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Div., Am. Red Cross, during World War. Clubs: Somerset, Harvard (Boston, N.Y.), Country, Ded- ham Country and Polo. Republican. Office: 60 State St., Boston. Home: Westwood. Summer res .: Monument Beach.
v JACKSON, Julian Ernest, professor; b. Union, Ia., May 1, 1899; s. Israel Ernest Jackson and Sina L. (Wood) J .; ed. Cedar Rapids (la.) high sch .; A.B., Coe Coll., 1921; Unlv. Wis .; M.B.A., Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1928; LL.B., Northeastern Univ. Law Sch., 1935: Boston Univ .; Staley Coll .; m. Mary Annis Hollingsworth of Centerville, la., Mar. 10, 1923; children-Carolyn Joyce, Portia Alıncda. Newspaper reporter, St. Louis, Mo., and Winnipeg, Manit .: sales and sales executive work, Ccdar Rapids, Ia., Chicago, Ill., Boston, 6 yrs .; practiced law, splty. taxation ;. prof., Northeastern Univ .; private, 5 mos., World War; mem. Am. Management Assn .; Unitarian Laymen's Leagne; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Masons. Travel: U.S., Mex. by auto. Desc. by father, early settlers, New Bedford. Unl- tarian. Republican. Office: Northeastern Univ., 360 Huntington Av., (law practice) 6 Beacon St., Boston. Home: 187 Woodcliff Rd., Newton High- lands.
JACKSON, Malcolm Nourse, stock broker; b. Brook- line, Dec. 26, 1873; s. Henry Walter Jackson and Laura Elizabeth Little ( Nourse) J .; cd. Brookline pub. and high schs .; m. Blanche Catherine Holliday of Boston, Feb. 23, 1916 (d.). Began with Jackson, Mandell & Daniel, wholesale, 1891, and was suc- cessively with Thomson, Houston Elec. Co., Francis Henshaw & Co., Wise, Hobbs & Arnold; mem. ifrm Jackson & Harris, 1921-30; pres. and dir. Malcolm N. Jackson & Co., Inc., 1930-, Republican. Office: 201 Devonshire St., Boston. Home: 1454 Beacon St., Brookline.
VJACKSON, Patrick Tracy, cotton mill treasurer; b. Cambridge, Nov. 7, 1871; s. Patrick Tracy Jackson and Eleanor Baker (Gray) J .; grad. Brownc & Nichols Seh., Cambridge, 1889; A.B., Harvard, 1893; m. Anne Smoot of Wash., D.C., Apr. 11, 1898; chll- dren-Anna Loring, Patrick Tracy, Jr., Jonathan. Spent 9 yrs. after grad. in machine shops, cotton mills and commn. houses; then bought control Low- ell Weaving Co .; organized LeRoy Cotton Mills, and Warner Cotton Mills, 1909, combining the 3 mills into Bay State Cotton Corp .; in 1910 assisted in combining Bay State Cotton Corp. with the Boston Yarn Co. (organized In 1906) into Internat. Cotton Duck Corp., also taking in the Consolidated Cotton Duck Co., and J. Spencer Turner Co .; became treas. Bay State Cotton Corp. and v.p. Internat. Cotton Duck Corp .; resigned these positions and various directorships in 1917 to enlarge research work on reenforcing paper; organized Warner Cotton Mills to run 24 hrs. daily during war to make gas-mask duck; in 1919 became pres. P. T. Jackson Co., a cotton commn. house founded by his father and grandfather In 1870; in 1920 organized Anı. Re- enforced Paper Co. to mfr. and in 1927 The Sisal- kraft Co. of Chicago to sell its patented products known as Sisalkraft; in 1930 liquidated P. T. Jack- son Co. and organized another corp. as cotton mer- chants, Jackson, Fiske & Fisher, Inc .; in 1932 or- ganized the Australian Sisalkraft Co., Ltd., and In 1937 British Sisalkraft, Ltd., foreign nifg. subsi- diaries of Am. Reenforced Paper Co., pres. Amn. Reenforced Paper Co., Jackson Securities Corp., Jackson, Fiske & Fisher, Inc .; v.p. Sisalkraft Co .; dir. Australian Sisalkraft Co. Ltd., British Slsal- kraft, Ltd .; mem. N.E. Historie-Geneal. Soc., Loyal Legion, Business Hist. Soc. Clubs: Harvard (New York and Boston), Union . (Boston), Manchester Yacht, Lunch, Internat. Sportsmen's (London). Desc. of Edward Jackson of London, who came to Boston, 1644. Unitarian. Republican. Office: 141 Milk St., Boston. Home: 145 Brattle St., Cam- bridge.
