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GARY, Frank Ephraim Herbert

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 198

Frank Ephraim Herbert GARY, lawyer, Newton Center [Middlesex County], 
Massachusetts, was born 08 October 1858 in Montpelier, Washington County, 
Vermont, son of Ephraim and Sarah (ROBINSON) GARY. Educated at Washington 
County Grammar School; graduated from Vermont Methodist Seminary 1879, and 
Boston University Law School 1884. Studied law with Heath & Carlton, 
Montpelier; admitted to the Washington County Vermont bar in 1882; to the bar 
of the supreme court of Vermont 1884; and practiced law in Vermont for two 
years. Moved to Boston [Suffolk County], Massachusetts, was admitted to the 
Massachusetts bar and continued the practice of his profession; elected 
acting assistant dean of Boston University Law School 1889, which position he 
held two years; also instructor of criminal law in that institution; traveled 
extensively in Europe 1900. Aside from the duties of his profession, he has 
been largely interested in religious, charitable and literary endeavor; 
member First Baptist Church of Boston; at one time was superintendent of the 
Bethany Baptist Sunday school, and held other religious and church offices; 
has been a director of the Boston Baptist Social Union, the Baptist Home at 
Cambridge, the New England Evangelistic Association; treasurer and director 
of the New England Lord's Day League; president of the Pine Island Outing 
Club, one of the advisory board of the Frances E. Willard Settlement; 
president and director of the Chinese Mission of New England since its 
incorporation; first president of the Young Men's Baptist Social Union; 
member of the Vermont Association, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the 
Massachusetts Peace Society, the New England Baptist Library Association, the 
Bostonian Society and others. In 1897 he [Frank Ephraim Herbert GARY] 
married [Miss?] Helen Putnam OSBORNE of Peabody [Essex County], 
Massachusetts. Residence at 767 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton Center 
[Middlesex County], Massachusetts. Office at 43 Tremont Street, Boston.

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