Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . zeal, energy and higher businessmotives. Mr. Holmes was married November 8, 1888, to x\mandaMerrill, daughter of J. S. Merrill, of Jay county, Indiana. Mr. andMrs. Holmes have three children : Eva Beatrice, Arthur William andClarence Merrill. They reside at 20 Wallace place, Pittsfield, Massa-chusetts, and are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. is a member of the Indenendent Order of Odd Fellows. WILLIAM ANDREW FAHEY. Among the younger merchants of Pittsfield whose priva
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . zeal, energy and higher businessmotives. Mr. Holmes was married November 8, 1888, to x\mandaMerrill, daughter of J. S. Merrill, of Jay county, Indiana. Mr. andMrs. Holmes have three children : Eva Beatrice, Arthur William andClarence Merrill. They reside at 20 Wallace place, Pittsfield, Massa-chusetts, and are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. is a member of the Indenendent Order of Odd Fellows. WILLIAM ANDREW FAHEY. Among the younger merchants of Pittsfield whose private enter-prise and public service have alike appealed to the favor of the citizensof the county seat, the gentleman whose name introduces these memoirsmay be appropriately mentioned. Born in Pittsfield, July 26, 1875,educated in the public schools of that city, and finding his initial and allsubsequent employment there, he is essentially a home product. Earlyrecognized by his political associates as a man to whom the duties andresponsibilities of office could be safely entrusted, at the age of twenty-. BERKSHIRE COUNTY 357 seven he was nominated by the Democratic party and elected to theState Legislature, and re-elected the following- year. He demonstratedthe wisdom of his constituents l3y ser^?ing acceptably during the firstyear upon the Fisheries and Game, committee, and the second year uponthe Mercantile Aftairs committee. As a boy of fourteen \\illiam A. Fahev entered the employ of & J. J. Enright, shoe merchants of Pittsfield, and continued withthis firm up to September, 1905, having been promoted from time totime to increasingly responsible duties, until he was recognized as theleading salesman in the employ of the firm, buying as well as sellingtherefor, and thus gaining such general insight into the business aswell equipped him for his entrance into the same line on his ownaccount. At the date last mentioned ]\Ir. Fahey, in association withMr. Francis A. Farrell, o
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