Who's who in Massachusetts, 1940-41; biographical history of every person in the commonwealth, V. I, pt 1 1940-1941, Part 15

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Milton, 1937-39; warrant officer, ensign U.S. Nav- al Res., May 1917-May-1919. Clubs: Milton, Ex- change, Bond, Municipal Bond (pres., 1938-39) of Boston. Travel: Europe. All family on both sides from N.E. Unitarian. Republican. Ollice: Preston, Moss & Co., 111 Devonshire St., Boston. Home: 189 Canton Av., Milton. Summer res .: Sil- ver Lake, N.II.


BAKER, George Cornelius, financial campaign di- rector; b. Chicago, Ill., July 24, 1881; s. Cornelius Baker and Julia (Bower) B .; ed. Northwestern Univ. Acad .; Northwestern Univ .; B.H., Spring- field Y.M.C.A. Coll., 1910; m. Hazel L. Reed of Bos- ton, June 14, 1917; children-llersilia, Charles Reed, Russell Howes. Sec. Y.M.C.A., 7 yrs .; see., Chamber of Commerce, Il yrs .; welfare dir., Camp Devens, 1918; lield sec. Federal Ilome Loan Bk. Bd .; financial campaign dir .; men. Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Masons. Author: In- door Games and Socials for Boys; Camp and Out- ing Activities; When Men Were Boys (Asso. Press, N.Y.); Game Scouting (indorsed by Nat. Council, Boy Scouts); poems in Christmas Lyrics of 1936, 1937 Yearbook of Contemp. Poetry, 1937 Crown Anthology of Verse; N.Y. World's Fair Anthology, 1938; The Call of Nature, The Bird Ilunter, ete. Travel: U.S., Can. Congregationalist. Republi- can. Office: Pierce & Hedrick, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City. Home: 20 Upland Rd., Attleboro. Summer res .: Harwich Port, Cape Cod.


BAKER, George Pierce, asso. professor of transpor- tation; b. Cambridge, Nov. 1, 1903; s. George Pierce Baker and Christina (llopkinson) B .; ed. Browne & Nichols Sch .; Cambridge Latin sch .; A.B., Har- vard, 1925, A.M., 1930, Ph. D., 1934; m. Ruth Parker Bremer of Boston, Sept. 4, 1926; children-George P., 3rd., Sarah Bremer, Ruth. With Seudder, Stevens & Clark, investment counsel, 1925-27; dir. publicity, Harvard Athletic Assn., 1927-28; instr. economics, tutor in div. of hist., govt. and eco- nomles, Ilarvard, 1928-36; asst. prof., transporta- tion, 1936 -; mem. Newcomen Soc. of Eng., Inst. Aeronaut. Sci., Am. Econ. Assn., Ry. & Locomotive Soc., Bus. Hist. Soc., Cambridge Hist. Soc. Clubs: Harvard (Boston, N.Y.), Country (Brookline), N.E. Trallic, N.E. Railroad, Foreign Commerce (Boston). Author: The Formation of the New England Railroad Systems, 1937. Travel: West- ern Europe, all U.S. and Can., Cent. Am., W.I., North coast of So. Am. Independent in politics. Olliee: Soldiers Field Sta., Boston. llome: 10 Coolidge Hill Rd., Cambridge. Summer res .: Blue Ilill, Me.


BAKER, Hamilton Wallace, business executive; b. Media, Pa., Mar. 12, 1888; s. Jesse Matlack Baker and Courtenay Hamilton (Wallace) B .; ed. Media (Pa.) pub. schs .; Phillips Exeter Acad., 1902-05; E.M., Colo. Sch. of Mines, 1911; m. Margaret Alder- son of Denver, Colo., Apr. 1916; 1 dau .- Margaret Elizabeth (Mrs. Dexter Bullard); m. (2nd) Char- lotte Stockwell of Boston, June 14, 1927. Fore- man, engr., supt. and mgr. of mines in western mining states, 1911-19; cons, mining engr., 1920- 24; with investment banking firm, Boston, 1925- 31; pres., dir. and tr. Am. Locker Co., Inc., mifr. and renler steel parcel checking lockers to trans- portation industry, 1931 -; pres. and dir. Am. Locker Co. of West Va .; dir. Callahan Mining Co .; mem. S.A.R., Kappa Sigma, (mem. bd. govs.). Clubs: University (Boston, Chicago), Dedham Polo and Country. Travel: Japan, P.I. Republican. Office: 113 Lincoln St., Boston. Home: 56 Spooner Rd., Chestnut Ilill.


