Who's who in Massachusetts, 1940-41; biographical history of every person in the commonwealth, V. I, pt 1 1940-1941, Part 22

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Publication date: 1940
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, BELCHER, Edward Raiph, banker; b. Duxbury, Aug. 4, 1887; s. Edward Wheatcroft Belcher and Mary Frances (Camp) B .; ed. Plymouth high sch .; Amherst, 1904-05; A.B., Harvard, 1909; m. Helen Loring Barnes of Plymouth, 1916; children -- Mar-


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jorle, Elizabeth, Helen, Loring, Hilda, Ruth. Ae- counting, 1909-14; cashier, Plymouth Nat. Bk., 1914-23, pres., 1923 -; treas., Pilgrim Soc. Con- gregationalist. Republican. Office: Plymouth Na- tional Bank, Plymouth. llome: 35 North St., Plymouth.


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BELCHER, Harold Blanchard, treasurer; b. Malden, July 16, 1891 : s. Charles Francis Belcher and Mary Elizabeth ( Whitely) B .; ed. Malden high sch .; B.A., Dartmouth Coll., 1912; M.A., Harvard, 1913; m. Marion Gertrude Wells, July 21, 1914; children -Charles Francis, Priscilla, Louise. Instr. eeon., Dartmouth Coll., 1913-14; treas, and bus. mgr., Foochow, China Mission of Am. Bd. of Commnrs. for Foreign Missions, 1914-20, asst. treas., 1920-31, treas., 1931 -; tr. and treas., Walker Missionary Homes, Inc .; Anatolia Coll .; tr. Jaffna Coll .; mem. Phi Beta Kappa. Club: Boston Congregational. Travel: China, Near East. Congregationalist. Republican. Office: 11 Beacon St., Boston. Home: 73 Lovell Rd., Melrose.


\BELDEN, Clark ; b. Falls Village, Conn., Apr. 4, 1896; s. John Il. Belden and Francis (Clark ) B .; ed. high sch., Hartford, Conn .; Brown Univ., 1911-15, 1916- 17 (asso. ed. Brunonian); Cornell, summer 1914; Northwestern Univ., summers 1926, 1927; m. Alice Bradford Chapman of Norwich, N.Y .; 1 dau .- Con- stance Chapman. Reporter, Hartford Courant, 1914; spl. reporter, Providence Journal, 1916-17; in adv. and publicity dept., Travelers Ins. Co., 1919-23; Aetna Life Ins. Co., 1923-24; Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 1924; mgr. legislative bur., Conn. Chamber of Commerce, 1921-25, asst. sec., 1925-26, aeting see., later sec., 1926-27, exec. v.p., sec., and dir., 1927-29; dir. public relations and employce edn., Nat. Elce. Power Co., 1929-32; exec. sec., N.E. Gas Assn., 1933 -; editor, N.E. Gas News; mem. pub. speaking com., Nat. Elec. Light Assn., 1929-32, employee information com., 1930-32; in charge part of army paper work, F.A. Replace- ment Camp, Le Courneau, France, 1918-19; sec. gen. com., N.E. Adv. Conv., Hartford, 1924; chinn. Forward N.E. Com., N.E. Adv. Clubs, 1924-25; mem. publicity com., Hartford Community Chest, 1921; mem. publicity com., N. E. Conf. at llartford. 1926; dir. Conn. State Fair, 1926-29; mem, finance comm., Mark Twain Memorial Campaign, Hart- ford, 1928; asst, to Grover Whalen, pres. N.Y. Adv. Club, on ceon. recovery program, 1932; dir. of adv., publicity, pub. relations, radio and speakers bur. for Brooklyn, Gibson Relief Campaign, N. Y., 1932; lecturer, div. univ. extension, Mass. Dept. Edn., 1936; mem. S.A.R. (chmn. nat. publicity com., 1927-28), Am. Trade Assn. Executives (chinn. N.E. credentials and membership coms., 1935-38), Boston Trade Assn. Executives (mem. exec. conl., 1937-38, v.p., 1938-), N.ES. Council (mem. market- ing com., 1939, industrial development com., 1937- 38), Am. Acad. Polit. and Social Sei., Beta Theta Pi. Clubs: Hartford Advertising (see., 1921-25, v.p., 1925-26), Authors' League of Am. (N.Y.). Author: Job Hunting and Getting, 1935. Common Stocks and Uneommon Sense, 1939; Co-author: A Sales Development Program, 1938; articles in Collier's, Independent, Elks Mag., Barron's, Fin- ancial Digest, Chemical Age, Motor Life, Printer's Ink, Advertising and Selling, Public Opinion Quarterly, Public Relations, ete. Ofliee: 11 Mt. Vernon St., Boston. Ilome: 44 Merrill Rd., Water- town.


