NEW YORK TIMES
New York City, NY
Friday, 21 April 1939
BOSTON, April 20—Professor Henry Bissell Alvord, head of the Northeastern University Department of Civil Engineering, died today of pneumonia at the Melrose Hospital at the age of 53. His home was in Melrose [Middlesex Co.]. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards.
Born at Montague [Franklin Co.], he was the son of the Rev. Henry Clay Alvord and Alice Bissell Alvord. Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, he became an instructor there and a few years later went to Bowdoin College to become assistant professor of surveying and drawing. He joined the Northeastern faculty in 1920 as an assistant professor of civil engineering.
Surviving are his widow, the former Margaret Graham; two sons, John Robert Alvord, member of the marine air corps at Pensacola, Fla., and Graham Gillette Alvord, a senior at Harvard; two daughters, the Misses Margaret Graham and Jean Ruth Alvord, and a brother, Robert, of Hartford, Conn.
New York City, NY
Friday, 21 April 1939
BOSTON, April 20—Professor Henry Bissell Alvord, head of the Northeastern University Department of Civil Engineering, died today of pneumonia at the Melrose Hospital at the age of 53. His home was in Melrose [Middlesex Co.]. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards.
Born at Montague [Franklin Co.], he was the son of the Rev. Henry Clay Alvord and Alice Bissell Alvord. Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, he became an instructor there and a few years later went to Bowdoin College to become assistant professor of surveying and drawing. He joined the Northeastern faculty in 1920 as an assistant professor of civil engineering.
Surviving are his widow, the former Margaret Graham; two sons, John Robert Alvord, member of the marine air corps at Pensacola, Fla., and Graham Gillette Alvord, a senior at Harvard; two daughters, the Misses Margaret Graham and Jean Ruth Alvord, and a brother, Robert, of Hartford, Conn.
NEW YORK TIMES
New York City, NY
Friday, 21 April 1939
BOSTON, April 20—Professor Henry Bissell Alvord, head of the Northeastern University Department of Civil Engineering, died today of pneumonia at the Melrose Hospital at the age of 53. His home was in Melrose [Middlesex Co.]. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards.
Born at Montague [Franklin Co.], he was the son of the Rev. Henry Clay Alvord and Alice Bissell Alvord. Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, he became an instructor there and a few years later went to Bowdoin College to become assistant professor of surveying and drawing. He joined the Northeastern faculty in 1920 as an assistant professor of civil engineering.
Surviving are his widow, the former Margaret Graham; two sons, John Robert Alvord, member of the marine air corps at Pensacola, Fla., and Graham Gillette Alvord, a senior at Harvard; two daughters, the Misses Margaret Graham and Jean Ruth Alvord, and a brother, Robert, of Hartford, Conn.
New York City, NY
Friday, 21 April 1939
BOSTON, April 20—Professor Henry Bissell Alvord, head of the Northeastern University Department of Civil Engineering, died today of pneumonia at the Melrose Hospital at the age of 53. His home was in Melrose [Middlesex Co.]. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards.
Born at Montague [Franklin Co.], he was the son of the Rev. Henry Clay Alvord and Alice Bissell Alvord. Graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, he became an instructor there and a few years later went to Bowdoin College to become assistant professor of surveying and drawing. He joined the Northeastern faculty in 1920 as an assistant professor of civil engineering.
Surviving are his widow, the former Margaret Graham; two sons, John Robert Alvord, member of the marine air corps at Pensacola, Fla., and Graham Gillette Alvord, a senior at Harvard; two daughters, the Misses Margaret Graham and Jean Ruth Alvord, and a brother, Robert, of Hartford, Conn.
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