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Newell Garfield

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Newell Garfield Veteran

Birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
3 Sep 1975 (aged 80)
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Path: Story Chapel Column; Lot: Col 4; Site B, Space 1
Memorial ID
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Service: 09/06/1975

Member of Yale College class of 1918. He left school in 1917 to enter Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis and was commissioned a captain and assigned to the 322d Field Artillery based in Ohio during World War I.

During his time at Yale he played on the baseball and basketball teams and received his "Y."

He was vice-president of Lawrence Manufacturing Company in Lowell, MA and vice-president of Jerguson Gage & Valve Company of Somerville, MA.

His family summered at Cuttybunk Island off the coast of New Bedford, MA and his hobbies included tennis, golf and woodworking (he lost part of a finger in the latter hobby).

Info from History of the Class of 1918 - Yale College.
Courtesy of Daniel Blake (Find A Grave contributor 48457922)

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He has a cenotaph in the form of an inscribed bench at the Cuttyhunk Cemetery in Gosnold, Dukes County, Massachusetts.
Service: 09/06/1975

Member of Yale College class of 1918. He left school in 1917 to enter Officers' Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis and was commissioned a captain and assigned to the 322d Field Artillery based in Ohio during World War I.

During his time at Yale he played on the baseball and basketball teams and received his "Y."

He was vice-president of Lawrence Manufacturing Company in Lowell, MA and vice-president of Jerguson Gage & Valve Company of Somerville, MA.

His family summered at Cuttybunk Island off the coast of New Bedford, MA and his hobbies included tennis, golf and woodworking (he lost part of a finger in the latter hobby).

Info from History of the Class of 1918 - Yale College.
Courtesy of Daniel Blake (Find A Grave contributor 48457922)

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He has a cenotaph in the form of an inscribed bench at the Cuttyhunk Cemetery in Gosnold, Dukes County, Massachusetts.


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  • Created by: CMWJR
  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227488808/newell-garfield: accessed ), memorial page for Newell Garfield (1 Aug 1895–3 Sep 1975), Find a Grave Memorial ID 227488808, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by CMWJR (contributor 50059520).