6l2 Tl FTS. TURNER. lished in 1S8S. He is associated with four other professors in Andover Theological Seminary in what is known as the "Andover Case." He is also a trustee of Dartmouth Col- lege, having been elected in 1878. TUFTS, ARTHUR WEBSTER, son of Gil- bert and Mary (Chickering) Tufts, was born in Charlestown, Middlesex county, February 20, 1828. He received his early education at the public schools of Charlestown, and in Chauncy Hall school, Boston. At an early age he was employed in mercantile business on City Wharf, Boston, and was in some branch of that business until his retirement from its responsibilities later in life. He was for some time a mem- ber of the firm of Flint & Tufts, wholesale lumber dealers, Boston. ARTHUR W. TUFTS. While a resident of Charlestown, he served three years in the common council, and three years on the school board. He was a member of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1879, '80 and '81, and of the Senate in 1882 and '83. The first year he was a member of the committee on banks and banking, and in the second and third years a member of the finance com- mittee. In the Senate he served on the committees on claims, military affairs, cities, and the treasury, of which last two he was chairman. His business training and experience well fitted him for serving on these committees, and rendered him a practical legislator. Mr. Tufts is a director in various cor- porations, is president of the Roxbury Institution for Savings, and is one of the corporate members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and one of the auditors of the board. He is also a member of the executive com- mittee of the Massachusetts Home Mission- ary Society, and president of the City Missionary Society of Boston. He was also at one time president of the Boston Congregational Club. He was presidential elector in 1884, and delegate to the national Republican con- vention in Chicago in -i88S. Although retired from active business, much of his time is occupied as trustee of various estates. In politics, he was a Whig while that party lasted, but joined the Republican part)' when Abraham Lin- coln was nominated. His ancestors came to this country from England early in the seventeenth century; his paternal ancestor settling in Medford, and his maternal ancestor (Henry Chick- ering) in Declham, where he was prominent in the early history of the tow n. He married, November 9, 1853, Annie. daughter of Rev. Henry B. and Martha Vinal 1 looker. TURNER, Henry Edward, Jr., - Henry Edward and Ann (Burns) Turner, was born in Boston, May 4, 1842. His parents removed to Maiden in 1845. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Maiden, Pierce Academy, Middleborough, .nt> private schools of Medford and Norwich, Conn. In 1S5S he began his commercial career in the house of Wellington. Winter & Gross, wholesale dry-goods, subsequently with Wellington, Gross & Co.; Wellington. Bros. & Co.; Cross. Daniels & Co., and Daniels .V Co. lie was afterwards with Clark, Adams & Clark, crockery importers, from 1870 to '87, as confidential clerk and partner, lie is at present treasurer of the Commonwealth Shoe Nailer Co. In Maiden, July 29, 1863, Mr. Turner was married to Lucinda H, daughter of Aaron and Lucinda W. (Bean) Barrett. His second marriage occurred December, 1867, with Hu'lda S., daughter of Joseph D. and Hulda S. (Lewis) Crowell. The children by his first marriage are: Anabel and Harry H. Turner.