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BELDING, Anson Wood, editor; b. Troy, N.Y., June 2, 1881; s. Rufus Elisha Belding and Martha Ann (Seymour) B .; ed. Syracuse Univ., 1900-1901; A.B., Harvard, 1901; m. Mary Allison Miller of Roch- ester, N.Y., Jan. 1, 1908; children-llarwood Sey- mour, Robert Edward, John Miller, Mary Alison. Teacher, llazen Sch., Morristown, N.J., 1904; prin., high sehs., Simsbury (Conn.), 1905-09, Claremont (N.H.), 1909-12; ed. and pub., Claremont Eagle (weekly), 1912-18; founder and pub., Claremont Daily Eagle, 1914-18; with personnel and adver- tising depts., William Filene's Sons Co., Boston, 1918-19; ehlef ed. writer, Boston Traveler, 1919- 30; asso. ed., Jour. of Edn., 1925-33, editor-in-chief 1933 -; editor Concord Journal, 1936-37; dir. Watertown Coop. BR .; instr. current hist., Mass. Univ. Extension, 1932 -; mem. Phi Beta Kappa.


Author: The Truth About New England, 1930. Congregationalist. Office: 6 Park St., Boston. Home: 277 School St., Watertown.


BELDING, David Lawrence, physician, pathologist, bacteriologist; b. Dover Plains, N. Y., July 24, 1884; 8. Charles Walter Belding and Ellinor ( Frost) B .; ed. Riverview Mil. Acad., Poughkeepsie, N.Y .; A.B., Williams . Coll .. 1905; A.M., Harvard, 1915; M.D., Boston Univ. Sch. Med., 1913, Harvard Med. Sch., 1914; m. Isabel Wheeler of Toledo, O., Aug. 18, 1915; children-Helen Wheeler, Ellinor Frost, Elizabeth Suzanne. Biologist, Div. of Fish & Game, Mass. Dept. of Conservation, 1905-23; cons. biologist, 1923 -; asso., Biol. Bd. of Canada, 1931- 31; mem. Quebce Salmon Commn., 1937 -; pathol- ogist, Mass. Mem. llosps., Boston, 1915-17, bac- teriologist, 1923-26, dir. of labs., 1926 -; research asso., Evans Mem. Hosp., 1919 -; Instr. preventive med., Boston Univ. Sch. Med., 1915-18, asst. prof. bacteriology, 1921-23, asso. prof., 1923-26, prof. pathology and bacteriology, 1926-36, prof. baete- riology and exptl. pathology, 1936 -; spl. leeturer, Dept. Biology & Pub. Health, M.I.T., 1926 -; mem. Mingham sch. com., 1921-36; served lieut. to eapt., M.C., U.S.A., 1917-19, Rockefeller Inst., Camp Wheeler Base Hosp., Camp Dix Rase losp., Mesves llosp. Center, asst. lab. dir .; mem. Soe. Am. Bac- teriologists, Soc. Exptl. Pathologists, Assn. Path- ologists & Bacteriologists, A.M.A., Mass. Med. Soe., Am. Fisheries Soc., Masonic Order. Club: Univer- sity (Boston). Author: Text Book of Medical Bacteriology; Manual of Iluman Parasitology; Manual of Physiologie Pathology; various sei, pa- pers in fields of bacteriology, serology, pub. health, and biology of fishes. Episcopalian. Re- publican. Office: 80 East Concord St., Boston. llome: 215 Main St., Hingham.


