Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Ralph Russell Martin

Posted on November 29, 2019 by earltaylor

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Ralph Russell Martin

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Ralph Russell Martin

Written by Donna Albino.

Ralph Russell Martin (another source records his name as Ralph Robinson Martin) was born on November 3, 1891, in Milton, Massachusetts. His parents were John R. Martin and Martha (Farnum) Martin, both born in Dorchester, and Ralph was their fourth son. The Martin family lived in Milton until at least 1897, but by 1900, they were living in the Lower Mills neighborhood of Dorchester at 1057 Washington Street. The family  had seven children, and two wage earners in the family. Ralph’s father, John, worked as a mill hand in a chocolate factory, most likely the Walter Baker Chocolate Company, and Ralph’s older brother Harry was 17 years old and working as a day laborer. There was also a 74-year-old boarder, William Merrill, living with the family, perhaps to help with expenses.

By 1910, the family was living in Dorchester at 90 Butler Street. Ralph’s father John was still working at the chocolate mill. Ralph’s older brothers, John, William, and Charles were working as an iron worker, a roofer, and a mechanic for a steel ceiling company, respectively. The family now had ten children living in their rented home. Ralph was 18 years old, but unemployed.

On July 31, 1915, Ralph married Margaret Fraser Hynes in Quincy, where his wife lived at the time of their marriage. He was 23 years old, and she was about 17 years old. In 1917, Ralph registered for the war draft as Ralph Russell Martin; He listed himself as married, and gave his occupation  as nurse, but he was unemployed; perhaps he was tending someone in the family. Ralph joined the war effort as a member of the American Expeditionary Forces of Dorchester, according to his service record. The American Expeditionary Forces was a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I. The AEF was established on July 5, 1917, in France under the command of Gen. John J. Pershing. It fought alongside French Army, British Army, Canadian Army, and Australian Army units against the German Empire. A minority of the AEF troops also fought alongside Italian Army units in that same year against the Austro-Hungarian Army. The AEF helped the French Army on the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive (at the Battle of Château-Thierry and Battle of Belleau Wood) in the summer of 1918 and fought its major actions in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in the latter part of 1918.

Ralph was also listed as a sergeant in the 151st Depot Brigade. The 151st Depot Brigade was a training and receiving formation of the United States Army during World War I, located at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. The role of depot brigades was to receive and organize recruits, provide them with uniforms, equipment and initial military training, and then send them to France to fight on the front lines. The depot brigades also received soldiers returning home at the end of the war and completed their out processing and discharges. Depot brigades were often organized, reorganized, and inactivated as requirements to receive and train troops rose and fell, and later ebbed and flowed during post-war demobilization.

After the war ended, Ralph returned to his parents’ home in Dorchester, where he was listed as single in the 1920 census. He was working as a house painter. His wife Margaret is not in the census anywhere in the Boston area or in New Jersey, where she was born. However, she appears with Ralph in the 1930 census, where they were listed as  renting a home in the St. Marks area of Dorchester at 62B Wrentham Street. Ralph was working as a health inspector for the city of Boston.

Starting around 1923, Ralph and his older brother Charles were members of the Yankee Yacht Club of Swampscott, and the Milton Yacht Club. They owned several boats that they raced, and they often competed for the same club and in the same races. Charles won most of the races when they competed together, but Ralph sometimes was able to win against his brother. They both usually finished in the top three, leading their clubs to victory.

Unfortunately, boating was not always a source of joy for the Martins. Ralph and his wife had been living, since the fall of 1925, in a 35-foot cabin motorboat, the Wanza, which has been put on props at the Town Landing in Milton. On May 1, 1926, Ralph and Margaret planned to get the boat ready for its summer cruise. While Ralph was outside, preparing to launch the boat, Margaret was inside the cabin, preparing dinner on the coal stove. One of the props which held the boat up collapsed, and Margaret was thrown into the companionway as the boat listed to one side. The hot stove went the other way, but the coals fell upon her, burning her and igniting her clothing. Ralph and another member of the Milton Yacht Club managed to extinguish the flames that were burning her clothing. Volunteers from the Milton Yacht Club started a bucket brigade, and the fire on the boat was extinguished with little damage. Ralph was burned about the hands and face in rescuing his wife. Margaret was taken to Milton Hospital suffering from severe burns on her body, face and hands. Despite this tragedy, Ralph continued to race boats with his brother until at least 1933.

In the 1940 census, Ralph and his wife Margaret had moved to 89 Central Avenue in Milton. Margaret’s nephew, William Heusser, age 20, was living with them; they had no children of their own. In 1942, Ralph registered for the WWII draft under the name Ralph Robinson Martin. He was still working as a health inspector for the city of Boston. His card described him as 5’4.5” tall, 125 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, and a light complexion.

On October 3, 1950, Ralph passed away in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He was buried with Margaret’s parents, Peter and Annie Hynes, in Jordan Cemetery in Waterford, Connecticut. Margaret passed away in 1961 and was buried next to him.

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Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1860-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

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Year: 1910; Census Place: Boston Ward 24, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_624; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 1631; FHL microfilm: 1374637

Year: 1920; Census Place: Boston Ward 21, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_739; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 525

Year: 1930; Census Place: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Page: 29B; Enumeration District: 0443; FHL microfilm: 2340688

Year: 1940; Census Place: Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Roll: m-t0627-01628; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 11-127

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biographies: John Frederick Martin and Irving Martin

Posted on November 29, 2019 by earltaylor

Martin, John and Irving

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biographies: John Frederick Martin and Irving Martin

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: John Frederick Martin and Irving Martin.

Written by Camille Arbogast.

Brothers John Frederick and Irving Martin were sons of Martha (Farnum) and John Robinson Martin. Both parents had been born in Dorchester and were married in 1883. John F. was born on July 26, 1885, in Milton and Irving was born on November 30, 1898, in Dorchester. John F. and Irving had nine siblings who lived beyond early childhood: Harry born in 1883, William in 1887, Charles in 1889, Ralph in 1891, Eunice in 1894, Marion Lillian in 1895, Ethel in 1900, Ernest in 1902 and Bertram in 1908. Martha had seven other pregnancies; at least five infants died at under a year, most died of digestive troubles or bronchitis, and at least one was stillborn.

