Herbert Beeman Dow, teacher and insurance agent, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on March 7, 1858, to James Neal and Ellen Sophia (Beeman) Dow. He received his Harvard AB in 1879. Following graduation, he began working as a schoolteacher and principal. Dow served as teacher and then principal of the School of Practice in Wilmot, NH (1879-1880), principal of Proctor Academy in Andover, NH (1880-1881), teacher at the Dearborn-Morgan School in Orange, NJ (1881-1883), principal of Proctor Academy (1883-1887), and principal of Woburn High School in Massachusetts (1887-1890). In 1890, he began working for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, moving the following year to the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company where he worked until his retirement in 1939. Dow began lecturing on insurance at Harvard in 1908, serving as Lecturer on Insurance at the Graduate School of Business Administration from 1908-1914, Lecturer on Life Insurance at the Graduate School of Medicine from 1912-1915, and as Lecturer on Life Insurance at the Graduate School of Business Administration from 1915-1918. He received an honorary AM from Dartmouth College in 1884. In 1883 Dow married Vanie Buck Robinson; they had two children. He died on March 19, 1944.
From the description of Scrapbook of Herbert Dow Beeman, 1874-1882 and 1909. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 780385751
