Roger Sherman Gates Boutell died July 13, 1962, in Santa Barbara, California. He was born in Chicago, October 21, 1881, the son of Henry Sherman and Eugenia Gates Boutell, was a member of the Class of 1903 at Harvard, and later received a degree at George Washington University.
In 1904 he married Avis Burley, who survived him by a month and died in Santa Barbara, August 30, 1962.
He was in the U. S. Foreign Service for a number of years, as Secretary of the American Legation in Berne, then at The Hague. After that, he studied law, passed the bar examinations in both Illinois and the District of Columbia, and received his appointment to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1911; he practiced law with his father in Washington, D. C. For three years he was Law Librarian of the Library of Congress.
He purchased the Tecolote Book Shop in Santa Barbara in 1925 and for the next twenty years he devoted himself to selling books-rare books, manuscripts and first editions, as well as contemporary publications. He is survived by his sons, Clarence Burley Boutell, and Roger Sherman Gates Boutell, Jr.; by his sister, Mrs. Malcolm K. Smith; and by his brother, Hugh C. Boutell. His son, Henry Sherman Boutell, 2d, died in 1931.
In 1904 he married Avis Burley, who survived him by a month and died in Santa Barbara, August 30, 1962.
He was in the U. S. Foreign Service for a number of years, as Secretary of the American Legation in Berne, then at The Hague. After that, he studied law, passed the bar examinations in both Illinois and the District of Columbia, and received his appointment to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1911; he practiced law with his father in Washington, D. C. For three years he was Law Librarian of the Library of Congress.
He purchased the Tecolote Book Shop in Santa Barbara in 1925 and for the next twenty years he devoted himself to selling books-rare books, manuscripts and first editions, as well as contemporary publications. He is survived by his sons, Clarence Burley Boutell, and Roger Sherman Gates Boutell, Jr.; by his sister, Mrs. Malcolm K. Smith; and by his brother, Hugh C. Boutell. His son, Henry Sherman Boutell, 2d, died in 1931.
Roger Sherman Gates Boutell died July 13, 1962, in Santa Barbara, California. He was born in Chicago, October 21, 1881, the son of Henry Sherman and Eugenia Gates Boutell, was a member of the Class of 1903 at Harvard, and later received a degree at George Washington University.
In 1904 he married Avis Burley, who survived him by a month and died in Santa Barbara, August 30, 1962.
He was in the U. S. Foreign Service for a number of years, as Secretary of the American Legation in Berne, then at The Hague. After that, he studied law, passed the bar examinations in both Illinois and the District of Columbia, and received his appointment to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1911; he practiced law with his father in Washington, D. C. For three years he was Law Librarian of the Library of Congress.
He purchased the Tecolote Book Shop in Santa Barbara in 1925 and for the next twenty years he devoted himself to selling books-rare books, manuscripts and first editions, as well as contemporary publications. He is survived by his sons, Clarence Burley Boutell, and Roger Sherman Gates Boutell, Jr.; by his sister, Mrs. Malcolm K. Smith; and by his brother, Hugh C. Boutell. His son, Henry Sherman Boutell, 2d, died in 1931.
In 1904 he married Avis Burley, who survived him by a month and died in Santa Barbara, August 30, 1962.
He was in the U. S. Foreign Service for a number of years, as Secretary of the American Legation in Berne, then at The Hague. After that, he studied law, passed the bar examinations in both Illinois and the District of Columbia, and received his appointment to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1911; he practiced law with his father in Washington, D. C. For three years he was Law Librarian of the Library of Congress.
He purchased the Tecolote Book Shop in Santa Barbara in 1925 and for the next twenty years he devoted himself to selling books-rare books, manuscripts and first editions, as well as contemporary publications. He is survived by his sons, Clarence Burley Boutell, and Roger Sherman Gates Boutell, Jr.; by his sister, Mrs. Malcolm K. Smith; and by his brother, Hugh C. Boutell. His son, Henry Sherman Boutell, 2d, died in 1931.
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