BAKER, Henry, physician; D. Boston, May 10, 1898; s. Jacob K. Baker and Rose (Weiss) B .; ed. Bos- ton Eng. high sch .; S.B., Harvard, 1917; Harvard Grad. Sch .; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1922; unmar- ried. Asst. prof. med., Tufts Coll. Med. Sch .; mem. visiting staff, Boston City, Beth Israel, Jew- ish Mem. and Evangeline Booth Hosps .; men. Med. Enlisted R.C. during World War; mein. A.M.A., Mass., (mem. council, 1934-37) and Greater Boston Med. Soes., N.E. Heart Assn., Knights of Pythias, B'nai B'rith. Jewish. Republican. Of- fice: 483 Beacon St., Boston. Ilome: 4 Greenway Ct., Brookline.


BAKER, Herbert Allison, lawyer; b. Boston, Mar. 7, 1890; s. Ilerbert Leslie Baker (mem. Mass, sen.) and Mary Alice (Ilandy) B .; ed. Roxbury Lalin sch .; A.B., Ilarvard, 1912; L.L.B., Harvard Law Sch., 1911; m. Ruth Cumming Anderson of New- ton, June 22, 1916; 1 son-Herbert Allison, Jr. Practiced law, Boston, 1914 -; chielly industrial litigation, representing employers and employer assns., 1916-25; engaged chiefly in patent litiga- tion, with Wright, Brown, Quiinby & May, 1926 -; adm. to bar of Fed. Cts., Mass., 1st, 4th, 6th, Circuit Cts. Appeals, Ct. Custom & Patent Appeals; selectman, Norwood, 1930-33 (climn., 1933) ; served in U.S.A., Oct. 17, 1917-Dec. 21, 1918; discharged 2nd Lt .; mem. Am., Boston Bar Assns., Am. Patent Law Assn. Clubs: Boston City, Rep. Desc. Ed- ward F. Handy, mem. Mass. Senate. Congrega- tionalist. Republican. Ollice: 53 State St., Bos- ton. Ilome: 25 Beacon St., Norwood. Summer res .: East Sandwich.


BAKER, Hugh Potter, college president; b. St. Croix Falls, Wis., Jan. 20, 1878; s. Maj. Joseph Stanard Baker and Alice (Potter) B .; ed. Macalester Coll., St. Paul, Minn., 1894-95; B.S., Mich. State Coll., 1901; M.F .. Yale Univ., 1904; D. Oec., Univ. of Munich, 1910; LL.D., Syracuse Univ., 1933; m. Fleta l'addock, Dec. 27, 1904, (d.); children-Mrs. Carolyn Baker Wright, Stephen Paddock (d.). Clarence Potter; m. (2d), Richarda Sahla, Nov. 27, 1929. For 10 yrs, with the U.S. Forest Service, examining pub. lands for forest reserves in Cen- tral Ida., W.yo., Neb., N.M., Wash., and Ore .; forest asst. and collaborator, U. S. Div. and Bur. of For- estry and Forest service, 1901-06; asst. and asso. prof. forestry, Iowa State Coll., 1904-07; prof. forestry, Pa. State Coll., 1907-12; dean and prof. of silviculture, New York State Coll. Forestry at Syracuse Univ., 1912-20; exec. sec., Am. Paper and Pulp Assu., New York City, 1920-28; mgr. trade assn. dept., Chamber of Commerce of U.S., 1928-30; dean N.Y. State Coll. of Forestry at Syracuse Univ., 1930-1933; pres. Mass. State Coll. Amherst, 1933 -; mem. 2d R.O.T.C., Ft. Sheridan, Ill., Aug .- Nov. 1917; with 46th Inf. 'and mem. Gen. Staff; maj. O.R.C .; Fellow Royal Geog. Soc. (London) ; mem. Soc. Am. Foresters, S.A.R., Loyal Legion, Phi Delta theta, Sigma Xi. Clubs: Cosmos ( Washington, D.C.), City, University, (Boston ). Dese. Captain Remember Baker, one of Green Mountain Boys, K. in Am. Revolution: Ozi Baker, in Am. Rev. and ollicer under Gen. Wayne; L. A. Baker, ollicer in War of 1812. Address: Mass. State Coll., Amherst.


