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George Morrison Roberts

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George Morrison Roberts

Birth
Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
27 Oct 1914 (aged 76)
Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA Add to Map
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George Morrison Roberts was educated in the public schools and spent his youth in Leicester, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the Uniony army in the Civil war as private in the Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment in 1863 and served one year. He was commissioned second lieutenant of his company in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Infantry in 1864, he served four months. He is a member of H. G. Berry Post, No. 40, Grand Army of the Republic, of Malden, and of the Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. After the war he engaged in the railroad business in which he has been prominent for forty years. He has held various positions in the Boston office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in recent years has had charge of the New England business of that corporation with offices on Washington street, Boston. He is well known among the railroad men and business men of New England as a man of tact, discretion, integrity and ability. For many years he was the New England passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Boston, Massachusetts. He has had much to do with the development of a great business for the railroad he represents. He has made his home in Malden since 1873, and has a beautiful residence at 197 Clifton Street. Always a man of quiet domestic tastes, he has never entered public life or given time to clubs and fraternal organizations. His time is divided between office and home. He is a Republican in politics. He attends the Episcopal church of Malden.
George Morrison Roberts was educated in the public schools and spent his youth in Leicester, Massachusetts. He enlisted in the Uniony army in the Civil war as private in the Forty-second Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment in 1863 and served one year. He was commissioned second lieutenant of his company in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Infantry in 1864, he served four months. He is a member of H. G. Berry Post, No. 40, Grand Army of the Republic, of Malden, and of the Massachusetts Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. After the war he engaged in the railroad business in which he has been prominent for forty years. He has held various positions in the Boston office of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in recent years has had charge of the New England business of that corporation with offices on Washington street, Boston. He is well known among the railroad men and business men of New England as a man of tact, discretion, integrity and ability. For many years he was the New England passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Boston, Massachusetts. He has had much to do with the development of a great business for the railroad he represents. He has made his home in Malden since 1873, and has a beautiful residence at 197 Clifton Street. Always a man of quiet domestic tastes, he has never entered public life or given time to clubs and fraternal organizations. His time is divided between office and home. He is a Republican in politics. He attends the Episcopal church of Malden.


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