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WATTERS, William Henry, physician; b. Mechanie Falls, Me., June 23, 1876; s. William Watters and Judith (Nichols) W .; ed. A.B., McGill Univ.,
1897; M.D., Boston Univ. Seh. Med., 1900; MA., Boston Unlv., 1907, Ph.D., 1909; in. Gertrude llepburn of Montreal, 1904; children-Preston Ilepburn, Doris Nichols. Practiced med., Boston, 1900 -; prof. pathology, Boston Univ. Sch. Med., 1903-25; prof. preventive med., 1925 -; founder and med. dir., Boston Miami ('linie, Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla .; asso. med. examiner, Suffolk County; fellow A.C.P .; nem. A.M.A., Am. Assn. Pathologists, Mass. Med. Soc., Mass. Medico- Legal Soc. (pres. 1929-30), Mass. Surg. & Gyn- ecol. Soc., Internat. Assn. Med. Museums, Masons. Clubs: Highland ( West Roxbury), Committee of One Hundred (Miami Beach). Republican. Of- lice: (winter) Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla .; (sum- mer) 270 Commonwealth Av., Boston. Home: (winter) Coconut Grove, Miami, Fla .; (summer) 109 Mt. Vernon St., West Roxbury.
WATTS, Sidney S., business executive; b. Thomas- ton, Me., Jan. 16 1479; s. Calvin N. Watts and Martha (Stover, W; m. Harriett Wooldridge of Boston, Apr. 18, 1917; children-George S., Al- bert F., David F. 11. Began as errand boy, Andrew Dutton Co., 1867, now 1st v.p. and dir .; dir. Y.M.C.A .; mem. Masons, Odd Fellows. Metho- dist, Republican. Oflice: 60 Canal St., Boston. Ilome: 4 Oak St., Wakefield.
WAUGH, Conlton, artist; b. St. Ives, Eng., Mar. 10, 1900; s. Frederick J. Waugh, N.A. and Clara Eugenie (Bunn) W .; ed. Upton Sch., London, Eng .; m. Elizabeth Dey Jenkinson of Wood- stock, N.Y., 1918. Exhibited first in Nat. Acad. Design, when 18 yrs. old, painter ever since; one-man show, Grand Central Galleries, N. Y., 1931, Hudson Walker Galleries, 1938; works repro- duced in most leading mags,, as Art News, Art Digest, spl. feature in Fortune, 2 center pages in Life, etc., ete .; has done hist. maps (in most libs.), tech, drawings of ships (one in Peabody Mus.), etc .; writer of adventure stories for boys, illustrator of them; tr. Provincetown Art Assn .; mem. Am. Artists Congress. Author: Golden Whale (serial in . Boys' Life), and other boys' stories; Dickie Dare (adventure sequence syn - 8 dicated by Asso. Press and read daily by ap- proximately 8 million persons. Travel: extensive; lived in Sp., Paris, visited many countries. artists of internat. reputation in family, besides father; g.s. Samuel Bell Waugh, one of best portrait painters of his day, who painted cele- brated canvasses of both Lincoln and Grant, friend of sculptor Thor Waldsen and Sully; grandmother, miniature Democrat.
painter. llome: Union Wharf, Provincetown. Winter ad- dress: 15 IS. 9 St., N. Y. City.
WAUGH, Dorothy, editor, designer; b. Burlington, Vt., Sept. 23, 1896; d. Frank Albert Waugh and Mary Alice (Vail) W .; ed. George Sch .; Mass. Sch. Art; grad. Chicago Art Inst., 1928. Free lance illustrator and designer, Chicago, 1928-30, N. Y. City, 1930-37; head of dept. of books for young people, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., May 1937 -. Oflice: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 501 Madison Av., New York City. Ilome: New York City and Amherst.