At the time of his marriage, their father John Robinson was a blacksmith. On John F.’s birth record, his father’s occupation was reported as quarryman, while the Milton directory for that year listed John Robinson as an employee of H.P. Kidder, an investment banker and resident of the town. By 1898, John Robinson worked for Walter Baker Chocolate, his employer for many years. He generally worked as a mill hand or chocolate maker, and also worked for a time as a night watchman at the factory.

In 1885, the family lived on Pierce Street in East Milton. By 1897, they resided off Squantum Street in East Milton. In 1900, the family rented 1057 Washington Street in Lower Mills. They moved to 90 Butler Street, near the Neponset River, by 1903, and remained there for at least 40 years. Their brother, Charles, died of tuberculosis in 1910, when he was 21.

In May 1916, Irving ran away from home with a few friends: Bert Foster, John Driscoll, and Everett Kellaway. They skipped school, telling their friends they were headed for Florida, and set out with very little money. Their mothers missed them when they did not come home for lunch, and began to worry when they did not return from dinner. The boys, meanwhile, made it as far as Buzzards Bay. From there, they sent postcards to their mothers. “Don’t worry,” they wrote, “we will write when we get a job.” They returned home after about a week.

Less than a year after this adventure, on January 24, 1917, Irving enlisted in the Coast Artillery Corps (CAC). This was before the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917. The CAC provided coastal defense, manning coastal and harbor fixed artillery installations and minefields. Many thought the coast would be the first active front in the United States and joined the CAC hoping for immediate action. When the 55th Artillery was organized from eight existing Coast Defense companies in December 1917, Irving’s CAC company became Battery B, 55th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, 31st Heavy Artillery Brigade. Battery B was stationed at Fort Andrews on Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor.

The 55th sailed for France on March 25, 1918, leaving from New York on the ocean liner RMS Mauretania. In France, they trained in Clermont Ferrand in the Auvergne region. On the battlefield, the CAC was responsible for manned heavy artillery. Battery B named their artillery guns “Madeline,” “Lt. Reed,” “Roaring Bertha,” and “Boston Baby,” christening them with champagne. In August, they participated in the Aisne-Marne offensive, attached to the Sixth French Army. In September, they were part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, operating as part of the U.S. First Army and in action for all 47 continuous days of the engagement. When the Armistice was signed, Battery B found they had fired 7,170 rounds, the most of any battalion in the 55th. CAC Artillery units were prioritized for early return to the United States, so they could resume defending the coast. After almost a month in the overcrowded Camp Pontazen in Brest, France, they sailed on January 10, 1919, travelling on the HMS Cretic. They arrived in New York on January 22. From there, the 55th went to Camp Mills, Mineola, Long Island for delousing, then performed a short stint as Coast Defense on Long Island Sound around New London, Connecticut. On February 11, 1919, Irving was discharged. The 55th was strongly identified with Boston, and when the soldiers returned to the city, a band received them at South Station and a reception was held for them on the Common.

John entered the Army on September 5, 1917. He had been working for about ten years by that time, first as a boilermaker, and later as a painter for Shay Brothers of 86 Warren Street, Boston. In the Army, he was sent to the 151st Depot Brigade for training at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, before serving as a Private in Company D, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division. On April 16, 1918, he sailed for Europe on the USS Calamares, leaving from Hoboken, New Jersey. The 5th Division participated in the engagements at Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne. After the Armistice, the division was part of the Army of Occupation in Belgium and Luxembourg. John returned home earlier than most of the 60th Infantry, traveling to the United States with a casual company which sailed from Bordeaux on December 25, 1918, on the S.S. Pastores. He was discharged on March 12, 1919.

After the war, John and Irving returned to 90 Butler Street. On January 16, 1922, John married Mary A. (Cavanagh) Monynihan, a widow with two children who lived in Mattapan. Before her first marriage in 1911, she had worked as a housekeeper. She had two children, John J. born in 1913 and Marguerite in 1914. Her first husband died in 1915. John and Mary were married by Reverend Francis J. Ryan, of St. Angela’s Church on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan. John and Mary would go on to have two children together: John A. and Joseph Martin.

At the time of his marriage, John was a student. Later, he resumed work as a painter. In 1923, John and Mary purchased 40 Dyer Avenue in Milton, where John lived for the rest of his life. He began working as a custodian at the Massachusetts School of Art, then located at 364 Brookline Avenue in the Fenway, in 1937. In 1940, he earned $1150. John died on August 2, 1954, of kidney and heart disease. A Mass of High Requiem was held for him at Milton’s St. Mary of the Hills Church and he was buried in Milton. John was a member of the Milton Post, Number 114 American Legion.

Irving was married on November 5, 1925, wedding Violet Augusta Bickerton, a Canadian immigrant living at 47 Sturbridge Street in Dorchester. Born in Joggins Mines, Nova Scotia, Violet came to the United States in 1909. They were married by Reverend Eugene Dinsmore Dolloff of the Blaney Memorial Baptist Church in Dorchester. They had one son, Irving E. Martin born in 1927.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Irving worked as a roofer and house painter. The 1930 census reported he was unemployed and no occupation was listed for him in the Boston directory during the 1930s. By 1926, Irving and Violet lived at 1256 Morton Street. In 1929, they moved to 902 Adams Street. The 1930 census reported they lived at 866 North Main Street, in Randolph. By 1934, they were back in Dorchester, at 14 River Street. By 1935, they moved to at 47 Cook Terrace (later renamed Cookson Terrace) in Mattapan. Early on New Year’s Day 1940, Irving was hit by a car in Quincy. His car had run out of gas and he was headed to a gas station, walking along Willard Street in West Quincy, when Boston University graduate student John B. York struck him. Another driver took Irving to the Quincy City Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Irving was buried in the Milton Cemetery.

