Arizona republican., 1893-12-19
BORN ACROSS THE SEA.
Massachusetts Governor Elect Not
a Native American.
But He Is, Nevertheless, as True to the
Stars and Stripes as Though He Were
. Lineal Descendant of the
Pilgrim Fathers.


Hon. Frederic T. Greenhalge, gov
ernor-elect of the commonwealth OF
Massachusetts,, was born in 1842, at
Clitheroe, a small manufacturing town
in Lancashire, Eng, about thirty miles
north of Manchester. His father,
skilled workman, although burdened
with the support of family of seven
children, had the intelligence and fore
sight to realize the advantage of Civ
ing to these young members of his
family training and education calcu-
lated to improve their condition in
life. Partly on this account and part
ly because of the be liter prospects of
employment, the elder Mr.. Greenhalge,
when the subject of this sketch was in
his teens, left England for the United
States, where he found employment
and took up his residence in the city of
Lowell. The new governor of Massa-
chusetts passed his early life under
conditions similar to those of most
New England boys of good mental at
tainments but of limited means. He
passed through the grammar school
of Lowell, graduated with honor from
it's high school, and in 1859 entered
Harvard college. Three years later
the death of his father forced him to
abandon his studies at Cambridge
and find means of earning his
living. He taught school for
awhile, served an apprenticeship
in a counting-room, and for some
six months was connected with the
commissary department of the United
States army in the military depart
ment of North Carolina. During the
period between 1862, when he left col
lege, and 1865, when he was admitted
to the Middlesex bar such leisure time
as he had at his disposal was occupied
with the study of the law, and his adj
nittance to the profession under these
circumstances indicated on his part ex-
ceptional aptitude and intelligence.
His personal inclinations led him to
turn to political life, and from 1868,
when elected member of the common
council of Lowell, up to tie present
he has been for the greater part of the
time the holder of various public
offices. These included, by a natural
progression, the school committee, the
mayoralty of Lowell, membership in
the legislature, the city solicitorship
Ind membership in the Ufited States
louse of representatives. In addition,
Ind in spite of his political activity,
dr. Greenhalge has zealously followed
lis profession, and in this has made
or himself well-deserved though
possibly circumscribed reputation, his
aw practice bringing in to him good
ncomc. As a political orator Mr..
ireenl;alee holds high rank-a fact
brought into prominence during his
.ervice in the Fifty-frst congress,
when. as a member of the committee
IL elections, he was called upon to
present to the house, on behalf of his
'epublican associates, number of i'm
,ortant contested election cases, a serv-
ce that he performed with readiness
md eloquence which won for him at
The time a national recognition. Pos
sessed of a pleasing voice, ready com.
mand of idiomatic English and highly
developed powers of Imagination, Mr.
Greenhalge is speaker whose popu-
larity is readily acknowledged even by
those of opposing political convictions.
These aptitudes are at times somewhat
treacherous, in that they have led him
now and again to make statements
which less impulsive and ready poll
tician would have refrained from MAX
ing. However, this very fire and in
tensity of mind is the characteristic
that has gained for him so large a de-
gree of popularity among the repub-
lcans of his state, and he has perhaps
no more than others the defects of his
virtues Mr.. Greenhalge was married
in 1872 to Isabella Nesmith, whose IA
Their had formerly been a lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts,. He has
three children, a daughter and two
sons, one of the latter now a stu
dent at Andover, Mass Mr.. Green
halge still lives at Lowell, and has
been identified there with number of
social, literary and charitable under
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