WAUGH, Frank Albert, landscape architect; b. Sheboygan Falls, Wis., luly 8, 1869; s. Albert Freeman Waugh and Madeline (Bichler) W .; ed. B.S., Kan. State Coll., 1891, M.S., 1893, also D.Sc .; post grad. study, Cornell Univ, and in Germany and Franee; L.H.D., Univ. Vt .; m. Alice Vail of Manhattan, Kan., Sept. 14, 1893; children-Dan F., Dorothy, Frederick V., Esther, Albert E., Sidney B. In newspaper work in Topeka, Helena, Denver, 1891-93; prof. horticulture and landscape gardening, Mass. State Coll., Amherst, 1902 -; landscape engr. collaborating with U.S. Forest Service; mem. Patrons of Husbandry; capt. San- itary Corps, U.S.A., June 25, 1918-Sept. 1, 1919. Author: Landscape Gardening, 1898; Plums and Plum Culture, 1899; Fruit Marketing, 1900; Sys- tematie Pomology, 1903; Dwarf Fruit Trees, 1907; American Apple Orchard, 1908; The Landscape Beautiful, 1910; Kemp's Landscape Gardening, 1910; Beginner's Guide to Fruit Growing, 1912; American Peach Orchard, 1913; Rural Improve-
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ment, 1911; The Agricultural College, 1916; The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening, 1917; Out- door Theatres, 1917; Downing's Landscape Gar- dening, 1921; Textbook of Landseape Gardening, 1922; Country Planning, 1924; Formal Design in Landscape Architecture, 1927; Hardy Shrubs, 1928; Everybody's Garden, 1930. Congregationalist. Home: Amherst.
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WAUGH, Fredrick Judd, artist; b. Bordentown, N.J., Sept. 13, 1861; s. Samuel Bell Waugh (por- trait painter) and Mary Eliza (Young) W. (minia- ture painter) ; art edn. Pa. Acad. Fine Arts, Phila., and Acad. Julian, Paris; m. Clara Eugenie Bunn of Phila., Pa., 1892; children-Gwenyth, Coulton. Resided at various places in Europe, 1892-1907; illustrated for Graphic and London papers; ex- hibited at The Salon, Paris, previous to 1892, later in Royal Acad., London; permanently rep- resented by pictures at Bristol Acad. (Eng.), Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool), Durban Art Gallery (Natal, So. Afr.), Nat. Gallery ( Wash- ington, D.C.), Metrop. Mus. (N.Y. City), Brooklyn (N. Y.) Inst., Art Club (Phila.), Masonic Temple ( Phila.), Art Inst., Chicago, Dallas and Austin (Tex.), Delgado Art Mus. (New Orleans), Pa. Acad. Fine Arts (Phila.), Montelair Art Mus., Mus. of Art (Toledo), Lotos Club, Nat. Arts Club, City Art Museum (St. Louis), also in many pvt. collections in Eng. and U.S .; rep. by 3 murals of Niagara Falls, one on the S.S. Greater Detroit, the other on the Greater Buffalo, also a mural of old Buffalo Harbor on boat of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co .; awarded Palmer Memorial marine prize of $1,000, Nat. Acad. De- sign, 1929; popular prize of $200, Carnegie Instn., 4 consecutive yrs., 1931-37; mem. Bristol Acad. Fine Arts, Royal West of England Acad. Clubs: Salamagundi, Lotos, Nat. Arts (New York); Bos- ton Art. Author (and illustrator): The Clan of Munes, 1916. Episcopalian. Home: Province- town.
V WAUGH, Sidney, sculptor; b. Amherst, Jan. 17, 1904; s. Frank Albert Waugh and Alice (Vail) W .; ed. M.I.T., 1920-23; Scuola delle Belle Arte, Rome, 1924; pupil of llenri Bouchard, Paris, 1925-28; student Am. Acad. in Rome, 1929-32. Prin. works: group for Nat. Archives Bldg., pediment group for U.S. Post Office Dept .. Bldg., figure for U.S. Atty. Gen.'s conf. room, group for Federal Res. Bd. Bldg .; represented in Metrop. Mus. (N.Y. City), Victoria and Albert Mus. (London), Collection of King of Italy; awarded bronze medal of Paris Salon de Printemps, 1928, silver medal, 1929, Prix de Rome, 1929; mem. adv. com., M.I.T. Archtl. Sch .; National Academician, 1936; fellow Am. Acad. in Rome; mem. Nat. Sculpture Soc. (council), Alumni Assn. Am. Acad. in Rome (v.p. ). Club: Century Assn. (N.Y. City). Travel:' ex- tensive in Seand., Cent. and Western Europe, Afr., Asia Minor. Address: 101 Park Av., New York, N.Y. Home: Amherst.