BELDING, Everett Elijah, newspaper writer; b. Springfield, Feb. 15, 1879; s. Elijah Belding and Ilarriet ES. (Overheiser) B .; ed. Phillips Andover Acad .; m. Julia Brown Taft, April 26, 1919; ] dau. -Barbera Julia. Shoe wholesaler; later news- paper writer; Rep. Mass. Gen. Ct., 1913-144; mem. Springfield city Govt., 1909-11. Desc. early set- tlers who founded Wethersfield, Conn., and North- field. Congregationalist. Republican. Office: 397 Main St., Greenfield. Home: 73 Beacon St., Green- field.


BELISLE, Hector Louis, dueator; D. Worcester, Oet. 8, 1873; s. Alexander Belisle and Marie (Dorval) B .; ed. Worcester Class. high sch .; A.B., Harvard, 1896; m. Grace Mildred Potter of Boston, June 28, 1905; children-Mrs. Anna Belisle Daley, Eugene I., Mrs. Elisabeth Belisle Wiedeman, Beatrice. Teacher, high sch., Lawrence, 1896-1900; prin., John R. Rollins gram. sch., 1900-13; supervisor, evening schs., 1912-13; mem. Bd. Teachers' Exam- iners, 1905-13; supt. schs., Fall River, 1913 -; see. Mass. Spl. Commn. on Higher Edn., 1922-21; tr. Bradford Durfee Textile Sch .; mem. N.ES. Assn. Sch. Supts. (past pres.), K.C., Union St. Jean Baptiste, Little Theatre of Fall River. Clubs: Mass. Sehoolmasters' (past pres.), Calumet. Travel: Fr., 1908-09 (studied schs.). Author: Who is the Good Teacher ?; mag. articles on edn. Catho- lie. Independent Democrat. Ofliee: 404 Anawan St., Fall River. Home: 422 June St., Fall River. Summer res .: Warren Av., Plymouth.


BELKNAP, Henry Wyckoff, business man (retired) ; b. N. Y. City May 18, 1860; s. Thomas Belknap and Catherine Heyer (Wyckoff) B .; ed. Anthon gram. sch., N.Y .; St. Paul's Sch,, Concord, N.IL .; unmar- ried. Commercial career; dept. head, Tiffany Studios. N.Y., 1895-1902; Mem. N.Y. Ilist. Soc., Essex Inst. (curator, scc.), Am. Mus. Nat. Ilist., Conn. Hist. Soc. Author: genealogies; Artists & Craftsmen of Essex County, Mass .; Trades & Tradesmen of Essex County, Mass. Episcopalian. Republican. Home: 8 Church St., Salem.


BELL, Conrad, physician; b. Newton, Aug. 21, 1877; 8. Albert D. S. Bell.and Susan Laura (Stoughton) B .; ed., A.B., Harvard, 1900; M.D., Harvard Med. Sch., 1904; in. Elizabeth P. Dudley of Cambridge, Sept. 20, 1905 '(d.); children-Dudley, Conrad, Jr .; in. (2d) Florence Emily Ross of Rutland, Vt., Apr. 29, 1911; children-Robert, Charlotte Elizabeth,


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Stoughton (2d). Engaged In gen. practice of medicine at Waltham since 1905; consulting sur- goon, Waltham Hosp .; consulting surgeon to Met. State Hosp., Walter E. Fernald State Sch .; sur- geon Middlesex and Boston St. Ry .; instr. and examiner Am. Red Cross First Aid Service; mem. managing bd. Hamblin S. Hovey Instit., Waltham Savings Bank; past chin. Waltham Bd. of Health; past mem. Waltham Recreation Bd .; vice chmn. Waltham Sch. Bd .; mem. Waltham High School Athletic Assn .; dir. Waltham Chamber of Com- merce; tr. Waltham Hosp .; Fellow Am. Coll. of Surgeons; mem. Am. Med. Assn., Mass. Med. Soc., Merit badge councillor Sachem Council of Boy Scouts of America; mem. Advisory Com. of Wal- tham Girl Scouts; Mason. Club: Kiwanis of Wal- tham (past pres.). Episcopallan ( vestryman ).


Republican. Office: 820 Main St., Waltham. Ilome: 47 Greenwood Lane, Waltham.