Sources

Birth & Death Records, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts; Ancestry.com

Births Registered in the City of Boston 1898, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001; FamilySearch.org

Boston & Milton directories, various years, Ancestry.com

US Federal Census, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940; Ancestry.com

“Warm Welcome from Their Fathers on Return,” Boston Globe, 3 May 1916: 20; Newspapers.com

“Dorchester District,” Boston Globe, 9 May 1916: 4; Newspapers.com

Applications for Headstones for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1941. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Ancestry.com

Cutler, Frederick Morse. The 55th Artillery (CAC) in the American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918. Worcester, MA: Commonwealth Press, 1920; Archive.org

Lists of Outgoing & Incoming Passengers, 1917-1938, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, The National Archives at College Park, Maryland; Ancestry.com

World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration; Ancestry.com

“United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940:” FamilySearch.org

The Official History of the Fifth Division, U. S. A. Washington, DC: Society of the Fifth Division, 1919; Archive.org

“Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915,” State Archives, Boston, Massachusetts; FamilySearch.org

Deed, 40 Dyer Ave, Milton, MA, May 1923, Norfolk County Registry of Deeds, Book 1555, page 124; NorfolkResearch.org

Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of the Selective Service System, National Archives and Records Administration; Ancestry.com

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“B.U. Graduate Student Fined After Fatality,” Boston Globe, 12 June 1940: 6; Newspapers.com

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Frederick William Marshall

Posted on November 29, 2019 by earltaylor

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Frederick William Marshall

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Frederick William Marshall.

Written by Camille Arbogast.

Frederick William Marshall, sometimes known as Fred, was born on May 27, 1891, in Hyde Park. His parents, Julius Edwin and Emma Jeanne (Twombly), were from Clinton County, New York. They had six other children: Isabella born in 1883, Napoleon in 1885, Pearl in 1887, Annie in 1890, Emma in 1898, and Eva in 1901. By 1900, the family lived Milton. Over the next two decades they moved regularly within the town, living first on Highland Street, then moving to Artwill Street in 1910, to Lincoln Street in 1914, and to 59 Pleasant Street by 1916. In Milton, Julius worked at the G.H. Bent Company cracker factory at 7 Pleasant Street. We don’t believe Frederick had a Dorchester connection and we were unable to determine why he was included in Dr. Perkins’s collection.

In 1908, Frederick graduated from Milton’s Consolidated High School. In 1910, he was a house carpenter. In 1912, he appeared in the Milton directory as a clerk. By 1914, he was a streetcar conductor.

During the First World War, Frederick served as a Wagoneer in Battery B, 55th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps (CAC), 31st Heavy Artillery Brigade. The CAC manned coastal and harbor fixed artillery instillations and minefields. On the battlefield, the CAC was responsible for manned heavy artillery. As a Wagoner, Frederick drove animal-drawn transport, maintained wagons, and cared for the animals that pulled the vehicles.

The 55th Artillery was organized in December 1917. Frederick served in the 55th throughout the “entire career” of the unit. He was probably already in the Coast Artillery prior to formation of the 55th, as eight preexisting Coast Defense companies formed the unit. The regimental history explained that many men volunteered for the Coast Artillery thinking the coast would be the first active front for American troops. Battery B was stationed at Fort Andrews on Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor.

The 55th sailed for France on March 25, 1918, leaving from New York on the RMS Mauretania, landing in Liverpool on April 2. Five days later, they sailed from Southampton to Le Havre on the steamer HMS Antrim. They took a train through France to Clermont Ferrand in the Auvergne region, where they trained. When their heavy artillery guns arrived, Battery B named theirs “Madeline,” “Lt. Reed,” “Roaring Bertha,” and “Boston Baby,” christening them with champagne.

In August, they participated in the Aisne-Marne offensive, attached to Sixth French Army. Battery B was stationed east of Arcis-le-Ponsart, “about eight miles from their targets” and about “five miles from the German front lines.” On August 14, the battery sustained their first casualty in action when a man was hit by a shell near a machine gun. Later, “a German plane was forced down immediately in front of Bat. B’s position” and the aviators were taken prisoner. When the battery’s pet kitten was injured by a shell-fragment, they gave the cat the official honor of a wound chevron, or uniform patch, drawn “with indelible ink on puss’ shoulder, and were doubly proud of their mascot.”

In September, they were part of the Meuse-Argonne offensive, now operating as part of the U.S. First Army. The 55th was in action for all 47 continuous days of the engagement. They were tasked with “silencing and destroying the enemy artillery” and “harassing and interdiction fire on the enemy’s lines of communication.”

When the Armistice was signed, Battery B found they had fired 7,170 rounds, the most of any battalion in the 55th. CAC Artillery units were prioritized for early return to the United States, so they could resume defending the coast. After almost a month in the overcrowded Camp Pontazen in Brest, France, the 55th sailed, leaving on January 10, 1919, on the HMS Cretic. They arrived in New York on January 22. From there, the 55th went first to Camp Mills, Mineola, Long Island for delousing, then performed a short stint as Coast Defense on Long Island Sound around New London, Connecticut. Frederick was discharged in early February. A band at South Station received him and other returning Boston-area 55th soldiers, and there was a reception for them on the Boston Common.

Frederick returned to 59 Pleasant Street and his job as a street car conductor. In the 1920s, he was active with the Carmen’s Union. According to the 1920 census, his other siblings were no longer living in the family home. Frederick’s sister, Isabelle, died in 1914 and his brother, Napoleon, in 1918. His parents had boarders living with them: a young man, Edward Hurley, who was also a streetcar conductor, as well as two small children, Edward and Anna Lamphier

In November 1921, Frederick married Rose A. Gately of 41 Clifford Street in Roxbury, the station receiver at the Milton car barn. They were married at St. John’s Church on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury by Reverend James F. Grimes. Frederick’s best man was Battery B Private James F. Driscoll of 289 Reedsdale Road, Milton.

Frederick and Rose’s daughter Rosemary was born in 1922 in Pelham. In 1924, they purchased two and a half acres of land on Oak Street in Randolph, from James Gately. William Junior was born in Brockton in 1926. That year, the Randolph directory listed Frederick as an operator for the Boston Elevated Railway, living at 189 Oak Street in North Randolph. Their youngest daughter, Helen, was born in 1928.

In 1930, the census reported Frederick as raising poultry. In 1937, the Boston directory once again listed him working for the Boston Elevated; the 1940 census reported he was a bus driver out of Mattapan Square, making $1,800 a year. He appears in directories as a Boston Elevated operator through the mid-1950s. In 1950, the Randolph directory listed Frederick, Rose, and daughter Rosemary residing at 15 Cole Terrace. At the end of his life, he lived at 106 Oak Street.

