Thomas Park Dumaine, the seventh and last child of Frederic C. Dumaine, Sr. and Bessie Dumaine, was born on 21 August 1912, in Groton, Massachusetts . F.C. Dumaine, Sr. (1866-1951) owned Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and was at one time the president of the New Haven Railroad . For reasons unknown, Thomas Park 's name was legally changed to Pierre Thomas by his father at some point in his early childhood. Pierre's nickname was “Spike”. His education and the activities of his early youth are unknown; it is thought that he either picked up a mechanical background working at one or more of his father's holdings over the years and that his early jobs were in his father's mills.
Dumaine was involved in a joint venture between the New Haven Railroad and the Mack Corporation during the early 1950s that resulted in the development of the Mack “FCD” Rail-Bus. He served as President of the New England Transportation Company, a bus and trucking company based in Boston, in the early to mid-1950s.
Dumaine served on the Boston and Maine Railroad 's board of directors during the early to mid-1950s. He possibly resigned after Patrick McGinnis became the railroad's president in January 1956.
Pierre Thomas Dumaine was married to Margaret (last name unknown) until they divorced in 1959. They had two children, Lael and Peter. He married Evelyn Laffery in 1961. He died on 13 August 1987, in Portland, Maine .
From the guide to the Pierre Thomas Dumaine Papers., 1952-1955., (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center .)
