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SON OF NEW ENGLAND
by H.G.Pearson.
Book Description: Boston, Massachusetts, 1932. 1st Edition. Impressively illustrated, complete with a tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. A Very Good+ copy in the publisher's original gilt-blocked cloth. With card slipcase in Fair condition-tape repairs etc. Sunning to spine. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 292 pages.
''Very Good copy of the first and only edition. A biography, with genealogy, of James Jackson Storrow (1864-1926) business and engineering visionary who was a business partner of Henry Lee Higginson (founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra). He eventually spent four years in Detroit helping start General Motors. Storrow was an investment banker with a penchant for engineering problems, and a lover of the Charles River. He led a campaign that in 1910 resulted in the damming of the Charles River and creation of the Charles River Basin. After Storrow's death, his widow gave $1 million for the establishment of the Storrow Embankment (known also as the Esplanade) along the river in Boston on the condition that the state build no highway along it. However, this did not stop the City of Boston from hiring a traffic consultant from N.Y. City for just that purpose. Boston Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler was also on record as fiercely opposing it. The state legislature was dragooned into supporting the embankment road advocated by Governor Maurice Tobin and the resulting highway was ironically named "James J. Storrow Memorial Drive". - Boston magazine. This book details Storrow's career as an associate of Lee, Higginson & Co., his term as Fuel Administrator for New England, as a leader of the Boston School Committee and as well of the Chamber of Commerce.''
Size: 6.25'' x 9.25'' (approx)
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