JACKSON, Ralph Temple, architect; b. Great Pond, Me., Aug. 18, 1879; s. John Kingsbury Jackson and Myra E. (Williams) J .; ed. Mt. Hermon Sch .; S. B., M.I.T., 1906, S.M., 1907; A.M., Suffolk Univ., 1938; m. Elizabeth Meserole Rhodes of Brooklyn, N. Y., 1907; children-Winifred Williams, Foster Rhodes, Ralph Dighton (dau.), Kingsbury Temple. Archi-
tect of schs., churches, theaters, and other pub. bldgs. in N.E., N.Y., and Fla., Incl. Suffolk Unlv. (Boston), 1st Ch. of Christ ( Brockton) ; dir. Number Onc Beacon St. Corp .; associated with design of Fed. Boston Army Supply Base, 2 yrs .; mem. Am. Inst. Architects, Boston Soc. Architects. Clubs: Republican, Badminton. Travel: U.S. (south, middle west), Can. Desc. Thomas Rogers (May- flower), Edward Jackson of Newton (one of origi- nal endowers of Harvard Coll.), Gov. Thomas May- hew of Mass, Sir Richard Saltonstall, Lt. Jonathan Jackson (Am. Revolution). Christian Scientist. Republican. Office: 1 Beacon St., Boston. Home: 85 River St., Boston. Summer res .: "Pine Islands", West Mansfield.
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JACKSON, William Kenneth, lawyer; b. Denver, Tenn., Nov. 18, 1886; s. William Kendrick Jackson and Medora Elizabeth (Montgomery) J .; ed. A.B., Univ. Fla., 1904; LL. B., Univ. Va. Law Sch .. 1908; m. Katharine Mitchell, Sept. 9, 1916; children- Katharine, Danforth, Richard Montgomery, Joan, Alexander. Recording clerk, Fla. Ho. Rep., 1905; admitted Fla. Bar, 1908; practiced in Jacksonville; asst. pros, atty., Canal Zone, and asst. atty., Isth- mian Canal Commn. and Panama R.R. Co., 1909-10; pros. atty., Canal Zone, 1910-14, U.S. atty., Dist. of Canal Zone, 1914-15; now v.p., gen. counsel and dir. United Fruit Co .; capt. Chem. Warfare Service, U.S.A., World War; mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega, Delta Chi, Raven Soc. (Univ. Va.), Am. Bar Assn., Am. Soc. Internat. Law, Foreign Law Assn. Clubs: Union, Country (Boston), Metro- politan (Washington, D.C.). Democrat. Office: 1 Federal St., Boston. Home: 169 Chestnut Hill Rd., Chestnut Hill.
