EDWARD NICOLL FENNO

EDWARD NICOLL FENNO

Fenno, Edward Nicoll, retired wool commission merchant ; born in Boston, Nov. 4, 1845; son of John Brooks Fenno and Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Fenno. He attended Boston Public Latin School from 1856 to 1862, and was graduated from Harvard University as A.B., in 1866 and as A.M., in 1868. He is a director of the Old Boston National Bank, Indian Head Mills of Alabama, Boston Land Company and Slatersville Finishing Company, and trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings. He retired from wool commission business in 1900. In politics he is a Republican and in religion an Episcopalian. He is a vestryman of Trinity Church in the City of Boston ; trustee of the Vincent Memorial Hospital; vice-president of the Veteran Association of Independent Corps Cadets of Massachusetts Volunteers Militia; a member of the Massachusetts Historical and Genealogical Society and Boston Episcopal Charitable Society and of the Boston Athletic Association. He is a member of the Somerset, Country, Central Lunch, Woods Hole Golf, Old Colony and Seapuit Clubs; also member of the Harvard Club of Boston and of the Varsity Club. Mr. Fenno married in Boston, Feb., 1872, Ellen M. Bradlee, and they have three children : Henry Bradlee, Edward Nicoll, Jr., and Marion Hiller. Residence: Falmouth, Barnstable County, Mass. Address : 87 Milk St., Boston, Mass.

Biographical sketches from the book, Men of 1914

Submitted by Deborah Crowell