BELL, Donald Harris, manufacturer ; b. Beverly, Apr. 28, 1896; s. Ernest Friend Bell and Minnle Frances (Hart) B .; ed. B.S., Harvard Univ., 1919; student Harvard Univ. Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1919-20; m. Miriam Woodard of Boseman, Mont., Mar. 11, 1930; children-Judith Endicott, David Hart, Richard Woodard. Employed as asst. prod. mgr., J. J. Grovers' Sons, shoe mfrs., Lynn, 1920-22; asso. with Ernest F. and Gordon Il. Bell in firm D. H. and G. II. Bell, mfrs. of men's and boys' low priced work and dress shoes, Beverly, 1922-, salesmgr. 1922 -; served as ensign, U.S.N., 1917-18, on U.S.S. Mt. Vernon and U.S.S. Iowa; alderman, City of Beverly, 1922-24; mem. Masons. Episcopalian. Republican. Office: 221 Rantoul St., Beverly. Ilome: Wenham.


BELL, Euoch Frye, editor; b. No. Hadley, May 26, 1874; s. James Madison Bell and Susan Foster (Frye) B .; ed. Phillips Exeter Acad .; A.B., Yale, 1898; S.T.B., Andover Theol. Sem., 1906; grad. Au- burn Theol. Sem., 1907; D.D., Middlebury Coll., 1925; m. Anna E. Bowman of New Haven, Conn., Sept. 11, 1901; 1 son-John Frye. Ordained Cong. minister, 1902; missionary to Japan under A.B.C.F.M., 1902-05; asst. foreign sec., 1906-10; asso. foreign sec., 1910-1921; editorial sec., 1921; editor, Missionary Herald, 1921 -; tr. Anatolia Coll., Thessalonica, Greece; Internat. Coll., Bei- rut, Syria; Clifton Springs Sanitarium and Clinic. Travel: Japan, China, Philippines, Ceylon, Mex- Ico. Author: pamphlets on above lands. Protes- tant. Republican. Office: 14 Beacon St., Boston. Ilome: 100 Longwood Av., Brookline.


BELL, Kenneth Elden, chemist and director of re- search; b. Malden, Oct. 21, 1894; s. Alfred M. Bell and Mertle A. (Rice) B .; ed. Malden high sch .; S.B., M.I.T., 1917; m. Vera M. Thresher of Wil- liamsburg, Va., Sept. 1920; children-Elizabeth M., John T., V. Phyllis, Phoebe. Did research on high explosives, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., 1917-18; research asso., Research Lab. Ap- plied Chemistry, M.I.T., 1919-20; engr, Lewis Ro- covery Corp. (solvent recovery), 1920-23; chlef chemist and dir, research, A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., 1923 -; 2nd It., C.W.S., U.S.A., Edgewood Ar- senal, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 1918-May 1919; mem. Am. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Am. Chem. Soc. (chmn. Northeastern Sert., 1934), Am. Leather Chemists Assn., Marblehead Y.M.C.A., (pres., 1935-38). Clubs: Icthyologists, Appalachian. Congregation- alist. Republican. Office: Care A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., Peabody. Home: 72 Clifton Av., Mar- blehead.


BELL, Stoughton, lawyer; b. Newton, June 28, 1874; 8. Albert D. S. Bell and Susan Laura (Stoughton) B .; ed. A.B., Harvard, 1896; LL.B., Harvard Law Sch., 1899; m. Mabel A. Lewis of New York, June 6, 1908; children-Lewis S., Mabel A., Madeline. Began practice of law with Putnam & Putnam, 1899, admitted to firm, 1908; name of firm changed to Putnam, Putnam & Bell, 1911, to Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, 1918; dir. Cambridge Trust Co., Cambridge Elec. Light Co., Cambridge Gas Light Co., Package Machinery Co., Murray Printing Co., Cambridge Investment Corp .; mem. bd. trs., Dowse Inst., Cambridge Hosp .; mem. Cambridge Common council, 1900, 1901, bd aldermen, 1902,


1903; mem. Draft Bd., advisor, World War; mem. Am., Mass., and Boston Bar Assns., Am. Acad. Arts & Sciences, Am. Law Inst., Cambridge Ilst. Soe. (v.p.), Phl Delta Phl. Club: Country (Brook- line). Author: articles in law journals. Grand- nephew of Lt. Gov. William Stoughton. Episco- palian (warden, Clrrist Ch., 14 yrs .; mem,, Cath. Chap.). Republican. Office: 60 State St., Boston. Home: 121 Brattle St., Cambridge. Summer res .: Cohasset.