Frederick died on June 23, 1967. A Solemn High Mass of Requiem was celebrated at St. Bernadette’s Church in North Randolph. His wife died shortly after him, passing on August 23, 1967. Frederick was a member of the Boston Carmen’s Post Veterans of a Foreign War Number 3400.

Sources

Birth Record, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts; Ancestry.com

Family Tree; Ancestry.com

Federal Census 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940; Ancestry.com

Boston, Milton, Randolph Directories, various years; Ancestry.com

72 Annual Town Report of Milton Mass for the Year Ending December 31, 1908, Compiled by the Auditors. Boston: Poole Printing, 1909; Archive.org

Cutler, Frederick Morse. The 55th Artillery (C.A.C) in the American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918. Worcester, MA: Commonwealth Press, 1920; HathiTrust.org

Lists of Outgoing & Incoming Passengers, 1917-1938. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, The National Archives at College Park, Maryland; Ancestry.com

“Carmen’s Union Names Convention Delegates,” Boston Globe, 16 July 1929: 11; Newspapers.com

“Miss Rose A. Gately Weds Overseas Veteran,” Boston Globe, 25 Nov 1921: 8: Newspapers.com

Deed, 14 February 1924, Gately to Marshall, Oak St, Randolph; NorfolkResearch.org

United States, Selective Service System. Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration. Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration; Ancestry.com

Deaths, Boston Globe, 24 June 1967: 22; Newspapers.com

Deaths, Boston Globe, 24 August 1967: 42; Newspapers.com

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Roy Holman Magwood

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

Magwood, Roy Holman

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Roy Holman Magwood

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Roy Holman Magwood.

Written by Julie Wolf.

Roy Holman Magwood was born at 17 School Street in Dorchester on April 23, 1892; his family lived at 31 Vinson Street. Roy’s mother, Lillia T. Witherbee, who owned the School Street residence, was also a native of Dorchester, born around 1856. His father, Robert H. Magwood, was born in Charleston, SC, in 1861. By 1880, Roy’s father had moved to Boston; in that year’s census, Robert and his own father, living at 8 Grove Street, were described as mulatto. By the time Roy’s parents married in Pennsylvania in 1889, however, Robert’s race was recorded as white. Records describe Robert’s sisters and relatives in Charleston as mulatto, black, and colored. It is unknown whether Roy, an only child, knew these relatives or anything about his family’s racial identity, but he himself described his race as white. .

Around 1902, the Magwoods moved to 63 Vinson Street. Roy’s father was a prominent citizen and sought-after speaker on temperance, holding office in organizations including the Antisaloon League and the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society. Both parents were leading members of Codman Square’s Second Church; Robert was a deacon for 36 years, and Lillia headed its Chinese Sunday school. From 1922 to 1927, Robert was president of the Dorchester Historical Society.

In his youth, Roy garnered frequent mention in The Boston Globe’s society pages, including as a guest at “leap-year birthday parties” celebrated by a Vinson Street neighbor every four years.  After graduating from Dorchester High School in 1910 and from Harvard University in 1914, he worked as a salesman in Wyoming and Denver, CO. In 1917, he was a commercial engineer for Newark, NJ’s American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the employer on his World War I draft registration card. We are not sure where he lived during this time, ashe gave his address as 63 Vinson Street. Roy entered Officers’ Training Camp in Plattsburg, NY, in May 1917. Commissioned in November as a 2d lieutenant, Field Artillery, he was assigned to Camp Devens’s 303d Field Artillery, 76th Division and transferred to the Field Artillery Replacement Depot at Camp Jackson, SC, in May 1918. A month later, Roy was sent to the Field Artillery Replacement Depot at Kentucky’s Camp Zachary Taylor, promoted to 1st lieutenant in August and captain in October. He was discharged in St. Louis on December 30, 1918.

Returning home, Roy enrolled in the Boston Continuation School’s Shoe and Leather Class, one of eight men who earned certificates in March 1919. On January 3, 1920, he married Nina Louise York (called Louise) of Denver, whom he had likely met while working there. Early in their marriage, Roy was a clerk for Boston’s U.S. Shoe Leather Company on Essex Street. Along with four boarders, the newlyweds lived with Roy’s parents until relocating to Atlanta, where Roy became a salesman for leather and shoe-store-equipment dealer H. Wilensky & Sons. They remained in Atlanta for two years before returning to New England. Their only child, Lois, was born in Manchester, CT, in 1923. Lois would become a darling of New York’s 1940s nightclub scene, a “showgirl” lauded by gossip columnist Walter Winchell as “a sixth cousin of Abe Lincoln;” Roy’s wife descended from the family of Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks.

Roy resumed military service during the 1920s, although his duties are unknown. In 1924, a Columbus, IN., newspaper noted the visit of “Captain Roy H. Magwood of Boston, Mass., who is stationed at Camp Taylor, Louisville, for the present.” No address could be located for him until 1928, when his father’s obituary placed him in Framingham. This was also his home in the 1930 census. An assistant manager for J. C. Penney Co., he and Louise lived at 46 Union Avenue with a 63-year-old female boarder.

A year later, as district manager for the Berkeley Textile Company, Roy and family moved to New Hampshire. In three years, they would have as many addresses: 56 Howard and 45 Franklin, both in Keene; and, as of 1934, 137 Broad Street in Claremont, Roy’s home through at least 1954. Around 1935, he opened the Magwood Clothing Company at Claremont’s 4 Tremont Square, which he operated for about two decades.

World War II saw another return to service, with duties again unclear. On July 16, 1942, 50-year-old Roy, a captain, was stationed at Georgia’s Chickamauga National Park, which temporarily housed prisoners of war but was primarily the Women’s Auxiliary Corps basic training site. After his discharge on June 29, 1947, he returned to Claremont. For the next several years, while still running his store, he served as the town’s director of civil defense. In this capacity, he oversaw New Hampshire’s first air raid alert in 1950.

Roy ultimately relocated to Clearwater, FL, leaving retail for finance. In September 1960, he was hired by the investment firm Grimm & Company after being similarly employed on Wall Street and in Lake Wales and Clearwater. His address appears in Clearwater’s 1960 city directory as 19 Idlewild, Apartment 3.

