetted major, April 2, 1865; Agnostic; Democrat; moved to West Concord, N. H., Nov. 1, 1865, and engaged in the granite business, retiring in 1895; selectman for
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several years; representative, N. H. legislature, 1876; member, constitu- tional convention, 1889, 1902, 1912. Major Hollis is a great lover of nature and the outdoor life, is much interested in forestry and for many years was an enthusiastic fox-hunter. m., July 9, 1864, Harriette Van Mater French, Cambridge, Mass., dau. Judge Henry Flagg French, gr. dau. Chief Justice William M. Richardson of N. H .; d. May 29, 1911; children, (1) Thomas, b. May 5, 1865, m., 1st, Mary Letch- worth Coonley of Chicago, 2d, Mary Dwight Brooks, Pearl Creek, N. Y., children, Thomas, John Coonley, How- ard Coonley; (2) Anne Richardson, b. July 9, 1867, m. Dr. Arthur Hutchins Cilley of New York City, children, Grace (d.), John Kelly; (3) Henry French (see p. 81); (4) Allen (see p. 49); (5) Harriette Van Mater, b. Sept. 21, 1874, d. April 10, 1877; (6) Mary French, b. April 27, 1880, m. Ralph E. Dakin of Concord, Mass., children, Morrill, Harriette Van Mater, Mary and Hollis. Residence, West Concord, N. H.
Fletcher, Robert
Educator, civil engineer; b., New York City, Aug. 23, 1847; s. Edward H. and Mary A. (Hill) Fletcher (both from Cavendish, Vt.); ed. public schools, College of City of New York (three years); U. S. Military Academy, West Point, 1868; second lieutenant, U. S. Artillery, serving at Brownsville, Tex. and Fort Trumbull, New London, Conn .; instructor in mathematics, U. S. Military Academy, 1869-70; re- signed to become senior professor and director, Thayer School of Civil Engi- neering, at Dartmouth, 1871, serving to the present time; consulting engineer on water works and sanitation; engi- neer in charge of construction of Han- over water works, Enfield, N. H., water works, reservoir for Hartford, Vt., water works, steel bridges-four spans each-across Connecticut River at West Lebanon and White River at Hartford, Vt .; conducted part of the New Hampshire-Vermont Boundary
survey, 1917; contributor to technical papers and N. H. Bulletins on sanita- tion and engineering construction; Baptist; Republican; school trustee, seventeen years; member, N. H. state board of health since 1895 (president since 1913); president and engineer, Hanover Water Works Co .; member, American Soc. C. E., forty-four years, member and past president, Soc. for Promotion of Engineering Education; fellow, A. A. A. S., $BK (hon.),
Graduate Club, Hanover; received hon- orary A.M., Dartmouth, 1871, Ph.D., 1881; m., July 2, 1872, Ellen M. Hunt- ington; children, Mary A., Robert H. Residence, Hanover, N. H.
Whipple, Sherman Leland
Lawyer; b., New London, N. H., March 4, 1862; s. Dr. Solomon Mason and Henrietta Kimball (Hersey) Whip- ple; descendant of Matthew Whi pple, a freeman of Ipswich Hamlet, now Hamilton, Mass., in 1638, and great- grandson of Moses Whipple, one of the first settlers of Croydon, N. H., and
HON. SHERMAN L. WHIPPLE
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long a leading citizen of the town, who commanded the town company at Bennington, where he served under his kinsman, General William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence, in command of the Second N. H. Brigade; ed. public schools, Colby Academy, 1877, Yale College, A.B., 1881 (a Commencement orator), and Yale Law School, LL.B., 1884 (Town- send orator). Admitted to the bar, Connecticut and New Hampshire in 1884, Massachusetts, 1885; practiced a few months in Manchester, N. H., and in 1885 removed to Boston, where he has established a practice in his profession said to be the largest in New England. He has conducted heavy litigation in many notable causes in- volving large sums of money and attracting considerable popularinterest; in 1917 he acted as counsel for the Committee on Rules of the House in conducting the famous "Leak Investi- gation" as to advance information to the Stock Exchange relating to the President's Peace Note to belligerents; Democratic nominee for United States Senator in Massachusetts legislature in 1911 and 1913; delegate-at-large to the constitutional convention of 1917; member of Committees on Rules and Procedure and Initiative and Refer- endum; member of American, Massa- chusetts State, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bos- ton bar associations; University, Algon- quin, Country, Yale (Boston), Yale (New York), and Twentieth Century clubs; lives at Brookline; summer residence at Plymouth, where he owns an estate of some 1500 acres devoted to farming-Guernsey cattle and Chev- iot sheep, especially; owner of the historic grove at Brook Farm and Pulpit Rock, where John Eliot, "the Apostle," preached to the Indians; m., Dec. 27, 1893, Louise (d. July 20, 1914), daughter of the late Hon. Lucien B. Clough; children, Dorothy (Mrs. Russel Thurston Fry), Katharyn Carle- ton (Mrs. Lothrop Withington), Sher- man Leland, Jr., volunteer in American Field Service work in France.