VJACOB, Cary Franklin, educator, author; b. Rich- mond, Va., Sept. 14, 1885; s. John Franklin Jacob and Nettie Moore (Snced) J .; ed. John Marshall high school, Richmond, Va .; Peabody Inst., Balti- more, Md .; B.S., Univ. of Va., 1912, M.S., 1916, I'h.D) .. 1918; studied at univs. Florence, Venice, Munich, Dresden and Berlin, 1933-34; unmarried. Prof. Eng., Norfolk (Va.) Acad., 1912-14, Marion (Ala.) Mil. Inst., 1917-18; prof. Eng. lit. (summer session), Univ. of Va., 1918, Coll. William and Mary, 1919-25; asso. prof. Spoken Eng., Smith Coll., 1927 -; exchange prof., Univ. Mex .; mem. Am. Assn. Univ. Prof., Modern Lang. Assn. Am., Am. Lin- guistic Soc., Authors' League Am., Dramatists' Guild, A.A.A.S., Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Theta Gamma, R.O.T.C. Clubs: Farm- Ington Country (Charlottesville, Va.), Alden Soc. of New York. Author: Driftwood and Foam (poems), 1914; Foundations and Nature of Verse, 1918; novels and plays under pen name. Travel: W.1., Mex., Fr., It., Aus., Ger. Desc. Gov. William Bradford, John Alden, Joseph Baker, Ellis Colburn. Non-Sectarian. Democrat. Ilome: 69 Prospect St., Northampton.
VJACONS, Allen, clergyman; b. Cambridge, Jan. 28, 1873; s. Bela Farwell Jacobs and Laura M. (Den- mon) J .; ed. Cambridge Latin sch .; A. B., Ilarvard, 1898; B.D., Episc. Theol. Sch., Cambridge, 1901; m. Lois C. Walker of Chicago, Ill., Aug. 14, 1903; children-Nathalie Mary, Elizabeth Pilsbury. With Houghton, Mifllin Co., pubs., 4 yrs. before coll .; asst., Cathedral, Faribault, Minn., 190}; St. John's Ch., Providence, R.I., 1902-03; rector, St. Mary's Ch., Portsmouth, R.I., 1903-07; asst., Christ Ch., Cambridge, 1907-08; rector, Christ Ch., Ply- mouth, 1908-16; in Western states, 1916-30; rector, St. John's Ch., Duxbury, 1930 -; mcm. Am. Red Cross. Clubs: Men's Community (Duxbury), Par sons' (Cambridge). Author: The Quality of Mercy (novel). Travel: Europe, 1900, 1910. Paternal grandmother, Sarah Sprague Jacobs, came to Cam- bridge from R.I. 1818. Episcopalian. Independent. Office and home: 10 Josselyn Av., Duxbury.
V JACOBS, Carlton Dupee, contractor; b. Boston, May 4, 1886; s. James Arthur Jacobs and Anna Eliza (Dupec) J .; ed. Mechanic Arts high sch., Boston; B.S., M.I.T., 1909; m. Else Darby of Philadelphia, Pa., June 7, 1919; children-Elizabeth Ann, P. Rich- mond, Peter Tower. Engaged in bus. as contractor continuously in Boston, 1909 -; pres. and treas. Davld H. Jacobs & Son, Inc., 1923 -; served as capt.
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1888, lecturer, 1892-1902; asst. prof. vegetable his- tology, Harvard, 1902-07, of plant morphology, 1907-33, prof. emeritus, botany since 1933; mem. Am. Naturalists, Bot. Soc. Am .; hon. mem. Bot. Soc. Japan. Author: Anatomy of Woody Plants, 1917; Coal and Civilization, 1925; many sci. papers. Home: 47 Lakeview Av., Cambridge.