VWAXMAN, Samuel Montefiore, professor; b. Boston, Oct. 22, 1885; s. Joseph Waxman and Simy (Ben- shimol) W .; A.B. (summa cum laude), Harvard, 1907; student Ecole des hautes études and Ecole des chartes, Univ. Paris, 1908-09; A.M., Harvard, 1910, Ph.D., 1912; m. Frances Burwell Shaefer of Phila., Pa,, Sept. 23, 1910. Instr, romance langs., Syracuse Univ., 1907-08; John Harvard fellow and fellow Ministry Pub. Instrn. of French Republic, 1908-09; lecturer anglais adjoint, Fa- culté des Lettres, Univ. Paris, 1908-09; Instr. Romance langs., Harvard, 1910; instr. Romance langs., Boston Univ., 1910-13, asst. prof., 1913-20, prof., 1920 -; instr. phonetics, Hartford Sch. of Missions, 1912-13; lecturer in contemporary French drama, Harvard, 1914; reed. Stanwood Grey Wellington award, Roxbury Latin Sch., 1929; mem. Am. Assn. Univ. Profs., Modern Lang. Assn. Am., N.E. Modern Lang. Assu. (sec., treas. and ed. publs. 1914-16), Am. Assn. Teachers Span- Ish, Am. Assn. Teachers French, Club: Univer- sity. Author: Chapters on Magic in Spanish Literature, 1916; A Trip to South America, 1916; Antoine and the Theatre Libre, 1926; A Bib- liography of the Belles-Lettres of Santo Domingo,
1931; A Bibliography of the Belles-Lettres of Venezuela, 1935; articles on lit, and langs. Ed- itor: Nomads and Listeners of Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, 1937. Home: 21 Foster St., Cam- bridge.
WAYMAN, Dorothy G. (pseudonym-Theodate Geof- frey), author; b. San Bernardino Co., Calif., Jan. 7, 1893; d. Charles Washington Geoffrey and Sarah Lauretta Ida Vincent (Park) G .; ed. Mt. St. Mary's (convent), Manchester, N.Il .; stu- dent, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1910-11; grad., Sch. for Social Workers, Boston, 1914; m. Charles Staf- ford Wayman of N.Y. City, July 10, 1915; children -John Godfrey, Charles Stafford, Richard Park. Began as contbr. to newspapers and periodicals; spent 4 yrs. in Japan (1918-22) and learned to speak and write Japanese; ing. ed., Falmouth Enterprise, 1929-33; mem. ed. staff, Boston Globe, 1933 -; mem. Japan Soc. (Boston), Falmouth Hist. Soc. Club: Bryn Mawr (Boston). Author: An Inimigrant in Japan, 1926; Powdered Ashes, 1926; Suckanesset, a History of Falmouth, 1929. Co- author: John Ilolmes at Annapolis (with V. H. Godfrey), 1927. Episcopalian. Office: The Boston Globe, Boston. Ilome: 14 Chestnut Place, Jamaica Plain.
WEAVER, B. Maie, artist; b. New Hartford, Conn., Dec. 12, 1875; d. Sterrie A. Weaver and Adah Adaline ( Holcomb) W .; ed. Westfield high sch .;
- Mass. Sch. Art; Academie de la Grande Chau- miere; Academie Julienne, Paris. Studied water color with Ross Turner and Henry W. Rice of Boston; with Mme. LaForge, Paris, For .; winner several concours; exhibited Paris Salon, 1910; painter portraits and design work; art instr., Holyoke Jr. high sch. and grades; mem. D.A.R. Club: Holyoke Art. Travel: Sp., Austria, Italy, Switz., Fr. Desc. Thomas Holcomb, Plymouth, 1620. Congregationalist. Republican. Office: llolyoke Junior High Sch., Holyoke. Home: 61 Western Av., Westfield. Summer res .: New llart- ford, Conn.