BAKER, J. Arthur, lawyer, justice; b. Buzzards Bay, June 25, 1879; s. Joshua II. Baker and Alice F. (Wing) B .; ed. Bourne high sch .; Worcester Acad .; LL .. B. (cum laude), C.L.A., Boston Univ., 1901; m. llarriet Williams of Houston, Tex., June 21, 1905. Reporter, Boston Post; in law ollice, John Lowell and late Judge James A. Lowell; mem. Gov.'s Exec. Council, 1933-35; justice, Superior Ct., Boston, Nov. 13, 1935 -; mem., Am., Mass. and Berkshire Bar Assus., Law Soc. Mass., Bench & Bar Soc. Desc. Howes and Baker families, Den- nis; Wing and Hinckley families, Sandwich. Protestant. Office: Lobby, Superior Court, Bos-


ton. Home: 252 South St., Pittsfield. Summer


res. : Buzzards Bay.


BAKER, John Calhoun, asso. director of research; D. Everett, Pa., Oct. 21, 1895; s. Francis Baker and Jennie (Calhoun) B .; ed. Everett (Pa.) high sch .; A.B., Juniata Coll., 1917; M.B.A., Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1923; m. Elizabeth Evans of Es- sex Fells, N.J., July 29, 1933; children-Elizabeth Calhoun, Eleanor Evans. Mem. research staff of Bur. Bus. Research, Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1923-24; in bus., 1924-26; instr. for. trade, Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adın., 1926-28, asst. dean, 1928-36, Sec. Two Hundred Fifty Assos., 1934-, instr., finance, 1931-36, asso. dir. of research, 1936 --; v.p. Avon Home; dir. Boston Sch. Occupational Ther- apy; tr. Juniata Coll. Club: Harvard (Boston). Author: Executive Salaries and Bonus Plans; mag. articles. (Co-author: On Going Into Business; Introduction to Corporate Finance. Protestant. Republican. Office: Harvard Graduate School of


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Business Administration, Soldiers Field, Boston. Home: Winter St., South Lincoln.


BAKER, Joshua Arthur, judge; b. Buzzards Bay, June 25, 1879; s. Joshua Howes Baker and Alice (Wing) B .; ed. Worcester Acad., 1898; Ph. B., Bos- ton Unlv., 1902; LL.B., Boston Univ. Seh. of Law, 1901; m. Harriet Williams Baker, M.1)., of Hous- ton, Tex., June 22, 1905. Began practice in Bos- ton, 1904; master in chancery for Mass., notary public; mem. Bd. of Heaith, City of Pittsfield; now judge Superlor Court of Mass .; mem. Masons. Clubs: Park, Bd. of Trade. Methodist. Republi- can. Office: Superior Court


Lobby, Boston. Home: 252 South St., Pittsfield.


BAKER, Katherine Livingstone, school executive; b. Waitham; d. William Maurice Baker and Mary Emma (Clark) B .; ed. Somerville high sch .; Lan- caster (N.II.) Acad .; dipioma State Teachers Coli., Framingham, 1919; student, Columbia; B.S., Bos- ton Univ. Teacher in pub. schs., Medford; now supervisor home economies, Medford Sch. Dept .; mem. Pres. Iloover's White House Conf. on Child Health, 1930, on Home Building, 1932; mem. bd. dirs., Family Information Center, Jordan Marsh Co .; served as Councillor Mass. Home Economies Assn .; teacher Boston Univ., summer 1938, on Consumer Edn., 1939; dir. evening vocational work for women, Medford; supervisor, sch. cafeterias, Medford; career sinee graduation from FramIng- ham spent in developing home economics work in Medford; studying for degree of Ed.M., Boston Univ .; mem. Edn. Assn., Am., N.E. (past pres.) and Mass. (pres.) Home Economics Assns., N.IS.A. . (life mem .; reg, dir. Dept. Home Economics), Med- ford Hist. Soc., League Women Voters, Sigma Kappa. Author: prof. articles. Protestant. Home: 72 Lincoin Rd., Medford. Summer res .: 68 Ocean- side Dr., Egypt.


