Death of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. 
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., of 
Boston and Coolidge Point, Man- 
chester, son of the ex-ambassador 
to France, prominent in financial 
and banking circles in Boston for 
more than a score of years, who had 
been identified with many leading 
New England business enterprises 
in the past decade, died at his 
summer home, Manchester, early 
Sunday morning, after an illness of 
many months’ duration. 
Mr. Coolidge recently returned 
from the south, where he spent the 
winter in a vain attempt to regain 
his health. His illness had _ pre- 
vented him from taking an active 
interest in business for over a year. 
HIe was born in Boston, March 16, 
1863, the son of Thomas Jefferson 
and Hetty Sullivan (Appleton) 
Coolidge. He entered Harvard in 
the fall of 1880, graduating in 1884 
with the degree of A. B. On Sept. 
30, 1891, he married Miss Clara 
Amory, daughter of C. Amory, then 
of Brookline, but who now lives at 
278 Beacon street, Boston. To the 
couple were born four sons—T. Jef- 
ferson, 3d; Amory, William A. and 
J. Li. Coolidge—all of whom survive 
him. The first named is a student 
at Harvard. 
Mr. Coolidge was probably best 
known through his connection with 
the Old Colony Trust company, Bos- 
ton, of which institution he was the 
founder. He was its president from 
1890 until 1903, giving up the office 
in the latter year upon the orders of 
his physicians, and becoming the 
chairman of the executive commit- 
tee. 
In the following year, however, 
he assumed the presidency of the 
Bay State Trust Company, which 
office he held up to the time of his 
death. In January, 1907, he was 
elected president of the American 
Loan & Trust company, but his 
election was only temporary. He 
retired from the office a short time 
.ater, giving place to a permanenu 
president. He had also been presi- 
dent and director of the Lawrence 
Manufacturing company. 
Besides being a director in all the 
above companies, Mr. Coolidge was 
a member of the board of directors 
in the American Bell Telephone 
company, the American Telephone 
& Telegraph company, the Amos- 
keag Manufacturing company, the 
Edison Electric @iluminating com- 
pany of Boston, the General Elec- 
tric company and the Western 
Union Telegraph company. He was 
trustee of the Suffolk Savings Bank 
“New York. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
for seamen and others. Up to a 
few years ago he had also been vice- 
president and director of the Na- 
tional Bank of Commerce for almost 
two decades. 
The deceased was a member of 
the Algonquin, Country, KHssex 
County and Somerset clubs of Bos- 
ton and the North Shore and the 
Metropolitan and Knickerbocker of 
His summer estate was 
at Coolidge Point, Manchester, which 
resort was built up and developed 
by his distinguished father and bore 
the family name. It is a beautiful 
spot on the North Shore and one at 
which the deceased spent the great- 
er part of the year for rest and re- 
laxation from his varied activities. 
He will be sincerely mourned by a 
very large cirele of friends and 
business associates. He was an 
uncle of Miss Eleanora Sears. 
The funeral was held at Trinity 
chureh, Boston, Tuesday afternoon 
at 3 o’clock. Bishop Lawrence. offi- 
ciated assisted by Rev. Alexander 
Mann, D. D., rector of the church. 
There was a most representative 
gathering of Bostonians at the fu- 
neral services. 
Preliminary music, 
Ernest Mitchell, 
church, included the ‘‘Sanctus 
played by 
organist of the 
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‘“‘Benedictus,’’ by Gounod; ‘‘Possi 
Choral’? and Chopin’s ‘Funeral 
March.’’ Other music was by a. 
choir of ten men, who sang the cus- 
tomary burial chant, ‘‘Lead, Kindly 
Light’’ and ‘‘Jesus, Lover of My 
Soul,’’ and Clarence B. Shirley, ten- 
or soloist, sang ‘‘I Heard a Voice 
from Heaven.’’ The final selection 
on the organ was Handel’s ‘‘ Largo.”’ 
The pallbearers were all intimate 
friends of Mr. Coolidge and many of 
them close business associates. They 
were: Philip Stockton, president 
and director of the Old Colony Trust 
company; Francis R. Hart, vice chair- 
man of the board of directors of the 
Old Colony Trust company; Robert 
Treat Paine, 2d, a director of the 
Old Colony Trust company; Thotas 
Kk. Cummins, a classmate of Mr. 
Coolidge at Harvard and treasurer 
of the Edison Electric Hluminating 
company; Oliver Ames, a director 
of the Old Colony Trust company ; 
Frederick J. Bradlee, treasurer of 
the Bay State Trust company; 
Francis Bullard and Laurence HE. 
Sexton of New York, classmates of 
Mr. Coolidge. 
The ushers ineluded Harold J. 
Coolidge, Joseph G. Stearns, S. 
Parkman Shaw, Frank Curtis, Gra- 
ham Brooks and James Jackson. 
There were many floral tributes 
from individual friends and from 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Nathaniel Simpkins of Bev- 
erly Farms has been in Washington 
the past two weeks superintending 
the closing of her residence there, 
which the John Gardner Coolidges 
of Boston, have been occupying. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Ayer of 
Boston and Ilamilton, and daugh- 
ters have gone to Europe to remain 
until June, when they will settle at 
Hamilton. 
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The late Mrs. Herbert M. Sears 
was a daughter of Francis Bartlett, 
who is to be so permanently identi- 
fied and remembered as so royal a 
donor to the Boston Museum of Fine 
Arts. The Misses Elizabeth and 
Phyllis Sears of the Pride’s conting- 
ent are granddaughters. Others re- 
latives prominent in the North 
Shore colony are his nieces, Mrs. 
Bryee J. Allan, Mrs. Guy Norman 
and Mrs. KE. Preble Motley. 
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Mrs. John L. Saltonstall of Bos- 
ton and Beverly, entertained 14 
members of the Surplus club at dia- 
ner on last Thursday night at lier 
home, 173 Commonwealth aveauae, 
Boston, and after dinner, auction 
bridge was enjoyed. The club is 
made up of the wives of members of 
the Deficit elub, an organization 
which was formed by men who were 
interested in giving Beverly people 
high class musical programs several 
vears ago, and who have kept up 
the association thus formed. 
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Prominent in the Marblehead col- 
ony this season will be Mr. and Mrs. 
Russell Burrage (Katherine Baxter), 
who were married in New York, re- 
cently. The bride is ‘the daughter 
of the former Governor of Tennes- 
see. 
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Mrs. Charles S. Bird, mother-in- 
law of Gov. Bass of New Hampshire, 
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has been the recent guest of her 
daughter, Mrs. Louis A. Shaw at 
3everly Farms. 
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Following their delightful tour 
abroad Mrs. Guy Norman and Miss 
Hope Norman of Boston and Bevy- 
erly Cove. arrived in New York on 
the incoming Olympic last Wednes- 
day and are now making prenara- 
tions for their summer on the North 
Shore. 
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organizations with which Mr. Cool- 
idge was affiliated. The body was 
eremated at Mount Auburn, 
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