On June 1, 1906, I went to New York, where I was employed by the Western Electric Company. In February, 1907, I was transferred to the American Telephone Company in Boston. In July, 1907, I went to work for the Boston Elevated Railway, for whom I have since been transitman, draughtsman and assistant designing engineer on the Cambridge subway. I was married June 27, 1908 to Nellie Celynda Fuller at Weston, Mass. Business address: 2 Central Square, Cambridge, Mass. Present residence: Sudbury Road, Weston, Mass.
He was the engineer who worked on the development of the Weston (Massachusetts) Country Club, as can be seen in the accompanying photograph of a schematic hanging on the wall at the Country Club.
The Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Boston Transit Commission dated June 30, 1916 lists him at page 66 as follows: "Plans for steel details, Dorchester Tunnel."
Roland Rand and Nellie Fuller had five children, one of whom (Edith) was still living at the time of this writing (August 21, 2012):
Roland Bradbury Rand, III 1913-1988
Mary Louise Rand, 1914-2006
Edith Rand, 1916-
Helen Rand, 1920-1992
Alice Rand, 1925-2005
Roland is an eighth generation descendent of the REVEREND ROBERT JORDAN through two different lines of descent, the DOMINICUS JORDAN line and the MIRIAM JORDAN line. Dominicus and Miriam were siblings and the children of Major Dominicus Jordan, Jr. and Joanna Deering.
The DOMINICUS JORDAN line of descent from the REVEREND ROBERT JORDAN is:
ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Mary Jane Knights and ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Bradbury Roland Rand and SUSANNA JORDAN,
daughter of
Jane Johnson and IGNATIUS JORDAN,
son of
Susannah Simonton and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Phebe Grey and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Joanna Deering and Major DOMINICUS JORDAN, Jr.,
son of
Hannah Tristram and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Reverend ROBERT JORDAN.
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The MIRIAM JORDAN line of descent from the REVEREND ROBERT JORDAN is:
ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Mary Jane Knights and ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Susannah Jordan and BRADBURY ROLAND RAND,
son of
Watson Rand and ABIGAIL "ABBY" WOODBURY,
daughter of
John B. Woodbury and JOANNA MITCHELL,
daughter of
Robert Tyner Mitchell and MIRIAM JORDAN,
daughter of
Joanna Deering and Major DOMINICUS JORDAN, Jr.,
son of
Hannah Tristram and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Reverend ROBERT JORDAN.
On June 1, 1906, I went to New York, where I was employed by the Western Electric Company. In February, 1907, I was transferred to the American Telephone Company in Boston. In July, 1907, I went to work for the Boston Elevated Railway, for whom I have since been transitman, draughtsman and assistant designing engineer on the Cambridge subway. I was married June 27, 1908 to Nellie Celynda Fuller at Weston, Mass. Business address: 2 Central Square, Cambridge, Mass. Present residence: Sudbury Road, Weston, Mass.
He was the engineer who worked on the development of the Weston (Massachusetts) Country Club, as can be seen in the accompanying photograph of a schematic hanging on the wall at the Country Club.
The Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Boston Transit Commission dated June 30, 1916 lists him at page 66 as follows: "Plans for steel details, Dorchester Tunnel."
Roland Rand and Nellie Fuller had five children, one of whom (Edith) was still living at the time of this writing (August 21, 2012):
Roland Bradbury Rand, III 1913-1988
Mary Louise Rand, 1914-2006
Edith Rand, 1916-
Helen Rand, 1920-1992
Alice Rand, 1925-2005
Roland is an eighth generation descendent of the REVEREND ROBERT JORDAN through two different lines of descent, the DOMINICUS JORDAN line and the MIRIAM JORDAN line. Dominicus and Miriam were siblings and the children of Major Dominicus Jordan, Jr. and Joanna Deering.
The DOMINICUS JORDAN line of descent from the REVEREND ROBERT JORDAN is:
ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Mary Jane Knights and ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Bradbury Roland Rand and SUSANNA JORDAN,
daughter of
Jane Johnson and IGNATIUS JORDAN,
son of
Susannah Simonton and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Phebe Grey and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Joanna Deering and Major DOMINICUS JORDAN, Jr.,
son of
Hannah Tristram and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Reverend ROBERT JORDAN.
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The MIRIAM JORDAN line of descent from the REVEREND ROBERT JORDAN is:
ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Mary Jane Knights and ROLAND BRADBURY RAND,
son of
Susannah Jordan and BRADBURY ROLAND RAND,
son of
Watson Rand and ABIGAIL "ABBY" WOODBURY,
daughter of
John B. Woodbury and JOANNA MITCHELL,
daughter of
Robert Tyner Mitchell and MIRIAM JORDAN,
daughter of
Joanna Deering and Major DOMINICUS JORDAN, Jr.,
son of
Hannah Tristram and DOMINICUS JORDAN,
son of
Reverend ROBERT JORDAN.
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