BAKER, Lorenzo Dow, Jr., trustee; b. Weilfleet, Sept. 5, 1863; s. Lorenzo Dow Baker and Marth Matilda (Hopkins) B .; ed. Wellfleet high sch .; m. Ethel Cooke of West Chester, Pa., Dec. 5, 1906; children-Martha Hopkins (Mrs. Reginald Forster MeKeen), Lorenzo Dow, Thayer (d.). U.S. con- sular agent at Port Morant, Jamaica, W.I., 1884- 1901; aeting vice-consui for Sweden and Norway, Port Morant and Morant Bay, Jamaica, 1889-94; mem. Mass. Ho. of Rep., 1907 (com. Harbors and Public Lands); assisted father in organizing Bos- ton Fruit Co. (merged into United Fruit Co., 1900); now trustee Capt. L. D. Baker Estate, own- ers and operators of banana and cocoanut prop- erties in Jamaica, and Cape Cod real estate; dir. Pilgrim Memorial Assn .; mem. Am. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci., Masons. Ciub: Wellfleet Golf and Yacht. Methodist. Republican. Office: 25 Hunt- ington Av., Boston. Ilome: "Melbourne", Weli- fleet.


BAKER, Martha Atwood, singer; b. Cape Cod; d. Simeon Atwood (sea captain) and Martha Ann (Burpee) A .; ed. Dorchester high seh .; Laseli Sem .; m. George R. Baker, June 9, 1938; 1 step- son-Lorenzo Emison. Soloist with leading sym- phony orchestras and oratorio socs .; gave recit- als; opened Times Sq. NBC radio theatre, step- ping directly from Metrop. opera stage to radio (first to do so); European opera, 1921-26, with Metrop. Opera, 1926-30; first Am. to make debut in premiere at the Metrop .; appeared before Fed. Women's Club, Boston, March 23, 1939; did hosp. eamp, and Liberty Loan singing during World War; soloist at A.E.F. Conv., Paris, 1927, and other such convs .; unveiled 1st A.E.F. Dos- ter, N.Y. City; mem. Nat. Composers & Condue- tors Soc. (dir.), Am. Criterion Soc. (chmin. mem - bership), Cape Cod Inst. of Music, Inc. (pres, and founder, chmn. bd. dirs.), O.E.S. (life, chap. 145), Women's Auxiliary A.E.F. (hon.), Eng. Speaking Union. Clubs: Musicians of N.Y. (bd. govs.), Dobbs Ferry Woman's (hon. mem.), Verdl, Me- Dowell, Hyannis Woman's, Nautlius (Province- town), N.E. Women's (Nat. and N.Y. chaps.). Travel: Europe, 5 yrs. Protestant. Office: East Brewster. Home: 175 Riverside Dr., N.Y. City. Summer res .: "Tawasentia", Old Crosby Estate, East Brewster.