WEBB, Anne Holliday, supervisor, division museum extension; b. Bellevue, Tex., June 29, 1892; d. Sidney Albert Webb and Lucy Judson ( Brown) W .; (d. Bellevue high sch .; Dana Hall, Wellesley; B.L., Baylor Univ., Waco, Tex., 1911; B.A., Wel- lesley Coll., 1914; m., 1921 (divorced). Instr. hist. and Eng., St. Mary's Coll., Dallas, Tex., 1916-17; served as nursing asst. and bacteriologist, Pres- byterian Ilosp., N.Y., and Rockefeller Inst. in bacteriol. unit, U.S. Army, 1917-19; research study of mineral waters, Mineral Wells, Tex., for U.S. Govt., dept. pure foods, 1919-20; publisher and ed., Akron Topics, Akron, O., 1922-25; ed., Bulle- tin, Soc. Arts and Crafts, Boston, 1925-27, also free lance writer for mags. and art jours .; pub- licity sec. and asst. editor publications, Mus. Fine Arts, Boston, 1927-33, supervisor, div. mus. extension, 1933 -; dir. League of Nations Assi., Mass. Br .; mem. exec. com., Women's City Club; mem. Archaeological Soc. Am., Japan Soc. Dir. and editor: Series of Illustrative Sets, Recon- strueting . the Past, of which there are now in published form, Elizabethan England, Athletics and Festivals of Greece in the Fifth Century; also articles in periodicals. Protestant. Office: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Home: Long- wood Towers, Brookline.
WEBB, Robert Lee, clergyman; b. Petersburg (Va. ), Oet. 26, 1866; s. Robert Thomas Webb and Mary Jane (Cooper) W .; ed. Arlington Acad., Wash- ington (D.C.); Spencerian Bus. Coll .; Columbia, 1887-90; Harvard Grad. Dept., 1901-02; B.D., New - ton Theol. Inst., 1893, S.T.M., 1911; 1).D., Colby Coll., 1922; m. Myra Churchill Holmes of Ply- mouth, 1901. Ordained to Bapt. Ministry, 1893; pastor, Needham, 1893-1904, Haverhill, 1904-14, Battle Creek (Mich.), 1914-16; sec. Newton Theol. Inst., 1916-21; special prof. church hist., Boston Univ., 1922-1928; pastor, First Baptist Ch., Dorchester, 1921 -; pres. Colby Ministerial Fund; tr., Newton Theol. Sem .; mem. Dorchester Adv. Welfare Com .; Boston Dist. Planning Bd .; engaged in raising special funds for World War service; vocational and placement advisor to
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returning soldiers; mem. N.E. Bapt. Llb. Assn. (pres.), Northern Bapt. Edn. Soc. (exec. see.), Brotherhood of the Kingdom, Mass. Ministers' Conf., Boston Fed. of Clis., Boston South Bapt. Assn. (chmn. com. on ordination), Pi Gamma Mu, Am. Acad. Polit. & Social Sei .; fellow, Am. Geog. Soc., Dorchester Ilist. Soe., Coll. and Sem. Alumni Assus. Author: Romance of American Progress and Life; The Ministry as a Life Work; spl. articles in papers and mags. Travel: U.S, Can. Family related to old Mass. stock; wife desc. of Bradford, Brewster, Winslow and others. Baptist. Republican. Office: Ford Bldg., Boston. Home: 28 Radford Lane, Boston. Summer res .: Plaistow, (N.H.).
WEBBER, Frederick Sanford, industrial banker; b. Chicopee, March 27, 1863; s. Joel Sanford Web- ber and Maria Louise (Beebe) W .; ed. Holyoke high sch .; B.S., Worcester Poly. Inst., 1885; m. Ida Maria Sibley of Warren, Dec. 28, 1888; Bertha Helen Prentiss of Holyoke, Oct. 28, 1926; chil- dren-Mrs. Harriet W. Potter, Elizabeth W., Jack- son, Ida W. Taber. Woollen infr. 30 yrs .; sec. and treas. Morris Plan Co. of Holyoke, 1915 -; tr. Holyoke City Lib., Holyoke Hosp., Boys' Club, Mechanics Sav. Bk .; mem, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., Nat. Geog. Soc. Travel: Europe; Colombia, So. Am. (twice). Republican. Oflice: 271 Maple St., Ilolyoke. Home: 27 Sycamore St., Holyoke. Sum- mer res. : Williamsburg.