Waterman, Thomas Palmer
Lumberman, banker; b., West Leb- anon, N. H., Dec. 10, 1844; s. Silas and Sarah (Wood) Waterman; grandson of Thomas Waterman, first male child born in Lebanon; ed. public schools and Kimball Union Academy, Meri- den; engaged in lumber business from early life, owning and operating a mill on the Mascoma River, on the first privilege utilized by the early settlers of the town; Congregationalist; Re-
publican; long prominent in public af- fairs of the town, serving sixteen years as a member of the board of selectmen, as a member of the N. H. legislature in 1878 and 1879 and again in 1913-14, and delegate in the N. H. constitutional convention of 1912; he is president of the People's Trust Co. of Lebanon, a member of the Langdon Club, and served several years as a member of the board of trustees of the Rockland Military Institute; Patron of Hus- bandry and member of Lebanon and
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Mascoma Valley Pomona Grange; m., Dec. 11, 1886, Rosamond Wood; one dau., died in infancy. Residence, West Lebanon, N. H.
Warren, Joseph
Farmer, lumberman, brick manu- facturer; b., Pembroke, N. H., July 12, 1857; s. Hugh T. and Lydia A. (Moore) Warren; ed. common schools and Pem- broke Academy; engaged for several years in the manufacture of brick in
Pembroke, then removing to Rochester where he continued extensively in the business, making as many as 17,000,000 brick in a season; Democrat; member, Rochester board of aldermen, 1892- 3-4; member, N. H. house of represent- atives, 1903, 1913; mayor of Roches- ter, 1910, 1911-, chosen for second term without opposition; inspector of state highways, 1914; appointed com- missioner of insurance in Dec., 1914, by Gov. Samuel D. Felker and removed by legislative address for partisan reasons, in January, 1915; appointed postmaster of Rochester by President Wilson, Feb.
3, 1916, since continuing; m., Aug. 4, 1878, Addie G. Elliott of Pembroke; one daughter, Sarah W. (Mrs. Albert D. Jones of Rochester). Residence, Rochester, N. H.
Barnabee, Henry Clay
Musical comedian; b., Portsmouth, N. H., Nov. 14, 1833; s. Willis Barna- bee; ed. public schools; mercantile clerk in youth in Portsmouth and Bos- ton; appeared in entertainments of Boston Mercantile Library Ass'n, com- mencing in April, 1854, and soon de- veloped much talent as a singer and comedian; sang many years in church choirs in and around Boston, including® nineteen years as a member of the quar- tette of the Church of the Unity; in 1865 gave up mercantile life and or- ganized the Barnabee Operetta Co., which was succeeded in 1870 by the Barnabee Concert Co .; subsequently appearing in monologue work in ly- ceum courses; joined the Boston Ideal Opera Co., in 1879, appearing as Sir Joseph Porter in "Pinafore" and in other leading rôles; in 1887, with Tom Karl and others, organized The Bos- tonians, in which he created leading opera rôles, notably the "Sheriff of Not- tingham" in Robin Hood; first ap- peared in vaudeville in Brooklyn, Sept. 12, 1904; member, Ancient and Hon- orable Artillery Co., Boston; author, "My Wanderings," 1913; m., 1859, Clara, dau. Maj. Daniel George of Warner, N. H. Residence, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Webster, Harold Adams
Commissioner of weights and meas- ures; b., Ashland, N. H., Aug. 12, 1885; s. Rev. Lorin and Jennie Josephine (Adams) Webster; ed. public schools of Ashland and Plymouth, and Hol- derness School for Boys, 1904; Episco- palian; Republican; member, school board and library trustee, Ashland; member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1913-14, 1917-18, serving each session on appropriations committee; appointed commissioner of weights and measures, by Governor Keyes, upon the
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establishment of the office, in 1917; for several years curator of the Holder- ness School, of which his father has long been rector; also for some time
a director of Camp Wachusett, a sum- mer camp for boys at Squam Lake; member, Derryfield Club, Manchester, Wonolancet, Concord. Residence, Hol- derness, N. H., Plymouth, P. O.