V JEFFRIES, John Amory, investment banker; b. Boston, Dee. 27, 1893; s. William Augustus Jeffries and Clemence (Eustis) J .; ed. Noble & Greenough Seh., Boston; Evans Sch., Mesa, Ariz., 1911-12; A.B., Harvard, 1916; m. Miriam' Faulkner of Keene, N.H., Aug. 11, 1923; children-David, Miriam, John Amory, Jr., Benjamin Eustis, Peter Faulkner. With various banking cos., 1915-17; Webster & Atlas Nat. Bk. and William A. Read & Co., 1920; Chas. Head & Co., 1920-25; v.p. and dir. Childs, Jeffries & Co. from formation 1925 (name changed to Wm. B. Niehols & Co., 1930) until Oct. 31, 1934; v.p. and dir. Childs, Jeffries & Thorndike ( Mass, corp.) since formation in 1934 and of N. Y. corp. of same name since formation 1936; v.p., sec. and dir. Chain Store Investment Corp .; 1st It. 23d Inf., 2d Div., U.S., 1917-19, with A.E.F .; capt. Inf. Res. Officers Corps; pres. Mass. Assn, for Promoting Interests Adult Blind; pres., treas, and mem. bu. govs. Stuart Club Corp .; exec. com, Child Walker Sch .; pres. Mass. Sav. Bk., tr. Chain Store Investors Trust, Mass. Charitable Fire Soc .; incorporator Perkins Inst. and Mass. Sch. for the Blind, mem, Masons, K.T. Clubs: llarvard (N. Y.), Union Boat (past pres.), Eastern Yacht ( Marblehead, chmu. race com.), Milton. Episcopalian, Office: 50 Con- gress St., Boston. Home: 51 Columbine Rd., Milton. JENCKES, Marcien, lawyer; b. Stamford, Conn., Apr. 5, 1900; s. Lawrence Bates Jenekes and Alice G. (Child) J .; ed. Worcester pub. schs., 1905-13; St. Paul's Sch., Concord, N.H., 1913-17; A.B., Yale, 1921; L.L. B., llarvard Law Sch., 1921; m. Mollie W. Cromwell of Baltimore, Md., June 23, 1932; children -Georgia C., Marcion C., Lawrence W. Adm. Mass. Bar, 1924; gen, practice of law at Boston: partner Choate, Hall & Stewart; pres. and dir. Whittaker, Reed Co., Worcester; served on Brookline Citizens' Com., 1935-37; mem. bd. Children's Aid Soc .; 2d It. U.S.F.A., 1918-21; mem. Boston Bar Assn., Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Psi, Psi Upsilon, Clubs: Uni- versity (N.Y.), Union (Boston), Country ( Brook- line). Travel: China, 1921. Episcopalian. Repub- lican. Office: 30 State St., Boston, Home: 63 11ill- side Rd., Brookline.
V JENKINS, Herbert F(ranklin), publisher; b. Rock- land, Oct. 3, 1873; s. Joseph H. Jenkins and Emily (Clark) J .; ed. grad., high sch., Rockland, 1891; student, Harvard, 1891-93; m. Anne Il. Bradford of Abington, 1897 (d.); m. (2d) Bessie Clark Guptill of Winthrop, 1921. Reporter, Boston Traveller, 1893-96, Boston Herald, 1897-1901; advertising mgr. Little, Brown & Co., 1901-16, editorial dir., 1916-38, v.p., 1927-38, retired as exec., 1938. Clubs: Republican, Boston City (Boston), Publishers Lunch ( New York). Travel: extensive in U.S. and Europe. Republican. Office: 34 Beacon St., Boston. Home: 129 Dean Road, Brookline.
V JENKINS, Lawrence Waters, museum director; b. Salem, Dec. 23, 1872; s. Charles T. Jenkins and Lucy Dane (Weston) J .; ed. Noble Sch., Boston; A.B., Harvard, 1896; m. Arvilla Bray of Salem, 1901; children-Stephen Waters, Dorothy, Benja- min Gilbert. Asst. supt., Crows Nest Mining Co., Melrose, N.S., 1897-1899; curator ethnology, Pea- body Mus., Salem, 1901-, Marine Room, 1926-, asst. dir., 1914-37, dir., 1937 -; It. col. Mass. State Guard, 1917-20; fellow A.A.A.S .; mem. Am. Antiq. Assn., Mass. Hist. Soc., Am. Anthropol, Assn., Am, Assn. Mus., S.A.R., Essex Inst. (v.p.). Clubs: Army & Navy (Boston); Eastern Yacht. Travel : Mex., 1900. Unitarian. Republican. Office: Pea- body Museum, Salem. llome: 273 Locust St., Danvers.