BAKER, Ray Stannard, ( "David Grayson"), author; b. Lansing, Mich., Apr. 17, 1870; s. Maj. Joseph Stannard Baker and Allce (Potter) B ; ed. S.B., Mich. State Coll., 1889, LL.D., 1917; partial iaw course, studies in lit., Unlv. Mich .; Litt 1)., Ani- herst Coil., 1925; Duke Univ., 1938; m. Jessie l. Beai Jan. 2, 1896; children-Mrs. Allce Hyde, James Stannard, Roger Denio, Mrs. Rachel Me- Avity. Reporter, sub-ed., Chicago Record, 1892- 97; mng. ed., McClure's Syndicate, 1897-98; asso. ed., McCiure's Mag., 1899-1905; one of eds., Am. Mag., 1906-15; wrote many books, 1919 -; sph. commr., Dept. State, Gt. Brit., Fr., and It., 1918; dir. Press Bur. Am. Commn. to Negotlate Peace, Paris, 1919; dem. pres. elector, Mass., 1928; tr. Jones Llb., Amherst; mem. Nat. Inst. Arts & Letters, Am. Ilist. Assn., Phi Beta Kappa. Ciub: Century (N.Y.). Author: numerous books, incl .: Seen in Germany, 1901; Following the Color Line, 1908; The Spiritual Unrest, 1910; What Wilson did at Paris, 1919; The New Industrial Unrest, 1920; Woodrow Wilson and Worid Settlement, a History of the Peace Conference (3 vols.), 1922; under pseudonym of "David Grayson": Adventures in Contentment, 1907; Adventures In Friendship, 1910; The Friendly Road, 1913; Hempfleid, 1915; Great Possesslons, 1917; Adventures in Under- standing, 1925; Adventures in Solitude, 1931; A Countryman's Year, 1936; (with J. B. Baker) An American Pioneer in Seience (life of Wiillam James Beal), 1925; edited (with Prof. W. E. Dodd): The Publie Papers of Woodrow Wilson (6 vols.), 1925-26; Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (authorIzed biography), 1st 2 vois., 1927, 2nd 2 vols., 1931, 5th vol., 1935, 6th vol., 1937. 7th and 8th (concluding) vols., 1939. Ancestors on both sides were early Mass. settlers. Inde- pendent. Home: Amherst.


BAKER, Roland Henry, mechanical engineer; b. West Newton, May 1, 1897; s. Frederick Warren Kidder Baker and Ada (Foss) B .; ed. Colby Acad., New London, N.H .; Wentworth Inst., Bos- ton. Engr., Internat. Paper Co., 1914-15; B. F. Sturtevant Co., 1916-17; chief operating engr. U.S. Shipping Bd., 1919-21; pres. and treas. R. II Baker Co., engrs. and contractors, 1921 -; machin- ist's mate, second elass, later It., j.g., U.S.N., attached to U.S.S. Mt. Vernon 1917-19; It. comdr. U.S.N. Res., awarded U.S. Navy citation; holds pvt. airplane pilot's license, first class engr's li- cense (Mass.), license as chief engr. marine steam vessels of unlimited tonnage (U.S. Dept. Com- merce); mem, Am. Soc. Naval Architects & Ma- rine Engrs., Am. Soc. M.E., Am. Soc. Heating and Ventilating Engrs., Am. Soc. Naval Engrs., Mil. Order World War, Masons (32º), Shrine. Clubs: Engineers, Army and Navy (Boston). Office: 185 Devonshire St., Boston. Residenee: Hotel Com- mander, Cambridge. Summer res .: Pleasant Lake, New London, N.H.


BAKER, William Brooks, trustee, manager of real estate; b. Danvers, Jan. 10, 1879; s. George Ward Baker and Elizabeth (Craig) B .; ed. Danvers high sch .; A.B., Amherst Coll., 1901; LL.B., Northeast - ern Univ. Seh. Law, 1909; m. Mabel Keniston of Edgartown, Oet. 11, 1910; 1 son-William Brooks, Jr. With Bangs & Welis, later Williams & Bangs, Boston, 1903-34; treas. and dir., Minot, Williams & Bangs, Inc., mgrs. of property, 1935 -; mem. Bd. Aldermen, Newton, 1924-28; Mass. lo. of Rep., 4th Middlesex Dist., 1929-40; Ways & Means Com., 1929 -; dir. West Newton Coop. Bk .; ch. and mem. exec. eom., Slinmons Coll .; mem. corp., Suffolk Sav. Bk .; tr., Municipal Real Estate 'Tr., Boston Ground Rent Tr., Western Real Estate Trs., Bromfield Bidg. Tr., Washington Bldg. Tr., Old South Bldg. Assn. Pemberton Bldg. Tr., Winthrop Bldg Tr. Clubs: Brae Burn Country (West Newton), Union (Boston). Unitarian. Re- publican. Office: 18 Tremont St., Boston. Home: 399 Waltham St., West Newton.