Bartlett, Edwin Julius
Educator; b., Hudson, O., Feb. 16, 1851; s. Samuel Colcord and Mary Bacon (Learned) Bartlett; ed. Chicago public schools, Lake Forest Academy, 1868, Dartmouth College, 1872, Rush Medical College, 1879; associate professor of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, 1879-83, professor since 1883; Congregationalist; Republican; mod- erator, town of Hanover, 1906-12; member, N. H. house of representa- tives, 1913; president trustees, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Han- over; Fellow, American Ass'n for Ad- vancement of Science; honorary mem- ber, N. H. Medical Soc .; member,
American Chemical Soc., N. H. His- torical Soc., Psi Upsilon, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Delta Omicron Gamma College organizations, Graduate Club, Hano- ver, Ouroboros Club; m., July 9, 1879, Caroline Elizabeth Rice, Milwaukee, Wis. Residence, Hanover, N. H.
Colony, John Joslin
Woolen manufacturer; b., Keene, N. H., Nov. 14, 1864; s. Horatio and Emeline E. (Joslin) Colony; ed. Keene schools and Harvard University, A.B. , 1885; Unitarian; Democrat; member, Keene city council, school committee, N. H. house of representatives from Ward 5, Keene, 1893; delegate from N. H., Democratic national convention, 1908; treasurer, Cheshire Mills, Harris- ville, N. H .; director, Ashuelot Nationa Bank, Keene, Winchester Nationa Bank, Winchester, N. H; Mason Knight Templar, Patron of Husbandry ;
m., Oct. 16, 1907, Charlotte Whitcomb children, Emeline J., b. Nov. 25, 1908 John J., Jr., June 11, 1915. Residence Keene, N. H.
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French, Emma Blood
Philanthropist; b., Manchester, N. H., Oct. 15, 1863; dau. Aretas and Lavinia (Kendall) Blood; ed. in the Manchester schools and at Dr. Gan- nett's boarding-school, Chester Square, Boston, Mass .; m. Dr. L. Melville French of Manchester, June 1, 1887 (d. Dec. 21,1914); daughter, Margaret Lavinia, b. April 20, 1888, m. Carl Spencer Fuller of Manchester, June 9, 1910; grandchildren, Mary Spencer, 1911, and Henry Melville, 1914. In 1916 Mrs. French erected and en- dowed a building for the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, an in- stitution in which she had long been interested. This building is adjacent to the Carpenter Library, erected in memory of her sister, Elenora Blood Carpenter, by the latter's husband, Frank P. Carpenter. With Mrs. Car- penter, Mrs. French gave the maternity and children's ward to the Eliot Hos- pital and endowed it; and in 1918 Mrs. French built and endowed the L. Mel- ville French children's ward for the same hospital. Mrs. French started the first Shakespeare Club in Man- chester, 1872; president of the Woman's Aid and Relief Home, founded by her parents, 1899 -; vice-president, Pem- broke Sanitarium; director, District Nursing Ass'n; member, Franklin Street Congregational church, N. H. Soc. of Colonial Dames, D. A. R., Board of Council of the Manchester Institute, Y. M. C. A., Children's Home, Red Cross, Navy League, Y. W. C. A. War Relief (patron), N. H. Memorial Hospital for Women and Children at Concord. Residence, North River Road, Manchester, and Little Boar's Head, N. H.
Brennan, Vincent John
Woolen manufacturer; b., Manches- ter, N. H., Sept. 25, 1847; s. William J. and Mary (Murphy) Brennan; ed. public schools; removed to Rockford, Conn., in childhood and reared there; entered the New England Mill in Rock- ford in early life continuing five years and becoming an overseer at the age of
21; superintendent of carding in Salis- bury Mills, Amesbury, Mass., six years; Asabet Mfg. Co.'s Mills, Maynard, Mass., superintendent of carding five years; superintendent, Ottequechee Woolen Co., North Hartland, Vt., six years; superintendent, A. G. Dewey & Co., Quechee, Vt., twelve years; re- moved to Newport, N. H., in 1906 as general agent of the Brampton Mills, since continuing; served also as general agent, Dexter Richards & Sons Mills,
1912-16; Catholic; Democrat; member, Newport board of trade; m., 1st, April, 1871, Cora F. Keyes, Orland, Me., d. Feb., 1891; 2d, Nov., 1891, Edith L. Reed; children, Vincent John, Jr., su- perintendent, Brampton Mills; Ralph A. (Philadelphia Textile School); Maud E. (Wheaton College, 1914, Mary- land College, 1916). Residence, New- port, N. H.