V WEBER, Clifford A. M., sales engineer; b. Cin- cinnati, O., Mar. 5, 1886; s. Charles A. Weber and Frances (Flick) W .; ed. B.S., Alabama Poly. Inst., 1906, M.S., 1907, E.E., 1914; grad. student course, Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co., 1907; m. Pearl Argo of Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 5, 1912; 1 dau .- Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Hodges, Jr. De- sign engr., Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co., 1909- 1921, res. engr., 1921-1925, mgr., engring. dept., 1925-1934, sales engr., 1934 -; fellow Am. Inst. E.E .; mem. Engring. Soe. Western Mass. (past pres.). Club: Vesper Country. Author: articles in Electrical Journal and Proceedings of Am. Inst. E.E Travel: U.S. Presbyterian. Inde- pendent .. Office: 10 High St., Boston. Home: 22 Oneida Rd., Winchester.
WEBER, Harold Christian, professor, chemical engi- neer; b. Boston, Mar. 20, 1895; s. Christlan Weber and Ellen (Arnold) W .; ed. Milton high sch .; S.B., M.I.T., 1918; D.Se., Eidnossische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switz., 1934; m. Madeleine Duffy of Milton, 1931. Cons. chem. engr., 1919- 1921; asst. prof., M.I.T., 1921-1927, asso. prof., 1927 -; 2nd lt., C.W.S., U.S.A., 1917-1918; meni. A.A.A.S., Am. Chem. Soc., Am. Inst. Chem. Engrs., Sigma Xi. Office: Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Home: 67 Vose Hill Rd., Milton.
WEBER, Rudolf Lorenz, power and transportation engineer; b. N.Y. City, Sept. 14, 1883; s. Theodore Rudolf Andreas Weber and Matilda Charlotte (llennig) W .; ed. M.E., Cornell, 1905; m. Helena G. Gill of Proetor, Vt., Dee. 15, 1913. Design and constrn. engr., steam and gas-elec. stas., distri- butions systems, ete., 1905-12; res. engr., Saxon Falls Hydro-Elec. Development, 1912-13; eonstrn. engr., Ford, Bacon & Davis, Allentown, Pa., 1913-14; power engr., Kansas City Rys. Co., 1914- 24. With Stone & Webster Engring. Corp., 192-, on steam and hydro-elec. power stas .; consultant, transit operations in N.Y. City, toll bridges, etc .; transportation reports for many eities; mem. Transportation Engring. Bd., City of Los An- geles; ensign, Cruiser & Transport Force, U.S.N., World War; mem. Am. Soc. M.E., Am. Inst. E.E., Am. Soc. Naval Engrs., U.S. Naval Inst., Anı. Transit Assn., Engring. Socs. of N.E. Club: Cornell of N.E. Congregationalist. Office: 49 Federal St., Boston. Home: 34 Ingraham Rd., Wellesley.