Either shifting careers or retired, in January 1961, Roy took a position as program assistant for nearby Largo’s new townwide recreation department, serving as a chess instructor. From 1963 throughout the decade, Roy ran free chess classes and all-ages chess tournaments for Clearwater Parks and Recreation.

By the time Roy moved to Florida, he and Louise were apparently separated. Her obituary from 1972, which lists only her daughter as a survivor, suggests that she joined Roy in Florida around 1969—at least part-time, as her name appears simultaneously in San Diego city directories. Whatever the state of their marriage, they shared Roy’s 1009 Pearce Drive apartment in Clearwater in their final years. Roy died almost a year after Louise, on February 20, 1973. His obituary describes him as a “retired broker” and lists no survivors, although Lois was still alive. Funeral services took place at Moss Lakeside Chapel.

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Henry Found MacLeod

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

McLeod, Harry Found

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Henry Found MacLeod

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Henry Found MacLeod.

Written by Camille Arbogast.

Henry Found MacLeod, known as Harry, was born August 24, 1871, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to James, a merchant tailor, and Margaret (Barnes) MacLeod. James had been born in Inverness-shire, Scotland, and Margaret in Ontario. They were married in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in 1869. Margaret was James’s second wife, and they had a large family; Harry had at least thirteen siblings and half siblings. By 1881, the family lived in Charlottetown, where Harry attended Charlottetown Academy. In 1891, he graduated from Saint Dustan’s College (later part of the University of Prince Edward Island).

Henry attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1894 as a Doctor of Medicine. He was naturalized an American citizen in 1898. By that time, he was living in Dorchester at 995 Washington Street, and was a practicing physician. “Here he has achieved a wide reputation as a skillful and successful practitioner, both in medicine and surgery,” claimed a short biography of him written in the early 20th century. In addition to a private practice, he was also a physician for the Prudential Insurance Company and the Clyde Steamship Line, as well as serving as medical examiner for private clubs including Order of Scotch Clans, Ancient Order of United Workingmen, and New England Order of Protection.

On November 7, 1899, he married Annie S. Payne, also from Charlottetown. Prior to her marriage, she was an associate professor at Charlottetown’s Prince of Wales College. Harry and Annie settled at 165-173 Norfolk Street, where both their home and Harry’s practice were located. In 1900, Annie’s brother John, 18, lived with them; by 1910, John had moved out and another brother, James, a 22-year-old mechanical engineer, had moved in. A son, Henry Charles, also known as Harry, was born in 1900.

On January 11, 1909, young Harry accompanied his father on a patient visit. They drove home along Blue Hill Avenue. As they turned and crossed the trolley tracks to go down Lauriat Avenue, they were hit by the Mattapan trolley, which was traveling at a high speed. The loud crash of the initial impact was heard around the neighborhood. The automobile was flung about 50 feet, then hit a trolley pole, crumpling and overturning it. Father and son were thrown from the vehicle and young Harry was trapped underneath it, yet neither were seriously injured. The accident, with a photograph of the wrecked car, was front page news.

In 1918, they moved their home and the practice to 544 Washington Street. That September, Harry was appointed a Medical Captain by the War Department and was sent for training to Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, near the Chickamauga Civil War battlefield. He probably trained at the Camp Greenleaf section of the fort complex, home to an extensive military medical program. In December, he was transferred to Camp Lee, near Petersburg, Virginia. Harry was discharged on August 21, 1919.

In 1926, Harry and Annie purchased 1275 Brook Road in East Milton, where they lived for thirteen years. He maintained the office at 544 Washington Street in Dorchester, appearing as a physician at this address in Boston city directories through the mid-1930s. Their son, Harry C., had become a priest, having joined the order of the Society of Jesus, more commonly known as the “Jesuits,” in 1917. In 1932, he was the superintendent of Winchester House, a leper colony in Kingston, Jamaica. When he became ill with spinal meningitis, Harry and Annie rushed to Jamaica to administer a “special serum” to treat him, taking the Havana Special to Miami. On their way south, Harry was called upon to treat a railroad brakeman whose leg had been severed under the train wheel when he fell from the train. From Miami they flew to Kingston. Harry C. recovered and returned to live in the Boston area. For many years he was an assistant parish priest at Holy Trinity Church on Shawmut Avenue in Boston. During World War II, he followed in his father’s military footsteps when he served as a Naval Chaplain.

In late 1939, Harry and Annie sold their home in East Milton. The next year, Harry appeared on the 1940 census as a resident of the Holy Ghost Hospital for Incurables on Cambridge Street in Cambridge (later Youville Hospital and today part of the Spaulding Rehabilitation system). The hospital cared for patients suffering from cancer, tuberculosis, paralysis, heart disease, tumors, rheumatism, and joint and bone disease. In 1942, the Boston directory listed Harry’s residence as 391 Old Colony Avenue, South Boston, though it is likely he was still in the hospital. Annie died of a heart attack in June 1942.

Harry died six months later on December 21, 1942, of cerebral thrombosis, or a blood clot in the brain, and pneumonia at the Holy Ghost Hospital for Incurables. A Solemn High Mass of Requiem was celebrated for him at Holy Trinity Church on Shawmut Avenue in Boston. He was buried in St. Joseph Cemetery in West Roxbury beside his wife; later, their son was buried there, as well. Harry was a member of the Rose Croix Council of the Knights of Columbus; Norfolk Court Number 145 of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters; the Massachusetts Medical Association; and the Thomas Roberts Post of the American Legion, Number 179.

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Henry Found MacLeod

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: George Andrew Holst

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

Holst, George

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: George Andrew Holst

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: George Andrew Holst.

Written by Carmille Arbogast.

George Andrew Holst was born March 1, 1888, at 85 Condor Street in East Boston. His parents, John Oscar and Augusta Mathilda (Svanson), were Swedish immigrants. John was a machinist. Married in Boston in November 1882, they had four other children: Albert born in 1883, Victoria in 1885, Esther in 1895, and Florence in 1897.