. BAKETEL, Roy Vincent, physician; b. Fayette City, Pa., Jan. 22, 1877; s. Oliver Sherman Baketel and Rosle Locada (Mack) B .; ed. Manchester (N.H.) high sch .; M.D., Dartmouth Med. Seh., 1899; in. Helen Tenney of Methuen, Mass., Apr. 6, 1904; children-Sherman T., John V., George S. Prac-


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ticed medieine, State llosp., Taunton, Mass., 1899- 1903; Manchester, N.H., 1903-05; Methuen, Mass., 1905 -; sch. physician, Methuen, 1907-37; pres. staff, Lawrence Gen. Hosp .; dlr. Lawrence Y.M.C.A., Atlantic Coop. Bank, Methuen Nat. Bank; Physician, Selective Bd., Mass., 2 yrs., Great War; pres. bd. dirs., Henry C. Nevins Home for Aged and Ineurable; mem. Am. Med. Assn., Mass. Med. Soc. Clubs: Lawrence Med., Methuen, Essex Rep. Travel: U.S., Can., West Indies, So. Am. Congregationalist. Republiean. Office: 7 Hamp- shire St .; Methuen, Ilome: 302 Broadway, Me- thuen.


BALCH, Emily Greene, economist (retired); b. Jamaica Plain, Jan. 8, 1867; d. Francis Vergnies Balch and Ellen M. (Noyes) B .; ed. Miss Ireland's Sch., Boston; A.B., Bryn Mawr, 1889; studied polit. economy, Paris, 1890-91, Univ. Chicago, 1895, Ber- lin, 1895-96; sem. work with Profs. Schmoller and Wagner; unmarried. At Denison House (coll. settlement), Boston, Its first year, 1892-93; mem. mun. bd. tr. for children, 1897-98; asst. in cconom- ics, Wellesley Coll., 1896-97, instr., 1897-1903, asso. prof., 1903-13, prof. polit, economy and polit. and social sei., 1913-18; on ed. staff, The Nation, N. Y., 1918-19; internat. sec., Women's Internat. League for Pence and Freedom, Geneva, Switz., 1919-22, mem. exee. com., U.S. Sect., 1934-39, now Hon. Internat. Pres .; mem. Mass. State Commn. Indus- trial Edn., 1908-09, Immigration, 1913-14; City Planning Bd., Boston, 1914-17; del. Internat. Con- gress of Women, The Hague, and from that Con- gress to Seand. and Rus. govts., 1915. Author: Public Assistance of the Poor in France, 1893; Our Slavie Fellow-Citizens, 1910; Women at The Hague (joint author), 1915; Approaches to the Great Settlement, 1918; Occupied Haiti (joint author and ed.), 1927. Travel: U.S., Europe, No. Africa. Quaker. Independent. Home: 17 Roa- noke Rd. Wellesley.


BALCH, Francis Noyes, lawyer; b. Jamaica Plain, Nov. 23, 1873; s. Francis Vergnies Balch and El- len Maria (Noyes) B .: Ed. Roxbury Latin sch., 1892; A.B., Harvard, 1896, A.M. (biology), 1897; LL.B., Harvard Law Sch., 1900; research at various blol. marine labs, and U.S. Bur. of Fisheries, 1895- 1900; in. Pauline Katherine Bulson of Jamaica Plain, June 22, 1904; children-Katherine Noyes (B.) Shureliff, Francls Vergnles, Robert Stone. Practiced law 1900-30, 1936-38; partner, Hunne- man & Balch, 1904-14; Ellls & Balch, 1915-29; lecturer, Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1930; asso. prof., Legal Aspects Bus., 1931-35; mem. va- rious Harvard Visiting Coms. 18 years; conducted and pub. some research; organized, taught, lee- tured on biology; on human pre-history, on civic affairs, on law; active in mun. and legal affairs, 25 yrs .; Pres., Jamaica Plain Citizens- Assn., United Improvement Assn., represented many civic orgns .; mem. Boston Finance Conimn., 1908- 12, Constl. Conv., 1916-17, legislature, 1918; dir., mem. Ex. Com., Paul Revere Trust Co., through- out existence; trustee Eliot School; dld under- cover diplomatle work for Ambassador Page, Lon- don, 1915, civilian work Navy, 1917-18, Draft Bd. and Liberty Loan work during World War; fel- low Am. Acad. Arts & Sci .; mem. Am. Soc. of Naturalists; legal socs. (chmn. Sect. on Probate Law, A.M.A.), Clubs: Nuttall Ornithological, Bos- ton Malacological (pres. and co-founder). Au- thore sclentifle papers, articles on current pub. affairs, legal articles. Travel: Europe (Inel. Norway ), Can., W.I. Unitarian. Independent, Progressive Republican. Oflice: 60 State St., Bos- to11. Home: 130 Prince St., Jamaica Plain.