WEBSTER, Dean Kingman, Jr., feed manufacturer; b. Lawrence, May 14, 1898; s. Dean K. Webster and Clarabel (Hatch) W .; ed. Phillips Acad., 1911-1915; B.S., M.I.T., 1919; m. Wilhelmina Muir- head of Lawrence, June 7, 1924; children-Dean K., III, Joan M. Chemist and plant supervisor, 10. 1. DuPont de Nemours Co., 1918-20; treas, and
mgr., HI. K. Webster Co., 1920 -; treas. N.E. By- Products Corp., 1923 -; pres. and dir. Atlantic Coop. Bk., Lawrence; 2nd v.p. Boston Grain & Flour Exchange; tr. Lawrence Sav. Bk., Lawrence Clinic, dir. Mass. S.P.C.C .; mem. Phi Beta Epsilon, Masons. Methodist. Republican. Office: 24 West St., Lawrence. Home: 16 Ditson Pl., Methuen. WEBSTER, Edwin Sibley, engineer; b. Boston, Aug. 26, 1867; s. Frank G. Webster and Mary (Mes- singer) W .; B.S., Mass. Inst. Tech., 1888; LL. D., Northeastern Univ .; m. Jane de l'eyster Hovey of Boston, June 1, 1893. Organizer with Charles A. Stone, 1889; firm of Stone & Webster (later Stone & Webster, Inc.), engrs. and mgrs. pub. service cos .; dir. traction, light, power, and other cos .; life mem. Corp. and mem. exec. eom., Mass. Inst. Tech .; tr. Museum of Fine Arts; mem. Am. Inst. E. E. Clubs: Somerset, Union, St. Botolph, Engineers, Ex- change, Boston City (Boston) ; Eastern Yacht; University, Recess, Technology, Down Town Assn. (New York). Travel: Europe, Orient, No. Am., etc. Desc. John Webster, Eng. Unitarian. Of- fice: 49 lederal St., Boston. Home: 307 Hammond St., Chestnut Hill.
WEBSTER, Edwin Sibley, Jr., investment banker; D. Newton, Der. 24, 1899; s. Edwin S. Webster and Jane de Peyster (Hovey) W .; S.B., Har- vard, 1923; M.B.A. Harvard Grad. Sch. Bus. Adm., 1925. Employed by Stone & Webster, Inc., 1926- 30. v.p. 1929-30; partner Kidder, Peabody & Co., 1931 -; mem. bd. dirs. many corps. Clubs: Som- erset, Exchange (Boston); Country (Brookline); Norfolk Hunt (Medfield); Knickerbocker (N.Y.). Unitarian. Office: 17 Wall St., New York, N. Y. Home: 307 Hammond St., Chestnut Hill.
WEBSTER, Eugene Carroll, clergyman, educator; b. Somerville, Nov. 6, 1864; s. James Walker Webster and Sarah Luella (Carpenter) W .; ed. grad., Phillips Acad., Andover, 1883; A.B., Har- vard, 1887; B.D. Yale Div. Sch., 1890; m. Wynn M. Ward of New Haven, Conn., June 25, 1890: 1 son-Ward. Ordained to Cong. ministry, 1890; pastor, United Cong. Ch., East Providence, R.I., 1890-92; asst. ed., Blakeslee S.S. Lessons, 1892-93; pastor, Trinity Ch., Neponset, 1893-99, West- brook, Me., 1902-03; sec. district option (tem- perance) campaign, 1903-04; in business, 1904- 06; hotel and theatre chaplain, Boston, 1906 -; asso. prin. 1913, now headmaster, University Sch .; hon. mem. A.B.C.F.M .; life mem. Cong. Home Mis- sionary Soc .; asst. sec. and sec. Mass. Gen Assn. Cong. Chs., 1894-1903, asst. sec. Internat. Council same, 1899-1910; rec. see. Cong. Edn. Soc., 1897-99, Ant. Missionary Assn., 1899-1901; mem. Suffolk South Assn. Cong. Ministers; tr. Puritan League; mem. N.E.A., Bostonian Society, N.E. Assn. Colls. and Secondary Schs., Pi Gamma Mu. Clubs: Boston, Boston Congregational, Uni- versity. Author: Historleal Sketch, Suffolk South Conference of Cong. Chs., 1898. Editor: Procs. 2nd Internat. Cong. Council, Boston, 1899; Faith and Doubt, 1912-13. Travel: U.S. Republican. Address: 899 Boylston St., Boston. Ilome: 674 Main St., Malden.
WEBSTER, Francis Ellsworth, clergyman; b. Au- burn, N.Y., Nov. 26, 1867; s. Nathan E. Webster and Jerusha (lurd) W .; ed. Auburn (N.Y.) high sch .; St. Lawrence Univ., Canton, N.Y .; B.D., Episc. Theol. Sch., Cambridge, 1894; m. Gertrude F'. Blackman of Cambridge, Aug. 12, 1896, (d.); m. (2d) Ethel A. Snell, Oct. 25, 1930; children-Kirby, Stephen, Mrs. Frances Anderson. Deacon, P.E. Church, 1894, priest, 1895; asst., St. James Church, Cambridge, 1895-1896; rector, Church of the As- cension, Waltham, 1896-1900; Christ Church, Wal- tham, 1900-1930; Christ Church, Boston, 1930 -. Dese. New Hampshire branch. Episcopalian. Re- publican. Office and home: 193 Salem St., Boston. Summer res .: Pepperell.