BELL, TUton S., publisher's representative; b. Ded- ham, July 27, 1874; s. Wakeman D. Bell and Ida (Clark) B .; ed. pub. schs. Sandusky, O., and Rox- bury; m. Harriette Ballou of Dorchester, Oct. 17, 1905. With the Pilgrim Press (pubs. of The Con- gregationalist), 19 yrs., adv. mgr., last 6 yrs .; now N.IS. rep., Frank A. Munsey Co. and N.Y. Sun; pres. Harvard Fed. Sav. and Loan Assn., Dorchester; mem. Boston Common Council, 1903, 04, 05, alderman, 1906-07; inem. Mass. Senate, 1908; schoolhouse commr.,


1908-09; election commr., City of Boston, 1913-14; mem. Welfare Commn., 1928-29; town meeting mem., Milton; mem. Masons, Sons of Vets. Clubs: Boston Clty, Advertising (Boston), Collectors (N.Y. ('ity). Episcopalian. Republican. Office: Old South Bldg., Boston. Ilome: 7 Webster Rd., East Milton. BELLAMY, Robert Bayard, civil engineer; b. Dor- chester, Oct. 23, 1879; s. William Bellamy and Anna Muirson (Johnson) B .; ed. B.S., Trinity Coll., Hartford, Conn., 1901; m. Arabella Chan- dler MeClintock of Boston, Sept. 24, 1913; 1 dau .-- Josephine Mcclintock. On railroad location In Alleghany Mts., Pa., in Saskatchewan, and from El Paso, Tex., to Carlsbad, N.M., 1903-1913, night engr. and insp., 42nd St. subaqueous tunnel; N. Y. City; river topographer on triangulation and com- pnter for Internal Boundary Commn. on survey of Rio Grande from El Paso, Tex., to Gulf; mem. Washington R.R. Commin., compiling statistles, data and costs for R.R. valuation in State of Wash .; engr., Tribullion Smelting & Developing Co., Kelly Mine, N.M .; in pvt. engring. practice, 1914 -. Travel: most countries of Western lu- rope, except Sp. and Scan .; much of U.S. and Can .; some of Mex .; to Panama when Canal was opened. Dese. Samuel Johnson, Ist pres. King's Coll. (now Columbia) ; his son, William Samuel Johnson, mem. 1st Colonial congress, a maker of the Constitution, Ist pres. Columbia Coll., Ist senator from Conn .; Livingstons, mem. 1st Colo- nial Congress, signer of Declaration of Independ- ence; Jonathan Edwards, 1st pres. Princeton; pres. Woolsey of Yale; Col. Timothy Dwight of Revo- lution, whose son Timothy Dwight was pres. Yale; Bayards, Schuylers, etc. of N.Y .; Dodds of Salem St., Boston, opposite Old North Church. Episco- palian, Independent. Office & home: 25 Eldon St., Dorchester.


BELL VTTY, Charles Edgar, educator; b. Ellsworth, Me., June 4, 1877; s. Charles A. Bellatty and Carrie (Lunn) B .; ed. Ellsworth high sch .; Bow- doin Coll .; m. Nellie Louise Franklin of Boston, June 19, 1907; children-Ruth J., Barbara P. (Smith), Elizabeth F. (Allen). Editor, Ellsworth (Me.) Enterprise, 1900; with H. B. Humphrey Adv. Agency, 1901-17; ed. Mass. Health Journal, 1919; (hmn. Faculty, Boston Univ., 1920-22; dir. Boston Univ. Summer School in Maine, 1920-24; on Fac- ulty, 1913 -; Ilead of Dept. of Advertising, 1913 -; Head of Vocational Dept. (Coll. Bus. Adm.) 1924-28; has directed courses In advertising at Northeastern Coll. (Providence), Y.M.C.IJ. Bos- ton, Boston Advertising Club; mem. Educational Com., Advertising Club of Boston, 1937-38; has taught at Weylister School, Milford, Conn., Jr. Coll. Bus. Adm., Portland, Me .; dir. Mass. Health Commn., 1918-19; mem. Boston Commn. on Re- cruiting; chmn. Coll. Com. on War Work cam- paign; Dir. Publicity, fed. and state campaign against disease in cantonments World War; U.S. Vet. Bur. counseler, 1920-24; mem. Am. Marketing Corp., Assn. Coll. Teachers Bus. Writing, Alpha Delta Sigma, Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Phi, Zeta Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma. Clubs: Bowdoin, University (Boston), Advertising (Boston). Au- thor: many articles in adv. journals. Editor:


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Criticism, Suggestion, and Advice; a lesson course in advertising pub. bi-weekly and used in 299 colleges and high schools; a correspondence course in advertising for Mass. Dept. of Edn. Protes- tant. Republican. Office: 685 Commonwealth Av., Boston. Summer res .: Surry, Me.


BELLOWS, Robert Peabody, architect; b. N.Y. Clty, Nov. 3, 1877; s. Henry Whitney Bellows and Anna Iluydekooper (Peabody) B .; ed. Harvard, 1899; M.I.T., 1901-1903; grad. Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1907; unmarried. Mom. firm Bellows & Aldrich, 1907-1924; alone, 1924 -; archtl. adviser 1930-1931; to Williamsburg (Va.) restoration; Radcliffe Coll. capt. Am. Red Cross in France, 1917-19; awarded Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française; chmn. Boston Art Commn .; tr. Boston Athenaeum; mem, bd. visitors, Harvard; mem. Advisory Com., Dept. Architecture, M.I.T .; ad- visory council, Yenehing Univ., Peiping, China; bd. manager, Army & Navy Y.M.C.A .: , Charlestown; archtl. adviser, Northeastern Univ., 1931; chmn. advisory com., Mass. Hist. Am. Blogs. Survey; fel- low Am. Inst. Architecture; mem. Boston Soc. Architects, (past pres.), Soc. Beaux Arts Archi- tects, Société des Architectes Diplomés par le Gouvernment Français. Clubs: Boston Architec- tural (past pres.); Tihonet; Union, Somerset; Cof- fee House (N.Y. City). Unitarian. Address: 8 Park St., Boston.


YBEMENT, Dorothy Montgomery, teacher, school principal; b. Lansing, Mich., June 14, 1890; d. Arthur Orrin Bement and Vina Lou (Mosher) B .; ed., A.B., Smith Coll. 1912, A.M., 1920; unmarried. Teacher, Miss Glendinning's Sch., New Haven, Conn., 1912-15, Miss Capen's Sch. for Girls, North- ampton, 1915-21, Walnut Hill sch., Natick, 1921;21; prin., Northampton Sch. for Girls, 1924 -; mem. leadmistresses of East, Nat. Assn. Prins. Schs. for Girls, N.E. Assn. Colls. & Secondary Schs., Am. Assn. Univ. Women. Editor: Les Malheurs de Sophie, 1915. Congregationalist. Ilome: 78 Pom- eroy Ter., Northampton.


BEMENT, Grace A., headmistress; b. N.Y. City, Apr. 14, 1880; d. Charles Lewis Power and Grace (Al- lan) P .; ed. East Orange (N.J.) high sch .; A.B., Vassar Coil., 1903; m. Lewis Dennison Bement of N.Y., May 12, 1906; children-Lewis Dennison, Jr., Barbara Allan, Kathleen (Jaeger). Headmistress, The Bement Sehr., Deerfield, 1925 -. Address: The Bement School, Deerfield.


BEMENT, Lewis D., estate insurance counselor; b. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 27, 1877: s. Edward Nichols Be- ment and Ella (Dennison) B .; ed. Cascadilla sch., Ithaca, N.Y .; m. Grace Power of E. Orange, N.J., May 1906; children-1. Dennison, Barbara A., Kathleen B. Jaeger. Dennison Mfg. Co. of Fram- ingham, 1897-1918; pres. John Russell Cutlery Co. Turners Falls, 1920-32; sec .- treas. Am. Cut- lery Mfgrs. Assn., 1932-34; v.p. The Bement School, Inc. Deerheld, 1930 -; in estate ins. bus., 1935 -; chmn. Planning Bd., pres. Village Improvement Assn., clk. Sewer Commin., Deerfield; major Am. Red Cross, T.B. Unit in Italy, It. Mass. State Guard. Clubs: Rotary International (past dist. gov.), Greenfield, Country (Greenfield). Travel: U.S., cent. Europe. Desc. Gov, Thomas Hinckley, Na- thaniel Bacon of Barnstable, John Howland of Plymouth. Christian Scientist. Independent


(nominally Republican ). Ofllee: 277 Main St., Greenfieid. Home: Deerfield.


