expediting business, labor, and public health, and as chairman of the railroad committee and the committees on federal relations and roads and bridges.
He was largely influential in the adoption by the Legislature of the important public improvement known as the widening and extension of Beacon Street, giving to the city of Boston one of its most elegant boulevards.
As chairman of the railroad committee, he reported and successfully advocated the passage of two very important measures affecting the railroad and mercantile interests of the State—the consolidation of the
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Old Colony and the Boston & Providence railroads, and the uniting of the larger and more important rival lines, the Boston & Maine and the Eastern railroads.
Mr. Glines enjoys the remarkable and unprecedented legislative record of never losing a bill which was reported by either of three committees of which he was chairman.
He has been connected with various literary and religious associations, his church relations being with the Universalists.
Godfrey, Nathan, son of Otis Smith and Susan Elizabeth (Sauveuer) Godfrey, was born in Cherryfield, Washington county, Me., August 19, 1859.
Removing to Massachusetts while quite young, he received the greater portion of his educational training in the public schools of Milton, and was graduated from the Milton high school.
He first sought his fortune at sheep-raising, in Smith River Valley, Montana Territory, in 1877 to '80. In 1881 he engaged in the lumber business. In 1884 he added the coal trade, and these two have been his occupation up to the present time.
Mr. Godfrey was married in Milton, December 25, 1880, to Georgiana M., daughter of Josiah F. and Susan Anna Twombley. They have two children: Otis S. and Florence L. Godfrey.
Mr. Godfrey was president of the High School Association in 1888; member of the Republican town committee for the last six years; member of the present board of health, and member of the board of fire engineers.
Mr. Godfrey is a lineal descendant on the maternal side of Surgeon Alline, or Allen, one of the "Boston Tea Party." The Sauveuer and Twombley families are of English and Irish descent, and on the paternal side are connected also with the ancestors of Robert G. Shaw.
Gooch, Daniel W., son of John and Olive (Winn) Gooch, was born in Wells, York county, Me., January 8, 1820.
He was fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in the class of 1843. He studied law in South Berwick and Portland, Me., and also in Boston, and was admitted to the bar in 1846.
He practiced law in Boston, and was a member of the House in the state Legislature in 1852, and the state Constitutional Convention in 1853. He was elected to Congress, and served in the 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th Congresses, and, resigning from the 39th Congress, to which he was also elected, was appointed naval officer at the port of Boston, which position he held for one year, after which he returned to the practice of the law, in which he was engaged until the 43d Congress, when he was again elected to that body.
In 1875 he was appointed pension agent in Boston, which position he held until 1886, after which he again returned to the practice of the law. During the existence of the joint congressional committee on the conduct of the war, he was its chairman on the part of the House.
Among his speeches in Congress that were issued in pamphlet form are the following: "The Lecompton Constitution