WEBSTER, Hanson Hart, author; b. Portland, Me., Feb. 16, 1877; s. Charles Edwin Webster and Sophie Eloise (Hart) W .; ed. Portland high sch .; A.B., Bowdoin Coll., 1899; m. Edith Lillian Smith of Woburn, June 29, 1921; children-Paul Wil- lard, Joan. Asso, with Houghton Mifflin Co., 1899 -; pres. Rose Bindery; dir. Aspinwall Real
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Estate Trust; propagandist for U.S. Food Adm., World War; mem. Marine Research Soc., U.S. Naval Inst., Naval Hist. Foundation, Bibliophile Soc., Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: University (Boston), Beach, Tedesco Country (Swampscott). Author: Americanization and Citi- zenship, 1919; Travel by Air, Land, and Sea, 1933; The World's Messengers, 1934. Co-author: The Constitution of the United States, 1926; The Ship Book, 1931; What the World Eats, 1938. Editor: Tales and Verse from Sir Walter Scott; Famous Seamen of America; Liberty, Peace, and Justice; Sheridan's School for Scandal. Co-editor: One Act Plays; Short Plays; Typical Plays. Ipisco- palian. Republican. Office: 2 Park St., Boston. llome: 24 Clifton Av., Marblehead.
WEBSTER, Louis Armstrong, fruit grower; b. Blackstone, Sept. 26, 1894; s. Albert Webster and Clara (Thayer) W .; ed. Blackstone high sch .; B.S., Mass. State Coll., 1914; m. Georgia Wathen of Woonsocket, R.I., 1925; children- Joyee Mildred, William Albert. Raises fruit and vegetables, doing a wholesale business in them; dir. Mass. Farm Bur., Mass. Fruit Growers Assn., Worcester Production Credit Assn .; mem. Mass. Ilo. of Rep., 1929-32; lecturer on taxation; men. Rep. Town Com. 20 yrs., chmin. 8 yrs .; mem. Lambda Chi Alpha, A.F&A.M. (past master, Black- stone River Lodge), Grange (past master). Clubs: Mass. and Worcester Co. Republican. Author: articles in farm mags. Travel: Calif., 1915. 9th generation from Ferdinando Thayer, settler of Mendon, early 17th century. Congregationalist. Republican. Office and home: Blackstone.
WECHSBERG, Otto, corporation official; Moravia, Ans .. May 25, 1881; ed. Class, high sch. (Gym- nasium), Teschen, Aus. ; Tech. Univ., Vienna; M.E., Vienna, 1906; widower. Centrifugal pump de- signer, Austria, till 1911; with Goulds Pumps, Seneca Falls, 1914-15; chief engr., Advance Pump & Compressor Co., Battle Creek, Mich., 1916-17; Coppus Engring. Corp., Worcester, 1917-, pres. and gen. mgr, 1926 -; men, Am. Soc. M.E., Am. Soc. Heating & Ventilating Engrs., Shrine. Club: Commonwealth. Travel: Europe, Bermuda, U.S. Unitarian. Republican. Oflice: 341 Park Av., Worcester. Home: 4 Richards St., Worcester.