BALCHI, Franklin G., Jr., surgeon; b. Boston, May 3, 1896; s. Franklin G. Balch and Lucy R. (Bow- ditch) B .; cd. Country Day Sch. for Boys of Bos- ton; Phillips Andover Acad .; A.B., Harvard, 1918; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1923; m. India Hunt of Snowville, Va., Sept. 17, 1926; children-Franklin G., III, Virginia. Interne, Mass. Gen. Hosp., 1923- 25; fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., 1925-26; gen. surg. practice, Boston and vicinity, 1926 -; asst. in surgery, Harvard Med. Sch .; asst. surg., Mass. Gen. Hosp .; surg., Faulkner Ilosp .; mem. Mass. Nat. Guard, 1916; 2nd and Ist lt. 151st F.A.,


IJ.S.A .; mem. Amer. Med. Ass., Mass. Med. Soc., A.C.S. Club: Harvard, Author: various short medical articles. Unitarian.


Republican. Of- flee: 330 Dartmouth St., Boston. Home: 333 Brookline St., Newton Centre.


BALCHI, Franklin Greene, surgeon; b. Jamaica Plain, Apr. 26, 1864; s. Joseph W. Balch and Agnes 1. (Greene) B .; A.B. Harvard, 1888, A.M., 1892; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1892; m. Lucy R. Bow- ditch of Jamaica Plain, Nov. 7, 1894; children- Franklin G., Charles B., Lucy B. (Mrs. Augustus Lowell Putnam) Henry G., Cornelia (Mrs. Leonard Wheeler, Jr.), Katharine (Mrs. Arthur D. Bald- win). Practiced surgery, Boston, 1892 -; hon. surg., Mass. Gen. Hosp .; cons. surgeon, Faulkner and Lawrence Mem. Ilosps .; lt. col. M.C., U.S.A., World War, overseas service, Base Hosp. 55 at Toul; fellow Am. Surg. Assn., A.A.A.S., A.C.S .; mem. A.A.A., Mass. Med. Soc., N.E. and Surg. Soes. Clubs: Harvard (Boston, N.Y.) Tavern (Boston), Country (Brookline). Desc. John Balch, Beverly, 1638. Unitarian. Republican. Office: 330 Dart- mouth St., Boston. Ilome: 109 Moss Ilili Rd., Jamaica Plain.


' BALCHI, John HI., Jr., retail fuel merchant; b. New- buryport, Feb. 4, 1866; s. John H. Balch and Lydia J. S. (Collin) B .; ed. Newburyport pub. sehs., 1872-81; Comer's Commercial Coll., Boston, 1882- 83; m. Blanche LeLeureh; children-Leland, Mar- jorie K. Employed as clk., 1881-91; meht. as John H. Baleh, Jr., retail coal and wood, Newburyport, continuously 1891 -; pres. First and Ocean Nat. Bk., tr. Five Cents Savs. Bk .; dir. Towle Mig. Co .; pres. Council, City of Newburyport, 1899, alderman, 1900; mem. Masons, I.O.0.1. Rotary, Old Newbury Golf (Newburyport). Clubs: Desc. John Balch, Beverly 1623; Tristram Coflin, New- bury 1642. Congregatinallst. Republican. Of- flee: 51 Water St., Newburyport. Home: 181 Iligh St., Newburyport.