Y JENKINS, MacGregor, author; b. Amherst, Apr. 11, 1869; s. Johnathan Leavitt Jenkins and Sarah Maria ( Eaton) J .; ed. grad. Williams Coll., 1890, L. H.D., 1927; m. Alice Boorum Dunean of Englewood, N.J., June 2, 1901; children-Julia Duncan, Sarah Eaton. With Houghton & Miflin Co., pubs., Boston,
1890-1908; one of organizers, 1908, treas., pub. until 1928, The Atlantic Monthly Co .; mem. Al- pha Delta Phi. Club: St. Botolph ( Boston). Au- thor: The Reading Public, 1914; Literature With a Large L, 1919; Bucolic Beatitudes, 1925; Put- tering Around, 1927; Shiner Watson, The Autobi- ography of a Boy, 1929; The Last Cruise of the Panther, 1929; Emily Dickinson, Friend and Neigh- bor, 1930; Emily (a novel), 1930; Sons of Ephraim, The Spirit of Williams College, 1934; articles in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, House Beautiful, etc. Congregationalist. Office: 8 Arlington St., Bos- ton. Home: Williams Inn, Williamstown.
JENKINS, Mattie M., portrait painter, illustrator; b. So. Abington (now Whitman), July 30, 1867; . Jerome Washburn and Abigail (Cook) W .; ed. Whitman high sch .; Art Dept., N.E. Conservatory of Music; m. George F. Jenkins of Whitman, Dec. 30 1886; 1 đau .- Phyllis Jenkins Hill. Portrait painter, illustrator, 1900 -; lecturer to children on art, under auspices of Brockton Women's Club, Pub. Lib., Brockton, 1916-18; inventor of numer- ous card games; reproducer, famous Witchy Wishy cards found by father in devastated house during Civil War; leader of Woman Suffrage campaign until Amendment was proclaimed, Ang. 26, 1920, Whitman; collector of siones of nuusual shapes, with striking likeness to people and things; rep- resented, in exhbn. at Pa Acad., Acad. Design (N.Y.), Boston Mus. Fine Arts; exhibited, Vose and Doll & Richards Galleries; tr. Whitman Pub. Lib., 1935-, mem. sch. com., 1912-20; served under Mass. Div., Women's Com., Council Nat. Defence, World War; mem. Capt. John Pulling Chap., Mass. D.A. R. (state chaplain, 1918-22), Whitman D.A.R. (regent, 1916-18, 1932-33); past mem. Arts & Crafts Soe. (Boston). Clubs: Prof. Women's ( Boston, past mem.), Women's (Whit- man, pres., 1919-22), Desc. Francis Cook of May- flower. Congregationalist (deaconess). Repub- lican. Office: 370 Atlantic Av., Boston. Nome: 35 Charles St., Whitman,
JENKS, Lawrence Cooper, teacher; b. Buffalo, N.Y., Mar. 3, 1912; s. Laban S. Jenks and Leah (Pender) J .; ed. Newton high sch .; A. B., Bowdoin Coll., 1931; A.M., Ilarvard, 1932; unmarried. Instr. math., llarvard, 1932-33; instr, math., Cambridge Sch. Liberal Arts, 1934-, tr. and treas., 1936 -; mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta P'hi. Catholic. Re- publican. Office: 49 Washington Av., Cambridge. Home: 45 Pine Grove Av., Newton Lower Falls. Y JENKS, Leland Hamilton; professor of social in- stitutions; b. Ottawa, Kan., April 10, 1892; S. Wilbur Simpson Jenks and May ( Hamilton) J .; ed. Ottawa high sch .; A.B., Ottawa Univ., 1913; A.M., Univ. Kan., 1914; grad. student, Columbia Univ., 1915-17, Ph.D., 1927; grad. student, Lon- don (Eng.) Sch. of Economics, 1920-21; m. Eliza- beth Plank of Lawrence, Kan., Sept. 14, 1920; children-Margaret Elizabeth, Edwin llamilton. Instr., high seh., Lawrence, Kan., 1914-15; instr. history, Univ. Min., 1917-18; asst. prof. polit. and social sei., Clark Ilniv., 1919-20; Amherst Me- morial fellow, 1920-23; asso. prof. hist., Amherst Coll., 1923-25; prof. hist., Rollins Coll., 1926-30; prof. social institutions, Wellesley Coll., 1930 -; mem. Com. on Cuban Affairs, 1931; Guggenheim Memorial fellow, 1936-38; served in U.S.N. Res. Auxiliary, 1918-19; mem. Am. Hist. Assn., Am. Sociol. Soc., Am. Econ. Assn., Econ. Ilist. Soc., Am. Assn. Univ. Profs., Pi Kappa Delta. Author: Migration of British Capital to 1875, 1927; Our Cuban Colony, 1928; articles in mags, and in Iney. of Social Sciences, 1930-34. Travel: Eng. and Europe 1919, 1920-22, 1937-8; Cuba 1925-6. Dese. John Jenks of Lym iron foundry and "pine tree shilling". Congregationalist. Office: Wel-
lesley College, Wellesley. Ilome: 18 Weston Rd., Wellesley.