Y *WEED, Alonzo Rogers, lawyer; b. Bangor, Me., Jan. 22, 1867; s. Alonzo Shaw Weed and Esther A. (Marston) W .; ed. A.B., Harvard, 1887; LL.B., Boston Univ. Sch. Law, 1890; in. Charlotte Ford Atwater of New Haven, Conn., Apr. 30, 1896. Practiced law in partnership with brother, G. M. Weed, Boston, 1890-1906; mem. firm Brewer, Weed & Weed, 1907 -; instr. equity, Boston Univ. Seh. Law until 1902, in equity pleading, 1902-13, acting dean, 1911; mem. bd. aldermen, Newton, 1899-1903 (pres. 1902-03), mayor, 1904-05; appt. mem. Mass. Bd. of Gas and Electric Light Commrs., 1906, reapptd. 1909, 1912, chmin., 1914; tr. Boston Univ., Newton Hosp., Newton Sav. Bk .; dir. Newton Coop. Bk. Clubs: Hunnewell (Newton), City, Har- vard (Boston). Methodist. Republican. Oflice: 40 Central St. and 15 Ashburton Pl., Boston. Home: Park St., Newton. Died.
WEED, Charles Frederick, banker; b. Claremont, N.Il., Oct. 22, 1874; s. Charles H. Weed and Hattie M. (Redfield) W .; ed. A.B., Trinity Coll. (Conn. ), 1894, A.M., 1897; LLA.B., Harvard Law Sch., 1898: m. Mary Duncan Walker of Claremont (N.H.), Sept. 10, 1901; children-Mrs. Frances Duncan Pratt, Frederick Redfield, Mrs. Mary Duncan Noyes. Practiced law in Boston, 1898-1917; v.p. First Nat. Bk. of Boston, 1917 -; dir. Boston Ins. Co., Brookline Trust Co., Security Safe Deposit Co., Sullivan Machinery Co .; pres, and dir. Clare- mont (N.H.) Gas Light Co .; pres. New England Council; treas., dir., and mem. exee .. com., Com- munity Federation of Boston; treas, and tr. Saint- Gaudens Memorial, Cornish (N.II.); tr. Trinity Coll., Vermont Acad .; dir. Old Colony Ins. Co .; mem. U.S. Chamber of Commerce (past v.p. ), V Boston Chamber of Commerce (past pres. ), Inter- national Chamber of Commerce (exec. com., Am. Sect.). Clubs: Tavern, Country ( Brookline) ; Lau- rentian (P.Q.). Republican. Oflice: First Nat.
Bank of Boston. Home: 131 Carlton St., Brook- line. Summer res .: Lake Sunapee, N.II.
WERD, Clarence Moores, naturalist, retired; b. Toledo, O., Oct. 5, 1864; s. Jeremiah Evarts Weed and Sarah J. (Moores) W .; ed. B.S., Mich. Agrl. Coll., 1883, M S., 1884; D.Se., O. State ITniv., 1890; m. Adah Lillian Aber of Lansing, Mich., 1888; children-llelen Irene, Walter Aber, Margaret Aber. Ientomologist and botanist, O. lexpt. Sta., 1888-91; prof. zool., N. Il. Coll. Agr. & Moch. Arts, 1891-1904; entomologist, Expt. Sta., 1891-1901; instr., State Teachers Coll., Lowell, 1904-22, prin., 1922-32, pres., 1932-35; see. and mgr., Moses Greeley Parker Lectures, 1922 -; (hmn. com. Sch. of Nursing, Lowell Gen. Hosp., 1936 -; regional dir. U.S. Sch. Garden Army, 1918-20. Author: Insects and Insecticides, 1891; Ten New England Blossoms and Their Insect Visitors, 1895; Spraying Crops, 1895; Life-His- tories of American Insects, 1897; Stories of Inscet Lite, 1898: Seed-Travelers, 1898; Insect World, 1899; The Flower Beautiful, 1903; Birds in Their Relations to Man, with N. Dearborn, 1903; Labora- tory Guide in Zoology, with C. W. Crossman, 1902; The Nature Calendar Series, 1902-1903; Stories of Bird Life, compiler, 1903; Wild Flower Families, 1908; Our Trees-llow to Know Them. 1908: The School Garden Book, with Philip Emer- son, 1909; Farm Friends and Farm Foes, 1910; Seeing Nature First, 1913; Crop Production, with W. E. Riley, 1914; Butterflies Worth Knowing, 1917; Over and Over Stories, with Margaret Weed, 1929; Inseet Ways, 1930. Home: 854 Andover St., Lowell. Summer res .: Ellsworth (N.H.).
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