HALCHI, Marston Stevens, professor, writer, lec- turer, dramatic director; b. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 21, 1901; s. Ernest Alanson Balch and Bertha (Stev- ens) B .; ed. Cent. high sch., Kalamazoo, Mich .; A.B., Kalamazoo (Mich.) Coll., 1923; A.M., Har- vard, 1925, Ph.1)., 1931; independent research in dramatle hist., Oxford, Cambridge, London, Paris; mı. Germaine Cornier of Paris and Menton Fr., Sept. 6, 1927; 1 dau., Gabrielle. Teacher, Browne & Nichols Sch., Cambridge, 1928; instr. Eng., Wil- liams Coll., 1925-27; instr. Eng., tutor modern langs., Ilarvard, 1928-33; instr., Eng., Phillips Exeter Acad., 1933-34; Asst. prof., Tufts Coil., 1934-37, prof. dramatic lit., Fletcher Prof. Rhet- orie and Debate, 1937 -; also Dir. Dramatics; lec- turer on drama, biography, etc .; mem. English Assu. (London): Modern Lang. Assu., Am. Assn. Univ. Profs. Author: You and College, 1936; co- cditor The College Omnibus, 1936; contrib. biog. sketches to Dictionary of American Biography; co-author and co-editor many articles on drama, theatre, biography, etc .; ed. Modern Short Biog- raphies, 1935. Travel: Eng., Fr. etc. extensive. Desc. (10th Gen.) John Balch, founder N.E. br., one of founders of Salem, Beverly. Anglican. Liberal. Office: Tufts College, Medford. Home: 14 Atkins Pl., Medford.


BALCOM, Rubric Garfield, utilities official; b. Law- rencetown, N.S., Can., Oct. 6, 1879; s. Steven Ed- ward Baleom and Teresa (Norwood) B .; came to U.S., 1899, naturalized cltizen, 1917; ed. grad., Bryant & Stratton Bus. Coli., 1900; in. Grace Helena Sabean of New Tusket, N.S., Oct. 21, 1903; children-Grace Marion, Teresa Louise, Paul Rub- ric, Philip David, John Murray. Teacher, 1897- 99; in employ Herman Behr & Co., surface abra- sives, 1900-10, branch mgr., Boston office, 1910-29; organized Abrasive Products, Inc., South Brain- tree, 1929, pres. and gen. ingr. 1931 -; mem. Quincy Y.M.C.A. (dir.), Masons, Elks. Club: Norwich (Boston). Episcopalian. Republican. Office:


Pearl St., South Braintree. Ilome: 124 Greenleaf St., Quincy.


HALCOMH, Frank Wippich, educator, trustee, gen- ealogist; b. Salem, June 15, 1902; s. Frank Leslie Balcomb and Elizabeth A. (Wippich) B .; cd. Salem


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class and high schs .; B.B.A., Boston Univ. Coll. Bus. Adm., 1923; Ed.M., Harvard Sch. Edn., 1928; LL.B., Suffolk Law Sch., 1933; LL.M., Portia Law Sch., 1935; spl. student, N.E. Conservatory of Mu- sic; m. Edythe M. Bovett of Pittsfield, Apr. 14, 1932. Teacher in charge of commercial edn. and instrumental music (bands), jr. and sr. high schs., Revere, 1922-31; junlor master, Roxbury Mem. High (girls) 1931-39, Master, 1939 -; Instr., N.E. Band Sch., Tufts Coll., 1936 and 37; ins. broker; genealogist; It., band leader, R.O.T.C., after World War; mem. Oliver Wendell Holmes Soc. Masters of Law, N.IC. Ilist. & Geneal. Soe., Essex Inst., Ma- sons (32°, Past Master, Past High Priest), K.T., Shrine, O.E.S., White Shrine of Jerusalem, Odd Fellows (Past Grand, Past Chlef Patriarch; Grand High Priest, Grand Encampment, I.O.O.F. of Mass.) Club: Salem Willows Yacht (Commodore). Au- thor: hist. and Fraternal addresses, ednl, papers: Henry Balcombe and His Descendants; Alexander Baleombe and his Descendants; John Balcombe and his Descendants. Travel: All U.S., Can. Uni- versalist (licensed preacher). Republican. Of- fiec: Roxbury Memorial High School, Boston. Home: Proctor's Crossing, Peabody.




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