In 1898, Augusta died of empyema, or a build-up of fluid in the pleural cavity around the lungs, a condition often associated with pneumonia. Later that year, John remarried, wedding Mina Droulet Stone. They had six children: Grace born in 1900, Olga in 1901, Alice in 1904, Lorimer in 1906, Douglas in 1908, and John Oscar Junior in 1910. In 1900, the family lived on Waldo Street in Dedham. By 1910, they had moved to 19 Ericsson Street in the Port Norfolk section of Dorchester. By that time, George was working as a machinist, his life-long career.

On June 26, 1912, George married Marion Edith DeLappe of 544 Ashmont Street. Marion was a clerk. They were married by the Reverend Winthrop Peabody of All Saints Church in Peabody Square. The couple moved in with her parents, carpenter John and his wife, Mary. On July 26, 1913, George and Marion had a daughter, Mildred Edith, born at the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital. Mildred died of broncho-pneumonia less than a year later in January 1914, and was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

In 1917, George, Marion, and her parents lived at 16 Tolman Street in the Neponset neighborhood of Dorchester. George was working for the Coffin Valve Manufacturing Company, which specialized in fire hydrants. On his draft registration, George claimed exemption from service on the grounds that Marion was financially dependent upon him. He also stated he had served in the Massachusetts Militia for three years as a mechanic. On his notecard for George Holst, Dr. Perkins noted that George was selected in the draft, but given an exemption. In 1917, George enlisted in the Navy as a Mechanic First Class and was stationed at the United States Experimental Station in New London, Connecticut.

In 1920, George was again living on Tolman street with Marion and her parents. By 1930, he had purchased a home on Main Street in Millis. His in-laws, along with one of their married daughters, her husband, and their son, rented the other unit in the building. At this time, George was a production assistant in a locomotive shop. In the early 1940s, he worked for Mason Neilan Valve Company on Medway Street in Dorchester.

Marion died in January 1941. She was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery. The next year, George married again, marrying widow Stella L. (Rankin) Coldwell in Millis. Stella died in 1954 and was buried in Millis’s Prospect Hill cemetery, beside her first husband. George married for a third time to Laura B. Curtis and they lived together at 222 Sherman Street in Canton. Laura died suddenly in July 1966.

George died in Cambridge on March 14, 1977. He was a longtime member of the Charles River Masonic Lodge.

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: George Osman Holdstock

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

Holdstock, George Osman

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: George Osman Holdstock

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: George Osman Holdstock

Written by Donna Albino.

George Osman Holdstock was born in South Boston, on December 27, 1892. His parents, Henry Holdstock and Mary (Webster) Holdstock, lived at 5 Sayward Place in Andrew Square when he was born, and his father was a furniture trimmer. Henry was an immigrant from England, and Mary was an immigrant from Scotland. George was the second child in the family; their son Henry had been born three years earlier.

By 1900, the family had moved to a rented home at 40 Cedar Street in the Lower Mills area. George’s father was working as a furniture shipper. The family was still living at this address in 1910. George was  18 years old, and working as a brass worker in a stencil works company. His father was a wood worker in an upholstery company, and his brother Henry was an upholsterer in an upholstery company, so it seems likely that two men worked together. By 1913, the family had moved to nearby 50 Idaho Street.

The year 1914 was a busy one for George and his family. The family moved to Milton that year, George performed a piano solo at Roxbury Evening Commercial High School’s graduation ceremony in April of 1914, and in June of 1914, George was best man at his brother Henry’s wedding at their Milton home at 162 Eliot Street.

On June 5, 1917, at the age of 24, George registered for the war draft. He was still living with his parents at 162 Eliot Street in Milton, and working as an assistant bookkeeper for the Diamond Match Company in Boston. He enlisted in the United States Army on July 20, 1917. George served as supply sergeant for the 302nd Infantry Regiment. A supply sergeant gets supplies to the base and into the hands of soldiers, and conducts supply room inventories and makes sure Army property is secure from theft. The 302nd was one of the primary subordinate units of the 151st Infantry Brigade, which was assigned to the 76th Infantry Division. The 302nd Infantry served in France July 21 to November 11, 1918.

The 76th Infantry Division was known as the “Liberty Bell Division.” It was organized at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts in September of 1917. George and 89 other men from the Milton area joined them at Camp Devens on September 21. The division was composed of National Army drafts from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut. George departed on the RMS Aquitania for France on July 5, 1918, with the first units of the 76th Infantry Division. The RMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner, and served as both a troop transport and as a hospital ship during WWI. Upon arrival in France, the division was designated as a depot division and ordered to the St. Aignan area. Here the division was broken up, training cadres were formed, and the men were used as replacements for combat divisions at the front.

The USS Eten was a troop transport that made two trips to France to repatriate United States troops after the war. George returned to the United States on one of those trips, traveling with the St. Mignan Casual Company from the port at St. Nazaire, France on June 12, 1919. He was released from duty on July 9, 1919.

After the war, George returned to his parents’ home, now at 29 Ashmont Street in Dorchester, for a few years. He became a member of Hammett Masonic Lodge in East Boston in 1920, and was awarded a veterans medal. In July 1921, the announcement of George’s engagement ran in the Boston Post, where he worked in the financial department. George was engaged to Grace Linscott, also a Dorchester resident. On April 8, 1922, George and Grace were married, and by 1923, the couple had moved to the Wollaston area of Quincy, where they  started their family. By 1930, they owned their home at 33 Dunbarton Road. They had two daughters, Virginia age 7, and Priscilla age 2.

George and Grace led seemingly quiet lives in Quincy. In 1972, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They were still living at 33 Dunbarton Road, and they had seven grandchildren. George passed away on July 11, 1980, and was buried at Blue Hill Cemetery in Braintree. His wife Grace was buried next to him in 1987, and their daughter Virginia joined them in 2012.

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Year: 1920; Census Place: Boston Ward 21, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_739; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 515

Year: 1930; Census Place: Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 0108; FHL microfilm: 2340671

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Guy Frederick Hadlock

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

Hadlock, Guy Frederick

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Guy Frederick Hadlock

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Guy Frederick Hadlock.

Written by Camille Arbogast.