JENNEY, Charles Stoddard, oil merchant; b. Boston, Oct. 2, 1886; s. Walter Jenney and Elizabeth Bow- ers (Hedge) J .; ed. Boston pub. schs .; Eng. high sch., 1901-05; m. Martha Morrison of St. Louis, Mo., June 6, 1916; children-Robert M., Elizabeth. Assoc. with Jenney Mfg. Co., Boston, 1906-, V. D. and gen. mgr. 1915-, pres. 1939 -; dir. Boston
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Sand and Gravel Co., Thompson's Spa, Hersey Mfg. Co .; mem. bd. investment, So. Boston Sav. Bk. Clubs: Country, Algonquin, Exchange. Con- gregationalist. Republican. Office: 12 India St., Boston. Home: 372 Warren St., Brookline.
JENNEY, Malcolm; lawyer; b. Boston, July 16, 1893; S. Walter lenney and Elizabeth Bowers (Hedge) J .; ed. Boston pub. schs., 1911; L.L. B., Boston Univ. Seh. Law, 1915, LL.M., 1916; m. Constance Webling of Brookline, June 7, 1920; children- Barbara, Patricia. Admitted to Mass. bar, 1916, District Court of United States, 1919; since in gen. practice law; dir, and gen. counsel Jenney Mig. Clo., Aberthaw Co .; served with 101st ULS. Engrs., A.R.l .; mem. Am. Bar Assn., N.E. Hlist. Geneal. Soc., Gamma Eta Gamma, Masons (York Rite). Clubs: University (Boston), Charles River Coun- try (Newton). Unitarian. Republican. Office: 73 Tremont St., Boston. Home: 20 Sears Rd., Brook- line.
JENNINGS, Henrietta Cooper; professor of econom- ies and sociology; b. Danville, Pa., Oct. 11, 1899; d. Irving Houseworth Jennings and Sara Hurley (Baldy) J .; ed. 'Williamsport (Pa.) high sch., Misses Kirk's Sch., Bryn Mawr, l'a .; A. B., Bryn Mawr Coll., 1922, A.M., 1923, Ph.D., 1927; student, Sorbonne (Univ. Paris), summer, 1925; London Seh. of Economics and Polit. Sci. (Univ. London), 1925-26. Warden of Denbigh Hall, 1926-28; instr. economies and polit. sci., Bryn Mawr College, 1927-28; prof. economies and sociology, Wilson Coll., Chambersburg, P'a., 1928-31; asso. prof. economics and sociology and acting head of dept., Wheaton Coll., Norton, 1931-32, asso. prof. eco- nomics and sociology and head of dept., 1932-33, prof. and head of dept. of economics and sociology, 1933 -; mem. Am. Econ. Assn., Am. Polit. Sei. Assn., Am. Assn. Univ. Profs., Council of Bos- ton Br. of For. Policy Assn. Club: College (Bos- ton). Author: Political Theory of State-Supported Elementary Education in England, 1750-1833. Travel: Europe. Episcopalian. Democrat. Ofliee and home: Wheaton College, Norton. Summer res .: Danville, Pa.