VIISMIS, Farwell Gregg, manufacturer; b. Boston, Oct. 6, 1900; s. Albert Farwell Bemis and Faith (Gregg) B .; student, Country Day Sch .; A.B., Harvard, 1922; M.B.A., Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1925; in. Margaret Houghton of Brookline, Mar. 17, 1926; children-Margaret, Farwell Gregg, Jr. Vice pres. and dir. Bemis Bro. Bag Co .; dir. Boott Mills; tr. Brookline Sav. Bk .; dir. Nat. Rec- reation Assn., Community Service of Boston, Inc. Clubs: The Country Club, Exchange, Badminton & Tennis, Cohasset Yacht. Congregationalist. Republican. Office: 40 Central St., Boston. Home: 70 Codman Rd., Brookline. Sunimer res .: Co- hasset.


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Emeline (Converse) B .; cd. Brookfield high sch. ; A.B., Yale, 1896; spl. courses, Harvard; m. Fanny Niles Cole of East Brookfield, 1901; children- George Merrill Jr., Margery C. Prin. of hlgh sch., Michigan Clty, Ind., 5 yrs., Chillicothe, O., 2 yrs .; supt. of schs., Brookfield, No. Brookfield, 2 yrs., Plainville, Wrentham, Norton, 5 yrs., Andover, 2 yrs., Revere, 7 yrs., Salem, 1920 -; mem. Essex County Teachers Assn. (past pres. ), Salem Teach- ers Assn. (past pres.), Chamber of Commerce (Salem) Mass. and N.E. Superintendents' Assns. Clubs: Yale (Boston), Rotary. Travel: West Coast of U.S., Fla., Can., etc. Republican. Ollice: School Administration Bldg,, Salem. Ilome: 10 Barr St., Salem. Summer res .: Northwood, N.IL.


BEMIS, William C., manufacturer of plastic prod- ucts; b. Springfield, Dec. 3, 1891; s. Howard R. Bemis and Ilelen E. (Kenyon) B .; ed. B.S., Dart- mouth Coll., 1915; m. Dorothy Stearns of Spring- lield. Feb. 12, 1916; children-lloward Kenyon, William C. Jr. Associated with The Monsanto Chemical Co., mfrs., Springfield, 1916-, now asst. v.p .; dir. Union Trust Co., Springheld. Office: Monsanto Chemical Co., Springfield. Home: 64 Colony Rd., Springfield.


BENDA, Clemens Ernst, medicine, clinical director, Wrentham State School; b. Berlin, Ger., May 30, 1898; s. Carl Benda and Louise (Rhode) B .; ed. Kgl. Wilhelm's Gymnasium, Berlin, Ger .; Univ. Rostock; Univ. Jena; Univ. Heidelberg; Univ. Berlin: M.D., Unlv. Berlin, 1922; m. Elizabeth Knaack of Pennckow, Ger., Mar. 8, 1927; children -George C. O., Christian J. C. Special studies in neurology and psychiatry Univ. Heidelberg, 1922-29; Sanitarium Dr. Binswanger, Switzerland, neurologie dept., Barmbeck-Hamburg; Augusta Hosp., Berlin, 1929-35; Mass. Gen. Hosp., Boston, 1936 -; mem. dept. neuropathology, Harvard Med. Sch., April 1936 -; clinical dir., Wrentham State School, Wrentham, Nov. 1936 -; served in Ger. Army, 1915-18, World War; 2d lt .; mem. Boston Soc. Psychiatry and Neurology; N.E. Pathol. Soc., Am. Assn. Ment. Deficiency. Author: Der Willezum Geist, Berlin, 1932 (German); scienti- fic pubs. on mongolism and various neuro-psy- chiatric subjects. Travel; Italy, Fr., Switzerland, Eng., U.S. Protestant. Office: Wrentham State School, Wrentham. Home: Wrentham.