Guy Frederick Hadlock was born in Boston on June 15, 1890. His father, George Frederick Hadlock, born in Charlestown, was a carpenter. His mother, Emma Esther (Abbott), was from Cambridge. Married in Boston in September 1889, Frederick and Emma also had a daughter, Ruth, born in 1897.

In 1900, the family lived in a rented home on Brook Road in Milton. Included in their household was a servant, 20 year-old Ada McAllister of New Brunswick. By 1910, they owned 16 Ashmont Street in Dorchester. That year, Guy graduated from Boston’s Mechanic Arts High School, located in the Back Bay at Belvidere and Dalton Streets. Guy then went to work as a clerk in the office of the Boston Belting Company at 256 Devonshire Street. Makers of belts, hoses, and rubber goods, the Boston Belting Company was one of the largest rubber manufacturers in the world. In 1914, still working as a clerk, Guy moved to the Boston Belting Company’s factory location, 84 Linden Park Street, Roxbury (the location of today’s Reggie Lewis Center). He was still in this job in June 1917, when he registered for the draft.

On December 8, 1917, Guy entered military service. Six months later, he sailed for Europe, leaving from Brooklyn on the USS Roepat, as a private in Section A, Advance Animal Transport Depot 302, Quartermaster Corps. He returned to the United States on June 28, 1919, sailing from Saint-Nazaire, France, on the USS Marcia. By that time, he had been promoted to Sergeant. He was discharged on July 17, 1919.

While Guy was in the service, his parents died. First, his mother passed away in March 1918. About a year later his father followed, dying shortly after becoming ill while at work on a carpentering job. Returning to Dorchester after the war, Guy again lived at 16 Ashmont Street  with his sister Ruth and their aunt and uncle Mary and Charles Jones. He was shipper at a rubber company, perhaps having returned to the Boston Belting Company. His uncle Charles was a railroad conductor. Ruth worked as a clerk for an insurance company. In 1923, at 16 Ashmont Street, Ruth was married to William Botting by the pastor of the Second Congregational Church, Dorchester. By this time, Guy, who was the best man, had moved to Portland, Maine.

Guy appears in the Portland directory as early as 1920. He continued to maintain a presence in the Boston directory, as well, appearing as a salesman living at 16 Ashmont until 1926, when he was listed as removed to Portland. All through the 1920s, he appeared in the Portland directory, first as a manager at 686 Congress Street, then, beginning in 1923, as a reporter out of 31 ½ Exchange Street. In 1923, he lived at 12 Dow Street; in 1925, at 1 Spring Street Place; and in 1927, at 16 Delano Park, in the nearby town of Cape Elizabeth.

On July 27, 1931, in Conway, New Hampshire, Guy married Vera L. Bartlett, a music teacher from Portland, with family roots in Gorham, Maine. On July 31, 1931, their son Guy, Jr.was born. They settled at 24 Quincy Street in Portland.

In the early 1930s, Guy continued to work at 31 ½ Exchange Street, from 1933 until 1935 as a chief clerk. In 1936, he appeared in the Portland directory as a cashier at 4 Winslow Street. After 1937, the directory listings for Guy give no profession. On the 1940 census, Guy’s occupation was reported as “Credit Man, Private Investigation,” but he was actually unemployed and had been for 110 weeks. Vera was working as a music teacher.

Guy died on January 15, 1944. Vera passed away a few months later in May 1944. Their son was killed in a car accident in 1953, while training as an airman at Sampson Air Force Base in New York State. They are all buried in Eastern Cemetery in Gorham, Maine

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Henry Higgins Gross

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

Gross, Henry Higgins on the right

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Henry Higgins Gross

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Henry Higgins Gross.

Written by Donna Albino.

Henry Higgins Gross was born on June 4, 1893, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Sylvester Gross and Ellen (Pelrine) Gross. Henry was their second child; their first child was a son named Arthur, born two years earlier. The family had moved several times between Milton and Dorchester Lower Mills for a few years. By 1900, the family had settled in a rented house at 22 Bakers Court in Lower Mills, and Sylvester was working as a coachman. Two more children had been born to the family: a son named William, and a daughter named Mary.

In 1910, the family was renting a home at 12 Millers Lane in the Lower Mills neighborhood of Dorchester. Sylvester was working as a teamster for a chocolate factory, and Henry, then 17 years old, was working as a clerk for an insurance company.

On June 5, 1917, Henry registered for the draft. He was 24 years old and self-employed in the express business. He was living with his parents at 1234 Morton Street in Lower Mills. On his draft card, Henry claimed exemption from the war for business reasons, but a few months later, on November 23, 1917, he enlisted with the National Guard. Henry served with the 28th Company of the Boston Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Standish, a coastal fort located on Lovell’s Island in Boston Harbor. After the American entry into World War I, in early 1917, the fort was expanded to include temporary structures such as quarters and addition storehouses, and hosted seven gun batteries. Several of these were earmarked for potential use in the war effort, but were never sent overseas.

Henry was then transferred to Battery F, 55th Artillery Coast Artillery Corps until March 24, 1918. The US Army Coast Artillery Corps was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and aircraft defense of the United States, and operated heavy and railway artillery during WWI. On March 25, 1918, Henry was listed with the 55th as a passenger on the RMS Mauretania heading to France, but his name was crossed out on the passenger list. According to his service card, Henry had been transferred to Battery F, 54th Artillery Coast Artillery Corps.

The Maine Regular Army Coast Artillery formed Battery F of the 54th Artillery Coast Corps. The battery was trained and issued new steel helmets, something that the American Army would use for the first time during combat, and another first-time item, a round aluminum dog tag. They were also issued rifles, packs and all small items a soldier would need, but not artillery pieces. Americans had no heavy artillery that was mobile to take to France. The 54th Battery F had already left on the SS Canada on March 22, and Henry was not on that ship. He sailed instead on March 30, 1918 with the Overseas Casual Company on the USS President Lincoln to Hoboken, NJ and then on to France to work at the Trench Artillery Center until his discharge on April 11, 1919 from Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts.