JENNINGS, Prescott, cotton textile manufacturer, trustee; b. Fall River, Dee. 11, 1897; s. Edward Borden Jennings and Anne ( Francis) J .; ed. Berk- shire Sch .; Phillips Exeter Acad .; Princeton, 1917- 18; Harvard, 1918-19; m. Mary Ford Gillespie of Boston, Oct. 4, 1920; I son-Prescott, Jr. In en- ploy Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Los Angeles, Calif .; Los Angeles Trust and Sav. Bk .; asst. treas. and dir. Algonquin Printing Co., Fall River, 1921 -; dir. West Virginia-Pittsburgh Coal Co., Fall River Nat. Bk., Fall River Morris Plan Co., Fall River Coop. Bk., Fall River Y.M.C.A., Dist. Nursing Assn., S.P.C.C .; tr. Fall River Five Cents Sav. Ek .; mem, Masons (32°). Clubs: Quequechan, Fall River Country, Acoaxet Country, Harvard (Boston), Lions. Congregationalist. Republican. Office: 38 Rock St., Fall River. Home: 572 High St., Fall River. Summer res .: Acoaxet.
VJENNINGS, Walter Louis, professor emeritus of organie chemistry; b. Bangor, Me., Nov. 15, 1866; s. Stephen Jennings and Ellen Giddings (Ingalls) J .; ed. Bangor (Me.) high sch., Cambridge high & Latin Sch .; A.B., Harvard, 1889, A.M., 1890, Ph.D., 1892; m. London, Eng., Aliee Emily l'age of Epsom, Eng., July 24, 1897; children-Ruth, Frances, Alice. Asst. instr. organic chem., Har- vard, 1889-90, qualitative analysis, 1890-92, Parker fellow, 1893-94; post-grad. work at Univs. Hei- delberg and Berlin, 1892-94; asst. proť. ehem., Worcester Poly. Inst., 1894-1901, prof. organic chem., 1901-37, dir. dept. of chem., 1911-37; con- ducted Field Sta. at Worcester Poly. Inst. for Gas Warfare Service, during World War; fellow Am. Acad. Arts and Seiences, A. A.A.S .; mem. Am. Chem. Soc., German Chem. Soc., Worcester Med. Milk Commn., Mass. Medieo Legal Soc. Clubs: Bohemian, Cosmopolitan, Sigma Xi, Worcester Tennis, Worcester Harvard, Longwood Cricket. Author of various periodicals and contrbs. to Dict. of Am. Biography. Travel : Europe. Non- sectarian. Independent. Home: 18 Centre St., Cambridge.
JENNIVON, Marshall Walker, assistant professor of sanitary biology; b. Portland, Me., May 27, 1905; s. William Walker Jennison and Harriet ( Marshall ) J .; ed. Portland (Me.) high sch .; S. B., M. I.T., 1927, I'h. D., 1932; m. Cynthia M. Lamb of Denver, Colo., 1929; children-Cynthia Marshall, Margaret Walker. Asst. in biol., M. I.T., 1927-, asst. prof. san. biol .; ed. bd., Jour. Bacteriology; tech. ad- viser, Charles River Assn .; mem. Soc. Am. Bac- teriologists, Am. Pub. Health Assn., A. A.A.S., Limnol. Soc. Am., Kappa Sigma, Delta Omega, Sigma Xi, Boston Bacteriological Soc. Author: sei. papers in biology and bacteriology. Desc. Robert Jennison, early settler in Watertown, about 1630. Congregationalist. Republican. Office: De- partment of Biology and Public Health, Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Home: 12 l'letcher Rd., Belmont.
