Concord Roll of Honor Committee records, [1917]-1924.

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Concord Roll of Honor Committee records, [1917]-1924.

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Records, [1917]-1924, include: correspondence (ms., typed; plus blank sheet of letterhead), 1922-1924, primarily to/from Prescott Keyes; Committee reports (ms., typed, and printed), 1921, 1923; financial records, 1923-1924; biographical card file of those who served in World War I, including clippings, photographs, letters, etc., kept by Florence W. Richardson ([begun in 1917?]); typed list of those who served, with ms. additions and corrections, 1918; material 1923-1924 relating to permanent memorial (boulder with bronze tablet) dedicated in 1924 (copy of. (Cont.) town vote authorizing Committee to proceed; state permit to move boulder over roads from Lincoln; photographs; clippings; ms., typescript, and printed versions of text on tablet; dedication program in ms., partial typescript, and printed versions; Prescott Keyes' notes for dedication; programs, etc., relating to 1924 observances of Memorial Day by American Legion, GAR, British & Military Veterans Association of Massachusetts).

2.8 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 7373351

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Richardson, F. W. 1855-1921.

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Keyes, Prescott

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Lawyer; district court judge; director, vice president, and president of Concord (Mass.) National Bank; trustee of Middlesex Institution for Savings; president of Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company; resident of Concord and active member of local boards and committees. Born in Concord in 1858 to John Shepard and Martha Lawrence Prescott Keyes; died in Concord in 1943. Married Alice Reynolds (d. 1927) in 1881 and Grace Cahoon Boutwell (d. 1936) in 1928. From the description of Som...

Concord (Mass.). Committee on Roll of Honor

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Committee of Concord, Mass. (subcommittee of Public Safety Committee) formed in 1917 to erect Roll of Honor as memorial to those who served in WWI. Chairman: Prescott Keyes. Efforts of Committee Recorder Florence W. Richardson in compiling listing of and biographical information on those who served were acknowledged in 1919 annual town report. Roll of Honor resulting from Committee's early work, including names of all who served, was erected in Monument Square in 1919. Designed by H...