After the war, Henry did not stay in Massachusetts. He met Margaret McCarrick, a young woman living in New York City with her mother, and working as a stenographer. In April of 1920, he and Margaret McCarrick registered for a marriage license in New York City, and married in May of 1920. In the 1925 New York census, they were living at 269 West 153rd Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. They had three children: a son and two daughters. Henry was working as a chauffeur. In the 1930 census, the family had moved to 146 West 168th Street in the Bronx, and they had had a second son. William was working as a chauffeur for a private family. In the 1940 census, the family was still living at the same address, and William was still working as a chauffeur.

Henry Higgins Gross lived a quiet life in New York City until he passed away on December 30, 1971. His wife and four children survived him, as well as nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He was buried at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

Sources:

Fold3, Boston City Directories, 1891-1897

Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan; Volume Number: 5

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New York, New York City Marriages, 1829-1940

Year: 1900; Census Place: Boston Ward 24, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 1531; FHL microfilm: 1240688

Year: 1910; Census Place: Boston Ward 24, Suffolk, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_625; Page: 15A; Enumeration District: 1633; FHL microfilm: 1374638

New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 09; Assembly District: 04; City: Rochester Ward 10; County: Monroe; Page: 35

New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1925; Election District: 37; Assembly District: 22; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 29

Year: 1930; Census Place: Bronx, Bronx, New York; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0110; FHL microfilm: 2341201

Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02466; Page: 10B; Enumeration District: 3-244B

Registration State: Massachusetts; Registration County: Suffolk; Roll: 1685013; Draft Board: 21

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Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Ray Boutelle Greene

Posted on November 28, 2019 by earltaylor

Green, Ray B

Dorchester Illustration World War One Service Member biography: Ray Boutelle Greene

At the Dorchester Historical Society, we are in the process of a year-long project to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I. Using a collection of photographs we have of WWI Dorchester residents, we will be featuring servicemen in a number of short biographies throughout the year. At the culmination of the project, we hope to produce an online exhibit that highlights these men and their service to our country.

Our next biography features: Ray Boutelle Greene.

Written by Camille Arbogast.

Ray Boutelle Greene was born on July 19, 1892, in Clinton, Massachusetts. His father, Henry Herbert Greene, had also been born in Clinton. His mother, Lillian Pierce (Boutelle), known as Lilla, was from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where her parents ran a bakery on Circle Street. Henry and Lilla were married in Fitchburg in 1887, then settled in Clinton. In addition to Ray, they had a daughter, Helen, who was born in 1889.

The family moved to Dorchester in 1894, living at 1015 Dorchester Avenue. By 1903, they were living at 537 Park Street in Dorchester where the family resided for many years. Ray’s paternal grandmother, Mary J. Greene, lived with the family.

At the time of Ray’s birth, Henry was a bank clerk. The next year, the Clinton directory listed him as a bookkeeper at the First National Bank. By 1910, he was a treasurer at the Walter M. Lowney Company, a chocolate manufacturer known for its Cherry Blossom, a special chocolate-covered cherry with coconut and peanuts mixed into the chocolate shell. The company had a Boston office at 486 Hanover Street, as well as a large factory in Mansfield along the Boston and Providence rail line. Lilla was a musician and “musical advisor,” according to her obituary. Helen, too, was musical, and gave music lessons.

In 1911, Ray graduated from the Mechanic Arts High School, located in the Back Bay at Belvidere and Dalton Streets. He served for eight months in the Massachusetts Cavalry sometime before 1917, according to his World War I draft registration. By 1917, Ray was working as an automobile salesman, his life-long profession. He was employed by the Winton Motor Carriage Company in their Boston showroom, located at 674 Commonwealth Avenue, on Boston’s developing Automobile Row. Later, he was associated with the Ford Motor Company, particularly the Lincoln division, which he began selling in 1924.

Ray enrolled in the Navy on April 2, 1918. On his notecard for Ray B. Greene, Dr. Perkins noted that Ray was a Chief Machinist at the United States Naval Aviation Station in Chatham, Massachusetts. Located on Nickerson Neck (today the site of the Eastward Ho! Country Club), and built in 1917, it was one of the first Naval air stations. One of the main duties of the air station was to patrol the coast, watching for enemy craft; in July 1918, a German U-boat did approach off-shore of Orleans, near Nauset Beach, where it fired on a tug and four barges. Ray was discharged from the Navy on September 30, 1921, though he was probably put on inactive duty prior to his discharge.

In 1920, Ray was again living with his family at 537 Park Street and had returned to selling automobiles. On September 28, 1921, he wed Mabel Gertrude Hunter of Dorchester at Trinity Church in Boston. They had two sons, Ray B., Jr. born in 1923, and Richard H. born in 1926.

Initially, Ray and Mabel lived in Watertown, then Newton. In June 1927, they purchased 9 Prince Street in Needham. A few years later, in 1930, the house was valued at $11,000. They employed a live-in housekeeper; in 1930, the housekeeper was Rachel B. Baker, a 22-year-old from Maine. In 1942, they lived at 17 Prince Street (it is unclear whether they moved or the street was renumbered). Ray was still selling cars, now associated with the T.C. Baker Company, a Ford, Mercury, Lincoln Zephyr dealership on Boylston Street, or Route 9, in Brookline Village. In 1945, Ray ran ads in The Boston Globe encouraging readers to “Sell your car to Ray B. Greene,” offering “Top OPA prices paid for good clean cars from ’35 up.” In the 1950s, Ray and Mabel purchased 226 Great Plain Avenue, Needham, and Ray was a car dealer with Clark and White Lincoln-Mercury.

Ray died on August 8, 1962, of heart disease at New England Deaconess Hospital. A service was held for him at Christ Church in Needham and he was buried in the Needham Cemetery.

Sources

Birth Record, “Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911,” New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts; Ancestry.com

Family Tree; Ancestry.com

“Mrs Mary D Boutelle, Former Resident, Dies,” Fitchburg Sentinel, 20 April 1933: 2; Newspapers.com

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“Funeral of Mrs. Lilla Greene,” Fitchburg Sentinel, 1 July 1937: 2; Newspapers.com

Boston Directories; Various Years; Ancestry.com

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Advertisement, Boston Globe, 18 March 1945: 33; Newspapers.com

“Ray B. Green, 70, Auto Executive, of Needham,” Boston Globe, 9 August 1962; 34

Death Certificate, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, attached to Book 21314, page 116, Norfolk County Registry of Deeds; NorfolkResearch.org

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