Chandler, Fred Gray
Teacher, farmer; b., Penacook, N. H. (Concord, Ward One), Dec. 31, 1845; s. Nathan and Louisa (Ferrin)
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Chandler; descendant in the tenth gen- eration from William Chandler, the immigrant ancestor, who settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637, and in the fifth generation from Rev. Timothy Walker, first minister of Concord (1730-82); ed. Penacook schools, Elmwood Acad- emy, Boscawen; teacher of schools in Boscawen and Webster, and principal of Penacook grammar school several years, since when he has followed agri- culture on the ancestral homestead,
specializing in dairy farming; member, Congregational Church since early youth; Republican, suffragist, prohibi- tionist; member, board of selectmen, several years; member, Concord com- mon council, 1876-8; m., June 21, 1877, Mary S. Abbott; one dau., Annie Mary, b. July 12, 1880, studied piano with Milo Benedict, organ with John Herman Loud, Boston, musical theory with Claude P. Landi (now of Rome, Italy), school methods with Charles S. Conant; teacher of the piano, and or- ganist, Baptist church, Penacook, since 1903; for several years supervisor of
music in the Penacook schools. Resi dence, Penacook, N. H.
Colby, James Fairbanks
Lawyer, educator; b., St. Johnsbury Vt., Nov. 18, 1850; s. James K. anc Sarah A. (Pierce) Colby; ed. St. Johns bury Academy, 1868; Dartmouth Col- lege, 1872, Columbian (now George Washington) University, LL.B., 1875; practiced law in New Haven, Conn., 1878-85; instructor in economics and history, Sheffield School, Yale Uni-i versity, 1879-81; lecturer on inter- national law, Yale Law School, 1883-5; Parker professor of law and political science, Dartmouth College, since 1885; honorary A.M., Yale, 1877; LL.D., Dartmouth, 1901; Congregationalist; Republican; member, N. H. forestry commission, 1893-8; N. H. constitu- tional convention, 1902; member, N. H. Bar Ass'n, American Bar Ass'n, Amer- ican Political Science Ass'n, American Soc. International Law; editor, Manual of N. H. Constitution, 1st ed., 1902, 2d ed., 1912; Maitland and Montagu's Sketch of English Legal History, and legal and political essays; unmarried. Residence, Hanover, N. H.
Day, Harry Brooks
Organist, musician and composer; b., Newmarket, N. H., Sept. 5, 1858; s. Warren K. and Martha (Brooks) Day; moved in childhood to Concord, N. H .; ed. Concord high school, 1878, studied music in United States, England and Munich, grad. Akademie der Tön- kunst München, 1899; ten years, or- ganist and choirmaster, St. Ann's church, Lowell, Mass .; then at New- ton, Mass .; musical director and or- ganist at the Cambridge Theological School; visiting choirmaster of St. Mary's, Newton, Church of the Mes- siah, Auburndale, St. Paul's, Brookline and St. John's, Cambridge, also director of the Neighborhood Choristers, 150 voices; director of music in the Newton Club and organist for the festival serv- ices of the Mass. Choir Guild; at Mu- nich, 1897-9, special pupil of Joseph Rheinburger, chosen from sixty appli-
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cants; then in London, studying boy- choir training and organ accompani- ment at St. Paul's Cathedral; since 1900 has lived at Brooklyn, N. Y., organist at Epiphany, St. Michael's and St. Luke's, officiating twelve years at the latter church; Episcopalian; mem- ber, Altair Lodge, Brooklyn, American Guild of Organists, St. Wilfred Club, Clef Club (president), N. Y. Musicians' Club and many other musical organ- izations; composer of Kobold Song,
The Sirens, Lochinvar, Easter Cantata and Christmas Postlude, orchestral ac- companiment; for the organ, Nocturne in D Flat, Allegro Symphonique, Suite in C Major, Prelude, Romanza Finale, Legende in A Flat Major, also of much church music and hymns, carols and songs; m. Roselle M. Barker, Oct. 18, 1900. Residence, Brooklyn, N. Y. and Peterboro, N. H.
Abbott, Florence Hale
Physician; b., Wilton, N. H., Oct. 20, 1867; dau. Harris and Caroline Ann (Greeley) Abbot; ed. public
schools, Wilton, N. H., Pembroke Academy, Cushing Academy, Ash- burnham, Mass., 1887, Smith College, B.L., 1891, Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, M.D., 1896; assistant physician in various state and private hospitals for the care of the insane, in Massachusetts, since 1898; now assistant physician in the Boston State Hospital; Congregation- alist; member, American Medico- Psychological Ass'n, American Medi
cal Ass'n, Mass. Medical Soc., N. E. Soc. of Psychiatry, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Smith College Alumnae Ass'n, College Club, Boston, Nat'l Geographic Soc .; unmarried; anti-suffragist; taught in Pembroke Academy, 1891-2, and in Bermuda (private family), 1892-3. Address, Boston State Hospital, Matta- pan, Mass.
Greenleaf, Charles Henry
Hotel proprietor; b., Danville, Vt., July 23, 1841; s. Seth and Lydia Hal (Burnham) Greenleaf; ed. public and private schools, Concord, N. H .; con-
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