JENNY, Herbert John, teacher music, organist, pianist, lecturer; b. Tomah, Wis., June 12, 1886; S. John Jenny and Bertha (Dannnann) J .; ed. Northwestern Coll., Watertown, Wis .; grad., N. I. Conservatory of Music, 1911; B.A., King Coll., Bristol, Tenn., 1922; M.A., Harvard, 1926; Ph.D., Univ. Innsbruck, Aus., 1937; m. Harriet Carey of Cairo, Ill., Sept. 16, 1914; children-Alice (Mrs. J. D. Steger), Edith. Dir, music, Daniel Baker Coll., Brownwood, Tex., Lexington (Ky.) Coll. Music, Sullins Coll., Bristol, Va., Wheaton Coll., Norton; organist in various parts of country, 30 yrs .; now in research work in musicology; mem. Sinfonia, Am. Guild Organists, Am. Music. Soe. Author: The Rhythm of Early Germen Folk Tunes (Ms.), Troubadours and Tronveres (in O. Thompson Cyclopedia of Music). Travel: Eng, Ger., Aus., It., Switz., Fr. Interested in music no- tation, middle-high Ger. literature. Lutheran. Address: 43 Oakview Terrace, Jamaica Plain.
JENSEN, William Barton, banker; b. Boston. Feb. 23, 1881; s. Jens C. Jensen and Mary A. (Wren) J .; ed. grad., Boston Eng. high sch., 1899; Bur- dett Bus. Coll., 1900; LL. B., Northeastern Univ. Law Sch., 1901; Harvard, 1904-07; m. Gertrude P. Twite; 1 dau .- Mavis Rosalind. Practiced law, Boston, 1907-13; bank examiner, now dir., Mass. Banking Dept., Jan. 27, 1913 -; C.P.A. (Mass.) Feb., 1922 -; dir. Div. Credit Unions, Mass. Bank- ing Dept .; mem. A.F.&A.M. (Mt. Tabor Lodge, Boston), O.E.S. (past Patron, Orient Chap., Fram- ingham). Author: articles in "The Pioneer", ofli- cial organ of Credit Union League of Mass. Meth- odist. Republican. Office: Room 105, State House, Boston. Home: 3 Otis St., Framingham. Summer res. : Provincetown.
JEPPSON, George Nathaniel, mfr. grinding wheels and machines; b. Worcester, April 11. 1873; s. John Jeppson and Thilda A. (Ahlstrom) J .; ed. Worcester pub, schs., Highland Mil Acad .; Wor- cester Poly Inst .; Royal Sch. of Mines, Stock- holm, Swed .; m. Selma U. Swanstrom of Worces- ter, May 10, 1911; children-Britta Dorothy, John, Il. Betty Thilda. In employ the Norton Co., 1892-, treas., v.p. in charge of production and dir., 1933 -; dir. Norton Pike Co., Riley Stoker Corp., Royal Woreester Corset Co .; pres. Guaranty Bank & Trust Co .; decorated with Order of Vasa, Order of the North Star, Knight Royal (Sweden) ; mem. Worcester Ch. Commerce; dir. Swedish Ch. Com- merce in U.S .; tr. Worcester Poly Inst., Bancroft Sch .. American-Scandinavian Foundation, Swed- ish Lutheran Old Peoples Home; served as mem. Bd. of Aldermen, Worcester; fellow Am. Ceramic Soc .; mem. Soc. M. E., Swedish Engrs. Soc. of Chicago, Masons (32°). Clubs: Worcester, Worcester Country. Republican. Ollice: 1 Now Bond St., Worcester. Home: 1 _Drury Lane, Woreester. Summer res .: "Oakholm", Brookfield.
VJERAULD, Bruce Kempton, county treasurer and accountant; b. Harwich, July 7, 1890; s. Ensign Curtis Jerauld and Corabelle ( Eldredge) J .; ed. Hyannis Barnstable high sch., 1901-08; Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1909-10; m. Jennie Lucile Thayer of Baltimore, Md., Oct. 28, 1914; children-Bruce Kempton, Jr., Frederick Thayer, Gordon Otis; Philip Eldredge. Employed with General Vehi- cle Co., Long Island City, N. Y., 1911-16; with
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