BENDER, Wilbur Joseph, teacher; b. Elkhart, Ind., Oct. 15, 1903; s. George Louis Bender and Elsie (Kolb) B .; ed. Elkhart (Ind.) high sch .; Goshen Coll .; A.B., Harvard, 1927, A.M., 1930; m. Laura Bradshaw Fay of Cambridge, June 2, 1934; 1 dau. -Sarah Fay. Asst. dean, Harvard, 1931-35, instr. hist., 1931-36; instr. hist., Phillips Andover Acad., 1936 -; mem. Am. Fed. Teachers, Am. Assn. Univ. Profs., Am. Civ. Liberties Union. Author: Paci- fisin in Colonial Pennsylvania. Mennonite. Dem- ocrat. Office: Phillips Academy, Andover. Home: Ilidden Field, Andover. Summer res .: Nantucket. BENEDICT, George Grenville, teacher; b. Provi- dence, R.I., Nov. 3, 1901; s. George Wyllys Bene- diet and Jane Lois (Simpson) B .; ed. Moses Brown Sch., Providence, R.1 .; A.B., Harvard, 1923, A.M., 1933; m. Marie-Louise Landeau, June 15, 1932; children -- Caroline Whitney, George Wyl- lys, II. Instr. Eng., Gilman Country Sch., Roland Pk., Md., 1923-26: asst. dean, Harvard Coll., 1927-30; Instr. Eng., Ilarvard, 1929-30; Instr. Eng., Phillips Acad., 1930 -. Clubs: Ilarvard of Ando- ver (pres.), Pi Eta, St. Botolph., Protestant. Of- fice: Phillips Andover Academy, Andover. Home: Andover.


BENEDICT, Roberta Mountford, women's page and telegraph editor; b. Lowell, Dec. 16, 1900; d. Rob- ert Wood Mountford and Thomasina (Chalmers) M .; ed. Lowell high seh .; A.B., Tufts Coli., 1922; m. H. Irving Benedict of Arlington, Aug. 25, 1935. Began as librarian, Lowell Evening Leader and Lowell Courier Citizen, then became society and club reporter, telegraph ed., Lowell Evening Leader; since 1933, women's page ed., Lowell Eve- ning Leader and Courier-Citizen (Lowell), church page ed., Courier-Citizen, reporter and column writer, conduets food page in both papers; con- ducts Women's Club news column, Courier-Citi-


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zen; past ed., Lowell Suburban Messenger (aflili- ate of Citizen); co-chmin. women's div., Pres.'s Ball Com., to 1936; solicitor, Lowell Community Chest, 10 years; publicity agt. and sec,, Centennial Eliot Union Ch., Lowell, 1929; publicity agt., union Summer services and Lenten services, Protestant Chs., 13 years; publicity com. State Cong. Cont., Lowell, 1936; mem. Lowell Centen- nial Com., Lowell Tufts Coll. Alumni Assu. (v.p. 1938-39), Eliot Service League (past pres. ), N.E. Women's Press Assn., O.E.S. (Zenith Chap. ), Am. Assn. Univ. Women (Lowell br. charter mem. and pub. chmn .; chmn. nominating com., 1938). Clubs: Lowell College, Middlesex Women's. Au- thor: Fashions by Roberta, daily column since 1925; Cocktail Hour, daily column of gossip, etc. (6 years). Congregationalist. Republican. Of- fice: 15-17 Kearney Sq., Lowell, llome: 29 Vic- toria St., Lowell. Summer home: Stoddard, N.I. BENEDICT. Susan Rose, professor of mathematics; D. Norwalk, O., Nov. 29, 1873; d. David DeForest Benedict and Harriott Malvina (Deaver) B .; ed. Norwalk, O. pub. schs., 1878-90; B.S., Smith Coll., 1895; A.M., Columbia Univ., 1906; grad. student,. Univ. Mich., summers 1911, 1912, 1913, year 1913- 14. Ph.D., 1914. Teacher math., high sch., Nor- walk, O., 1895-1905; asst. in math., Smith Coll., 1906-07, instr., 1907-14, asso, prof., 1914-22, prof., 1922 -; mem. Math. Assn. Am., Am. Math. Soc. Episcopalian. Republican. Home: 12 Barrett Pl., Northampton.




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